YUKO & JOEY – TIGER WALTZ (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:39 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
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Behind this duo are the Japanese pianist Yuko Oz and the Swiss vibraphonist Erich Fischer, who can also be heard on “Tiger Waltz” as a percussionist and singer. The dialogue between piano and vibraphone is subtle and delicate, on pieces such as “El Ultimo Tango” and “Joey’s Mambo” Latin American influences become clear. But mainly the two masters of the ballad, in songs like “For Juli & Rosina” or “Ballad for Camill” it is the worn melodies that make up the magic of their music. Yuko & Joey are rarely about solo virtuosity, it is listening to each other and exploring the musical material together that is their primary interest. Loosely based on Duke Ellington – “Jazz is the liberty of having a lot of forms” – they engage in stylistic diversity and also discover poetic beauty in traditional formats such as the title track or the “Unison Blues”.
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Yue Yu, Jeffrey Armstrong, Anthony Hewitt – Bowen, Britten & I. Holst: Chamber Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:33 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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An accomplished horn and viola player, York Bowen is said to have preferred the tone of the viola to the violin. Inspired by the virtuosity and vibrato style of the distinguished violist, Lionel Tertis, Bowen wrote several works for him and became his accompanist. Bowen’s subtle shifts of key and heartfelt melodies are well in evidence here, including the powerful and poised Rhapsody, op.149, considered to be one of his most important works. Gustav Holst’s daughter Imogen is represented here by the open-air freshness of her Four Easy Pieces and the terse, laconic narrative of her Duo for Viola and Piano. Britten’s spiky Waltz is full of 1930s wit.
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Youngjoo Song – Atmosphere (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:56 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Jazz pianist Song Young-joo’s 10th studio album Atmosphere
Pianist Song Young-ju is back with a full-length album. It’s been 4 years since the piano solo album [Late Fall] in 2018. And this is the first new album in 8 years since [Between] in 2014. Song Young-joo spent her own time of solitude and reflection in an environment of music activities cut off from the outside during the corona virus. These feelings were expressed and completed through the music of Gothrani.
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Young The Giant – Young The Giant (10th Anniversary Edition) (2010/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:50 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
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The West Coast jazz-evoking album jacket of Young the Giant’s self-titled debut doesn’t exactly paint an accurate picture of the California quintet’s breezy modern rock sound, but it does complement it quite nicely. Here’s a band signed to a heavy metal label, whose music is anything but, and which actually excels through recurring shows of subtlety, not force. That’s not to say Young the Giant don’t know how to rock; tracks like “My Body,” “Garands,” and “St. Walker” plug the guitars in and crank them up to that “tough but hooky” sweet spot inhabited by the Kings of Leon and sometimes even My Morning Jacket (whose producer, Bo Koster, adds keyboards to several cuts here). But it’s dreamier fare like opener “Apartment,” “Guns Out,” and the vaguely Hawaiian “Strings” that really pricks the ears like Fleet Foxes-lite (or may Nada Surf 2.0): all soothing murmurs and sumptuous warm melodies — minus about a million multi-tracked parts. The band really only gets into trouble when “I Got,” “Cough Syrup,” and a few other tunes float dangerously close to the Coldplay clouds, saving face only by the skin of their teeth. (Another track, “Your Side,” has nothing but guest keyboards from Jellyfish alum Roger Manning Jr. to recommend it.) Nevertheless, there’s an unquestionably seductive flow about Young the Giant’s debut that’s sure to lure in many wandering postmodern rock children, looking for alternatives beyond the same old blockbuster bands name-checked above. – Eduardo Rivadavia
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Yotam Silberstein – Universos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:16 minutes | 995 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Yotam Silberstein Presents ‘Universos’, An Album That Sums Up His Various Musical Loves And Draws Its Richness And Colours From Many Traditions From Different Regions Of The Planet. Music influenced by folkloric music from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Israel, Venezuela, Spain and more.
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Yoosin Park – White Night (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:27 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album includes Russian composer Miyaskovsky’s Cello Sonata No. 1, Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for cello and piano, and Cello Sonata in G minor.
Miyaskovsky’s Cello Sonata and Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for cello and piano were recorded for the first time in Korea.
Park, who has always expressed her affection for the works of Russian composers, captures the lyricism and hope of Russian music through her cello performance in the album.
The recording for this album tok place at the concert hall of Tongyeong International Music Festival in May 2021, and Russian pianist Ilya Rashkovskiy participated.
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Yoann Loustalot – Yeti (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:12 minutes | 443 MB | Genre: Classical
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Yoann Loustalot is a melodic and singular voice of the European trumpet, with a unique sound. For this new trio, he brings together the guitarist Giani Caserotto and the drummer Stefano Lucchini. The music proposed by the group oscillates between compositions and total improvisations. – This atypical trio, formed by these exceptional musicians, takes us into its poetic and virtuoso universe. – In the mid-1990s, Dave Douglas’s Tiny Bell Trio had already carved out a niche in this unusual playing configuration: trumpet, guitar and drums. Here, Yoann Loustalot’s Yéti Trio experiments with this orchestral formula, and records a first LP that makes a mark. This trio is, associated to the delicate and vehement trumpet or to the sovereign and capricious flugelhorn of the leader-artist Yoann Loustalot; its crest lines, its loving murmurs, the dilating lyricism of Giani Caserotto’s guitar; its supersonic saturations and other zebras, and the voluptuousness and other rhythmic intensities of Stefano Lucchini’s drums; its nuances and other veins. Clearly a superlative listening (jazz privileges the being together, this game of egos without the heaviness and other impediments of the ego). Listening, space, fluidity, mobility. This is a powerfully orchestral triangular game; versatile, the functions of each other change. At the turn of the moment. The nine tracks on this record are only first takes; you can hear it. What do we know about the Yeti (a valid word for scrabble), that abominable snowman who lives in the high Himalayas in Tibet? What do we know about the music of the Yeti Trio? That it goes its own way, in progress, intense, shrouded in solar beauty, snowed under by flashes and purity. (Franck Médioni)
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Ying Li – Mozart: Sonatas K. 281 & K. 333 – Bartok: Suite Op. 14 & Sonata (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:25 minutes | 763 MB | Genre: Classical
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Debut album for Ying Li, winner of the first edition of the Antonio Mormone International Prize in 2021 after having also established herself at the Young Concert Artist Auditions in New York and at the Concours Musical International de Montréal as a finalist.
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Yevgeny Sudbin, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui – Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54, Prometheus, Op. 60 & Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:52 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Classical
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One of the boldest and most radical composers of all time, Alexander Scriabin had a lifelong obsession with occult and mystical ideas. Initially under the influence of Chopin, Wagner and Liszt, his music later became more complex, taking on an expressive power which provoked extreme reactions from audiences – of adulation as well as repulsion. Not shying away from hyperbole, Scriabin once declared: “I am the apotheosis of creation – I am the aim of all aims – I am the end of all ends”.
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Yevgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra – Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7, The Swan of Tuonela – Claude Debussy: Nocturnes Nos. 1 & 2 (2016/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:53 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Yellowjackets – Parallel Motion (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:06 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
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‘Parallel Motion’ from jazz fusion legends Yellowjackets, is a true testament to the longevity and resilience of a band who debuted over 40 years ago. Consistently reinventing themselves through elevated instrumentation in their signature electro-acoustic soundscape, the current lineup consisting of Bob Mintzer (tenor & soprano saxophone/EWI), Russell Ferrante (piano/keyboards), Will Kennedy (drums, keyboards) and Dane Alderson (electric bass, MIDI Sequencing) showcases a collective at their prime. This album features 9 new original compositions and guest vocalist Jean Baylor (4x GRAMMY® Award Nominee of the Baylor Project and R&B duo Zhané) on “If You Believe.”
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Yelena Eckemoff – Colors Live at Kito Bremen (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:52 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Composer and pianist Yelena Eckemoff’s Colors (L&H Production, 2019) was a duet with drummer Manu Katche, a unique instrumentation in her ever-growing list of works. His contributions were so singular that when she had an opportunity to celebrate the album release by playing the music live at KITO in Bremen, Germany in 2019, and he could not make the gig, she opted to play solo rather than hire another drummer. It was the first time in about 15 years that she took the stage as a piano soloist, because she stopped performing as a classical concert pianist after starting her jazz journey.
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Yegor Dyachkov & Jean Saulnier – Beethoven: Intégrale des Sonates et Variations pour violoncelle et piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:35:11 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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Cellist Yegor Dyachkov and pianist Jean Saulnier present Beethoven’s complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano in digital and physical formats. Comprising works from the composer’s Op. 5, Op. 17, Op. 66, and Op. 102, the complete sonatas will be released as a three-CD box set on October 28, 2022.
Spanning the composer’s three creative periods, Beethoven’s sonatas for cello and piano constitute a unique group within his oeuvre. “Recording the complete sonatas marks a milestone in an artistic career,” says cellist Yegor Dyachkov. “Most artists undertake such a project only once, and only after having spent a long time in the company of these works, so that the various possible interpretive paths reach a kind of equilibrium.”
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:28 minutes | 393 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Electronic, Female Vocal
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It could only be called alchemy, the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their unique chemistry sparks opens a portal, and out comes a song like “Maps” or “Zero” or the latest addition to their canon, “Spitting off the Edge of the World featuring Perfume Genius” — an epic shot-to-the- heart of pure YYYs beauty and power.
A thunderstorm of a return is what the legendary trio has in store for us on Cool It Down, their fifth studio album and their first since 2013’s Mosquito. The eight-track collection, bound to be a landmark in their catalog, is an expert distillation of their best gifts that impels you to move, and cry, and listen closely.
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Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia Remixed (EP) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 20:59 minutes | 234 MB | Genre: Electronic, World Fusion
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Yazz Ahmed announces her second remix EP, ‘Polyhymnia Remixed’, teaming up with fast-rising underground producers DJ Plead, Asmara and Surly to rework her acclaimed 2019 album Polyhymnia. The follow up to the remix EP for Yazz Ahmed’s sophomore album, ‘La Saboteuse’, her second foray into the dance music realm is nothing short of stunning with these hypnotic reworks.
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