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Powers / Pulice / Rolin – Prism (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:22 minutes | 390 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Spiritual Jazz, Space Jazz, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Three Lobed Auxiliary
Prism is a special collaboration for Cached between Jen Powers, Matthew Rolin, and Cole Pulice. Across four tracks, the trio soars through their own cosmic blend of Atomic Americana. Prior to this collaboration, Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin, based in rural Ohio, have created space across several intersections of DIY music communities with their American Pastoral trance music. Rolin is a deft guitar player with a sound as expressive as it is skillful; Powers’ dulcimer playing is transcendent and hypnotic. Between applying their craft to more experimental and borderline-free-jazz worlds, as well as with troubadours like Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Powers and Rolin work keeps an air of far-out approachability. Across their bevy of collaborations, the two bring a honed-in and earth-oriented sensibility while presenting music that is undeniably galactic: blasted, even when it’s soft; Appalachian Trance. Cole Pulice, an electroacoustic woodwind player and composer based in Oakland, California, creates lush and vibrant music, using live signal processing of their saxophone to slip into otherworldly surrealist dreamscapes. Pulice’s recent solo albums and collaborations elegantly plumb this post-new-age ambient jazz paradigm that Cached seems to keep rolling in. On Prism, Rolin’s guitar soars in places and gently lilts in others, a fingerstyle player more aligned with an experimental or abstracted and free approach. Pulice flutters between blistering solos and temperate swooning, punctuating their otherwise sweet, lyrical, aromatic, and nectarous tone. Powers’ rippling dulcimer chimes give Prism an enormous resonant space; her buoyant arpeggiations become the melodic air through which Rolin and Pulice tumble and drift. This is spectral and voluminous music. Full of space, full of power, protons and neutrons – simultaneously macro and micro in scope. Undeniably pastoral, the album feels attuned to nature’s beaming ultraviolets, pollen bursts, sienna-colored skies. Dazzling Cascades of horn, guitars and dulcimer draw the iris into a world of sound caught inside a beam of scattered light.
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Pet Shop Boys – Loneliness (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 19:06 minutes | 229 MB | Genre: Electronic, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK
Pet Shop Boys have announced details of a new album called ‘Nonetheless’ – listen to its first single, ‘Loneliness’, below.
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will release their new album on April 26, the first since 2020’s ‘Hotspot’. It sees them work with James Ford on production for the first time.
“We wanted this album to be a celebration of the unique and diverse emotions that make us human,” they said in a statement. “From the more dance-orientated tracks to the raw poignancy of the introspective ballads, with their beautiful string arrangements, each track tells a story and contributes to the overall narrative of the album.”
The band added: “We’re very excited to release this new album. Its 10 tracks are the strongest indicators of where we are today. Like much of our music it’s very reflective. It was great to work with James Ford, who we think has brought new elements to our music.
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Nour Ayadi – Carnaval (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:07 minutes | 1011 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Scala Music
Born in Casablanca, pianist Nour Ayadi is celebrated as a sensation in France. She began her studies at the famous Paris Conservatory at the age of 17 and went on to take part in numerous international piano competitions. The press and fellow musicians speak of her special joy of playing. For the Scala Music label, Ayadi has recorded a program in which the craziness of a carnival invites you to dance, forget and lose, and in which she ventures an unusual rapprochement between Schumann and Poulenc.
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NewDad – MADRA (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:41 minutes | 486 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Dreampop, Shoegaze, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records UK
Irish alt / rock collective NewDad release their debut album, MADRA on Fair Youth / Atlantic. Awash with spiralling guitars and a hypnotic bassline, singer/guitarist Julie Dawson finds inspiration in TV show Euphoria, as she ruminates on the destructive relationship of characters, Rue and Jules: a storyline that she herself gravitated towards.
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Katrin Frauchiger – A Voyage in Sound (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:20 minutes | 345 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © u n i t
The Katrin Frauchiger/Michael Beck duo interprets standards by composers such as Cole Porter, Kurt Weill and Duke Ellington with their own sound, authentic expression, improvisational freedom and immediacy. In the chamber music jazz of this duo, listening on several levels and subtle interplay are of the utmost importance. Frauchiger/Beck intensively studied the technically demanding original versions as well as the countless reinterpretations by various jazz protagonists; this research led to an independent and contemporary musical language. As a singer and composer, Katrin Frauchiger is rooted in classical-contemporary music and is active in various collaborations at the interface with jazz in Europe. The pianist Michael Beck honed his jazz skills at Berklee and in the lively New York jazz scene of the 1990s before establishing his stylistically diverse activities as a composer and performer in Europe.
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Jim Kweskin – Never Too Late: Duets With My Friends (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:00 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © StorySound Records LLC
Featuring a collection of 18 recordings and storied collaborations with some of his favorite female musicians, the new album stands as a testament to the generation and genre-spanning brilliance that has defined Kweskin’s illustrious career for the past six decades. Throughout the album, recorded almost completely in one or two takes, Kweskin showcases the captivating, boundless essence of his artistry alongside guests such as Maria Muldaur, who first worked with Kweskin in the 1960s as part of Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band. Other special appearances include Samoa Wilson and Meredith Axelrod, who have released LPs with Kweskin throughout the years, while Rose Guerin and Juli Crockett have been frequent performers at his concerts on both the East and West coasts. Fiona Kweskin, his granddaughter, also lends her vocals to several tracks such as the album’s latest single and music video, “You’re Just In Love.”
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Geir Henning Braaten – Piano Music by Øistein Sommerfeldt (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:21 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
Geir Henning Braaten (born 29 October 1944 in Odalen) is a Norwegian pianist. In Oslo, he studied with Nicolai Dirdal from age five, and later with Robert Riefling, both at the Oslo Conservatory of Music. He also studies in France with Yvonne Lefébure, with Bruno Seidlhofer in Vienna.He had his debut in 1966 and has toured widely, especially in the East, including Turkey, Yugoslavia, France, USSR, U.S., Korea, Middle East and Taiwan. He has performed on Hong Kong radio and played with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Braaten has collaborated with conductors including Moshe Atzmon, Aldo Ceccato, Mariss Jansons, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi and Walter Weller. His complete edition of Grieg gave rise to concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and won the prestigious MIDEM award. . He has had a close collaboration with world renowned violinist Aaron Rosand. He is retired from his position associate professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music, but continues his busy concert schedule, both as soloist and in chamber music with violinist Ole Bohn among others.
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David Wallraf – The Commune Of Nightmares (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:32 minutes | 427 MB | Genre: Experimental Electronic, Ambient, Drone
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Karlrecords
The new album The Commune Of Nightmares by noise artist David Wallraf is a tapeloop-based musical game of cadavre exquis, a technique developed by surrealist artists.
David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist living in Hamburg. His artistic work deals with the repressed and uncanny sonic residues of quotidian life, crafting soundtracks for the creeping disaster we inhabit. His works have been released on numerous international tape labels. A recent interest of his is the live scoring of silent films, including works by Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren and Jean Genet. His PhD thesis Grenzen des Hörens. Noise und die Akustik des Politischen (Limits of Hearing. Noise and the Acoustics of the Political) has been published in German, an English translation is in progress.
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Biagio Russo – Quadrivium (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:14 minutes | 420 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aulicus Classics
The music of Quadrivium, the result of an improvisation set in studio, it’s an investigation on the various possibilities of an atypical quartet consisting of piano, two double basses and percussions. The interaction of the Campania-based trio formed by Biagio Russo, Gabriele Pagliano and Lucio Miele thus turns out to be amplified by the presence of the american double bassist Alexander Claffy.
The chamber dimension of this quartet, who often indulges in meditative episodes with melody-like flashes, didn’t prevent moments that results close to the experience of the 60’s jazz avant-gard, a certain period in the music history in which the addition of a second double bass became common amongst the innovators of that time. However meditating has also the meaning of keeping together; a fragile balance, as only the state of being in the moment can be, between worlds at the crossroads of the quadrivium.
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Bélier Bleu – Live au Brin de Zinc (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:22 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Animal Records
Duo of professional musicians playing from high energy Rock’n’Roll. Drummer is based in Düsseldorf, Singer/Guitarist isn’t based anywhere. A girl and a boy, perfect for parity but not really politically correct.
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Air space – Cricket Cipher (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:33 minutes | 434 MB | Genre: Experimental Electronic, Ambient, Post-Minimalism
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Adhyâropa Records
Air Space is the sonic dialogue between percussionist Brian Shankar Adler (Kinan Azmeh, Jane Ira Bloom) and keyboardist Mike Effenberger (fiveighthirteen). Inspired by the minimalist structures and analogue textures of artists like Brian Eno, Ólafur Arnalds, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Nils Frahm, the duo transcends boundaries, creating an atmospheric soundtrack to the somnambulist’s night in the deep woods.
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