The Steve Thompson Band – Distant Destination (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:27 minutes | 613 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cherry Red Records
The Long Fade album was released in 2019 to some great reviews. It also got plenty of airplay. It was re-released in 2021 by Cherry Red Records as part of an extensive deal on recordings I’ve made going as far back as the early seventies. I began my musical career in 1969. Since The Long Fade is the first release to bear my name, you could say it was an album 50 years in the making!
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The Shadow Ring – City Lights (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:42 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blank Forms Editions
Throughout their legendary, decade-long run, the Shadow Ring were an enigmatic force on the international musical sub-underground. Before their disbandment in 2002, this shambolic rock outfit, formed by a group of rowdy teenagers in southeast England, left behind a mighty run of eight LPs, a handful of 7″s, and a spate of raucous live shows and cryptic zine appearances on both sides of the Atlantic, all which have bolstered their enduring word-of-mouth mystique. Beginning this year with the first-ever vinyl pressing of the self-released pre-Shadow Ring tape The Cat & Bells Club (1992), Blank Forms Editions is conducting a systematic retrospective of the storied group, including a multi-year LP reissue effort and a forthcoming comprehensive CD box set and an over five hundred page book.
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The Jazz Revue – Jazz Sessions: Miles Davis (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 16:51 minutes | 179 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © H.M. Chapel Music
The Jazz Revue is a musical artist that performs jazz interpretations of classical music. The group was founded in 2010 by pianist and arranger Michael Brown. The Jazz Revue has released two albums, “Cello Suite No. 1” and “Dance of the Cygnets.” The group has performed at a variety of venues, including the Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Jazz Revue – Jazz Sessions: Herbie Hancock (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 18:29 minutes | 207 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © H.M. Chapel Music
The Jazz Revue is a musical artist that performs jazz interpretations of classical music. The group was founded in 2010 by pianist and arranger Michael Brown. The Jazz Revue has released two albums, “Cello Suite No. 1” and “Dance of the Cygnets.” The group has performed at a variety of venues, including the Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Jazz Revue – Jazz Sessions: Classical Favourites (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:32:55 minutes | 967 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © H.M. Chapel Music
The Jazz Revue is a musical artist that performs jazz interpretations of classical music. The group was founded in 2010 by pianist and arranger Michael Brown. The Jazz Revue has released two albums, “Cello Suite No. 1” and “Dance of the Cygnets.” The group has performed at a variety of venues, including the Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Tarracco – Big Bang (1986/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:21 minutes | 573 MB | Genre: Electronic, Synth-pop, Disco
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Repertoire Records (UK) Limited
REINHARD ‘DICKY’ TARRACH is a distinguished drummer and producer and no stranger to making chart-topping music. Initially, Dicky saw success with ground-breaking rock band the Rattles between 1963-1967. They were largely successful in Germany, playing to massive crowds as a support act for the Beatles on the German leg of their 1966 tour. In 1968 they formed Wonderland and released the single ‘Moscow’ reaching No.2 on the German charts. After Wonderland dissolved, Dicky became a sought-after session player. He later formed the legendary German New Wave band Moti Special alongside Nils Tuxen (guitar), Manfred Thiers (vocals) and Michael Cretu (keyboards) in 1981. Their 1984 track ‘Cold Days, Hot Nights’ remains their most emblematic title, placing highly across European charts. With their 1985 debut album ‘Motivation’ the band established themselves as a major player in the European musical landscape. Michael Cretu would leave the band to follow his career as a producer for artists such as Sandra and Enigma, and so Moti Special split up. Dicky developed as a producer and multi-instrumentalist, releasing the 1986 album ‘Big Bang’ under the name Tarracco, his new extravagant synth-pop act. He garnered a cult following of fans excited and intrigued by his progressive approach to production, especially on stand-out tracks such as ‘Sultana’, which brought new life to Titanic’s original rock song. The booming ‘Feel The Thunder’ also featured writing and performance from the highly experienced rock keyboardist Phil Lanzon of Uriah Heep fame. In 2022, experts of their craft IMT reinvigorated the same track with an electrifying remix. This timely reissue includes a bonus remix of ‘Feel The Thunder’ and is sure to excite Tarracco fans old and new.
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Tabea Zimmermann – J.S. Bach & Kurtág: Works for Viola (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:45 minutes | 842 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Myrios Classics
““We need Bach’s music, regardless of the instrument” – Tabea Zimmermann
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Sit Down Francis – Lighten UP (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:36 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dusty Medical Records
All songs by Stephen Braun and Sit Down Francis (with special thanks to Troy Sovey, Dan Hughes and Glen Way).
except #2,6,9,13 with Troy Sovey, #5,16 with Troy Sovey and Zach Ericksen, #11 with Andy Zeise, #12 with Jaimee Tourangeau and #18 with Glen Way
Ruggiero Ricci – Fritz Kreisler: Violin Compositions & Arrangements by Ruggiero Ricci (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:00 minutes | 945 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognizable as his own. Although it derived in many respects from the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of the gemütlich (cozy) lifestyle of pre-war Vienna.
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Pascal Savy – Simulacra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:44 minutes | 494 MB | Genre: Experimental Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cyclic Law
Conceived around a time of strong political, social and cultural turmoil in the UK and elsewhere, a time ridden with a deep sense of uncertainty and unease, the music resonates with feelings of alienation and powerlessness as well as convey ideas of anger and latent violence. Working with heavily textured drones as well as sharp edged sounds and sustained rhythms to echo and articulate those feelings, some of the tracks were re-worked until their final forms had lost all relation with their initial skeleton, something that was partly influenced by the idea of simulacra not representing the real anymore, inspired by the reading of ‘Simulacra and Simulation’ by Jean Baudrillard and ‘The Weird and the Eerie’ by Mark Fisher. The addition of rhythmic structures, a new step for Savy, helped explore the idea of power by saturating the sonic landscape with repetition and pulsations. On certain tracks rhythms are implied, slowly disappearing or simply absent to reflect this idea of the real not being there anymore.
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Onur Alakavuklar – CLASSICAL JAZZ GUITAR: ONUR ALAKAVUKLAR (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:50 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HR Recordings
Classical Jazz Guitar presents nine well known Standards along with Original Works by Onur Alakavuklar.
The songs on the album include All Of Me, The Entertainer, Fly Me To The Moon, Misty, The Girl From Ipanema, My Funny Valentine, There Will Never Be Another You, Summertime and Autumn Leaves.
A Turkish musician that resides in United States, Dr. Alakavuklar reconstructed beloved American Standards in his own way with Classical Guitar. Combining the complex harmonies with virtuosic guitar playing.
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Lynn Anderson – Her Best (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:36 minutes | 971 MB | Genre: Country, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © K-Tel
Lynn René Anderson was an American country singer and television personality. Her crossover signature recording, “Rose Garden,” was a number one hit internationally. She also charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country songs chart. Anderson is regarded as one of country music’s most significant performers.
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Kenneth Jimenez – Sonnet to Silence (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:40 minutes | 434 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © We Jazz
Brooklyn-based bassist/composer Kenneth Jimenez presents his new work Sonnet to Silence on We Jazz Records, 17 November. Consisting of 7 original compositions by Jimenez performed by his quartet including pianist Angelica Sanchez, drummer Gerald Cleaver and saxophonist Hery Paz, Sonnet to Silence echoes the original fire of New York free jazz while stepping into a terrain of its own, boldly forward-thinking.
Jimenez, originally from Costa Rica, has a knack at composing pieces that breathe naturally and take flight on the wings provided by the first-rate quartet, joining scene stalwarts and newcomers together as a coherent unit.
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Just Mustard – Heart Under (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:16 minutes | 537 MB | Genre: Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, Shoegaze, Dreampop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Partisan Records
Heart Under, Just Mustard’s second album, asks you to forget what you know. At every turn, this remarkable record reconfigures and stretches the ideas and ambition of a rock band, and turns a year of lockdown and personal struggles into a breathtaking artistic statement. The music the five friends from Dundalk, Ireland make is strikingly untraditional. Though to look at them, it appears that the band are a five-piece with uniform make-up of a vocalist, two guitarists, a bassist and a drummer, not a single one of them utilizes their instrument in a confined or regular fashion. Guitarists David Noonan and Mete Kalyoncuoglu make their six-strings shriek and wail, the sounds produced sounding like everything from whirring machinery to horror movie monsters. Behind them, drummer Shane Maguire uses the rim of his drums almost as much as the skins, providing a clattering, metallic backbeat. Most of the melodies on offer poke through from Rob Clarke’s inventive, nodding bass lines. Then there’s Katie on vocals; she’s the transfixing focal point of the band. Across its 10 tracks, the album presents a coherent style and ethos – those scything guitars, Katie’s magical vocals – but still incorporates a wide and untethered vision. There are brooding, atmospheric rock songs and others that apply a lighter, dreamier touch, all tied together with impeccable instrumentation and a united vision. Heart Under serves as the next stage of this development, with every instrument brilliantly pushed to its limit and every boundary of the band stretched.
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Jimmy Uller – The golden years (2021/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 18:12 minutes | 191 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Riverside Records
For many years, Louise Hoffsten and her father Gunnar used to play at Stadsmissionen every Christmas, but when they began to withdraw, Jimmy Uller was asked to come and play, and since then it has been rolling on. This Christmas is the eighteenth year that he and his fellow musicians play at the City Mission contact center. On Wednesday 23 december at 11.30 it is time and Jimmy invites everyone to swish a gift for the City Mission’s activities.
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