Film School – Field (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:09 minutes | 765 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Dreampop, Shoegaze
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © felte
In Rumi’s poem A Great Wagon he writes of a place of total acceptance. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there,” It is a boundless, liminal space where we can release the judgments we make and carry of ourselves, and the comparisons to others. When we think of this field, there is a sense of tranquility that only comes when we are undisturbed by the shadow self and see existence as neither bright nor dim, white nor black. But as lead singer Greg Bertens explains, arriving there is a whole different story. “This is a poem I’ve returned to over the years, and I love the idea of this place, but getting there is life’s journey.” Bertens adds “I think the longing for and elusiveness of this field is a recurring theme in our music.” Field, their first album released on felte, is enveloped by themes of regret, disconnection and frustration but with the space to understand that these feelings are a natural part of the struggle between reconciling the inner and outer self.
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Everclear – Live At The Whisky A Go Go (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:49 minutes | 761 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunset Blvd Record
“It’s Art and Everclear At Their Raw, Powerful and Emotional Best.” Matt Pinfield. Everclear Live At The Whisky A Go Go. Recorded in December 2022, authorized by the band and celebrating their 30th Anniversary. Featuring all their Greatest Hits plus two new studio tracks, the single “Sing Away” and “Year Of The Tiger.”
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Eva Zöllner – voces, señales (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:19 minutes | 599 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin
On her new GENUIN CD, Accordionist Eva Zöllner gathers the leading names of Colombia’s younger generation of composers: voices that express diversity, creativity, and energy, as well as violence and darkness. In Colombia, the accordion is a popular instrument for folk and dance music, and the CD reflects the traditions of their country in its range. Sounds of contemporary music, environmental noises, electronics, and seemingly familiar things intermingle in the compositions of Ana María Romano G., Carolina Noguera Palau, Carlos Andrés Rico, and others, creating exciting soundscapes and an acoustic journey into an unknown world. All works were created in collaboration with Eva Zöllner.
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Euglossine – Coriolis (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 34:37 minutes | 340 MB | Genre: Nu Jazz, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hausu Mountain
Euglossine bridges the complex harmonies of jazz fusion, the ornate synth performances of library music, and the rapidly evolving sentimental resonances of video game music. While Coriolis paints Euglossine as a scholar who has pored over the diverse branches of 20th century progressive composition, the reality of his playing cuts through preconceptions of elitism or excess typically attributed to these musical traditions — perfecting the sense of raw beauty and wonder that lodge our favorite tunes in our long-term memories.
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Eugenia Jareska – Conductor’s Gallery, Vol. 16: Eduard van Beinum (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:16:57 minutes | 718 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
The Decca Conductor’s Gallery series presents an A–Z of 23 conductors in a feast of classic recordings from Decca’s early years – 1929–1949 – including the golden age of its ‘ffrr’ technology. Newly remastered from the best available sources by Mark Obert-Thorn, Ward Marston and Andrew Hallifax, this comprehensive set features several new digital releases. It is a must-have for any follower of historical recordings.
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Eternum Quartett – Voyages (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:21 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin
The CD “Voyages” by the young, internationally up-and-coming Eternum Quartet is a musical journey for saxophone quartet. It takes us from the great quartet of Alexander Glasunov to a Bach arrangement and two works written especially for the four young musicians. The GENUIN debut of the ensemble features two new works by composers Konstantia Gourzi and Helena Cánovas i Pares, which are ideally suited to the warm, chromatic sound of the Eternum Quartet: Gourzi’s “Voyager 1” is a tribute to the space probe that has fired our imagination for the past 45 years. Cánovas’ composition is a journey into the vast interior of our dreams and desires. Exciting chamber music in unusual interpretations!
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Escher String Quartet – Terra Incognita (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:17 minutes | 490 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
Pierre Jalbert’s music immediately captures one’s attention with its strong gesture and vitality. Rich in instrumental color and harmonically engaging, its narrative is dramatically compelling yet always logical in its flow. In the orchestral Chamber Symphony, big sky, and Fire and Ice, and in numerous chamber compositions, he synthesizes an array of current musical resources into bold, deeply satisfying, personal statements that surprise and delight.
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Marta Gliozzi, Fiamma & Foco – Bach & Schein: Geistliches Konzert (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:45 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HORTUS
This program was inspired by the organ Bernard Hurvy built in the basilica of Notre Dame du Folgoet. It features a set of German music composed by Johann-Herman Schein, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Pachelbel, in the form of a dialogue between short pieces of sacred chamber music and Johann-Sebastian Bach’s organ solo pieces.
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Emerson String Quartet, Barbara Hannigan, Bertrand Chamayou – Infinite Voyage (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:53 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The title of this album evokes not only the life-long journey of all these musicians, but also a lasting friendship between soprano Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet. One of the greatest string quartets of the last four decades, the Emersons will disband in October 2023. Barbara and the Emersons were determined to record Schoenberg’s Quartet No. 2 since they started performing the work together in 2015. “The sheer sonic scope of this work takes us on a voyage into previously uncharted territory” say the Emerson musicians. “It’s like a tall, gnarly tree to climb (all the way to another planet, it seems), yet one with deep and emotional roots”, continues Barbara Hannigan. “The soprano’s fin-de- siècle primal scream at the end of the 3rd movement, begging to be relieved of love, is a heavy hitter”. Melancholie is a rare and intimate work by the young Hindemith, “a gem of a piece” that the Canadian soprano has wanted to explore for many years. The fascinating Quartet Op. 3, composed by Berg in 1909 as he was finishing his apprenticeship with Schoenberg, features the quartet on its own. And to round out the album, pianist Bertrand Chamayou joins Barbara and the Emersons for another deeply moving encounter by way of Chausson’s heartbreaking Chanson perpétuelle.
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Dylan Farrell – Mississippi Circle (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:33 minutes | 715 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alice L Records
Dylan Farrell is a born musician whose experience has led him to gain an artistic depth that most artists only aspire to. As a singer-songwriter he has the ability to tell vivid weighted stories with a few simple words, not to be rivalled by his guitar playing which displays a level emotional maturity and a technical depth and dexterity that is truly remarkable for someone of his age.
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Duo In Vento – Inventions en Folie (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:14 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty
Air and breath form an elemental bridge between the accordion and the recorder, two instruments with no shared repertoire. In their first joint album, Inventions en folie, Marion Fermé and Ambre Vuillermoz highlight this connection through an exploration of the marriage of sounds and flexibility of phrasing, in a diverse musical program drawn from the European Baroque repertoire.
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Des Rocs – Dream Machine (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:31 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sumerian Records
Des Rocs will release a new album called “Dream Machine”. The sophomore effort from the “This Is Our Life” artist arrives August 25. It follows Des Rocs’ 2021 debut, A Real Good Person in a Real Bad Place.
Produced by Alain Johannes [QUEEN OF THE STONE AGE, THEM CROOKED VULTURES, PJ HARVEY], Matt Wallace [FAITH NO MORE, MAROON 5] and project mastermind Danny Rocco.
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Dasol Kim – Schubert: Impromptus, D.935 & Piano Sonata, D.960 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:26:53 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
The last two years of Schubert’s life were among his most prolific, giving rise, amongst other works, to his last piano sonata, in B flat major, and his second set of Impromptus, both of which are performed here by Dasol Kim. In each of these “musical landscapes” (to borrow Adorno’s expression) looms the shadow of a “tragic solitude” – that of man facing his death, which Schubert the traveller transcends in these wonderful – sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes ecstatic – pieces.
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Darina Maleeva – Franck : Intégrale pour violon et Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:12 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Indésens Calliope Records
While studying the composer’s archives, Darina Maleeva discovered Melancolie, a late work by Cesar Franck. She gave the first performance in Europe, Japan and the United States. Lemoine Editions published the work in her own revision in 2002.This CD also presents two other little-known and fascinating pieces by the young Cesar Franck, as well as a deeply sensitive interpretation of the famous Sonata. Darina Maleeva and Xavier Lecomte de la Bretonnerie present here a unique program of rare and unpublished works by Cesar Franck.
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Steve Maddock – The Blues Project (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:07 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
In the mid 1960’s, there was a Greenwich Village, NYC pop band called The Blues Project which was primarily informed by folk, rhythm & blues, jazz and pop music of the day. One of their early success was entitled “Flute Thing,” a tune from the group’s 1966 album Projections (Verve / Folkways). Keyboardist / vocalist Al Kooper, a founding member of The Blues Project, wrote “Flute Thing.” He went on, in 1967, to found the pop-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
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