Superdownhome – No Balls, No Blues Chips (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:35 minutes | 474 MB | Genre: Blues
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This surprising italian duo takes on their own version of the blues, remiding us of Seasick Steve or the Black Keys. This «”Best Of” album gathering their firsts songs marks their entry among the talents to keep an eye on !
Read moreCarlos Niño – (I’m just) Chillin’, on Fire (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:35:29 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Electronic, Nu Jazz, Space-Age, Psychedelic
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Over the past few years, concert patrons have stopped the musician Carlos Niño after gigs to ask two simple questions: “Are you a shaman?” “I hear the medicine in your music, can I come to your next ceremony?” The queries are fair enough: Looking at Niño, a tall man with a wild beard and kind eyes, one would think he’s from some faraway time and could maybe cast spells. Once you get to know him, you find that he’s just an incredibly sweet guy with a laid-back demeanor, and that he isn’t some guru claiming to have an all-access pass to the otherworld.
Read moreCameron Crozman – Ricercari (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:49 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Canadian cellist Cameron Crozman presents Ricercari, a highly original album for solo cello. Gabrielli’s Ricercari emerged from obscurity in 1689, heralding the beginning of music for unaccompanied cello. They serve as inspiration for six new works by Canadian, French, Colombian, and American composers commissioned by Crozman, whose own exploration is included as the seventh piece in this unique program.
Read morebvdub – Illusions in Indifference (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:08 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Deep House, Ambient
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Recorded in 2020 in an attempt to face down a particularly inescapable loop of destructive mental illness made all the more undefeatable by the fact I was surrounded by people who not only couldn’t understand, but couldn’t care less. The closer they were, the further I was away…
Read moreSusanna Phillips, Shenyang & Brian Zeger – Schubert: Songs & Duets (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:22 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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These seldom-heard Schubert lieder—setting verses by German poets including Schiller and Goethe—reflect the Romantic-era’s artistic obsession with the classical myths and literature of ancient Greece. The resulting songs and duets reveal levels of fantasy and nobility rarely found among Schubert’s nearly 700 lieder.
Read moreSymphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons – Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie; Tod und Verklärung (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:47 minutes | 766 MB | Genre: Classical
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“An Alpine Symphony” is probably Strauss’ most famous symphonic poem. Its content is easily understandable, and the work became especially well-known for its gigantic orchestra. The music is far from heavy-handed, however, with many of the passages orchestrated like chamber music. Like a kind of greeting from the Bavarian Alps, as it were, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and its chief conductor Mariss Jansons have placed this masterpiece, and the music of Richard Strauss in general, on the programme of their forthcoming tour of Asia in late 2016.
At the age of just fifteen, the budding composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) lost his way during a summer hike on the Heimgarten in the Bavarian Alps, and ended up in a thunderstorm. The next day, he fantasized about the experience on the piano. – Twenty years later, that memory had matured into a concept describing a one-day hike in the form of a symphonic poem, and in 1915 – a further fifteen years later – Strauss finally completed his masterpiece. The hike begins in the darkness before dawn, and after sunrise the ascent goes through a forest, past a stream and a waterfall, through meadows and pastures, and up to a glacier. The hiker then loses his way, and after several risky moments arrives at the summit, where he also experiences a vision. The weather then suddenly worsens, and the descent is accompanied by heavy rain and fierce thunderstorms. The eventful day – summarized in just sixty minutes of music – ends with a sunset, and darkness returns.
The live recording of “Alpine Symphony” concerts planned for October 2016 in Munich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig is enhanced on this latest CD from BR-KLASSIK by the addition of Strauss’ symphonic poem “Death and Transfiguration”, first performed in 1890; the recording here is of concerts performed in Munich in February 2014. – We thus have two very recent interpretations of two of this great German composer’s most important tone poems on one CD.
Read moreHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & Susanna Mälkki – Bartók: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:52 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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On the two previously released Bartók programmes (both highly praised), Susanna Mälkki and her players in the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra have recorded Bartók’s three scores for the stage – The Miraculous Mandarin, The Wooden Prince and Bluebeard’s Castle, all written before 1918. The team now takes on two of his late orchestral masterpieces.
Read moreMike Stoller & Brendan McCreary – Brendan McCreary Sings the Love Songs of Mike Stoller (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:27 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Sparks & Shadows, a multifaceted entertainment company founded by preeminent film and TV composer Bear McCreary, is set to release Brendan McCreary Sings the Love Songs of Mike Stoller a new collection of fresh interpretations of rare gems as well as never-before-recorded songs by Stoller, most of them cowritten with his late writing partner, Jerry Leiber.
Read moreStrange Ranger – Daymoon (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:05 minutes | 472 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
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Strange Ranger are the now two-piece indie-rock combo based in Portland, Oregon. The change from a trio to a duo definitely shows, as ‘Daymoon’ displays a more simplistic approach. As a result, the band have produced an emotionally deeper album, with the sparsity of the tracks lending itself to the sadness.
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