Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun (1995) [Reissue 2018]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 64:15 minutes | Scans included | 2,58 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 2,53 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,47 GB
Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. He was part of the burgeoning music scene in Athens, Georgia, during the 1980s before gaining commercial success in the 1990s. “100% Fun” is his fifth album. The album was met with moderate commercial success and favorable reviews. The single “Sick of Myself” reached #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart and appeared on the top 100 pop song charts of the day. Critic David Browne of Entertainment Weekly, who included 100% Fun on his year’s-best list, wrote in his review that it “makes you feel as if a good pop hook can solve any crisis”. The title of the album was derived from Kurt Cobain’s 1994 suicide note.
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Matthew Lien – Arctic Refuge (2004)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 47:04 minutes | Scans included | 3,07 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 890 MB
Matthew Carl Lien is a Yukon, Canada based World music singer-songwriter and producer. His primary lyrical and musical focus is on environmental and cultural themes. Preferring his native San Diego to Los Angeles, he discovered Signature Sound recording studios in San Diego, California, which is owned by his friend and musician/producer Luis Arteaga whom he met earlier at Mix Masters, where he recorded most of his albums to date, with the exception of his Hybrid SACD “Arctic Refuge” which was recorded at Bryan Adams’ Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He now has a fan base of millions in Taiwan and China, where he is known for his environmental music and his work with aboriginal and traditional cultures.
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Matt Bianco – Matt’s Mood (2004)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:17 minutes | Scans included | 2,69 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 907 MB
Formed by ex-members of modern jazz ensemble Blue Rondo a la Turk, Matt Bianco evolved into one of England’s top jazz-pop bands.
The contemporary jazz group Matt Bianco enjoyed considerable success in the ’80s, but the band was short-lived. It originally included a singer named Basia, who soon after the band’s demise embarked on a successful solo career, keeping Bianco keyboardist Danny White as a collaborator. More than 20 years later, Matt Bianco has reformed, and from the sound of their reunion album, Matt’s Mood (Decca), the group members seem to be enjoying making music together again. Basia and the band’s other original singer, Mark Reilly, share vocal responsibilities; the Brazilian “Ordinary Day” features harmonies unmistakably Basia, and while Reilly sings lead on the jazzy “Wrong Side of the Street,” Basia takes a chorus in her native Polish. The playful “Ronnie’s Samba” salutes deceased saxophonist Ronnie Ross, who played in Matt Bianco’s original incarnation. One quibble: The fadeout at the end of the closing track, “Matt’s Mood III,” makes the tune feel unfinished-such a vigorous instrumental jam really calls for a decisive ending-but overall this is a fun and welcomed comeback album.
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Various Artists – Master – Superior Audiophile (2016)
Instrumental, Jazz, Tango | SACD ISO: DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 0.97 GB
Label: Master | Release Year: 2016
This sampler SACD contains music from such artist as Sinne Eeg, Quadro Nuevo, Scott Hamilton, Nicki Parott, Fragile, Simone Kopmajer, Martina Eisenrich and more.
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Kenny Wheeler – Live ’71: The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 29:32 minutes | 308 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © British Progressive Jazz
Recorded live in London on the 24th May 1971. Previously unreleased. Stereophonic sound. Currently the earliest known recording of Kenny Wheeler leading his own big band.
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Jordi Savall – W. A. Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:48 minutes | 812 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alia Vox
At the age of 14, Jordi Savall attended a rehearsal of Mozart’s Requiem. He was so strongly moved by the music that he decided to become a musician himself … From 2021 to 2023, Savall again worked intensively on Mozart’s last work as a musician and intellectual. Together with soloists, the choir La Capella Nacional de Catalunya and the orchestra Le Concert des Nations, a new interpretation was developed in intensive rehearsals, and six concerts, which is now available. Says Savall: “Rarely has a composition been so strongly shaped by the genius and suffering of a human being.”
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Joel Frederiksen – Walther von der Vogelweide (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:20 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © deutsche harmonia mundi
He was the most important German-language lyricist and minnesinger of the Middle Ages: Walther von der Vogelweide. But his musical legacy is as obscure as his biography. Only a few of his melodies have survived. Now the American bass, lutenist and ensemble leader Joel Frederiksen and his ensemble Phoenix Munich present an entire album of Walther’s songs reconstructed for the first time.
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Joe Farnsworth – In What Direction Are You Headed? (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:53 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smoke Sessions
Drummer Joe Farnsworth sets out on a bold new path in answer to the question IN WHAT DIRECTION ARE YOU HEADED? and features a stellar all-star quintet with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, pianist Julius Rodriguez, and bassist Robert Hurst.
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Joe Beck, Attila Zoller – Beck & Zoller (1979/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:32:57 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Progressive
Attila Zoller, a leading Hungarian guitarist and mentor of Pat Metheny, and Joe Beck, a guitarist who is said to have been the first guitarist Miles Davis used.
This album is a guitar duo album by Attila Zoller and Joe Beck. Recorded on 23 January 1979 for Progressive Records.
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Jim Alfredson – Family Business (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:08 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Posi-Tone Records
Jim Alfredson brings everyone together for his first release as a leader for Posi-Tone Records. With all star horn players supporting a top notch organ trio in combination with a stunning program of new compositions and innovative arrangements, “Family Business“ clearly demonstrates Alfredson’s musical leadership and his total mastery of the Hammond organ. This hard hitting sextet session features the inspired front line playing of Diego Rivera on tenor saxophone, Alex Sipiagin on trumpet, and Michael Dease on trombone, along with the cool comping of Will Bernard on guitar, and the steady metrics of EJ Strickland on drums. Jazz fans everywhere will certainly agree that Jim Alfredson’s “Family Business” is a swinging good time that jazz fans of all ages can dig into over and over again!
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Jethro Tull – Jethro Tull (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 819 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Blues Rock, Jazz Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vox Humana
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, England in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band later developed their sound to incorporate elements of hard rock and folk to forge a progressive rock signature. The band is led by vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, and has featured a revolving door of lineups through the years among of which include significant members such as longtime guitarist Martin Barre, keyboardists John Evan, Dee Palmer, Peter-John Vettese and Andrew Giddings, drummers Clive Bunker, Barrie “Barriemore” Barlow and Doane Perry, and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, John Glascock, Dave Pegg and Jonathan Noyce.
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Jean-Paul Gasparian – Debussy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:03 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve
Jean-Paul Gasparian is one of the most promising young pianists. There is a consensus on this not only in music criticism. The audience is also regularly enchanted by the poetic intensity of his playing in combination with his light-footed perfection. The young Frenchman, who was awarded numerous prizes after his studies at the Paris National Conservatoire, comes to the castle courtyard with a program that exemplifies the breadth of his skills. The floating, shimmering sounds of Claude Debussy’s groundbreaking Préludes require a high degree of delicacy of sound and at the same time creative finesse. The monumental piano sonata in F minor op. 5 by Johannes Brahms complements the musical panorama with the highest passion and a wide range of feelings. The five movements of the sonata are full of emotion and of overwhelming sonority. The compositional density of this exceptional work is also enormous: the musical complexity and the richness of relationships are in no way inferior to the expressiveness.
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Jean-Louis Murat – Best Of (Deluxe Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:44:39 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Pop, Pop Rock, New Wave, Chanson
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © [PIAS] Le Label
Exciting, unpredictable, fascinating and brilliant, Murat is an artist in the ‘noble’ sense of the term. Bringing together all his emblematic titles, from the youthful seed until today where the Murat style reached its peak with songs that reach here peaks of emotions – the mark of the “greats”. Jean-Louis Murat is now in the position of an artist who has reached a form of evidence that allows him all the audacity of a “Best Of” album which is already unanimous. A little magical masterpiece with a rebellious pen that fits perfectly with the times. We reach music lovers all over the world.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Adam Walker, BBC Philharmonic & Yan Pascal Tortelier – Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:21 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Pierre Sancan was a tremendously influential figure in French musical life, as a composer, pianist, teacher, and conductor, but remains relatively unknown outside France. Born in Mazamet, in 1916 – the same year as Dutilleux – he received his early musical training in Morocco and, later, Toulouse. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1934 where he studied with Jean Gallon, conducting with Charles Munch and Roger Désormière, piano with Yves Nat, and composition with Henri Busser. He won the Prix de Rome in 1943, and eventually joined the staff in 1956, teaching there until his retirement, in 1985. A list of his piano students reads like a who’s who of French pianists and includes Michel Béroff, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Daniel Varsano, Jacques Rouvier, Jean-Philippe Collard, and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Yan Pascal Tortelier, whilst not a direct student of Sancan, attended the Paris Conservatoire while he taught there, and remembers his influence: ‘of course through his extraordinary pianistic imagination but even more so by his physical allure and overwhelming personality’. This programme of the Piano Concerto, orchestral works, works for solo piano, and the flute Sonatine (played by Adam Walker) serves as a personal tribute to Sancan from both pianist and conductor, who very much hope that it will help to raise awareness of this gifted composer and his music.
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James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner – Nielsen Violin: Concerto, Symphony No. 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:51 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Nielsen’s epic Violin Concerto was premiered in Copenhagen in February 1912, by violinist Peder Moller. Nominally the work is set in two movements; both open with a slow section and move to a faster one. Whilst unusual, this could be seen as a more usual fast – slow – fast three movement form, but with an extensive slow introduction to the first movement. The music moves quickly from one idea to the next, and overall has a bold, playful and optimistic feel. In stark contrast, although written only a few years later, the fourth symphony is more cohesive and unified as a work. Written against the background of the first world war, the work is a celebration of life itself. Just before the premier in 1916, Nielsen described it as: ‘Music is Life, and, like it, inextinguishable.’ Composed in the usual four movement form, each movement continues from the last without a break. The final movement features two sets of timpani battling each other across the orchestra.
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