The Jazz Explorers – Further Exposure (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:36 minutes | 871 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Born 20. jan. 1966 in Copenhagn, Denmark. Søren Lee (Born January 20, 1966 in Copenhagen) is a Danish Jazz guitarist and composer. He started playing guitar at age of 10, took guitar lessons for about two years with a private teacher and began his professional career at 15. He performed with his own band in smaller places around Copenhagen. At 16 he started playing with the funk band “Tonight” that Achieved big success around Denmark played around 4 gigs a week in two years. At 19 he started playing with the Jazz group Orbits with Uffe Markussen sax, Alex Riel (Drums) Ben Besiakow (piano) Marilyn Mazur (perc.) among others, and got his first review as a jazz guitarist with this band in the newspaper Politiken after playing in Jazz club Montmartre headline was “Great talent, Danish guitar hope”. (By Boris Rabinowich).
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The Buddy Blake Band – Seven Ways From Someday (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:16 minutes | 719 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Heard Mentality Music
A Rock and Roll Drive with The Who riding shotgun, Counting Crows, REM, Grand Funk, and Zeppelin in the back of a car once owned by Tom Petty…
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Techno Animal – The Brotherhood Of The Bomb (2001/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:11 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Electronic, Breakbeat, Industrial
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Relapse Records
Relapse Records is proud to announce the reissue of the highly influential TECHNO ANIMAL (featuring Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, and more,) & Kevin Martin (The Bug)) album, The Brotherhood of the Bomb. The album, fully remastered by Broadrick, is available on LP for the first time ever!
Prior to The Brotherhood of the Bomb having even been conceived, TECHNO ANIMAL had already been championed/released by The Beastie Boys, collaborated with Alec Empire and the then – fledgeling Dälek, but still remained in almost total obscurity. TECHNO ANIMAL had barely found an audience, yet on The Brotherhood of the Bomb, the duo had definitely found their sound.
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Tangerine Dream – The Sessions VII (Live at the Barbican Hall, London) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:25 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Berlin School
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Eastgate Music
Recorded live at Barbican Hall London on 13th March 2019. The Sessions VII EP contains one 40 minute instant live composition from the TD line-up Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss, Hoshiko Yamane and Paul Frick. Tangerine Dream are very much enjoying their new respectively revived concept of performing a so-called real time composition session at the end of their concerts. We hope that you will enjoy this spontaneous and exceptional live track – inspired by the location and a great concert audience as well.
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Sundrifter – An Earlier Time (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:43 minutes | 840 MB | Genre: Stoner Rock, Heavy Psych
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Small Stone Records
Sundrifter takes listeners on a sonic journey with AN Earlier Time. The album features nine tracks that are filled with mesmerizing riffs, powerful vocals, and intricate melodies. Each song has its own distinct character, creating a diverse and dynamic listening experience.
The band’s ability to seamlessly blend different genres is evident throughout the album. From the heavy-hitting opener “Sons of Belial” to the dreamy and atmospheric “Targeted,” Sundrifter effortlessly transitions between heavy rock anthems and more introspective moments.
The production quality of AN Earlier Time is top-notch, allowing every instrument to shine through. The guitar work is particularly impressive, with catchy hooks and blistering solos that will leave listeners craving for more. The rhythm section provides a solid foundation, driving each song forward with precision and power.
With AN Earlier Time, Sundrifter proves themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the stoner rock scene. Their ability to craft memorable songs that are both heavy and melodic sets them apart from their peers.
If you’re a fan of bands like Kyuss or Queens of the Stone Age, AN Earlier Time is an album you don’t want to miss. Get ready to be transported back in time with Sundrifter’s captivating soundscapes.
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Steve Roach – Structures from Silence (Deluxe) (40th Anniversary Remaster) (1984/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:09:22 minutes | 3,35 GB | Genre: Electronic, Minimal, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Projekt
Projekt celebrates the 40th anniversary of this ambient classic with a beautiful remastered limited edition LP, 1CD, & 3CD. Structures from Silence‘s breathing, suspended embrace of atmospheres and serene melodies instantly struck a chord with listeners in 1984; the album continues to reiterate its timeless resonations with new listeners today. On this landmark recording of gentle proportions, the three long-form tracks were the birth of something new: an original and pure statement striking a balance between diaphanous and understated, deep and reflective. The listening experience evokes a sense of silence within the music as well as the space between the chords. It expresses the breath of life and offers a meditation on delicate strands of subtle awareness.
Forty years later, Structures from Silence remains an iconic American release in the ambient and electronic genres. It’s a well-respected soundtrack for contemplation, relaxation, meditation, and creativity. Emotional, powerful, and enriching, it is a living example of the true healing quality that music can hold.
Steve reflects, “Structures from Silence remains a still point in suspended time for me when looking back over the span of my life immersed within the creative currents of sound and silence. Over 40 years ago the pieces on this album were created from my sole (soul’s) desire to live within a sonic space that would provide a sense of safety, soul nurturing comfort and time suspension. There was no original intention to make an album around these pieces. They were created purely as a sanctuary for my emerging personal journey as an artist. Once the three tracks were recorded it eventually became clear they belonged together in what would become the Structures from Silence album we have today and presented in this beautifully remastered 2024 edition. The response this music has reflected back to me over all these years is a humble reminder filled with gratitude, of the essential, pure need to listen deep into the moment, respond and create from this place without question.”
The 3CD deluxe edition includes two bonus discs created in 2013, and remastered for this edition. Steve says, “Over the years since the creation of Structures from Silence, certain pieces would emerge in the studio that instantly had the resonance of a direct relationship to the place that birthed this work back in 1984. Like the light slowing emerging in an early morning sunrise returning from a thirty year orbit – the desire to draw from this place of stillness, and deep inner quiet became the soul tone for these new pieces. Like the three original tracks, these were created in moments spent simply being present in the studio, tapping the flow state and guiding this sense into these recorded moments.”
Projekt gives listeners the chance to discover and rediscover this timeless classic. With a beautiful new mastering that reveals the stillness within, this release sets the tone for the next 40 years of silence.
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released February 16, 2024
Sophie Dervaux & La Folia Barockorchester – Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:00 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
Sophie Dervaux’ new album “Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos” is part of her larger project to record all of 39 of Vivaldis bassoon concerts. This album presents the first 6 concertos of this journey; RV 474, RV 497, RV 481, RV 501, RV 484 and RV 473. Apart from the violin, Vivaldi wrote as many concertos for no other instrument than the bassoon, knowing expertly how to write for this instrument to highlight its unique qualities.
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Solomiya Ivakhiv & Steven Beck – Ukrainian Masters (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:05 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
The expressive vitality in this collection of violin sonatas transcends the cultural upheavals from which these three Ukrainian composers emerged. Bortkiewicz’s Violin Sonata in G minor is among the most impressive of his relatively few chamber works, finding his musical language at its most vivid and directly communicative. Kosenko’s Violin Sonata in A minor is notable for the satisfying balance of its two subtly differentiated movements. Skoryk’s Second Violin Sonata is a stylistically diverse chamber work, with pointed allusions to Beethoven, Prokofiev and Gershwin during its compact and always eventiul course.
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Rodrigo Recabarren, Pablo Menares, Yago Vazquez – Familia (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:42 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Jazz, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Greenleaf Music
If it takes a village to support and sustain a Jazz trio, then what better way to acknowledge that cherished sense of community than with a marvelous piece of art. In the case of drummer Rodrigo Recabarren, pianist Yago Vazquez and bassist Pablo Menares, that takes the form of their new trio album Famila, releasing on February 23 via Greenleaf Music. Having played together for more than a decade, refining a chemistry and musical telepathy that defines their signature sound, Famila is the consummate expression of this talented trio, as well as the kinship they feel for each other, their collective families and the larger community supporting their music.
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Reneé Rapp – Mean Girls (Bonus Track Version) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:08 minutes | 531 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paramount Pictures – Interscope Records
Interscope Records has released an extended soundtrack album for the movie adaptation of the stage musical Mean Girls. The album features five previously unreleased bonus tracks (in additional to all the songs from the original soundtrack) written by Jeff Richmond & Nell Benjamin, including Rockin’ Around the Pole Again & Let Me Go performed by Nahscha, Auli’i Cravalho’s reprise of Someone Gets Hurt, Angourie Rice’s reprise of Stupid with Love, as well as Jaquel Spivey’s French language rendition of the iCarly theme song (Laissez Moi Tout). The Bonus Track Version is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to all five new songs after the jump. Mean Girls is directed by Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr. and also stars Reneé Rapp, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Christopher Briney, Tim Meadows and Tina Fey. The Paramount Pictures production was released in theaters nationwide last month and is making its PVOD debut today.
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Rainer Böhm Trio – Live at Birds Eye (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:55 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Galileo Music Communication
After the release of the albumD “what if” last year, there was talk of an ensemble like an organism, an exceptional album and the perfect playing of the leader. Even back then, pianist Rainer Böhm had dispensed with the wind section for three compositions during the dramaturgically cleverly linked, highly emotional sextet events, which were balanced like a dream between improvisation and composition, in order to have room for trio pieces with double bassist Arne Huber and drummer Jonas Burgwinkel.
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Rachel Musson – Ashes and Dust, Earth and Sky (Lludw a Llwch, Daear a Nef) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:51 minutes | 391 MB | Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Soundskein Records
I’m very pleased to announce that I have a new album coming out on the 16th February 2024. Titled Ashes and Dust, Earth and Sky, LLudw a Llwch, Daear a Nef, it is a solo project that feels like a bit of a shift in direction for me. One of the outcomes of a DYCP grant (thank you Arts Council England) that I received to explore composition using different recording techniques, it uses field recordings collected from West Wales and London, and recordings of saxophones, flutes and other bits and pieces. Part composed, part slowly improvised (I think there’s a difference, but it’s hard to know where to draw this line) over a year, the music explores my sense of the place of a specific little corner of Wales, juxtaposed against the more familiar to me sounds of the city. During the pandemic I yearned for open skies and air and sea, and I spent some time exploring my ancestry, learning that generations of my family lived and worked the land in West Wales, before moving east to the coalfields of South Wales. It made me think of our shifting relationships to land, and how estranged from land and earth I felt two floors up in the city during the pandemic. I feel very fortunate to be able to have the time and space to experience and explore both ends of this UK spectrum. Visiting West Wales, in particular the Gwaun Valley, which remains largely unchanged over the last few hundred years compared to the constantly changing cityscape, and reflecting on the different soundscapes I collected led to the responses, improvisations and compositions that are found on this record. I look forward to sharing it with you early next year.
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Peter DiCarlo – The Other Side (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:00 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shifting Paradigm Records
The Other Side is alto saxophonist Peter DiCarlo’s second album as leader. Having relocated from New York City to Turkey three years ago, DiCarlo explores a fusion of jazz styles, incorporating subtle Turkish influences. Departing from his traditional jazz roots, the album weaves original compositions with nods to his first album, ‘Onward.’ Featuring Istanbul jazz talents Uraz Kivaner, Ozan Musluoğlu and Ferit Odman, the album pays homage to jazz history, blending Turkish musical nuances.
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Paramore – Re: This Is Why (Expanded) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:19 minutes | 593 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records
Alternative rock icons Paramore release a remix album for their sixth studio album This Is Why, entitled Re: This Is Why. Described as “almost a remix album”, Re: This Is Why features reworked, remixed, and rewritten versions of songs from the the original album, as well as an unreleased B-side demo. The project features collaborations from Foals, The Linda Lindas, Panda Bear, Zane Lowe, Wet Leg, DOMi & JD BECK, Remi Wolf, Bartees Strange, Romy, Claud, and Julien Baker!
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Paolo Paliaga – Alboran Solo: The Wind Is Coming (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Piano Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Da Vinci jazz
Why a solo piano album? I answer this question by telling what this experience represented for me. In solo piano, all three elements of music – rhythm, harmony and melody – are concentrated in the pianist’s hands; more than on them, however, they depend on his artistic maturity, on his vision and on his aesthetical approach to the world. Harmony has a fascinating logic of its own. In the pieces’ composition, it allows for emotional itineraries which are discovered at the same moment of the composition. This is a mystery and a revelation which engenders torment and satisfaction at the same time. To encounter a progression which reveals itself in the act of its research is a gesture leading to enchantment and emotion. Rhythm is the foundation of vitality, it is ”swing”, it is beat, primeval movement, pulse, dance, the moving of things. There are many ways to express rhythm, not just one; thus, every piece possesses its own beat, and all beats must reach the listener.
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