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Toumani Diabaté and the London Symphony Orchestra – Kôrôlén (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:04 minutes | 812 MB | Genre: World, Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © World Circuit
A ground-breaking new collaboration for fans of African music (Ali Farka Touré, Oumou Sangaré) as well as contemporary orchestral music (Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds, the London Symphony Orchestra) Kôrôlén is a very special collaboration between two titans in music: Toumani Diabaté, the Grammy-winning Malian kora virtuoso, and the London Symphony Orchestra, renowned worldwide for their performances of orchestral music on record, film and stage. Diabaté, a griot whose musical lineage stretches back generations, is well known as one of the most creative musicians on the African continent, and is almost single-handedly responsible for bringing the iconic sound of the kora to worldwide audiences. No stranger to a genre-defying collaboration, he has recorded two Grammy-winning albums alongside desert blues pioneer Ali Farka Touré, as well as projects with Taj Mahal, Björk, Béla Fleck, Damon Albarn and Afrocubism. Commissioned as a special project by the Barbican Centre in London and produced by World Circuit, these recordings feature Diabaté and his group of eminent Malian musicians (including Kasse Mady Diabaté and Lassana Diabaté), accompanied by the soaring presence of the LSO, in dedicated arrangements by Nico Muhly and Ian Gardiner and conducted by Clark Rundell. The title bestowed by Diabaté on this unique and groundbreaking release, Kôrôlén, translates from the Mandinka language as ‘ancestral’ – a fitting theme for an album that brings together ancient griot melodies and Western orchestral arrangements, resulting in an achingly beautiful and fresh Afro-neo-classical sound that will appeal to admirers of African, traditional and new classical, and ambient music.
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Sarah Brightman & The London Symphony Orchestra – Time To Say Goodbye (1997) [Reissue 2004]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:29 minutes | Scans included | 3,75 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,07 GB
Sarah Brightman, who enjoyed a European hit with “Time to Say Goodbye,” her duet with Andrea Bocelli, constructed an album beginning with that recording and continuing in kind. The characteristics of the hit — a lush, melodramatic, mock-operatic arrangement complete with a crescendo out of Ravel’s “Bolero” and soaring voices singing in English and Italian — are repeated here, whether the material is drawn from Puccini, the Gipsy Kings, or Queen.
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Øivin Fjeldstad, The London Symphony Orchestra, Ruggiero Ricci – (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:37 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © HDTT
This is an brilliant performance of this brilliantly colored concerto. Ricci and Fjeldstad bring it all together with Ricci’s brilliant technique and Fjeldstad’s affinity for the Scandinavian repertoire. The recorded sound is classic Decca Kingsway Hall quality – well balanced, detailed, full frequency extension, lovely hall acoustics.
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Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:37 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Luaka Bop
As many classically-inspired composers have moved from acoustic instruments into electronics, the possibilities of collaboration with jazz players has increased. Despite instrumental firepower and the best intentions, the history of jazz-classical blendings—specifically with tenor players like Wayne Shorter, Anthony Braxton and Ornette Coleman—has been mixed, finding the most success when the reeds are an integral part of the composition. Here the wise, eminently accomplished 80-year-old Pharoah Sanders—whose career has lived for the edges—has teamed with young UK composer Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) and the strings of the London Symphony Orchestra for a realization of Shepherd’s “Promises.” A collaboration of nine unnamed movements that run as one long (46:37) intricately constructed piece, Shepherd’s plethora of keyboards (many of them vintage synthesizers) effectively mesh with Sanders’ gift for breathy, urgent skronking. Recorded at Los Angeles’ Sargent Studio and London’s Air Studios, and mixed by Shepherd at EMS4 in London, Promises is dreamy, mysterious and close-miked to the point where you can hear Shepherd’s fingers on the keys.
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