Zwitschermaschine – Looping (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:41 minutes | 517 MB | Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz
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Music can be so many things. So why not all at once? Best of all, it unites all conceivable opposites within itself and accomplishes the paradox of conjuring up the clash of the obvious in the harmony of the incompatible. When the German expressionist Paul Klee painted his Dadaist watercolor “Zwitschermaschine” in 1922, he had a visual idea of the cacophonous bird apparatus, but possibly no idea of its sound. The Leipzig based band Zwitschermaschine (not to be confused with the art punk band of the same name from the end of the GDR era) now provides an answer a whole century later.
Read moreVictor Lowrie Tafoya – Joël-François Durand: Geister (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:49:13 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © KAIROS
Victor Lowrie Tafoya is a versatile violist, improviser and composer. As a passionate advocate of new music, he has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician and educator throughout the US, South America, Europe and Asia. Victor is a founding member of Mivos Quartet, Synchronos Ensemble, and Trio Kavak, and performs regularly with groups such as Ensemble Signal, OENM and Slee Sinfonietta. He recently recoded Joël-François Durand’s viola concert with Ensemble Dal Niente for an album to be released in 2023. As a composer, Victor writes for soloists and chamber ensembles, combining a ever-evolving personal sense of melody and harmony with explorations into improvisation and electronics. He earned his Bachelor of Music Performance from San Francisco State University, and was in the inaugural graduating class of the Master in Contemporary Performance program from the Manhattan School of Music. Victor is currently based in Vienna with his wife and young son.
Read moreThe Andrews Sisters – The Christmas Collection (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:28 minutes | 569 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews (1911–1967), soprano Maxene Anglyn Andrews (1916–1995), and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie Andrews (1918–2013). The sisters have sold an estimated 80 million records.[2] Their 1941 hit “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” can be considered an early example of jump blues. Other songs closely associated with the Andrews Sisters include their first major hit, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Means That You’re Grand)” (1937), “Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)” (1939), “Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar” (1940), “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)” (1942), and “Rum and Coca-Cola” (1945), which helped introduce American audiences to calypso.
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