Vince Clarke – Songs of Silence (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:45 minutes | 449 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mute
Synth-pop’s greatest architect, Vince Clarke, presents his solo debut album after more than 40 years spent shaping the future, richly indulging a widescreen vision of instrumental atmospheric music relating to formative passions for Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, and OMD.
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Tiziano Ferro – 111 (20th Anniversary Remastered Edition) (2003/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:39:32 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nisa S.r.l. licensed to Carosello Records
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of “111” by Tiziano Ferro (originally on November 7, 2002), “111 (Anniversary Edition)” is released, a remastered bilingual re-edition (Italian and Spanish).
“111” is Tiziano Ferro’s album which continued the success of the sensational debut of “Rosso Relativo” (2001). Having become one of the best-selling albums of the moment in a very short time, it is a masterpiece album that has refreshed and changed forever the sound of pop music in Italy and Europe, reaching the top of the sales charts in Italy and entering those of Belgium, Germany, Spain and Switzerland.
Among the 13 autobiographical songs contained within it, the success of the singles “Sere nere”, “Non me lo so explain” and “Xverso” is inexhaustible, which still continue to resonate in the listening of the general public – precisely the Spanish version of “Sere nere” (“Tardes negras”) has in itself exceeded 110 million plays, establishing itself as the most listened to Titian song in streaming – together with songs of extreme delicacy and intimacy such as “13 anni” and “Chi non ha talent teaches” rather than the jazz excursus of “Temple bar”.
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Tiger Village – The Celebration (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:46 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Electronic, IDM
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hausu Mountain
Cleveland-based producer Tim Thornton makes music under the moniker Tiger Village. Thornton has carved out a niche in the American experimental underground through the wide-spanning releases of his own label Suite 309, as well as through his day job as a quality control supervisor at the Gotta Groove Records manufacturing plant — meaning that his ears serve as the finish line for a vast slate of vinyl projects that hit the market every year. The Celebration, the fourth Tiger Village release on Hausu Mountain since 2014, joins a catalog that includes releases on Orange Milk, Patient Sounds, and HausMo sublabel Blorpus Editions, along with a battery of music self-released through Suite 309. Within the jittering IDM-adjacent networks of The Celebration, Thornton expands his craft on multiple concurrent trajectories, digging deeper into complex drum programming and labyrinthine synth arrangement while further exploring passages of vocal synthesis and non-recursive song structures that thrive on unpredictability and constant fluctuation. Thornton can’t help but bring a wide-eyed curiosity to anything he produces, as he rejects the dead-serious gun-metal intensity of many strains of contemporary electronic production in favor of bright tones and wonky rhythms. Like fellow Hausu Mountain artists Wobbly and Moth Cock, Tiger Village revels in cheeky compositional about-faces and carnivalesque synth lines. In all their staccato voices and peals of abstract texture, Thornton’s tracks blur the lines between harmonic electronic elements and drum patterns. The album morphs before our ears every few seconds or so, allowing arrhythmic loops and alternating rhythmic grids to contrast against whatever might seem to be the bedrock of any given piece. By paying attention to the trajectory of every dollop of sound, Tiger Village pulls off magic tricks in his pointillist arrangements in which nothing remains static — everything pushes towards a state of progressive complication.
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The Bar-Kays – Money Talks (1978/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:30 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
The Bar-Kays released their first single “Soul Finger” in April 1967. That same year they were chosen by Otis Redding to play as his backing band. In December Otis and four of the Bar-Kays band members died in an airplane-crash. Trumpeter Ben Cauley, Bassist James Alexander and producer Allen Jones assembled a new lineup and became the Stax house band. The 1978 they released ‘Money Talks’, in fact an album of unreleased Stax material. ‘Money Talks’ is the essence of late 70’s funk. The title track is the most mainstream cut, but that’s just an aperitif for the rest of the album. Two superb versions of their top ten hit-single “Holy Ghost” with a sheer percussive joy held together with prototypical Stratocaster work. ‘Money Talks’ is for sure a 100% Soul-Funk classic!
Read moreThandi Ntuli feat. Carlos Niño – Rainbow Revisited (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]
Thandi Ntuli feat. Carlos Niño – Rainbow Revisited (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:20 minutes | 459 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © International Anthem
South African pianist Thandi Ntuli traveled to Los Angeles in 2019, where she recorded this album of bare, explorative piano and voice pieces at a Venice Beach studio with International Anthem artist Carlos Niño in the producer chair. An absolutely stunning, intimate listen, with Ntuli’s prowess as a pianist and singularity as a vocalist on vivid display as much as her fearlessness, vulnerability and adventurousness during occasional experiments with synthesizers and percussion. Niño colors open minimalist soundscapes with overdubbed percussion, cymbals and plants.
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Steven Verhaert & KultBlech Dresden – Kommet Ihr Hirten (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:58 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
The new album “Come, ye shepherds” by KULTBLECHDRESDEN, the brass ensemble of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra founded in 2018, is a guarantee for festive Christmas music. The ensemble presents atmospheric Christmas songs such as “Joy to the world,” “Engel auf den Feldern”, “Amazing Grace” and “Silent Night” on the current recording.
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Skalpel – Big Band Live (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:31:06 minutes | 1013 MB | Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Nu Jazz, Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NoPaper Records
Beloved Polish downtempo / nu jazz masters Skalpel present an exquisite collection of the older Skalpel’s classics and some exclusive material performed live by a masterful 17-piece Big Band. Skalpel’s “Big Band Live” brings mellow, smoky vibes, hypnotic grooves and vibrant, occasionally blissful mood. Polish jazz at its best! This live album was recorded at a sold out show in Warsaw where Skalpel’s founders, Igor Pudlo and Marcin Cichy, were joined on stage by virtuoso Big Band led by Patryk Pilasiewicz. Big Band re-imagined Skalpel’s classics in a spirit of collective improvisation but also with an respectful attitude toward the originals.
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Seraphic Fire – The Apple Tree: Christmas with Seraphic Fire (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:40 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Seraphic Fire Media
Just in time for the holiday season, Seraphic Fire’s 17th studio album, The Apple Tree: Christmas with Seraphic Fire, will be available to purchase and stream on all major platforms on Nov. 17. James K. Bass, the conductor of the album, said of the project, “One of the goals we were trying to achieve on the new Christmas recording was to capture the intimate atmosphere the audience experiences when they walk into the candlelit sanctuary surrounded by 13 a cappella voices singing such magnificent and meaningful music.”
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Sean Shibe – Profesión (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:09 minutes | 2,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PENTATONE
Sean Shibe returns to the classical guitar on Profesión, bringing together works by Agustín Barrios, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Alberto Ginastera. The album derives its name from Barrios’s “Profesión de Fe” (profession of faith), a poem which he often used as a preface to his concerts. The poem references indigenous mythological deities, and praises the power of the guitar as the ultimate conduit to the secrets of the divine South-American destiny. Barrios’s La Catedral and Julia Florida are combined with Villa Lobos’s 12 Études, while Ginastera’s Sonata completes the programme. These works by South American composers begin with homage and pastiche in reverence of the Old World, but build towards a totally original idiom – musical magical realism. The repertoire is voluminous, indulging in excess, and narcotic, and as such creates a counterweight to the reserved and introspective nature of Shibe’s acclaimed classical predecessor album Camino. This will be Shibe’s first-ever album focussing on repertoire that was originally written for the classical guitar, and he plays a Hauser copy built for Julian Bream. It was considered one of the best instruments of the 1930s, and fits the sound world of this programme like a glove.
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Simon Trpčeski, Cristian Măcelaru, WDR Sinfonieorchester – Brahms: Piano Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:35:09 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
This eagerly-awaited new release sees Simon Trpceski reunite with conductor Cristian Macelaru to record Brahms Piano Concertos. Their unrivalled chemistry, paramount in Brahms’s chamber-like concertos, is on full display in these new performances which puts the two artists’ musical affinity in the spotlight. These two contrasting concertos, one beginning in darkness, the other in light, mark Brahms’s major contribution to the genre. With Trpceski’s flawless technique and sensitive playing, pianophiles are in for a treat. Macelaru’s orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester, joins the pair to complete the line-up; a perfect companion to their previous album, Shostakovich Piano Concertos, which garnered numerous accolades (BBC Music Magazine Concerto Choice, Le Choix de France Musique, among others).
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Sietze de Vries, Margaretha Consort & Marit Broekroelofs – A German Passion (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:11 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
The Hanseatic wealth of North Germany in the 17th century is reflected in its magnificent cathedrals, and the enormous grandeur of its church music was composed to fill the rich acoustics of these spaces. This programme presents a wide range of Easter music that displays the wealth of inventiveness in this period, enhancing the texts and finding different colours and surprising effects through improvisation and adaptation of the manuscripts. This early music is brought vividly to life by the acclaimed Margaretha Consort.
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Mareike Wiening feat. Rich Perry, Glenn Zaleski, Alex Goodman & Johannes Felscher – Reveal (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:55 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Greenleaf Music
Reveal reunites Wiening once again with her longtime working band: tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, pianist Glenn Zaleski, guitarist Alex Goodman, and bassist Johannes Felscher. They are joined on three tracks by esteemed trumpeter and Greenleaf founder Dave Douglas, a fervent supporter throughout Wiening’s career. Multi-faceted and intriguing, moving and exhilarating, the album is ultimately exactly what the title promises: a revelation.
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Javon Jackson & Nikki Giovanni – The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni (Commentary) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:16 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solid Jackson Records
A renowned poet has a new album out Friday titled “The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni.” In addition to publishing dozens of poetry works, Nikki Giovanni has recorded several spoken word albums over the course of 50 years. But this time, she’s doing something a little different. The new album, a collaboration with saxophonist Javon Jackson, is a collection of gospel hymns and spirituals set to jazz. Growing up in the Baptist church, Giovanni says gospel music was instrumental to understanding herself as a poet. “The spirituals had a message,” she says. “They weren’t just some people woke up one morning or came from working in the evening and said, ‘Oh, let’s sit down and sing.’ They were sharing information with each other.”
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Henry Wong Doe – Perspectives (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:30 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rattle
An album of solo piano music by New Zealand composers Gemma Peacocke, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Alex Taylor, Poulima Salima, Leonie Holmes and Penelope Axtens.
Read moreJouni Somero – Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 7 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Jouni Somero – Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 7 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:37 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grand Piano
Selim Palmgren was one of the most prominent composer-pianists of his era, and is also noted as one of the earliest composers of Impressionist piano miniatures, beautifully represented in the nostalgic atmosphere of his Impromptu dans la solitude, Op. 63, No. 2. The autobiographical Päiväkirjan lehtisiä, Op. 109 (‘Diary Sheets’) belongs amongst Palmgren’s final works for the piano. This seventh volume in Jouni Somero’s acclaimed edition of Palmgren’s complete piano works includes many rarities and premiere recordings.
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