Aaron Neville – My True Story (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192,2 kHz | Time – 38:30 minutes | 1,49 GBGenre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Aaron Neville is an American R&B singer and musician. In January 2013, paying tribute to the songs of his youth, Blue Note Records released Neville’s My True Story, a collection of 12 doo-wop tunes, produced by Don Was and Keith Richards, with backing by musicians such as Benmont Tench and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.
Musicians on the album include Keith Richards, Greg Leisz (Beck, Sheryl Crow), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), George G. Receli (Bob Dylan) and Tony Scherr (Bill Frisell, Norah Jones). Neville hand-selected each track on My True Story, which features tunes by Little Anthony and the Imperials (“Tears On My Pillow”), Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (“Work With Me Annie”) and The Drifters (“Money Honey,” “Under The Boardwalk,” “This Magic Moment”).
(more…)
Aaron Lewis – Sinner (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 1018 MBGenre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Big Machine
Staind’s lead singer Aaron Lewis continues to explore the world of country music with his second solo album Sinner, recorded in Nashville in a 16 hour burst of creative energy. The songs capture Lewis’s mindset, a laid back soundtrack that is reminiscent of the genre’s most honest and musically adventurous artists. In addition to a cover of Chris Stapleton’s Whiskey And You, Sinner features a guest appearance from none other than Willie Nelson on the title track.
(more…)
Aaron Lewis – Frayed At Both Ends (Deluxe) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:56 minutes | 1,12 GBGenre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Valory Music Co.
After 10 years in Nashville, two #1 Country albums and several hundred thousand miles playing shows, Aaron Lewis recognizes the part of America that no one is speaking to – or for. FRAYED AT BOTH ENDS is his measure of the wages of being a grown-up in today’s world, an American in a nation torn apart and a man seeking love and redemption in the words of his songs.
(more…)
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:50 minutes | 460 MBGenre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records
Every now and then an artist comes along who makes you remember why you started listening to albums in the first place: Aaron Lee Tasjan is that artist. With his wrecked cool, off-center charm, and restless creative dazzle, he makes music with conviction that has its roots in rock’s murky past, armed with an arsenal of songs that spill over with humor, intelligence, irony, personal vision and at times prophecy. An obsessive creative, Aaron Lee Tasjan writes pop songs with a twist, a little overdriven, far too honest at times. He updates the idea of androgyny but dispels the emotional and social ambiguity with lyrics that reflect his own geographic and artistic wanderings. You get the sense over Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!’s 11 songs that the man who began the album is not the same man who completed it, transformed both by the experiences that inspired the songs and crafting them. This is not anxious music for anxious times, but rather music as an antidote for anxious times. It is the sound of the future arriving.
(more…)
Aaron Keylock – Cut Against The Grain (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:10 minutes | 979 MBGenre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue
CUT AGAINST THE GRAIN – From a MusicRadar interview: Aaron: “I use a very simple setup, as I like music to be as real and organic and personal as possible. I don’t use any pedals or wireless systems. I’m using a Marshall 1987X Plexi head through a 1936 2X12 cab with Greenbacks in. The guitars I’m using are a 2009 Gibson Standard Faded Les Paul, a 2013 Gibson Firebird V, and a custom Korina Junior built by a great company in Oxford called TSR Guitars. I’ve been using the Junior for slide for about a year now and it’s perfect!” Nuff said… Aaron Keylock, UK Teenage guitar sensation.
(more…)
Aaron Goldberg – The Now (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:20 minutes | 936 MBGenre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside Communications
Hailed by DownBeat magazine for his “quick-witted harmonic reflexes, fluid command of line and cut-to-the-chase sense of narrative logic,” Aaron Goldberg has made his name as one of jazz’s most compelling pianists, both as a bandleader and frequent collaborator with Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Guillermo Klein and many more.
(more…)
Aaron Goldberg – At the Edge of the World (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:03 minutes | 464 MBGenre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
For the past two decades pianist Aaron Goldberg has crisscrossed the globe, spreading his music and absorbing local knowledge along the way. True to the jazz mentality, he learned to embrace serendipity as an artistic muse. Five years ago this month, in an historic chateau at the exact geographic center of France, Goldberg was reunited with an early influence. Soon a new project began to take shape. Goldberg’s latest recording, At The Edge of The World, documents this recent collaboration with drummer and percussionist Leon Parker, a brilliant innovator and performer, in a new trio along with the gifted bassist Matt Penman.
(more…)
Aaron Frazer – Introducing… (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:23 minutes | 493 MBGenre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans
Was soul music better before? No!” answers Aaron Frazer’s debut album. Spotted as the drummer and co-singer of Durand Jones & the Indications, this young soul brother from Baltimore, now living in Brooklyn, launches his solo career with Introducing…, an impeccable opus with a vintage flavour, produced by the legendary Dan Auerbach. In Nashville’s Easy Eye Sound Studio, home to the Black Keys, Frazer’s celestial falsetto, influenced by Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield, resounds to perfection. Both conscious and amorous, like all the great fifties and sixties soul singers, he juggles pure love songs and politically charged numbers with ease. His soft voice is a divine whisper, modern and ageless at the same time.
(more…)
Aaron Diehl – The Vagabond (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:48 minutes | 1,16 GBGenre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records
The best way to describe Aaron Diehl’s trio recording, ‘The Vagabond’, is that it is a quiet masterpiece. While this is thoroughly a jazz recording rooted in precedents set by Diehl’s forbearers such as Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, Ahmad Jamal, Roland Hanna and John Lewis; it will come as no surprise to fans of Aaron’s previous two Mack Avenue recordings that clear references are made to his background and simultaneous career as a Classical music performer.
(more…)
Aaron Diehl – Space, Time, Continuum (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:36 minutes | 1,11 GBGenre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue
Widely acknowledged as a modern master in the aftermath of his acclaimed 2012 Mack Avenue debut, The Bespoke Man’s Narrative, 29-year-old pianist-composer Aaron Diehl ups the ante with the 2015 release Space, Time, Continuum.
(more…)
Aaron Comess – Sculptures (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:25 minutes | 442 MBGenre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Innsbruck Records
The British might call the new album by drummer Aaron Comess, Sculptures, a “curate’s egg.” It’s instrumental music, so as likely to be filed under “jazz” as anywhere else, but the focus is not on linear improvisation over changes or, for that matter, free improvisation either. Rather, it’s a collection of performances running from two to seven minutes based on tight harmonic kernels, with a strong emphasis on texture rather than melody. Comess drummed for the Spin Doctors and Joan Osbourne among other artists, and presumably those mid-nineties gigs left him with a war-chest to finance experimental projects like this.
(more…)
Aapo Heinonen Quintet – Tara (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:29 minutes | 737 MBGenre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ozella
For his third record, the Finnish keyboard virtuoso Aapo Heinonen has created a refreshingly unique sound, a relaxed whirlwind of fusion-grooves, Latin swing and modal-jazz-melodies – all embedded into stimulatingly complex arrangements. The album still displays Heinonen’s recognisable sensual charm. But it feels a lot more cinematic and ambitious than any of his previous offerings. Heinonen admits he had doubts whether he was ready for these incisive changes. But true to his convictions, he never let that stop him.
(more…)
A4 Brass Quartet – Mosaic (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:57 minutes | 1,04 GBGenre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
The SOMM debut recording of the A4 Brass Quartet. Formed in 2013 at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music, the quartet comprises principal players from some of the UK’s top brass bands, including Black Dyke, Foden’s and Brighouse & Rastrick. Its unique blend of instruments – cornet (Jamie Smith), tenor horn (Jonathan Bates), baritone horn (Mike Cavanagh) and euphonium (Chris Robertson) – creates a unique sound that stands out from the standard brass quartet.
(more…)
Aoki Yutaka – Lost in Forest (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:32 minutes | 472 MBGenre: Electronic, Ambient, Post-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Virgin Babylon Records
Since the dawn of time, mankind has been almost obsessively drawn towards the inexplicable, obscure, paranormal, and supernatural. This is proven manifold in the lasting popularity of the horror genre – spanning many generations across all platforms and all art mediums. The new record by Aoki Yutaka (downy), Lost in Forest, is the spine-chilling and deeply unsettling score to a horror movie of your own imagination, coming soon to a mental cinema near you. If you dare listen to it, that is.
(more…)
Aoife O’Donovan – Bull Frogs Croon (and Other Songs) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 28:50 minutes | 290 MBGenre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
This is the first release featuring Aoife with a string quartet. Co-produced by Jeremy Kittel and Aoife, the album was recorded in Brooklyn on the last days of October 2019. The title of the project comes from the Peter Sears poem, “Valentine,” which is the final movement of the 3 song suite along with Sears other poems “Night Fishing” and “The Darkness”. Peter Sears (1937-2017), was named the seventh poet laureate of the state of Oregon in 2014. The suite was penned in 2015 by O’Donovan along with Jeremy Kittel and Teddy Abrams, the conductor of the Louisville Symphony Orchestra and premiered at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, OR.
(more…)