Uffe Steen – Born to Be Blue (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:30 minutes | 828 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Steen has been performing as a guitarist since 1966. He studied clarinet at the Fyn Music Conservatory for four years between 1972 and 1976, before returning to the guitar and becoming an integral part of the Danish jazz-rock scene. He led his own Uffe Steen Trio, with whom he released two albums, but also belonged to groups such as Jens Jefsen Trio, Shades of Blue, The Blue Junction, Valdemar Rasmussen Trio, Indra and Circles. He has also worked with Joey Baron, Jeff Ballard, Maria Bergman, Allan Botschinsky, Thomas Clausen, Hal Galper, Tim Hagans, Lars Jansson, Alex Acuña, David Liebman, Lars Møller, Alex Riel, Indra Rios-Moore, Bob Rockwell, Jimmy Smith, Bernard Purdie, Peter Vuust, Morten Ramsbøl and Hans Ulrik.
Steen has been a guitar teacher at the Jutland Music Conservatory since 2009 and has published several textbooks.
Steen was awarded the Ben Webster Prize in 2015.
Read moreThe Wytches – Our Guest Can’t Be Named (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:59 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock
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The Wytches need very little introduction, but it is with no little excitement that we welcome back Brighton’s purveyors of melody for album four – all raucous and unruly, yet glistening with jagged edged poetic wistfulness and undeniable emotional clout. The former Transgressive / Heavenly Records act return with their fourth studio album. It’s definitely their best yet, all raw-throat punk, stoner / doom psych, riffing swagger, and perhaps just the tiniest hint of delicious folk twinkling… Just get it in your ears. It’s glorious.
Read moreJoe Williams – Every Day I Have the Blues (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:44 minutes | 289 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
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Everyday I Have the Blues is an album by singer Joe Williams with Count Basie and His Orchestra featuring tracks recorded in 1959 (with one track from 1957 on the original LP) which was originally released on the Roulette label.
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and its review by John Bush states, “Joe Williams had enlivened the Count Basie band for so long that it was natural for Basie and company to return the favor on his 1959 solo LP for Roulette. And with a trio of Basie arrangers – Frank Foster, Ernie Wilkins, Thad Jones – providing charts for a rather small group here, the results are excellent”.
In DownBeat, Ralph Gleason finds “the Basie band really shining as an accompanying instrument” and argues this is Williams’ “best album under his own name.”
Read moreTomas Kildišius, Ani Ter-Martirosyan and Jannike Liebwerth – Brahms: 15 Romances, Op. 33 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:59 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Die schöne Magelone” (The Fair Magelone) is the name of a wonderful lied cycle by Johannes Brahms, which the duo Tomas Kildišius (baritone) and Ani Ter-Martirosyan (piano) is releasing as a debut CD on GENUIN. Fortunately, they have linked the 15 Romances on texts by Ludwig Tieck with the poet’s original prose fragments so listeners can experience Brahms’ music in the context of the entire romantic and exotic story. With her young voice, actress Jannike Liebwerth provides the setting for the Brahms interpretations of the Armenian- Lithuanian duo, whose work has been characterized from the beginning by a shared love of lieder. This can be heard in the subtle soundscapes that bring to life the adventures of Count Peter of Provence and the fair Magelone.
Read moreThe Shadow Ring – Put The Music In Its Coffin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:00 minutes | 864 MB | Genre: Rock
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Throughout their legendary, decade-long run, the Shadow Ring were an enigmatic force on the international musical sub-underground. Before their disbandment in 2002, this shambolic rock outfit, formed by a group of rowdy teenagers in southeast England, left behind a mighty run of eight LPs, a handful of 7″s, and a spate of raucous live shows and cryptic zine appearances on both sides of the Atlantic, all which have bolstered their enduring word-of-mouth mystique. Beginning this year with the first-ever vinyl pressing of the self-released pre-Shadow Ring tape The Cat & Bells Club (1992), Blank Forms Editions is conducting a systematic retrospective of the storied group, including a multi-year LP reissue effort and a forthcoming comprehensive CD box set and an over five hundred page book.
Read moreThe Rural Alberta Advantage – The Rise & The Fall (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:47 minutes | 557 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Folk
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The Rise & The Fall is the fifth studio album from charged folk-rock trio The Rural Alberta Advantage, combining the 2022 EP The Rise with 7 new tracks as The Fall. It features the return of original band member, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Amy Cole alongside Paul Banwatt (drums) and Nils Edenloff (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard).
Read moreThe Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet – Italian Woodwind Music (2023 Remastered Version) (1966/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:49 minutes | 1,96 GB | Genre: Classical
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Tracks from this LP have been reissued on several CD compilations of the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet recordings on the Boston Records label. The track with di Bonaventura (Quartet in B-Flat Major) appears on “Musical Banquet”, BR1063 CD in 2001.
Antonio Vivaldi, composer (1-3); Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini, composer (4-6); Gioacchino Rossini, composer (7-9); Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (10)
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