Can – LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:31:16 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mute
Mute and Spoon Records present the next instalment of the curated CAN live concert series, LIVE IN PARIS 1973—the first in the series to feature Damo Suzuki’s vocals. The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1973 performance in Paris and features Irmin Schmidt on keyboard & synths, Jaki Liebezeit on drums, Michael Karoli on guitars, Holger Czukay on bass, and Damo Suzuki on vocals for one of his final shows with the band.
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Billie Holiday – Her Most Famous Recordings In Stereo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:04 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Billie Holiday, born as Elionora Harris and originally named Eleanora Fagan, (* April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia; † July 17, 1959 in New York City) is one of the most important American jazz singers with Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.
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Bill Fay – Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:38 minutes | 801 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans
Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow has a patchy release history: recorded between 1978 and 1981, it was not released until 2005, when it appeared on CD with limited streaming and no vinyl companion. A 2006 reissue brought the album onto vinyl but with a truncated sequence and nine song missing. Now, finally, Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow arrives in full worldwide. Available on streaming services worldwide and pressed to a double-album vinyl edition, it features the album’s original 22 songs and includes rare and previously unseen photographs from Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow’s original recording session. In the words of Gary Smith and Rauf Galip, missing Bill Stratton, and abbreviated from the forthcoming album notes: We chose five songs to record as finished pieces: Life, Spiritual Mansions, Cosmic Boxer, Strange Stairway, Isles of Sleep, all recorded in two studio sessions. We sent them out to try and get a record deal. There were few really independent labels back then and Punk was in the record labels’ ears. No deal. And now, Dead Oceans who have a lot of faith in Bill’s music wants to re- release the ‘Tomorrow’ album. A double vinyl package. Is there any more unreleased music for the fourth side? Of course. So, we’ve been opening old boxes, finding CDRs, cassettes, a musical archaeological dig. This is our choice from all the music we found.
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Art Pepper Quintet – Smack Up (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:09 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Smack Up is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with trumpeter Jack Sheldon, pianist Pete Jolly, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Frank Butler.
Leonard Feather’s sleeve notes include two quotes by Pepper which throw light on his approach to playing jazz:
“Knowing the relationships of chords to one another, how they fit into sequences and how you build on them, all reminds you that there’s an important relationship between mathematics and music.”
“The way a man walks, the way he talks, the timbre of his voice, the cadences of his speech, his little variations in phrasing a thought — all have so much to do with individuality. The same thing is true of a man’s playing in jazz… his tone, the way his sound moves, his feeling for time. That’s why jazz is consistently fascinating. You could ask six guys to play an identical solo, but when you heard the results, you’d hear six different solos.”
The album consists only of compositions written by saxophonists.
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Alan Silvestri – Death Becomes Her (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (The Deluxe Edition) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:18 minutes | 938 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Back Lot Music
From the storied collaboration of Robert Zemeckis and Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Contact, The Polar Express) comes the devilishly fun 1992 horror–comedy score, Death Becomes Her. Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn star as a feuding movie star and novelist, (with Bruce Willis caught in the middle as a plastic surgeon), as a miracle potion offering eternal youth goes off the rails: it continues to work even after death, allowing for ghoulish and groundbreaking visual effects as the characters try to maintain appearances despite their bodies being hopelessly mutilated.
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Al Harper – The Analemma Observation League (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:46 minutes | 734 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Take A Turn
Everything that grows knows itself. What’s taken root and blooming in Al Harper’s latest album, The Analemma Observation League, deeply knows how to invite new and old fans to linger, smile with eyes closed, and then line dance our way through reflection on these past, pivotal years of individual and collective metamorphoses.
Like an heirloom Central Valley bush sunflower, native to Al’s hometown of Bakersfield, California, the seeds of A.O.L. were cultivated over many mighty seasons of heat, movement, and seeking the sun. The formative influence of the twang and heart of the Bakersfield Sound, mashed up with the as-seen-on-TV Sounds Of The ‘70s tapes her dad bought to blast on coastal road trips, is an Al Harper calling card that bobs and weaves throughout her songbook. With seriously siren vocals that defy comparison, honeyed with a Chrissie Hynde-meets-Harumi hum all her own, A.O.L. plays like the culmination of what Al promised to further nurture in herself after the release of her pandemic LP, Promises I Kept.
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Ah Young Hong, Steve Davislim, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Jurg Henneberger – Michael Hersch: Poppaea (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:41:02 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Focus Recordings
Soprano Ah Young Hong has a large repertory extending as far back in time as Monteverdi but has an especially strong commitment to contemporary music. In her adopted U.S., she is a significant educator. Hong grew up in Seoul, South Korea, where her mother was a classical pianist.
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