Teenage Wrist – Still Love (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:06 minutes | 596 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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Over the past eight years Teenage Wrist have continually evolved their sound, a process that’s peaking with their third full-length, Still Love.
Reaching new heights in both scope and execution, the album sees the duo – Marshall Gallagher (vocalist, guitarist, bassist) and Anthony Salazar (drums, vocalist, percussion) – producing the album themselves to handcraft their most expansive collection of songs to date from the ground up. The result is a self-realized collection of songs that saw the band borrowing vintage gear, bringing in friends in the form of members from 311 vocalist/turntablist Doug “SA” Martinez and Softcult and incorporating tasteful pop sensibilities to craft a collection of songs that rede nes the band’s sound while staying true to their guitar-driven roots.
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nthng – There Is a Place for Me (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:19 minutes | 679 MB | Genre: Electronic, Techno
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NTHNG is an elusive Dutch DJ and producer. He has previously putt out records on his own label Transatlantic, plus the likes of Delsin, Lobster Theremin and Mörk.
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L’Apothèose – Stamitz: Six Trios, Op. 14 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:58 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Formed in 2016, the Spanish Baroque ensemble L’Apotheose has quickly established itself as a key player on the historically informed music scene. The multi awarded group (winner of the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition in 2019, Second Prize at the Internationaal Van Wassenaer Competition in 2018, First Prize at the Gottingen Handel Competition in 2017, Second Prize at the Concours International de Musique Ancienne du Val de Loire in 2017) makes its debut for Linn with a programme of music by Carl Philipp Stamitz (1745-1801). The eldest son of the celebrated Mannheim school founder Johann Stamitz, Carl Philipp was a well-travelled virtuoso and a composer in his own right. Published around 1780 during his stay in London, the rarely recorded Six Trios a une flute ou deux violons et violoncello oblige, Op. 14, showcases the expertise of L’Apotheose’s musicians.
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Double Wish – Light Split Sparkle (Expanded) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:31 minutes | 434 MB | Genre: Rock
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This release is the expanded version of the debut EP from the Orange County-based dark-sunshine-pop duo, Double Wish; the project of childhood friends, Adam Sabolick and Philippe Andre.
The new version – available as a limited edition vinyl pressed by Seattle-based label, Neon Bloodbath – arrives with 4 additional bonus tracks, including the Yppah Remix of “Fever Dream”, “Pleasure”, “Edge to Edge” and “Say This”.
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Ronan Keating – Twenty Twenty (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:42 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Pop
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Exactly 20 years after the release of his self-titled, debut solo (& No.1) album, Ronan Keating, returns with an album that encapsulates his many musical achievements since the millennium. Keating describes his new record, `Twenty Twenty,’ as “a greatest hits of brand new music”. To help him celebrate, Keating made two inspired choices: to dive into his back catalogue and for some of the new tracks, to call in some friends. So, this is `Twenty Twenty’. The album of Keating’s adult life.
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Romaric Laurence – Rémi sans famille (Bande originale du film) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:01 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Pour ‘Rémi sans famille’, Romaric Laurence propose une partition orchestrale de haute tenue. La bande originale comprend également le titre ‘Comptine de Rémi’, interprété par les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois.Il ne s’agit pas de la première collaboration entre Romaric Laurence et Antoine Blossier. Ils se sont rencontrés en 2010 et Romaric avait composé la bande originale de son film ‘La traque’.
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Roman Zaslavsky – Ingenious Opposites, Vol. 1: Roman Zaslavsky plays works of Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:27 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Russian-Israeli pianist Roman Zaslavsky is a master of piano technique that espouses nuance without resorting to arbitrary mannerisms. He first gained recognition by taking 1st prize—the Primer Gran Premio—at the Jose Iturbi International Music Competition in Valencia, Spain and concert tours brought him around the globe with rave reviews after performances in Israel, Germany, Netherlands, France, Japan, Canada and Latin America. In presenting the historic and artistic connections of Ingenious Opposites, he gives the listener the chance to experience these masterpieces in a whole new light.
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Roman Simovic – Paganini: 24 Caprices (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:33:51 minutes | 902 MB | Genre: Classical
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For his debut solo album, the Leader of the London Symphony Orchestra showcases his virtuosity and innate musicality, navigating the technical and artistic challenges of Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin. Staples of the violinist’s impressive repertoire, as a budding musician Simovic would practice these works daily in place of scales, and has gone on to delight audiences with performances across the globe.
While Paganini’s Caprices were intended to improve and strengthen technique, they are more commonly used to determine the wheat from the chaff, their demanding, high speed passages pushing players to their limits. With its fast scales and arpeggios, double and triple stops, and left-hand pizzicato, the final caprice is widely considered one of the most technically challenging violin pieces ever written.
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Romain Theret – Saint-Saëns revisité (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:59 minutes | 533 MB | Genre: Classical
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Par cette œuvre grandiloquente, Saint-Saëns souhaitait rendre hommage à Franz Liszt, incluant à l’orchestre symphonique un grand orgue, instrument que le compositeur hongrois pratiqua beaucoup dans la deuxième moitié de sa vie. Comme dans la plupart des symphonies, cette œuvre comporte quatre mouvements, où curieusement l’orgue n’intervient que dans le deuxième et le quatrième. L’intérêt majeur de cet album est de proposer une version alternative qui fait intervenir l’instrument à tuyaux d’un bout à l’autre de l’œuvre à la manière d’un concerto.
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Romain Humeau – Mousquetaire, Vol. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:16 minutes | 668 MB | Genre: Rock, Pop
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Romain Humeau, le leader du groupe Eiffel, revient avec UN album solo chez Pias [Le Label]. Après 5 albums d’Eiffel (plus de 500 concerts) et le succès de ‘A tout moment’, la réalisation de 2 albums pour Bernard Lavilliers, la création pour France Culture autour de ‘Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique’ de Michel Tournier avec Denis Lavant présentée au Festival d’Avignon, il s’est enfermé dans son studio bordelais pour composer et enregistrer cet album solo. Narrateur hors pair, il cisèle la langue française et la fond avec ses références anglosaxonnes (XTC, Damon Albarn, Tom Waits, Ray Davies.). Mélodies implacables, harmonies subtiles, arrangements foisonnants cet album fera date dans la discographie de l’artiste et s’annonce déjà comme l’un des événements de la rentrée. / Romain Humeau, the leader of the group Eiffel, returns with A solo album in Pias [The Label]. After 5 albums Eiffel (more than 500 concerts) and the success of ‘at any time’, the completion of 2 albums for Bernard Lavilliers, the creation for France Culture around “Friday or the limbo of the Pacific’ by Michel Tournier with Denis Lavant, presented at the Avignon Festival, he locked himself in his studio in bordeaux to compose and record this solo album. Narrator extraordinaire, he concocts the French language and the background with its references to imperial (XTC, Damon Albarn, Tom Waits, Ray Davies.). Melodies implacable, subtle harmonies, arrangements teeming this album is a milestone in the discography of the artist and is already promising to be one of the events of the summer.
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Romain Descharmes, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot – Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:17 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Classical
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Saint-Saëns’s mature creative genius shines throughout these last two piano concertos, looking back over a glorious musical ancestry while at the same time opening the door to new worlds. The Fourth Piano Concerto is prescient of both his great Organ Symphony and the concertos of Rachmaninov, revealing Saint-Saëns at his most inspired and innovative. The Fifth was composed in the Egyptian temple town of Luxor, and displays a rich tapestry of exotic cultural influences from Javanese, Spanish and Middle Eastern music, as well as portrayals of chirping Nile crickets and croaking frogs, and the composer’s representation of ‘the joy of a sea crossing’.
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Rolf Lislevand – La Mascarade – Music for Solo Baroque Guitar and Theorbo (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 48:29 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Norwegian early music lutenist and guitarist Rolf Lislevand has pooh-poohed the idea of historical authenticity, but it may be that the lovely program here would have appealed to listeners in the court of Louis XIV, for which the music was intended. Lislevand examines pieces by a pair of late 17th century composers, Robert de Visée (a rondeau by whom, plus some rather murky booklet ruminations by Lislevand, give the album its title) and the sparsely heard Francesco Corbetta, choosing slow, quasi-improvisatory pieces and dances — preludes, chaconnes, sarabandes, passacaglias — from each, and adding some improvised introductions. The music alternates between a very deep-voiced, many-stringed theorbo and a small, crystalline Baroque guitar. The result is an extremely reflective concert, dividing up a common stock of musical ideas in several subtle ways, that, as Lislevand points out, would have been played for a small group of connoisseurs in its own time. ECM producer Manfred Eicher is nonpareil as a recorder of music like this, but here, working in the Auditorio Stelio Molo in Lugano, he outdoes himself, evoking the “musica callada,” the music that has fallen silent, of Mompou. He draws the listener into a rich communion with a remarkable player.
Read moreRolando Villazón – Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Live) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Rolando Villazón – Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:20:37 minutes | 2,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded in July 2017 in the sumptuous Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, this La clemenza di Tito follows albums which had come out previously in the Mozart series with Nézet-Séguin, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and tenor Rolando Villazón, who is the only singer to appear in all these productions. It should go without saying that the music is extremely finely-chiselled: none of the singers take the slightest liberty with either the score or the style – there are no unruly Italianisms like glissandos, individual showing off, clownish high-Cs, parasitic ornamentations, warbling, trilling, sobbing – which means that we are left with one of the purest and finest performances of this work. Note that this was Mozart’s final opera, first performed just two months before he passed away; and that the recitatives were written by the faithful Sussmayr, who would go on to “complete” the Requiem. In the same period Mozart was also putting the final touches to his Magic flute and only had a few weeks to finish the work; and yet, what perfection in the arias, ensembles and choruses! And that in spite of the fact that the subject probably was not a source of tremendous interest to the composer, especially since his explosive collaboration with Da Ponte. But when given a performance like this, the work absolutely passes with flying colours.
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Ron Sexsmith – Hermitage (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:57 minutes | 782 MB | Genre: Rock
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“You Don’t Wanna Hear It” is the first single from Ron Sexsmith’s forthcoming album Hermitage. The new album, due out April 17th is the first new album from the Canadian songwriting legend since his move from his longtime home of Toronto to a more bucolic life in Stratford, Ontario. Ron worked with producer Don Kerr to create this album; the two set up in Ron’s living room to record where Ron played all the instruments for the album, with the exception of the drums.
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James & The Giants – James & The Giants (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:57 minutes | 867 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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Over the course of four years, James Jackson Toth and long-time collaborator Jarvis Taveniere paired newly written songs with ones drawn from decades ago and brought together musicians from across the various eras of his time recording as Wooden Wand—in the end creating an accidental self-imposed This Is Your Life. “I was bringing people together from my history and writing songs that reckon with my past.” The resulting album, James & The Giants picks at the seams of the memories borne of that experience and finds new footing in reframing memory.
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