Cornelius Claudio Kreusch, Johannes Tonio Kreusch, Anthony Cox – Hotel Casablanca – Duality (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:07 minutes | 251 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EDITION COLLAGE
At its best, a music album is a journey, for the musicians as well as for the listeners. Like hardly any other subject, music offers the chance to get from here to there and from yesterday to tomorrow without preconditions or borders, with one’s thoughts as well as one’s feelings. As a universal world language, it can take everyone with it. The adventure is all the greater when the tour guides come from different genres, but freely and impartially seek a common path. Like the avant-garde bassist Anthony Cox, the groove-oriented jazz pianist Cornelius Claudio Kreusch and the classical guitarist Johannes Tonio Kreusch. On their new album, the three now invite you to check into the “HOTEL CASABLANCA” as the basis of a remarkable expedition.
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Christina Perri – songs for christmas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 25:24 minutes | 280 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Elektra (NEK)
Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter. After her debut single “Jar of Hearts” was featured on the television series So You Think You Can Dance in 2010, Perri signed with Atlantic Records and released her debut extended play, The Ocean Way Sessions. Her debut studio album, Lovestrong (2011), followed soon after and has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – CBSO Sounds New (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:18 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NMC Recordings
When the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra marked its Centenary in 2020, there was never any question that new music would be at the heart of the celebrations. The orchestra marked its 100th year by commissioning 20 emerging composers to write short orchestral works to be played throughout the 2020 season – but then Covid-19 intervened.
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Carlos Ferreira – Isolationism (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:07 minutes | 247 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Drone, Shoegaze, Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AKP Recordings
Carlos Ferreira is an experimental Brazilian guitarist and composer whose work explores the relationship between sound, space, time, and memory. ‘Isolationism’ utilizes reverb-drenched guitar tones, piano, clarinet, pipe organ, and atmospheric field recordings to study frequency, resonance, and sound vibration. The results harmonize cinematic aplomb with levity, grief with hope, and an unbearable gravity with the lightness of existing in a moment.
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Carla Geneve – Hertz (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:16 minutes | 420 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dot Dash Recordings
HERTZ marks a change in perspective for Geneve, informed by major life changes and intense growth brought to life with her signature brutally honest lyricism. The release of the singer/songwriter’s debut album, the AMP-nominated Learn To Like It, coincided with the pandemic resulting in the quiet months that followed spent conceptualising and writing her second LP. “My experience had broadened – I’d been touring and working so hard for so long and then I finally had a chance to do not much at all. I was also diagnosed with bipolar at that time. Understanding the implications of that diagnosis is a big part of this album,” she explains.
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Christian Kjellvander – Hold Your Love Still (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:09 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tapete Records
“I want to give you this and ask for nothing in return.” Naked but for a soft blanket of reverb, Christian Kjellvander’s tender voice invites us into his latest creation, the swooning Hold Your Love Still. His first solo album since 2020’s About Love And Loving Again finds the Swedish troubadour in a reflective mood, exploring the difficulties of an honest life amid the entanglement of capitalism, and imploring us to nurture that faltering hope for a better tomorrow.
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BBC Singers – Carols Revisited – Christmas with the BBC Singers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 23:51 minutes | 247 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
In 2024 the BBC Singers celebrate its centenary year, and since its founding almost 100 years ago, the choir has held a unique place at the heart of the UK’s choral scene through continued collaborations across the years with many of the world’s leading composers, conductors and soloists.
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bar italia – The Twits (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:23 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Post-Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Matador
bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, less than six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, Tracey Denim.
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Orchestra of the Munich Chamber Opera & Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2 and Rondo WoO 6 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:22 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin
With his first two piano concertos, the young Ludwig van Beethoven presented himself in Vienna as a man of the hour and a musician of the future: a new style, a new momentum, which the eleven musicians around the multi-award-winning Aris Alexander Blettenberg bring to life on their current GENUIN album from the first note. The arrangements, written especially for the orchestra of the Kammeroper München, make the details of the original scores transparently audible, without losing any of their orchestral radiance. The conductor, pianist and composer Aris Alexander Blettenberg leads the orchestra dynamically and expressively from the grand piano.
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Black Pumas – Chronicles of a Diamond (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:57 minutes | 832 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATO Records
When Black Pumas made their self-titled debut in 2019, the Austin-bred duo set off a reaction almost as combustible and rapturous as their music itself. Along with earning a career total of seven Grammy Award nominations (including Album Of The Year) and winning praise from leading outlets like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, singer/songwriter Eric Burton and guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada achieved massive success as a live act, touring large theatres all over Europe and North and South America and delivering a transcendent show Burton aptly refers to as “electric church.”
As they set to work on their highly awaited sophomore album, the band broadened their palette to include a dazzling expanse of musical forms: heavenly hybrids of soul and symphonic pop, mind-bending excursions into jazz-funk and psychedelia, starry-eyed love songs that feel dropped down from the cosmos. Wilder and weirder and more extravagantly composed than its predecessor, Chronicles of a Diamond arrives as the fullest expression yet of Black Pumas’ frenetic creativity and limitless vision.
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Bill Laswell – Black Terrain (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:00 minutes | 385 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bill Laswell (Self Released)
Exclusive only on Bassmatter. New noise/ambient series by Bill Laswell.
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Atchison Quartet – Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:21 minutes | 2,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Convivium Records Ltd.
“The music is really wonderful, and the choice of specific works is brilliant, precisely because it brings to light so much about what was going on inside Gibbs at two really difficult times in his life. These are set alongside works that include an intimate gesture of friendship and gratitude to Ralph Vaughn Williams, as well as music that was published and heard by audiences in Gibbs’s lifetime. It’s very effective to have all these aspects of the composer portrayed in this way.” – Nicholas Riddle (Musicologist)
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Voce Chamber Choir, Stephen Scarlato & Mark Singleton – The Nativity (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:20 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
One of Britain’s most popular contemporary composers, Patrick Hawes has teamed up with the excellent Voce Chamber Choir of Connecticut to create an album of twenty brand-new Christmas choral works.
Specially written for the choir, the first collection and album title sets words by Patrick’s poet brother Andrew. The Nativity, for unaccompanied choir,moves through the Christmas nativity scene exploring the drama of this momentous moment in human history.
For the second collection, Patrick has set FourChristmas Motets, the fragile ancient poetry givingrise to tender and heartfelt music forunaccompanied choir.
The album goes on to explore the Christmas storythrough various texts, old and new, in works thatare set to become extremely popular with choirs around the world.
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Vincent Bernhardt – Brandenburg Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:39:20 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Indésens Calliope Records
Here comes the complete recording of the great Bach masterpiece, “Brandenburg Concerto,” by internationally acclaimed classical musician and musicologist Vincent Bernard and the up-and-coming Lithuanian orchestra, the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra, under his direction. Vincent Bernard has studied organ, harpsichord, basso continuo, and historical organ performance at the Stuttgart University of Music, from Metz and Lyon to the Schola Cantorum Basel, where he won prizes in many international competitions. Following a collection of Vivaldi’s works with the French period ensemble he founded, Il Delirio Fantástico, he has received international acclaim for his release of J.S. Bach’s Mean Clavier Works, Volume 1 (CAL2070) on Calliope (2020) This album is also released on the same day. This album also brings us closer to the essence of this great work, based on interpretations of Bach given by world-renowned masters such as Andrea Marcon, Jesper Christensen, Eve Rechsteiner, and Bernhard Haas.
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Veslemøy Narvesen – We Don’t Imagine Anymore (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:04 minutes | 682 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzland Recordings
Having played with numerous established artists in jazz and pop such as Mall Girl, Kongle Trio (winners of Jazzintro and GRAMO-stipendet 2021), Kit Downes, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Anja Lauvdal and Mette Rasmussen, Veslemøy Narvesen (b. 1997) has established herself as one of the most outstanding young drummers in the Norwegian Jazz scene. With her debut album «We Don’t Imagine Anymore» she takes the lead, following her own creative impulses.
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