Frances Faye – Relaxin’ with Frances Faye (Remastered 2014) (1956/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frances Faye – Relaxin’ with Frances Faye (Remastered 2014) (1956/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:32 minutes | 368 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records

An early session, released by Bethlehem in 1956, from a jazz vocalist. Frances Faye work with terrific musicians, some working without credit due to contractual problems, such as Maynard Ferguson, Herbie Mann and conductor/arranger Russ Garcia.

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Frances Faye – I’m Wild Again (Remastered 2014) (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frances Faye – I’m Wild Again (Remastered 2014) (1955/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:35 minutes | 506 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records

This 1955 album was also known by the title Bad, Bad Frances Faye when it was first reissued in the 1970s. Faye interprets these standards accompanied by an orchestra conducted by talented arranger Russell Garcia, featuring sidemen Maynard Ferguson, Herbie Harper, Frank Rosolino and Mel Lewis, among others.

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Frances Faye – Frances Faye Sings Folk Songs (Remastered 2014) (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frances Faye – Frances Faye Sings Folk Songs (Remastered 2014) (1957/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:18 minutes | 489 MB | Genre: Jazz, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

A 1957 session of traditional music recorded in anticipation that folk music would be the next big trend. Frances Faye is accompanied by brass and strings arranged by Russ Garcia and a band that includes Maynard Ferguson and Don Fagerquist on trumpets, Frank Rosolino on trombone and Mel Lewis on drums.

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Fran Warren – Sings (1965/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fran Warren – Sings (1965/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:16 minutes | 542 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stardust Records

Frances Wolff (March 4, 1926 – March 4, 2013), known professionally as Fran Warren, was an American singer.

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Fran Molina – Fran Molina Trio (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Fran Molina – Fran Molina Trio (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:54 minutes | 488 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piccolo

After completing his tour of the VIII edition of the Delhi Jazz Festival, Chennai and Trivandrum, this “World Champs Trio” presents his project in Madrid. Fran Molina (guitar), Carlos González (piano) and Fernando Alandes (drums) join their prolific careers as musicians of renowned international history with an immense curriculum that includes concerts in more than 40 countries. Fran Molina Trio is a fusion between jazz, the exoticism of flamenco and World Music, a proposal through the rhythms and melodies they have incorporated during their travels over the last few years.

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Fraktal – Reconciliation (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Fraktal – Reconciliation (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:02 minutes | 609 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2020 Fraktal

Fractal is a septet around the Swiss jazz guitarist Jan Herzog. In 2013 he founded the “Extended in Motion Sextet” from which the “Fractal” septet emerged in 2014. The music of the ensemble moves from dense networks to intimate solos and duos, seemingly simple harmonic and rhythmic structures to complex grooves and soundscapes. Passages written out for a long time are contrasted by large forms of improvisation. In the course of a concert, the formation affects various musical states of composition, both in terms of composition and improvisation, in both small and large.

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Fraktal – Polarisation of Light (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fraktal – Polarisation of Light (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:27 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © QFTF

FRAKTAL is a septet founded and led by swiss jazzguitarist Jan Herzog. His music, brought to life by each member‘s strong and individual sound, takes place inbetween classifications and is looking for the connective elements through the use of a modern jazz language. From dense nettings to intimate solos and duos, seemingly simple harmonical and ryhtmical structures to complex grooves and musical landscapes, FRAKTAL‘s first album „Polarisation Of Light“ explores the area of conflict between light and darkness.

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Anna Rosa Mari & Eira Lynn Jones – Fragments: Music for Flute & Harp (The Juniper Project) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Anna Rosa Mari & Eira Lynn Jones – Fragments: Music for Flute & Harp (The Juniper Project) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:07 minutes | 920 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Divine Art

We present The Juniper Project in their debut duo recording in the format of a concert recital with a variety of Romantic and modern works from Debussy to Lutosƚawski. The album title is named for the Lutosƚawski but also to represent the inclusion of highlight movements from works by Marson and Rutter.

Greek flutist Anna Rosa Mari is a vibrant performer who has appeared around the world as a soloist, has been principal flute with the Chamber Orchestra of the Greek National Opera and has appeared with the Halle, BBC Philharmonic and many other leading orchestras.

Eira Lynn Jones is one of the UK’s leading harpists with a wide range of activities including concertising, recording and teaching. A regular freelancer with most top UK orchestras, previously a member of the Manhattan Contemporary Music Ensemble, New York, she is currently also head of Harp at the Royal Northern College of Music.

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Fragile – Golden Fragments (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Fragile – Golden Fragments (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:28 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Force Ten Productions

Golden Fragments is the first original album from Fragile. Fragile were the original European Yes Tribute band founded in the late 1990s. We now work as an original band paying tribute to Yes in our own unique way. This album features Claire Hamill (solo singer-songwriter, Ray Davies, Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, John Martyn, Alan White, Jon & Vangelis, Wishbone Ash) and also special guest Clive Bayley from the 1960s pre Yes band Mabel Greer’s Toyshop.

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

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

James Braddell is an English musician and film maker, who uses the stage name of Funki Porcini. “Funki Porcini” is a twist on “Funghi Porcini”, the Italian name of the mushroom Boletus edulis, commonly known as “penny bun”.
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Fruition – Live Vol.1 (Live at Visual Arts Collective, Garden City, ID – Feb, 10 2019) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fruition - Live Vol.1 (Live at Visual Arts Collective, Garden City, ID - Feb, 10 2019) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Fruition – Live Vol.1 (Live at Visual Arts Collective, Garden City, ID – Feb, 10 2019) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:24 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brushfire Records – Universal

Fruition is happy to announce their first ever live release, “Live, Vol. 1” which is due out January 7th, 2022. Drummer and Mixing Engineer Tyler Thompson shares “This album is a recording of a show at Visual Arts Collective in Boise, ID on February 10th, 2019. It was the end of a long tour, so we were definitely firing on all cylinders. Luckily, we didn’t even know the show was being recorded to multitrack, so the energy couldn’t be more honest and rowdy. It was so fun going back through these live tracks that it makes us feel there may be many more live albums in future.”
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Fruit Bats – Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001–2021) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Fruit Bats – Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001–2021) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:46 minutes | 448 MB | Genre: Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Merge Records

Eric D. Johnson, the creative force behind Fruit Bats, doesn’t spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. “Maybe it speaks to some Midwest thing,” he says. “Don’t be overly reflective or navel-gazing. And as a songwriter, you always want to be looking forward, not backward.” But with the 20th anniversary of his first Fruit Bats release (2001’s Echolocation) on his mind, it seemed as good a time as any to take stock of his work—and he’s doing so in the form of Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001–2021), a two-disc collection that tracks the history of Fruit Bats from its earliest days to right now. Thoughtfully compiled by Johnson himself, this set is split in two distinct halves.
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Fritz Wunderlich – Schumann: Dichterliebe / Beethoven & Schubert: Lieder (1995/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fritz Wunderlich - Schumann: Dichterliebe / Beethoven & Schubert: Lieder (1995/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Fritz Wunderlich – Schumann: Dichterliebe / Beethoven & Schubert: Lieder (1995/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:22 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Tenor Fritz Wunderlich is accompanied by pianist Hubert Giesen on this highly-praised vintage album recorded at the Academy of Music in Munich in 1965. In addition to the titular Schumann work, the programme also includes Lieder by Schubert and Beethoven. Wunderlich was only 35 when he recorded this, less than a year before his tragic accidental death.

“Amongst all the singers I have played with during 50 years, there was only one whom I really loved like a son: Fritz Wunderlich. Our friendship began late and it ended just three and a half years later due to Wunderlich’s sudden death, that, it is no exaggeration to say, shook the whole world of music severely.”
– Hubert Giesen
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Friederike Chylek – William Byrd: Keyboard Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Friederike Chylek - William Byrd: Keyboard Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Friederike Chylek – William Byrd: Keyboard Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:00 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Oehms Classics

William Byrd’s work stands out above all for the variety of genres and structural principles. This is particularly evident in his unique keyboard music. The influence that Byrd also had on the continental development of piano music remains remarkable. With William Byrd, Friederike Chylek follows up on her last albums “From Byrd To Byrd” and “Time stands still”. Friederike Chylek plays on a copy of the harpsichord by Matthias Griewisch after Ioannes Ruckers, 1624.
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Fretwork – Matthew Locke: The Flat Consort (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Fretwork – Matthew Locke: The Flat Consort (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:37 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Signum Records

Matthew Locke was born 400 years ago in 1622, and while he is often ranked as one of England’s finest composers, he is still unaccountably neglected: his music may not be as immediately appealing as his immediate successor, Henry Purcell, nor as wide- ranging as William Byrd, yet his forceful musical personality and luxuriant technique place him in the first echelon of English composers, with his works described by Richard Boothby of Fretwork as having a “quixotic, capricious restlessness that is constantly challenging the listener to follow his argument … a thrilling musical ride”. Accompanying Fretwork on continuo for this recording are David Miller (archlute and theorbo) and Silas Wollston (harpsichord).
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