Various Artists – Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America II (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:47 minutes | 693 MB | Genre: Experimental, Electronic, Ambient, Folk, Spoken Word, Poetry
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ginsberg Recordings 2
A Peter Hale & Jesse Goodman Production in Association with the Allen Ginsberg Estate presents Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America Vol II.
Musically Interpreting poems from Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965-1971.
Mastering: Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound.
Lacquering: Paul Gold
Unless otherwise noted, Archival poetry read by Allen Ginsberg, compiled by Barry Miles, 1971, Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Ginsberg Collection.
Poetry courtesy HarperCollins Publishers / City Lights Publishers.
All words by Allen Ginsberg. Allen’s musical works are published by May King Poetry Music, administered by Music of Virtual in North America & by BMG Rights Management for the Rest of the World.
Trevor Rabin – Rio (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:05 minutes | 672 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © InsideOutMusic
You may not realize it, but at some point, during any day, week, or month, you’ve listened to the music of Trevor Rabin. It might have been on the radio when one of the biggest rock hits of all time, Yes’ “Owner of a Lonely Heart “, was played, or on one of his more than 100 movie or TV soundtracks, or even the theme for NBA basketball on TNT. Now he returns with ’Rio’, his first vocal-led solo album since 1989’s ‘Can’t Look Away’. It is a masterclass of idea exploration combined with unbound musical ability and Rabin’s skills as a storyteller through music are present throughout. It is a record full of surprises, gorgeous melodies, dramatic changes, and incredible musicianship.
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Trevor Morris, Trey Toy – Castlevania Nocturne (Original Series Soundtrack) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:00 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lakeshore Records
An award-winning film, television, and video game composer whose credits include The Tudors, The Borgias, Pillars of the Earth, and Vikings, Trevor Morris was born in London, Ontario. A student of the arts from a very young age, Morris’ first foray into commissioned work was to compose a piece for his graduating class to perform in honor of the arrival of Pope John Paul II in Canada. He was 13 at the time and received 50 dollars. After graduating at the top of his class from Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology, Morris moved to Toronto, where he honed his skills in both production and composition, eventually shifting his focus solely on the latter.
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Tom Kennedy – New Start (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:50 minutes | 644 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tom Kennedy
Tom’s musical roots with on the acoustic bass, an instrument he started playing at age 9 and took to so naturally that within a few years he was performing with internationally known players such as Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, Nat Adderly, Sonny Stitt and Stan Kenton.
At age 17, Tom would create a musical alter ego when he began playing the electric bass. Intrigued by the endless possibilities of the instrument, he began developing his now signature style best described as deep, soulful grooves merging seamlessly into acrobatic, horn-like soloing.
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Third Space – For The Upper Mantle (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 25:15 minutes | 250 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Longform Editions
Third Space is the musical project of Melbourne based experimental artist and performer Matt Sabbadini. His work presents a convergence of electro-acoustics and drone, underpinned by tonal, pulse-based percussion, where polyrhythms and deceptive time signatures are linked together with sine tones.
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The Sextones – Love Can’t Be Borrowed (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:13 minutes | 383 MB | Genre: Funk, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Record Kicks
Produced by Kelly Finnigan of The Monophonics, Record Kicks presents “Love Can’t Be Borrowed”, the new album by US combo The Sextones, out on September 29th. Analog soul from the high desert of Nevada.
The intrepid soul crusaders from Nevada’s high desert have emerged from a years-long writing and recording process guided by virtuoso producer Kelly Finnigan (Monophonics) with their latest offering: Love Can’t Be Borrowed, to be released next September 29th via Milan heavy-weight soul label, Record Kicks.
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The Newton Brothers – The Fall of the House of Usher (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:28:57 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Netflix Music
Film composers Andy Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart form The Newton Brothers, an American duo best known for its work in the thriller and horror movie genres. Grush and Stewart began working together in 2007, forming a partnership not only as songwriters, but also as multi-instrumentalists who were capable of performing the cinematic music they composed.
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The Darkness – Permission To Land… Again (20th Anniversary Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 04:38:38 minutes | 3,22 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
“Permission To Land” was originally released in 2003 via Atlantic Records and stormed to the top of the UK album charts, where it stayed for four weeks and spent 53 weeks in the Top 100. It earned the band three BRIT Awards, including British Album Of The Year, British Group and British Rock Act, beating off competition from Blur, Radiohead, Sugababes, Muse, Primal Scream and others. The album has sold over 1, 4 million copies to date. The band will also play over 40 concerts in Europe and the USA again this year – 4 of them in Germany in November.
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Telex – Neurovision (Remastered) (1980/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:31 minutes | 898 MB | Genre: Synth-pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mute
Remastered and newly mixed by band members Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, Telex releases Neurovision. Released in 1980, the album was the follow up to their debut Looking For Saint-Tropez, and includes the track ‘Euro-vision’ which was famously entered into the Eurovision Song Contest, representing Belgium. Moers says he regarded their entry as “very Situationist International, the worm in the apple” and they resolved either to come first or last. They didn’t achieve that goal, but became part of the Eurovision saga.
The Belgian synthpop trio – Marc Moulin (1942- 2008), Lacksman and Michel Moers – launched in Brussels in 1978 and, as one of only a handful of synthpop pioneers at the time, helped bring electronic pop to the mainstream. Telex announced their retirement in 2008, following Moulin’s death, and in 2021 began a new partnership with Mute beginning with the release of This Is Telex.
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Susan Raye – Willy Jones (1971)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 25:19 minutes | 1006 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
If ever there was a dream of a girl country singer Susan Raye is it. She’s romantically pretty graciously charming impressively intelligent teriffically talented… and there’s a special way she has about her that draws compliments from everyone…
And right now her fans couldn’t be happier for her. “Willy Jones” (written especially for her by Buck Owens) quickly climbed into the top echelons of the country music charts… “L.A. International Airport” is following close behind… and everybody says it couldn’t have happened to a nicer girl.
But besides the big single record hits and a good sprinkling of evergreen Buck Owens songs (“In The Arms Of Love,” “Happy Times Are Here Again,” “Heartbreak Mountain”… ) this album offers something really special. It marks the debut of Susan Raye songwriter! As the story goes Susan thought she’d like to try her hand at writing a song. Everyone around her in the Buck Owens All-American Show was writing songs as regularly as most of us brush our teeth. So Susan announced that she too was on the verge of being a composer. The announcement got a few laughs… even from Susan herself because she had no idea of how to begin or if the end-product would be worth the effort.
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Taylor Lee – Wild Woman (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:04 minutes | 624 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wild Woman Records
Lee Taylor doesn’t have a big discography or countless videos on YouTube, but what she lacks in online media is reinforced by boisterous vocal chops and spot-on charisma. And yes, she’s got more musical game than most “influencers” out on their showy platforms. Her live album Wild Woman, due out Friday, March 12th exemplifies this vocal force who rings comparisons from Dionne Warwick, Lily Allen, and Joss Stone.
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Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette – The Ambiguity Manifesto (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:56 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Firehouse 12 Records
The Ambiguity Manifesto, the latest album from composer, cornetist and bandleader Taylor Ho Bynum. The music is designed to blur the lines between composition and improvisation, between individual and ensemble, between genres, timbres, and instrumentations; it celebrates the beauty and necessity of the unknown and the indefinable, the enigmatic and the subversive.
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Susan Raye – Wheel of Fortune (1972)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 24:41 minutes | 971 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
Susan Raye’s country version of “Wheel of Fortune,” a number one hit for Kay Starr in 1952, dispensed with the original’s roulette wheel sound effects and reached the country Top 20 in 1972. That song forms the foundation of the album Wheel of Fortune, which contains mostly new material rather than the raft of covers heard on typical country albums of the period (although, to be fair, that practice was on the wane in the ’70s). Raye was an artist with Buck Owens Enterprises and recorded several hit duets with Owens, and while none are included on the album, he features heavily on it. The recordings were made at Owens’ Bakersfield studio, he wrote (or, in one case, co-wrote) half of the material, and his son, Buddy Alan, contributed the lovely ballad “I’ve Never Had a Dream Come True Before.” In fact, Owens – not Capitol – has retained ownership of Raye’s master tapes through the years. Raye’s roots in rock & roll seemingly made her a strong candidate to become a crossover country singer but, perhaps due to Owens’ influence, she cleaved to an identifiably country sound that is heard most pronouncedly on the banjo accompaniment of “Hide and Watch Me Go.”
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Tatsuya Shimono – Dai Fujikura: Akiko’s Piano – Works from Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra 2020 (Music for Peace) Concert (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:55 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music Labels Inc.
“To express such an universal theme of “music for peace”, the piece should portray that most personal, smallest point of view. I think that is the most powerful way, and only music can achieve this.”
Dai Fujikura
Susan Raye – Pitty, Pitty, Patter (1971/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 24:37 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
Susan Raye is hard to talk about… just like it’s hard to talk about the smell of fall or the sound of love or any other private, intangible, unutterable feelings.
Still there are a few things we’d like to say: that Susan is a beautiful lady: that she is warm, kind, talented, honest, feeling: that there are ten Susan Raye performances here: that each one is a fitting successor to “L.A. International Airport”: that they were written by the likes of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Freddie Hart: and that for the true Susan Raye fan (and there are lots of you) there is nothing quite like hearing Susan sing a song for the first time.
Just listen to the unrestrained joyousness of “Pitty, Pitty, Patter,” Susan’s latest hit. And the meltingly lovely sensuality of “Within My Loving Arms.” And the heartaching loss and loneliness of “(I’m Goin’) Home.” No wonder she’s become such a phenomenal success on TV and with Buck Owens’ All-American Show.
More than likely, Susan Raye is hard to talk about because she’s so much nicer just to listen to.
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