Pat Collins – Time Well Spent (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:59 minutes | 517 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cornerstone Records Inc.
A unique new jazz trio recording by bassist Pat Collins, featuring Tom Scczesniak (accordion) and Reg Schwager (guitar). The program of 10 tracks features 6 new compositions (4 by Collins, 2 by Szczesniak, and 2 by Schwager) plus 1 song each by Paul Simon and Michel Legrand.
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Pat Metheny – Road to the Sun (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:39 minutes | 882 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modern Recordings
There are only a handful of living musicians who can continually reinvent themselves year after year, and even fewer still who can claim to have maintained equal degrees of innovation and excellence across a career spanning decades. Pat Metheny is one of the few artists in the world who can lay claim to such a description. On his 2021 album, ‘Road to the Sun’, Pat Metheny surprises us once again with his seemingly endless ability to harvest new vistas while retaining the instantly recognizable Metheny sound. With two major new works, performed by five of the world ‘s leading guitarists, Metheny charts a new way of obliterating boundaries between genres while simultaneously unveiling new facets of an already expansive personal language.
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Parra for Cuva – Juno (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:04 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parra For Cuva
Thinking of dreamy, melancholic electronic music with an organic approach Parra for Cuva is one of the names which come to mind immediately. After the strong start of his first single Ordel feat. Kyson & Beau Diako, Parra for Cuva asked uprising producer Rezident to give the song a new twist. Rezident, the project of emerging 21-year-old producer David Roif, demonstrates that electronic music best sustains itself when these two worlds interlace. His remix of Parra for Cuva’s Ordel retains the original meditative feel of the track all the while pumping the pace with driving beats. Dream Reverb: His 2nd single Dream Reverb takes listeners on an exotic escape through the plucks of the ancient Middle Eastern instrument, the hammered dulcimer, played by New York-based musician Max ZT. Rhythmic beats, hushed voice samples and lush synth textures slowly build up the track to a toe-tapping percussive hit that remains gentle and warm throughout.
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PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, Vladimir Gorbik – More Honourable Than the Cherubim (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:36 minutes | 2,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
The Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute strives to present Russian Orthodox choral music in its highest possible form, uniting deep spirituality, a profound love for the rich traditions of Orthodox Christian singing, and an uncompromising standard of musical professionalism rooted in the great traditions of Russian choral composers.
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Nicoleta Paraschivescu – Partimenti Napoletani. Music for Keyboard Instruments by Paisiello, Durante & Dol (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:17 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © deutsche harmonia mundi
Just as jazz musicians today use lead sheets (indicating only melody and harmony), so classic musicians once used partimenti – figured or unfired bass lines – in order to learn how to improvise and compose at the harpsichord. This album features for the first time partimenti by one of the most renowned composers of the late eighteenth century, Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) – whose «Regole per bene accompagnare il Partimento» was printed 1782 in St. Petersburg as well as by his teacher Francesco Durante.
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Pärnu City Orchestra, Kaspar Mänd – as if a river were singing… (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:08 minutes | 540 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Odradek Records
The album “as if a river were singing…” brings together the most recent orchestral compositions of three younger generation Estonian composers, borrowing its title from the album’s opening piece, Alisson Kruusmaa’s eponymous work. The artists who collaborated on this album regard it as a kind of musical riverbed, with many different streams flowing into it – each with its own journey, its own song. The connecting bridge is the Pärnu City Orchestra and their chief conductor Kaspar Mänd, who commissioned all the recorded works. The pieces were premiered at the Pärnu Concert Hall, the home hall of the orchestra, between 2020 and 2021, and are heard here in their world-premiere recordings.
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Paris Urban Quartet – Paris Urban Quartet (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:03 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NoMadMusic
On ne peut qu’applaudir la formidable initiative portée par le label NoMad Music avec la complicité de l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France : leur nouvelle collection “Solo” propose de mettre en avant les différents talents solistes de la formation francilienne. Après un premier volet très réussi – aussi pédagogue que poétique – consacré au percussionniste Georgy Varbanov, voici que les membres du Paris Urban Quartet nous plongent dans un bain de jouvence avec ces quatre œuvres composées entre 2010 et 2019. A l’écriture, de grands noms de la scène contemporaine française : Camille Pépin, Marc-André Dalbavie, Fabien Cali et Guillaume Connesson. Ces quatre-là avaient en commun de n’avoir jusqu’ici écrit qu’un seul quatuor à cordes. La découverte de ces oeuvres en première impression mondiale donne à entendre un aperçu énergique et coloré de deux générations différentes du circuit contemporain.
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Pat Metheny – From This Place (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:37 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Nonesuch
‘From This Place’ is one of the records I have been waiting to make my whole life’, Metheny says. ‘It is a kind of musical culmination, reflecting a wide range of expressions that have interested me over the years, scaled across a large canvas, presented in a way that offers the kind of opportunities for communication that can only be earned with a group of musicians who have spent hundreds of nights together on the bandstand’. The record features ten compositions by Metheny, who is joined by his long-time drummer, Antonio Sanchez, Malaysian/Australian bassist Linda May Han and British pianist Gwilym Simcock as well as the Hollywood Studio Symphony conducted by Joel McNeely.
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Pat Metheny Group – Letter from Home (1989/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:49 minutes | 721 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
A trio of Grammy Award-winning albums by the Pat Metheny Group return to the artists’s active discography on Nonesuch. Still Life (Talking (1987), Letter from Home (1989), and The Road To You (1993) are the first in a series of remastered reissues of Geffen Records titles.
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Partisans – Nit De Nit (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:13 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Whirlwind Recordings
With an authority developed over two decades on the circuit, Partisans are proud to unleash their first live album, Nit De Nit, recorded at London’s Vortex Club. Across this rezzed-up hour-plus of back-catalogue reinventions and new delights, electric guitarist Phil Robson, saxophonist Julian Siegel, electric bassist Thaddeus Kelly and drummer Gene Calderazzo command the stage with inimitable joie de vivre.
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Parquet Courts – Plant Life (EP) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 21:39 minutes | 244 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rough Trade
‘Plant Life’ is a 3-song 12” anchored around the titular track. The band’s Austin Brown says: “The song ‘Plant Life’ is my story of rediscovering my passion for music through New York City dance floors. It’s a distillation from a 40 plus minute improvisation prompted by producer Rodaidh McDonald, and every way we’ve sliced it up illustrates a different mood of the same perspective of ecstasy and aspiration to not only grow, but form roots outside of our own barriers.” Side B features a remix of “Plant Life” from Vancouver’s Yu Su that funks up the bassline as well as a celestial mix from Peak Wifi reminiscent of Midori Takada.
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Pat Metheny – Offramp (1982/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:41 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Offramp is the third album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1982. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. It contains the popular ballad “Are You Going with Me?”.
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