Marsha Hunt – Attention! Marsha Hunt! (1973/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marsha Hunt – Attention! Marsha Hunt! (1973/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:39 minutes | 442 MB | Genre: Rock, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cherry Red Records

An African American model / singer / novelist / actress (b. 15 Apr 1946), who grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and studied at the University of California, Berkeley (at the time of the student riots) but in the mid 1960s moved to Britain. She has lived in Ireland since 1995. She also lives in France where she owns a home in the countryside.

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Marquis Hill – The Way We Play (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marquis Hill – The Way We Play (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:01 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz

For the past five years, 29-year-old trumpeter Marquis Hill has been invigorating the Chicago jazz scene with his sleek approach to modern jazz, which often incorporates elements of spoken word and hip-hop. JazzTimes praised his trumpet playing by stating, “His articulation, precise but unlabored, calls to mind the precedent of Clifford Brown, while his bravura phrasing suggests an equal immersion in Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw. All of which surely helped his cause at Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, in 2014, where he won first prize”.

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Marquis Hill – Love Tape (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marquis Hill – Love Tape (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 29:40 minutes | 321 MB | Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Black Unlimited Music Group

When trumpeter and composer Marquis Hill set out to record his eighth studio album he decided to tackle a theme repeated often in music: Love; in particular, self love. In doing so he assembled a collection of interviews of women sharing their perspective on the subject. For Hill, this resulted in further confirmation of a familiar adage: “Before you can love someone else, you must first love yourself.“ On Marquis Hill’s Love Tape, this rings true.

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Marmozets – The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marmozets – The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:40 minutes | 558 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Roadrunner Records

“The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets” is the debut studio album by the English alternative rock band Marmozets. Recently picked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of “10 New Artists You Need To Know”, Marmozets staked their claim amongst the best records of 2014. Alternative Press placed “The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets” at #5 on their “10 essential albums of 2014” list, Metal Hammer placed “The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets” at #8 on their “2014 Critics Choice” list and Big Cheese named “The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets” their #1 album of 2014. Furthermore, Marmozets were voted “Best New Band” in the 2014 Kerrang!

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Marmozets – Knowing What You Know Now (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marmozets – Knowing What You Know Now (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:38 minutes | 979 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Math Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Roadrunner Records

It’s been three years since Marmozets first broke through with their debut album, but now they add to their growing momentum with the news that their long-awaited second album ‘Knowing What You Know Now’ will be released on JANUARY 26TH. Recorded with the legendary producer GIL NORTON (Foo Fighters, Pixies), it’s the band’s most ambitious and accomplished offering to date. With tracks ‘Play’, the pounding ‘New Religion’, the pulse-quickening ‘Major System Error’ and the spiky ‘Lost In Translation’ Marmozets’ are embracing a new intensity within their controlled chaos, the band have the courage to explore fresh territory too. A stark and sombre standout is ‘Me & You’ – its sparse arrangement befitting the raw sentiment of the song. It was inspired by the death of the MacIntyres’ beloved grandmother, who was always an enthusiastic supporter of the band. Another departure comes with ‘Run With The Rhythm’, an epic head rush of a track that was chosen to close the album because of its message of encouragement. MARMOZETS consist of two sets of siblings, the MacIntyres (Becca, Sam and drummer Josh) and the Bottomleys (lead guitarist Jack and bassist Will). Prepare to get to know the most exciting record of 2018.

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Marlon Williams – Live at Auckland Town Hall (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marlon Williams – Live at Auckland Town Hall (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:28:13 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Folk, Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans

While Make Way For Love draws on Marlon’s own story, it captures the vagaries of relationships we’ve all been through: the bliss, ache, uncertainty, and bitterness. Like the best breakup records, ‘Make Way For Love’ doesn’t shy away from heartbreak, but rather stares it in the face, and mines beauty from it. Delicate and bold, tender and searing, it’s a mightily personal new step. Make Way For Love was recorded with producer Noah Georgeson and his backing band, The Yarra Benders, in North California’s Panoramic Studios after several weeks of pre-production in his native Lyttelton with regular collaborator Ben Edwards. The finished result moves Marlon several paces from “country” the genre that’s been affixed to him more than any in recent years, but one that’s always been a bit too reductive to be wholly accurate with forays into cinematic strings, reverb, rollicking guitar and at least one quiet piano ballad, on his most expansive work to date.

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Marlis Petersen & Stephan Matthias Lademann – Dimensionen – Innenwelt (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marlis Petersen & Stephan Matthias Lademann – Dimensionen – Innenwelt (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:59 minutes | 964 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica

When we turn our attention inward, we encounter the worlds of consciousness and unconsciousness, the dark inner space of visions and dreams and the workshop of our soul. Every human being follows a unique road of confusion and error on the journey towards inner truth. Communion with oneself transforms the sharpness of the day, leading our soul through the dreams and inner movements that bring unguarded freedom. At the end of all actions, pure Being remains. The greatest of all universal energy – Love.

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Marlene Cord – Marlene Cord (1957/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marlene Cord – Marlene Cord (1957/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:58 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

This is my oldest sister, Mary (Marlene is her stage name). She recorded this back in 1957 at the age of 19. If you like Lena Horne or Eartha Kitt, you’ll definately like Marlene Cord. This cd was remastered well…originally it was on a 78 speed LP. I, myself, was a former keyboardist for the Vogues oldies group from Pittsburgh. We were a very musical family of 8 kids.

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Marlene – I Think Of You, With Every Breath I Take (1956/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marlene – I Think Of You, With Every Breath I Take (1956/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:44 minutes | 607 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Marlene (1933-2018) was the stage name of the 21-year-old big band singer who, in 1955, married trombonist, composer and arranger Billy Ver Planck. Coincidentally, it was also the year of her first recording session for the Savoy label. The title song of her debut album was ‘I Think of You with Every Breath I Take,’ and it was proudly described by the label as “A new listening thrill!” Marlene was of the kind of singer who rejected pop material and familiar standards to concentrate on little heard and nearly forgotten songs of quality. Accompanied by an all-star jazz group, she demonstrated a clear, in-tune voice, good feeling for the lyrics, and a certain freshness of sound—not to mention a musician’s sense of phrasing. Still, as the demand for jazz vocalists declined in the 1960s, Marlene slowly moved away from the scene and, for years, devoted herself mainly to singing in thousands of commercial jingles. After succeeding in that field for over a decade, she decided to return to her jazz roots under the direction of husband Billy, acting and recording this time as Marlene Ver Plank, and establishing herself as a performer in her own right.

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Marlena Shaw – Just A Matter Of Time (1976/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Marlena Shaw – Just A Matter Of Time (1976/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:28 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Marlena Shaw’s best-selling 1976 release is notable for its inclusion of Be For Real, covered by Leonard Cohen in 1992. This album, her last for Blue Note, features Shaw’s interpretation of This Time I’ll Be Sweeter, also recorded by Linda Lewis and Martha Reeves and later Angela Bofill and Roberta Flack and Love Has Gone Away previously recorded by The Spinners. One of the standout cuts on the album, It’s Better Than Walkin’ Out, provided a historic first for Blue Note when a top ten 12” disco single version was remixed and issued.

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Marla Glen – Unexpected (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marla Glen – Unexpected (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:16 minutes | 707 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mohr Publishing Ltd.

What Marla Glen, the singer with a voice of driest sand and rawest iron, that singer who rather likes to be called ‘Sir Glen’ or ‘The Glen’ offers us with his seventh full-length-release, truly bursts with variety and is beyond prediction like never before – what we could simply call ‘soul’ at first sight seems to come from every part of the body and every part of the world. Uncompromising and supported by exciting arrangements and sheer virtuosity, Marla Glen fires gem after gem at the audience on this new record.

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Markus Zosel – Columbine (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Markus Zosel – Columbine (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:35 minutes | 436 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Horus Music Limited

Masako Ohta retreats into the silence of the Waldhaus Grandsberg in the Bavarian Forest to dedicate herself to Japanese masterpieces in deep concentration and solitude.

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Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber – Alba (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber – Alba (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:53 minutes | 975 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Alba is the premiere recording of trumpeter Markus Stockhausen’s duo with pianist Florian Weber, a formation in existence for some six years now. Though very different in their connections to the language of jazz, both musicians share a deep interest in the process of creative expression: of looking inwards and outwards with intensity at things, for echoes, resonances, insights.

Initially, the duo experimented with electronic sounds, also to create the “opening sounds” that have attracted Stockhausen since he first played with Rainer Brüninghaus’s trio in the early 1980s. But with Weber, the realization soon came that the duo sounded stronger playing acoustically. “Florian has this incredible touch and possibilities to modulate the sound of the piano. There are so many colours available”. Alba is Markus Stockhausen’s first ECM recording since Karta was released in 2000. Florian Weber, a German Jazz Critics prize winner who has played with Albert Mangelsdorff, Lee Konitz and many others, makes his ECM debut here.

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Markus Stockhausen Group – Tales (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Markus Stockhausen Group – Tales (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:03:29 minutes | 1,74 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © O-tone

What difference does it make for music whether it is composed or improvised? What difference does it make for a narrative whether it is performed orally or recorded in writing? Markus Stockhausen’s quartet album “Tales” suggests such questions and provides more than one answer. Music exists virtually on recordings, in scores, in repertoires and traditions. But it is only real when it is heard and experienced together with listeners.

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Markus Stockhausen – Wild Life (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Markus Stockhausen – Wild Life (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:54:06 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music – OKEH

Markus Stockhausen is considered one of the best trumpeters worldwide. He constantly researches productively and successfully in the intersection of Jazz, classical music, new music, Improvisation and electronic experiments for new possibilities of expression. “Wild Life” is here and now his opus summum on three CDs, a real Statement of what is conceivable and feasible today, of what Markus Stockhausen himself calls “intuitive music”. The Wild Life Sessions, which took place in Bonn at the beginning of 2018, are also a musical reunion with Stockhausen’s brother Simon Stockhausen, with whom he had not played live or in the Studio for fifteen years. Simon Stockhausen has become an internationally known Sound Designer, which you can hear well here – he is also the main responsible for mixing the music. The rhythmic foundations are laid by the two drummers Bodek Janke and Christian Thomé. Thomé was also involved in the successful album “Far Into the Stars”, as well as the Cellist Jörg Brinkmann. Florian Weber is another musician with whom Markus Stockhausen has been working successfully for many years. This resulted in wide-breathing music, which unfolds its epic magic directly through the class and imagination of the participants and develops a magnetic pull force. But also the casual Groove comes to its right in many surprising places. You can see that “Wild Life” is imaginative art on different levels, with very different approaches.

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