Alison Krauss & Robert Plant – Raise The Roof (Deluxe Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:22 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Rock
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Thirteen years after the release of their surprise hit album Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have finally reunited for a follow-LP, Raise the Roof. It comes out on November 19th, and you can check out leadoff single, a cover of the 1998 Lucinda Williams song “Can’t Let Go,” right here.
Raise the Roof was produced by T-Bone Burnett, who also worked with Plant and Krauss on Raising Sand. It features songs by Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, the Everly Brothers, and Bert Jancsh in addition to their original tune “High and Lonesome.”
The two singers were joined in the studio by drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarists Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell, and Buddy Miller, bassists Dennis Crouch and Viktor Krauss, and pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl.
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:27 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Folk Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss won 5 Grammy Awards for their album Raising Sand:
RECORD OF THE YEAR – “Please Read The Letter”
ALBUM OF THE YEAR – Raising Sand
BEST POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS –
“Rich Woman”
BEST COUNTRY COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS –
“Killing The Blues”
BEST CONTEMPORARY FOLK/AMERICANA ALBUM – Raising Sand
Produced by 10-time Grammy Award winner T Bone Burnett.
Raising Sand is proof that even with such dynamite raw material sometimes things really do add up to far more than the sum of their parts. Superb, in every way… – BBC
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Robert Plant – Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:00 minutes | 534 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar is Plant’s first record since 2010’s Band of Joy, which followed 2007’s six-time Grammy Award–winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand. Justin Adams and John Baggott of The Sensational Space Shifters appeared on Plant’s 2002 release Dreamland, while all but Camara and Smith appeared on 2005’s Mighty Rearranger. The new-album line-up recently toured the world before recording lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar at Helium Studios in Wiltshire and Real World Studios in Bath, UK. The track “Rainbow” was recorded in Contino Rooms in London. Tchad Blake mixed all but three tracks on the album.
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Robert Plant – Carry Fire (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:02 minutes | 987 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
As his seventieth birthday approaches, Robert Plant remains the same flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll animal. Above all, the former singer from Led Zeppelin is neither jaded nor lacking inspiration. And even if his solo albums have never really reached the genius of those of his former band, Plant has always delivered upstanding and sincere music such as Raising Sand, a beautiful opus recorded in 2007 with American country singer Alison Krauss, or Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar (2014), that elegantly shuffled all his known passions (rock, blues, country, folk, Celtic music and ethnic music). Surrounded by the Sensational Space Shifters, the same band from his previous album, Plant stays on somewhat familiar grounds with Carry Fire. As an artist who’s not a fan of doublespeak, he displays here his engagement with the turmoil of the present day, without ever falling into empty-headed militancy. As in Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar, the mixtures of styles— blues, folk, rock, world—are always perfectly dosed out, carried by the master’s inimitable organ. Top notch.
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Robert Palmer – Riptide (1985/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:20 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music)
Robert Palmer’s eighth solo studio album, Riptide, sounds like the first album by Power Station, the supergroup he founded with members of Chic and Duran Duran. Riptide charted well worldwide, helped by “Addicted To Love” which reached #1 in the US.
For the album, Palmer collaborated with two former members from the Power Station, guitarist Andy Taylor and drummer Tony Thompson. The Power Station’s producer Bernard Edwards also played bass and produced the album. The album also features contributions from Chaka Khan and notable session musicians such as Guy Pratt, Wally Badarou, Jeff Bova, Eddie Martinez, and Jack Waldman (who died a year after the album’s release).
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Robert Oberaigner – Weinberg: Clarinet & Chamber Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:05 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mieczysław Weinberg was familiar with the clarinet from his youth, given its prominent place in klezmer bands and theatre ensembles, and he wrote three works specifically for the instrument. In the Clarinet Concerto he draws a wide range of textures from the accompanying strings, over which the soloist explores the clarinet’s extremes of register in virtuosic fashion. Despite having been written when Weinberg was still in his mid-twenties, the Clarinet Sonata is a mature work with Romantic and folkloric elements. His last completed work was the Chamber Symphony No. 4, an impassioned piece with a wrenching chorale theme and role for obbligato clarinet.
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Robert Mitchell – The Rainbow Mountain / Can We Care (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:01 minutes | 293 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Depth Of Field
A first live album of solo grand piano recorded at the Jazz Cafe, London UK – in 2018. It consists of one track – made up of an epic improvisation seamlessly blending into a tune. This is an exclusive pre-release special offer only on Bandcamp!! Grab it now – before the official iTunes release on 25th April !! No special deals thereafter.Not to be extended – So! Be! Quick!
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Robert Mitchell – A Vigil For Justice A vigil For Peace (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:55 minutes | 701 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Depth Of Field
Pianist/composer Robert Mitchell has produced one of his finest albums to date with the release of “A vigil for justice, a vigil for peace”. Having emerged as a musician with much promise through his involvement with Tomorrow’s Warriors, he has gone on to work with Courtney Pine, Steve Coleman, Iain Bellamy, Norma Winstone, Greg Osby, and Omar Puente among others, developing a formidable reputation along the way as a gifted pianist and composer. Undoubtedly one of the highlights of 2017, this is an album that has so much going for it that it really is a “must-have” for any jazz enthusiast’s collection.
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Robert Mehlhart, Vokalkapelle der Theatinerkirche München – Selva morale e spirituale (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:40 minutes | 599 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonando
Aufgenommen wurde die Debüt-CD unter der musikalischen Leitung von Pater Robert Mehlhart OP in der erhebenden Atmosphäre der Theatinerkirche. Am 9. März 2018 erscheint „Selva morale e spirituale“ beim Label „resonando“.
Am Ende seines Lebens stellte Monteverdi eine Sammlung von Werken zusammen die er „Selva morale e spirituale“ nannte. Die „Selva“ spiegelt die unterschiedlichen Stile, in denen der Künstler für den Markusdom schrieb und repräsentiert das geistliche und musikalische Vermächtnis des 74-jährigen Monteverdi. Der berühmteste Komponist seiner Zeit blickt am Ende seines Lebens auf sein Wirken zurück und übergibt der Nachwelt, was ihm wesentlich erscheint. Aus dieser außerge-wöhnlichen Kollektion stammen die beiden Werke der CD: Das fast überirdisch anmutende „Magnificat“, welches sich aus der gregorianischen Psalmodie stets neu emporhebt sowie die „Messa a4 da Capella“, in der Monteverdi das polyphone Vorbild Palestrinas mit impulsivem Kontrastreichtum verbindet.
„Viele kennen Monteverdi, dessen Geburtstag sich im Jahr 2017 zum 450sten Mal jährte, als den Komponisten der ersten Oper.“ erläutert Pater Robert. „Er war jedoch auch eine tief geistliche Persönlichkeit, ein betender Mensch. Diesen Monteverdi wollten wir erklingen lassen.“ Gemäß der venezianischen Tradition wird das zwölfköpfige Vokalensemble von einer Continuogruppe begleitet, hier einer Theorbe und einer Truhenorgel. „Monteverdi ist anspruchsvoll zu singen, denn Sopran und Tenor liegen entweder sehr hoch oder sehr tief.“ erklärt Pater Robert. „Zudem war der Stimmton bei Monteverdi in Venedig etwas höher als bei uns heute. Die Herausforderung war, die Musik dennoch homogen und entspannt fließen zu lassen und ein schlüssiges Klangerlebnis zu kreieren.“ Weitere Aufnahmen der Vokalkapelle sind geplant und in den Interpretationen sollen Musik und Spiritualität zusammenfinden. Auch sollen sie wieder in der ganz besonderen Atmosphäre der Theatinerkirche aufgenommen werden, um deren Geist sowie das kreative Schaffen, Wirken und Gestalten der Vokalkapelle einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen.
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Robert McCormick, McCormick Percussion Group – Tyler Kline, Michael Standard & Others: Chamber Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:07 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ravello Records
Soli for Tuba, Zheng, Horn with Percussion is percussionist Robert McCormicks tenth album with PARMA Recordings. On their latest album, the Robert McCormick Percussion Group performs five compositions from four distinct composers, each of whom contributes striking works that range from personal to global inspiration. The album opens with Loam, a concerto for tuba and percussion ensemble composed by Tyler Kline. Much of the concerto is texture-based in order to convey the idea of loam, or soil, with some parts of the music reflecting the sound of the earth being tilled. The general arc of the concerto is cyclical, a metaphor for being born from the earth and returning to the earth after death. Chihchun Chi-sun Lees Double Concerto for Tuba, Zheng and Percussion Orchestra is a unique amalgam featuring zheng, tuba, and percussion. The first movement creates a unifying sense of color, timbre, and gesture. Movement II mainly focuses on the tuba and zheng, while Movement III displays the sound of the tuba, zheng, and percussion in perfect balance. Written by Michael Standard, Stamina for percussion quartet and horn soloist is comprised of three parts: Fracture, Rehabilitation, and Capacity. Fracture sees a breaking apart in every element of the music. Rehabilitation strings together the previously fractured pitch material in a new way using glissandos. The final stage, Capacity, uses this new pitch organization to fill the spaces with notes. Following this piece, composer Matthew Kennedy and his In Pursuit of Ghosts explores the journey from one chapter of life to the next through the structure of the three-part concerto. Soli for Tuba, Zheng, Horn with Percussion closes with Zusammenflusses (Confluences), another work by Lee, that captures the differences and similarities of the zheng with the vibraphone and cymbal. Zusammenflusses aptly concludes this new addition to the McCormick Percussion Groups oeuvre, and the album as a whole inspires listeners to explore new and unexpected combinations of sounds to create innovative music.
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Robert Lockwood, Jr. – Delta Crossroads (2000/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:17 minutes | 2,80 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Telarc
Robert Lockwood Jr. is a blues treasure. Blues credibility doesn’t get any deeper or more real than Robert Lockwood Jr. On Delta Crossroads, the 85-year-old Delta bluesman lays out a heartfelt homage to the immortal Robert Johnson, his guitar teacher, close friend, role model and possibly step-father. Playing the acoustic 12-string guitar and singing with uncommon authority, Lockwood delivers unaccompanied, bone-chilling renditions of Johnson classics like “32-20 Blues,” “Stop Breakin’ Down Blues,” “Mr. Downchild,” “Love In Vain Blues” and “I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom,” along with authentically earthy readings of Leroy Carr’s “Mean Mistreater Mama” and “In the Evening,” Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “C.C. Rider” and “Key to the Highway,” which Lockwood says was written by Jazz Gillum and not Big Bill Broonzy, who usually gets credit. I guess he would know. This purely acoustic offering is a rich tribute and a must for Delta fanatics.
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Steven Isserlis, Robert Levin – Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonatas (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:38:55 minutes | 2,72 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
In this new chamber recording, Steven Isserlis together with his regular collaborator, fortepianist Robert Levin, presents a magisterial and long-awaited compendium of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano, including Beethoven’s arrangement of his Op 17 Horn Sonata. The use of the fortepiano opens up a wealth of sonic possibilities for these works.
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Robert Levin – J.S. Bach: Six Partitas, BWV 825-830 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 02:19:09 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Le Palais des Dégustateurs
Robert Levin’s view of music is multiple. It is at the same time that of a performer, but also of a researcher, a teacher and a composer. He invites us to rediscover Bach’s Partitas.
Levin’s recording of Bach’s Six Partitas is way of perfect, yet at the same time old fashioned. Levin’s performances are intellectual and rigorous, form and structure being more important than rhetoric and emotions.
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Robert Len – iLenKa (2012/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:42 minutes | 903 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD
iLenKa is an ensemble of varying dimensions (2 to 6 musicians) playing the music of composer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Len united with the screenings and scenarios created by violinist Carole Meneghel.
iLenKa’s entrancing music is the fusion of world music with lounge and jazz influences. Sometimes smooth, sometimes intense, sometimes cinematographic, sometimes virtuoso, the melodies and performances are characterized by their subtlety and wide range of emotions, combining the violin’s warmth with a multitude of surprising instruments from around the globe such as Tibetan bowls, Armenian duduk, Australian didgeridoo, Native American, Irish and Romanian flutes, Argentinian moseño, Peruvian and Cuban cajón, traditional flugelhorn, trumpet, cymbals, and more.
iLenKa is a very original new world music experience. Give it a listen.
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Robert Len – Robert Len, Help (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/352,8 kHz | Time – 41:14 minutes | 2,70 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD
Composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Robert Len releases his new project Help!. Producer André Perry’s musical collaboration makes this album a tour de force where each color selected is totally essential and everything has its place; an admirable example of Count Basie’s motto ‘Less is more’.
Mastered in 2xHD’s proprietary new Fusion Mastering process, the recording further benefits from the process’s quality of integrating the properties of analog and digital technologies for an innovative, enveloping listening experience
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