Santana – Africa Speaks (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:31 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
Africa Speaks is the new energy infused full-length album from Santana. It features the soulful vocals of Afro-Latin singer Buika, and was produced by legendary producer Rick Rubin. Santana and his eight-piece band (featuring his wife, Cindy Blackman Santana, on drums), convened at Rubin’s Shangri La Studios in Malibu, and in a joyous and stimulating 10-day period they recorded an astonishing number of tracks, many of them in one take. Inspired by the melodies, sounds and rhythms of Africa, Santana has created a truly memorable and powerful experience that also promises to be one of his most groundbreaking albums yet.
Read moreSantana – Abraxas (1970/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 51:12 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Abraxas is the thrilling sophomore album by Santana. The GRAMMY Award-winning band continues their winning formula of rock, blues, jazz and salsa. Abraxas contains some of the group’s biggest hits including Peter Green’s “Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen” and their insightful rendition of the Tito Puente classic, “Oye Como Va.” “Oye Como Va” would become a sensation on the Billboard charts. This seminal Latin-rock release is an undeniable classic that topped the Billboard charts. It is also included on Vibe’s “100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century”.
Read moreSantana – Spirits Dancing In The Flesh (1990/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:16 minutes | 1021 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia Records
Following a 20th anniversary reunion tour in 1989 to promote Viva Santana!, Carlos Santana reorganized the band as a sextet and recorded Spirits Dancing in the Flesh, Santana’s 15th and final studio album for Columbia Records. It was an unusually eclectic collection, featuring songs by Curtis Mayfield (“Gypsy Woman”), the Isley Brothers (“Who’s That Lady”), and Babatunde Olatunji (“Jin-Go-Lo-Ba”). For all those influences, it was more of a straightforward, guitar-heavy rock album than usual. Coming more than three years after Santana’s last new album, Freedom, it sold to the band’s core audience only, reaching number 85. –William Ruhlmann, AllMusic
Read moreSantana – Beyond Appearances (1985/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:50 minutes | 879 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Released in 1985, Beyond Appearances is the thirteenth album by Santana. It featured a completely different line-up from the previous album and took seven months to make. It was produced by Val Garay.
Beyond Appearances is the thirteenth studio album by Santana, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). The album took seven months to make, and (apart from Carlos Santana himself) involved a completely different line-up from Santana’s previous album (released two and a half years earlier). It was firmly in the style of the 1980s, making much use of synthesizers and drum machines. Beyond Appearances performed relatively poorly, reaching only fifty on the Billboard album chart; one of its tracks, “Say It Again”, reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (though it performed better on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, reaching number fifteen).
Read moreSannie Fox – My Soul Got Stranger (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:13 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Soul, Blues, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Just Music
Sannie Fox is a singer and guitarist who has released two critically acclaimed albums and will release her third studio album My Soul Got Stranger now. With her voracious voice and fingers to her electric guitar, Fox sways across an evolving sonic tapestry of desert blues, soul and psychedelic rock sounds. Fox’s voice is soulful, deep and grips the blues by its horns. Her ‘analogue-ish’, old vinyl sound can be compared to the likes of Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald.
Read moreSebastian Küchler-Blessing – Jubilissimo (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:35 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AMBIENTE Audio
When four wind soloists such as the world-famous trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich, his colleagues Hannes Läubin (trumpet), Brandt Attema (trombone) and his son David Friedrich (trombone) meet with the Essen Cathedral organist Sebastian Küchler–Blessing – then “brass & organ” is suddenly able to cheer and touch: JUBILISSIMO!
Read moreSad Park – NO MORE SOUND (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:27 minutes | 499 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pure Noise Records
LA emo-punks Sad Park have just released their third album and first for Pure Noise, No More Sound. It was produced by AJJ’s Sean Bonnette, who says, “I had the joy and honor of producing Sad Park’s latest album No More Sound, and no bullshit–it is one of the best records I’ve ever been a part of. You ever see a band so pure in their intentions that it makes you ashamed? That’s Sad Park. They are true in a way that so many of their peers couldn’t be if they tried–because to be that true, it has to be effortless. All hail Sad Park!”
Read moreArianna String Quartet – Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:05:44 minutes | 4,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.
These six works are Beethoven’s last major completed compositions. Extremely complex and largely misunderstood by musicians and audiences of Beethoven’s day, the late quartets are now widely considered to be among the greatest musical compositions of all time and have inspired many later composers.
Read moreRosana Toledo – …E A Vida Continúa (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:12 minutes | 741 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Rosana Toledo’s got some mighty hefty hair on the front cover – but the album is much less stiff and formal – as the singer really taps into her emotive depths throughout – showing us that although life goes on, as promised by the title, it’s not without its melancholy moments! Arrangements are relatively full, with light percussion underneath larger orchestrations – all handled by Maestro Nelsinho, on titles that include “Nao Me Diga Adeus”, “Salve Ogum”, “E A Vida Continua”, “Porque Fui Te Encontrar”, “Desolacao”, “Pra Que Mentir”, and “Feitio De Oracao”
Read moreRing van Möbius – The 3rd Majesty (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:50 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Apollon Records Prog
A Hammond-driven progressive pearl – which could just as easily have been released in 1971 as in 2020 – Ring Van Möbius’s epic The 3rd Majesty includes lengthy opuses galore. Incorporating instruments such as tubular bells, theremin, a string quartet, timpani, modular synthesizers, Hammond organ, and Fender Rhodes, the album combines 1960s/1970s arrangements and recording techniques with the band’s own touch of contemporary creative madness.
Read moreSacha Distel – A Jazz Guitarist: Jazz D’aujourd’hui (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:09 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Sacha Distel was a French singer and guitarist who had hits with a cover version of the Academy Award-winning ”Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”, ”Scoubidou”, and ”The Good Life” He rose to fame in 1958 with the song ”Brigitte”, a homage to Brigitte Bardot. Distel became a professional jazz guitarist. Over his career he worked alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1950s after establishing himself as a French crooner.
Read moreAndy Wasserman – The Seven Vertical Scales (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:03 minutes | 774 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TransMedia Sound & Music
On this unique and informative sonic exploration of original solo piano artistry, Andy pays tribute in his signature style to the Seven Vertical Scales at the core of George Russell’s ground-breaking treatise on music theory “The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization – the art and science of Tonal Gravity.”
This recording is an aural tribute to the monumental keystone that is George Russell’s life’s work and his contribution to all music and music theory.
Read moreAmy Lyddon, London Voices, English Chamber Orchestra & Ben Parry – I Slept and Dreamed that Life was Beauty (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:06 minutes | 458 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
In an album of world-premiere recordings, Ben Parry conducts London Voices and the English Chamber Orchestra in choral music by British composer Jonathan Rutherford.
One of the first students to attend the Yehudi Menuhin School, Jonathan Rutherford went on to study with Lennox Berkeley, Harrison Birtwistle, Nadia Boulanger and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Rutherford’s choral music embraces sacred and secular texts ranging from the Bible to Oscar Wilde. This release features Rutherford’s setting of Psalm 13 for choir and strings, in which lamentation gives way to peace; The Artist and The Master, in which he adds musical layers to Wilde’s spiritual storytelling; and the elegiac Final Parting, to words by Julie Rutherford. The release ends with the good-humoured Four Toasts, composed during Rutherford’s teen years and later revised and orchestrated.
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