Will Ready – Black Coffee (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:00 minutes | 394 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ready Music Group
On Friday (4 Aug) Atlanta’s Will Ready released the third single, “One Night Stand”, from his forthcoming album “Black Coffee” which is due on 8 Sep but available to listen to on Bandcamp, so we’ve posted the full album.
The other two singles are “It’s On Tonight” (2 Jun) and “Nicky” (7 Jul).
Will Ready goes back to 1997 with his debut album release “Private Party”. We believe that the new album will be his third after “Touch” in 2022.
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Voces8 – Eventide (10th Anniversary Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:45 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
The artistic focus of Eventide is one of subtlety and contemplation. Adopting a plainchant thread throughout, Eventide unites original compositions and sublime new arrangements of celebrated repertoire to create a compelling album.
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Visions of Nar – Daughter of the Seas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:33 minutes | 686 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ABC Jazz
A compelling kaleidoscope ride through Armenian, Indian, classical and jazz music. Daughter of the Seas (ABC Jazz/Earshift Music) is the debut album from Visions of Nar, a collaboration between Armenian pianist Zela Margossian and Australian saxophonist Jeremy Rose. The album features the ancient sounds of tabla player Bobby Singh, electric soundscapes of guitarist Hilary Geddes and Kurdish percussionist Adem Yilmaz. The 11 original compositions are a kaleidoscopic ride through Armenian folk and jazz influences, with a nod to the fiery Armenian goddess of water, sea and rain, Nar.
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Veronica Swift – Veronica Swift (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:03 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records
Vocal sensation Veronica Swift took the jazz world by storm with her critically acclaimed 2021 release This Bitter Earth, landing on the cover of DownBeat, topping the year end lists for vocal releases and wowing audiences with her eclectic stage show at the Hollywood Bowl and beyond. For her new album – aptly entitled Veronica Swift – the versatile artist stretches her wings and opens up her wide range of influences to share who she truly is: a once-in-a-generation vocalist with unabashed confidence.
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Vanessa Benelli Mosell – Italia (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:40 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.
Italia, the new album by Vanessa Benelli Mosell, will be released on September 15th in digital format (and from September 22nd on CD). 300 years of Italian piano in a program that surprises for its unusual chronological vastness: starting from the early eighteenth century of Scarlatti’s Sonata K 141 and arriving at 2015 with the piece by Ezio Bosso. There is also a tribute to a Neapolitan song, another segment of the great Italian musical heritage, with “I’ te vurria vasà” performed by the famous tenor Francesco Meli.
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Vagabon – Sorry I Haven’t Called (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:12 minutes | 736 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
The multi-instrumentalist Laetitia Tamko, prone to playing and singing everything herself, has moved in a more rhythmic danceable direction since her 2017 debut Infinite Worlds. “I didn’t feel like being introspective. I just wanted to have fun,” she has said about her new album, but the opening track begs to differ. Switched on by layers of synths, cymbal sounds and jots of electronic percussion, “Can I Talk My Shit?,” a collaboration with producer Jack McLaine and Trayer Tryon, spends its length letting us know Tamko wants to talk troubles while also filling the dance floor: “I’m way too high for this/ Riding on a wave too low/ Never found myself through the smoke.” As a result, she’s also more intimately conversational.
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Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, TH 29 (Rehearsal Excerpts) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:48 minutes | 533 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
His Fifth Symphony is one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular works today. A live recording of the rehearsals for this work with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Mariss Jansons from 2009 is now published in a special edition!
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Symphonieorchester Bern & Mario Venzago – Schubert: Symphony in E Major (D 729), Overture “Fierabras” (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:48 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
Recently, the E major Symphony has often been counted as Schubert’s 7th symphony. Unlike his other symphonic fragments, the Symphony in E major exists in a complete draft from the first to the last bar in all four movements. More recently, the symphony became accessible to a wider public again in the completed version by Brian Newbould (1982). Now the Austrian composer Richard Dünser, together with the conductor Mario Venzago, has presented a new version of the symphony fragment. The less inspired middle movements have been replaced by supplemented drafts from the year of Schubert’s death. The result: a «new» great symphony by Schubert with a playing time of over 40 minutes; an original and gripping work that immediately convinces with its idiomatic and formal unity.
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Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Florence Price: Symphony No. 4 – William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:02 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
The Philadelphia Orchestra and its Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin continue their pioneering project to revive neglected music by Black American composers. Their latest recording, set for digital release on 15 September, presents Florence Price’s Symphony No. 4 and William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, a work premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra back in 1934.
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Steve Lehman, Orchestre National de Jazz – Ex Machina (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:01 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ONJ Records
Ex Machina is a collaboration between saxophonist/composerSteve Lehman, whom the New York Times has called “a state-of-the-art musical thinker,”and Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ) that goes far beyond anything attempted before by a jazz big band. Featuring compositions by Lehman and Frederic Maurin, ONJ’s artistic director, the work incorporates elements of French spectral harmony into its compositional framework while also integrating live, interactive electronics developed atIRCAM (Institut de Coordination Acoustique Musique) in which abstract electronic sounds react to soloist improvisations in real-time. The new work is inspired by Lehman’s Octet, whose groundbreaking work were the first to utilize spectral harmony’s complex sonorities within a jazz context. Their critically-lauded releases Mise en Abime (Pi 2014) and Travail, Transformation and Flow (Pi 2009) were voted the #1 album of the year in the NPR Jazz Critics Poll and the #1 jazz album of the year in The New York Times, respectively.
The album’s name evokes spectral composer Gerard Grisey’s iconic “Tempus Ex Machina” as well as Lehman and Maurin’s inspired fusion of electronic sounds with traditional instrumentation. While at many points the computer becomes an improvisation partner for the musicians, it’s still the crack soloists of the ONJ along with Lehman and his long-running musical partners Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet) and Chris Dingman (vibraphone) who carry the day. With its otherworldly sonorities, elaborate orchestration, and complex rhythmic propulsion, Ex Machina is a meticulously crafted work that continues to position Lehman at the leading edge of jazz.
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Sylwia Kubiak-Dobrowolska – Flutissima (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:10 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Classique
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DUX
This album is the first phonographic instalment of a series of albums under the joint title Flutissima, initiated by Sylwia Kubiak-Dobrowolska.
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Sylvie Vartan – Merci pour le regard (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:41 minutes | 864 MB | Genre: Pop, Chanson, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
« On a rejoint l’estuaire/Et bravé les sanglots/Du ciel et ses colères/On a eu peur on a eu chaud. » La chanson « Le Bleu de la Mer Noire » ouvre le cinquantième album studio de Sylvie Vartan et donne le ton. Un album qui se compose de quatorze titres, très cohérents, aux textes puissants et à la nostalgie discrète, élégante et assumée.
Des thèmes personnels comme le retour à l’enfance, l’amour ou encore, l’abandon sont présents dans cet opus. D’après Sylvie, « “Le Bleu de la Mer Noire”, c’est une façon poétique d’aborder le thème de l’exil, l’image est très forte. C’est un peu mon histoire. ».
Léonard Lasry, Joseph d’Anvers et Clara Luciani font alors leur entrée en scène comme auteurs/compositeurs. Tous les trois travaillent pour la première fois avec Sylvie. Un album dont l’unité est remarquable avec des arrangements de grande qualité orchestrés par l’ami Philippe Russo. « Je crois que cet album est vraiment l’un de mes meilleurs, résume Sylvie. Tout est cohérent et chaque chanson me correspond ».
Une cohérence musicale que Sylvie célébrera également sur scène pour ses soixante ans de carrière en octobre 2021. Un spectacle sous le regard de son fidèle public à qui elle dira merci, forcément…
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Sylvie Vartan – Gift Wrapped from Paris (1965/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:20 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Sylvie Vartan is a French pop institution, as popular today as when she first took the yé-yé scene by storm in 1962. The vivacious and always stylish Sylvie was also a pioneer amongst the new breed of French female artists, crossing the Atlantic several times in the early 60s to record. She proved remarkably adept at tackling material in English, which resulted in many superb recordings chanted in a husky, compelling accent. Her main foreign release in that era was the US-only album “Gift Wrapped From Paris”. It combined tracks from the 1963 “Sylvie à Nashville” LP along with new sessions cut in New York in late 1964 with a crack session crew plus Ellie Greenwich and friends on backing vocals, all directed by Sylvie’s brother Eddie Vartan. Later on Sylvie recorded in England and utilised the talents of her British in-house writers, Tommy Brown and Micky Jones, the latter later to become famous in the band Foreigner.
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Sylvie Nicephor – Debussy: 24 préludes (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:26:46 minutes | 694 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Calliope
Composed between 1909 and 1912, these 24 Preludes can be considered as a «pianistic sum» in the work of Claude Debussy, but also more generally in the literature for the instrument. They are part of a tradition which, since the 24 Preludes and fugues of the «well-tempered clavier» of Johann Sebastian Bach continued with Frédéric Chopin, then Serguei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin, Olivier Messiaen.
Written in the period of maturity of the composer, they succeed to “Les Estampes”, “Les Images”, “L’Ile Joyeuse”, and precede the studies (somehow prefigured by “Les Tierces Alternées”, 2nd notebook). They are also contemporary of “Les Images” for orchestra, Claude Debussy who at the time already composed his large symphonic scores.
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S. Carey & John Raymond – Shadowlands (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:42 minutes | 397 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Folk Rock, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Libellule Editions
Multi-instrumentalist / vocalist S. Carey (a core member of Bon Iver) collaborates with the sublime trumpeter John Raymond. Shadowlands intertwines songwriting and improvisation, the best of the indie world and jazz. In addition, Shadowlands features the Australian singer Gordi (recently also featured with Bon Iver) and Aaron Parks, one of the leading improvisers of his generation.
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