Harry James & His Music Makers – Flash Harry (1965/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Harry James & His Music Makers – Flash Harry (1965/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:14 minutes | 770 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records

Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his technical proficiency as well as his tone, and was influential on new trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band.

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Goldmund Quartet – PRISMA (EP) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Goldmund Quartet – PRISMA (EP) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:16 minutes | 428 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Neue Meister

The Germany-based Goldmund Quartet extends it’s repertoire into modern classical music with a deep dive into the world of contemporary classical music arranged for string quartets. It features pieces by Arvo Pärt, Uno Helmersson, and Philip Glass and newly composed pieces by Sophia Jani and Pascal Schumacher.

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Girls in Airports – How It is Now (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Girls in Airports – How It is Now (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:13 minutes | 834 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kaja RECORDS

On March 23, 2023, Girls in Airports will release their eighth album titled “how it is now”. It is the band’s first release since going from being a quintet to Quartet in 2020. The smaller ensemble allows more space for all four instrumentalists and creates a stronger sense of togetherness, with the band members playing from an inner force.

The expression on the nye album is more imaginative, melodic and dynamically varied than hitherto. The album is a kind of documentation of where the band is right now, exploring a brighter sound with endless possibilities. The album is a testament to having the courage to be yourself and choose your own path. It revolves around themes such as having the courage to stand by oneself and giving oneself space and tranquility to exist.

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Gene Krupa & His Orchestra – Gene Krupa ’44’46 (1979/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gene Krupa & His Orchestra – Gene Krupa ’44’46 (1979/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:03 minutes | 701 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hep Records

During his time as a drummer with Benny Goodman, Krupa legally recorded a number of tracks under his own name twice (as Gene Krupa and His Chicagoans in November 1935 for Parlophone and in February 1936 as Gene Krupa’s Swing Band) with soloists such as Chu Berry, Vido Musso, Israel Crosby (for whom Krupa wrote “Blues for Israel”) and Roy Eldridge, including vocal numbers with Helen Ward, Irene Daye and Jerry Kruger. A few months after the spectacular Carnegie Hall concert, which took place in January 1938, Krupa left Goodman’s orchestra and formed his own big band.

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Geir Draugsvoll – Fachwerk – Silenzio (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Geir Draugsvoll – Fachwerk – Silenzio (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:54 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

Sofia Gubaidulina’s distinguished career and her 80th anniversary are celebrated with this world première recording of Fachwerk. Recorded here by its acclaimed dedicatee Geir Draugsvoll and in the presence of the composer, this dramatic but also magical work is inspired by a fascination with architectural styles of timber framing. The bayan is a distinctively Russian variant of the accordion and is an essential feature of this piece, also giving a special character to the subtle poetry and textures of Silenzio.

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Gabor Juhasz Trio – Planets (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gabor Juhasz Trio – Planets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:03 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © My Reel Club

A very interesting material, both in mood and instrumentation, of compositions by Gábor Juhász, performed by the Juhász Gábor Trio, Tony Lakatos (saxophone) and Júlia Karosi (vocals), with musical thoughts about the planets of the Solar System. The tape version of the Planets album was mixed live in stereo at the Digital Pro Studio, the recording location, and is pure analogue material without any post-production.

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G.A.P. Ensemble, Emilio Percan, Oriol Aymat Fusté, Luca Quintavalle & Christian Euler – Wilms: Piano Quartets & Piano Trio (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

G.A.P. Ensemble, Emilio Percan, Oriol Aymat Fusté, Luca Quintavalle & Christian Euler – Wilms: Piano Quartets & Piano Trio (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:57 minutes | 712 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

Thanks to recordings such as this one, the figure of Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772-1847) is increasingly coming into focus and prominence as a notable contemporary of Beethoven who deserves better than his previous obscurity. In 1807, the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung described the Wilms as ‘one of the most ingenious, spirited, and best educated artists’ of his generation: a judgment borne out by the this trio of high-spirited chamber works.

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Funki Porcini – Where the Sauce Is Deluxe (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Funki Porcini – Where the Sauce Is Deluxe (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:41 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Uterus Goldmine

This is some of the music composed for the Laserium, a sound to light extravagance that I have been working on over the last year. The Laserium is a method of using sound to drive lasers that are refracted or reflected to corresponding individual voices in the music. It’s all very psychedelic but without a drug. Very strange.

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François-Xavier Roth, London Symphony Orchestra – Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra – Debussy: Jeux (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

François-Xavier Roth, London Symphony Orchestra – Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra – Debussy: Jeux (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:34 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live

Opening with its famous ‘Sunrise’ fanfare, there is no mistaking Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra. A bold, intrepid tone poem, famously used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey, it explores mankind’s place in the universe, diving headfirst into themes of religion, science and individuality.

François-Xavier Roth’s interpretation of Debussy’s Jeux completes the album. The kaleidoscopic score begins in a darkened stillness, developing fluidly with flashes of light and playful, chromatic motifs that perfectly depict the ‘games’—firstly childish, later amorous—of the ballet’s characters.

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Forges – Forges (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Forges – Forges (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:24 minutes | 771 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Galileo Music Communication

This repertoire emerges from a reflection on the value of limitations in art as a tool of renouncement and transgression. On the concrete use of limitations in composing as a device of emancipation — tracing the frame from which to extract ourselves —. Here, written music is apprehended like a block of raw matter which each member is called upon to peel, bend or weld onto another.

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Florilegium, Ashley Solomon – The Spohr Collection, Vol. 2 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Florilegium, Ashley Solomon – The Spohr Collection, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:21:57 minutes | 2,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Channel Classics

Internationally acclaimed flutist Ashley Solomon and period ensemble Florilegium present “Spohr Collection, Vol. 2”. Ashley Solomon: “The opportunity of playing original flutes from the 18th century is a rare occurrence. Whenever the chance presents itself, it must be seized immediately!”.

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Fall Out Boy – So Much (For) Stardust (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Fall Out Boy – So Much (For) Stardust (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:20 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fueled By Ramen

The album marks a homecoming for the band on multiple fronts; the first of which found the band reuniting with renowned producer Neal Avron, whom they’ve worked with on three previous albums (‘From Under the Cork Tree’ (2005), ‘Infinity on High’ (2007) & ‘Folie à Deux’ (2008)). Additionally, ‘So Much (For) Stardust’ will be released on Fueled By Ramen/Elektra – Fall Out Boy’s first album with the label since their 2003 debut album ‘Take This to Your Grave’, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on May 6th 2023.

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Faenza, Marco Horvat – Bernabei: Concerto madrigalesco (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Faenza, Marco Horvat – Bernabei: Concerto madrigalesco (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:01 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EnPhases

Printed in Rome in 1669, the fifteen pieces that make up the Concerto madrigalesco a tre voci diverse by Ercole Bernabei (1622-1687) are recorded here for the first time in their entirety. These madrigals transport us to Baroque Rome and the world of Flavio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, to whom they are dedicated. They afford a glimpse of the tastes that prevailed at that time among the aristocratic families, who were convinced that the arts, and music in particular, reflected not only the power and fortune, but also the sensitivity and refinement of those who patronised them.

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Esmé Quartet – Yessori: Sound From The Past – Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Lyuh (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Esmé Quartet – Yessori: Sound From The Past – Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Lyuh (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:33 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

The ‘Dissonance’ Quartet is probably the best-known of the set of six Mozart wrote between 1782 and 1785 as a tribute to Haydn. It owes its nickname to the strange clashes of the slow introduction in C minor. Almost a century later, the thirty-year-old Tchaikovsky wrote his Quartet no.1, op.11, whose second movement, which moved Tolstoy to tears, was inspired by a folk tune that the composer heard a housepainter whistling. The musicians of the Esmé Quartet chose these two pieces because they love their respective Andante cantabile movements. The four young women also decided to put the spotlight on one of their compatriots, the South Korean composer Soo Yeon Lyuh, who in 2016 wrote Yessori, ‘sound from the past’, for the Kronos Quartet. She explains: ‘I first got used to playing the piano and the violin. So, later, when I encountered Korean traditional music, its relative pitch relationships and fluid rhythmic cycles felt completely new.’

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Eric Bibb – Ridin’ (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eric Bibb – Ridin’ (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:52 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © REPUTE RECORDS AB

The follow-up to his multiple award-winning, critically-acclaimed 2021 album, Dear America, Ridin’ is a continuation of the vision that informs Bibb’s artistry as a modern-day Blues troubadour. Grounded in the folk and blues tradition with contemporary sensibilities, Bibb’s music continues to reflect his thoughts on current world events and his own lived experiences, whilst remaining entertaining, uplifting, inspirational and relevant.

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