Cergio Prudencio – Antología 1: Obras para la Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:23:30 minutes | 858 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Buh Records
The work of Bolivian composer Cergio Prudencio (La Paz, 1955) is indissolubly linked to the project of the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos [Experimental Orchestra of Native Instruments] (OEIN), which he co-founded in 1980 and of which he is the emeritus director. It constitutes one of the most challenging adventures in the music that has emerged in Bolivia and Latin America.
Read moreStephen Farr – Grier: Organ Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:34 minutes | 2,53 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics
Highly acclaimed organist Stephen Farr presents an album of organ works by composer Francis Grier Performed on the Dobson Organ of Merton College, Oxford. Grier demonstrates an individual approach to timbre and texture in writing for the organ and shows fascinating traits which are testament to a wide range of musical, and non-musical, influences which extend beyond the bounds of the cathedral world to experiences drawn from his years in India.
Read moreSonny James – A Mi Esposa Con Amor (To My Wife With Love) (1974/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 28:52 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
After returning home, he continued to perform in country clubs. Here he met Chet Atkins, who arranged a recording contract for him with the Capitol label in 1952. His first single, That’s Me Without You, made it into the country top 10, but it was three years before he scored his next hit with For Rent (One Empty Heart). A little later, James made his breakthrough with Ric Cartey’s Young Love. The single was number one in the country charts for nine weeks and reached number two in the pop charts.
Read moreOrquesta Harlow – El Exigente (Remastered 2024) (1967/2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]
Orquesta Harlow – El Exigente (Remastered 2024) (1967/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:04 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: World, Salsa, Rumba, Boogaloo
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fania
Larry Harlow’s third album was recorded in 1967 when Boogaloo was still in vogue as one of the most popular forms of Latin music. The vocalist Ismael Miranda makes his first performance with Orchestra Harlow and Larry had seem him sing with his brother Andy Harlow earlier in the year and being impressed had invited Ismael to sing for “El Exigente” his third album project with Johnny Pacheco one of the co-founders of the Fania Label contributing the musical direction. One thing though Larry still had that Cuban tradition behind him with two Guarachas and a Rumba in the mix between all this great Boogaloo and Shingaling.
Read moreOlivia Belli – Intermundia (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:52 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XXIM Records
The album “Intermundia” is Olivia Belli’s second full length release by XXIM Records. The album sees the acclaimed pianist go beyond her deep connection to the natural world to explore the spiritual side of nature, something beyond the physical – the world of thin places. These locales, said to be where heaven and earth virtually meet, are places to soothe and sedate, or to beguile and enchant – places to catch glimpses of the transcendent. Written in her home studio, each track started as a mood. A feeling. Inspired by field recordings BELLI took at each location, she put the unique magic felt at each place into music, that otherworldly quality that goes beyond time or the purely physical. In other words, she sought to channel the locales’ spiritual essence, to give it a voice.
Read moreOceans Before Me – SONGS OF RANGIAOWHIA (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:53 minutes | 465 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Oceans Before Me
Their songs comprised of lyrics that reflect the joys, the pain and the victories experienced by the Polynesian Panthers since the Dawn Raids.
Read moreTitle: Ayreon – Electric Castle Live and Other Tales
Released: 2020
Genre: Progressive Metal, Rock, Documentary
Released: Mascot Records
Duration: 02:38:36 + 03:13:50 (Bonus)
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Audio Codec: AC3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 16994 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio 1: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -31dB
Audio 2: English / DTS Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 46.19 GB
On March 27 Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group release ‘Ayreon – Electric Castle Live and Other Tales’, a 3 LP set of last year’s live spectacular performance of the third Ayreon album ‘Into The Electric Castle’.
Over four nights at Tilburg’s 013 venue (scene of the Ayreon Universe series of live shows in 2017) Lucassen, his band and one of modern progressive music’s most emphatic of casts celebrated the 20th anniversary of the third Ayreon album in front of thousands of adoring fans who had flown in from around the world.
Originally released in 1998, ‘Into The Electric Castle’ is a classic tale of an epic quest. Set in ‘no time and no space’, it tells the story of eight individuals who are guided by a mysterious voice and tasked with finding the mysterious Electric Castle and discover what’s inside. The entire album was performed live, featuring original album singers and musicians, such as Thijs Van Leer, Fish, Damian Wilson, Edward Reekers, Anneke van Giersbergen, and several special guests including Simone Simons (Epica) and Star Trek’s John De Lancie as narrator.
The ‘Other Tales’ are deep cuts from Arjen Lucassen’s other projects, such as The Gentle Storm, Ambeon, Stream of Passion, Guilt Machine, Star One, his solo-album Arjen Anthony Lucassen and a very special Marillion cover.
Title: Axxis – Bang Your Head With Axxis
Release Date: 2019
Genre: Metal
Production/Label: Soulfood Music Distribution GmbH / Hamburg
Duration: 01:21:13+00:15:21
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 22989 kbps / 1080i / 25 fps / 16:9 / Main Profile 4.1
Audio 1: German / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size: 18,04 GB
AXXIS – “Bang Your Head With Axxis”-Blu-ray erscheint im August.
AXXIS haben sich anlässlich ihres 30-jährigen Bandjubiläums einiges einfallen lassen: Unter anderem wird es die “Bang Your Head With Axxis” Blu-ray am 9. August, eine Tour sowie die “Best Of EMI Years”-CD am 4. Oktober geben.
Bei der “Bang Your Head With Axxis”-Blu-ray handelt es sich um einen Mitschnitt einer Festival-Show von 2017 in Balingen. “Die Stimmung damals war einfach so großartig, dass wir uns entschieden haben, genau dieses Konzert auf Blu-ray zu verewigen”, erklärt die Band.
Zwei Monate später, am 4. Oktober, folgt die Doppel-CD “Best Of EMI Years”. “Wir wollen damit unsere EMI-Phase ins Jahr 2019 transportieren. Seit Monaten nehmen wir die besten Songs aus der EMI-Zeit mit hohem Aufwand komplett neu auf, um sie für 2019 kompatibel zu machen”, erklärt Sänger Bernhard Weiss dazu. “Vinyl ist auch in Planung.”