Jazz Meets India

Richard X Bennett - What Is Now (2017) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at Jan. 21, 2020

Richard X Bennett - What Is Now (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 52:10 minutes | 571 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Since moving to New York from his native Toronto in the 1990s, pianist and composer Richard X Bennett has thrived as a performer in a broad variety of stylistic contexts. Splitting his time between New York and Mumbai, he released a series of acclaimed albums on several Indian imprints, with his last two on Times Music, India's largest label. Until now, however, Bennett had yet to put an album out on an American label. On October 6, a dual release by Ropeadope Records will mark the pianist's first American recordings the trio date What Is Now and the Indo-jazz quintet session Experiments With Truth. Bennett displays his loose, percussive, and conversational instrumental style on the trio album. The raga-infused music on the quintet album is something else again, as stylistically remote from his trio opus as the Big Apple is from Bollywood.

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Shakti with John McLaughlin - Natural Elements [CBS Master Sound] Music

Posted by amitnewyork at Aug. 29, 2009

Let not the release year deter you from downloading this musican gem. The audio is so excellent on this Master Sound disc that it can put to shame today's generation of audio engineers with a long tail of university degrees. A superb album! My second most favorite album in the fusion genre!

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VA - Nicola Conte Presents: Cosmic Forest "The Spiritual Sounds of MPS" (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/88] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 22, 2018

VA - Nicola Conte Presents: Cosmic Forest "The Spiritual Sounds of MPS" (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Time - 81:20 minutes | 1.51 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

“Cosmic Forest” takes us on a spiritual journey through the musical universe of Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (Black Forest Music Production), the most important German jazz label of the 1960’s and 70’s. Alongside such younger firms as ECM, Enja, and ACT, its catalogue of around 500 albums remains to this day one of the most interesting, comprehensive, multi-textured collections of “jazz made in Germany”. German businessman Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer (HGBS), owner of the German electronics company SABA in Villingen/ Schwenningen, founded a record company in 1965 under the same name and equipped it with its own recording studio.

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Sarah Buechi & Christoph Haberer - Animata (2015) Music

Posted by varrock at Oct. 21, 2015

Sarah Buechi & Christoph Haberer - Animata (2015)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Tracks: 12 | 59:44 min | 137 Mb
Style: Nu-Jazz | Label: JazzHausMusik

Musicians Sarah Buechi and Christoph Haberer look animated on stage as they do a quick rehearsal before their contemporary jazz concert in the city, organised by the Goethe Zentrum. That certainly drums up excitement and has the small audience tapping their feet in sync with the beats. Sarah, the young vocalist of German musical duo Animata, croons ambiguous lines in German in her melodious voice, with a few strings of Carnatic swaras artfully blended into the songs, while Christoph, a well-known percussionist and composer from Dortmund, Germany, meets her notes with equally lively rhythms.

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David Sancious - Forest Of Feelings (1975) {Esoteric Recordings} Music

Posted by tiburon at Sept. 22, 2017

David Sancious - Forest Of Feelings (1975) {Esoteric Recordings}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 301MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 118MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Fusion

Forest of Feelings is keyboardist/guitarist/composer David Sancious' debut solo effort after leaving Bruce Springsteen's employ. He not only played keyboards on Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle and the title cut on Born to Run, but also arranged them. A musical polymath, Sancious never met a musical style he didn't like – or couldn't master. Here he is fully under the sway of jazz-rock fusion and progressive rock. Produced by Billy Cobham, Forest of Feelings features Sancious on an army of keys – Hammond B-3, clavinet, Moog, acoustic and Rhodes piano, etc. – but also on guitar (on which he is just as proficient, if not better).

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Lea Longo - Songs of a Siren (2014) Music

Posted by varrock at Oct. 7, 2014

Lea Longo - Songs of a Siren (2014)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Tracks: 10 | 48:09 min | 104 Mb
Style: New Age, Female Vocal, Nu-Jazz, World | Label: Sweet Life Music

It used to be that musical categories were fairly well defined, and that most songs fit neatly into little boxes called genres. However, in recent times, it seems that the lines have become blurred and the boundaries breached, so that just about any style can be merged with any other style to create some of the most innovative blends imaginable. A perfect example of this is the latest release by Canadian singer/ songwriter Lea Longo, entitled Songs Of A Siren. Here she combines her love of jazz and pop standards with the spirituality of mantra and kirtan chanting to provide a completely different twist on the East meets West concept.

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Håkon Kornstad - Tenor Battle (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at Feb. 6, 2020

Håkon Kornstad - Tenor Battle (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 43:11 minutes | 908 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

In the fifties, the jazz saxophonists competed in playing fastest and loudest and called it a Tenor Battle. In Håkon Kornstad’s new ensemble the expression takes on a totally different meaning, when he mixes his newfound tenor voice with his unique tenor saxophone playing. The Guardian concluded: «It could have been a virtuosic circus act, but in Kornstad’s hands was a musical tour de force.»

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Amine & Hamza - Fertile Paradoxes (2017) Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 19, 2020

Amine & Hamza - Fertile Paradoxes (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 398 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | 01:10:12
World Fusion, Ethnic Jazz | Label: ARC Music

‘Fertile Paradoxes’ is the new studio album from two Tunisian brothers, Amine & Hamza M'raihi. Both are masters of the oud and kanun respectively, the two major instruments of Arabic classical music. ‘Fertile Paradoxes’ is steeped in global rhythms spanning from their homeland in Tunisia to Switzerland where Amine and Hamza currently reside, tour and record. ‘Fertile Paradoxes’ is a classy exploration into time-honoured traditions with new dimensions, across eight tracks of carefully selected dynamic collaborations. The album runs close to seventy minutes of airplay; the shortest track is ‘Letter to God’ at 7:31 and the longest being ‘Spleen’ at 10.49.

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Stephane Wrembel - The Django Experiment I (2017) {Water Is Life Records WIL11} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Aug. 29, 2018

Stephane Wrembel - The Django Experiment I (2017) {Water Is Life Records WIL11}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 281 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 114 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 21 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2017 Stephane Wrembel / Water Is Life Records | WIL 11
Jazz / Gypsy Jazz / World Fusion / New Acoustic / Guitar

The Django Experiment is the Stephane Wrembel Band's unique way of performing the music of Django Reinhardt. A perfect blend of the original Gypsy sound with the New York City voodoo. Mainly Django's music, and a few compositions by Stephane Wrembel.

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Stephane Wrembel - The Django Experiment II (2017) {Water Is Life Records WIL12} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Sept. 1, 2018

Stephane Wrembel - The Django Experiment II (2017) {Water Is Life Records WIL12}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 361 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 150 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 36 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2017 Stephane Wrembel / Water Is Life Records | WIL 12
Jazz / Gypsy Jazz / World Fusion / New Acoustic / Guitar

The Django Experiment is the Stephane Wrembel Band's unique way of performing the music of Django Reinhardt. A perfect blend of the original Gypsy sound with the New York City voodoo. Mainly Django's music, and a few compositions by Stephane Wrembel.

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