The Stance Brothers – Duktus (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

The Stance Brothers – Duktus (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:44 minutes | 428 MB | Genre: Jazz, Nu Jazz, Soul Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © We Jazz

Finnish drummer/Producer Teppo “Teddy Rok” Mäkynen returns with his alias The Stance Brothers. Lauded by the likes of Kenny Dope and Gilles Peterson, Mäkynen’s studio creation has been visible on the 7″ format during the recent years. Now, Mäkynen is back with a full LP, the project’s first in more than 10 years. Duktus is a treasure-trove for everyone into crunchy jazz funk à la Bob James & CTI, but this is no retro exercise. Teddy Rok moves forward in all directions, constantly bringing new elements into his sound, which is more layered and deep than ever before. At the same time, the crunch & the breaks are there when you need them.

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The Furrow Collective – We Know By The Moon (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

The Furrow Collective – We Know By The Moon (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:28 minutes | 455 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hudson Records

‘We Know by the Moon’ is the latest album from award-winning English/Scottish group The Furrow Collective (Lucy Farrell, Rachel Newton, Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts). A wintry album of moonlit serenades and starlit balladry, ‘We Know by the Moon’ showcases the group’s array of musical talents and ability to source and transform the quirkiest of folk songs.

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Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:47 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra will release a new audio recording of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor on Friday, December 1, 2023. Led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, the recording will be available worldwide for digital streaming and download in spatial audio on all major platforms. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 was recorded live at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, the home of The Cleveland Orchestra, during two community appreciation concerts in the fall of 2021.

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The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe Edition) (2022/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe Edition) (2022/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:02 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Indie Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carpark Records

In September 2022, The Beths released their third album, Expert In A Dying Field. The response was immediately positive and earned them a place on a great deal of Best-Album-of-the-Year lists like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Stereogum, to name a few. One year later, the band will release Expert In A Dying Field (Deluxe) with bonus material, including singles “A Real Thing” and “Watching The Credits,” along with acoustic and demo versions of album tracks and one never-before-heard demo “Keep The Distance.”

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See Siang Wong – Beethoven Trilogy 3: Unheard (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

See Siang Wong – Beethoven Trilogy 3: Unheard (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:58 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal

Pianist See Siang Wong completes his Beethoven trilogy with “Unheard”. The third album features unfinished, previously unheard works by Beethoven. In his sketchbooks, which he always carried with him, Beethoven jotted down ideas and musical experiments that he often never realised and which have survived today as fragments in libraries and private collections all over the world. “Unheard” brings together reconstructions and rarities based on such sketches. They show Beethoven’s incredible wealth of ideas and his creative power.

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Sanne Graulund – Context (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Sanne Graulund – Context (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:27 minutes | 313 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Say Yes music

“Sanne Graulund is one of the few Danish jazz singers who can accompany herself on the piano with her own compositions. It is not commonplace on the Danish music scene and in november Sanne releases the album CONTEXT. An album that will really take life with her heart’s blood; the piano-driven jazz songs that you can both immerse and forget yourself in. The album will consist of both own compositions and adapted standards in the tradition from Nina Simone to Carly Simon and Ella Fitzgerald to Diana Krall. You can hear interpretations of Robyn’s” Dancing On My own”, Bowie’s 5:15 and Radioheads’s”no surprises”. In addition, classics in a dimmed, dusty and cinematic universe. The album is produced by Carsten Skov, and Jan Harbeck is a guest soloist on several tracks”.

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Sammy Miller and the Congregation – Joyful Jazz at Lincoln Center (Night 2) [Live] (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sammy Miller and the Congregation – Joyful Jazz at Lincoln Center (Night 2) [Live] (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:52 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Playbook Music

Praised by CLTure as a band that creates “a unique bond with the crowd,” sharing what SF Weekly calls “brassy stomp your feet music,” Sammy Miller and the Congregation Big Band delivers a spirited set of feel-good music for listeners of all ages. From this 16-piece ensemble, expect a high-octane and joyous evening of big brassy horn lines, playful interactivity, and plenty of fun.

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Sababa 5 – Aspan (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Sababa 5 – Aspan (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:00 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Funk, World, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Batov Records

Sababa 5 continues their musical journey following the success of their acclaimed self-titled debut album, which fused deep funk and Middle Eastern grooves. Their latest offering, still under the Batov Records label, ventures into more explorative and experimental instrumental compositions. While evolving their musical direction, ‘Aspan’ delves into the realm of psychedelic rock while retaining the essence of the band’s signature Middle Eastern groove.

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Rupert Cox – Search Party (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Rupert Cox – Search Party (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:31 minutes | 500 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Nu Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Albert’s Favourites

Search Party is the debut album from pianist, Rupert Cox. Rupert has made a little following for himself already being a respected player for Myele Manzanza, China Moses, Chris Hyson and many more. His debut album swings between laidback contemporary jazz and swirling electronics. There are mellow and moving moments alongside joyful, uplifting melodies and dancing rhythms.

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Robben Ford – Night in the City (Live) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Robben Ford – Night in the City (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:31 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC

Robben Ford is one of the most respected and influential guitarists in the world. He has won numerous awards, including a Blues Music Award and has been nominated for a Grammy numerous times. He has released over 20 albums, and his music has been featured in films and television shows. Ford is known for his virtuosic guitar playing and his soulful vocals. He is a master of blues, jazz, and rock, and his music is always filled with energy and passion. His new live album, ‘Night In The City’, was recorded at City Winery in Nashville, TN in 2021, and features Ford with Nate Smith on drums, Anton Nesbit on bass, Jeff Coffin and Jovan Quallo on saxophones. The album is a mix of new and old material, with most of the compositions coming from Ford’s ‘Pure’. Two vocal songs are also included: ‘Cotton Candy’ from ‘Purple House’ and a re-working of ‘Just Another Country Road’ from ‘ADay in Nashville’. ‘Night In The City’ is a must-have for fans of Robben Ford and anyone who loves the essence of blues-rock. The album display Ford’s virtuosity on the guitar, and captures the excitement of the live performance perfectly.

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Raze Regal & White Denim Inc. – Raze Regal & White Denim Inc. (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Raze Regal & White Denim Inc. – Raze Regal & White Denim Inc. (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:23 minutes | 945 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bella Union UK

Guitarists Raze Regal and White Denim’s James Petralli have been friends since touring together around 2018, bonding over their shared love of jazz fusion, psych-rock, soul, and punk. They bring all of those combined influences to bear on their 2023’s collaboration Raze Regal & White Denim, Inc. Regal, who first garnered attention for his work with New York punk act Stalkers, met Petralli while working with Once & Future Band. Following that group’s dissolution, he moved to Petralli’s home of Austin, Texas, where the duo continued to hang out and eventually started working on music. Essentially, their collaboration sounds like a more jazz- and prog-inflected version of White Denim’s garagey psychedelia. It’s a vibe the group have been experimenting with since at least 2013’s Corsicana Lemonade and which feels like a natural evolution. Regal has a similar style to Petralli’s, marked by crisp improvisational riffs and chordal accents that straddle the line between fuzz-tone rock and ’70s jazz fusion. It’s an evocative style that brings to mind a punky take on players like Larry Coryell, Duane Allman, and George Benson. Cuts like the opening “Ashley Goudeau,” “The Hustle in You,” and “Dislocation” have a laid-back yet hooky sound that calls to mind classic sides by Steely Dan and the Isley Brothers. There’s a tactile, analog atmosphere to Regal and White Denim’s work, marked by woozy synths, vibraphones, and sundry guitar sounds, like on the intro to “Blood,” where their shiny guitar and keyboard hits sounds unexpectedly like the opening to a ’70s-era TV sitcom like Three’s Company. Elsewhere, they conjure a kinetically thrilling, ’80s post-punk energy on “Tivoli” and slide into the summery, Stevie Wonder-esque romanticism of “Idle Later.”
– Matt Collar

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Peter Gabriel – i/o (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Peter Gabriel – i/o (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:17:33 minutes | 2,61 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Art Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Real World

Peter Gabriel has been working on i/o—shorthand for input/output—for 20 years now, reworking and re-recording and workshopping songs on the road. The final result is a sprawling head trip: two albums of the same songs mixed differently by, Gabriel has said, “two of the world’s best mix engineers.” Spike Stent (Ed Sheeran, Björk, Madonna) handles the so-called “Bright Side” and Tchad Blake (Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple, the Black Keys) is the “Dark Side.” Comparing the two can feel like an Easter-egg hunt; choosing an overall favorite is hard and the best bet here may be to make a personal playlist combo.

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Mathias Haus – All my life (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Mathias Haus – All my life (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:50 minutes | 693 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JazzSick Records

The electric guitar sings, a flugelhorn joins in, the orchestra embeds both in shimmering string sounds. Philipp van Endert’s “Moon Balloon” is an atmospherically dense sound journey, a symbiosis of jazz and classical music, as ambitious as it is relaxed. Like the soundtrack to a road movie that has never been filmed, nostalgic and touching, but without being a tearjerker. Intense emotions are also inscribed in “All my Life”. In his composition, Mathias Haus – like Philipp van Endert
a fixture on the current jazz scene in NRW – wants to express nothing less than all the feelings that have accompanied him since his childhood and still shape him today: Longing, love, sadness, mystery, happiness, infinity and divinity. In short: “All my life”.

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Laurence Kayaleh & Bernadene Blaha – Noskowski & Żeleński: Violin Sonatas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Laurence Kayaleh & Bernadene Blaha – Noskowski & Żeleński: Violin Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:47 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

Both Zygmunt Noskowski and Władysław Żeleński were leading exponents of Polish nationalism in the period from the last quarter of the 19th century. Noskowski is best remembered as a symphonist but his large-scale Violin Sonata in A minor is an imposing work that suggests the influence both of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata and of Brahms. Żeleński was as eminent a teacher as he was a composer, seeking to broaden Poland’s provincial outlook through works such his opera Janek (Naxos 8.660521-22). His Violin Sonata in F major typifies the essentially conservative idiom that Żeleński pursued in his maturity.

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Trouble Is… 25 (Remastered) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Trouble Is… 25 (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:51 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue

Since bursting onto the global music scene in 1995 with his groundbreaking first album Ledbetter Heights from the blues clubs of Louisiana, followed by his career-defining second album Trouble Is… in 1997, Kenny Wayne Shepherd has transformed classic tunes into bold new forms every night on stage. The tracks on Trouble Is… were always in motion and never became museum pieces.

But giving a quarter-century-old album a second birth is another matter. So when the five-time Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum artist saw the 25th anniversary of Trouble Is… on the horizon, he hatched a bold plan to trace the arc from the hungry 18-year-old gunslinger who caught lightning in a bottle in 1997 to the still searching master musician who has the soul of his life in his fingers. To bring together the old crew from the original sessions at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, and revisit the track listing. And to remind veteran fans and new listeners how this album reignited modern blues.

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