Carrie Underwood – My Gift (Special Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:07 minutes | 684 MB | Genre: Pop, Christmas
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Carrie will release My Gift (Special Edition) on CD/digital September 24, and on vinyl November 5, featuring three additional tracks. Initially released September 25, 2020, Carrie’s first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, debuted #1 across multiple global charts, including Billboard’s Country, Christian and Holiday album charts. The album remained at #1 on the Christian album chart 11 weeks after it was released and debuted #1 on the UK and Canadian Country album charts. It consistently remained in the Top 5 on the Billboard Holiday album chart throughout the 2020 holiday season, hitting #5 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200.
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Carrie Underwood – My Gift (Amazon Edition) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:36 minutes | 501 MB | Genre: Country, Pop, Christmas
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Seven-time Grammy Award winner and five-time CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Carrie Underwood, releases her first-ever Christmas album, My Gift. Although Underwood has previously recorded several Christmas songs which have become instant classics, her first full-length holiday album has been highly-anticipated by her fans around the world. The album features a combination of beloved traditional favorites celebrating her faith and the spiritual nature of the holiday, as well as original material.
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Carrie Underwood – My Gift (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:19 minutes | 466 MB | Genre: Christmas
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Carrie Underwood will release her first ever Christmas album, My Gift, via Capitol Nashville on September 25th. The album will include Classic Christmas standards plus a few original tracks! Underwood emerged from the promise of her 2005 American Idol win to become a true multimedia superstar, spanning achievements in music, television and film. A 7X GRAMMYr winner, she’s sold over 64 million records worldwide and recorded 27 #1 hits, 14 of which she co-wrote. Packaging includes a gift offer.
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Carrie Underwood – Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:40:36 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Country, Pop Rock
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Greatest Hits: Decade #1 is the first greatest hits album by American singer Carrie Underwood, released on December 9, 2014, by Arista Nashville. A two-disc set, the release contains material from Underwood’s four studio albums: Some Hearts (2005), Carnival Ride (2007), Play On (2009) and Blown Away (2012). Two newly recorded songs were included: “Little Toy Guns” and the compilation’s first single, “Something in the Water”, which was released on September 29, 2014. The album also contains four additional tracks.
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Carrie Underwood – Cry Pretty (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:32 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Country
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Carrie Underwood has long been America’s country-pop sweetheart, belting playful revenge anthems and hear-me-roar power ballads. But her sixth album brings a shift in tone: Topical and contemplative, it represents a period of personal change (at 35, she’s a new mom and expecting her second child), and comes at a moment so politically fraught that even traditionally conservative country megastars are daring to ask tough questions. There’s urgency in songs like “The Bullet” and “Love Wins” (detailing the emotional wreckage of shootings and the importance of gay rights, respectively), and courageous reflections on private battles in “Drinking Alone” and “Spinning Bottles.” The title track draws a hard line between vulnerability and weakness. “Falling apart is as human as it gets,” she sings. On any other album, the party songs (“Southbound”) and hip-hop collaborations (“The Champion,” featuring Ludacris) would steal the spotlight, but here they’re simply outshined. Thirteen years after her American Idol debut, we’re finally getting to know the woman behind the mic.
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Carrie Underwood – Carnival Ride (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:27 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Country
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Anyone who predicted that Carrie Underwood’s second album would start with a sugary radio song might be surprised by the sultry, sassy, country-rocking “Flat On The Floor.” But not to worry, pop fans — “All-American Girl” is a soaring, triumphant song that sounds like a hot hit, fresh off Music City’s grill, and the moving and romantic “Wheel of the World” is chick-flick soundtrack friendly. As a singer (and co-writer of three songs), Underwood really comes into her own onCarnival Ride, reminding country music fans why she was the first countrified American Idol and usurper of Faith Hill’s throne.
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Carrie Underwood – Blown Away (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:37 minutes | 658 MB | Genre: Country
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Produced by Mark Bright, the forthcoming album, Blown Away, was featured in Entertainment Weekly’s recent “10 albums we can’t wait for.” This will be the fourth studio album on 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville for the five-time Grammy winner. The debut single “Good Girl” isco-written by Underwood. Since releasing Some Hearts in 2005, Underwood has sold more than 14 million albums with Some Hearts, 2007’s Carnival Ride, and 2009’s Play On. She’s amassed 14 No. 1 singles, six of which she co-wrote, and became the first country artist in history and the only American Idol winner ever to achieve 10 No. 1 singles from their first two albums. Underwood is a five-time Grammy Award winner, a two-time Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year, a three-time Country Music Association and ACM Female Vocalist winner, and a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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The Carpenters, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Carpenters With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:22 minutes | 2,35 GB | Genre: Pop
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The greatest classics from The Carpenters have resurfaced in a sublime blend of vocal harmonies and symphonic arrangements. For this project in 2018, Richard Carpenter himself went along to Abbey Road Studios. Their last album in 1981, Made in America, was a half-posthumous album (Richard’s sister Karen having died in 1983 at only 32 years of age) and invoked a certain feeling of nostalgia, showing that this legendary pop group shifting more towards easy-listening could still be deep. However, it is still very rooted in the American culture of the seventies, particularly through the classics Close To You, Rainy Days and Mondays and We’ve Only Just Begun.
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Carousel Casualties – Static Electricity Dreams of Longevity (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:44 minutes | 726 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
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No one knows exactly what genre Carousel Casualties’ music fits into, but all I know is it sounds good when I’m dancing to it even by myself. Years after the 2017 EP that got me hooked on the band, it seems that there’s a full-length album to expect from them soon.
From the singles so far, it’s safe to say that Static Electricity Dreams of Longevity brings in the same carefree vibes we know and love—but with more polish in production. The quintet clearly knows their strengths, and they double down on their sound intracks like “Waves” and “What’s on your mind?” that feature their distinctly funky bass and guitar solos.
As they continue teasing their debut album, I’ll be here in my room again, playing the Static singles—already looking forward to its full release. -Pat
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Carolyn Surrick & Ronn McFarlane – Fermi’s Paradox (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:30 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sono Luminus announces Fermi’s Paradox, a new album from viola da gambist Carolyn Surrick and lutenist Ronn McFarlane, with guest percussionist Jackie Moran, to be released worldwide on November 20, 2020. Fermi’s Paradox is Surrick and McFarlane’s first album together and was created and recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic, when both performers’ usually busy concert schedules were cancelled. Surrick is well-known for her fifteen recordings with the group she founded in 1998, Ensemble Galilei. McFarlane, nominated for a Grammy in 2009, is the founder of Ayreheart and a founding member of the Baltimore Consort.
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Carolyn Sampson, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Pascal Rophé – Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:43 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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That Ba”il`ero, a shepherd’s song from the highlands of Auvergne sung in the Occitan dialect of the area, should become a favourite with singers ranging from Victoria de los Angeles to Sarah Brightman by way of Ren’ee Fleming and Karita Mattila, is all because of Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret. As a budding composer in Paris in the 1900s, Canteloube was unable to interest himself in the various musical cliques and currents. Instead he looked for inspiration in Auvergne in central France where he was born, starting to collect the songs of the farmers and shepherds that lived in the mountainous region. But he did so as a composer rather than a musicologist, and between 1923 and 1954 he published a total of thirty Chants d’Auvergne, arranged, harmonized and sumptuously orchestrated.
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Carolyn Sampson, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä – Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:25 minutes | 938 MB | Genre: Classical
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In Gustav Mahler’s first four symphonies many of the themes originate in his own settings of folk poems from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn). A case in point, Symphony No. 4 is built around a single song, Das himmlische Leben (The Heavenly Life) which Mahler had composed some eight years earlier, in 1892. The song presents a child’s vision of Heaven and is hinted at throughout the first three movements. In the fourth, marked ‘Sehr behaglich’ (Very comfortably), the song is heard in full from a solo soprano instructed by Mahler to sing: ‘with serene, childlike expression; completely without parody. The symphony is scored for a typically large, late-romantic orchestra (though without trombones and tuba) and an extensive percussion section which includes sleigh bells as well as glockenspiel. However, Mahler mostly deploys his forces with a transparency and lightness more akin to chamber music or eighteenth-century models like Mozart or Haydn. The Fourth has become one of his best-loved symphonies, and is here performed by Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä, joined by the angelic voice of English soprano Carolyn Sampson.
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Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton – Album für die Frau (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:29 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the first four years of their marriage, Robert and Clara Schumann kept a joint diary, a project which Robert described as “a record of our wishes and our hopes, and the means whereby we may convey to one another any requests we may have to make, for which words may not suffice…”. In the imaginative recital “Album für die Frau”, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton combine songs by both composers into something similar – the depiction of a relationship seen through the eyes of both parties.
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Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton – A Soprano’s Schubertiade (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:32 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ably written around the figure of the woman in Schubert’s Lieder, this new album by Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton uses verse from poets Helmina von Chézy, Marianne von Willemer, or poems with a female protagonist, like Goethe’s Mignon and Gretchen; Ellen in Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott, translated into German. The album closes with the mother of mothers, on the famous Ave Maria. Dubbed “the best British soprano of early music by far” by the press in her own country, this English diva has a rare versatility, which allows her to move from the extreme difficulty of Semele (Handel) to Stravinsky’s Noces, by way of Bach, which she sings with outstanding representatives of such different aesthetics as Masaaki Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe and Riccardo Chailly.
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Carolyn Sampson, Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans – Bach: Cantatas for Soprano (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:02 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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The three Bach cantatas presented on this album belong to the composer’s Weimar period (where he lived and worked from 1708 to 1717), written between 1711 and 1714. Bach was still a young composer then, but the full body of his artistry is already present, and one can but shake the head in disbelief: where did the fellow find the source of such intense emotion, such harmonic and melodic boldness? The beginning of “Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten” (“Yield now, troubling shadows”) unfolds a succession of harmonies which seem to have no logical link with each other, some kind of non-tonality – this being the way the composer describes in music the aforementioned lugubrious shadows. Arias alternately heartbreaking and tender, instrumental inventiveness, you name it, Bach has it. Soprano Carolyn Sampson, accompanied by the Freiburger Barockorchester (together with baritone Andreas Wolf for the cantata “Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn”), lends her voice with dedication to the music, combining the teachings of historically informed performance with a solid sense of emotion, indispensable for such masterpieces.
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