Matmatah – Plates coutures (Édition deluxe) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:59:36 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: French Pop, Chanson, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Ouache Production
Le duo de guitaristes de pub les Tricard Twins (Tristan Nihouarn et Cédric Floc’h) devient Matmatah lorsqu’il rencontre le bassiste Eri Digaire et le batteur Jean-François Paillard et se rebaptise d’après la ville tunisienne de Matmata où Nihouarn a passé une partie de sa jeunesse. Leur premier album, La Ouaceh, s’écoule à près de 300 000 exemplaires, et le groupe passe les deux années consécutives en tournée. Le groupe est médiatisé à l’occasion d’une affaire de narcotiques, mais cette publicité ne joue pas en faveur de son second album, dont les ventes restent modestes. Matmatah passe la plus grande partie de 2004 en Asie où ils font une tournée, avant de revenir en 2007 avec l’album La Cerise.
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Matisyahu – Undercurrent (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:44 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Electronic, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fallen Sparks – Thirty Tigers
Singer-songwriter Matisyahu has been on a journey inward for more than a decade. The journey has been private and public. Now, nearly thirteen years after the release of his first studio record, Matisyahu and his band have done something unmatched in his past repertoire; they have crafted that journey into a musically thematic eight-song-movement. The band features longtime guitarist Aaron Dugan, Dub Trio’s bassist and drummer Stu Brooks and Joe Tomino, and keyboard virtuoso BigYuki – and the journey starts with them. The band improvised for hours in the studio with Matisyahu watching on as an admirer without singing a single lyric. Out of the improvisations grew melodic themes, rhythmic peaks and valleys, blissful and proto-song guitar passages, deep dub meditations and ultimately an inspired instrumental record unto itself. Only once the band had crafted this musical narrative, did Matisyahu begin to work on a lyrical narrative of his own – a lyrical narrative that is simultaneously informed and integrated with the music yet driven by Matisyahu’s own personal journey. The result is Undercurrent, Matisyahu’s sixth studio album. There are no post-production bells and whistles, excessive overdub distractions, or litany of special guests on Undercurrent.
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Matija Dedic – Influences (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:02 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Jazz
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For many professional musicians, often a moment in time or an influential person that sets the path for one to take a leap into the long desire and urge to take their craft as serious as need to be to become that musician they so desire. For Croatian pianist Matija Dedic, that moment, that person was his father, Arsen Dedic. It was Arsen’s influence and encouragement that made Matija take that step and it was his gift of a recording of Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert that put Matija on the path to creative and jazz music. And so it makes perfect sense that after the passing of Arsen, Matija would set out to dedicate a very special set of tunes to the memory of his father. This album, Dedicated, is just that; a dedication to Matija’s father who had recently passed and in turn, inspired this collection of music to remember his father and the importance he played in his life, career, and motivation to be here now-in the now as displayed by his mastery of the piano and the music created in his body and soul.
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Emel – Everywhere We Looked Was Burning (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:18 minutes | 494 MB | Genre: Folk, Alternetive Rock, Experimental
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Tunisian-born / New York-based experimental singer Emel Mathlouthi releases her new album Everywhere We Looked Was Burning via Partisan Records. For the first time, Emel sings almost entirely in English after previously only recording a handful of tracks in the language. The choice was informed by settling in New York with her family, discovering the “essential imagery” of poets Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Elliot, and John Ashbury, and “thinking back to how music in English was so important to me growing up.” She initially rented a house in Woodstock, NY and set off to “write about nature as well as the beauty and struggle of these times.”
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Mathilde Milwidsky – Zimmermann: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:34 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
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Born in Cologne, Agnes Zimmermann (1847–1925) settled in London as a child. She made her concert debut in 1863, playing the ‘Emperor’ Concerto, and was soon celebrated as one of Europe’s more important pianists, her partners in chamber music including Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, Alfredo Piatti and Wilma Neruda, Lady Hallé. She enjoyed a reputation also as teacher, music editor and composer. At the centre of her modest output of compositions are three substantial Violin Sonatas. Dramatic and lyrical by turn, and always beautifully crafted, they lie somewhere between Mendelssohn and Brahms, but demonstrate an impressively personal musical voice.
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Mathilde Grooss Viddal – Notre Dame – Meditations and Prayers (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:45 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records
Listening to Mathilde Grooss Viddal’s Meditations and Prayers, the listener may well feel there is a timeless quality to the music. The majority of the tracks are entitled “Reflection” and “Psalm,” and these two dimensions come together on “Reflection V – Psalm 3.
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Mathieu Lussier & Francis Perron – Le monde d’hier (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:41 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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In Le monde d’hier, bassonist Mathieu Lussier and pianist Francis Perron explore French and English repertoire for bassoon written at beginning of the 20th century.
The composers recorded here, including Elgar, Gounod, Massenet, and Saint-Saëns, fully embraced the Romantic movement of their era. Gabriel Pierné’s almost jazzy Solo de concert rubs shoulders with the noble and introspective Romance by Edward Elgar. Lussier has also chosen grand sonatas by Camille Saint-Saëns and William Hurlstone, as well as smaller works and short vignettes by Herbert Howells, Eugène Bourdeau, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, and Philippe Gaubert.
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Mathieu Lamboley – Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:17 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Box – Futurikon
In collaboration with Futurikon Films, Music Box Records proudly presents on CD the original motion picture soundtrack of the animated film Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away (2019) composed, orchestrated and conducted by Mathieu Lamboley (Return of the Hero, Boule & Bill 2). Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away (in French theaters in January 30, 2019), co-written and directed by Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo, shares the same creative universe as the successful Minuscule series created in 2006. The first feature film titled Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2014) was a huge hit in France and won the France’s César Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 40th César Awards.
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Mathieu Herzog, Ensemble Appassionato – Mozart: Les trois dernières symphonies (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:35 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve classique
Naïve is particularly proud to release the first recording from the orchestra recently founded by conductor Mathieu Herzog: Ensemble Appassionato. A favourite composer for the orchestra, who other than Mozart to bear witness to the recording debut from this ensemble? An ensemble born under the most auspicious circumstances, full of members from France’s major string quartets. The last three symphonies, a triptych as monumental as it is mysterious – we know almost nothing about the circumstances surrounding their composition – are probably the works that best symbolise the projects thus far of Mathieu Herzog and the Ensemble Appassionato. Their fresh vision, modern and chamber-like, plus a multitude of eclectic repertoire. A vision galvanised by the desire to share music with everyone. Listening to this recording nourished with as much passion and ambition as respect and humility, a more human and personified Mozart appears before us, more luminous than ever. Clear timbres, instrumental cohesion, balance, well-rounded characters, full-bodied tempi … Mathieu Herzog demonstrates here a vision and an inherent know-how, placing him immediately in the pantheon of great conductors.
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Mathieu Gaudet – Schubert: The Complete Sonatas and Major Piano Works, Volume 4 – Explorations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:08 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Groupe Analekta, Inc
Since his first performances in Asia and the release of his first solo album in 2008, pianist Mathieu Gaudet has quickly established himself on the Canadian scene as a complete artist hailed for the passion and intelligence of his musical approach.
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Mathieu Gaudet – Schubert: The Complete Sonatas and Major Piano Works, Volume 2 – Late Inspirations (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:54 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Groupe Analekta, Inc
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828) composed his Sonata No. 3 in E Major, D. 459 in 1816, published posthumously under the title Fünf Clavierstücke (sic) (Five Piano Pieces) in 1843, when brief character pieces were far more lucrative than lengthy sonatas. Cohesive, optimistic and bright, it constitutes Schubert’s first major piano work, since his first two sonatas remained unfinished. The composer was only 19 years old when he completed it.
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Mathieu Gaudet – Schubert: The Complete Sonatas and Major Piano Works, Vol. 5 – Warmth (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:17 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Groupe Analekta, Inc
This album by pianist Mathieu Gaudet is the fifth volume in his wonderful collection of complete sonatas and major works for piano composed by Franz Schubert. While it is true that Schubert’s music is often tinged with a hushed melancholy, at times it is suffused with an optimistic, bountiful light that ardently celebrates life, such as the radiant Sonata No. 16 in D Major, D. 850, the Sonata No. 5 in A-flat Major, D. 557 and the Variations in A Minor, D. 576 offered here.
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Mathias Weber – Beethoven und der Flügel der Zukunft (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:25 minutes | 549 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ambitus
Beethovens weltberühmte Klaviersonaten wie Waldstein, Appassionata und die zweisätzige F-Dur-Sonate op. 54 werden von Mathias Weber am modernen Paulello Flügel Opus 102 geboten. Der Pianist verbindet eine große Spanne der Dynamik und Expression mit reicher Farbgebung, brillanten Läufen, Akzentuierungen und trefflichem Rubato. In die Waldsteinsonate ist zudem das traumversunkene Andante favori eingewoben, während die Appassionta mit echtem Feuer à la Beethoven in ihren rollenden Läufen und Klangkaskaden glänzt. Das Klavier ist hier kein „Schwachstarktastenkasten“, wie es Beethoven genannt hat, sondern ein nahezu orchestrales Instrument. Eine bis ins Detail überzeugende Darbietung dieser Schlachtrösser der Klavierliteratur. Wohl hätten der große Konzertflügel und die Darbietung voller Kraft und Elan dem Meister selbst gefallen.
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Mathias Lévy, Jean-Philippe Viret, Sebastien Giniaux with guests Vincent Peirani, Vincent Segal – Unis Vers (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:41 minutes | 793 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
“From the unanimity acquired by the trio in terms of its sonority, with everyone even breathing together as one, to its elegant counterpoint, via an intricate blending of timbres, Mathias Lévy allows us to hear a group that has indeed found its perfect balance. He confirms, above all, that he is altogether worthy of drawing his bow across the strings of this iconic instrument bearing the imprint of a great artist and of bringing it with him into the 21st century.” – Vincent Bessières
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Mathias Landæus Trio – Opening (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 56:15 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © M.a. Recordings
One of the burgeoning Swedish jazz musicians, pianist and composer Mathias Landæus plays intelligent, hard hitting jazz with a dose of humor. Landaeus was born in Sweden in 1969, and was initially influenced by Bill Evans, Swedish folk music, Weather Report, and the occasional jazz musicians he saw traveling through the area.
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