The Curious Bards – Indiscretion (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical, Celtic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Following on their impressive debut album [*Ex]tradition*, the Curious Bards—an early-music ensemble founded by violinist Alix Boivert in 2015—continue to explore material from the Scottish and Irish folk traditions preserved in 18th-century publications. This new collection of airs and dances is a chance to discover more of this fascinating repertoire, in which the distinctions between serious music and popular inspiration need no longer apply.
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The Cowboys – Sultan of Squat (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:48 minutes | 341 MB | Genre: Garage Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Feel It Records
Everybody’s here, so let’s play ball! Tried and true rock n’ roll stalwarts The Cowboys return after a brief hiatus with their delightful sixth LP, “Sultan of Squat”. This grounded yet adventurous new album marks the reunion of the original lineup, featuring Keith Harman (vocals/keys), Mark McWhirter (Guitar), Zackery Worcel (Bass), and Jordan Tarantino (drums). It is nothing short of a glorious return to form, a long player hoping to bring a smile to the ears of listeners.
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The Cliffs & Winston Mankunku Ngozi – Alex Express (1975/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 25:57 minutes | 490 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © As-Shams – The Sun
Jazz great Winston Mankunku has died in Cape Town. The masthead photo of ElectricJive (above) features Mankunku centre-stage on his soprano saxophone playing at the Langa Town Hall in 1972. It was taken by Ian Huntley, a long-time friend and supporter of this great musician.
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Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E-Flat Major (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:26 minutes | 833 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleveland Orchestra
Written in the final year of his life, Schubert’s Mass No. 6 in E-flat major is often regarded as the composer’s own requiem. In this recording, The Cleveland Orchestra is joined by soprano Joélle Harvey, mezzo-soprano Daryl Freedman, tenors Julian Prégardien and Martin Mitterrutzner, bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.
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The Chemical Brothers – For That Beautiful Feeling (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Pop, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI
The Chemical Brothers – one of the most acclaimed and innovative electronic duos in the world – have announced details of their tenth studio album ‘For That Beautiful Feeling’. Recorded in the band’s own studio just near the south coast, this is a record that hunts for and captures that that wild moment when sound overwhelms you and almost pulls you under yet ultimately lets you ride its wave, to destinations unknown. It’s a record that pinpoints the exact moment you lose all control, where you surrender and let the music move you as if pulled by an invisible thread.
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The Bongos – Numbers With Wings (40th Anniversary Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:55 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: New Wave, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
In 1983, the Bongos signed with RCA Records and made their label debut with the five-song EP Numbers with Wings. Between having a major-label budget at their disposal, the new presence of an outside producer (Richard Gotteher) and the addition of a fourth Bongo (guitarist Jim Mastro, who had joined after the release of Drums Along the Hudson), Numbers with Wings sounded considerably different than the group’s earlier work, but this was a rare case where the bigger sound and added polish managed to reinforce the Bongos’ strengths rather than drowning them out. The group’s leader and lead guitarist, Richard Barone, had added a guitar synth to his arsenal for these sessions, and it adds a cool sheen to numbers like “Sweet Blue Cage” and the title cut, and Gotteher and producer John Jansen give this material a considerably more spacious sound than the Bongos had ever had before, with the drums and guitars sounding practically epochal compared to their early singles. This music is less tense and wiry than Drums Along the Hudson, but Barone’s gift for writing a great and unique pop song did not fail him, and the tough rhythmic pulse of these songs is as sure-footed as anything the band would ever record. The Bongos were a band with a keen sense of rhythm, so it made sense for them to record songs as dancefloor friendly as “Numbers with Wings” and “Barbarella,” and the lush mystery of “Sweet Blue Cage” makes it the most hauntingly beautiful thing this band would ever release. Very few bands that came out of the Hoboken Scene of the early ’80s were well served by the notion of “Bigger Is Better,” but Numbers with Wings shows it worked for the Bongos, at least for about 20 minutes. – Mark Deming
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The Big Moon – Here Is Everything (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:12 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fiction Records
The pandemic years have done a lot to us. We have given up, started, turned everything upside down and sometimes just endured. The Big Moon can sing a song about all that – or fill a whole new album with it. Here Is Everything is a soul striptease on eleven tracks.
The cover is adorned with the pregnant lead singer Jules and only then does one really realize that pregnancy and becoming a mother hardly appear in the music world, if at all. How surprised one was when artists like Hannah Joy from the Australian band Middle Kids or most recently Laura Lee from Laura Lee and the Jets stood on stage heavily pregnant. A collective yet extremely individual experience, bringing a child into the world should be its own genre branch. Instead, it has long been an unwritten taboo subject in music, both artistically and bureaucratically.
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Terhi Dostal – Finnish Piano Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:30 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © haenssler CLASSIC
Terhi Dostal studied piano at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she received her Doctor of Music degree in 2010. In 2005 she completed another soloist diploma at the Piano Academy of Imola, Italy.
Concerts and tours have taken her to many European countries and the USA. Numerous prizes and scholarships in Finland and abroad also attest to her artistic path.
Terhi Dostal is also known as an outstanding interpreter of Finnish music. She has recorded many romantic and modern masterpieces of her native country for various radio stations (YLE1, BR, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Kulturradio RBB, NDR) and released CD recordings of works by Finnish composers.
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Teodora Brody, London Symphony Orchestra & Robert Zeigler – Rhapsody (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:27 minutes | 814 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
On her new album pioneering Romanian vocalist Teodora Brody joins forces with one of the world’s great orchestras to explore well-known classical repertoire from an entirely fresh perspective. Rising with style and energy to realise virtuosic orchestrations by Lee Reynolds, the London Symphony Orchestra voyage with Teodora through classical, jazz and Romanian folk traditions, resulting in a multi-faceted, truly unique musical experience.
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Tenderlonious – You Know I Care (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:20 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 22a Music
Tenderlonious enters fresh album territory with his latest offering entitled, ‘You Know I Care’. Having released several solo projects, numerous collaborations and a series of LP’s, EP’s and singles with his band Ruby Rushton that centred on original compositions, he wanted to take a moment to focus his energy on exploring the classic jazz material that has inspired him over the years.
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Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tõnu Kaljuste – Veljo Tormis: Reminiscentiae (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:23 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
The elemental power of ancient folk music is the lifeforce that drives the compositions of Veljo Tormis (1930-2017). As the great Estonian composer famously said, “I do not use folk song. It is folk song that uses me.” This sentiment is echoed in definitive performances by the Estonian Philharmonic Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Tõnu Kaljuste, for decades one of Tormis’s closest musical associates. Four orchestral cycles celebrate the changing seasons: Autumn Landscapes, Winter Patterns, Spring Sketches, Summer Motifs. And three pieces – Worry Breaks The Spirit, Hamlet’s Songs and Herding Calls – feature new arrangements by Tõnu Kaljuste, continuing and commemorating Tormis’s work. The album opens with The Tower Bell In My Village which Kaljuste commissioned 45 years ago. It sets words by Fernando Pessoa that seem entirely pertinent in the context of this tribute. “Oh death, it’s a bend in the road/You can’t be seen when you’ve passed by/But still your steps continue…” Reminiscentiae was recorded at Tallinn’s Methodist Church in October and November 2020.
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Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition) (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:25:05 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: New Wave, Post-Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records
The album was an artistic and commercial triumph when it arrived in September 1984. The film had people dancing in theatre aisles while the soundtrack sold over two million copies. Just last year, the Library of Congress added ‘Stop Making Sense’ to the National Film Registry in recognition of its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.
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