Laurent Bardainne & Tigre d’Eau Douce – Hymne au soleil (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Laurent Bardainne & Tigre d’Eau Douce – Hymne au soleil (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:24 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Heavenly Sweetness

French saxophonist Laurent Bardainne summons the spirit of astral jazz on heavy-grooving album, Hymne au Soleil.

A dreamlike, cinematic excursion to the outer reaches of the solar system and the inner workings of the soul, Laurent Bardainne returns to Heavenly Sweetness with his Tigre d’Eau Douce group for a second album of genre-agnostic jazz- funk. Building on critically acclaimed 2020 album Love Is Everywhere, Hymne au Soleil sizzles with Arnaud Roulin’s Hammond organ licks, in-the-pocket bass work from Sylvain Daniel, and shu ing drum and percussion interplay from Philippe Gleizes and Roger Raspail, pinning Bardainne’s soaring saxophone lines to the mast like a ag in the wind.

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Laura Moinian & Bratislava Symphony Orchestra – Cello Shadows (Special Edition 2022) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Laura Moinian & Bratislava Symphony Orchestra – Cello Shadows (Special Edition 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:10 minutes | 490 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jona Music Publishing

Born into a musical family, Laura Moinian gave her first concert at the young age of six. She started studying the cello intensively when she was eight years old and has been rewarded over the years with numerous national and international awards and prizes. She is among the very few young cellists who are represented by the agency Tonalisten. This year she published her 2. CD “Cello Shadows” as a soloist with the Bratislava symphony orchestra. Her first CD “Inside Out” in collaboration with Jamie Bergin, concert pianist and assistant of Lars Vogt was published in 2016. Laura performed at the Kronberg Festival, Marrinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Prinzregententheather München, Fränkische Musiktage and at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. She also made her Debut at a sold out Laeiszhalle with the Shostakovich cello concerto nr. 1

In march 2019 she won the audition of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra where she got a contract until 2022.

From 01. december 2021 she will start playing as the principal cellist of Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg.

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Laszlo Gardony – Close Connection (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Laszlo Gardony – Close Connection (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:47 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside

Following two daring solo recordings in which he reimagined jazz standards and explored spontaneous composition (2017’s Serious Play, 2019’s La Marseillaise), Hungarian-born pianist-composer Laszlo Gardony reunites with his favorite rhythm tandem of bassist John Lockwood and drummer Yoron Israel on Close Connection, his 11th album for Sunnyside Records. In this highly interactive trio setting, the Boston-based pianist rekindles his chemistry with Lockwood and Israel from their previous simpatico encounters together on 2003’s Ever Before Ever After, 2006’s Natural Instinct, 2008’s Dig Deep, 2011’s Signature Time and 2015’s Life in Real Time.

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Larkin Poe – Blood Harmony (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Larkin Poe – Blood Harmony (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:27 minutes | 837 MB | Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tricki-Woo Records

The latest full-length from Larkin Poe, Blood Harmony is a whole-hearted invitation into a world they know intimately, a Southern landscape so precisely conjured you can feel the sticky humidity of the warm summer air. In bringing their homeland to such rich and dazzling life, Georgia-bred multi-instrumentalist sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell fortify their storytelling with a rock and blues-heavy sound that hits right in the heart, at turns stormy and sorrowful and wildly exhilarating.

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Lalo Schifrin – Bossa Jazz Brasil (1962/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lalo Schifrin – Bossa Jazz Brasil (1962/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:37 minutes | 800 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Lalo Schifrin is a true Renaissance man. As a pianist, composer and conductor, he is equally at home conducting a symphony orchestra, performing at an international jazz festival, scoring a film or television show, or creating works for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and even The Sultan of Oman.

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Lainey Wilson – Bell Bottom Country (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Lainey Wilson – Bell Bottom Country (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:02 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Broken Bow Records

Reigning ACM New Female Artist of the Year Lainey Wilson makes the top country album debut this week with the release of her sophomore album, Bell Bottom Country. Coming in at No. 12, the record racks up 10K in total first-week consumption (4.3K album only/6.6 million song streams), according to Luminate data.

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Lady Maisery – tender (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lady Maisery – tender (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:50 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Folk, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lady Maisery Records

The uniquely captivating Lady Maisery return with Tender, their first studio album in six years. The band’s combined talents of Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans (individually three of the most accomplished and adventurous artists in modern folk) have created a musically audacious, boldly political and manifestly personal record that reaches far beyond their previous work. The album comprises original songs written by Lady Maisery, as well as contemplative and personal interpretations of work by Bjork, Tracy Chapman and the late Lal Waterson.

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La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler – Forza Azzurri! (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler – Forza Azzurri! (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:16 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Classics

Looking at the variety of Italian baroque instrumental music on offer to today’s listener, one could be forgiven for thinking that Vivaldi had faced little competition during his lifetime. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Whilst the volume of music that flowed from Vivaldi’s pen was unusually plentiful, many other composers were needed to fulfil the needs of the regional courts and churches throughout Italy.

Expert early-music ensemble La Serenissima perform here some works by Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, Giuseppe Sammartini, Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco and Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello alongside works by Vivaldi on this new album of Italian Baroque masterpieces.

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La Protezione della Musica – Werner Fabricius: O liebes Kind (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

La Protezione della Musica – Werner Fabricius: O liebes Kind (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:27 minutes | 958 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © arcantus Musikproduktion

“Eine hertzinnigliche und freüdenreiche Betrachtung/ des in der Krippen liegenden/ süssen Kindleins Jesu/…” – this quote from lyricist Johann Rist provides the motto for Werner Fabricius’ compilation of Christmas music. The director of the ensemble La Protezione della Musica, Jeroen Finke, has compiled an overview of Fabricius’ work under the Christmas focus.

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La Main Harmonique – Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

La Main Harmonique – Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:15 minutes | 393 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ligia

The Sibyls, figures of the archaic era, successively haunted the imagination of the Greeks and the Romans. Link between the human world and the divine world, the Christian West attributes to them the prophetic announcement of the birth of the Savior. They inspired Roland de Lassus with a cycle of 13 songs, the Prophetiae Sibyllarum, an extraordinary cycle of novelty for the time. This musical monument is still too little known today. From these polyphonic miniatures tinged with chromaticism rises a feeling of strangeness mixed with mysticism. Written in Munich while the composer was in the service of Duke Albert of Bavaria, they are a masterpiece of the Musical Renaissance. Exclusive property of the Duke, they remained secret for many years until their edition in 1600.

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Jordi Savall – Codex Las Huelgas (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jordi Savall – Codex Las Huelgas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:21 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alia Vox

In the monastic life of the Cistercian order, as in the case of the female monastery of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas (Burgos), a royal pantheon, the seat of coronations and the epicentre of a very intense musical life in which singing played an extremely important part, the nuns were called upon to live a life of simplicity, silence, prayer and contemplation. Flavit auster, which is part of the Las Huelgas Codex, is a Marian text inspired in the Song of Songs in which the most powerful symbols of femininity appear, such as the honeycomb, milk and honey, and protectiveness described as “mother of mercy, port of hope for the shipwrecked and virgin mother purified.” We also find these symbols as early as the 9th century in Islamic and Jewish spirituality where we are taught the nature of the journey within, a path of challenges, knowledge, of the soul’s encounter and union with God. As St Teresa writes, “see this shining castle and this beautiful Oriental pearl, this tree of life which is planted in the very living waters of life.”

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L.S. Dunes – Past Lives (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

L.S. Dunes – Past Lives (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:26 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy

Luminaries from rock’s thriving post-punk, and hardcore scenes, guitarist Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), guitarist Travis Stever (Coheed and Cambria), vocalist Anthony Green (Circa Survive), bassist Tim Payne (Thursday), and drummer Tucker Rule (Thursday) have joined forces to create L.S. DUNES.

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Kuss Quartet – Krise/Crisis (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kuss Quartet – Krise/Crisis (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:07 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RUBICON

We live in a time of turmoil, flux, stress and crisis. The stresses and strains of modern life during and after the pandemic, war raging in Ukraine, climate change, energy shortages, soaring cost of living, large numbers of refugees seeking safe haven, lack of trust in our leaders – this is the reality of life in the 2020s. The Kuss Quartet’s new album draws upon music composed over the past 250 years that embraces emotional turmoil, suffering, and psychological stresses. Some of the music was composed during periods of deep personal trauma for the composers. This very same music can also bring about a mood of reflection, solace, and contemplation. This is music for our times, as powerful and relevant now as it was when new.

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Kurt Rosenwinkel – Berlin Baritone (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kurt Rosenwinkel – Berlin Baritone (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:05 minutes | 385 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Heartcore Records

Berlin Baritone is a uniquely intimate release, even in Rosenwinkel’s prolific discography, as listeners get to hear Rosenwinkel discover the timbral world of his new instrument with reverence and curiosity. In this stripped-down and intimate recording, you can hear just how deep and intuitive Rosenwinkel’s playing is.

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Ksenija Sidorova, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga – Arturs Maskats Accordion Concerto, Tango, Cantus diatonicus & My River Runs to Thee (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ksenija Sidorova, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga – Arturs Maskats Accordion Concerto, Tango, Cantus diatonicus & My River Runs to Thee (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:47 minutes | 946 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ondine

“Der lettische Komponist Arturs Maskats (geb. 1957) steht seit Jahrzehnten im Zentrum des lettischen Kulturlebens, insbesondere im Bereich Theater und Oper. Neben Opern, Bühnenmusik und Filmmusik umfasst sein Werkkatalog mehrere Orchesterwerke und -konzerte, Lieder und Chorwerke. Dieses neue Album des lettischen Nationalorchesters und seines Dirigenten Andris Poga enthält eines von Maskats’ neuesten Werken im Bereich der Orchestermusik: sein Akkordeonkonzert (2021), das hier von seiner lettischen Kollegin, der Star-Akkordeonistin Ksenija Sidorova, einem der klügsten Namen der heutigen klassischen Musik, gespielt wird. Maskats’ Kompositionen sind tonal, oft romantisch und cineastisch und von einer tiefen Atmosphäre geprägt. Seinen internationalen Ruf verdankt er vor allem seinem Tango (2002), einem preisgekrönten Werk für Sinfonieorchester, das auch zu den meistgespielten Orchesterwerken eines lettischen Komponisten zählt. Im Jahr 2022 wurde das Werk auch von den Wiener Philharmonikern und Andris Nelsons in der Reihe der Sommernachtskonzerte in Schonbrunn aufgeführt. Im Grunde genommen macht Maskats mit dem Tango etwas Ähnliches wie Ravel mit dem Walzer in seiner La Valse.”

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