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Yussef Dayes – The Yussef Dayes Experience – Live From Malibu (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:52 minutes | 370 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brownswood Recordings
Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Yussef Dayes releases The Yussef Dayes Experience (Live from Malibu), featuring music from his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Black Classical Music, and more, on vinyl and digitally on January 26 via Brownswood Recordings, Warner Music, and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings and in the US on Nonesuch Records. Dayes is joined by his longtime collaborators Rocco Palladino, Venna, Elijah Fox, and Alexander Bourt on the new release, which was originally shared as a live-performance video filmed in the Malibu mountains last year and is available on YouTube.
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Various Artists – Invito Al Viaggio – Concerto Per Franco Battiato (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:19:34 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Pop, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.
Invito al viaggio. Concerto per Franco Battiato è un doppio album tributo live a Franco Battiato, pubblicato il 3 dicembre 2021 da Universal e registrato il 21 settembre 2021 all’Arena di Verona. Nella riedizione in formato QUARdisc il maestro viene celebrato da 35 artisti, fra i quali: Max Gazzè, Carmen Consoli, Jovanotti, Mahmood, Fiorella Mannoia, Vinicio Capossela, Gianna Nannini, Subsonica, Emma, Arisa, Eugenio Finardi, Morgan, Paola Turci, Colapesce e DiMartino, Alice, Angelo Branduardi, Simone Cristicchi.
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Ty Segall – Three Bells (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:05 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Drag City
Ty Segall follows 2022’s acoustic introspection opus “Hello, Hi” with a deeper, wilder journey to the centre of the self. With Three Bells, he’s created a set of his most ambitious, elastic songs, using his musical vocabulary with ever-increasing sophistication. It’s an obsessive quest for an expression that answers back to the riptide always pulling him subconsciously into the depths. Questions we all ask in our own private mirrors are faced down here — and regardless of what the mysterious “Three Bells” mean in the context of the album’s libretto, you can be assured that Ty’s ringing them for himself, and for the rest of us in turn. Three Bells kind of goes beyond songs. The fifteen of them work together as a mosaic, creating the larger work at the same time as they stand on their own. Composing the album as a piece, Ty formed certain chord shapes over and over again, making thematic material that each song moves through in its own way, building a claustrophobic/paranoia vibe, cycling bold thrusts forward into ego deaths, the one-step-forward, two-steps-back patterns framing an overriding ask: what we can do to get past the back-and-forth conversation, to arrive at a place of acceptance.
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Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu – A Lionel Tertis Celebration (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:07:52 minutes | 4,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Lionel Tertis (1876-1975), a great genius of the viola, is little known to today’s public.
Timothy Ridout pays tribute to this key figure in his instrument’s history with a flamboyant programme featuring music by Tertis’s friends, teachers and students alongside some of his own original works and transcriptions.
A marvellous musical journey, rich in discoveries.
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Thunder – Live at Leeds (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:41:18 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
Since forming in 1989, Thunder have established themselves at the top table of UK rock and cultivating a well-deserved reputation as consummate live performers.
January 26, 2024, sees the release of the previously unreleased live album “Live At Leeds”, recorded on March 3rd, 2015, as part of a three-date arena tour in support of ‘Wonder Days’, one of the finest studio records of Thunder’s career.
A 16-song set delivered a hatful of hits and no less than six numbers from ‘Wonder Days’, namely its title cut, ‘Black Water’, ‘Resurrection Day’, ‘Broken’, ‘The Thing I Want’ and ‘When The Music Played’.
“Live At Leeds” stood as further evidence of Thunder’s prowess as live entertainers.
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Thunder – Live at Islington Academy (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:20 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
Among the most popular and enduring British hard rock bands of the past 25 years, Thunder are to launch the previously unreleased live album “Live At Islington Academy” on January 26, 2024.
The live record captures the South London based band during the touring cycle of their eighth studio album, ‘Robert Johnson’s Tombstone’. The quintet had already completed a lengthy circuit of the UK in promotion of the record when they were contacted by Planet Rock Radio (UK) about the possibility of performing a set before a live audience at the station’s first annual Christmas Bash.
A mere 800 lucky fans got the opportunity to see Thunder perform at the Planet Rock Christmas Party on December 19th, 2006, and offered up a storming, surprise performance dominated by golden classics such as ‘River Of Pain’, ‘Low Life In High Places’, ‘You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down’, ‘Love Walked In’, ‘Backstreet Symphony’ and ‘I Love You More Than Rock ‘N’ Roll’, followed by a hot, sweaty encore of the hit single ‘Dirty Love’.
“Live At Islington Academy” shows off not just an amazing catalogue of unforgettable rock hits, but just the sheer live power that Thunder possess.
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The Smile – Wall Of Eyes (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:17 minutes | 477 MB | Genre: Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © XL Recordings
The Smile’s new album Wall Of Eyes, will be released on 26th January on XL Recordings. The new album, was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios, and is produced and mixed Sam Petts-Davies. It features string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Wall Of Eyes is the follow up their 2022 debut LP A Light For Attracting Attention
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The Jakob Manz Project – The Answer (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:15 minutes | 888 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Accepted as a young student at the Stuttgart University of Music at the age of 15, multiple awards as a teenager, the ACT debut “Natural Energy” at 19, winner of the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize at 21 – is the unstoppable rise of the now 22-year-old saxophonist Jakob Manz over? Not at all, as the new album “The Answer” proves.
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The Gospel Artistics – The Gospel Artistics (1973/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 26:57 minutes | 1016 MB | Genre: Gospel, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Based in the Washington D.C. area, nine-piece ensemble the Gospel Artistics set up shop at DB Sounds Studios in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland, for a full-length project, tied together and informed by elements as disparate as Northern soul and jam rock. The all-male group displayed the talents of all of its participants, as several members were multi-instrumentalists, vocalists, writers and producers. This includes work from vocalist and organist Al Mason, guitarist and baritone vocalist Tyrone Chase and songwriter and tenor vocalist David Hood.
Hood and Chase co-write “Lord Is It I?” a standout callback to the doo-wop of Motown and Chess, affixed in an otherwise largely livewire album. Though still a pared-back respite from the electrified soul of the album’s remaining runtime, the song’s syrupy, sweet tone is jilted by LeVon McNeil’s hard-hitting drumming, hinting at the group’s brash overtones.
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The Commanders – Walk With Me (1972/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:37 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Gospel, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
A sharp departure from the black traditional gospel and soul-infused message music of Gospel Truth’s catalog, the Commanders’ 1972 release “Walk With Me” promises a very different type of “Old-Time Religion.” This quintet of white voices raised their joyful noise from the rolling hills of Birmingham, Alabama, a state mired by the imagery of fire hoses, police attack dogs and race-related unrest, as the wounds of the Civil Rights Era only recently began the process of healing.
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Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:40 minutes | 867 MB | Genre: Americana, Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rounder
Polaroid Lovers is the 7th studio album from four-time Grammy winner Sarah Jarosz. Produced by Daniel Tashian, Polaroid Lovers is a bold creative statement that sees Jarosz exploring new sonic territory. The 11 songs on the album, all co-written by Jarosz with songwriters including Tashian, Jon Randall, Ruston Kelly, and Natalie Hemby, touch on themes both personal and universal: love, longing, and finding one’s place in the world.
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Live in Paris (1970) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:28 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Transversales Disques
Gifted multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the height of his powers, backed by his Vibration Society, including long-term cohorts pianist Ron Burton, powerhouse percussionist Joe Habao Texidor, Dick Griffin on trombone, drummer Jerome Cooper and Vernon Martin on Double Bass.
First ever official reissue of this rare ORTF recording performed live at studio 104, Maison de la Radio Paris, with the full permission and cooperation of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA).
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Piotr Lato, Messages Quartet – Wajnberg, Tansman, Przybylski: Clarinet Quintets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:22 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DUX Recording Producers
In the 20th century, with the transformations in aesthetics, new facets of the clarinet were discovered, but it always remained an instrument with unrivaled tonal, dynamic, articulation, and agogic properties. The clarinet can be sensitive and vulgar, discreet and intrusive, mysterious, and unceremoniously transparent. It can evoke the atmosphere of folk fun, mournful lament, or an oriental scene. It can do a lot. And its most admirable ability is its capacity to blend with different instruments, with their colors merging or contrasting. Together, they create completely new, synthetic colors, whose quality depends not only on what it is combined with but also on the register in which the combination takes place.
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