Emily King – Sides (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Emily King – Sides (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:29 minutes | 443 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATO (UK)

Her lush voice over her often dreamy arrangements make her my go-to visionary for love. She makes romance feel like cake, while singing to how unsweet it can turn. Thus, her acoustic renditions of her favorite and most beloved songs, in new album Sides, are still magical but feel more rooted in her lyrical wonders over love.

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Emily Jane White – They Moved In Shadow All Together (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Emily Jane White – They Moved In Shadow All Together (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:52 minutes | 879 MB | Genre: Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Talitres

The title of Emily Jane White’s fifth album, They Moved in Shadow All Together, is a play on the opening line from Cormac McCarthy’s novel Outer Dark which hauntingly depicts a group of uncanny travellers descending a hill in the Appalachian mountains. White remembers being struck by the vision of the travellers’ collective movement – fragmented, yet whole – and felt its resonance with her burgeoning record and its thematic exploration of trauma. The 11 songs on They Moved in Shadow All Together focus conceptually upon the symptomatology of trauma, a pattern of experiences marked by a fragmentation of the self. These songs contend with the impact of trauma on individual and collective identity – the shattered pieces within the psyche left to cope after tragedy, and the dissociative co-habitance of belief and disbelief that results. White wrote “The Black Dove” in support of the anti-racist struggle against police violence. In “Womankind,” she mourns the continuing epidemic of violence against women, and the silences that suppress the truths of survivors. She studied classical singing while working on this album, which enabled her to broaden her vocal range. Throughout the recording process, she experimented extensively in the echo chamber at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studio in San Francisco. She used the room as her instrument, wherein she gave herself permission to roam free, exploring every capability and constraint.

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Emily Jane White – Ode To Sentience (2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Emily Jane White – Ode To Sentience (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:24 minutes | 443 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Talitres Records

West coast balladeer Emily Jane White’s third album, Ode to Sentience, makes its home in the place where an irresistible force meets an immovable object, and the two create a deceptive state of seeming stasis. In fact, White’s songs take a microscope to the meeting point between the two, documenting the quiet but intense pressure that’s being applied there. With her cool, breathy voice, White could easily just coast her way through less weighty concerns and achieve a pleasingly breezy feel, but that’s not what she’s after. The songs on Ode to Sentience simmer with dark feelings just barely held in check, occasionally bubbling up to the surface just long enough to make moody insinuations on the proceedings. White’s measured vocal delivery betrays just the slightest tinge of melancholy, but for the most part she maintains enough distance from the subjects of her songs to get them all the way across the plate without ever descending into pathos or melodrama. That’s not to say these songs lack drama, though. Co-produced by White with Ross Harris, Ode to Sentience sports elegant, graceful chamber-folk arrangements that make the most of the space between the instruments. Simple acoustic guitar and piano lines, effective in their angularity, take center stage, with subtle touches providing succinct sonic shading around the edges. Of course, it’s all in the service of the songs, and of White’s vocals, which waft over the top of the tracks with a minimum of fuss but an undeniable sense of purpose. It’s the kind of record that could provide an excellent soundtrack for the first half of a horror movie, when intimations of unsettling phenomena are subtly suggested before all hell breaks loose. ~ J. Allen

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Emily Jane White – Immanent Fire (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Emily Jane White – Immanent Fire (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:19 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Talitres

Emily Jane White’s new album juxtaposes a heavy melancholy with an intimate touching lightness through her singular alto voice backed by orchestral percussion, soaring strings, heavy guitars, a choir of voices, and an overall cinematic presentation of dynamic songwriting. Written over a two year period her sixth album “Immanent Fire” recognizes our moment at the precipice of species annihilation, as she guides her listener through the feeling of life on a planet at the brink of destruction: “I watched the wind make the roses bend/does X really mark the end?” White honours the sacred, the earthly, and all that is deemed feminine, even as these very elements are threatened with the violence of contemporary systems of power. This is the dominant paradigm of modernity that feminist spiritual philosopher and witch Starhawk has named the “war on immanence.” Speaking directly from the fires incinerating California, White laments the destruction of the sacred feminine and the earth at once: “And she a holy vessel breathes/And you sit and watch her bleed/And you, torched a hole in the sky/And you, watched your earnings fly/And you, sit there as she lies/In blood, right before our eyes.” Ten songs, all written in minor keys, present a deepening storm of melody that offers the hopeful ray of Emily’s voice as the waves of rhythm crash and dance around her. Just before-or perhaps after-the despair seems to overwhelm, her vocals open up and bloom like a lens flare, creating an ecstatically painful emotional brilliance that the listener clings onto with pleasure. Her voice is the listener’s guide, a steady and reassuring presence as they march through eerie landscapes, caverns of reverb, church organs and synthetic arpeggios. The occasional samples of birds, insects, and thunder mix with the blend of electronic and acoustic instruments, a subtle reminder of the necessary link between the fate of our ecology and the moral use of technology.

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Emily Jane White – Blood / Lines (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Emily Jane White – Blood / Lines (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:49 minutes | 918 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Talitres

Emily Jane White is an American singer and songwriter from Oakland, California who has released five solo albums and toured internationally. In December 2013, White released Blood/Lines that included a contribution by Marissa Nadler. It was described as “a new stylistic development in her repertoire” and having a “neo-gothic feel”.

After releasing three albums in three years (2008s Dark Undercoat, 2009s Victorian America, and 2010s Ode To Sentience), Emily Jane White wrote over 100 sketches between January 2011 and October 2012. Her new album Blood Lines is a selected compilation of these songs. Recorded in a secluded studio in Sonoma County, the quiet environment provided Emily a place to explore new directions with artistic integrity and creative control, layering synthesizer, electric guitar, and multiple tracks of vocals into nine heavily reverbed scenes. With the help of friends and collaborators, Emilys worlds were diversified with strings, backing vocals, and heavy drums.

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Emily Hoile – Ballade (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Emily Hoile – Ballade (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:04 minutes | 488 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ars Produktion

With her first solo album, Emily Hoile would like to present works rarely heard on the harp until now. She takes great joy in arranging compositions for keyboard instruments and thus expanding the repertoire available to the harp: J.S. Bach’s Toccata in C minor and D. Scarlatti’s Sonata K.135 in E major make their debut on the harp with this release. The transcription of the Ballade by Claude Debussy is meant to underline the great importance that Paris had for harp music at the turn of the century. These arrangements are framed by two magnificent original compositions for the instrument: the surprisingly rarely played Harp Sonata by Casella and the Fantasy by Zabel inspired by Gounod’s Faust.

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Emily D’Angelo – enargeia (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Emily D’Angelo – enargeia (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:50 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Challenging conventions and pushing boundaries, Emily D’Angelo is a new musical force to be reckoned with. We are delighted to announce the signing of an exclusive agreement with the 26-year-old Italian-Canadian mezzo-soprano, an artist already in high demand at the world’s leading opera houses and concert venues. Just last week she made a highly acclaimed role and house debut as Sesto in La clemenza di Tito at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in a new production directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.

Her debut album enargeia includes original pieces by Mazzoli and Snider, as well as two stunning vocal works by the Oscar-winning Hildur Gudnad’ottir. enargeia is available for pre-order now and will be released 8 October 2021.

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Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – Dear River (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – Dear River (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:53 minutes | 831 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records

Full of contrasting dynamics and a broad cavalcade of emotions ‘Dear River’ is a fascinating exploration of self, place and people which sees Emily blend her own story into the wider joys and sorrows gleaned from her rigorous researches into others’ experiences of travel and emigration. With producer Calum Malcolm (The Blue Nile) at the helm, the result is a beautiful, sensitive, provocative and at times surprising album.
‘I’m so happy with this album.’ says Emily, barely containing her excitement, ‘The whole concept means so much to me and although the songs are quite personal, they also feel like they could be other people’s stories – it’s the best recording we’ve done.’

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Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – Almanac (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – Almanac (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:20 minutes | 834 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Everyone Sang

Within ‘Almanac’ there are stories of love, renewal, the importance of community and our relationship to the earth. Shadowing these lighter themes are darker truths of untold atrocities committed by settlers on indigenous Australians during colonisation, the mass hysteria regarding a Scottish witch-hunt, flourishing love and good old-fashioned heartbreak.

Although fronted by Emily, this is definitely a group album, with the four members of Emily, Gill, Jo and Anna providing guitar, accordion & flute, cello and violin respectively, with backing vocals shared out across the eleven songs. The quartet are joined throughout the disc by guest musicians who add a range of guitars, percussion and double bass, that add depth and drive to the collection. Emily is a compelling songwriter with a gift for melody and words. Her talent is perfectly complimented by the magnificent arrangements of The Red Clay Halo. Throughout the album, the interplay between the band’s rootsy ensemble playing, and Barker’s agile vocal blend of strength and fragility, is effortlessly engaging. In moments when the four female voices combine to deliver arresting harmonies, it is simply blissful.

Highlights include the dreamy textures of ‘Billowing Sea’, the nimble arrangements of ‘Reckless’, and the atmospheric lyrics of ‘Witch of Pittenweem’. ‘Almanac’ is a beautifully constructed and charming album, it certainly feels organic and natural, and the presentation of the songs is unaffected and with a real genuine air.

Upon its release ‘Almanac’ immediately attracted strong support from BBC Radio with sessions for Cerys Matthews on 6 Music and Radio 4’s Loose Ends, and single ‘Little Deaths’ was picked as ‘Record of the Week’ on Nemone’s 6 Music show. The album was also named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by BBC Music Magazine.

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Emily Barker – Sweet Kind of Blue (Deluxe Edition) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Emily Barker – Sweet Kind of Blue (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:37 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Everyone Sang

Emily Barker’s new album was recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with Grammy winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and an all-star cast of Memphis session players. Sweet Kind of Blue is her first full studio album since 2013’s critically lauded Dear River and marks a new sound for Barker as she returns to the soul and blues influences that first inspired her to become a songwriter and musician.

Emily Barker is best known as the writer and performer of the award-winning theme to BBC crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae and Applewood Road. In 2015 she composed her first full feature film soundtrack for Jake Gavin’s Hector, which won a Scottish BAFTA for its lead actor, Peter Mullan.

“Blues meets country meets gospel… a sweet and tender distillation of Americana influences” Clash

“Emily Barker has a gift for great melodies” The Guardian

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Emily Barker – A Dark Murmuration of Words (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Emily Barker – A Dark Murmuration of Words (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:09 minutes | 787 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Everyone Sang

Following the release of the blissful and poignant single ‘Return Me’, acclaimed UK based singer-songwriter Emily Barker has announced that her forthcoming album, ‘A Dark Murmuration of Words’, will be released on 4th September on Thirty Tigers. Emily has also released a lyric video for her beautiful new single, ‘The Woman Who Planted Trees’.

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Emily A. Sprague – Water Memory / Mount Vision (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Emily A. Sprague – Water Memory / Mount Vision (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:26:41 minutes | 775 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RVNG Intl

Emily A. Sprague’s Water Memory and Mount Vision are presented in new and vivid detail. Through sound and poetry, Emily’s craft focuses on fleeting moments of crystalline clarity and meditates on expanded lifetimes of intricate meaning-making. Memory and vision, ocean and mountains, question and answer, emotions and infinity. Sunshine, lizard, sea salt. Previously issued as small editions of self-released cassettes, Emily’s two albums have been resequenced and mastered by Taylor Deupree, each including previously unheard tracks.

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Emily A. Sprague – Hill, Flower, Fog (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Emily A. Sprague – Hill, Flower, Fog (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:41 minutes | 401 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RVNG Intl.

Emily A Sprague’s Hill, Flower, Fog is an illumination of consciousness across six modular meditations. A place, a poem, and a homespun ode to existing in “this cone of time in our universe,” Hill, Flower, Fog channels the here and now and fosters a far-reaching connectedness, or lifeline, from the everyday to the cosmos.

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Emilio Teubal – Tides (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Emilio Teubal – Tides (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:20 minutes | 260 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Panoramic Recordings

“Tides” is a compilation of improvised and composed pieces for solo piano. The genesis of this music happened during a very compressed period of time in early 2019; all the pieces carry an underlying connection and an overall sense of unity. According to Teubal, 2019 became the year “…in which I personally became worried, aware and extremely conscious about what kind of planet I will leave for my son and his generation”. The title “Tides” refers to the impact of global warming on ocean levels and the subsequent damage it will cause. “Tides” also references the political oscillations surrounding government policies that threaten the chances of properly addressing climate change. Although Teubal did not initially intend this album as a climate change activist statement, these crucial environmental issues were present on an unconscious level. Consequently the music sounds and breathes these themes.

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Emilie-Claire Barlow, Holly Cole, Polly Gibbons, Shirley Horn – Jazz Ballads, Vol. 2 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Emilie-Claire Barlow, Holly Cole, Polly Gibbons, Shirley Horn – Jazz Ballads, Vol. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:47 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD

Another selection of great ballads performed by 2xHD’s best female jazz singers and instrumentalists, a follow up to the much appreciated Jazz Ballads album released on 2xHD two years ago. It includes performances by Shirley Horn, Holly Cole, Ben Webster, and more.

This compilation, comprised of various legends of jazz and voice, is sure to be please fans and collectors alike with its sensitive and careful selection of stunning and emotional performances.

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