Yoann Loustalot – Yeti (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Yoann Loustalot – Yeti (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:12 minutes | 443 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pure Capture Publishing

Yoann Loustalot is a melodic and singular voice of the European trumpet, with a unique sound. For this new trio, he brings together the guitarist Giani Caserotto and the drummer Stefano Lucchini. The music proposed by the group oscillates between compositions and total improvisations. – This atypical trio, formed by these exceptional musicians, takes us into its poetic and virtuoso universe. – In the mid-1990s, Dave Douglas’s Tiny Bell Trio had already carved out a niche in this unusual playing configuration: trumpet, guitar and drums. Here, Yoann Loustalot’s Yéti Trio experiments with this orchestral formula, and records a first LP that makes a mark. This trio is, associated to the delicate and vehement trumpet or to the sovereign and capricious flugelhorn of the leader-artist Yoann Loustalot; its crest lines, its loving murmurs, the dilating lyricism of Giani Caserotto’s guitar; its supersonic saturations and other zebras, and the voluptuousness and other rhythmic intensities of Stefano Lucchini’s drums; its nuances and other veins. Clearly a superlative listening (jazz privileges the being together, this game of egos without the heaviness and other impediments of the ego). Listening, space, fluidity, mobility. This is a powerfully orchestral triangular game; versatile, the functions of each other change. At the turn of the moment. The nine tracks on this record are only first takes; you can hear it. What do we know about the Yeti (a valid word for scrabble), that abominable snowman who lives in the high Himalayas in Tibet? What do we know about the music of the Yeti Trio? That it goes its own way, in progress, intense, shrouded in solar beauty, snowed under by flashes and purity. (Franck Médioni)

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Ying Li – Mozart: Sonatas K. 281 & K. 333 – Bartok: Suite Op. 14 & Sonata (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ying Li – Mozart: Sonatas K. 281 & K. 333 – Bartok: Suite Op. 14 & Sonata (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:25 minutes | 763 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.

Debut album for Ying Li, winner of the first edition of the Antonio Mormone International Prize in 2021 after having also established herself at the Young Concert Artist Auditions in New York and at the Concours Musical International de Montréal as a finalist.

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Yevgeny Sudbin, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui – Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54, Prometheus, Op. 60 & Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yevgeny Sudbin, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui – Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54, Prometheus, Op. 60 & Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:52 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

One of the boldest and most radical composers of all time, Alexander Scriabin had a lifelong obsession with occult and mystical ideas. Initially under the influence of Chopin, Wagner and Liszt, his music later became more complex, taking on an expressive power which provoked extreme reactions from audiences – of adulation as well as repulsion. Not shying away from hyperbole, Scriabin once declared: “I am the apotheosis of creation – I am the aim of all aims – I am the end of all ends”.

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Yevgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra – Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7, The Swan of Tuonela – Claude Debussy: Nocturnes Nos. 1 & 2 (2016/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yevgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra – Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7, The Swan of Tuonela – Claude Debussy: Nocturnes Nos. 1 & 2 (2016/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:53 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Praga Digitals

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Yellowjackets – Parallel Motion (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yellowjackets – Parallel Motion (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:06 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

‘Parallel Motion’ from jazz fusion legends Yellowjackets, is a true testament to the longevity and resilience of a band who debuted over 40 years ago. Consistently reinventing themselves through elevated instrumentation in their signature electro-acoustic soundscape, the current lineup consisting of Bob Mintzer (tenor & soprano saxophone/EWI), Russell Ferrante (piano/keyboards), Will Kennedy (drums, keyboards) and Dane Alderson (electric bass, MIDI Sequencing) showcases a collective at their prime. This album features 9 new original compositions and guest vocalist Jean Baylor (4x GRAMMY® Award Nominee of the Baylor Project and R&B duo Zhané) on “If You Believe.”

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Yelena Eckemoff – Colors Live at Kito Bremen (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yelena Eckemoff – Colors Live at Kito Bremen (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:52 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © L & H Production

Composer and pianist Yelena Eckemoff’s Colors (L&H Production, 2019) was a duet with drummer Manu Katche, a unique instrumentation in her ever-growing list of works. His contributions were so singular that when she had an opportunity to celebrate the album release by playing the music live at KITO in Bremen, Germany in 2019, and he could not make the gig, she opted to play solo rather than hire another drummer. It was the first time in about 15 years that she took the stage as a piano soloist, because she stopped performing as a classical concert pianist after starting her jazz journey.

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Yegor Dyachkov & Jean Saulnier – Beethoven: Intégrale des Sonates et Variations pour violoncelle et piano (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yegor Dyachkov & Jean Saulnier – Beethoven: Intégrale des Sonates et Variations pour violoncelle et piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:35:11 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Disques ATMA Inc.

Cellist Yegor Dyachkov and pianist Jean Saulnier present Beethoven’s complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano in digital and physical formats. Comprising works from the composer’s Op. 5, Op. 17, Op. 66, and Op. 102, the complete sonatas will be released as a three-CD box set on October 28, 2022.

Spanning the composer’s three creative periods, Beethoven’s sonatas for cello and piano constitute a unique group within his oeuvre. “Recording the complete sonatas marks a milestone in an artistic career,” says cellist Yegor Dyachkov. “Most artists undertake such a project only once, and only after having spent a long time in the company of these works, so that the various possible interpretive paths reach a kind of equilibrium.”

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:28 minutes | 393 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Electronic, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Secretly Canadian

It could only be called alchemy, the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their unique chemistry sparks opens a portal, and out comes a song like “Maps” or “Zero” or the latest addition to their canon, “Spitting off the Edge of the World featuring Perfume Genius” — an epic shot-to-the- heart of pure YYYs beauty and power.

A thunderstorm of a return is what the legendary trio has in store for us on Cool It Down, their fifth studio album and their first since 2013’s Mosquito. The eight-track collection, bound to be a landmark in their catalog, is an expert distillation of their best gifts that impels you to move, and cry, and listen closely.

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Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia Remixed (EP) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia Remixed (EP) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 20:59 minutes | 234 MB | Genre: Electronic, World Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yazz Ahmed

Yazz Ahmed announces her second remix EP, ‘Polyhymnia Remixed’, teaming up with fast-rising underground producers DJ Plead, Asmara and Surly to rework her acclaimed 2019 album Polyhymnia. The follow up to the remix EP for Yazz Ahmed’s sophomore album, ‘La Saboteuse’, her second foray into the dance music realm is nothing short of stunning with these hypnotic reworks.

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Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:59 minutes | 631 MB | Genre: Jazz, World Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ropeadope Records

This album is a celebration of female courage, determination and creativity. In 2015, the Tomorrow’s Warriors commissioned me to write an extended work, to be performed by members of their Nu Civilisation Orchestra, for a concert at the Women of the World Festival, in London’s Southbank Centre, on International Women’s Day.

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Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Remixed) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (Remixed) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 18:25 minutes | 108 MB | Genre: Electronic, World Fusion
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naim Records

Following the 2017 release of La Saboteuse, her highly acclaimed psychedelic Arabic jazz album, this remix EP brings together three of Europe’s eminent electronic DJs.

This confluence of individual artistic visions creates music of deeply saturating polyrhythms, placing the listener into a curious state of relaxed tension. The sense of a personal narrative runs through all of Ahmed’s work and here is no exception. La Saboteuse as a whole is a journey of self-examination and with this remix EP, the reflection continues in both linear and abstract directions.

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Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Yazz Ahmed – La Saboteuse (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:00 minutes | 658 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naim Records

Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernising jazz and connecting it with audiences today,” Yazz says. “It’s exciting.”

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Yawn Mower – To Each Their Own Coat (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yawn Mower – To Each Their Own Coat (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:48 minutes | 602 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mint 400 Records

“In one of this country’s finest small-town music scenes, Asbury Park NJ duo Yawn Mower have been winning over audiences since their inception with their infectious fuzz-rock stylings and irreverent sense of humor.” – Impose Magazine

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Yaron Herman – Alma (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Yaron Herman – Alma (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:03 minutes | 909 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve

With his new album, pianist Yaron Herman breaks completely new ground. Having already released ten albums, he drops into the void and offers for the first time a body of completely improvised music – a startling snapshot and a vivid mirror of his past

The piano thus becomes the focus of broader reflection, a companion that helps unravel the mysteries of the world.

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Yannick Van de Velde – Franck: Between Two Worlds (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yannick Van de Velde – Franck: Between Two Worlds (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:49 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Evil Penguin Classic

There were a number of influences that contributed to Franck’s distinctly personal compositional method, with two having the most substantial impact on his late style: the Austro-German tradition, particularly their notion of structural unity; and the tradition of France, the country where he lived for the vast majority of his life. With his main purpose as a composer being to give thanks to God through his music, the coexistence of introverted spirituality and passionate outpouring provides an explicit demonstration of the divine nature of his late compositional output. His reputation rests on a relatively small number of pieces he wrote towards the end of his life. It was not until the late 1870s where he would begin to produce what are now considered to be his masterworks. Whilst his contemporaries produced a great amount for the solo piano, César Franck completed only two large-scale works – the Prélude, Choral and Fugue and the Prélude, Aria and Final.

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