James Rushford – Turzets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:04 minutes | 516 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blank Forms Editions
Aussie concrète innovator James Rushford continues to scrape the outer rim on ‘Turzets’, coughing alien text-to-speak voices into meditative piano phrases and tweezed electro-acoustic drones on the first side, then deconstructing medieval organ music on the flip, combining gusty archaic melodies with sci-fi tinted Yamaha CS-80 zips. Mind-boggling stuff – RIYL Oren Ambarchi, Sam Kidel, Jim O’Rourke or even OPN.
Read moreMajesty Crush – Butterflies Don’t Go Away (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:33:04 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Shoegaze
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Numero Group
Majesty Crush was filed and misfiled in one category or another throughout their brief but extraordinary career. They answered the call to open up for just about every dream pop, paisley, or shoegaze band that made it to the Midwest in the early part of the 90s… Mazzy Star, The Verve, Julian Cope, Chapterhouse, Curve and My Bloody Valentine just to scratch the surface. This linked them with a scene and a sound not necessarily their own…they were far too ambitious to gaze at any shoes, especially their own, and with a frontman, David Stroughter, who sometimes seemed to channel Syd Barrett, they were not hiding behind layers of guitar. Their less-told dimension is that they also shared stages and collaborators with uncategorizable locals like Laughing Hyenas, His Name Is Alive, and Jack White (in Goober & the Peas)… members also grew up around Motown royalty, and at any show you might find kin to Diana Ross, or P-Funk members, or Marvin Gaye songwriters.
Read moreOrchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä – Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux, Prélude (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:26 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
The second album by “simply magnetic” (Le Monde) Klaus Mäkelä with the Orchestre de Paris from the series of Ballets Russes scores: “Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky. ‘The interpretation of the Orchestre de Paris and its conductor Klaus Mäkelä is undeniable in its virtuosity, conviction and suggestive power … The commanding precision of the rhythm, the verve, the humor inspire Petrushka.” (Les Echos)
“Mäkelä’s gestures are freer and more flexible than ever before, proof of the relationship of trust between this exceptional conductor and an orchestra that has never been so close.” (Le Figaro) On the album, Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris also present Debussy’s Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune.
Read moreSveta Trushka – Sveta Remembers Casals (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:01 minutes | 384 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Temps Record
Sveta Truyshka is an internationally recognized Russian cellist. His recitals offer a varied program of great masterpieces of the past, which can be enjoyed by both professional musicians and the less understanding audience. On this occasion, Truixka will perform songs by cellist, composer and defender of Catalan rights and freedoms Pau Casals, who died 50 years ago.
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