Olivia Newton-John – Just The Two Of Us: The Duets Collection (Vol. 1) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Olivia Newton-John – Just The Two Of Us: The Duets Collection (Vol. 1) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:03 minutes | 829 MB | Genre: Pop, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Primary Wave Music

Entertainment icon Olivia Newton-John’s legendary career immortalised in 32 star-studded duets with her dear friends. Sonic gems spanning five decades of classic hits including ‘I Honestly Love You’ with Jim Brickman and ‘Put Your Head On My Shoulder’ with Paul Anka, as well as brand new fan favourites like ‘Window in the Wall’ featuring Olivia’s daughter Chloe Lattanzi. Olivia’s duet partners include Mariah Carey, Jon Secada, Barry Gibb, John Travolta, Marie Osmond, Dolly Parton and many more.

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Olivia Jean – Raving Ghost (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Olivia Jean – Raving Ghost (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:13 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Third Man Records LLC

Olivia Jean, Detroit born n’ bred, current resident of Nashville, TN, first staked her flag with the gothic garage rock upstarts The Black Belles in 2010 and quickly set herself apart from the pack, performing as a side musician to a varied group of stylistically diverse musicians on a variety of instruments, culminating with her debut solo release Bathtub Love Killings in 2014.

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Oliver Zeffman – Live at the V&A, Vol. 2 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Oliver Zeffman – Live at the V&A, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:54 minutes | 786 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OZERO Records

Those inseparable twins, dress and identity, fell under the spotlight of the V&A’s Fashioning Masculinities. The exhibition’s galleries—Undressed, Overdressed, and Redressed—informed Oliver Zeffman’s choice of music for the first of his Music x Museums concerts. Recorded live in the V&A’s sublime Raphael Court, the performance opens with Lully’s Overture to Le bourgeois gentilhomme, a nod to the periwigged posturing of 17th-century Paris.

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Oliver Zeffman – Live at the V&A (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Oliver Zeffman – Live at the V&A (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:42 minutes | 898 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OZERO Records

British conductor Oliver Zeffman leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in a programme that wanders through time, perfectly complementing the glorious surroundings. Russian-born British violinist Viktoria Mullova joins the ASMF for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major in a performance that’s crisp, songful and wonderfully eloquent, and her Bach solos speak powerfully in such a striking setting. Zeffman conducts Honegger’s “Pastorale d’été” with a lovely sense of atmosphere, while Arvo Pärt’s timeless “Fratres” makes a huge impact with its stillness and deceptive simplicity.

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Various Artists – Reiko Füting: Mechthild (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Various Artists – Reiko Füting: Mechthild (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:16 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Focus Recordings

Anlässlich der feierlichen Wiedereröffnung der ehemaligen Klosterkirche im Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg wurde im September 2022 das Mysterienspiel „Mechthild“ uraufgeführt. Die genreübergreifende Produktion verknüpft mittelalterliche und zeitgenössische Musik in einem Klangraum und widmet sich „Mechthild von Magdeburg“, einer bedeutenden Persönlichkeit der Stadtgeschichte.

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Octetology – Neotango (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Octetology – Neotango (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:46 minutes | 540 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty

Since its creation in 2020, Octetology has won the first prize of the international competition of Castelfidardo in Italy, in the category “Piazzolla Awards”; and counts on beautiful programs (Châtelet Theater, FIP live Studio concert at Radio France 104, Nacres Nights, Musical Nights of Uzès, Tango Festival of Gennevilliers, Generations France Live music, …). Dedicated to the flamboyant and emblematic Octeto Buenos Aires by Astor Piazzolla, these eight musicians trace the origins of Tango Nuevo to deliver a resolutely modern interpretation.

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Niels Vincentz – Going Easy (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Niels Vincentz – Going Easy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:36 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nice Productions

Renowned Danish saxophonist Niels Vincentz and his trio set out in open terrain on Gravity, their second recording for SteepleChase.

Inspired by the great “pianoless” jazz groups (Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Steve Lacy, Ornette Coleman), Vincentz is joined in his venture by two top drawer musicians – bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Billy Hart.

Hardbop is the part of jazz that grew big and strong up through the 1950s. It is jazz with body, soul and power. But above all it is jazz that – when it reaches the highest notes – will bring out the great joy and a strong desire in the musicians as well as the audience. This ensemble masters the expression, and there is rock-solid guarantee that the intuitive and ultra-dynamic drummer Billy Hart, will keep the pot boiling from the first beat to the last.

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Nate Smith – NATE SMITH (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Nate Smith – NATE SMITH (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:45 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arista Nashville

Smith was born in Chesapeake, Virginia, and started playing drums at age 11, initially influenced by rock and funk music. At 16, he developed an interest in jazz after listening to Album of the Year by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Smith studied media art and design at James Madison University. While at James Madison, he performed at the Conference of the International Association for Jazz Education in Atlanta, where he met Betty Carter, who invited him to joint performances at the Blue Note in New York City. Smith went to graduate school at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he met Dave Holland and joined Holland’s quintet in 2003. Smith appears on the albums Critical Mass (2005) and Pathways (2009). In 2017, he released his first album as leader, Kinfolk: Postcards from Everywhere on Ropeadope Records. In 2018 Smith cowrote and performed in the self-titled, debut EP release from the Vulfpeck spin-off group ‘The Fearless Flyers’, later going on a US tour with the group and releasing a second such EP in 2019.

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Nadav Berkovits – Cycle & Line (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Nadav Berkovits – Cycle & Line (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 23:43 minutes | 233 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ubuntu Music

Cycle & Line is my first solo piano project. I’ve been dreaming about it and imagining it for a long time. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to make it happen. My intention was to perform some new compositions just the way I would play these at home by myself, and to let the melodies tell the story.

After doing ‘Liberation Kriya’ (Kundalini Yoga meditation) for 40 days, I felt like this was the right time and soon thereafter I had the opportunity to record this project.

My intention was to bring out the melodies as much as I could and let these evolve very freely through improvisation. This five track EP is just me, the piano, and the music of that moment in time.

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Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:44 minutes | 505 MB | Genre: Coldwave, Dreampop, Indie Pop, Electronic, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ninja Tune

Nabihah Iqbal returns with ‘DREAMER’, her long-awaited new album out 28th April 2023 on Ninja Tune. Five years on since the London-born artist, curator, broadcaster and lecturer’s debut ‘Weighing Of The Heart’ was released and two years in the making, ‘DREAMER’ is Nabihah’s rawest and most reflective work to date.

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Mute Duo – 5amsky (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Mute Duo – 5amsky (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:18 minutes | 329 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Astral Editions

Building on simple composed melodies, Mute Duo explores an ambient atmosphere ranging from sparse chimes to pummeling drone with a free, rhythmic fluidity.

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Mulo Francel – The Melody Sax (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Mulo Francel – The Melody Sax (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:59 minutes | 673 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fine Music

A tribute to his 1923 C-melody saxophone and the instrument’s remarkable history on its 100th birthday, international saxophone phenomenon Mulo Francel presents ‘The Melody Sax’, set to release on April 28th on GLM Records.

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Mt. Desolation – Through Crooked Aim (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mt. Desolation – Through Crooked Aim (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:57 minutes | 762 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © No Roads Records

By their own admission, Mt. Desolation are an ‘odd and pretty varied’ collection of people. Oscillating around the band’s primary songwriters and vocalists Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin, the broader band are exquisite players with an innate ability to add the light and shade to initial song structures provided by Tim and Jesse. The recording of Through Cooked Aim, their third studio album, is the first time they’ve all congregated together in the same room since putting the finishing touches to When The Night Calls in 2017. It’s a process they cherish dearly.

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Moon – BEYOND THE MOON (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Moon – BEYOND THE MOON (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:55 minutes | 441 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Ltd.

Beyond The Moon by Moon is a captivating album that takes the listener on a journey through a dreamy, genre-blending soundscape. With a unique combination of electronic, jazz, and world music elements, each track is a mesmerizing exploration of mood and emotion. From pulsing rhythms, to soaring melodies, Moon’s talent for creating rich and evocative soundscapes is evident throughout the album.

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Mikayel Hakhnazaryan & Lia Hakhnazaryan – Inner World (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mikayel Hakhnazaryan & Lia Hakhnazaryan – Inner World (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:03 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RUBICON

Cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan writes in the introduction of his album ‘Inner Voices’: “When you leave your homeland, you leave behind something very important that is hard to describe in words. It is that light and air which you unconsciously love, it is the smell of spring, the kindness of people under whose warm gaze you flourish and of course, the sounds of music. How lucky we musicians are to be able to collect all these precious things into one whole – into music, into melodies that are always with us in our head and heart; melodies that belong to us all, that we can reproduce and relive at any time. By leaving one country you give yourself the chance to discover another world, where new motifs and colours accompany you like a guide, in the search for your own voice and your own inner world.”

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