Joo Yeon Sir – Solitude (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Joo Yeon Sir - Solitude (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Joo Yeon Sir – Solitude (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:55 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © RUBICON

Joo Yeon Sir writes in the booklet to her solo recital album ‘Solitude’, ‘Solitude was the state I found myself in along with the rest of the world in 2020. Concerts were suddenly postponed… and I was left eerily by myself at home’. When, the following year, and the time had come to record the album, Lockdown was reinstated.
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Joonas Haavisto – Offshore (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Joonas Haavisto – Offshore (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:34 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Joonas Haavisto

Born in 1982, Joonas Haavisto is a Finnish pianist and composer who is recognized as one of the most exciting young musicians on the Nordic jazz scene. The winner of several international awards, he has performed widely around Europe, North America and Japan with his groups. Haavisto’s compositions are based on beautiful melodies, creating music that explores free elements and multilayered, surprising rhythmic motifs. Over the last decade, the Joonas Haavisto Trio have released four albums that have received praise from both Finnish and international media, with an initially limited release of 2018’s ‘Gradation’ being selected as an album of the month by the respected Society Of Sound site run by the leading speaker and headphone manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins. ‘Offshore’ is an expanded version of ‘Gradation’ that adds guitar parts to three of the tracks.
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João Marcondes – Pindorama – Terras Brasis (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

João Marcondes - Pindorama - Terras Brasis (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

João Marcondes – Pindorama – Terras Brasis (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:16 minutes | 685 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BAC Discos [dist. Tratore]

I am Professor João Marcondes! Passionate about music and music education. I am a composer and instrumentalist with a lot published. I am the pedagogical coordinator of the Popular composition – lyrics and music programs, the preparatory for music entrance exams (extensive, semi-intensive and intensive), The Technical Course in Phonographic processes – music production, and The Graduate Program in music education of the Souza Lima College and Conservatory-courses that take place at the Paraíso unit. I also coordinate such free programs as arrangement for small ensembles, arrangement for medium ensembles, Instrumental composition. And I have coordinated the Moema and FT Alphaville units since 2010. I also work at the institution in administrative tasks, and I am director of editora Souza Lima. I am the author of the blog Souza Lima and the blog Souza Lima-Magazine Luiza! My books and methods are published on KINDLE-Amazon in partnership with Editora Souza Lima. And also in printed form. I am a music educator, composer, arranger and instrumentalist. Master in education art and history of Culture, specialized in teaching in Brazilian Music, graduate and technician in music. My compositions and Phonographic works are available for listening on Spotify, Deezer and iTunes Music. I am director and founder of the BAC Discos label! That launched several artists active today in Brazilian music.
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João Donato – Chа Dancante (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

João Donato - Chа Dancante (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

João Donato – Chа Dancante (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 22:04 minutes | 424 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

João Donato de Oliveira Neto is a Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist from Brazil. He first worked with Altamiro Carrilho and went on to perform with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto.
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J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Destroyers of the Soft Life (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

J. Roddy Walston & The Business - Destroyers of the Soft Life (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Destroyers of the Soft Life (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:52 minutes | 431 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Southern Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATO (UK)

J. Roddy Walston & The Business will release their fourth studio album Destroyers Of The Soft Life on Sept 29th via ATO Records. The album came to life in the band’s own Richmond, VA recording studio, a space they built by hand in 2016, and was finished in Seattle with co-producer Phil Ek (Band of Horses, The Walkmen, Built To Spill).
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Oomph! – Richter und Henker (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Oomph! – Richter und Henker (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:20 minutes | 724 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Napalm Records

“The New German Hardness pioneers OOMPH! are back with their 14th studio album Richter und Hangman! With the previous album and Napalm Records debut Ritual (2019), they reached number 1 on the Official German Album Charts for the first time, after playing countless major national and international tours, as well as festival shows in their over 30-year success story. OOMPH!s biggest hit to date, “Eyes Up!“ (2004), is a timeless classic and is right in the ear of every rock fan.
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Alan Pasqua, Peter Erskine & Darek Oles – Live in Italy (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Alan Pasqua, Peter Erskine & Darek Oles – Live in Italy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:02 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuzzy Music

Recorded “live” in concert at the culmination of the trio’s first tour since the lockdown began, this set reflects the exhilaration found in playing before a hungry audience in a beautiful concert hall. Featuring eight originals and 2 standards, this audiophile-quality album is destined to become a go-to in your music library. Good pasta, great acoustics, a wonderful piano with equally-great drums and bass to play on. “Live In Italy,” the Erskine Trio at it’s best.

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Adriana Gonzalez, Marina Viotti, Iñaki Encina Oyón – À deux voix (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Adriana Gonzalez, Marina Viotti, Iñaki Encina Oyón – À deux voix (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:09 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audax Records

Two of today’s most exciting artists on the international opera scene meet for a very personal project. Audax Records has followed Adriana González’s career since its beginnings and offered carte blanche to the artist who invited Marina Viotti to join her for this program devised by Iñaki Encina Oyón. A florilegium of French duos by composers such as Fauré, Franck, Chausson, Massenet, Gounod, Lalo, Delibes, Viardot, Widor, Paladilhe, Devéria, Chaminade and Puget, including several world premiere recordings.

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Wigmore Soloists – Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway: Chamber Music (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Wigmore Soloists – Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway: Chamber Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:47 minutes | 2,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

Following their critically acclaimed albums of Schubert (BIS-2597), Mozart and Birchall (BIS-2647), works for clarinet trio (BIS-2535) and, more recently, Beethoven and Berwald (BIS-2707), the Wigmore Soloists now turn their attention to twentieth-century English chamber works which, while eschewing some of the continent’s modernist tendencies, are both deeply personal and supremely written, highlighting the specific colours of each of the instruments. Howard Ferguson’s Octet, a direct and engaging work, was the first of his works to attract attention. Ferguson’s skill is brilliantly demonstrated in this tonally ambiguous work, which takes its instrumentation from Schubert’s famous Octet. The main characteristic of Sir Arthur Bliss’s Clarinet Quintet, like those of Mozart and Brahms with the same instrumental line-up, is its intense, overtly emotional lyricism, but the sunny, extrovert aspects of Bliss’s character ultimately prevail in the brilliantly energetic finale. Robin Holloway’s Serenade in C for octet is the most recent work on this disc, and also features the instrumentation of Schubert’s Octet, which the composer acknowledges as a model. Few contemporary composers display as keen a sense of humour as Holloway who wished here to give “an affectionate twist to tonal common practice and light-music clichés all the way from Biedermeier Vienna to Southend Pier”.

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Vianney – à 2 à 3 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Vianney – à 2 à 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:33 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Chanson, French Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © tôt Ou tard

Après les succès singles de ‘Call on me’ (en duo avec Ed Sheeran), ‘Keep it simple’ (en duo avec Mika), ‘Le feu’ (en duo avec Kendji Girac) et ‘Comment on fait’ (en duo avec Zazie), ce plaisir de la création musicale entre artistes qui s’apprécient à tisser son chemin et Vianney sort un nouvel album de 19 titres pour compléter cette collaboration avec 17 artistes différents (Renaud, Big Flo & Oli, Mentissa, Soprano…). Co-écrits et composés ensemble, à 2 à 3 est un album caméléon qui reflète les goûts éclectiques de Vianney et son amour pour la grande variété pop ainsi que les artistes qui l’incarnent. Avec Zazie, Ben Mazué, Kenji Girac & Soprano, Bigflo & Oli, Mc Solaar, Renaud, Ed Sheeran, Janie, Mika, Jean-Louis Aubert, Mentissa, Florent Pagny, Charlie Winston, Aiden, Eric Devillers.

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Umlaut Chamber Orchestra – Zodiac Suite – Mary Lou Williams (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Umlaut Chamber Orchestra – Zodiac Suite – Mary Lou Williams (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:13 minutes | 741 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Umlaut Records

In 1945, Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) completed the composition of the Zodiac Suite. Each movement corresponded to an artist’s portrait associated with an astrological sign. It was a pretext to escape the rigidity of the musical forms for which Williams had previously written, and to experiment with the sonorities of the music of European composers such as Berg, Hindemith or Schoenberg.

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Trevor Alexander & Peter Crockford – Dreams, Desires, Desolation – English Song (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Trevor Alexander & Peter Crockford – Dreams, Desires, Desolation – English Song (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:07 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Divine Art

Baritone Trevor Alexander and pianist Peter Crockford present an album celebrating English Song – art-songs by composers well and not-so-well known, and some of the best examples of what is often called the Parlour Ballad, so beloved of audiences in the early years of the 20th century.

“Dreams, Desires, Desolation was created out of our love for English Song. The album comprises a real mixture of very familiar songs, along with some relatively unknown ones, and a few which were very popular in their day but have fallen out of fashion. There are also three world premiere recordings. We believe, despite the mixture of styles, each song brings something valid to our concept.”

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The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen & Robert Rawson – Chandos Anthems (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen & Robert Rawson – Chandos Anthems (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:48 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Accent

The name ‘Chandos anthems’ is most frequently associated with Handel, but he was not the first, nor the last, composer in the extravagant household of James Brydges, the Duke of Chandos from 1719. Working concurrently with Handel at Cannons was the Berlin native, Johann Christoph Pepusch’snearly 20 years Handel’s seniora who took over as Director of Music by early 1719 whereupon he adopted a distinctly Venetian approach to sacred music, in the manner of Lotti and Vivaldi.

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Zach Brock, Bob Lanzetti & Keita Ogawa (Brock, Lanzetti, Ogawa) – Drawing Songs (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Zach Brock, Bob Lanzetti & Keita Ogawa (Brock, Lanzetti, Ogawa) – Drawing Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:23 minutes | 723 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © GroundUp Music LLC

“Brock, Lanzetti, Ogawa” is the moniker for a new trio whose members are widely known through their association with the jazz-funk group Snarky Puppy. Zach Brock (4 and 6 string violins), Bob Lanzetti (acoustic and electric guitars), and Keita Ogawa (percussion) formed their new trio during the Covid-19 pandemic. Their music is an eclectic mix of styles that includes elements of jazz, folk, experimental, ambient, groove, and world music, and there is an emphasis on compositions that feature improvisation. The debut album by “Brock, Lanzetti, Ogawa,” entitled Drawing Songs, is set to be released November 2023 on GroundUp Music with a tour to follow.

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Pauline Anna Strom – Spectre (1984/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pauline Anna Strom – Spectre (1984/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:16 minutes | 787 MB | Genre: Progressive Electronic, Space Ambient, New Age
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RVNG Intl.

Spectre is the third album by the late West Coast composer, healer, and medium Pauline Anna Strom. First released in 1984, the album finds Strom exploring the darker corridors of human mythology under the influence of vampiric lore, evoking a hushed gothic solitude and showcasing her breathtaking dexterity of sound design. Despite its shadowy hues, Spectre offers generous glimpses of a vivid light that could only have come from a heart wide open to the cosmos. Restored and mixed from the original reels by Marta Salogni, and newly remastered, this is the album’s first ever official reissue, and the definitive edition of a visionary statement.

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