Leyla McCalla – A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Leyla McCalla – A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:08 minutes | 771 MB | Genre: Folk, Blues, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz Village

As with her excellent debut album, Leyla McCalla brings all of her diverse cultural influences to her music. A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey manages to show both the singer’s Haitian roots, but also that Louisiana folk that has seeped into her music since her move to New Orleans. English, French or Creole are all languages in which she performs, and the New York-born artist also juggles influences from Jazz and Blues.

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Lexi Walker – Merry Christmas (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lexi Walker – Merry Christmas (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 24:54 minutes | 282 MB | Genre: Pop, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Portrait – Sony Masterworks

Sony Music Masterworks imprint Portrait Records signs singing sensation Lexi Walker, the dynamic 13-year-old whose performance of “Let It Go” from Frozen has received over 72 million YouTube views.

Lexi’s holiday-themed debut album Merry Christmas, available November 20, features traditional and new holiday songs from both sides of the Atlantic, including “O Holy Night,” “Christmastime Is Here,” “Pat A Pan,” “When a Child is Born,” plus “We Need a Little Christmas” from Broadway’s Mame. It also includes her rendition of the hit “Let It Go” and more.

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Lexi Walker – Inspire (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lexi Walker – Inspire (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:37 minutes | 434 MB | Genre: Vocal Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks

Portrait Records announces the release of INSPIRE, the first ever full-length album from America’s newest sweetheart, Lexi Walker. INSPIRE is available on October 27, 2017.

A follow-up to Lexi’s 2016 EP release, Wishes and Dreams, the new album – Inspire –  includes the songs from the EP “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” from Cinderella, “When You Wish Upon a Star” from Pinocchio and Celine Dion’s “The Power of the Dream,” plus iconic songs like “Don’t Rain On My Parade” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

INSPIRE also features two new original songs “Tiny Voice” and “Once More,” written by Lexi. Plus, on three of the songs, Lexi collaborated with guest artists including global YouTube superstars The Piano Guys (“What A Wonderful World”), Grammy-nominated violinist Jenny Oaks Baker (“The Prayer”) and vocal trio GENTRI (“When You Believe”).

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Lex Jasper Trio – Lexposure (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lex Jasper Trio – Lexposure (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:56 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Records

It is not often that one is lucky enough to directly observe the creation of unique beauty, perfect craftsmanship, absolute passion and profound dedication. I recently had the wonderful opportunity to experience these with the creation of “Lexposure”, in Cologne at the end of August 2020. This took place in the legendary, state-of-the-art “Riverside Studios”, under the auspices of the producer Ralf Kemper, who actively and artistically directed the entire technical recording at the mixing desk.

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Lewis Wright, Kit Downes – Duets (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lewis Wright, Kit Downes – Duets (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:43 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Award-winning British vibraphonist, composer and drummer Lewis Wright explodes the rhythmic and polyphonic possibilities offered by vibraphone and piano. His new album “Duets” reinforces his claim to be a very serious international musician. If you already thought as much – on the evidence of his exemplary vibes work with Empirical – then Duets adds a further seven case studies of exquisite chamber jazz, beautifully recorded at Air Studios.

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Oerknal Ensemble, Damask Vocal Quartet – Canto (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Oerknal Ensemble, Damask Vocal Quartet – Canto (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:12 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 7 Mountain Records

On Friday 15 October 2021, Canto will be released, the second album of the collective for new music Big Bang (on the photo together with recording producer Frerik De Jong). The cd contains three works by the American composer Lewis Nielson. The nine-part Cilice is specially written for Big Bang and the Damask Vocal Quartet, which can also be heard on the album. “Nielson hides and hides information in many of his works,” says Big Bang conductor Gregory Charette. “Every time you listen to it or play it, you hear something new. It would be far too much if everything that is in this music were to reveal itself in one go. In this way, certain texts are pulled apart in such a way that at first you can only discern syllables or even single letters.”Canto is released by 7 Mountain Records. Read more in the press release of De Nieuwsbakelaar.

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Lewis Capaldi – Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (Extended Edition) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lewis Capaldi – Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (Extended Edition) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:15 minutes | 612 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vertigo Berlin

2018 was a truly remarkable year for budding Scottish artist Lewis Capaldi, going from years of playing in local pubs around Scotland to selling 75,000 headline show tickets on 3 sold out back-to-back headline tours and being handpicked to support Sam Smith, Bastille, Rag’n’ Bone Man & Niall Horan. He quickly amassed 300 million plays on his 9 released tracks across streaming services & eventually entered the top 40 with Grace, featuring an unforgettable video of Lewis and some topless men! Critical support also came in it’s droves as he was shortlisted for the BRITs Critic’s Choice award, longlisted for BBC’s Sound of 2018 and added to Radio 1’s covetable Brit List.

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Lewis Capaldi – Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lewis Capaldi – Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:29 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vertigo Berlin

2018 was a truly remarkable year for budding Scottish artist Lewis Capaldi, going from years of playing in local pubs around Scotland to selling 75,000 headline show tickets on 3 sold out back-to-back headline tours and being handpicked to support Sam Smith, Bastille, Rag’n’ Bone Man & Niall Horan. He quickly amassed 300 million plays on his 9 released tracks across streaming services & eventually entered the top 40 with Grace, featuring an unforgettable video of Lewis and some topless men! Critical support also came in it’s droves as he was shortlisted for the BRITs Critic’s Choice award, longlisted for BBC’s Sound of 2018 and added to Radio 1’s covetable Brit List.

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Lewis Wright, Matt Brewer & Marcus Gilmore – The Colour of Intention (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lewis Wright, Matt Brewer & Marcus Gilmore – The Colour of Intention (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:05 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

‘The colour of intention’ refers to the creative process itself: that in order to express yourself honestly in music, you have to generate clear intentions developed from thoughts and emotions which then colour the work rather than explaining every aspect of it. In the moment of performance, the goal then becomes to put all these previous investigations out of mind and exist in the present. The colour of intention is describing everything except performance; the slower processes of development, reflection and refinement and how they’ll seep, often unpredictably, into everything that ends up being realised. Working with Matt (Brewer) and Marcus (Gilmore) adds the last and most engaging dimension. How they interpret the music, interact and bring their own highly developed languages to bare, creates something that’s both a reflection of my intentions and also infinitely more sophisticated than it’s possible for me to conceive of. I think in this sense, human connection is the greatest element of what it is we do as musicians.

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Levon Avagyan – Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 87-92 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Levon Avagyan – Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 87-92 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:26 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

His appointment in 1757 as maestro di capilla and organist at the Escorial, the royal palace established by Philip II of Spain, allowed Antonio Soler to mix with fellow court musicians, among whom was Domenico Scarlatti, whose influence was to remain profound. Soler wrote some 150 sonatas, his greatest compositional memorial, most for the young prince, Don Gabriel. The works in this volume reveal Soler’s mastery of dashing bravura and his exploitation of a full keyboard range in Sonata No. 88, felicities of hand-crossing in Sonata No. 89, and his awareness of the contemporary influence of Haydn in Sonata No. 92.

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LEVARA – LEVARA (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

LEVARA – LEVARA (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:56 minutes | 469 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mascot Records

LEVARA’s union merged in Los Angeles. Singer Jules Galli emigrated from France, while drummer Josh Devine chose L.A. as home versus his native United Kingdom following success behind the kit with One Direction. There they found common vision with Trev Lukather (guitar), son of Toto’s Steve Lukather. Every tune on the band’s debut emanates from inspiration culled from their lives, and their mission is to rally the globe to connect and groove with the band. These songs display a larger than life sound. A realized vision. Anthemic tunes written and recorded visualizing a mass audience becoming one with the body of work. Integrating their personal voices to the live experience. Or simply as a personal soundscape cruising the asphalt with the car stereo cranking.

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Lev Polyakin – Last Silence (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lev Polyakin – Last Silence (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:09 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Azica Records

Performed by the trio for whom it was written, Paul Schoenfield’s new composition “”Last Silence”” picks up where “”Cafe Music”” left off. A show stopping tour de force of excitement and emotion. Schoenfield’s “”Four Souvenirs”” is finally released here by violinist Lev Polyakin and pianist Frances Renzi, who commissioned the work. Beautiful trios by Rota and Cui round out the album. Paul Schoenfelds music is widely performed and continues to draw an ever-expanding group of fans. According to Juilliards Joel Sachs, he is among those all-too-rare composers whose work combines exuberance and seriousness, familiarity and originality, lightness and depth. His work is inspired by the whole range of musical experience, popular styles both American and foreign, vernacular and folk traditions, and the normal historical traditions of cultivated music making, often treated with sly twists. Above all, he has achieved the rare fusion of an extremely complex and rigorous compositional mind with an instinct for accessibility and a reveling in sound that sometimes borders on the manic.

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Lettuce – Resonate (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lettuce – Resonate (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:35 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Hill Records

As the follow up to their 2019 Grammy Award- nominated album Elevate, genre-defying funk-jazz-soul-hip-hop-psychedelic-jam-rock-experimental music titans Lettuce have announced their seventh studio album. Resonate finds the acclaimed six-piece once again breaking rules, pushing boundaries and uplifting spirits as evidenced with the first single, the funkified “Checker Wrecker”. Drawing on a longstanding collective passion for Washington, DC go-go music, Lettuce welcomes scene legends Big Tony Fisher of Trouble Funk and Tyrone “Jungle Boogie” Williams of Rare Essence into their ecosystem on the new song, which features funk guitars and simmering horns dipping in and out of a percussive pocket before the track struts into swaggering chants.

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Letizia Calandra – Guastavino: Song Cycles (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Letizia Calandra – Guastavino: Song Cycles (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:55 minutes | 545 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

Carlos Guastavino (Santa Fe, Argentina, 1912-2000) was very unusual among his contemporaries in being unafraid to “distance himself” from the modernist and avant-garde tendencies of his day. He resolutely followed his own path, leaving experimentation to others, creating a catalogue of over 500 intimate, autobiographical works harking back to the nineteenth century, many of them for voice and piano.

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Let Spin – Steal the Light (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Let Spin – Steal the Light (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:07 minutes | 499 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Efpi Records

Let Spin’s third album, ‘Steal the Light’, displays the progress they have made in developing their respective compositional voices and musical outlooks that has resulted in their most accomplished, experimental and meticulously-produced album to date.

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