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Agnes Pyka & Ensemble Des Équilibres - César Franck: Complete Chamber Music (2023)

Agnes Pyka & Ensemble Des Équilibres - César Franck: Complete Chamber Music (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,22 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 643 Mb | Digital booklet | 04:38:57
Classical | Label: Klarthe Records

A little-known Franck: Legend has it that César Franck (1822-1890) did not really find himself until the 1870s. This would be to ignore a huge part of his career as a composer! Barely younger than his model and mentor Franz Liszt (1811-1886), whom he met in 1837, he began, like Liszt, to experiment with new musical forms at a very early age, and throughout his life he let his inspiration speak for itself without limit. His chamber music is, in this respect, one of the most fascinating markers of his artistic trajectory, the essence of which has yet to be rediscovered.

The Chats - Get Fucked (2022)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Aug. 20, 2022
The Chats - Get Fucked (2022)

The Chats - Get Fucked (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 182 MB | Cover | 27:58 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 65 MB
Punk - New Wave | Label: The Chats

The history of punk rock is rife with underground aggressors who enjoy a surprise brush with mainstream notoriety thanks to an atypically sunny song that teeters precariously close to novelty-tune status. So the crossover success of the Chats is all the more remarkable given that it came through their surliest song. With the 2017 single “Smoko,” the Australian trio not only scored an anti-social anthem that’s since been covered by the likes of YUNGBLUD and Wet Leg, they also transformed regional vernacular—in this case, Aussie slang for “smoke break”—into an international catchphrase. Vividly channeling the boiled-blood irritation of a service-industry worker who’d sooner gut you than waste a precious second of their five-minute puff session making idle conversation, “Smoko” nonetheless possessed the sort of Seinfeldian relatability that landed the then-teenaged band on morning shows and the 6 o’clock news back home. But since then, the Chats have hardly gone out of their way to make themselves more respectable for the masses. The best songs on their 2020 debut High Risk Behaviour concerned venereal disease, getting caught wanking on webcam, and gorging yourself on rump steak. Now their second album comes bearing a title that’s practically begging to get them disinvited from the late-night talk show circuit.
James Johnstone - François Couperin: Complete works for organ; Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (2019)

James Johnstone - François Couperin: Complete works for organ; Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 525 Mb | Total time: 47:45+53:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Metronome | # METCD1098 | Recorded: 2018

This release contains the complete works for organ by François Couperin, composer to the court of Louis XIV. James Johnstone continues his series of recordings on the great baroque organs of Europe on the 1699 organ by Julien Tribuot, Louis XIV’s organ builder, now in the Eglise St Martin in Seurre, Burgundy. This last surviving instrument by a revered builder is close to its original condition. A leading baroque organist, James Johnstone recorded these works as part of 350th anniversary celebrations of Couperin's birth in 2018, and completes Metronome’s survey of Couperin’s complete keyboard works.
Pierre Henri Xuereb - Vivaldi & Stamitz: Viola d'Amore (3 concerti & sonata) (2023)

Pierre Henri Xuereb, Christophe Giovaninetti, Académie de Mandoline et Guitare de Marseille & Vincent Beer-Demander - Vivaldi & Stamitz: Viola d'Amore (3 concerti & sonata) (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 219 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 100 Mb | 00:43:40
Classical | Label: Continuo Classics

A rare project of Vivaldi's Viola d'Amore Concerto performed with viola d'amore, mandolin & guitar orchestra! Vivaldi composed several concertos for solo viola d'amore for his students at the Pietà Conservatory.
Zoot Sims Et Henri Renaud - Jazz In Paris [Recorded 1952-1956] (2000) (Re-up)

Zoot Sims Et Henri Renaud - Jazz In Paris [Recorded 1952-1956] (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 327 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 144 MB | Covers - 46 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (013 037-2)

Zoot and trumpeter Jon Eardley were in Paris in 1956 as part of the Gerry Mulligan Sextet which performed at the Olympia. They took time off to record on their own in the studios. Tracks 1-4 released on French 10 inch LP were actually a rehearsal with the Henri Renaud trio which was deemed good enough to release. The rest of this Jazz In Paris CD features a Live set by the Henri Renaud ensemble complete with vibes and guitar dwarfing the saxes, and a loud but not unruly audience.

Henri Texier - An Indian's Life (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 17, 2024
Henri Texier - An Indian's Life (2023)

Henri Texier, Manu Codjia, Gautier Garrigue, Carlo Nardozza, Sylvain Rifflet, Sébastien Texier & Himiko Paganotti - An Indian's Life (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 386 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 131 Mb | 00:56:53
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Label Bleu

By explicitly titling his new album “An Indian's Life”, double bassist and composer Henri Texier beautifully closes a sort of informal phonographic triptych — begun in 1993 with “An Indian's Week” and continued in 2016 with “Sky Dancers” — making the Native American cause and, beyond that, the quasi-mythological figure of the “Indian”, both the imaginary matrix and the poetic driving force of his artistic gesture. Because if in the end Henri Texier can claim in this new record to have managed once again to resonate with the Native American psyche, it is undoubtedly in this living relationship to memory, to ancestors, to tradition, that his music ( re)comes into play each time in such a sensitive way. Henri Texier will never be an Indian, he knows it, just as he will never be Charles Mingus - but both meet in his music and it is all his genius to make his most intimate voice heard through this imaginary dialogue.

Henri Texier - Chance (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 12, 2023
Henri Texier - Chance (2020)

Henri Texier - Chance (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 352 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 Mb | 00:54:04
Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Post-Bop | Label: Label Bleu

Henri Texier, double bass player, multi-instrumentalist traces his path, record after record since 1967. The more the years pass, the more the importance and the originality of Henri Texier impose themselves on all the musicians, fellow travelers, or not. A wonderful combination of a great tradition of double bass and a modernism that has never been frightened of anything. Time passing seems to have no hold on his game: round, powerful and above all animated by an extraordinary awareness of rhythm. A high-flying cast and a sequence of scenes and landscapes that give the listener the certainty of a global scenario.
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire & Pascal Rophé - Debussy Orchestrated (2022)

Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire & Pascal Rophé - Debussy Orchestrated (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 221 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 151 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:46
Classical | Label: BIS

With the present disc, Pascal Rophé and his Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire pay tribute to their great countryman, Claude Debussy – but not with the standard orchestral fare. Debussy Orchestrated paints a portrait of a light-hearted composer, seen through the eyes of two of his collaborators, Henri Büsser and André Caplet, who transferred the works recorded here from the keyboard to the orchestra. In Petite Suite, composed for piano four hands in 1899, Debussy makes allusions to Fêtes galantes by Paul Verlaine, the poet who so often inspired him.
Ilya Gringolts, Florenent Jodelet, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire - Michael Jarrell: Orchestral Works (2023)

Ilya Gringolts, Florenent Jodelet, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire & Pascal Rophé - Michael Jarrell- Orchestral Works (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 187 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:54:01
Classical | Label: BIS

The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to ‘examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth’ – a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi, a place where time stands still. His works are often interrelated, not only by a certain sensitivity or a distinctive tone, but also by the recurrence of particular features that he reworks in different contexts.

Concerto Köln - Henri-Joseph Rigel: Symphonies (2009)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Feb. 21, 2023
Concerto Köln - Henri-Joseph Rigel: Symphonies (2009)

Concerto Köln - Henri-Joseph Rigel: Symphonies (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 385 Mb | Total time: 69:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # 0016432BC | Recorded: 2008

Chances are excellent that, unless you remember the sixteenth volume of the old brown-backed set of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians – "Riegel to Schusterfleck" – then you have never encountered composer Henri-Joseph Rigel. The scion of a musical family that also spelled its name "Riegel," Rigel studied with Niccolò Jommelli and Franz Xaver Richter before arriving in Paris in 1767; although his musical language remained essentially Italo-German, Rigel is mainly considered a French composer as the bulk of his work and sphere of influence was centered in Paris. He was a member of the Concert Spirituel, a reasonably prolific and successful composer of opera and oratorio (his La Sortie d'Egypte has been revived in modern times in Europe), and served on the founding faculty of the Paris Conservatoire, beginning in 1795.