Benda Quartet – Quadrants, Vol. 5 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:16 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
The award-winning Benda Quartet assembles on QUADRANTS VOL. 5 to deliver a stunning, razor-sharp collection of contemporary string works. Composers Christopher J. Hoh, Ferdinando DeSena, Christopher Brakel, Michael Murray, and Paul Halley offer a wide range of sounds and emotions in this body of work, ranging from warm, elegant expressions to high-octane passages and more.
Read moreAna Lua Caiano – Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:10 minutes | 317 MB | Genre: World, Electronic, Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glitterbeat Records
Silence can be the perfect way to sharpen the senses. To let the world in, to allow thoughts to come to the surface. For Lisbon’s Ana Lua Caiano, those empty spaces – when she’s walking or can’t sleep – are when the ideas creep in. They’re her time to create. She takes them and moulds them into the songs that have poured out of her over the last two years. Initially for a couple of EPs (Se Dançar É Só Depois / 2023 & Cheguei Tarde A Ontem / 2022) that made a name for her around Europe and the world, and now on her debut album for Glitterbeat.
Read moreAgustin Muriago – Sur: Piano Music from Argentina (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:48 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Albany Records
Pianist Agustin Muriago has performed throughout the United States, Spain, China, Brazil, and his native Argentina, in venues such as Steinway Hall and Yamaha Artist Services in New York City, the Teatro Ópera in Buenos Aires, and the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. His repertoire ranges from standard piano works to contemporary music premieres, with an emphasis on Spanish and Argentine music. He has recorded for the Acte Préalable label and for NPR affiliates.
Read morePetits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal, Gilbert Patenaude – Pax cælestis: choral sacred works (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:52 minutes | 859 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Analekta
St. Augustine wrote: “If we sing together, we sing for the heart.” What a nice way to introduce the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal and their music director Gilbert Patenaude. On this new CD, they perform the most beautiful works of the sacred music repertoire, among them: Franck’s Panis angelicus, Busto’s Ave Maria and oeuvres by Saint-Saëns, Verdi and Brahms. An album which will bring inner peace, a celestial peace.
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– Back to Front Live in Prague 10.10.2013 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:20:09 minutes | 2,96 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Peter Gabriel Ltd.
You may call it yet another sensation: Peter Gabriel will hit the road again this fall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of So. He will reunite most members of the old line-up. Every show is available as an official soundboard recording. Unlike the 2012 Encores, the new series is available directly from Peter Gabriel’s website.
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Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive! (1976/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:34 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
Frampton Comes Alive! is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976. It is one of the best-selling live albums in the United States, and considered by many to be one of the finest live rock recordings of all time. Following four solo albums with little commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist.
Released on January 6, 1976, it debuted on the charts at 191. The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 the week ending April 10, 1976, and was in the top spot for a total of 10 weeks. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 6 million copies in the US and becoming one of the best-selling live albums to date, with estimated sales of 11 million worldwide.
Frampton Comes Alive! was voted “Album of the year” in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still No. 14 on Billboard’s 1977 year-end album chart.
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Peter Cofield – What Exactly is a Friend (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:44 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metromedia Records
A very overlooked, under-the-radar album for those who enjoy early Glen Campbell and/or Bob Lind–-basically every song sounds like “Gentle On My Mind” or “Elusive Butterfly”, with high-pitched earnest singing, acoustic guitar picking, Floyd Cramer-like piano, outdoorsy orchestrations, etc., but lyrically more anti-war, social awareness, youth counterculture oriented. A sound from a very brief, specific moment in American folk/singer-songwriter/pop music, if you love that sound and that era you’ll love this.
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Peter Jablonski – Stanchinsky: Piano Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:44 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ondine
Peter Jablonski’s second album on Ondine features a large selection of piano works by Alexey Stanchinsky (1888–1914), one of the most talented Russian composers of the early 20th Century. Stanchinsky was not only a talent but a genuine innovator who despite of his early death had a profound influence on the generation of composers to follow. Peter Jablonski is the perfect interpreter to these magnificent gems.
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Peter Brotzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm – Ouroboros (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:42 minutes | 390 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Astral Spirits
Recorded by Stefan Deistler at Loft Köln on January 18, 2011.
Faced with a daunting discography that tallies to triple digits, it’s easy to forget that Peter Brötzmann has also been a prolific visual artist for the entirety of his professional career. The two forms expression still regularly cross-pollinate in his work with original paintings and woodcut prints serving as album cover art and the vivid and visceral feelings conjured by his uncompromising music fueling the coarse and stark subject matter of said imagery. A painterly dynamic is particularly present in his many duo encounters. Most commonly with percussionists, but also increasingly with less intuitively-matched instruments that supply texture and color field focused canvases upon which he can scrawl and scribble in bold and often bruising strokes by way of his battery of reeds. Ouroboros is a vinyl document of one such dialogue, recorded at The Loft in Köln, Germany in early 2011 and pressed to just 300 copies.
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Pearl Bailey – Pearl’s Pearls (1971/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:14 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the all-Black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
Her rendition of “Takes Two to Tango” hit the top ten in 1952. She received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1976 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom on October 17, 1988.
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Pelle Fridell – Soul Go Jaz (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:06 minutes | 838 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pelle Produktion
Born in Stockholm, Sweden and since 1993 resident in Copenhagen, Denmark, saxophonist Pelle Fridell can look back on an exquisite list of top musicians with whom he has already performed together. Among them are Toots Thielemans, Randy Brecker, Sir Charlie Watts, Tom Waits, Ivan Lins, Angelique Kidjo, Georgie Fame, Geir Lysne, Chris Potter, Michael Mantler and more.
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Pentaèdre – Quintettes dédiés à Haydn (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:51:15 minutes | 3,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ATMA Classique
Mozart’s six quartets dedicated to Haydn are featured in new arrangements by Geoffrey Emerson for the Canadian wind ensemble Pentaèdre.
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Per Mathisen – Sounds of 3 – Edition 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:11 minutes | 718 MB | Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records
This is the second edition of my “Sounds of 3” recordings, the first one released, also on Losen Records, August 2016, with Norwegian Frode Alnœs on guitar and the Cuban drummer, Giraldo Piloto. On this second edition I am thrilled and proud with having the Swedish, guitarist extraordinary, Ulf Wakenius on and the English super star drummer, Gary Husband. These two gentlemen contributed in the greatest way possible with their extreme musical talents, their wonderful spirit, joy and world level performance. I am honoured to have had the chance to make this recording with these 2 super humans. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ulf & Gary.
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Chuck Berry – Berry Is On Top (1959/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:12 minutes | 331 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Chuck Berry Is on Top is the third studio album by rock and roll artist Chuck Berry, released in July 1959 on Chess Records, catalogue LP 1435. With the exception of one track, “Blues for Hawaiians”, all selections had been previously released on 45 rpm singles, several of which were double-sided and charted twice. In his review of the album for AllMusic, Cub Koda described it as “almost a mini-greatest-hits package in and of itself” and the most perfectly realized collection of Berry’s career. In 2008, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissued the album with St. Louis to Liverpool on an Ultradisc II Gold compact disc. In 2012, Hoodoo reissued the album with One Dozen Berrys on the same CD.
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