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Dhafer Youssef & Wolfgang Muthspiel - Glow (2007) {Material Records MRE 019-2}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 251 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 116 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 34 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2007 Material Records | MRE 019-2
Jazz / World Jazz / Post Bop / Ethnic Jazz / Worldbeat

Although it's a dual-leader album, in which oud player Dhafer Youssef's performance is at least as important as that of guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of Glow's chief causes for celebration is Muthspiel's on-form presence. After releasing the shimmeringly beautiful Bright Side (Material Records, 2006)—a little-known masterpiece which may yet take its place alongside such jazz guitar iconographs as Johnny Smith's Moonlight In Vermont (Roulette, 1953, reissued 2004) and Wes Montgomery's Incredible Jazz Guitar (Riverside, 1960)—Muthspiel's project with drummer Brian Blade, Friendly Travelers (Material Records, 2007), was a disappointment, interesting in conception but not entirely convincing in execution.

Antoine Hervé (20 January 1959 in Paris) is a French composer and pianist. Hervé studied composition at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. Between 1987 and 1989 he was director of the French National Jazz Orchestra. He has played with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Chet Baker, Randy Brecker, Cab Calloway, Louis Sclavis, Martial Solal, Michel Portal, Carla Bley, Didier Lockwood and Daniel Humair. Next to musicals, soundtracks for movies and dance shows Hervé has composed a concert for trumpet and a piece for drums and orkest. During 1997 Hervé and Markus Stockhausen founded a quintet. He has his own jazz label, Philo.

"Snatches…is as freely composed as an improvisation. A friendly conversation in a coffeehouse, snatches of clever conversation, full of irony… and we trace our way between the tables… The waiter is a double-bell trumpet…
The soloists do not improvise in this piece." Peter Eötvös

This cd is not for sale and has been licensed by ECM to be sold together with April 2016 issue of Musica Jazz magazine.

Noirin Ni Riain and the Monks of Glenstal Abbey - Vox de Nube
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 202 MB | Full Artwork: 74 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sounds True # STA A318 | Country/Year: US 1996, 1989
Genre: Classical, World | Style: Sacred Chant

Nóirín Ní Riain (born 1951, Caherconlish, County Limerick) is an Irish singer, writer, teacher, theologian, and authority on Gregorian Chant (plainchant, plainsong). She is primarily known for spiritual songs, but also sings Celtic music, Sean-nós and Indian songs. (…) As a child, Nóirín often visited Glenstal Abbey in Murroe to listen to the chants of the Benedictine monks. Later she performed and made several recordings with them, under which the trilogy: Vox Clamantis in Deserto (Caoineadh na Maighdine), Vox Populi (Good People All) and Vox de Nube (A Voice from the Cloud). She has a PhD in theology. Her thesis was The Specificity of Christian Theosonetics, an in-depth study and representation of sounds—primarily vocal sounds—as a means to religious experience from a Christian perspective.

These 24-carat gold CD, characterized by exceptionally clear record. This is the result of the use and NoNOISE "SASS" (Sound Analysis and Synthesis System).