Dylan LeBlanc – Coyote (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:01 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Alt. Country, Indie Folk, Americana
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATO RECORDS
Coyote marks Dylan LeBlanc’s fifth studio album and his first full-length LP to be self-produced. Recorded at the iconic Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL, it boasts a handpicked ensemble of world renowned session players including Fred Eltringham, known for his work with Ringo Starr and Sheryl Crow, pianist Jim “Moose” Brown, who’s collaborated with Bob Seger, and bassist Seth Kaufman, celebrated for his contributions to Lana Del Rey’s tracks. The album is both semi-autobiographical and a concept album centered on the evocative character of Coyote, a man on the run in pursuit of an ever elusive freedom from his past.
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Duffy Power – Live At The BBC Plus Other Innovations (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:00:04 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Repertoire Records (UK) Limited
The great unsung British Blues hero recorded live at the BBC together with previously unreleased studio tracks. The most comprehensive collection of Duffy Power’s BBC recordings available with sound restoration by Eroc. Showcases Duffy in a variety styles and line-ups with backing by the Graham Bond Quartet, the Fentones and CWT. Disc Three comprises unreleased studio recordings from the 90s/00s which cement his reputation as a Bluesman.
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Doug Bielmeier – Music for Billionaires (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:02 minutes | 885 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Focus Recordings
Composer Doug Bielmeier’s fourth full length album places contemporary chamber music in a wider stylistic context that includes ambient and dance electronica. Drawing on his extensive activity as a recording engineer and producer, Music for Billionaires features chamber works performed by Hypercube and Unheard-of//Ensemble, two active New York based contemporary music groups, alongside five experimental electronic pieces. The diversity of styles puts each medium in relief against the other — the timbral vitality and individuated expressive world of mixed ensemble works versus the controlled sculpting that the electronic realm affords creators.
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Doro – Conqueress – Forever Strong and Proud (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:23 minutes | 649 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
German heavy metal/hard rock vocalist Doro is best known for her years with the power metal band Warlock, but she has had a long solo career and continues to command a loyal following (especially in Europe) long after the group’s demise. After releasing four albums with Warlock in the 1980s, Doro set out on her own, touring and recording under her first name. She released Force Majeure in 1989, dialing back the gothic fantasy metal of Warlock, Doro adopted a more pop-metal/hard rock sound, which she would continue to hone well into the next century.
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Dokken – Heaven Comes Down (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:53 minutes | 516 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Silver Lining Music
You can feel that heat off the Sunset Strip and see that hair in the wind as Dokken bring their timeless convertible Ferrari rock ‘n’ roll power to the table with ‘Heaven Comes Down’, an unapologetic celebration of everything Dokken do best. You want to rock? Sink your teeth into ‘Fugitive’, which rides some shimmering guitar work courtesy of Jon Levin, Don Dokken imploring that ‘I’m a fugitive from life’, and if you want ballads, head on over to ‘I’ll Never Give Up’, hanging on that Coliseum chorus, Levin laying down a landmark solo. The pattern of ‘Heaven Comes Down’ never falters in delivering the goods on both sides of the fence. ‘Just Like a Rose’ brings the Pacific Coast Highway into vision with its smooth, effortlessly-driven gears, and ‘Saving Grace’ carries a mystical malevolence. But it is closer ‘Santa Fe’ which is perhaps the most revealing, spare yet glorious moment, Don Dokken opening up with what amounts to a ‘life-moment biography’, a spartan acoustic arrangement allowing the rich yet road-driven vocals to frame what might well prove to be the defining moment of Dokken’s career. Mixed by Kevin Shirley (Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Joe Bonamassa) and produced by Bill Palmer and Don Dokken, fans will love it, neutrals will be wonderfully surprised by some of the ingredients within ‘Heaven Comes Down’.
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Maziar Heidari – Recurrence (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:38 minutes | 820 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Leaf Music
ICOT is a non-profit organisation founded in 2011 by five Toronto-based composers and musicians with the mission of creating new works that bridge Canadian and Iranian culture through music and art. ICOT’s current members are Saman Shahi (executive director), Keyan Emami (artistic director), and Maziar Heidari (music director). ICOT has produced two operas, two ballets, twelve orchestral works, dozens of chamber works and vocal works, as well as three calls for scores that allowed ICOT to collaborate with over twenty composers from eight different countries. ICOT’s music has been performed by Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, Symphony on the Bay, Soundstreams, and Ton Beau String Quartet and has taken part in Toronto Symphony’s 2022 Open House, Tirgan Festival, 2017 Ottawa Chamberfest, and Hamilton Philharmonic’s 2014 “What Next” Festival. ICOT’s first commercial recording, Persian Piano Night, was released in 2018 by Pardis Records.
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DJ Shadow – Action Adventure (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:42 minutes | 669 MB | Genre: Electronic, Beats, Downtempo, Hip-Hop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mass Appeal
Action Adventure is DJ Shadow’s seventh solo LP, an inward-looking project, made for Shadow alone without any collaborators. DJ Shadow explains, “This album is about my relationship to music. My life as a collector and curator. All my records and tapes.”“Ozone Scraper” is the lead single of the album campaign. It represents the feeling of transportation, of jet engines lifting the passenger somewhere impossible. It’s one of DJ Shadow’s favorites on the album, as it’s an invitation to strap in and also sets the table for the kind of deep listening Shadow loves.
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Matteo Bevilacqua & Luca Trabucco – Berio: Complete Piano Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:22 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grand Piano
The piano was a constant presence throughout Berio’s life, from the charming early Petite Suite to the compelling drama of the Piano Sonata, one of his last works. Berio’s profound exploration of this instrument’s timbres and possibilities is further in evidence in the Webern-like concision of Cinque variazioni and the famously virtuoso Sequenza. The obsessiveness of Rounds and the deeply personal Six Encores complete a recording that marks the 20th anniversary of Berio’s death in 2023.
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Dire Straits – Live 1978 – 1992 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 06:52:13 minutes | 4,51 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
Box set focusing on the live recordings of Dire Straits, released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of their show at Hammersmith in 1983, immortalised in the live album ‘Alchemy’. The set features newly remastered versions of ‘Alchemy’ and ‘On the Night’, an expanded version of ‘Alchemy’ featuring the existing digital/CD tracklist which includes ‘Love Over Gold’ and the extended versions of ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Solid Rock’ and ‘Going Home’, with the addition of the full-length performance of ‘Portobello Belle’ (an edit of which was released on the ‘Money for Nothing’ compilation in 1998) as well as the unreleased songs from the performance – ‘Industrial Disease’ and ‘Twisting By the Pool’; An expanded version of ‘On the Night’ includes tracks performed during the tour which have never been released, taken from multitrack recordings of shows in Nimes, Rotterdam and Paris: ‘Tunnel Of Love’, ‘Telegraph Road’, ‘Sultans of Swing’, ‘Two Young Lovers’, ‘When It Comes to You’, ‘I Think I Love You Too Much’; The EP ‘Encores’ (remastered for Black Friday 2021); Licenced 1995 collection ‘Live At The BBC’; The unreleased Dire Straits ‘Live from the Rainbow Theatre’ show, 1979 – mixed by Guy Fletcher, and featuring guest performances from Phil Lynott and Tony de Meur on the last four tracks of the set; Brand new booklet featuring a new essay by journalist Paul Sexton – ‘Making Milestones: The Momentous Road Years of Dire Straits’.
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Deborah Allen – Telepathy (Remastered Expanded Edition) (1987/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:00 minutes | 2,70 GB | Genre: Country, Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Telepathy is the third album by Deborah Allen, released by RCA Records in 1987.
Country singer Deborah Allen garnered crossover success in 1983 with the multi-format hit “Baby I Lied,” and continued her work on the RCA label with 1984’s sleek Let Me Be the First and 1987’s Telepathy, the title track of which was written and produced by Joey Coco, one of the many pseudonyms for Prince. Both these albums have been remastered and expanded with bonus tracks, plus a suite of vintage remixes for “Telepathy” have been delivered.
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Deborah Allen – Let Me Be The First (Remastered Expanded Edition) (1984/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:41 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Country, Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Let Me Be the First is the second album by Deborah Allen, released by RCA Records in 1984.
Country singer Deborah Allen garnered crossover success in 1983 with the multi-format hit “Baby I Lied,” and continued her work on the RCA label with 1984’s sleek Let Me Be the First and 1987’s Telepathy, the title track of which was written and produced by Joey Coco, one of the many pseudonyms for Prince. Both these albums have been remastered and expanded with bonus tracks, plus a suite of vintage remixes for “Telepathy” have been delivered.
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Dave Stewart – Who To Love: The Time Experience Project (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:00 minutes | 428 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Electronic, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bay Street Records
The rock opera by the Eurythmics cofounder is due to premiere at the Rome Film Festival, with its LP to release 20th October. Acclaimed artist and Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart has announced the formation of a brand-new creative collective, The Time Experience Project, alongside the collective’s first release.
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Dave Harrington – The Pictures (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:11 minutes | 613 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Nu Jazz, Electronic, Art Rock, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Minaret Records
“The Pictures” is the most sprawling, and the most personal, album Dave Harrington has ever made. It’s a love letter to the cinema. It’s a showcase for his eclectic taste. It’s a quiet nod to his father. It’s a love song to his family. It’s a heady journey through abstraction and back.
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Damien Leith – Roy Orbison Orchestrated (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:49 minutes | 826 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ABC Music
Join award-winning singer Damien Leith and a 28-piece concert orchestra as he takes you on a nostalgic journey through the legendary music of Roy Orbison in this stunning live album recording. Roy Orbison Orchestrated features elegant and uplifting arrangements of Roy’s timeless classics.
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Prima Vista String Quartet – Stanisław Moryto: Chamber Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:31 minutes | 759 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DUX Recording Producers
Stanisław Moryto is one of the most important and strongest personalities of Polish contemporary art. Not only was he an outstanding composer, organist, teacher, and animator of musical life, but also an erudite, visionary, and tireless promoter of Polish culture. Above all, he was an authentic person who did not succumb to transient trends. He passed away prematurely, on June 5, 2018, after a long and severe illness. On the fifth anniversary of his death, the musicians of the Prima Vista String Quartet and their guests recall this extraordinary figure by sharing his music, which, as he himself used to say, was most precious and intimate to him.
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