Keith Rowe, Mark Wastell – Live at I-and-E (2006/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 29:14 minutes | 313 MB | Genre: Electronic, Experimental
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Confront
Live concert from I-and-E Festival, Dublin 31 March 2006 recorded at the printing house, Dublin, Ireland.
Keith Rowe and Mark Wastell. This last performance balanced the evening well. Louder, more gestural, bringing the evening to a climax in two ways – the temporal one and also by taking the audience on a long journey to the satisfactory end of the piece – more musically referential towards the end especially as Rowe dropped in a distinct seesawing 6/4 rhythm. Theme and statement and variations… all here but not under the figure of traditional moves. But the strategies are very much the same. They just require a shift in the mode of listening. The audience were prepared to do that, consequently enjoyed the music and gave them warm applause. Deservedly.
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Kehlani – blue water road (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:53 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TSNMI – Atlantic
Manufactured on Demand. 13x Platinum, 2x GRAMMY Award-nominated, singer & songwriter Kehlani has announced her highly anticipated third album blue water road. “blue water road is a destination in my mind,” Kehlani explains. “I’m giving everyone access. It’s an emotional journey, a sexual journey, and a spiritual journey. To me, the album is like a glass house. It’s light, transparent, and the sun is shining right through it.”
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Kebyart – Lectures différentes (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:33 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
“Lectures différentes” is the brainchild of Kebyart, a young, energetic Spanish ensemble comprising four talented saxophonists who are revitalizing the way classical music is communicated. For its debut recording the group has unabashedly arranged works from the standard repertoire, creating new and refreshing accounts: from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, a modern take on eighteenth-century music, to Joan Pérez-Villegas’s Fantasy on García Lorca’s “Canciones antiguas españolas” and Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 33 No. 3. The programme also includes the premiere recording of Eötvös’s own Lectures différentes.
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Kaz Hawkins – Until We Meet Again (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:41 minutes | 534 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dixiefrog
When she sings, Kaz Hawkins takes us into her vast and colourful universe, simple words express the strong emotions she writes about in an artistic universe that matches her endearing and free personality.
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Kay Kyung Eun Kim – DREAMS (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:41 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kay Kyung Eun Kim
Pianist Kay Kyung Eun Kim, prize-winner of the 6th Mozart International Piano Competition, has been praised as a “chic, stylish and modern pianist” by the International Piano Magazine, while The Piano Magazine described her as a “warm and sensitive, dynamic and fearless pianist.”
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Katy J Pearson – Sound of the Morning (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:00 minutes | 898 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Heavenly Recordings
“Sound of the Morning” is written and recorded in late 2021, Katy’s latest effort is co-produced by Ali Chant (Yard Act and the helm of Katy’s debut Return) and Speedy Wunderground head-honcho Dan Carey (Fontaines DC).
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Katie Procell – Stories out of Cherry Stems (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:56 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Composer Peter Dayton and Navona Records present STORIES OUT OF CHERRY STEMS, an album of original vocal chamber music with carefully curated texts spanning multiple centuries. Soprano Katie Procell and numerous selected performers navigate a persistent tension between simplicity and complexity delicately threaded throughout the program, providing a solid stage for the texts of notable poets Pablo Neruda, Oscar Wilde, and more. The strengths of vocal and instrumental chamber music merge into a cohesive powerhouse in this recording, brimming with sung stories that compliment Dayton’s compositional style.
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Kathryn Williams – Night Drives (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:26 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © One Little Independent Records
Singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter Kathryn Williams’ 2022 album ‘Night Drives’. The collection explores a more filmic sound, with a larger ensemble of instrumentation, particular emphasis on the strings and production from Ed Harcourt. Journeying from leftfield contemporary pop to soft acoustics, Kathryn Williams uses her latest LP to explore a variety of fresh ideas driven, in part, by a host of collaborators. Her first official album since ‘Hypoxia’ in 2015, ‘Night Drives’ opens with some of Kathryn’s most immediately electronic tracks to date. Kathryn’s inimitable charm colours the whole album with emotion and affection – occasionally brooding, always likable.
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Kathryn Stott – Fauré: Piano Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & Nocturne (2010/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:45 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
In 1871 Fauré joined the Société Nationale de Musique whose mission was to promote French music and offer a forum for the circulation of orchestral and chamber works. The Society was to be the springboard for much of Fauré’s chamber music including the Piano Quartets. Kathy Stott is an acknowledged interpreter of Fauré’s music and the BBC Music Magazine recently wrote “Kathryn Stott reinforces her position as one of the finest Fauré interpreters of her generation”. She has long wished to record Fauré’s hauntingly beautiful two piano quartets but was looking for the right ensemble. Fortunately she found the Hermitage String Trio, a group she has toured with on a number of occasions. The Strad recently wrote of the group “This ensemble will do much to put more string trio repertory on the musical map”. The Quartets are coupled with the Nocturne No. 4 for solo piano.
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Neeme Järvi, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Kathryn Stott – Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphony No. 2 (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:47 minutes | 893 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
Kathryn Stott completes her cycle of Kabalevsky Piano concertos with nos. 1 & 4. coupled with the popular Symphony No. 2. Neeme Jarvi returns to Chandos for this recording and conducts the BBC Philharmonic in some spectacular music full of Russian folk themes.
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Kathryn Joseph – for you who are the wronged (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:35 minutes | 379 MB | Genre: Indie, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rock Action Records
“for you who are the wronged” is the much anticipated follow-up to 2018’s “from when i wake the want is”, and her 2014 debut “bones you have thrown me and blood i’ve spilled”, which won 2015’s Scottish Album of the Year award. If “from when i wake…” was written for love to return, this is where she fights tooth and claw to protect it. Written and co-produced by Kathryn Joseph, it was recorded at The Lengths Studio in Fort William, with producer Lomond Campbell (also a recording artist for Heavenly Records and has previously produced King Creosote). Kathryn is signed to fellow Scottish musicians, Mogwai’s Rock Action Records. It will appeal to those that have bought Kathryn’s earlier albums plus fans of Lana Del Ray, Laura Marling, Kate Bush, Aidan Moffat, and Erland Cooper.
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Kathrin Schmidlin – Opus 1 feminin (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:21 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records
Opus 1: Listen to me, here I am! As a Firstling, I want to go public, I want to be printed, played, understood and appreciated. What came before me no longer counts. I lead a life of my own and stand at the beginning of my further development.
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Katharos XIII – Chthonian Transmissions (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:57 minutes | 681 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Loud Rage Music
The new album encapsulate six different dreams delivered from the times when the itinerant cosmonauts had a telluric existence. We like the words of Kurt Vonnegut and the imagery of Andrei Tarkovski, so we tried to embed this in our aesthetics and in every word or expression to resonate with our own personal philosophy.
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Kateryna Kasper, Dmitry Ablogin – Ein süßes Deingedenken: Lieder by Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:28:49 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TYXart
Are the songs on this new double album musical letters between the genius composer siblings Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn? Through their joint musical training, the children of a pianist and a respected Jewish banker were musically kindred spirits; music was their soul language. Later they exchanged many entertaining and poetic letters about their compositions. The sister, three years older, was the closest advisor to the “child prodigy” Felix throughout his life. According to those who knew her, she was his equal as a pianist and composer.
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Kate Rusby – 30 : Happy Returns (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:45 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pure Records
Kate Rusby, often hailed as the ‘First Lady of Folk’, celebrates an amazing 30 years as a professional musician in 2022 with the release of a brand new album 30 : Many Happy Returns (Pure Records) on May 6. Anniversary album, 30 : Many Happy Returns, features a stellar array of guest musicians who have all inspired Kate during her career: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Richard Hawley, Darlingside, KT Tunstall, Sarah Jarosz, Sam Kelly, Dan Tyminski, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Damien O’Kane and on the physical version of the album, a bonus track with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. The songs are newly recorded versions of favourites from across Kate’s career.
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