Various Artists – Jazz Dispensary: The Freedom Sound! The People Arise (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:33 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Let the sound of the night drums and the cry of the horns empower you! The cratediggers of Jazz Dispensary are proud to present a collection of jams propelled by the spirit of nature, protest, and freedom, featuring songs from pioneering musicians Joe Henderson, Gary Bartz, Ran Blake, Azar Lawrence, A.K. Salim, and The Dungills.
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Various Artists – Schmidt: Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln & Symphony No. 4 in C Major “Requiem für meine Tochter” (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:37:33 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
SOMM Recordings honours Franz Schmidt, one of the great symphonic composers of the 20th century, on the 150th anniversary of his birth with this double-disc set featuring two of his masterworks. Revered in his day in his native Austria as the nation’s leading composer and an elite teacher, cellist and pianist, his name will not be known to many. This is due, at least in part, to a perceived association with the Third Reich (against which there is ample evidence). This first release on CD of two premiere recordings, meticulously produced and restored by Lani Spahr, showcases Schmidt’s unique harmonic language, exceptional contrapuntal skill and mastery of form, qualities which prompted Hans Pfitzner to call Schmidt’s Symphony No. 4 “nearer perfection than Bruckner, more honest than Richard Strauss and more original than Reger”.
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UFO – Covenant + Sharks (Remastered) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:29:34 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HNE
Two studio albums and a live set with Phil Mogg, Pete Way and Michael Schenker from the classic, newly formed “Strangers In The Night” line-up of UFO.
The roots of UFO go back to 1968 in London, when singer Phil Mogg and bassist Pete Way teamed up with drummer Andy Parker. They achieved cult status in Japan and Germany until 1973, when they found their key sound in the influential German lead guitarist Michael Schenker. Schenker’s original time with UFO ended with the release of the double live LP “Strangers In The Night”. UFO continued in various line-ups in the 80s and 90s, while Michael Schenker founded the Michael Schenker Group. in 1995, the classic “Strangers In The Night” line-up reunited for a new studio album, “Walk On Water”.
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U2 – Staring At The Sun (Remastered 2024) (1997/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 26:13 minutes | 300 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
“Staring at the Sun” is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the fifth track on their 1997 album, Pop, and was released by Island Records as the album’s second single on 14 April 1997. The song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, number one in Canada and Iceland and number 26 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the US, it topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Alternative Songs charts. It also reached the top 10 in Finland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Norway.
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The Hives – Lex Hives (Deluxe) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:46 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Disques Hives
The world’s most intelligent musical body, the international rock sensation The Hives, is back. On June 1, 2012, Howlin Pelle Almqvist, Nicholaus Arson, Chris Dangerous, Dr. Matt Destruction and Vigilante Carlstroem will return with Lex Hives, their fifth masterpiece. A 12-number comprehensive consideration of all Hives regularities is Lex Hives. The term Lex Hives is derived from an expression that in Roman antiquity stood for the application of a system ordinance or set of laws and their acceptance as a guideline. That’s why the 12 songs of Lex Hives concoct the sacred laws according to which all life must be lived from now on. Carved into a 33 1/3 melting wax cake longplayer, Lex Hives comes from the Hives own label Disques Hives.
Self-produced, self-recorded, self-published and self-advertised these 12 songs were not only created to please everyone. They are not songs that sound good when they are played with an acoustic around a campfire. This is not music. This is compressed carbon that was stored in the Earth’s crust for millions of years and was waiting for its excavation in order to be able to be at home in your eardrums. The new single Go Right Ahead is now streaming on rollingstone com. Lex Hives was produced by The Hives and mixed by Grammy winner Andrew Scheps (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele). Two additional mixes are by D. Sardy (Marylin Manson, Slayer) and Joe Zook (Weezer, Modest Mouse). The Lex Hives Deluxe version contains bonus tracks directed by Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.
Growing louder. More boldly. Proud. And more confident. The Hives have escaped the dark times and are steering towards the light that is the law. The law that The Hives are. Lex Hives . Natural laws look comparatively pale, and The Hives demand no less than perfect obedience.
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Tei Shi – Valerie (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:52 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tei Shi LLC
Tei Shi Is Coming Out With an Eponymous Solo LP ‘Valerie’. The newly independent artist also shared the first song from the album, “Quédate Queriéndome.” Singer, producer and DJ Tei Shi is continuously evolving, recreating herself on each new album. The prolific artist, whose real name is Valerie Teicher Barbosa, will be returning with another body of work, the eponymous album Valerie.
Following last year’s BAD PREMONITION EP, Shi bills Valerie of an extension of her last project, which marked her becoming a fully independent artist. Whereas BAD PREMONITION emphasized the cathartic experience of gaining her musical freedom, the new album will see her truly come into her own sound.
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T Bone Burnett – The Other Side (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:00 minutes | 411 MB | Genre: Roots Rock, Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © T Bone Burnett
Grammy and Oscar award winning producer, musician and songwriter T Bone Burnett is back to form with a folk album of 12 tracks featuring artists Lucius, Roseanne Cash and Weyes Blood. “With this record, I tried to treat myself as kindly as I would try to treat other people,” says Burnett, who likens his producing approach to that of a photographer. “I try to find the person’s best angle and light them so they look the most like themselves or the best version of themselves. And this time, rather than staying in the romantic notion I previously had of myself—of a rebellious artist, a firebrand or whatever I thought I was trying to be—I just tried to be kind to myself.” Ultimately, in looking for “you,” T Bone Burnett found himself on The Other Side.
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Steve Cropper – With A Little Help From My Friends (Expanded Edition / Remastered 2024) (1969/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:53 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
As a founding member of Stax house band Booker T. & The M.G.’s, Steve Cropper was involved in some of the most important music of the 1960s as a player, songwriter, and producer. The following decade introduced him to a new group of fans as guitarist for The Blues Brothers, appearing on both their records and film. A two-time Grammy® winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Cropper has been an integral thread in the cloth of American music, writing, playing and producing into the 21st century to this very day.
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Sinfonietta Schaffhausen, Mi Zhou and Paul K. Haug – Fauré & Herbert: Orchestral Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:08 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
Fauré: Symphonie en Fa Op. 20; Herbert, V: Suite für Cello und Orchester, Op. 3; Fauré: Elégie für Cello und Orchester, Op. 24.
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