Moon Tooth – Phototroph (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:21 minutes | 569 MB | Genre: Progressive Metal, Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pure Noise Records
Phototroph, the dizzying third album by Long Island’s Moon Tooth, feels like a tribute to all the weird, forward-thinking music that’s found itself in rotation on alternative rock radio over the past 25 years. For as long as post-grunge and nü metal have been the dominant genres on terrestrial stations with names like “The Blitz” and “The X,” stranger things have crept in at the margins: Deftones’s off-kilter emotionalism; Queens of the Stone Age’s swaggering, stoned zen; the swampy prog-sludge of Mastodon. For fleeting moments on Phototroph, Moon Tooth resemble all those bands, but the clearest line of influence lay in how their idiosyncrasies serve their outsized ambitions.
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Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens – Telemann: Gelobet sei der Herr, TWV 1:602/1216 & Bequemliches Leben, gemächlicher Stand, TWV 1:123 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:42 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © CPO
Opulent and imaginative Telemann oratorios In the church year 1730/31, Telemann performed a year of a special conception: in the divine service, downright oratorios were to be sounded. And so the focus of our latest Telemann CD is his magnificent oratorio for the Feast of St. John the Lord with expressive texts by the poet and musician Albrecht Jacob Zell. Zell succeeds in imagining dramatic, almost theatrical scenes and thus gives Telemann templates for sound painting design. Not only the vocal line-up is with u. a. three basses extremely lush, the instrumentation is also very rich, up to the use of four horns and three transverse flutes. Telemann once again unfolds a wide range of expressions. The lament of the Egyptians about the killed children, in F minor and chromatic turns, is poignant, full of external movement and tension, the depiction of the fleeing people and their pursuers who did not reach them with chains of sixteen on the one hand and syllabic declamation on the other.
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Mísia – Animal Sentimental (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:55 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: World, Fado
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Galileo Music Communication
Feelings, the indescribable realm, which inspires poets and artists from so many different fields, are treasures that only weigh on the soul. Mísia is well aware of this. This female artist, a dreamy fado singer, singer actress, narrator of her own stories and of those of others, is the first to admit, that she is an animal sentimental, a sentimental animal. This expression serves as the title for a new album, a new chapter of a career, that spans three decades and that has received wide international recognition. This acclaimed path brings her now to an ambitious new project, led by her and Wolf-Dieter Karwatky, an award-winning producer and recording engineer with a career spanning 50 years, who has worked with some of the biggest names in classical music, has won Grammy Awards and has executed successful projects with Deutsche Grammophon. Karwatky recorded with Mísia and a number of experienced musicians at the historic Namouche studios in Lisbon, and with pianist Ricardo Días, who took on musical direction and arrangements. Also participating in this project are the pianist Fabrizio Romano, the guitarists Bernardo Couto (Portuguese guitar), Bruno Costa (Coimbra guitar), Bernardo Viana (fado guitar), Luís Ferreirinha (viola) and the bassist Daniel Pinto. They form a carefully chosen line-up and combine new arrangements for songs, which Mísia had already given her voice to in the past, with some new surprises: Qué he sacado con quererte by Violeta Parra will be one of them, and also De alguna Manera, a song in Spanish with lyrics and music by Luis Eduardo Aute, which Mísia has already performed, but here it gains a new life. Fico a Cismar, is an original by Rodrigo Leão, that also falls into this exciting category of surprises, and we are once again captured by Mísia´s voice.
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