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Jasper Van’t Hof’s Pork Pie – Transistory (1974/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Jasper Van’t Hof’s Pork Pie – Transistory (1974/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 43:21 minutes | 855 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Front Cover | © MPS

One of Europe’s most dynamic players, Dutch Keyboardist Jasper Van’t Hof made his name playing with the likes of Jean Luc Ponty, George Gruntz, and Archie Shepp. Formed in 1974, the band boasts a lineup of jazz giants playing cutting-edge fusion. Van’t Hof’s intense brand of fusion reigns on Epoch, with reed maestro Charlie Mariano on alto sax and Jasper on electric piano as the story tellers.

There’s a dark-toned mystery to the meditative Transitory Pt. 1, and on Pt. 2 Mariano’s soprano, Van’t Hof’s prepared organ and J. F. Jenny Clarke’s bowed bass (Clarke plays acoustic bass throughout) achieve an orchestral density. Philip Catherine’s aggressive guitar solo takes flight on Angel Wings, and Mariano picks up the double-reed South Indian Nagaswaram as well as soprano on his take of the South Indian piece Pudu KKottai. Van’t Hof’s romantic intro to Something Wrong leads in the compelling melody, whereas Bassamba Part 1 features the Samba musings of Jenny-Clarke and drummer Aldo Romano, as the band partakes in a joyous rhythmic feast in Part Two. Van’t Hof ends the album with his dystopian Dance of the Oil Sheiks, dripping dark humor in 5/4. Transitory’s mix of ethno, fusion, and its own brand of Avant-garde shaded with a tinge of Latin makes for a minor classic that defies categorization.

Tracklist:
01 – Epoch
02 – Transistory (Pt. 1)
03 – Transistory (Pt. 2)
04 – Angel Wings
05 – Pudu Kkottai
06 – Something Wrong
07 – Bassamba (Pt. 1)
08 – Bassamba (Pt. 2)
09 – March of the Oil-Sheiks

Produced by Achim Hebgen. Engineered by Conny Plank.
Recorded on May 17 & 18, 1974 at Conny’s Studio Neukirchen, Germany.
Digitally Remastered.

Musicians:
Jasper van’t Hof – electric piano, prepared organ, grand piano, celesta
Charlie Mariano – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute, bamboo flute, nagaswaram
Philip Catherine – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
J.F. Jenny-Clark – bass
Aldo Romano – drums
Ivanir “Mandrake” Do Nascimento – congas, pandeiro, tambourin, agogó, bells

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Jho Archer – Voodoo Jazz (1967/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Jho Archer – Voodoo Jazz (1967/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:11 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy

Jho Archer was one of Haiti’s most versatile and talented artists. He was a Singer-Songwriter, and Dancer who became a world star and lived in Europe (mostly in Paris) since leaving Haiti in the 1950s or 60s. Jho Archer recorded more than 20 albums, most of them are collectors items that you’re can find at some special online stores…

From Africa to Haiti, from Haiti to New Orleans. By slave ship, freighter, on horseback and on foot. This is how one of the oldest form of expression – voodoo – come the newest, most fluid music – jazz. The union of the two gave a new dimension to music that has changed the meaning of each. No longer is voodoo merely a charocheristic of race’s culture. Never again can jazz be a musical style of one particular country – for the sound of his marriage expresses the evolution of the whole world.

Tracklist:
01 – Sobo
02 – Shango
03 – ‘Ti Zoizeau
04 – That Girl from New Orleans
05 – Canon Tire
06 – Feuille
07 – Nan Fond Bois
08 – Ti Nini
09 – Merci Bon Die
10 – Noungue
11 – He Lou

Arranged by Joe Stupin, Skeeter Best. Conducted by Eric MacDonald.
Electronically Re-Channeled For Stereo.

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Johnny Mathis – Johnny’s Greatest Hits (1958/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Johnny Mathis – Johnny’s Greatest Hits (1958/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz  | Time – 32:50 minutes | 717 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Columbia

“Johnny’s Greatest Hits” is a compilation album by American vocalist Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records in 1958, and has been described as the “original greatest-hits package”. It collected all but one of the songs from the first six singles he recorded, including eight A- and B-sides that made the singles charts in The Billboard (now simply known as Billboard magazine) as well as three B-sides that did not chart and one new track (“I Look at You”) that was co-written by Mathis but not released as a single. The collection includes “Chances Are”, “It’s Not for Me to Say”, “Wonderful! Wonderful!”, and “The Twelfth of Never”. This LP stayed on the charts for ten years.

The album made its debut on the Best Selling Pop LP’s chart in the issue of The Billboard dated April 14, 1958, and eventually spent three weeks at number one. It had its last appearance there over 10 years later, in the July 20, 1968, issue, which marked its 490th non-consecutive week there, a record for the most number of weeks on the magazine’s list of the most popular pop albums in the US that it held for 15 years until Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon reached 491 weeks there in the issue dated October 29, 1983. Johnny’s Greatest Hits received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in June 1959, and Platinum certification for reaching the one million mark was awarded on November 1, 1999. The album was initially only available in the monaural format but was reissued in 1962 with a banner added to the original cover that read, “Electronically Re-channeled for Stereo”. In 1977, the album was once again reissued, this time with a new jacket design that included a current and much larger headshot of Mathis. This cover was also used for its first release on compact disc in 1988 and as part of a 1995 three-disc set that included his Platinum 1959 album Heavenly and his 1984 concert album Live.

Tracklist:
01 – Chances Are
02 – All the Time [From the Broadway Musical “Oh, Captain!”]03 – The Twelfth Of Never
04 – When Sunny Gets Blue
05 – When I Am With You
06 – Wonderful, Wonderful
07 – It’s Not For Me To Say
08 – Come to Me [From the Television Production “Come to Me”]09 – Wild Is the Wind
10 – Warm and Tender
11 – No Love (But Your Love)
12 – I Look at You

Electronically Re-channeled for Stereo.

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Kari Ikonen Trio – Wind Frost Radiation (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Kari Ikonen Trio – Wind Frost Radiation (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:32 minutes | 864 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Booklet, Front Cover | © Ozella

After stints in afro pop, Kari Ikonen’s Finnish background has now drawn him to the wintertime. Spaces of biting cold and horror, of inhumanity and transience – these are the fundamentals of the Ikonen Trio’s third studio album. Meditations on ghost towns and shadowy waltz themes prove: the tradition of the radical break belongs naturally to the jazz understanding of this formation.

Kari Ikonen likes to see the sunny side of life. For example, with his “ultra-positive” Afro-pop jazz project Trio Toffa. As a native Finn, however, winter and dark states of mind are also close to him. Thus, “Wind Frost & Radiation” became a musical search for traces of their own roots, after the Nordic in music. Places of cold and horror, inhumanity and transience – they all form the foundation for the third studio album of the Kari Iconen Trio.

It is hardly surprising that there is another turnaround after the bewitching late-night jazz of “Beauteous Tales and Offbeat Stories”. The experiment belongs to the recognition features of the trio. So Olli Rantala lets his bass dance in a moment, just to make it sound like a cello in the next one. Markku Ounaskari masters not only an irresistible swing, but also the art of playing drums on the edge of dissolution. Icons themselves have fueled fresh inspiration with the eccentric project “Iconostasis”. It goes without saying that it was impossible to create a conventional trio album with this constellation. How far the band is willing to go on “Wind Frost & Radiation” is shown alongside “Pripyat” – a meditation on the evacuated ghost town near the Chernobyl reactor – a stubborn interpretation of Aram Khachaturian’s famous waltz theme. The latter transforms from icons of a whirling dance into a nocturnal world of shadows. The pulse sinks to a glacier-like melting, the music digs deep into the moment, in search of the nerve that hurts the most.

Tracklist:
01 – Harmattan
02 – Pripyat
03 – Levoton
04 – Kuru
05 – Beatamente
06 – The Roaring Frost
07 – Waltz from the Masquerade Suite

Recorded in September 2017 by Michael Dahlvid at Studio Nilento, Sweden.
Mixed in October 2017 by Lars Nilsson ar Studio Nilento, Sweden.
Mastered by Hans-Jörg Maucksch at Pauler Acoustics, Germany.

Musicians:
Kari Ikonen – piano, vioce
Olli Rantala – double bass, voice
Markku Ounaskari – drums
+Mia Simanainen – voice on “6”

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Lara Ruggles – Cynics & Saints (2015) [Official Digital Download DSF DSD64/2.82MHz + FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Lara Ruggles – Cynics & Saints (2015)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 46:11 minutes | 1,86 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:11 minutes | 1,03 GB
Genre: Folk | Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Booklet, Front Cover | © Immersive Records

After three and a half years of sweat, pain, tears and love – and even a little bit of blood – Colorado singer/songwriter Lara Ruggles is releasing her debut full-length album, Cynics & Saints, on Immersive Records. Proof that good things come to those who wait, Cynics & Saints’ powerful vocals, lyrics as metaphorical as they are personal, and guitar-and-piano driven melodies take the listener on a journey that looks fearlessly into what it means to be willing to be broken; a reflection of the album’s creation. Lara Ruggles is well known among audiophiles. Her song “Snowflake” in DSD format was one of only 4 High Resolution tracks chosen to be pre-installed on every Sony Hi-Res Walkman sold around the world. The track was also featured on a sampler for Sony AR-1 speakers and will soon be included on a sampler by PS Audio!

After releasing the 2011 EP Out of an Eggshell Ruggles knew she was on the right path. It was the production and recording involvement of Steve Vidaic and Mike Yach at Immersive Records – a label that technically didn’t exist before Cynics & Saints’ conception – that brought this substantial project to fruition. Ruggles was confident that she had found the right partners for Cynics & Saints. However, working within the restraints of a limited budget often meant that the studio’s other paying clients had to come first. Multiple setbacks and unforeseen roadblocks (including Bruce Springsteen borrowing equipment that was needed to master the record) delayed the album’s completion, testing Ruggles’ ability to keep the faith.

“I’m the kind of person who spent eight years training a wild horse,” she says, “but this still tested my patience beyond anything else I’ve ever done. A lot of the life lessons of this process have been about letting go.”

The album’s slow progression wasn’t the only challenge to Ruggles’ commitment. The never-ending struggle to pay the bills pulled time and energy away from the studio and at one point Ruggles could count 5 other day jobs but still relied on food stamps; while touring a car break-in resulted in the loss of her computer, entire wardrobe and a battered morale. During the peak of recording Ruggles was further tested when her long term relationship – the relationship the bulk of the record was inspired by – imploded in slow motion. “I’d go into the vocal booth with my fists clenched and sing whole songs that way,” she says.

Yet the 29-year-old musician continued to rally, with every shift in priorities serving the goal of making music her life. “Every time I try to do something else, music is all I can think about and everything I ache for,” says Ruggles. “It’s this healing force that makes us feel less alone and more okay with not being okay. I want to give that gift.” To further this goal, Ruggles started the Give:Voice Project, giving 10% of her on-tour sales to arts-related causes.

Cynics & Saints, while it speaks to the universal, is also an accurate representation of where Ruggles finds herself both personally and musically; a self-professed cynic fighting not to be a cynic. “Sometimes you want to give up and the only thing you know how to do to cope with it all is write another song,” Ruggles tell us. “As soon as it’s written all you want to do is sing it triumphantly for anyone who will listen. So you go out and book another tour and make another album. Because every time you try to give up, you write another song instead.”

Like any complete story, Cynics & Saints is filled with both fight and surrender. Its unflinchingly honest lyrics and immediately captivating melodies invite the listener to share in the ultimate strength of vulnerability… and to keep on singing.

Tracklist:
01 – The Secret Ingredient
02 – Steady My Love
03 – Small Is Beautiful
04 – Fighting Time
05 – 2500 Years
06 – Never Not Broken
07 – Moon In My Heart
08 – The Wrong Thing
09 – The Dove
10 – Wind It Blows Bitter
11 – Just For Us

Produced by Steven Vidaic, Mike Yach & Lara Ruggles.
Engineered & Mixed by Mike Yach & Steven Vidaic.
Recorded at Immersive Studios in Boulder, CO.
Mastered by Jim Wilson Mastering.
Pure DSD Download authored by Gus Skinas.

Musicians:
Lara Ruggles – vocals, keys, guitars, accordion, percussion
Steven Vidaic – keys, guitars, ukulele, accordion, percussion*, backing vocals
Mike Yach – guitars, percussion, bass, harmonica, re-amping, noises, synth, backing vocals
Marc Dalio / Amy Shelley / Andy Weld – drums
Paul McDaniel / Eric Thorin / Owen Tharp – bass
Lesley Kernochan – musical saw, backing vocals
Sam Rae – cello, backing vocals
Phil Parker – cello
Bridget Law – violin
Prescott Blackler – trombone
Todd Edmonds – tuba
Megan Letts – backing vocals
Ben Van Horne – finger percussion

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Lauren White – At Last (2007/2018) [Official Digital Download DSF DSD128/5.64MHz + FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Lauren White – At Last (2007/2018)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,64 MHz | Time – 49:20 minutes | 3,88 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:20 minutes | 1,02 GB
Genre: Jazz | Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: nativeDSDmusic| Booklet, Front Cover | © Groove Note Records

Lauren White is an extremely talented 20-year-old from Dallas-Fort Worth who has been studying under the same vocal coach as Norah Jones. Lauren blends the sensuality and vulnerability of Norah Jones with the vocal range of Linda Ronstadt combined with a voice that exhibits both emotional depth as well as nuance and delicacy. Lauren’s first album features a wide array of songs and features Jazz Standards such as Love for Sale (Coel Porter) and At Last (M. Gordan, H. Warren).

Lauren White is one of a seemingly increasing number of vocalists attempting to follow in the footsteps of the highly successful vocalist Norah Jones. Though White has got some jazz chops and a pleasing voice, her debut CD is rather inconsistent, covering standards, pop songs, country and originals. The best tracks feature her with pianist Bill Cunliffe (who knows a thing or two about accompanying singers), while bassist Chuck Berghofer and drummer Mark Ferber lay a solid foundation throughout the album. “My One and Only” is not one of the Gershwin brothers’ well known tunes, but White makes the most of this slinky opener. She doesn’t seem to appreciate the humor in “Mack the Knife” as much as Ella Fitzgerald, so it comes off a little tame. Better is the unusual setting of “My Funny Valentine,” sung with a sense of drama and adding a lush solo by tenor saxophonist Rickey Woodard. But then problems start to appear. Guitarist Anthony Wilson’s dreary arrangement of Cole Porter’s “Love for Sale” and Joe Bagg’s lackluster organ do absolutely nothing for this normally delightful song, while the slow tempo makes the nearly seven minute performance seem like an eternity. The biggest mistake is tackling songs too closely associated with singers outside of jazz, then approaching them in a fashion that’s too similar. “Blue Bayou” was a hit for Linda Ronstadt, while the late Karen Carpenter had a smash with Leon Russell’s “Superstar,” but neither of them is a convincing vehicle on what is supposed to be a jazz vocalist’s date. Woodard is back for country singer Lee Ann Womack’s “Why They Call It Falling,” which sounds like something Norah Jones might perform, but the melody just isn’t memorable. White’s three originals are airplay friendly but not distinctive. In order to succeed as a recording artist, White is going to have to make some tough choices about her direction rather than the scattershot approach on her debut CD. Even her press bio accompanying the disc displays a degree of naïveté, listing Natalie Cole and Michael Bublé as among the “jazz” artists who have inspired her, something that just won’t cut the mustard with seasoned jazz listeners.

Tracklist:
01 – My One & Only
02 – All I Do Is Cry
03 – Blue Bayou
04 – Do You Remember
05 – Mack The Knife
06 – Love For Sale
07 – Brand New Love
08 – Superstar
09 – My Funny Valentine
10 – Why The Call It Falling
11 – At Last

Produced by Joe Harley. Engineered by Michael C. Ross
Recorded on May 17-18, 2006 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA.
Mixed by Michael C. Ross at LAFX. Burbank, CA.

Musicians:
Lauren White – vocals
Bill Cunliffe – piano on “1,5,9”
Anthony Wilson – guitar on “2,4,6,11”
Ricky Woodard – tenor sax on “4,7,9,10”
Brian Piper – piano on “2,3,4,7,8,10”
Joe Bagg – Hammond B-3 organ on “6,11”
Chuck Berghofer – bass
Mark Ferber – drums

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Leszek Mozdzer, Lars Danielsson, Zohar Fresco, Atom String Quartet – Leszek Mozdzer & Friends: Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic III (Live) (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Leszek Możdżer, Lars Danielsson, Zohar Fresco, Atom String Quartet – Leszek Możdżer & Friends: Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic III (Live) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 01:05:39 minutes | 703 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: ProStudioMasters | Booklet, Front Cover | © ACT Music

In May 2014, the innovative and inventive concert series Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic headed east on a musical journey to the jazz stronghold of Poland. Piano virtuoso Leszek Możdżer, revered like a pop star in his homeland, shines on this live recording as he is accompanied by a trio and the Atom String Quartet. Together, Możdżer and his bandmates conjure up a celebrated concert evening that once again shows that a mix of jazz, classical and folk music provides important impulses for the future of European jazz and Poland.

For many, jazz means new ideas, new sounds, and always doing things for the first time, and the same goes for the “Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic” concert series. On these evenings, surprising, unique combinations of musicians and border-crossing projects can be heard in the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonie. This is one of the many reasons why they have nearly always sold out since their inception in November 2012, and part of what makes them a highlight of Berlin’s music scene. On May 7th, 2014, “Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic” headed East on its musical journey to the jazz stronghold of Poland. Whenever the topic of Polish jazz arises, it’s never long before the name Leszek Możdżer is mentioned. The 1971-born piano virtuoso is revered like a pop star in his homeland, his albums routinely make their way into the Polish charts, beating artists such as Sting or Beyoncé to the top spots along the way.

Możdżer’s music is deeply rooted in Polish music tradition while at the same time striving for new horizons. Everything is thrown in, from classical to jazz to pop, all interlaced and in sync with one another. Możdżer’s classical piano education enables him to explore his own worlds of sound with masterful technique. Chopin, the national hero of Polish music, is an ever-present influence but Możdżer also takes cues from modern Polish composers such as Witold Lutosławski, best known for his complex symphonic oeuvres as well as catchy popular “hits”, and Krzysztof Komeda, the founder of an unconventionally lyrical, genuinely Polish jazz sound, and composer for many of Roman Polanski’s films including “Rosemary’s Baby”. For his “Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic”, Możdżer enlisted the help of Swedish bassist and cellist Lars Danielsson, Israeli percussionist Zohar Fresco – perfoming both as a piano / bass duo or trio – and the Atom String Quartet. Without his friends, the concert evening would only have been half the occasion, virtuosity and musicality went hand in hand. Danielsson and Fresco are soul mates of Możdżer, and they have been collaborating closely for ten years now. Performing with the Atom String Quartet was a new experience for all three men, they are one of the world’s finest string quartets and are mentioned in the same breath as the American Kronos Quartet. Outstanding classical technique and a stupendous talent for improvisation enable the quartet to use their instruments with a range that has never been heard before. Together, Leszek Możdżer & Friends, the protagonists in the sold-out Kammermusiksaal, conjured up a celebrated concert evening that once again shows that a mix of jazz, classical and folk music provides important impulses for the future of European jazz and Poland, here with Możdżer on the piano, plays a big part in that.

Tracklist:
01 – Etude No. 2
02 – Praying
03 – Follow My Backlights
04 – Love Pastas
05 – Na 7
06 – Africa
07 – Gsharim
08 – Eden
09 – Hunchback Porn Angel
10 – Winter Song

Produced by Siggi Loch & Leszek Możdżer.
Recorded live in concert at the Berlin Philharmonie (KMS) by Klaus Scheuermann and Piotr Taraszkiewicz.
Mixed and Mastered by Grzegorz Czachor and Klaus Scheuermann. Additional Mixing by Marek Heimbürger.

Musicians:
Leszek Możdżer – piano
Lars Danielsson – bass, cello
Zohar Fresco – percussion

Atom String Quartet:
Dawid Lubowicz – violin
Mateusz Smoczyński – violin
Michał Zaborski – viola
Krzysztof Lenczowski – cello

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Leszek Mozdzer, Lars Danielsson, Zohar Fresco – Polska (2013/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Leszek Mozdzer, Lars Danielsson, Zohar Fresco – Polska (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 58:02 minutes | 703 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: ProStudioMasters | Booklet, Front Cover | © ACT Music

Polish pianist Leszek Możdżer, a longtime star in his home country, spreads his fame worldwide with Polska, recorded with musical soulmates Lars Danielsson, one of the best jazz bassists in the world and Israeli percussionist Zohar Fresco. The sound on Polska is as much a product of these two musicians as creative mastermind Możdżer himself. Polska’s grand finale is a version of Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced? featuring the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

‘Polska’ would not sound the way it does, if it had not been born in a trio with the Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson and the Israeli percussionist and singer Zohar Fresco. Możdżer found these soul mates ten years ago: the two already showed themselves to be a dream team of intuitive ensemble playing on the Danielsson albums ‘Pasodoble’ (as a duo) and ‘Tarantella’. And Danielsson is not only one of the best jazz bassists (and cellists!) in the world, he also has similar compositional preferences to Możdżer, which can be heard here on his tracks ‘Africa’ and the touching ‘Spirit’. As a member of ‘Bustan Abraham’, ‘Ziryab’ and ‘Noah’, Fresco is one of the Israeli pioneers who began in the eighties joining music from the west with music from the east, Arabian with European. Unperceived here, these three have already recorded two albums in Poland that went double platinum (just like the recent ‘Komeda’)!

Now, no matter where you are, with ‘Polska’ you can discover one of the most fascinating and extraordinary trios in the world with Leszek Możdżer as its creative mastermind. One that sweeps you away with the pulsating ‘KarMa Party’ or simply enchants with the balladesque ‘Norgon’, and one that with the aid of the Polish Symphony Orchestra knows how to provide a grand finale, with a version of Jimi Hendrix’ ‘Are You Experienced?’.

Tracklist:
01 – Chai Peimot
02 – She Said She Was a Painter
03 – Weeks – Shavuot
04 – Yearning for a Nest
05 – Polska
06 – Africa
07 – Karma Party
08 – Norgon
09 – Gsharim
10 – Spirit
11 – Are You Experienced?

Produced by Możdżer/Danielsson/Fresco
Recorded at Alvernia Studios. Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Tadeusz Mieczkowski.

Musicians:
Leszek Możdżer – piano, celesta, vibraphone, synth
Lars Danielsson – cello, bass
Zohar Fresco – percussion, vocals
+ on track “11”:
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marcin Nałęcz Niesiołowski – conductor
Ewelina Serafin – flute solo

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Lewis Wright, Kit Downes – Duets (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Lewis Wright, Kit Downes – Duets (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:40 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Award-winning British vibraphonist, composer and drummer Lewis Wright explodes the rhythmic and polyphonic possibilities offered by vibraphone and piano. His new album “Duets” reinforces his claim to be a very serious international musician. If you already thought as much – on the evidence of his exemplary vibes work with Empirical – then Duets adds a further seven case studies of exquisite chamber jazz, beautifully recorded at Air Studios.

The set-up appears simple: vibraphone and grand piano in a sympathetic space, with enough amplification to get the air molecules moving. But heard live, the seven compositions are even more overwhelming and intense than on record. To be in a small club while Downes and Wright hammer out the convoluted hocketing parts of Fortuna – like Louis Andriessen with jazz chords – is to experience a highly pleasurable sensory overload. The compositions are finely crafted, juxtaposing long, through-composed sections with solos within well conceived structures. Wright is a jazz composer who knows how to write tunes that are both launch pad and docking station for improvisation. And he has a true composer’s sense of when less is more: note the chiming, descending, eight-chord sequence that forms a restrained coda to Sati. Wright is not afraid to embrace sentimentality, as in the melody of Kintamani, which would make a good movie theme. The influence of Gary Burton and Chick Corea’s Crystal Silence lurks behind any such instrumental coupling, and Wright graciously acknowledges when introducing Tokyo 81, which he dedicates to the famous duo. He recalls owning a VHS of Burton and Corea’s famous Japanese concert, which he watched repeatedly as a Norfolk schoolboy. Though Wright has established an approach to vibes playing that is notably different to Burton’s, the influence of Corea, Steve Swallow and Mike Gibbs (all of whom contributed tunes to the Crystal Silence duo), surfaces in Wright’s writing from time to time. And tunes such as Fire And Flow and An Absence Of Heart are terrific vehicles for Wright’s dazzling, unabashed virtuosity. Which is what we all still need from jazz, as well as good tunes. What Downes (a childhood friend, also from Norfolk) and Wright do is less American, less folksy, more European than Corea and Burton. The vibes/piano sound is both intimate and cool, and there’s an emotional depth to the music you only get from players who have reached a degree of instrumental mastery and ventured beyond. This extra dimension is demonstrated by Ono No Komachi, a song named after the legendary ninth-century Japanese poet. Downes’s contribution to the duo is generous, yet self-effacing: Duets is very much Wright’s turn in the spotlight. For their encore, having played the entire repertoire from the Duets album, Downes and Wright return to raise the roof with a playful, almost Baroque version of Thelonious Monk’s Reflections. After an evening of original composition, the very familiarity of Monk’s tune acts as a sort of Rorschach test, telling us something about the obsessively detailed way that Wright and Downes make and remodel the music. This is beautifully executed chamber jazz of the highest order.

Tracklist:
01 – Fire & Flow
02 – Fortuna
03 – An Absence of Heart
04 – Ono no Komachi
05 – Tokyo ’81
06 – Sati
07 – Kintamani

Produced by Lewis Wright. Engineered by Tom Bailey.
Recorded on February 19-20, 2016 at AIR Studios, London.

Musicians:
Lewis Wright – vibraphone
Kit Downes – piano

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Lucy Rose – Work It Out {Deluxe Edition} (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44.1kHz]

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Lucy Rose – Work It Out (2015) [Deluxe Edition]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 62:11 minutes | 687 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
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Lucy Rose Parton, known as Lucy Rose is an English singer-songwriter from Warwickshire, England. Her debut album, Like I Used To was released in September 2012. Lucy Rose released her second album Work It Out in 6 July 2015 on Columbia Records.

Lucy Rose’s sophomore album, Work It Out, marks appreciable changes for the singer/songwriter: it was recorded at London’s Snap Studios instead of largely in her parents’ living room, produced by Rich Cooper (Mark Knopfler, Mystery Jets), and embraces drums, keyboards, and pop production, in general, for a modified palette. The new direction is clearly a conscious one, moving from sparse, strummed acoustic indie folk to a driving, atmospheric, electronic sound, though all remains governed by Rose’s foamy vocal delivery. More enlivened arrangements include persistent drums, mixed high on the uptempo, rhythm-focused “Köln,” a song unlike anything on her debut. The shift is announced subtly at the start of the delicate opening track, “For You,” which begins with soft strummed guitar, quietly humming keyboards, and slide guitar effects, until the song breaks open with full drums, synths, and echoing vocals two-thirds of the way through. (This type of development takes place on the eventually little bit funky “My Life” as well.) “Fly High (Interlude)” and “She’ll Move” offer more ambient, reverb-loaded fare, the latter still beat-driven. Rose’s wispy, reedy tone both limits the volume of any production and provides the charm that sets her apart from much of the Lilith Fair-variety crowd. Engaging songwriting, with lyrics mostly of the love variety here, also anchor her solidly in worthwhile territory — Work It Out is far from a sellout-type effort. The move will surely attract some and alienate others, but her fragile, sometimes sultry carriage finds her more radio-ready without sacrificing distinctiveness. [A deluxe edition of Work It Out was issued simultaneously with five bonus tracks, including a live-in-studio version of Like I Used To’s “Shiver.”]

Tracklist:
01 – For You
02 – Our Eyes
03 – Like an Arrow
04 – Nebraska
05 – Köln
06 – Shelter
07 – My Life
08 – Fly High (Interlude)
09 – Till the End
10 – Cover Up
11 – She’ll Move
12 – Work It Out
13 – Into the Wild
14 – Sheffield [Bonus Track]
15 – Lone Ranger [Bonus Track]
16 – I Tried [Bonus Track]
17 – Like That [Bonus Track]
18 – Shiver (Live from RAK Studios) [Bonus Track]

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Madeon – Adventure {Deluxe Edition} (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Madeon – Adventure {Deluxe Edition} (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz  | Time – 01:05:31 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Dance
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“Adventure” is the debut studio album by French electronic music producer Madeon. The album comes in standard and deluxe versions and is currently available for digital download and also available in CD format. The standard version includes 12 tracks, featuring talent and vocals from Kyan, Dan Smith from Bastille, Passion Pit, Mark Foster from Foster the People and Aquilo. The deluxe version also includes previously released singles Icarus, Finale, The City, Cut the Kid, Technicolor and a bonus track in collaboration with Vancouver Sleep Clinic.

French electronic producer Madeon (born Hugo Leclercq) made a name for himself in the years that preceded the release of his 2015 debut album Adventure. While still in his teens, Leclercq amassed an impressive profile for his remix work, creating exhilarating sounds with a rudimentary set-up for artists such as Yelle, Deadmau5, and Martin Solveig. Following a few singles of his own, he began work in earnest on Adventure in May of 2013, but the album release was pushed back several times over the next few years, eventually landing in March of 2015. Full of bounding electronic pop, Adventure featured numerous guest spots from vocalists such as British indie rock act Bastille’s singer Dan Smith on the moody “La Lune,” Passion Pit on the optimistic single “Pay No Mind,” and Foster the People’s Mark Foster adding lead vocals to “Nonsense.” ~ Fred Thomas

Tracklist:
01 – Isometric (Intro)
02 – You’re On
03 – OK
04 – La Lune
05 – Pay No Mind
06 – Beings
07 – Imperium
08 – Zephyr
09 – Nonsense
10 – Innocence
11 – Pixel Empire
12 – Home
13 – Icarus [Bonus Track]14 – Finale [Bonus Track]15 – The City [Bonus Track]16 – Cut the Kid [Bonus Track]17 – Technicolor [Bonus Track]18 – Only Way Out [Bonus Track]

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Martti Vesala Soundpost Quintet – Stars Aligned (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Martti Vesala Soundpost Quintet – Stars Aligned (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:51 minutes | 918 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Trumpet player Martti Vesala clearly loves the jazz of the 60s and 70s – melodic without being too easy, funky and yet relaxed, filled to the brim with gripping grooves and ripping solos. Little wonder, then, that legendary jazz publication Downbeat recently compared him to Miles Davis. And yet, thanks to Vesala’s drive, passion and virtuosity “Stars Aligned” feels perfectly contemporary.

Martti Vesala Soundpost Quintet is a jazz ensemble formed in 2011 and is comprised of five young and talented jazz musicians from Helsinki, Finland. The instantly recognisable production of ‘Stars Aligned’, somewhere between vintage and entirely contemporary sound design, was sculpted by star producer Miikka Huttunen, highly respected for a string of successful Finnish releases from pop to jazz. Astoundingly, all eight minutely detailed arrangements of the album were taped in a mere three days: The title track with its emotionally ambivalent Leitmotiv and utopian harmonies; experimental study “Murky Green”; and, last but not least, beat-driven pieces like “Driving Force” or “A Murder of Crows”, which, with their casually swinging bass-and-drum-loops, are reminiscent of David Holme’s classic soundtrack for blockbuster Ocean’s Eleven.

Tracklist:
01 – Compulsion
02 – The Sun’s Eye
03 – Stars Aligned
04 – A Murder of Crows
05 – The Lost Sea
06 – Rooftops
07 – Murky Green
08 – Driving Force

Produced by Martti Vesala. Engineered & Mixed by Miikka Huttunen.
Recorded on December 6-8, 2016 at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki.
Mixed by Miikka Huttunen at Neomusic, February 2017.
Mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers West, March 2017.

Musicians:
Martti Vesala – trumpet, fluegelhorn
Petri Puolitaival – tenor saxophone, flute
Joonas Haavisto – piano
Juho Kivivuori – double bass
Ville Pynssi – drums, percussion

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Mattias Risberg – Stamps (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Mattias Risberg – Stamps (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:32 minutes | 191 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Swedish pianist Mattias Risberg demonstrates the passion he dedicates to vintage instruments like mellotron, Hammond organ, analog synthesizers, clavichord and pipe organs, here in a solo album of piano, with some light preparations, and the pedals of a Moog Taurus, in an inventive album of improvisations inspired by the vivid images of postage stamps.

If you’re a fan of Carla Bley you already know Mattias Risberg: together with saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist he released the album And Now the Queen – A Tribute to Carla Bley (2016). Something you could expect from the keyboardist Risberg whose musical interests are deeply rooted in several music idioms, going from John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Jan Johansson and Paul Bley to J.S. Bach, Carlo Gesualdo, Igor Stravinskij and Olivier Messiaen, through the likes of John Lennon, Frank Zappa, early Genesis and Yes.

While Risberg is known for the passion he dedicates to vintage instruments like mellotron, Hammond organ, analog synthesizers, clavichord and even pipe organs, in “STAMPS” he focuses only on the piano, now and then prepared, with the sole aid of some Moog Taurus pedals. And he does it alone, in the solo format.

During the working process Risberg was reminded of his youth, how he “created” inner rooms, guided by music, books, paintings, nature. And by his small collection of stamps. The best way to return to that youthful state of mind was to improvise, as is shown in Stamps, which is the result of those six weeks of spontaneous recordings without script or overdubs. Musically you recognize all the references mentioned above, crossing stylistic borders but also recovering the inspiration of other art forms, the literary one included. Yes, there’s a bit of James Joyce and Paul Klee here for you to find in the inner and outer environments of “STAMPS”.

Tracklist:
01 – Vermilion
02 – Cobalt
03 – Emerald
04 – Marine
05 – Scarlet
06 – Sienna
07 – Viridian
08 – Phtalo
09 – Crimson
10 – Titanium
11 – Umber

Recorded in March and April 2017 at Kullen.

Musicians:
Mattias Risberg – piano, moog taurus

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Ratko Zjaca – Life On Earth (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Ratko Zjaca – Life On Earth (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:39 minutes | 745 MB | Genre: Jazz
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What’s in a band name? Sometimes, absolutely nothing; but in this case, a world of truth. Croatian guitarist Ratko Zjaca’s Nocturnal Four infuses his music with vespertine vibes and shrouds it in shadows, living up to its name while carving out its own identity on an absorbing program calling to the moonlight. After forging a bandstand brotherhood through touring with saxophonist Stefano Bedetti and organist Renato Chicco, it was clear to Zjaca that they needed to be part of this project. And to fill out the quartet, he called on one of the his favorite drummers and one of the jazz world’s premier musicians: the one and only Antonio Sanchez. Together these four make and snake their way through starry scenes and dangerous scenarios, coming out completely unified and entirely unscathed at the other end.

Certain calling cards reveal themselves early on—Zjaca’s penchant for painting sinuous lines and creating angular melodies, a well-blended front line kinship connecting Zjaca to Bedetti, Chicco’s preference for organ haze and mist over grease, Sanchez’s predictable role as propellant and percussive propagator—but Nocturnal Four doesn’t work the same angle from track to track or moment to moment. Opener “Baracoa,” for example, paints the group as one to play on noctambulant allure. But that assessment proves to be just a surface observation about ambitions. As the program develops, so too does this band’s reach. “Shapes And Light,” for example, is built on stronger intentions, demonstrated most clearly in Sanchez’s fiery soloing over a vamping outro. Then “There Is No Tomorrow” adopts a cooler flow, giving pause to admire Bedetti’s beautifully forthright tenor among other things; “Here Nothing Begins” bounds along, bringing waltz-time fantasy, intoxication, and fire into the frame ; and “Guanajo” flips its own frenzied script, opening with channeled calls from the great beyond before responding in kind with oddball zeal. If that last track was meant to represent life on earth, the extraterrestrials may just tremble with fear. Zjaca’s multi-cultural mix-and-match approach to band-making has always carried risk, but it also seems to continually produce results. In this case, joining these four sympathetic individualists under a starry banner has yielded a multifaceted album that willingly explores everything the night has to offer, be it dynamic, disturbing, or dreamy in nature.

Tracklist:
01 – Baracoa
02 – Sense of Mission
03 – Mind Your Step
04 – Shapes and Lights
05 – There Is No Tomorrow
06 – Here Nothing Begins
07 – Guanajo
08 – Finding Our Place
09 – Colours of Dance

Musicians:
Ratko Zjaca – guitars, electronics
Renato Kiko – Hammond organ
Stefano Bedetti – tenor & soprano saxophone
Antonio Sanchez – drums

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Ornette Coleman – The Atlantic Years (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Ornette Coleman – The Atlantic Years (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz  | Time – 6:46:36 minutes | 14,6 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Miles Davis had publicly called him a madman. Leonard Bernstein found him, for his part, completely awesome. Few were those that didn’t have a definitive opinion on Ornette Coleman. Some kind of outlaw who preferred playing his own compositions rather than jazz classics, the American saxophonist also developed harmolodics, a theory uniting harmonics and melody. This box of ten discs compiles one of the most important era in the career of his author. Between 1959 and 1961, he released six studio albums for the Atlantic label. Six albums that are present here and spiced up with alternative takes and various bonuses, all of this of course impeccably remastered by John Webber. Albums included: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959), Change Of The Century (1959), This Is Our Music (1960), Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960), Ornette! (1961) and Ornette On Tenor (1961), and the compilations The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975) and The Ornette Coleman Legacy (1993).

On most of his Atlantic albums, Coleman recorded with a quartet that included trumpeter Don Cherry, plus either Charlie Haden or Scott LaFaro on bass, and either Billy Higgins or Ed Blackwell on drums. One notable exception is Free Jazz, a ground-breaking single-track album where Coleman led a double quartet through a nearly 40-minute collective improvisation. The stereo mix used for the album separates the quartets into different channels; one on the right and the other on the left. Coleman worked extensively with producer Nesuhi Ertegun on the music featured in this collection. Their partnership began in 1959 with Coleman’s Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz To Come, an album the Library of Congress added to its National Recording Registry in 2012.

Among the albums included in THE ATLANTIC YEARS are three compilations that Atlantic released in the 1970’s: The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), and To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975.) These albums include outtakes from recording sessions for all six of Coleman’s studio albums.

Ornette Coleman – The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:16 minutes | 1,32 GB
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Ornette Coleman’s Atlantic debut, The Shape of Jazz to Come, was a watershed event in the genesis of avant-garde jazz, profoundly steering its future course and throwing down a gauntlet that some still haven’t come to grips with. The record shattered traditional concepts of harmony in jazz, getting rid of not only the piano player but the whole idea of concretely outlined chord changes. The pieces here follow almost no predetermined harmonic structure, which allows Coleman and partner Don Cherry an unprecedented freedom to take the melodies of their solo lines wherever they felt like going in the moment, regardless of what the piece’s tonal center had seemed to be. Plus, this was the first time Coleman recorded with a rhythm section – bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins – that was loose and open-eared enough to follow his already controversial conception. Coleman’s ideals of freedom in jazz made him a feared radical in some quarters; there was much carping about his music flying off in all directions, with little direct relation to the original theme statements. If only those critics could have known how far out things would get in just a few short years; in hindsight, it’s hard to see just what the fuss was about, since this is an accessible, frequently swinging record. It’s true that Coleman’s piercing, wailing alto squeals and vocalized effects weren’t much beholden to conventional technique, and that his themes often followed unpredictable courses, and that the group’s improvisations were very free-associative. But at this point, Coleman’s desire for freedom was directly related to his sense of melody – which was free-flowing, yes, but still very melodic. Of the individual pieces, the haunting “Lonely Woman” is a stone-cold classic, and “Congeniality” and “Peace” aren’t far behind. Any understanding of jazz’s avant-garde should begin here.

Tracklist:
01 – Lonely Woman
02 – Eventually
03 – Peace
04 – Focus On Sanity
05 – Congeniality
06 – Chronology

Recorded on May 22, 1959.

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – cornet
Charlie Haden – bass
Billy Higgins – drums

Ornette Coleman – Change Of The Century (1959/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:26 minutes | 1,43 GB
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The second album by Ornette Coleman’s legendary quartet featuring Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins, Change of the Century is every bit the equal of the monumental The Shape of Jazz to Come, showcasing a group that was growing ever more confident in its revolutionary approach and the chemistry in the bandmembers’ interplay. When Coleman concentrates on melody, his main themes are catchier, and when the pieces emphasize group interaction, the improvisation is freer. Two of Coleman’s most memorable classic compositions are here in their original forms – “Ramblin'” has all the swing and swagger of the blues, and “Una Muy Bonita” is oddly disjointed, its theme stopping and starting in totally unexpected places; both secure their themes to stable, pedal-point bass figures. The more outside group improv pieces are frequently just as fascinating; “Free,” for example, features a double-tongued line that races up and down in free time before giving way to the ensemble’s totally spontaneous inventions. The title cut is a frantic, way-out mélange of cascading lines that nearly trip over themselves, brief stabs of notes in the lead voices, and jarringly angular intervals – it must have infuriated purists who couldn’t even stomach Coleman’s catchiest tunes. Coleman was frequently disparaged for not displaying the same mastery of instrumental technique and harmonic vocabulary as his predecessors, but his aesthetic prized feeling and expression above all that anyway. Maybe that’s why Change of the Century bursts with such tremendous urgency and exuberance – Coleman was hitting his stride and finally letting out all the ideas and emotions that had previously been constrained by tradition. That vitality makes it an absolutely essential purchase and, like The Shape of Jazz to Come, some of the most brilliant work of Coleman’s career.

Tracklist:
01 – Ramblin’
02 – Free
03 – The Face Of The Bass
04 – Forerunner
05 – Bird Food
06 – Una Muy Bonita
07 – Change Of The Century

Recorded on October 8 & 9, 1959.

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden – bass
Billy Higgins – drums

Ornette Coleman – This Is Our Music (1960/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:04 minutes | 1,35 GB
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With two landmark albums already under its belt, the Ornette Coleman Quartet spent nearly a year out of the studio before reconvening for This Is Our Music. This time, Billy Higgins is replaced on drums by Ed Blackwell, who has a similar knack for anticipating the ensemble’s direction, and proves a more fiery presence on tracks like “Kaleidoscope” and “Folk Tale.” The session is also notable for containing the only standard (or, for that matter, the only non-original) Coleman recorded during his tenure with Atlantic – Gershwin’s “Embraceable You,” which is given a lyrical interpretation and even a rather old-time, sentimental intro (which may or may not be sarcastic, but really is pretty). In general, though, Coleman disapproved of giving up his own voice and viewed standards as concessions to popular taste; as the unapologetic title of the album makes clear, he wanted to be taken (or left) on his own terms. And that word “our” also makes clear just how important the concept of group improvisation was to Coleman’s goals. Anyone can improvise whenever he feels like it, and the players share such empathy that each knows how to add to the feeling of the ensemble without undermining its egalitarian sense of give and take. Their stark, thin textures were highly distinctive, and both Coleman and Cherry chose instruments (respectively, an alto made of plastic rather than brass and a pocket trumpet or cornet instead of a standard trumpet) to accentuate that quality. It’s all showcased to best effect here on the hard-swinging “Blues Connotation” and the haunting “Beauty Is a Rare Thing,” though pretty much every composition has something to recommend it. All in all, This Is Our Music keeps one of the hottest creative streaks in jazz history going strong.

Tracklist:
01 – Blues Connotation
02 – Beauty Is A Rare Thing
03 – Kaleidoscope
04 – Embraceable You
05 – Poise
06 – Humpty Dumpty
07 – Folk Tale

Recorded on July 19, 26 & August 2, 1960

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden – bass
Ed Blackwell – drums

Ornette Coleman – Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:55 minutes | 1,44 GB
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As jazz’s first extended, continuous free improvisation LP, Free Jazz practically defies superlatives in its historical importance. Ornette Coleman’s music had already been tagged “free,” but this album took the term to a whole new level. Aside from a predetermined order of featured soloists and several brief transition signals cued by Coleman, the entire piece was created spontaneously, right on the spot. The lineup was expanded to a double-quartet format, split into one quartet for each stereo channel: Ornette, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Billy Higgins on the left; trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Ed Blackwell on the right. The rhythm sections all play at once, anchoring the whole improvisation with a steady, driving pulse. The six spotlight sections feature each horn in turn, plus a bass duet and drum duet; the “soloists” are really leading dialogues, where the other instruments are free to support, push, or punctuate the featured player’s lines. Since there was no road map for this kind of recording, each player simply brought his already established style to the table. That means there are still elements of convention and melody in the individual voices, which makes Free Jazz far more accessible than the efforts that followed once more of the jazz world caught up. Still, the album was enormously controversial in its bare-bones structure and lack of repeated themes. Despite resembling the abstract painting on the cover, it wasn’t quite as radical as it seemed; the concept of collective improvisation actually had deep roots in jazz history, going all the way back to the freewheeling early Dixieland ensembles of New Orleans. Jazz had long prided itself on reflecting American freedom and democracy and, with Free Jazz, Coleman simply took those ideals to the next level. A staggering achievement.

Tracklist:
01 – Free Jazz (Part 1)
02 – Free Jazz (Part 2)

Recorded on December 21, 1960.

Musicians
Left channel:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Scott LaFaro – bass
Billy Higgins – drums
Right channel:
Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Charlie Haden – bass
Ed Blackwell – drums

Ornette Coleman – Ornette! (1961/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:51 minutes | 1,59 GB
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Recorded a little over a month after his groundbreaking work Free Jazz, this album found Coleman perhaps retrenching from that idea conceptually, but nonetheless plumbing his quartet music to ever greater heights of richness and creativity. Ornette! was the first time bassist Scott LaFaro recorded with Coleman, and the difference in approach between LaFaro and Charlie Haden is apparent from the opening notes of “W.R.U.” There is a more direct propulsion and limberness to his playing, and he can be heard driving Coleman and Don Cherry actively and more aggressively than Haden’s warm, languid phrasing. The cuts, with titles derived from the works of Sigmund Freud, are all gems and serve as wonderful launching pads for the musicians’ improvisations. Coleman, by this time, was very comfortable in extended pieces, and he and his partners have no trouble filling in the time, never coming close to running out of ideas. Special mention should be made of Ed Blackwell, with one of his finest performances. Ornette! is a superb release and a must for all fans of Coleman and creative improvised music in general.

Tracklist:
01 – WRU
02 – T & T
03 – C & D
04 – RPDD

Recorded on January 31, 1961.

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Scott LaFaro – bass
Ed Blackwell – drums

Ornette Coleman – Ornette On Tenor (1961/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:08 minutes | 1,57 GB
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It’s an understatement to say that Ornette Coleman’s stint with Atlantic altered the jazz world forever, and Ornette on Tenor was the last of his six LPs (not counting outtakes compilations) for the label, wrapping up one of the most controversial and free-thinking series of recordings in jazz history. Actually, it’s probably his least stunning Atlantic, not quite as revolutionary or memorable as many of its predecessors, but still far ahead of its time. Coleman hadn’t played much tenor since a group of Louisiana thugs beat him and destroyed his instrument, but he hadn’t lost his affection for the tenor’s soulful, expressive honk and the ease with which people connected with it. That rationale might suggest a more musically accessible session, but that isn’t the case. Ornette on Tenor is just as challenging and harmonically advanced as any of his previous Atlantics. In fact, it’s arguably more so, since there aren’t really any memorable themes to return to. That means there are fewer opportunities for Coleman and Don Cherry to interact and harmonize, which puts the focus mainly on Coleman’s return to tenor playing. And, actually, it isn’t tremendously different from his alto playing. There are a few traces of Coleman’s early Texas gutbucket R&B days, plus a few spots where he explores a breathier tone, but for the most part his spiraling solo lines are very similar to his other Atlantic albums, and his upper-register sound is often a dead ringer for his plaintive alto cries. With Coleman ostensibly exploring new territory, it’s hard not to be a little disappointed that Ornette on Tenor doesn’t have the boundary-shattering impact of his previous work – but then again, it’s probably asking too much to expect a revolution every time out.

Tracklist:
01 – Cross Breeding
02 – Mapa
03 – Enfant
04 – EOS
05 – Ecars

Recorded on March 22 & 27, 1961.

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – tenor saxophone
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Jimmy Garrison – bass
Ed Blackwell – drums

Ornette Coleman – The Art Of Improvisers (1970/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:21 minutes | 1,59 GB
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Like many of Ornette Coleman’s Atlantic sides, The Art of the Improvisers was recorded in numerous sessions from 1959-1961 and assembled for the purpose of creating a cohesive recorded statement. Its opening track, “The Circle with the Hole in the Middle,” from 1959, with the classic quartet of Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, and Charlie Haden, is one of Coleman’s recognizable pieces of music. Essentially, the band is that quartet with two very notable exceptions: The last tracks on each side feature a different bass player. On the end of side one, the great Scott LaFaro weighs in on “The Alchemy of Scott La Faro,” and Jimmy Garrison weighs in on “Harlem’s Manhattan” to close the album out. These last two sessions were recorded early in 1961, in January and March respectively. As an album, The Art of the Improvisers is usually undervalued when placed next to This Is Our Music or The Shape of Jazz to Come. This is a mistake in that some of Coleman’s most deeply lyrical harmonic structures reside here in tracks such as “Just for You,” with literally stunning intervallic interplay between him and Cherry from the middle to the end. The track also messes with standard blues form and comes up in a modal way without seemingly intending to. The set roars into “The Fifth of Beethoven,” which collapses a series of flatted fifths around Haden and Cherry, and Coleman goes on a Texas blues spree in his solo, dancing all around them. “The Alchemy of Scott La Faro” must have pissed off the hard boppers like nothing else. Here is a straining sprint that the quartet takes in stride as LaFaro and Blackwell charge around the edges in frightening time signatures. Coleman and Cherry for the most part clamor around a B flat-C sharp major figure and run circles around each other in muscular fashion as LaFaro goes pizzicato to head with Coleman in the middle, turning the saxophonist’s phrases into rhythmic structures which Blackwell accents as if cued. But he’s not; this is invented on the spot. Coleman’s deep lyricism shines through despite the tempo, and the entire thing goes out in a blaze of light. “The Legend of Bebop” is a jazz history lesson with the band working out on the front line, quoting from Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, moving through some Ellingtonian themes, and slipping around the corner to a slow, blued-out bebop before taking off in consonant solos and counterpoint. “Harlem’s Manhattan,” with Garrison in Haden’s bass chair, begins with a quote right from Parker and Gillespie before challenging the framework of the blues and its tempos. Blackwell is a blur of the dance, his cymbal work against Garrison’s punctuated accents make Coleman’s and Cherry’s jobs knotty and difficult, but always rooted in the melody that blues inspires. This is basically one of Coleman’s most uptempo records for Atlantic, but also one of his most soulful. It deserves serious re-evaluation.

Tracklist:
01 – The Circle With A Hole In The Middle (Recorded on October 9, 1959)
02 – Just For You (Recorded on May 22, 1959)
03 – The Fifth Of Beethoven (Recorded on July 26, 1960)
04 – The Alchemy Of Scott Lafaro (Recorded on January 31, 1961)
05 – Moon Inhabitants (Recorded on July 26, 1960)
06 – The Legend Of Bebop (Recorded on July 26, 1960)
07 – Harlem’s Manhattan (Recorded on March 27, 1961)

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone; tenor saxophone on “Harlem’s Manhattan”
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet; cornet on “Just for You”
Charlie Haden – bass on 1959 and 1960 tracks
Scott LaFaro – bass on “The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro”
Jimmy Garrison – bass on “Harlem’s Manhattan”
Billy Higgins – drums on 1959 tracks
Ed Blackwell – drums on 1960 and 1961 tracks

Ornette Coleman – Twins (1971/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:25 minutes | 1,76 GB
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Ornette Coleman’s Twins (first issued on LP in 1971) has been looked at as an afterthought in many respects. A collection of sessions from 1959, 1960, and 1961 with different bands, they are allegedly takes from vinyl LP sessions commercially limited at that time to 40 minutes on vinyl, and not initially released until many years later. Connoisseurs consider this one of his better recordings in that it offers an overview of what Coleman was thinking in those pivotal years of the free bop movement rather than the concentrated efforts of The Art of the Improvisers, Change of the Century, The Shape of Jazz to Come, This Is Our Music, and of course the pivotal Free Jazz. There are three most definitive selections that define Coleman’s sound and concept. “Monk & the Nun” is angular like Thelonious Monk, soulful as spiritualism, and golden with the rhythm team of bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins driving the sweet and sour alto sax of Coleman and piquant trumpeting of Don Cherry. “Check Up” is a wild roller coaster ride, mixing meters, tempos, and dynamics in a blender in an unforgettable display of sheer virtuosity, and featuring bassist Scott LaFaro. “Joy of a Toy” displays the playful Ornette Coleman in interval leaps, complicated bungee jumps, in many ways whimsical but not undecipherable. It is one of the most intriguing of all of Coleman’s compositions. Less essential, “First Take” showcases his double quartet in a churning composition left off the original release This Is Our Music, loaded with interplay as a showcase for a precocious young trumpeter named Freddie Hubbard, the ribald bass clarinet of Eric Dolphy, and the first appearance with Coleman’s groups for New Orleans drummer Ed Blackwell. “Little Symphony” has a great written line with room for solos in a joyful hard bop center with the quartet of Coleman, Cherry, Haden, and Blackwell. All in all an excellent outing for Coleman from a hodgepodge of recordings that gives a broader view of his vision and the music that would come later in the ’60s.

Tracklist:
01 – First Take (Recorded on December 21, 1960)
02 – Little Symphony (Recorded on July 19, 1960)
03 – Monk And The Nun (Recorded on May 22, 1959)
04 – Check Up (Recorded on January 31, 1961)
05 – Joy Of A Toy (Recorded on July 26, 1960)

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet; cornet on “Monk and the Nun”
Charlie Haden – bass on 1959 and 1960 tracks
Scott LaFaro – bass on “First Take” and “Check Up”
Billy Higgins – drums on “First Take” and “Monk and the Nun”
Ed Blackwell – drums on 1960 and 1961 tracks
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet on “First Take”
Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet on “First Take”

Ornette Coleman – To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:18 minutes | 1,3 GB
Studio Mono Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

To Whom Who Keeps a Record is a compilation album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by the Japanese subsidiary Warner Pioneer of Warner Bros. Records in 1975. The album was assembled without Coleman’s input, comprising outtakes from Atlantic Records recording sessions of 1959 and 1960 for Change of the Century and This Is Our Music. Sessions for “Music Always” took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California; all others at Atlantic Studios in New York City. The track titles spell out ‘music always brings goodness to us all, p.s. unless one has some other motive for its use.’

Tracklist:
01 – Music Always (Recorded on October 8, 1959)
02 – Brings Goodness (Recorded on July 26, 1960)
03 – To Us (Recorded on July 26, 1960)
04 – All (Recorded on July 26, 1960)
05 – P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation # 2) [Recorded on July 19, 1960]06 – Some Other (Recorded on July 26, 1960)
07 – Motive For Its Use (Recorded on July 26, 1960)

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden – bass
Billy Higgins – drums on “Music Always”
Ed Blackwell – drums on 1960 tracks

Ornette Coleman – The Ornette Coleman Legacy (1993/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:52 minutes | 1,29 GB
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The Ornette Coleman Legacy, featuring six songs originally released for the first time in 1993 as part of Rhino’s CD boxed set “Beauty Is A Rare Thing”.

Tracklist:
01 – Rise And Shine
02 – The Tribes Of New York
03 – I Heard It Over The Radio
04 – Revolving Doors
05 – Mr. And Mrs. People
06 – Proof Readers

Recorded in 1959-1961.

Musicians:
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden – bass
Ed Blackwell – drums

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Halo Maud – Je suis une ile (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Halo Maud – Je suis une ile (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:34 minutes | 491 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Heavenly Recordings

Halo Maud’s first release on Heavenly is a recap of the story so far ahead of an album release later this year – three tracks of this EP originally came out on a Canadian label last year, with the difference that ‘Du Pouvoir’ now features some English lyrics, and ‘A La Fin’ and ‘Dans La Nuit’ cropped up on a La Souterraine compilations in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Maud Nadal has been a member of both Moodoid and Melody’s Echo Chamber’s live bands, and of course at times there are comparisons to be drawn with MEC, with both teetering on a crystalline peak where extreme joy and despair meet. But if anything Nadal’s own melodies are even more indelible, and her voice turns them into vapour trails.

Tracklist:
1. Wherever 05:23
2. Du pouvoir/power 03:20
3. Chanceuse 03:12
4. Surprise03:22
5. Tu Sais Comme Je Suis 04:15
6. De retour 01:07
7. Baptism 03:30
8. Fred 02:57
9. Je suis une Île 02:03
10. Proche proche proche 04:39
11. Dans la nuit 04:11
12. Des bras 05:35

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Hans Zimmer – The Classics (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Hans Zimmer – The Classics (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:08 minutes | 1,11 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Classical

The Classics is a stunning new album from the world s most exciting film composer, Hans Zimmer. The album features back-to-back blockbuster hits including the iconic music from Pirates of the Caribbean, Academy Award®-winner The Lion King, the powerful and evocative theme from The Dark Knight Rises and the Platinum-selling Now We Are Free from Gladiator. For the first time, the bold and unmistakable music of Hans Zimmer has been reimagined and arranged for some of the world s greatest classical musicians, including The Piano Guys, Lang Lang, 2CELLOS, Lindsey Stirling, Till Brönner, Amy Dickson, Leona Lewis and many more. This incredible collection is a must-have for all fans of the most in-demand composer in Hollywood.

Hans Zimmer has scored more than 120 films, which have, combined, grossed over 24 billion dollars at the worldwide box office. He has been honored with an Academy Award®, two Golden Globes®, three Grammys®, an American Music Award and a Tony® award. In 2003, ASCAP presented him with the prestigious Henry Mancini Award for lifetime achievement for his impressive and influential body of work. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in December 2010. His Academy Award®-winning score to The Lion King has sold over 15 million copies since release in the early 90s. Some of his most recent works include Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, The Lone Ranger, History Channel’s miniseries The Bible, the Christopher Nolan-directed films Inception, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises; Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Ron Howard’s Rush and Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave. His most recent Academy Award® nomination, his 10th, was for Interstellar.

Tracklist
01. Main Theme (From ‘The Dark Knight Rises’) feat. Lindsey Stirling
02. Main Theme (From ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’) feat. The Piano Guys
03. Gladiator Rhapsody (From ‘Gladiator’) feat. Lang Lang
04. Main Theme (From ‘Crimson Tide’) feat. Till Broenner
05. Time (From ‘Inception’) feat. Tina Guo
06. This Land (From ‘The Lion King’) feat. Amy Dickson
07. Now We Are Free (From ‘Gladiator’) feat. Leona Lewis
08. Flight (From ‘Man of Steel’) feat. Lang Lang and Maxim Vengerov
09. Light (From ‘The Thin Red Line’) Maxim Vengerov
10. The Battle Scene (From ‘Gladiator’) feat. Khatia Buniatishvili
11. Mombasa (From ‘The Inception’) feat. 2CELLOS
12. The Docking Scene (From ‘Interstellar’) feat. Roger Sayer

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Harold Lopez-Nussa – Un Dia Cualquiera (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Harold López-Nussa – Un Día Cualquiera (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:24 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Un Día Cualquiera is a forceful statement from a Cuban musician leading his tight-knit Cuban band, recorded in the U.S. (at WGBH Studios in Boston, Mass.), and influenced by music from both countries in ways that transcend narrow notions of “Latin jazz.” The album nods to classic Cuban composers and musicians but it focuses mostly on pianist Harold López-Nussa’s original compositions and his distinctive trio concept. These compositions are mostly new, save for one or two, such as the opener, “Cimarrón,” which are older pieces reinvented for the present moment.

In just a decade, Cuban artist Harold Lopez Nussa has established himself as one of the most talented Latin jazz pianists of his generation. This new album, made in trio with his brother and drummer Ruy Adrian and bassist Gaston Joya, creates a perspective between the origins of Cuban music and his own creations. Indeed, he covers Ernesto Lecuona’s (1895-1963) Danza de los Ñáñigos, which is based on elements from Afro-Cuban rituals, and his Y la Negra Bailaba, which creates a bridge between son and danzón. The pianist’s smooth and dynamic style elegantly reshapes Cesar Portillo de la Luz’s famous bolero Contigo En La Distancia, which features in the repertoire of Caetano Veloso, Christina Aguilera, and even Omara Portuando, a version that Harold Lopez Nussa knows very well, having played it alongside Portuando on tour around the world. He also officially pays tribute to the great Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes with Una Tarde Cualquiera en Paris. Whether he strides along the spicy roadways of Cuban rhythms or expresses his taste for a form of French impressionism inherited from Ravel in Ma Petite dans la boulangerie, Harold Lopez Nussa reaffirms with strong support from his swinging crew his freedom and inexhaustible verve as an improviser. – Benjamin MiNiMuM

Tracklist:
1. Cimarrón 03:51
2. Danza de los Ñañigos 04:29
3. Una Tarde Cualquiera En Paris (to Bebo Valdes) 04:48
4. Preludio (to Jose Juan) 03:28
5. Elegua 05:06
6. Hialeah 03:32
7. Ma petite dans la Boulangerie 03:56
8. Y la Negra Bailaba 04:01
9. Conga Total / El Cumbanchero 03:39
10. Contigo en la Distancia 05:47
11. Mi Son Cerra’o 04:47

Personnel:
HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA, piano
GASTON JOYA, bass
RUY ADRIAN LÓPEZ-NUSSA, drums, percussion

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Hauschka – Adrift (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Hauschka – Adrift (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:23 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Sony Classical will release a soundtrack album for the survival drama Adrift. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) (Lion, Patrick Melrose, Gunpowder, The Current War). Adrift is directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, 2 Guns) and stars Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin. The movie tells the true story of Tami Oldham, who, after being knocked unconscious by the largest hurricane in the history of the Pacific Ocean, awakens to find her fiancé badly injured, their boat in ruins, and no means of communication or navigation. The drama will be released in theaters nationwide on June 1 by STX Entertainment. Visit the official movie website for more information.

Tracklist:
01. Opening
02. Destination Unknown
03. Tami Meets Richard
04. Eerie Knock
05. Dinner Sunburnt
06. Makeshift Mast
07. Broken Ribs
08. So Far North
09. Hang Left Sail to Hawaii
10. Letter Montage
11. Sunset Monet
12. 10 Days Adrift
13. Beer Cigars Guitar
14. Freighter Bow Wave
15. Will You Marry Me
16. Cross the Horizon
17. Salvation
18. The Storm
19. Emilíana Torrini – I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You

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Henri Demarquette, Fabrizio Chiovetta & Patrick Messina – Raats, Part, Gorecki: Kaleidoscopic (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Henri Demarquette, Fabrizio Chiovetta & Patrick Messina – Rääts, Pärt, Gorecki: Kaleidoscopic (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:43 minutes | 854 MB | Genre: Classical
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Of the three composers on this album, the Estonian Jaan Rääts is surely less well-known to Western European audiences than Arvo Pärt or Henryk Górecki – even though the latter is mainly famous for a single work, the monumental Third Symphony which is far from representing the majority of his output. That said, this, Lerchenmusik – a pun, as “Lerche” is not only the German for skylark, but also the name of the dedicatee – has plenty in common with the famous symphony: a consistently slow tempo, in fact very, very slow; long, breathtaking, sombre chords; and a very substantial theme. The work for clarinet, cello and piano was written in 1985 in a similar vein: perhaps Górecki had grasped what his audiences liked about his language, at least in terms of symphonies: that is, the incantatory, quasi-religious quality. So why disappoint his public? Pärt, for his part, contributes the Mozart-Adagio in memory of Oleg Kagan, in a first version for violin, cello and piano: the revision was made specifically for the musicians on this recording. The composer took a slow movement from the Mozart and put it through several harmonic and thematic metamorphoses. Finally, the Kaleidoskoopilised etüüdid by Jaan Rääts are presented here as a discographic world-first. Their “kaleidoscopic” aspect is created by juxtaposing short thematic, rhythmic, or instrumental cells, like so many minimalist fragments, all jumbled together: just like the effect of looking through a kaleidoscope.

Tracklist:
1. Kaleidoscopic Etudes, Op. 97 13:49
2. Mozart-Adagio 06:11
3. Lerchenmusik, Recitatives and Ariosos, Op. 53: I. Lento – Largo 14:18
4. Lerchenmusik, Recitatives and Ariosos, Op. 53: II. Molto lento – Tranquillo cantabile – Dolce 11:12
5. Lerchenmusik, Recitatives and Ariosos, Op. 53: III. Andante moderato – Tranquillo, cantabile 15:13

Personnel:
Patrick Messina, clarinet
Fabrizio Chiovetta, piano
Henri Demarquette, cello

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