Phantasm – Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Phantasm – Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:13 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records

In his Four-Part Consorts, John Jenkins (1592–1678) parades his much-vaunted contrapuntal prowess that is marked by a fanatical devotion to the equality of four independent parts. Frequently turbulent and given to frenetic activity, this music charts the interactions of a band of like-minded spirits obsessed with lively struggle and restless soul-searching. The incessant peregrinations of Jenkins’s roving harmonies are heady stuff and make moments of calm and valediction all the more deserved and poignant.
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Loudon Wainwright III – Lifetime Achievement (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Loudon Wainwright III – Lifetime Achievement (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:01 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Proper Records

Loudon Wainwright III’s latest album, Lifetime Achievement, has 15 new and original songs, and establishes his singular talent as our foremost six-string tragicomedian, not only undiminished, but hitting new heights. The album was co-produced with Stewart Lerman (Last Man on Earth, I’d Rather Lead a Band) and Dick Connette, Loudon’s partner on his Grammy-winning High Wide & Handsome. The orchestration varies from solo performance, to trio work with his longstanding musical cohorts, Chaim Tannenbaum and David Mansfield, to Nashville and Memphis-style big bands, to a full-blown string arrangement by Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Amos Lee, Paul Simon). On his latest, Loudon lives up to a legacy the New York Times calls “rich, complicated and often surprisingly dark,” sounding as engaged and passionate as ever, richly displaying what NPR calls his “unmatched wit and wisdom.” Loudon puts his most recent achievement in the context of a lifetime of music making this way: “When I made my first record for Atlantic in 1969. I was always saying, ‘I want to make a voice and guitar record, and I want it to be a record, not only a recording, but a document that captures a moment.’ I was 21 and very serious, and I thought I’d be dead in four years. So I wanted to make something that would last. A testament. Now, fifty years later, I guess I still want to make a testament. I want to write a group of songs and get them down in the best possible way. And I like to think they might last a while.”

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Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel – Antonín Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel – Antonín Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:55:52 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic garnered rave reviews for their February 2020 performances of Antonín Dvořák’s masterful final three symphonies at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Hailed as “a revelation” by the Los Angeles Times, these performances were recorded live by Deutsche Grammophon for release as a digital album – the follow-up to the artists’ GRAMMY® Award-winning recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.

Dudamel amplifies the turbulent emotions of each work, plunging deep into their often-dark inner worlds to connect with the music’s spiritual roots in Dvořák’s Czech homeland and reflect ideas formed during the composer’s time as Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City.

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Lorne Balfe – Secret Headquarters (Music from the Motion Picture) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lorne Balfe – Secret Headquarters (Music from the Motion Picture) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:28 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paramount Music

Secret Headquarters is an upcoming American superhero film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, who co-wrote the movie with Christopher L. Yost and Josh Koenigsberg, based on a story by Yost.
The film is set to be released in the United States on August 12, 2022, on Paramount+.
Lorne Balfe is a Scottish composer and producer of film, television, and video game scores. A veteran of Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions, Balfe is known for his composing music for big-budget films like 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Terminator Genisys, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and the DreamWorks Animation films Home and Penguins of Madagascar, as well as the video games Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Assassin’s Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders and the Call of Duty franchise, as well as the new fanfare for Skydance Media, which debuted in The Adam Project. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.

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London Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens – Villa-Lobos: Little Train of Caipira / Ginastera: Estancia & Panambi (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens – Villa-Lobos: Little Train of Caipira / Ginastera: Estancia & Panambi (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:09 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Everest

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London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Eugene Goossens – Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1960/2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Eugene Goossens – Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1960/2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:46 minutes | 705 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Everest

State-of-the-art audio reproduction at the beginning of the 21st century may be the finest ever achieved, but the increasing reissues of historic audiophile recordings provide ample evidence that the search for spectacular sound has been going on for many years. In 1960, Eugene Goossens and the London Symphony Orchestra recorded Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps on 35mm three-track magnetic film, and the quality of the recording is so close-up and realistic that the term “almost palpable” is not an exaggeration. Using 35mm film had several advantages, insofar as it accommodated three times the space of standard quarter-inch recording tape, its thickness allowed the recording of higher sound intensity without printing through to other parts of the film, and the sprocket holes along its sides permitted smooth playback with minimal wow or flutter. Because of this innovative recording method, the sound is so immediate and powerful that the listener viscerally feels the impact of the percussion, and the winds and strings are so vibrant that they seem to have physical dimensions. Aside from the slight bending of the bassoon’s opening pitch, which is apparently due to some stretching of the film, the intonation is accurate and the tone is startling in its clarity, and the music is as focused and clean as anything that can be found on a DSD recording or a multichannel hybrid SACD. Because this recording is such a feat of engineering and a feast for the ears, the stereo CD is packaged with a bonus two-sided DVD-10 that allows playback on DVD audio and DVD video players. Highly recommended.

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Local Artist – Expanding Horizons (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Local Artist – Expanding Horizons (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 34:28 minutes | 351 MB | Genre: Electronic, Dub, Ambient, Techno
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mood Hut

Up next from Mood Hut we have the debut LP from Local Artist aka Ian Wyatt. Previously known for his underground party starters Dancer and Touch Tone. This time Ian takes us further towards the intimate end of the radio dial, recording music as a way of processing the emotions of watching his father and partner battle cancer pre-pandemic. Themes of love, loss and life emerge in a moody brew to help you through.

In Local Artist’s world, the sun is setting on our old selves. Tonight is a slow ritual of letting go to gradually make room for the new. We’ve been up all night. It’s almost dawn and beyond the horizon, we can trust the light that morning brings.

RIYL – Jon Hassell, Laurie Anderson, Loose Ends, Sade, slow burns, ambient RnB, hypnotic funk, feeling better when you’re feeling bad.

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Lo Greco Bros, Elegant People – Fusion In The City (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lo Greco Bros, Elegant People – Fusion In The City (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:49 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jazz rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Irma records

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Various Artists – Super Audio CD Ultimate Collection – Volumes 1 & 2 (2001) MCH SACD ISO

Various Artists – Super Audio CD Ultimate Collection – Volumes 1 & 2 (2001)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0, DST64 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:07:39 minutes | 6,65 GB
Label: Sony Music | Release Year: 2001 | Genre: Pop, Rock, Classical

A sampler released by Sony Music in the Netherlands. One of the best samplers of early Sony releases out there, with a portion – but not all – of the tracks in multichannel.
EU Sony Music 2001 promo 20-track sampler 2CD in foldout digipak. Includes: Perfect Sense Part 1 + 2 by Roger Waters.

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Various Artists – Super Audio CD Sampler: PentaTone classics (2003) MCH SACD ISO

Various Artists – Super Audio CD Sampler: PentaTone classics (2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0, DST64 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 1:14:00 minutes | 4,11 GB
Label: PentaTone classics | Release Year: 2003 | Genre: Classical

These CDs serve their purpose well offering complete movements or sections of recordings available on Pentatone. The only listing of contents is on the back jewel-box cover; the booklet(s) are actually catalogs of what is available in the format. Each CD is given a full page in the booklet with complete track listings and performer informtion. I’m surprised each of the CD booklets doesn’t list all of the multi-channel recordings (both new and RQR) on the label. One features excerpts from new multi-channel recordings; the most impressive sonically are those by the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, New Dutch Academy, Russian National Orchestra and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Dvorak/Tchaikovsky coupling. All of these are 5 channel recordings (left/right, front and rear, and center front).

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Various Artists – Sax and the City (2008) SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Various Artists – Sax and the City (2008)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:45 minutes | Scans included | 2,2 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 0.98 GB
HighNote Records SACD # HCD 6020

The saxophone has been associated with the sensuous sounds of the sultry city for decades. The steamy streets, secluded corners and chiaroscuro of the cityscape are perfectly suited to the deep reedy sound of jazz’s sexiest instrument.

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Various Artists – Sacred Rhythm Of Bali (2002) [Japan 2008] MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Various Artists – Sacred Rhythm Of Bali (2002) [Japan 2008]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 63:03 minutes | Scans included | 3,75 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans included | 1,36 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Sony Music International, Japan # XSCL 10007

It’s a compilation of various Bali tribal songs. The instruments are a mixture of brass pots, drums, bells and chanting. Most of it is very rapid and stacatta in nature. If you’re into “world music” or want something that’s quite a departure from the garbage you hear on the radio, get this impossible to find CD. It’s simply amazing.

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Various Artists – SACD The Ultimate Audio Experience: The Classical Sampler (2003) MCH SACD ISO

Various Artists – SACD The Ultimate Audio Experience: The Classical Sampler (2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:10:00 minutes | Covers | 4,3 GB
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Release Year: 2003

The subtitle of this SACD is “The Ultimate Audio Experience”. But open the notes, and you discover that all the tracks save one are from 44, 48, and 96KHz PCM sample original sources. There are some great performances here –- forever trapped in mid-definition resolution. They date from 1993 to 2003, a surprising number of them being recorded in 2001-2003, after DSD recording was available. In listening to this SACD, I was beginning to have doubts about the SACD format until I noticed the sources in the liner notes.
The one DSD recording here is the Dvorak Slavonic Dance op. 71 #1 with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra Dvorák: The Slavonic Dances [SACD]. My reference is Reiner’s performance Dvorak: Slavonic Dances & Brahms: Hungarian Dances / Fritz Reiner Conducting The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and I would have to say that I prefer Fischer’s performance, which has tremendous nuance and exuberance.

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Various Artists – Sound & Vision: Telarc & Heads Up SACD Sampler (2006) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Various Artists – Sound & Vision: Telarc & Heads Up SACD Sampler (2006)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 67:08 minutes | Full Scans included | 4,23 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,5 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Telarc # SACD-63012

Without a doubt, this is the quisessential SACD for all music lovers. The sound on this disc is mindblowing and the warmth and clarity of the recording is flawless in all aspects. The discrete 5.1 surround mixing is done very tastefully and it’s almost like being right there in the recording studio with all the instruments/vocals surrounding you in sheer bliss. All tracks on this SACD are brilliant and I think Ken did a great job in picking these selections from the magnificient Telarc/Heads Up SACD range. What’s more, Ken gives you detailed info on the surround recording of each track telling you which instrument goes into which channel and the highlights to look out for in each track too. Check out the track from Ladysmith Black Mamboza, and also the Spyro Gyra and Yellowjackets tracks. To sum it up, this is the only SACD you’ll ever need if you want to show off your 5.1 surround SACD system. Well done sound & vision! – customer rewiew at amazon-com

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Various Artists – Sony Music Multichannel SACD Sampler (2001) MCH SACD ISO

Various Artists – Sony Music Multichannel SACD Sampler (2001)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & DST64 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 34:06/34:14 minutes | Scans | 2,9 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Sony Music # 4-327-607-01 Promo

This Sony Music’s promotional release features Stereo and Multichannel surround sound, and includes the tracks from James Taylor, Midori with Eschenbach, Miles Davis & Roger Waters.

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