Mateus Ribeiro – O Rugido Ao Vivo No Teatro Amazonas (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:28 minutes | 465 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mateus Ribeiro [dist. Tratore]
Mateus Ribeiro De Aquino (born November 7, 1993) is a Brazilian actor, singer, songwriter and writer. Considered one of the main names of the new generation of the national musical theater, the actor was elected by Forbes magazine one of the most promising young people in the country in the area of art/entertainment, entering in 2018 to the disputed “Under 30”list.
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Roberto Zadra, Alessia Mattiazzi and Marco Emmanuele – J.S. Bach: 3 Cello Suite Nos. 1-3, BWV 1008, 1010 & 1007 (Transcr. for Guitar) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:59 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius
The three Suites recorded on this CD (BWV 1007, BWV 1008 and BWV 1010) were transcribed for guitar by the performers themselves, following a practice customary for Bach and absolutely familiar to him (the Fifth Suite for cello has come down to us in two versions, one for cello and one for lute: we are not sure which came first). One should therefore recognise the full aesthetic legitimacy of the guitar transcription of these compositions, a practice, moreover, that has now been established for decades. This procedure is ultimately legitimised by the primacy, in Bach’s language, of the harmonic and contrapuntal dimension over their sonic realisation, a primacy that led Ferruccio Busoni, for whom the concept of “transcription” occupies a position of absolute centrality in his aesthetic thought, to transcribe for piano not only numerous compositions for organ by Thomaskantor, but also the Chaconne from the Second Partita in D minor for solo violin. With specific regard to the guitar, one cannot fail to mention the name of Andrés Segovia, who transcribed for his instrument and recorded in 1946 the highly famous Chaconne.
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Makoto Sakamoto – emollient (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:43 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Makoto Sakamoto Recordings
all tracks mixed and recorded in real time at Feb – June 2021. Berlin. synthesizers, acoustic piano samples played by Makoto Sakamoto.
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Larry Goldings – Chinwag (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:53 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sticky Mack Records
Larry Goldings started piano lessons at the age of nine. It was not until about 1990 that he also turned to the Hammond B3. Goldings’ playing is characterized by an immense stylistic flexibility: he plays funk together with Maceo Parker, folk and pop music with colleagues such as James Taylor or Norah Jones, modern jazz with a blues foundation in combination with John Scofield and abstract jazz in a trio with Jack DeJohnette and John Scofield. In addition, he presented piano recordings of classical jazz standards reminiscent of James P. Johnson or Erroll Garner. The music of his own trio, in which Bill Stewart and Peter Bernstein often participate, also testifies to this versatility.
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Kenny Barron Trio – Minor Blues (2009/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:21 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Venus Records, Inc.
The album, recorded with George Mraz and Ben Riley for the Japanese Venus label, is further proof of Barron’s great ability in a trio line-up and one of his best albums to date.
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Jefferson Hamer – Alameda (Special Edition) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:37 minutes | 784 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Clairvoyant Dwarf Records
In 2016 Hannah Read asked me to sing harmonies and play guitar on a record she was making with bassist Jeff Picker, which later became her album Way Out I’ll Wander. Jeff introduced me to drummer John Fatum, and we started doing electric trio shows around Brooklyn. We had a Thursday night residency at Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook, just down the street from my apartment, which became a testing ground for our new material. Hannah would often join us on fiddle and harmonies, and Alec Spiegelman would stop by with a bass clarinet or tenor sax.
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James Leroy & Denim – James Leroy With Denim (1973/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:34 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Janus Records
James became interested in music while attending high school at Milford Prep in Connecticut. Bob Dylan was a strong early influence. He later attended university in the United States but returned to Canada when all his friends were drafted.
In the mid-60’s he started a career as a folksinger in Ottawa. James was a self-taught musician who played both guitar and keyboards.
In the early 70’s his family left Martintown and resettled in Ottawa, were they urged James to “find himself”. He alternated between selling tires for his father and practicing music.
He started on the sidelines providing material for local groups. Some of his first compositions were played by local Ottawa groups Renaissance and September Dawn. He also tried folk singing in small clubs.
At one point he met Doug Orr of MRQ (Modern Rock Quartet) at a party. Orr suggested James learn the heritage of the Ottawa Valley and incorporate it into his songs. This was the beginning of what was to emerge as the “Denim” sound.
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Isabel Gehweiler, Fiona Hengartner – Notre amour – Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:21 minutes | 1016 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
The tradition of bringing out New Year publications on 2 January 2, ‘Berchtold’s Day’, goes back as far as the seventeenth century. Societies and guilds provided printed books, illustrations or music to the young people of the city in return for a financial contribution, which went towards the heating of the society rooms. Founded in 1629, the Stadtbibliothek initiated the practice by distributing a New Year engraving by Hans Conrad Meyer with a poem by Johann Wilhelm Simmler for the year 1645, founding this form of New Year offering. A 2005 CD of piano music by the Winterthur composer Johann Carl Eschmann marked the revival of the old tradition in a new guise. The New Year release CD 2024 brings together works by six composers, male and female, all of whom except one were born and trained in French-speaking countries. The cellist Isabel Gehweiler is a prizewinner of the European Bursary for Young Artists and as a composer she has produced a body of work encompassing chamber music and orchestral compositions, which are regularly performed at international festivals.
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Haircut 100 – Pelican West – 40th Anniversary (1982/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:09:25 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music CG
Demon Records are delighted to announce the release of Pelican West 40, a celebration edition of Haircut One 100’s much-loved debut album, released with full cooperation of the band. A 43-track extravaganza that celebrates the bright, burning, brief career of Haircut 100. The group moved from being London underground darlings to chart sensations in less than six months, and within a year had disappeared into pop’s ether, leaving behind one memorable album and four Top 10 UK singles.
The set features new mastering from the original tapes of their debut album Pelican West, first released in February 1982, reaching No 2 in the UK and No 31 in the US.
A disc of extended versions, B-sides and special remixes.
Haircut 100% Live! Hammersmith Odeon Spring 1982 – A live album that highlights the group at the summit of their powers – high speed funk, to-die for pop and sweet melodies against the backdrop of Haircutmania. No overdubs and the high-octane energy of youth.
Mastered by Phil Kinrade at AIR Mastering.
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Anna Kolchina – Dark Eyes (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:12 minutes | 964 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Venus Records, Inc.
Singer Anna Kolchina plays 13 jazz hits by Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and others with pianist Massimo Farao’, bassist Aldo Zunino, bassist Marco Tolotti, drummer Alessandro Fabbri, alto saxophonist Claudio Chiara and baritone saxophonist Fulvio Albano.
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Eddie Higgins Trio – You Are Too Beautiful (2014/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:50 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Jazz, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Venus Records, Inc.
In October 2006, experienced pianist Eddie Higgins embarked on a challenging project. Together with Jay Leonhart and Mark Taylor, Higgins went into the studio and recorded 50 love songs that had never been heard on any other album before. These tracks will be released on four albums. “You Are Too Beautiful” is the fourth in this series.
Considering how many albums Higgins recorded over the course of his life, it’s amazing that the three were able to find 50 famous tunes that he hadn’t yet recorded. It’s also amazing that a trio could successfully perform and record 50 tunes in four consecutive days. The trio’s achievement is reminiscent of the two marathon sessions of the Miles Davis Quintet, which produced four albums in the 1950s.
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GIANTSKY – Giant Sky II (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:59 minutes | 692 MB | Genre: Art Rock, Post-Rock, Indie Rock, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Imaginary Friend Records
Norwegian art-rock act Giantsky expands their universe, delivering a highly ambitious sophomore double album.
Draped in a fusion of electronic-, ambient-, and grungy elements, this folktronic / post-rock album honors both the album format and its ambassadors. Praised by critics and listeners worldwide, their debut album received a warm welcome, and its vinyl edition sold out in just a few hours.
Curiously pitched as a union between Mogwai and Nick Drake – making the new Blade Runner soundtrack with Tame Impala – the bar of reference is set high. True to the “Soup sound”, Giantsky has created an album that is both dynamic and melancholic. Influenced by acts such as Sufjan Stevens, The Postal Service, Sigur Ros, GY!BE, Edvard Grieg and Linda Perhacs,
From Erlend Viken, the songwriter of post rock underground ghosts Soup comes the second album of Giantsky. Collaborating with musicians from Trondheim Symphonic Orchestra, Combos, WZRD, Motorpsycho, Hanne Mjoen and more, the table is set for anexciting crossover.
The release consists of 4 audio-files corresponding to the sides of the vinyl album (the album is not a vinyl rip). You can listen it track-by-track using a cue file.
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GIANTSKY – Giant Sky (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:51 minutes | 920 MB | Genre: Art Rock, Post-Rock, Indie Rock, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Imaginary Friend Records
“If Nick Drake and Tame Impala, produced by Brian Eno, co-wrote the new Blade Runner soundtrack, Giant Sky would be it.”
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Frédéric dUrsel & Cindy Castillo – Träume und Erwachen (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:30 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty
When Cindy Castillo and Frédéric d’Ursel told me about their project involving the six Sonatas for violin and keyboard by J.-S. Bach and invited me to write pieces for violin and organ to frame two of them, I immediately and intensely felt the challenge. The juxtaposition of styles that would inevitably result implied an equation that was not easy to solve: the music to be created had to be in connection, in dialogue with that of this “Master” – one of the most famous in the entire History of Western Music! In any case, it seemed to me that the project had to aim at a proposal for an overall form whose elements would be brought together in a coherent architecture that would be perceptible to the listener. Finally, it seemed to me that the fragments I was going to interpose should also prepare the listener to rediscover Bach’s work and prepare him to welcome this particular version of these sonatas that tradition has handed down to us as pieces for violin and harpsichord. A simple three-part insertion proposal was adopted: a prelude for organ and violin to introduce the Sonata in C minor BWV 1017, an interlude for solo violin to lead into the Sonata in G major BWV 1019 (which naturally creates a balance with the third movement of this second sonata that Bach intended for solo keyboard) and a postlude for violin and organ to conclude the ensemble. The complex harmonies and singularly expressive melodic sinuosities filled with fleeting dissonances of the very famous Sicilian opening of the Sonata in C minor BWV 1017 were particularly inspiring to dialogue with Bach’s music in unlikely, sometimes ambiguous stylistic confines and in a dreamlike sound universe that led to the title chosen for this production: Träume und Erwachen.
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Eric Alexander Trio – Just One of Those Things (2017/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:46 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Venus Records, Inc.
Eric Alexander has had many opportunities to record as a leader for several different labels, though producer Tetsuo Hara, owner of the Japanese label Venus, has become a huge fan, recording him almost any time he travels to New York City.
This is another superb outing by Eric Alexander on a freewheeling trio to compile a nine-track full of jazz’s favorite staples from John Coltrane, Cole Porter and many more! There’s a new sort of edge in Eric’s horn, sided with the sublime work of Dezron Douglas on bass and Neal Smith on drums, which he displays throughout the set with a new great sense of spirituality. Well recommended!
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