Dirty Projectors – Super João (EP) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 11:21 minutes | 224 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co
This September, Dirty Projectors will release Super João, the third in a sequence of five EPs to come in 2020. Each EP will feature a different band member on lead vocals — Maia, Felicia, Kristin & Dave — with everyone trading verses on the fifth and final installment.
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Dirty Projectors – Ring Road (EP) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 09:57 minutes | 211 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co
Today, Dirty Projectors release Ring Road, their final EP of 2020, completing the cycle of five and culminating their “most ambitious and earnest endeavor thus far” (Aquarium Drunkard). Each installment has been its own stylistic and emotional ecosystem, featuring band members Maia Friedman, Felicia Douglass, Dave Longstreth, and Kristin Slipp taking turns in the lead vocal spotlight. Now, that mosaic ideal of the full-band Dirty Projectors is recapitulated as their voices come together all at once on the fifth and finalRing Road EP.
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Dirty Projectors – Flight Tower (EP) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 10:37 minutes | 215 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co
This summer, Dirty Projectors will release Flight Tower, the next in a sequence of five EPs to come in 2020. Each EP will feature a different band member on lead vocals — Maia, Felicia, Kristin & Dave — with everyone trading verses on the fifth and final installment.
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Dirty Projectors – Earth Crisis (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 12:54 minutes | 255 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co
Earth Crisis is the fourth in a series of five EPs Dirty Projectors are releasing this year, each one with a different band member handling lead vocals. (The fifth and final installment will see them taking turns.) Whereas the previous three releases zeroed in on folk, soul, and bossa nova respectively, this one leans into Longstreth’s experimental composer side, presenting a chopped-up version of chamber-pop. Keyboardist Kristin Slipp is the lead vocalist here, singing lyrics she wrote with Longstreth.
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Dirty Projectors – 5EPs (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:13 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co
Never one for easy categorisation, the on-going adventures of David Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors project are especially genre-agnostic on the 5 EPs released throughout 2020. The neatly-titled 5EPs collates these songs into a mammoth compilation. Each set of songs sees a different band-member taking over lead vocal duties, and indeed the flavours of these tracks stretch the breadth and width of the musical spectrum. The likes of ‘Self Design’ and ‘Empty Vessel’ deal in funk and house-inspired rhythms, while ‘Moon, If Ever’ and ‘I Get Carried Away’ are staunchly minimal in instrumentation, but undeniably 1960s pop in melodic sophistication.
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Sam Taylor – Let Go (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:08 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
Harlem based saxophonist and Philadelphia native, Sam Taylor presents his third release for Cellar Live, featuring trumpet master Terell Stafford. Recorded at Van Gelder Studios in January of 2022, a time when much of what we believed in as a society was being redefined and reimagined, Taylor chose to invite his musical elders to join him on a journey of generosity and letting go. Surrendering to the music he loves, interpreting the songs and sharing with others, LET GO remains true to Sam Taylor’s musical values. There is an emphasis on mentorship and tradition, as Terell Stafford was a childhood hero of the young saxophonist while in Philadelphia. Joined by Jeb Patton (piano), Neal Miner (bass) and Willie Jones III (drums), Taylor and Stafford joyfully perform a collection of songs by the great Barry Harris, Benny Golson, and Coleman Hawkins, along with interpretations of rarely played standards from the American Songbook. The title track, LET GO, is an original by Taylor, his first to be recorded. The quintet swings hard and with purpose, honoring the spirit of those who came before, with a clear message: Music is an act of giving. Let go.
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Sam Smith – The Holly & The Ivy (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 21:17 minutes | 222 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI
Sam Smith was born in Bishop’s Stortford in 1992 and grew up in the small village of Linton in the English county of Cambridgeshire. While the father took care of Smith and the two younger sisters in the shared house in Great Chishill, the busy mother was very successful as a banker in the financial industry. According to Smith, her great-aunt was already active in banking as one of the first female private bankers.
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Sam Bush – Radio John: Songs of John Hartford (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:08 minutes | 665 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Radio John: Songs of John Hartford is Sam Bush’s heartfelt tribute to his hero and mentor, John Hartford. With dedication, admiration, and love, Bush takes on personal favorites from Hartford’s vast catalog, including songs he played with Hartford on stage and in the studio in the 1970s. Bush plays every instrument on nearly every cut, pouring himself into the performances. Radio John is a testament to the impact Hartford had on American traditional music as a songwriter, an instrumentalist, and, most importantly, someone who fostered the careers of musicians like Bush and countless others reinventing roots music in the last half of the 20th century.
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Salvatore Accardo, Margaret Batjer, Toby Hoffman, Cynthia Phelps, Rocco Filippini – W.A. MOZART KV 174, 593 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:15 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records
Salvatore Accardo was born in Turin in a family coming from the South of Italy: his father Vincenzo, artist engraver of cameos was passionate with music and his mother was a primary school teacher.
At 3 he asked for a violin and began to play to ear, at 5 he began his studies in Naples with the musician and pedagogue Luigi D’Ambrosio, later he entered the Naples Conservatorio of San Pietro a Majella where at 13 he graduated full marks playing for the first time Paganini’s Capricios.
Admitted ad honorem at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, Accardo studied there with Yvonne Astruc, former pupil and assistent of George Enescu, starting to be friends with his classmates: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Maurizio Pollini, etc.
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Salvatore Accardo, Laura Gorna, Maria Grazia Bellocchio – Sergej Prokofiev (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:41:50 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records
The recording collaboration with the great violinist Salvatore Accardo continues, which began 29 years ago.
In this project Maestro Accardo plays with the violinist Laura Gorna and the pianist Maria Grazia Bellocchio. This double album contains chamber music by Sergej Prokofiev where the violin is the protagonist: from Sonata in re magg. Op.115 per Violino Solo to 5 Melodies per Violino e Piano etc…
I recorded this album in the Sala dell’Ermellino – Casa della Musica, Milan in February 2020.
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Salvatore Accardo & Stefania Redaelli – EDVARD GRIEG Sonatas for Violin and Piano No. 1, 2, 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:47 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records
Of Grieg’s seventy-four published works, only five are for chamber music, and no less than three of these are Violin Sonatas. His favourite instrument was the piano, but the influence of Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull (1810-1880), patron of young Edvard’s career, was enormous. Grieg confessed to considering the Violin Sonatas among his best works, each representing a different phase in his development: ‘the first a little naive, but rich in ideas, the second Nordic, and the third with a broader horizon’, he wrote to his friend Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The composer’s connection to his homeland, Norway, was very deep.
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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – W.A.MOZART KV 454, 301, 306 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:08 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records
Salvatore Accardo was born in Turin in a family coming from the South of Italy: his father Vincenzo, artist engraver of cameos was passionate with music and his mother was a primary school teacher.
At 3 he asked for a violin and began to play to ear, at 5 he began his studies in Naples with the musician and pedagogue Luigi D’Ambrosio, later he entered the Naples Conservatorio of San Pietro a Majella where at 13 he graduated full marks playing for the first time Paganini’s Capricios.
Admitted ad honorem at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, Accardo studied there with Yvonne Astruc, former pupil and assistent of George Enescu, starting to be friends with his classmates: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Maurizio Pollini, etc.
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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – W.A. MOZART KV 378, 302, 304, 403 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:45 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records
Salvatore Accardo was born in Turin in a family coming from the South of Italy: his father Vincenzo, artist engraver of cameos was passionate with music and his mother was a primary school teacher.
At 3 he asked for a violin and began to play to ear, at 5 he began his studies in Naples with the musician and pedagogue Luigi D’Ambrosio, later he entered the Naples Conservatorio of San Pietro a Majella where at 13 he graduated full marks playing for the first time Paganini’s Capricios.
Admitted ad honorem at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, Accardo studied there with Yvonne Astruc, former pupil and assistent of George Enescu, starting to be friends with his classmates: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Maurizio Pollini, etc.
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Salamanda – ashbalkum (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:51 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Leftfield
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Human Pitch
Landing light and fragrant on the mind, Seoul’s Salamanda grace NYC’s Human Pitch with an airspun follow-up to their ambient snacks for GMT and Métreon.
After charming with ‘Allez!’ for Good Morning Tapes, the duo coax their rhythmelodic eastern percussions and vox into a lather of gently hiccupping structures on ‘ashbalkum’, their 3rd album to date. Echoing aspects of Korean classical music as much as Japanese environmental ambient concerns, their lissom sound is redolent of of Woo’s lilting confections and the fragility of Susuma Yokota, but packs a subtle, underlying swagger of their own where it matters, lending a fine balance of ying/yang energies that may well equalise heads in need, and suggest a purpose intended for both armchairs and ambient dancefloors.
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Sal Salvador Quintet – Sal Salvador Quintet (1954/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 23:27 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Though this is a Blue Note reissue of two EPs, out on their Connoisseur 10-inch Series, only one of the two was originally released on that label. The first session, from 1953, is a group of quintets with little-known tenorman Frank Sokolow–one-time Chubby Jackson sideman with a pronounced swing inclination–and a couple of quartets without him. It emphasizes the crystal-toned, agreeable guitar work of ex-Stan Kenton Orchestra member Salvador, who’s still active today, playing on six familiar standards. The other tracks, recorded the following year, appeared on Capitol as part of the Kenton Presents series. Along with a few retooled standards, these include some less-usual compositions by West Coast mainstays Manny Albam and Bill Holman, as well as Salvador’s quite cool “Round Trip.” Eddie Costa doubles on piano and vibes but stays out of the way enough to keep from making a murk of the guitar. –John Corbett
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