Simon Borutzki – Jacob van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-hof (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Simon Borutzki – Jacob van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-hof (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 07:48:54 minutes | 8,87 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Klanglogo

The Fluyten Lust-hof is the most extensive collection of pieces for a wind instrument ever created. During the period of transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque, the bell expert and recorder virtuoso, Jacob van Eyck, blind from birth, dictated his approximately 150 diminutions of well-known church and folk melodies in order that they could be published. With this monumental complete recording, Simon Borutzki, with 26 recorders, presents a multi-layered universe of sound: from the deep, rich voices of the low tenor recorders to the twinkling, effervescent virtuosity of the Sopranino. Evergreens such as ‘Amarilli mia bella’, ‘Flow my tears’ and ‘Questa dolce sirena’ are found alongside free preludes, an echo fantasy, the ‘Batali’ battle scene, and the chirruping English nightingale.

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Sienna Dahlen – Balladextrous (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sienna Dahlen – Balladextrous (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:21 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live

Se balader: a French verb meaning to stroll, wander or roam. In other words, a slow and easy movement through time. Musically-speaking, this is what Sienna Dahlen and Bill Coon set out to experience in early January of 2020 under a misty evening sky in Vancouver, BC. There was really no end goal, only the moment to honour, as living in a jazz ballad means remaining open and vulnerable while navigating silence and shaping time. We strive to sink into the soul of the story, reacting in the ways that the music needs us to do so. We listen and we follow through accordingly. Lovers of the music that was made by people like Ed Bickert and Shirley Horn, (both masters of ultra-relaxed, soulful playing and vocalizing), Dahlen and Coon also feel most at home when residing in the realms of spacious spontaneity. The tempos and vibes on this album run the gamut of sometimes unpredictably minimal and quirky, sometimes dirgy, sometimes ballroom dance-ballad, sometimes rubato etc. (with the exception of the last song on the record which was included as a sort of tongue-in-cheek clin d’oeil as if to say yes, we like up-tempos too!) Each of the tunes on the album,(many well-known and others not as much), has resided in Dahlen and Coon’s respective repertoires for decades. Balladextrous is a guaranteed mood-setter. It goes down well with a bottle of red shared among loved ones, a hot soak in a bubble bath or, perhaps a long and luxurious drive to the beach to catch the last rays of the sun. Whatever your fancy, we hope you enjoy the ride now as much as we did then.

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Shovel Dance Collective – The Water is the Shovel of the Shore (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Shovel Dance Collective – The Water is the Shovel of the Shore (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:22 minutes | 626 MB | Genre: Experimental Folk, Drone, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Double Dare – Memorials of Distinction

The latest release from nine-piece folk group Shovel Dance Collective, orbiting around the concept of water. Combining on-site documentation of traditional songs, folk tunes and field recordings in long-form sound-collages. The results lie somewhere between folk music, music concrete and acoustic ecology.

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Shorty’s Swingin’ Coconuts – Surf Shack Shindig (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Shorty’s Swingin’ Coconuts – Surf Shack Shindig (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:18 minutes | 407 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hi-Tide Recordings

Following up the success of their 2022 EP, “Mai Tai in Hi-Fi”, The Swingin’ Coconuts (ft. members of the The Hula Girls, The Dave & Deke Combo, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys) return with an LP’s worth of steel guitar surfing instrumentals on limited edition SEA GLASS vinyl! As seen at Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender, The Hukilau, Tiki Oasis & Tiki Caliente

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Scaramuccia – L’altra Venezia: Violin and Cello Sonatas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Scaramuccia – L’altra Venezia: Violin and Cello Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:04 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics

World premiere recording of violin and cello sonatas by Albinoni, Bigaglia, Caldara, Gentili, and Reali. Scaramuccia Ensemble.

It seems that the Venice of the early 18th century is today inexorably linked to the name of Vivaldi, but Venice is not only Vivaldi: in those years the young composer lives and breathes the music of Venetian masters today overshadowed by the imposing figure of the Prete Rosso. Great masters who, at the dawn of the 18th century, forged a new musical taste, an extraordinary change of style that in a matter of a few years will assimilate the old Italian tradition in a new exuberant and virtuous instrumental language.

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Saskia Giorgini – Consolations (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Saskia Giorgini – Consolations (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:56 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone

Consolations is Saskia Giorgini’s second Liszt album, after her critically-acclaimed rendition of the composer’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. Named after Liszt’s six Consolations, the album also contains the Caprices-Valses, Valse Impromptu, Légendes and the world-famous Liebesträume. These introspective pieces shed light on love in all its forms and manifestations, showing us human nature in all its different aspects, as well as a different side of Liszt’s colourful musical persona.

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Sara Petite – The Empress (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Sara Petite – The Empress (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:40 minutes | 499 MB | Genre: Country Rock, Blues Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Forty Below Records

An outlaw country headliner whose music reaches far beyond the genre’s borders, Sara Petite has built an award-winning career with songs that owe as much to the rock & roll roadhouse as they do the honky-tonk.

The five-time International Songwriting Competition finalist returns once again to the intersection of country twang and roots-rock bang with ‘The Empress’.

Produced by Grammy nominee Eric Corne, it’s a rawly-refined record whose 11 songs take place in dive bars, trailer parks, the throes of passion, and the feedback loop of addiction.

Sara embodies her characters fully, from the heartbroken narrator on “The Mistress” – an old-school country/soul ballad about a lover’s affair with alcohol – to the hell-raising hillbilly heroine for “Bringin’ Down the Neighborhood.

She maintains a strong female perspective throughout, celebrating the full range of womanhood along the way.

‘The Empress’ is an album for all genders, stocked with songs that tackle the universal struggles we all face.

Even so, its central heroes are Joan of Arc, Mary Magdalene, and other woman who, like Sara, have pushed against imbalances in society for the sake of fairness.

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Sansara, Tom Herring – Traces (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sansara, Tom Herring – Traces (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:09 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Platoon

Inner peace and how to find it have occupied the world’s great religions and schools of philosophy for millennia. Traces, a revelatory sequence of unaccompanied choral works past and present, creates a solemn space in which to contemplate and perhaps find solutions to the problem. SANSARA’s choice of repertoire, the care with which it has been assembled, and the miraculous beauty of the British vocal ensemble’s artistry hold the power to ease troubled minds. Their album’s first half, hallmarked by settings of reflective German texts, prepares the ground for Natalia Tsupryk’s A Quiet Night, bearer of hope, bringer of peace, the Ukrainian composer’s transcendent response to Russia’s invasion of her homeland; and Cecilia McDowall’s Standing as I Do Before God, a sublime setting of words of forgiveness and unconditional love.

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Ryan DeHues – Private Parlour (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Ryan DeHues – Private Parlour (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 32:58 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RyanDeHues

After several albums in the vocal jazz style, a few years ago he contacted the French pop duo Double Françoise, telling them of his keen appreciation of their style, his love for bossa nova, and his desire to work with them. By email, by messenger, a transatlantic friendship was born, resulting in two trips by Ryan from Michigan to France, to live, design, and record with them the songs that would make up this incredible album.

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Ruen Brothers – Ten Paces (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ruen Brothers – Ten Paces (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:06 minutes | 363 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records

Siblings Henry and Rupert Stansall, known as Ruen Brothers, are saddling up from their home of Scunthorpe, England to ride into unmarked territory. Inspired by their love of noir and neo-western films, their cinematic new album Ten Paces exhibits the rich, sonic versatility of the brothers, as every instrument heard on the album is performed by Henry and Rupert. The anthemic build of “The Fear” to the lonesome balladeering of “Bullet Blues” showcases these two outlaws at their creative peak.

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Roxana Amed – Los Trabajos y Las Noches (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Roxana Amed – Los Trabajos y Las Noches (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:09 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music Latin

La cantante argentina de jazz Roxana Amed vive en Estados Unidos desde hace una década. Alla se emp app de musica, siguió estudiando, creció y se convirtió en figure. Para siempre buscó conscientemente aportar su bagaje latinoamericano a lo que hace.

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Roselyne Martel – Chants d’amour (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Roselyne Martel – Chants d’amour (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:22 minutes | 899 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Indésens Calliope Records

Un bouquet de mélodies aux parfums envoûtants : c’est la magie du poèmetransformé en une peinture intime faite pour l’oreille qui est ravivée dans le présentenregistrement. »Pratique courante dans les salons, la musique de chambre vocale se raconte à plusieurs, comme uneconversation intime. La voix de Roselyne Martel-Bonnal se mêle à celles des cordes du quatuor, voire duquintette, et du piano. Attribut singulier du post-romantisme et de l’impressionnisme musical français, lamélodie sait reproduire les états d’esprit les…

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Robert Edwards – Upswing (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Robert Edwards – Upswing (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:41 minutes | 503 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Reserve Records

Robert Edwards is a jazz trombonist and bandleader in New York City. Born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, his schooling at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts exposed him to trombone giants Wycliffe Gordon and Bill Watrous, who helped peek his imagination of what’s possible on trombone.

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Rob McConnell – The Rob McConnell Sextet: Old Friends / New Music (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rob McConnell – The Rob McConnell Sextet: Old Friends / New Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:13 minutes | 413 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cornerstone Records Inc.

Rob McConnell learned to play the valve trombone in high school and began his career as a professional musician in the early 1950s in Canadian dance bands with Don Thompson, Bobby Gimby, and later in Maynard Ferguson’s big band. From 1965 he played in the formation Nimmons’n’Nine Plus Six of the arranger and clarinetist Phil Nimmons. In 1968, he formed his big band The Boss Brass, with which he worked throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including with the vocal group The Singers Unlimited (1979).

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Rob Grant – Lost At Sea (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Rob Grant – Lost At Sea (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:49 minutes | 389 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)

Rob Grant presents his stunning debut album “Lost At Sea”. Grant is an accidental artist who has never had lessons on an instrument in his life. But when he sits down at a piano, something magical happens. The notes pour out of him and one composition after another emerges. As the father of international icon Lana Del Rey, he invited a whole host of talent to participate in the creation of the album. His daughter Lana Del Rey serves as writer and producer, while Jack Antonoff, Luke Howard, Laura Sisk and Zach Dawes are involved in the production.

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