Markus Stockhausen a

Lalo Schifrin - Gillespiana (1998) {Aleph Records ‎002}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 394 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 148 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 81 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1998 Aleph Enterprises Inc. | Aleph 002
Jazz / 20th-century Classical Music / Modern Big Band / Modern Arrangement

For the first jazz release on his self-run Aleph label, Schifrin flew to Cologne, Germany to record this solid remake of Gillespiana, his 1960 five-movement concerto for Dizzy Gillespie with which Schifrin had been touring earlier in 1996. Designed to illustrate the sources that inspired Gillespie's music, the work remains one of the chameleonic Schifrin's best in a big-band idiom, particularly the dynamic Afro-Cuban-flavored blues "Toccata" that closes the concerto.

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Spiral I & II, Pole, Wach, Japan, Zykus, Tierkreis, In Freundschaft (2009) {2CD Set EMI Classics}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 535 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 337 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 21 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2009 EMI Classics | 50999 6 95598 2 2
Classical / Avant-Garde / Experimental / 20th Century

Performances from 1971 to 1997, featuring Tristan Fry in Zyklus, Harald Bojé and others in pieces for short-wave radios and electric instruments, and the composer's son Markus in the trumpet cycles In Freundschaft.

Ralph Towner breaks out in more ways than one on City of Eyes. Despite his band Oregon's lagging creative slump and his own obsession with a synthesizer he is only beginning to learn how to "play," Towner cuts some new grooves on this set with an all-star cast. New to Towner's musical universe is drummer/percussionist Jerry Granelli and brass auteur Markus Stockhausen. Even Paul McCandless – who has spent the better part of the '80s making new age albums – doesn't muck things up this time out. The opener, "Jamaica Stopover," is Towner's freshest solo guitar piece in ages. It's slippery, has a groove, and is actually rooted in both the blues and gypsy swing. The first ensemble piece, "Cascades," sounds a little florid at the outset, but Granelli's percussive ambience is a cure for the rococo melody (it again reeks of Offramp-period Pat Metheny-ism).

David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Flux + Mutability (1989) {Virgin}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 173 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 91 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 26 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1989 Virgin Records | CDVE43
Experimental Rock / Ambient / Soundscapes / Electronic Minimalism

David Sylvian and Holger Czukay are fairly eclectic and diverse musicians. In the European ambient scene, they are fixtures. Flux + Mutability is an album with two long-form compositions. "Flux" is "a big, bright, colorful world" and "Mutability" is "a new beginning…in the offing." These pieces are deep, expansive atmospheres with eerie samples and vacuous walls of sound. The second piece features only guitars, keyboards, and an African flute. The first piece has a much wider sound.

Cet album est conçu comme un »best of« des principales créations que j’ai pu réaliser ces dix dernières années, suite à mon passage à l’Orchestre national de Jazz. Un travail de réécriture, de transcription et d’adaptation a été nécessaire pour ce nouveau groupe, composé de musiciens qui partagent mon parcours artistique depuis bien longtemps déjà.