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Sonny Terry – Walk On (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:08 minutes | 218 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Justin Time Records Inc.
Although Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee had a stormy, tempestuous relationship at times, they recorded more than their share of great Piedmont blues during their many years as a duo. Terry and McGhee parted company in the mid-’70s, but Walk On finds the two of them reunited on-stage at the Rising Sun Festijazz in Montreal, Quebec on July 22, 1980 (when Terry was 68 and McGhee was 64). And despite all of the well-publicized friction that sometimes existed between them in the ’60s and ’70s, Terry and McGhee don’t sound like they are unhappy to be reunited — not at all. In fact, the two of them enjoy a strong rapport during a six-song set that includes performances of “Good Morning Blues,” “Walk On,” and “I’m Gonna Get on My Feets After a While” (which is a perfect example of why the Terry & McGhee twosome was highly regarded in both blues and folk circles). Walk On isn’t strictly a Terry & McGhee release; while half of the LP is devoted to them, the other half consists of three selections by Lightnin’ Hopkins and three by Louisiana Red (who is in good form on “I’m a King Bee” and “Sweet Home Chicago”). And it is interesting to note the stylistic differences between the artists — you have Piedmont blues from Terry & McGhee, Texas blues from Hopkins, and a Louisiana-meets-Chicago approach from Louisiana Red. Although Walk On falls short of essential, this album still has a lot going for it and is an enjoyable document of the 1980 festival in Montreal. – Alex Henderson
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Soul Asylum – Grave Dancers Union (1992/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:05 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
Soul Asylum’s breakthrough, million-selling Grave Dancers Union yielded the mega-hit “Runaway Train” and put the band in a whole new league; longtime fans were predictably disappointed with the slick results. This is a solid alternative rock record with singer/songwriter/vocalist Dave Pirner upfront, a role he was built for but always seemed to resist until this clear do-or-die moment for the band. Soul Asylum did; however, they never matched the success or consistency of this album. Tracks like “Home Sick” and “New World” bear the roots of the country-rock revival later forged by Son Volt and Wilco, while the angst-ridden “Somebody to Shove” is pure joy Soul Asylum-style. – Denise Sullivan
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Pacifica Quartet featuring Uniting Voices and Josephine Lee – American Voices (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:18 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cedille Records
The multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet continues its highly acclaimed recording series that explores the sounds of America with an album comprising string quartets incorporating elements of American folk music and spirituals by Antonín Dvořák, Florence Price, and Louis Gruenberg, plus a new work by James Lee III.
Praised by The Telegraph as “nothing short of phenomenal,” Pacifica is known for its “remarkable expressive range and tonal beauty” (New York Times). With a career spanning nearly three decades, Pacifica has established itself as the embodiment of the senior American quartet sound.
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Sophie Jamieson – Choosing (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:04 minutes | 456 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bella Union
Released via her new home at Bella Union, Sophie Jamieson’s Choosing is a strikingly personal document of a journey from a painful rock bottom of self-destruction to a safer place imbued with the faint light of hope. Focusing on the bare bones of each song and taking inspiration from the direct and melodic work of songwriters such as Elena Tonra, Sharon Van Etten, and Scott Hutchison, it’s an album that sings openly of longing and searching, of trying, failing, and trying again – and always and throughout, the strength of love in so many varying forms.
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Salvatore Accardo, Margaret Batjer, Toby Hoffman, Cynthia Phelps, Rocco Filippini – W.A. MOZART KV 174, 593 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:15 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © fonè Records
Salvatore Accardo was born in Turin in a family coming from the South of Italy: his father Vincenzo, artist engraver of cameos was passionate with music and his mother was a primary school teacher.
At 3 he asked for a violin and began to play to ear, at 5 he began his studies in Naples with the musician and pedagogue Luigi D’Ambrosio, later he entered the Naples Conservatorio of San Pietro a Majella where at 13 he graduated full marks playing for the first time Paganini’s Capricios.
Admitted ad honorem at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, Accardo studied there with Yvonne Astruc, former pupil and assistent of George Enescu, starting to be friends with his classmates: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Maurizio Pollini, etc.
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Samson François – Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, Le Tombeau de Couperin by Samson François (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:00 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
The Tomb of Couperin. Ravel completed the composition of Le Tombeau de Couperin, a cycle dedicated to the piano, in November 1917. This tribute to eighteenth-century French music includes six parts: Prelude, Fugue, Forlane, Rigaudon, Minuet and Toccata. At the origin of this Tomb (Ravel drew with his hand a funeral urn which is printed on the cover page of the original edition), the musician pays tribute to the fallen during the war. Moreover, it evokes the refinement of French classicism, that of Rameau and the Couperins. Ravel’s aim is therefore to magnify the Great Century that he revered.
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