Nicolas Tourney – Alvin Lucier: Gentle Fire (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:07:39 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Electronic, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Snow in Water Records
Nicolas Tourney: Field Recordings, Objects, Cross-Synthesis Operating Systems.
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Natasha Stojanovska – Uncommon Voices: Women Composers from Eastern Europe (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:56 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
The brilliant Macedonian pianist based in Chicago and Santa Fe, NM, has begun her project of recording works by Eastern European women composers Grażyna Bacewicz, Bojana Petrovic Aleksova, Zara Levina, Maria Szymanowska, Dora Pejačević and her own two Phantasies No.1 and No.2. The project will be engineered by the outstanding Dan Nichols of Aphorism Studio, and produced by Carmen-Helena Tellez of Aquava New Music.
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National Youth Jazz Orchestra – She Said (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:41 minutes | 893 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NYJO
“She Said” is the culmination of a year-long programme at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra to remix the gender balance in jazz, the album features collaborations with leading artists including legendary vocalist Norma Winstone, trumpeter/composers Yazz Ahmed and Laura Jurd, pianist Nikki Iles and saxophonist Josephine Davies.
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Ntjam Rosie – Home Cooking (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 28:27 minutes | 284 MB | Genre: Soul, Jazz, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © O-tone
“From the intimacy of my home I’ve cooked up some of my innermost thoughts, deepest feelings and special memories, into a lovely collection of songs.”
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Nicki Leighton-Thomas – One Good Scandal (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:12 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 33 Jazz
A return to the recording scene, from respected vocalist Nicki Leighton-Thomas, featuring pianist Simon Wallace, saxophonist Dave O’Higgins, Steve Waterman on trumpet, Alec Dankworth on bass and drummer Roy Dodds.
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Nagoya University of the Arts Wind Orchestra – Wind Orchestra Masterpiece Selection (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:00 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NUA Records
This album is a masterpiece selection that collects small pieces of original works from brass band classics to the present. Includes “Arsenal,” “Merry-Go-Round,” and “The Sun Will Rise Again,” which are often featured in concerts, as well as works by leading Japanese composers Bin Kaneda, Toshio Mashima, and Eiji Suzuki.
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Nuke Watch – Nuke Watch (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:33 minutes | 730 MB | Genre: Free Jazz, Electronic, World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Trilogy Tapes
Nuke Watch’s eponymous album is the NYC ensemble’s 4th since 2020, after outings with their NYPD records, plus RVNG’s Commend and Portland’s Moon Glyph. In the wake of Nuke Watch’s nod to the nuclear R&D of ‘The Manhattan Project’, they keep the name literal but the music highly metaphoric here with a 40 minute mosaic of 14 parts of frazzled synth virtuosity, textured sampledelia and mulched electronics porous to influence from all corners, from gamelan to Raï, Saharan strings, and Japanese classical court music, but lysergically morphed into a properly absorbing, if elusive, sort of instrumental storytelling.
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Nic Pendlebury – Multiple (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:29 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
Multiple is my first album of music for the electric viola; all the works have either been transcribed by myself, by the composer or written specifically for the album. The title of the album reflects the fact that the works are originally composed for multiple instruments or voices and in the case of the Tallis, 40 of them. Terry Riley’s Dorian Reeds however, is scored for a single instrument, the multiple aspect of the work coming from looping delays, which accumulate and fade throughout the piece.
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