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Solomiya Ivakhiv & Steven Beck – Ukrainian Masters (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:05 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
The expressive vitality in this collection of violin sonatas transcends the cultural upheavals from which these three Ukrainian composers emerged. Bortkiewicz’s Violin Sonata in G minor is among the most impressive of his relatively few chamber works, finding his musical language at its most vivid and directly communicative. Kosenko’s Violin Sonata in A minor is notable for the satisfying balance of its two subtly differentiated movements. Skoryk’s Second Violin Sonata is a stylistically diverse chamber work, with pointed allusions to Beethoven, Prokofiev and Gershwin during its compact and always eventiul course.
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Rodrigo Recabarren, Pablo Menares, Yago Vazquez – Familia (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:42 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Jazz, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Greenleaf Music
If it takes a village to support and sustain a Jazz trio, then what better way to acknowledge that cherished sense of community than with a marvelous piece of art. In the case of drummer Rodrigo Recabarren, pianist Yago Vazquez and bassist Pablo Menares, that takes the form of their new trio album Famila, releasing on February 23 via Greenleaf Music. Having played together for more than a decade, refining a chemistry and musical telepathy that defines their signature sound, Famila is the consummate expression of this talented trio, as well as the kinship they feel for each other, their collective families and the larger community supporting their music.
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Reneé Rapp – Mean Girls (Bonus Track Version) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:08 minutes | 531 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paramount Pictures – Interscope Records
Interscope Records has released an extended soundtrack album for the movie adaptation of the stage musical Mean Girls. The album features five previously unreleased bonus tracks (in additional to all the songs from the original soundtrack) written by Jeff Richmond & Nell Benjamin, including Rockin’ Around the Pole Again & Let Me Go performed by Nahscha, Auli’i Cravalho’s reprise of Someone Gets Hurt, Angourie Rice’s reprise of Stupid with Love, as well as Jaquel Spivey’s French language rendition of the iCarly theme song (Laissez Moi Tout). The Bonus Track Version is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to all five new songs after the jump. Mean Girls is directed by Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr. and also stars Reneé Rapp, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Christopher Briney, Tim Meadows and Tina Fey. The Paramount Pictures production was released in theaters nationwide last month and is making its PVOD debut today.
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Rainer Böhm Trio – Live at Birds Eye (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:55 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Galileo Music Communication
After the release of the albumD “what if” last year, there was talk of an ensemble like an organism, an exceptional album and the perfect playing of the leader. Even back then, pianist Rainer Böhm had dispensed with the wind section for three compositions during the dramaturgically cleverly linked, highly emotional sextet events, which were balanced like a dream between improvisation and composition, in order to have room for trio pieces with double bassist Arne Huber and drummer Jonas Burgwinkel.
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Rachel Musson – Ashes and Dust, Earth and Sky (Lludw a Llwch, Daear a Nef) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:51 minutes | 391 MB | Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Soundskein Records
I’m very pleased to announce that I have a new album coming out on the 16th February 2024. Titled Ashes and Dust, Earth and Sky, LLudw a Llwch, Daear a Nef, it is a solo project that feels like a bit of a shift in direction for me. One of the outcomes of a DYCP grant (thank you Arts Council England) that I received to explore composition using different recording techniques, it uses field recordings collected from West Wales and London, and recordings of saxophones, flutes and other bits and pieces. Part composed, part slowly improvised (I think there’s a difference, but it’s hard to know where to draw this line) over a year, the music explores my sense of the place of a specific little corner of Wales, juxtaposed against the more familiar to me sounds of the city. During the pandemic I yearned for open skies and air and sea, and I spent some time exploring my ancestry, learning that generations of my family lived and worked the land in West Wales, before moving east to the coalfields of South Wales. It made me think of our shifting relationships to land, and how estranged from land and earth I felt two floors up in the city during the pandemic. I feel very fortunate to be able to have the time and space to experience and explore both ends of this UK spectrum. Visiting West Wales, in particular the Gwaun Valley, which remains largely unchanged over the last few hundred years compared to the constantly changing cityscape, and reflecting on the different soundscapes I collected led to the responses, improvisations and compositions that are found on this record. I look forward to sharing it with you early next year.
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Peter DiCarlo – The Other Side (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:00 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shifting Paradigm Records
The Other Side is alto saxophonist Peter DiCarlo’s second album as leader. Having relocated from New York City to Turkey three years ago, DiCarlo explores a fusion of jazz styles, incorporating subtle Turkish influences. Departing from his traditional jazz roots, the album weaves original compositions with nods to his first album, ‘Onward.’ Featuring Istanbul jazz talents Uraz Kivaner, Ozan Musluoğlu and Ferit Odman, the album pays homage to jazz history, blending Turkish musical nuances.
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Paramore – Re: This Is Why (Expanded) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:19 minutes | 593 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records
Alternative rock icons Paramore release a remix album for their sixth studio album This Is Why, entitled Re: This Is Why. Described as “almost a remix album”, Re: This Is Why features reworked, remixed, and rewritten versions of songs from the the original album, as well as an unreleased B-side demo. The project features collaborations from Foals, The Linda Lindas, Panda Bear, Zane Lowe, Wet Leg, DOMi & JD BECK, Remi Wolf, Bartees Strange, Romy, Claud, and Julien Baker!
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Paolo Paliaga – Alboran Solo: The Wind Is Coming (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Piano Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Da Vinci jazz
Why a solo piano album? I answer this question by telling what this experience represented for me. In solo piano, all three elements of music – rhythm, harmony and melody – are concentrated in the pianist’s hands; more than on them, however, they depend on his artistic maturity, on his vision and on his aesthetical approach to the world. Harmony has a fascinating logic of its own. In the pieces’ composition, it allows for emotional itineraries which are discovered at the same moment of the composition. This is a mystery and a revelation which engenders torment and satisfaction at the same time. To encounter a progression which reveals itself in the act of its research is a gesture leading to enchantment and emotion. Rhythm is the foundation of vitality, it is ”swing”, it is beat, primeval movement, pulse, dance, the moving of things. There are many ways to express rhythm, not just one; thus, every piece possesses its own beat, and all beats must reach the listener.
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