Victoria Monet – JAGUAR (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 25:31 minutes | 292 MB | Genre: R&B, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tribe Records
Jaguar is an extended play by American singer-songwriter Victoria Monét, released on August 7, 2020 via Tribe Records and Platoon LTD. Stylistically an R&B project, with elements of funk and disco music, the EP was supported by four singles; “Ass Like That”, “Moment”, “Dive”, and “Experience” with Khalid and SG Lewis. A short film for the project was released on July 28, 2020. Monét initially intended Jaguar to be a trilogy of EPs. However, as the second installment experienced a severe delay, the series was eventually reduced to only two parts, with Jaguar II now being her debut studio album. Upon release, Jaguar received widespread acclaim from music critics, many of whom praised its musical direction and lyricism. The project was ranked in year-end lists by many publications.
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Janine Micheau – Conductor’s Gallery, Vol. 7: Victor de Sabata, Roger Désormière (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:20:18 minutes | 731 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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Vetle Skåli – Headed for Something (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:51 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AMP Music & Records
Vetle Skåli is a guitarist, composer and bandleader, based in Oslo, Norway. Vetle is currently active in several bands including TOG, Bjark and his own bands Skaali Quartet and Skaali Quintet. With Skaali Quartet, Vetle is releasing his debut album, Headed For Something, in september of 2023 on AMP Music And Records.
The music on Headed For Something is characterized by its distinctive tunes which are made up of strong melodies, harmonically rich chord-progressions, intricate forms and energetic improvisations. The unique blend of guitar and vibraphone during the composition’s melodies are one of the key features of the quartet’s sound which are backed up beautifully by Bendik’s syncopated bass lines and Steinar’s light and swingin’ touch on the drums.
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Various Artists – We Are the Children of the Setting Sun (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:23:25 minutes | 916 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BBE Music
Paul Hillery’s third compilation in this series of rare and hard to find grooves is as much a geographical journey as it is a musical one. With acts, artists and tracks linked to London, Florida, Atlanta, the Netherlands, Switzerland, California, India and Germany and more this compilation is very much proof of the global language that is music. With many of the recordings only previously existing on sold out and obscure private pressings and small runs on indie labels this collection of tracks really is a must have. Complementing the previous two albums curated by Paul Hillery we really do get to see and hear the history of studio recordings from a plethora of touring and travelling troubadours, jobbing composers and song-writers, session musicians, producers and engineers.
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Various Artists – Shorter Moments – Citizen Wayne (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:44 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Posi-Tone Records
We at Posi-Tone greatly mourn the recent passing of Master Wayne Shorter and wish to offer our humble honors to his wonderful life and inspirational music. While this musical offering was originally intended as a celebration of Master Shorter’s 90th birthday, we hope this bouquet of auditory rosebuds will assist listeners to find comfort and joy in remembering him as a wonderful human being. Accordingly, with this third and final installment of “Shorter Moments,” we would like to celebrate the wide ranging and ineffable genius of Wayne’s peerless compositions, lovingly performed over the recent years by a wide variety of artists from our talented roster.
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Various Artists – My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra’s Poetry (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:07 minutes | 231 MB | Genre: Jazz, Poetry, Spoken Word
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omni Sound
Sun Ra is better known to most as a musician than a poet, but he identified equally as both. My Words Are Music provides direct access to the sentiments of a poet who never called Earth home. The spoken word album hosts an inspired array of artists who personally chose their favorite Sun Ra poems to recite. Freed from the page, his poetry acquires an unexpected simplicity and poignance it possessed all along.
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Title: Steven Wilson – Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Progressive Rock
Production/Label: Eagle Vision
Duration: 02:33:15
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: LPCM, DTS
Video : MPEG-4 AVC Video / 18994 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6062 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 39,76 GB
Home Invasion captures the final night of my three night March 2018 residency at what is probably my favourite venue in the world, the Royal Albert Hall in London. The full performance is included, and it looks and sounds absolutely fantastic, everyone involved working incredibly hard to make this a really high quality release in all departments, and to capture the visual elements of the show (plus as you would expect with a show presented in quadraphonic sound audio options also include a surround sound mix). Bonus material consists of 3 additional songs not part of the main show (Routine, Hand Cannot Erase, and Heartattack in a Layby) filmed in the empty venue during the afternoon soundcheck, as well as interview / backstage footage.
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Various Artists – Magic Moments 16 (In The Spirit Of Jazz) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:19 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Over 70 minutes of the best jazz infotainment: Magic Moments is one of the most successful compilation series of European jazz and shows a cross-section of the current ACT program, compiled by Siggi Loch.
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Various Artists – Legrand (re)imagined (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:00 minutes | 313 MB | Genre: Easy Listening, Classical, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France
Michel Legrand, who has been loved around the world since his death in 2019, celebrates the 90th anniversary of his birth on February 25, 2022. Musician of many classic films such as “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” “The Girls of Rochefort,” and “The Skin of the Donkey,” Legrand was a music legend who broke down the boundaries between jazz, symphonic music, musical comedy, and popular music, and a three-time Academy Award winner who, over the decades He has left behind many works with themes that remain in people’s memories. A tribute album to Legrand’s music, “Legrand (Re)Imagined,” will be released by Decca Records. The album brings together some of the world’s best pianists and composers, including Chilly Gonzalez, Stefan Mocchio, and Chad Lawson, who each interpret Legrand’s music and perform it on solo piano in a chill and contemporary style. The result is a must-listen that offers a glimpse into a new side of Legrand’s work. From Japan, composer/pianist Akira Kosemura, who is one of the most streamed Japanese classical artists and has garnered praise from influential media around the world, will participate.The song “Always Always Always” from the movie “The Lovers of Rochefort” is selected and played. In the movie, the song is sung in a light and joyful way, but Kosemura’s version highlights the beauty of the melody and allows the audience to experience the different characters of the song.
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Various Artists – If Music Presents: You Need This: If Music is 20 Compiled by Jean-Claude (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:09 minutes | 438 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BBE Music
Celebrating two decades of IF Music’s scrupulous curation through its record shop, a thriving website, album reissues and compilations in collaboration with BBE Music, parties and radio shows, “IF Music Presents You Need This: 20 years” is a 9 track, double vinyl LP beautifully put together by Jean-Claude.
Coming, as it does, as the 9th release in the “You Need This” series of compilations curated by Jean-Claude, this album features music that ranges from 1980 (Christine Schaller’s spectacular “Fidji”) to exclusive tracks from the likes of Emanative & Liz Elensky (‘Fall Into Me’) and Tenderlonious (‘Dennison Point’) which both bring us up to the present day.
It is Jean-Claude’s remarkable ear for music that, as with all the previous “You Need This” releases, creates a wonderfully coherent journey through the decades across the four sides of this masterpiece of a compilation album.
As mentioned earlier “You Need This: 20 Years” will be released as a double LP pressed on 180 gramme heavy vinyl, cut at 45rpm and on digital. Whether this starts, adds or completes your collection of Jean-Claude’s “You Need This” series of compilations, “20 Years” is a must-have and indeed, you really do need this!
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Various Artists – Brass Tacks 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:23 minutes | 810 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
It’s no secret that brass instruments can infuse any musical setting with a hair-raising surge of untamed energy and fervor. On BRASS TACKS VOL 2 from Navona Records, the brass family finds itself the spotlight, showcasing unique tones and unhindered expressiveness that’ve been carefully extracted by a variety of seasoned composers and performers.
Spanning joy rides in stylish sports cars, jazz-influenced passages, fusions with percussive instruments, and more, this release explores a wide range of emotions and compositional styles, each uncovering an inherent intensity and bravado that pushes the boundaries of brass repertoire.
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Tori Amos – Scarlet’s Walk (2023 Remaster) (2001/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:02 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic
Scarlet’s Walk is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Tori Amos. It was released on October 28, 2002 in the UK and October 29 in the US on Epic Records, making it her first release on the label after her split with Atlantic Records. Her first studio album of original material since To Venus and Back in 1999, the 18-track concept album (described by Amos as a “sonic novel about a road trip”) details the cross-country travels of Scarlet, a character loosely based on Amos, and was greatly inspired by the changes in American society and politics post-September 11, 2001. Topics explored on the album include nationalism, personal relationships, and the death of a close friend. Amos also took inspiration from the stories of her grandfather, who she claims was Cherokee and told her of the abuses against Native Americans throughout the United States’ history.
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Tori Amos – Scarlet’s Hidden Treasures (2023 Remaster) (2004/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:51 minutes | 827 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what Rolling Stone described as “musical insubordination”. Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion.
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Torben Westergaard – The Gori Project II (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:40 minutes | 373 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Twmusic
The Gori Project II: Connection between people, immersion in music. With The Gori Project II, musician and composer Torben Westergaard wanted to create a cultural exchange and a musical example of how a democratic conversation between people and cultures can unfold. It is music that fuses jazz and traditional Korean music in terms of genre and creates space for immersion, improvisation, and surprises. Because that is exactly what music can do: Create space for new realizations and stronger connections artistically, sensually, and humanly.
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Torben Westergaard – The Gori Project (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:32 minutes | 660 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TWMUSIK
Music is the most precious thing. It surpasses all the borders and boundaries that we humans like to put up. It speaks directly, heart-to-heart, in a troubled world and reminds us of all the things we have in common. Luckily, we found an easy resonance between South Korea and Denmark in this project.
Coming just after the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Denmark and South Korea, The Gori Project brings together 2 renowned traditional South Korean musicians with 3 of Denmark’s most established jazz performers.
Led by Danish bassist & composer Torben Westergaard, the album fuses together two diverse sets of instruments, styles, harmonies & melodies into a new cultural expression.
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