Klavierduo Neeb – Sparks of Spirit (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:33 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © audite Musikproduktion
On their second CD, the Neeb Piano Duo present works that each illustrate the beginning of a promising period in the life of a different composer: full of creative energy, Max Reger plunged into productive work after emerging from years of challenging physical and mental health. Franz Schubert was similarly affected by a syphilis attack, and, in addition to a stable job at Esterházy Palace, was even inspired by a clandestine love to find new creativity. Johann Sebastian Bach was motivated by leading the top-class Collegium Musicum to compose a new concert repertoire, while Rachmaninoff, with the Suite, Op. 17, overcame the depression which had prevented him from composing for three years following the failure of his First Symphony. The Neeb Piano Duo illuminate these emotional worlds with their insightful interpretation, creative imagination, and sparkling enthusiasm.
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Norah Jones – Visions (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:38 minutes | 859 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Nine-time GRAMMY winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Norah Jones releases her ninth solo studio album ‘Visions’, a collaboration with producer and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels. ‘Visions’ is a vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Jones singing about feeling free, wanting to dance, making it right, and acceptance of what life brings. It’s the yang to the yin that was ‘Pick Me Up Off the Floor’, Jones’ last album of new original songs which was released early in the pandemic lockdown of 2020 and foreshadowed many of the dark emotions of that period.
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Nils Lofgren Band – Spares (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:55:20 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CATTLE TRACK ROAD RECORDS
Nils Lofgren (born June 21, 1951, Chicago, Illinois) is an American rock musician, musician and multi—instrumentalist, songwriter. Along with his solo work, he is also known as a member of the rock band Crazy Horse (participated in the recording of the debut album), a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band (since 1984), a member and founder/frontman of the band Grin.
Lofgren is included, as a member of the band “Grin”, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2014).
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Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Deluxe Edition) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:55 minutes | 852 MB | Genre: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
Not all fans had expected Judas Priest to produce a heavy metal masterpiece as strong as “Firepower” in 2018. Second place in the German charts was the well-deserved reward for this fan and critic favorite. The legendary band from Birmingham will soon be releasing the follow-up, their new album “Invincible Shield”.
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Denis Pascal – Schubert, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:50 minutes | 882 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Musica
Great works of art outstrip their creator. Infused with substance unsuspected at their inception, they elicit intellectual and emotional perceptions in successive generations, gradually becoming a touchstone. Operating into the present, they pose real questions. Journeying through time, they abolish time and continue to resonate, fully and validly, in a world inconceivable at the time of their creation.
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Jonah Parzen-Johnson – You’re Never Really Alone (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:39 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © We Jazz
Brooklyn-based artist Jonah Parzen-Johnson returns with the new album You’re Never Really Alone, out on We Jazz Records, March 8. If you look at the label on the LP containing eight intimate compositions for baritone sax & flute, you will find the words, “we made this together”. At first thought, this simple phrase may seem out of place on a solo record, but just like the compositions on this album, it was carefully crafted to cut to the core of what this music is all about.
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Cool Maritime – Big Earth Energy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:16 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Western Vinyl
Having crested the west coast modular-ambient wave in just a few releases including 2018’s Sharing Waves on the influential LA experimental imprint Leaving Records – Sean Hellfritsch has swapped the mossy analog synth improvisations of his prior output for refined melodic arrangements dressed in sprightly dawn-of-digital textures. Big Earth Energy plumbs the depths of Hellfritsch’s multimedia mind and naturalist heart, spinning an impressionistic narrative world off of cultural touchstones like the PC game MYST, and the work of Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi. Inspired by the aforementioned, and guided by Hellfritsch’s experience as an animator and filmmaker, Big Earth Energy is the soundtrack to a hypothetical video game with a pointedly ecological premise, and a twist of psychedelic charm. In Hellfritsch’s imagined virtual journey, the player assumes the perspective of a treefrog sixty-five-million years ago, hopping epochs with each new level, forming a comprehensive picture of the massive changes the planet has gone through over the eons. The ultimate goal of the game is not to amass resources, defeat enemies, or gain power, but to fully witness the unfolding of one of the biggest systems of energy imaginable – or as the album’s creator puts it – “to explore the incomprehensibly vast energetic expression and mystery that is Earth.”
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Carolina Dello Iacono & Antonio Grande – Água e vinho (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:54 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius
The CD Agua & Vinho Sentimentals moods for flute and guitar offers a wide and varied anthology of pieces by different authors, from classical to contemporary, revisited by the personal sensitivity of Carolina Dello Iacono, flute, and Antonio Grande, guitar. In the intense instrumental dialogue, the publication becomes a singular musical story that explores different artistic languages, from the song by Egberto Gismonti (that gives the album’s title) to works by Ada Gentile, Heitor Villa Lobos, Francis Poulen and others, between enveloping atmospheres and moments that open up unexpected sonic horizons. The protagonists of this particular listening journey, in a polyphony of ideas, voices and creative instances, are Carolina Dello Iacono and Antonio Grande, musicians with great experience and extensive artistic activity.
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Jessica Corrêa – A Crowded Beginning (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:42 minutes | 279 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PayHouse Music Group LLC
Originally from Oakville, Ontario, Jessica Correa moved to Peterborough to begin her educational journey in Environmental Sciences/Studies and she then completed her Master’s Degree in Sustainability Studies in 2015. From 2015 to 2022, Jessica Correa ideated, founded, built, managed, and operated Random Acts of Green, a social enterprise that raises awareness about small lifestyle changes people can take to make a meaningful impact on our planet.
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Bruno Cocset & Les Basses Réunies – La Nascita del Violoncello: Napoli – Bologna – Modena (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:16:45 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
With this CD book, Bruno Cocset completes his Nascita del Violoncello . After a first part published in 2011, devoted to Bologna and his first repertoire for the cello (Vitali, Gabrielli, Jacchini) – reissued in this boxed set – he presents, with the musicians of Basses Réunies, a new recording devoted to Naples, from the Renaissance composer Diego Ortiz to the gallant and virtuoso cello of Lanzetti… offering two crossed views, two approaches that provide a better understanding of the identity of this instrument. The instruments used here – Cocset plays ten in all – bear witness both to this journey and to the bond that has bound him for many years to his luthier, Charles Riché.
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Hans Zimmer, Steve Mazzaro – Kung Fu Panda 4 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:25 minutes | 554 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Back Lot Music
Kung Fu Panda 4 is a 2024 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. Hans Zimmer returns as composer — alongside series newcomer Steve Mazzaro — and the fiery percussive score lends the proceedings a mythic grandeur.
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