Minoru Fushimi – Thanatos of Funk (1985/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:42 minutes | 520 MB | Genre: Electronic, Funk, Experimental
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 180g
Minoru “Hoodoo” Fushimi’s most wanted and impossible to find first album Thanatos Of Funk is finally reissued for the first time ever, in collaboration with Fushimi himself. Thanatos Of Funk is a milestone in Japan’s underground music and electro funk/early hip hop history. Entirely self-produced, designed and distributed in 1985 by Fushimi, a high-school teacher by day and music experimenter by night, Thanatos Of Funk is a love-letter to counter-culture, DIY, drum machines and synthesizers blent with some killer shamisen and guitar playing. This is truly unique music.
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Maïlys de Villoutreys – Romances d’Empire – Sophie Gail (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:14 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles
Like a shooting star, the french singer Sophie Gail filled her short life with music and passion. Publishing her first romances at he age of 15 in 1790, this divorcée who had a free life (with four children from four different fathers) achieved fame as a composer at Opéra-Comique in 1813, while having her romances hummed by all of the Empire’s “Belle société”.
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Maurizio Baglini – Nature & Life (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:49 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.
A distanza di tredici anni dalla registrazione della Sinfonia n. 9, album di debutto su Decca per Maurizio Baglini, il pianista toscano ritorna ad affrontare Beethoven trascritto da Liszt con una nuova proposta: la Sinfonia n. 6 op. 68 “Pastorale”. Un progetto che presenta all’ascoltatore alcuni legami indissolubili: la figura centrale di Beethoven nella storia universale, l’inclusione di culture esotiche – quella turca, nello specifico – nell’evoluzione sociologica europea, l’intervento fondamentale di Franz Liszt nella valorizzazione della musica di Beethoven nel secondo Ottocento. Beethoven ebbe un rapporto fortissimo con la società, con la politica e con la natura, percepita come trasfigurazione dell’esistenza terrena e ultraterrena: un rapporto spirituale, oltre che concreto e quotidianamente alimentato da un desiderio di frequentazione dell’ambiente a lui circostante. Questo sentimento che lega la natura con l’esistenza stessa, la vita, sono tutti presenti nella “Pastorale” come anche nei brani di Liszt che completano l’album: dal carattere bucolico dell’Allegro Pastorale e della Pastorale n. 3 al senso di caducità dell’esistenza della Totentanz.
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Mark Viner – Blumenfeld: 24 Preludes, Op. 17 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:21 minutes | 960 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics
Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was a virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher whose class comprised the likes of Simon Barere, Maria Grinberg and Vladimir Horowitz. But he was also a composer of an oeuvre of breathtaking beauty, originality and sophistication.
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Milano Saxophone Quartet – Skylines (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:26 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © AMBIENTE Audio
The Milano Saxophone Quartet has been a vibrant part of the international music scene since 2010. In their latest project “Skylines”, the ensemble tackles three complex contemporary scores that represent a synthesis of diverse musical influences such as “classical” saxophone music, jazz, folklore and avant-garde.
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Mengjie Han – Ningxu (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:22 minutes | 1,90 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 7 Mountain Records
Ningxu is the newest piano solo release of the Dutch-Chinese classical pianist Mengjie Han on 7 Mountain Records. It features the monumental Variations on a theme of Chopin (Op. 22) by Sergei Rachmaninov; the very first major work he composed for piano solo. It’s paired with major solo works by Frédéric Chopin: Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante (Op. 22), Barcarolle (Op. 60) and the Fantaisie in F minor (Op. 49).
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Melis Jaatinen – Impressions du nord: Nordic Songs (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:12 minutes | 489 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alba
This album includes a repertoire of Nordic composers influenced by French impressionism and Debussy’s music in particular. In Finland, both Toivo Kuula and Leevi Madetoja are known for taking influence from impressionism. After spending extensive time at the National Library in Oslo, Melis Jaatinen decided to add songs by Alf Hurumin and with the helpful advice from the principal of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, Astrid Kvalbein, Pauline Hall. Juho Alakärppä brought in Gösta Nystrom`s Sånger vid havet. This work was originally written for Finnish soprano Aulikki Rautava.
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Marc Hartman – Cultures (2022-07-22)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:56 minutes | 710 MB | Genre: Electronic, Lounge, Chill Out, Downtempo
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lemongrassmusic
Lemongrassmusic present „Cultures“ – the 13th longplayer album by Dutch musician and producer Marc Hartman.
This album will be a little surprise for all fans of Marc’s music as it contains 13 Chill House & Deep House tracks instead of Downtempo and Chillout music.
Nevertheless you will easily recognize his signature sound with relaxing vibes and catchy melodies.
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Michiaki Ueno – J.S. Bach: The Six Cello Suites (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:14:25 minutes | 3,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta
At the age of twenty-five, Michiaki Ueno, winner of the prestigious Geneva International Competition in 2021, has chosen to record the Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach. The young musician gives a masterly interpretation of a work regarded as the ‘Grail’ of every cellist. He already imposes a distinct artistic personality, one to be reckoned with in future.
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Mika Kallio – Gong Odyssey (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:46 minutes | 756 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Eclipse Music – Supersounds Music Oy
Mika Kallio has collaborated with most major jazz musicians in Finland. Some of the players he has worked and/or recorded with are Mikko Innanen, Kari Ikonen, Pauli Lyytinen, Raoul Björkenheim, Otto Donner,, Anssi Nykänen, Jarmo Savolainen, Jukka Perko, Teemu Viinikainen, Manuel Dunkel, Verneri Pohjola, Jukka Gustavson, Marzi Nyman, Eero Koivistoinen, Pekka Pohjola and many others
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