Raul Midón – The Mirror (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Raul Midón – The Mirror (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 30:12 minutes | 599 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Artistry Music

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Raul Midón is on an undeniable roll. After GRAMMY® Award nominations for his two previous Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group releases – Bad Ass & Blind and If You Really Want, each for Best Jazz Vocal Album – he returns with his 11th studio album and fourth for the label: The Mirror, to be released March 13, 2020. The Mirror finds Midón breaking new ground for himself, including two entrancing solo spoken-word pieces (“If I Could See” and “One Day Without War”). The album also features studio meetings with such veteran jazz colorists as vibraphonist Joe Locke (“A Certain Café”), as well as a songwriting collaboration with top pianist Gerald Clayton, “Deep Dry Ocean.” Another highlight is the road-weary jazz ballad “Cold Cuts and Coffee,” while title track “The Mirror” beguiles with its easy tropical groove, lyrical sophistication and Midón’s flowing electric guitar. As National Public Radio set the stage before his captivating edition of its “Tiny Desk Concert” broadcast: “Raul Midón lives in a world of sound. Blind since birth, Midón’s interpretation of his surroundings is borderless. He sings with the passion of the best classic soul singers, and his instrumental chops stand alongside the most accomplished jazz musicians.”

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Raul Midón – If You Really Want (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Raul Midón – If You Really Want (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:10 minutes | 505 MB | Genre: Jazz, Soul, Blues, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Artistry Music

The New York Times has called Raul Midón “a one-man band who turns a guitar into an orchestra and his voice into a chorus.” Now, with his exciting album ‘If You Really Want’, Midón’s voice and guitar ride the waves of an actual orchestra: the acclaimed Metropole Orkest. The Grammy Award-winning Dutch ensemble has collaborated with artists from Al Jarreau and Elvis Costello to Laura Mvula and Snarky Puppy. Midón – who earned his first Grammy nomination for ‘Bad Ass and Blind’, (Artistry Music, 2017) worked hand in glove on ‘If You Really Want’ with another renowned Grammy winner and frequent Metropole Orkest collaborator: conductor-composer-arranger Vince Mendoza. He created beautifully dynamic arrangements, inspired not only by the singer-guitarist’s melodies, harmonies and rhythms but by his lyrics, too.

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Raul Midón – Bad Ass and Blind (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Raul Midón – Bad Ass and Blind (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:19 minutes | 838 MB | Genre: Jazz, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Artistry Music

Ever since the 20th century turned into the 21st, singer-songwriter and guitarist Raul Midón has earned renown as one of music’s most distinctive and searching voices – “a one-man band… who is spiritually connected,” according to The New York Times, and “an eclectic adventurist,” in the words of People magazine.

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Raul Midón – Eclectic Adventurist (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Raul Midón – Eclectic Adventurist (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:15 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ReKondite Rekords

Along with releasing 10 studio albums as a solo artist, Grammy Nominated Raul Midón – dubbed “an eclectic adventurist” by People magazine – has collaborated with such heroes as Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers, along with contributing to recordings by Queen Latifah, Snoop Dogg and the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s She Hate Me. A native of New Mexico who was educated in the jazz program of the University of Miami – and who now lives in Maryland after years in New York City – Midón has earned acclaim the world over, with a fanbase that stretches from San Francisco to India, Amsterdam to Tokyo. A rapt critic for the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper wrote: “Midón has a lovely voice, a beautifully controlled tenor that can express anything from tenderness to passion… And the guy can play. His strumming has a flamenco flourish, but after a while, you realize he can do every kind of accompaniment he needs on acoustic guitar.”

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