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Quartet Diminished
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 Quartet Diminished کوارتت کاسته - Station One
 Quartet Diminished کوارتت کاسته - Station One
 Quartet Diminished کوارتت کاسته - Station One
Released: January 04, 2015
Released 2015 by Hermesrecords, Iran
All pieces available in high quality (Wave)
Ehsan Sadigh: E Guitar
Mazyar Younessi: Piano, Voice
Peter Soleymanipour: Clarinet Bass, Sax Soprano, Tenor
Rouzbeh Fadavi: Drums
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JOHANN JOHANNSSON
HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR
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JOHANN JOHANNSSON WITH HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR & ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE - End of Summer
JOHANN JOHANNSSON WITH HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR & ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE - End of Summer
JOHANN JOHANNSSON WITH HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR & ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE - End of Summer
Released: December 04, 2015
Label: SONIC PIECES.
PATTERN 002 CD/DVD "lasercut cardboard packaging with full colored innersleeve"
End of Summer captures Johann Johannsson's journey to the Antarctic Peninsula to discover the calm scenery of a landscape changing seasons, barely influenced or even noticed by humanity. The super 8 film is a comforting study of a peaceful setting in one of the most crucial and endangered areas of our planet.
Accompanied by rich and detailed field recordings of the surrounding this footage makes a perfect foundation for Johann's musical compositions, performed together with fellow musicians and friends Hildur Gudnadottir and Robert A. A. Lowe. The varying use of cello, voice, synthesizer and electronics creates a listening experience that reflects both the vast beauty of the quiet scenery and the necessary cautiousness of its inhabitants. As if gliding through the steep ice, its rough edges and the harmonious water movements, organic arrangements are patiently devolving into voice and electronic based ambience that adds warmth to the icy, artefact laden environment.
The soundtrack to End of Summer is an emotional, enduring listen and a compelling experience. Forming a soundscape as broad as the view it was inspired by yet equally heartwarming, devotion to the music will slow down time and provide a moment of harmony within times of change.
LP edition features the soundtrack as well as the film's sound design on the B-Side, exclusively on vinyl;
DVD + CD package features the film and accompanying soundtrack.
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Edouard Ferlet
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Violaine Cochard & Edouard Ferlet - Bach Plucked Unplucked
Violaine Cochard & Edouard Ferlet - Bach Plucked Unplucked
Released: December 2015
Label: Alpha Classics
In the continuity of the Think Bach project, Arièle Butaux provoked an unexpected duo on French radio, centred on Baroque music and improvisation, a magical, timeless face-to-face between Edouard Ferlet and harpsichordist Violaine Cochard.
PLUCKED UNPLUCKED // Violaine Cochard & Edouard Ferlet - Official Album Trailer
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Fabrizio Paterlini
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Fabrizio Paterlini - Live in Bratislava
Fabrizio Paterlini - Live in Bratislava
Fabrizio Paterlini - Live in Bratislava
Released: December 04, 2015
"This recording has been taken on June 30th 2015, in Bratislava in a beautiful, somehow magical hall, the National Radio Slovak Hall. What I like about this concert is that it perfectly represents my music: what I have been doing, the piano solo, the strings and all my beloved melancholy i try to put in notes. But it also gives a glimpse on what i am exploring these days: live electronics, sequencing old synths, drum machines, all together with my piano. This record is a "bridge" somehow, between what I have been doing in the past and the territories I am exploring right now. I hope you will enjoy it." - Fabrizio Paterlini
http://www.fabriziopaterlinirecords.com
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Hildegunn Øiseth
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Hildegunn Øiseth – Time Is Coming
Released: November 27, 2015
Label: Losen Records
Hildegunn Øiseth: trumpet, flugelhorn and goat horn
Espen Berg: piano
Mats Eilertsen: bass
Per Odvar Johansen: drums
Impeccably recorded, with delicacy and with depth, this album has added five years to my life. As Hildegunn breathes life into her trumpet and into her bukkehorn (goat’s horn), I listen and I learn to breathe properly, to relax.
Music such as this, sparse, roomy, largely minimalistic, can only be played to perfection by world-class musicians equipped with massive technical dexterity and seemingly limitless creativity. Don’t get me wrong, the album also contains build up and climax. Just listen to the intense interplay between Hildegunn (trumpet with Harmon mute) and Espen, on Savolainen.
Hildegunn Øiseth Quartet: Time is Coming
Hildegunn Øiseth Quartet: Hildegunn Vuelie
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ARSHID AZARINE TRIO
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ARSHID AZARINE TRIO - 7 Djan
ARSHID AZARINE TRIO - 7 Djan
ARSHID AZARINE TRIO - 7 Djan
Released: November 13, 2015.
Label: Ohrwurm records / IDOL
Arshid Azarine Trio:
Arshid Azarine (piano, melodica, vocals)
Habib Meftah Boushehri (percussions, vocals)
Herve de Ratuld (Bass, Upright Bass)
Arshid Azarine Trio - "7 Djan Project" EPK 2015
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Green Isac Orchestra
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Green Isac Orchestra - Green Isac Orchestra
Green Isac Orchestra - Green Isac Orchestra
Green Isac Orchestra - Green Isac Orchestra
Realised: November 06, 2015
After an adventurous twenty-five year career artfully blurring the lines between traditional ethnic acoustic and contemporary electronica, the duo known as Green Isac have expanded their sound to include three additional artists, leading to the latest project titled the Green Isac Orchestra.
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Ezio Bosso
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Ezio Bosso - The 12th Room
Released: October 30, 2015.
Label: INCIPIT Records
The 12th Room, il 1° album del musicista-filosofo Ezio Bosso
The 12th Room è un cd doppio registrato con il pubblico in sala al Teatro Sociale di Gualtieri (RE): il primo cd è composto da 12 brani, mentre il secondo contiene una sonata di 45 minuti, che non si interrompe mai.
Il musicista ha raccontato di aver colto un’opportunità che per la prima volta gli era stata offerta: nessuno gli aveva mai proposto prima di incidere un proprio album. O meglio, nessuno gliene aveva dato la possibilità.
The 12th Room ruota intorno al concetto di stanza e ai suoi mille significati (poesia, canzone, libertà, affermarsi) ed è una sorta di concept album sulle fasi della vita. Il titolo lo si deve ad un’antica teoria secondo la quale l’esistenza umana è suddivisa in 12 stanze, e della prima, dove avviene la nascita, ne avremo ricordo solo raggiunta l’ultima, e a qual punto si potrà ricominciare.
... Carlotta Tosoni per #mifacciodicultura
TS GUALTIERI | Ezio Bosso - The 12th Room
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Holland Baroque
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Holland Baroque and Jeremias Schwarzer - Sounds & Clouds
Holland Baroque and Jeremias Schwarzer - Sounds & Clouds
Released: October 28, 2015
Recorder concertos by Antonio Vivaldi and contemporary Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa
The blank spaces on the paper have their own tension, known in Japanese as ma. That tension can be felt in music, between two sounds. Here Hosokawa sees a major difference between European and eastern music...
The contrast with the music of Antonio Vivaldi could hardly be greater. The chasm in time, approach and aesthetics is so deep that it is perhaps futile to look for deeper relationships. Where Hosokawa pursues an expression of an extra-musical breath, Vivaldi surprises us time and again by playing with the form of the Baroque concerto – and then in more than five hundred compositions!
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Ludovico Einaudi
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Ludovico Einaudi - Elements
Released: October 16, 2015
Label: Decca
Groundbreaking composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi – whose unique musical style is renowned around the world – returns with a new album ‘Elements’. Recorded at Einaudi’s Italian home, ‘Elements’ features 12 tracks, which interweave piano, strings, percussion, guitar and electronica and it is simultaneously exhilarating and transcendent. It is inspired by nature’s elements, mathematical and scientific elements, musical forms and works of art.
Classical Pianist Ludovico Einaudi Tops Charts in UK with ‘Elements’ [REVIEW]
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Plaistow
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Plaistow – Titan
Plaistow – Titan
Plaistow – Titan
Released: October 06, 2015
Label: Dyfl
The organic depth of their forthcoming album Titan (to be released October 6th 2015 on Plaistow Music) is a bone chilling experience performed solely on drums, acoustic bass and a grand piano. Combining elements of minimalism, repetitive patterns, odd-time signatures and noise, Plaistow builds from the strong fundaments from previous works like The Crow, Lacrimosa and Citadelle. This group of amazing musicians is an organism of it’s own. No mathematics, no complicated array of notes. It’s not jazz, it’s not conceptual. The music on Titan is deeply rooted in groove - aggressive by times. Like on hardly any other contemporary group, Plaistow can build tension and suspense in their compositions so subtle, singular notes and small time variations come explosively and odd harmonies are filled with emotion. Titan was created in the process sessions for the period of six months. Pianist Johann Bourquenez building the skeleton of the tracks through beatboxes, sequencers and recordings on piano, carefully inviting Cyril Bondi (drums) and Vincent Ruiz (acoustic bass) to add to the palet.
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Max Richter
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MAX RICHTER - SLEEP
Released: September 4, 2015
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Max Richter's SLEEP | 9 Disc Box Set Published 10 December, 2015 by MT
MAX RICHTER SLEEP. eight-hour version
Max Richter (Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Electronics)
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
Grace Davidson
Int. Release 11 Dec. 2015
8 CDs + 1 Blu-ray Audio
www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4795682
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Tania Giannouli Ensemble
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Tania Giannouli Ensemble - Transcendence
Tania Giannouli Ensemble - Transcendence
Tania Giannouli Ensemble - Transcendence
Released: May 27, 2015
Label: Rattle records
Greek pianist/composer Tania Giannouli follows her 2012 Rattle debut (Forest Stories, with Paulo Chagas) with a recording featuring the newly formed Tania Giannouli Ensemble. With influences as diverse as contemporary classical, Greek folk music, modern jazz, world music and European avant-garde, Transcendence is an intoxicating, musically literate tour-de-force.
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Keith Jarrett
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 Keith Jarrett - Creation
Keith Jarrett - Creation
Keith Jarrett - Creation
Released: May 08, 2015
Label: ECM, ECM 2450
Keith Jarrett: piano
Creation features music selected by Keith Jarrett from his improvised solo concerts recorded in 2014 in Japan, Canada, and Europe. Where in the past the solo documentation has shown the improvisational process unfolding over the course of a single evening, this time Jarrett zeroes in on the most revelatory moments from six concerts in Tokyo, Toronto, Paris and Rome. With this departure, Keith Jarrett gives us here the most up-to-the minute account of his spontaneously created music.
ECM, ECM 2450
It's been four years since pianist Keith Jarrett—an ECM recording artist since the early '70s—last released a solo piano recording, 2011's Rio. While its more consistently buoyant, optimistic nature reflected similar changes in Jarrett's life, it was not a recording that, for example, ranked as highly as Concerts: Bregenz / Munich —issued, in 2013, in its entirety for the first time on CD since its original 1982 vinyl release.
Keith Jarrett: Creation. AllAboutJazz.com
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Wim Mertens
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Wim Mertens - Charaktersketch
Wim Mertens - Charaktersketch
Released: May 01, 2015
Label: Warner Music Spain S.L.
Post and Postures is written for and dedicated to the 40th edition of Film Fest Gent, Belgium 16.10.2013
Earmarked and Überhandnehmend were first performed at the concert of Wim Mertens and Kirmen Uribe Mussche, lo que mueve el mundo, at Teatros del Canal in Madrid, Spain 01.12.2013
Musicians:
Tatiana Samouil - violin. Liesbeth De Lombaert - viola. Lode Vercampt - cello. Ruben Appermont - double bass. Sabine Warnier - flute, piccolo.
Bart Watté - clarinet. Hendrik Pellens - saxophones. Ward Hoornaert - trumpet. Eliz Erkalp - horn. Nick Ost - euphonium. Jan Nicolaers - Trombone.
Bernd van Echelpoel - basstuba. Hanna Grociak - harp. Peter Verbraken - guitar, bass guitar. Evert Van Eynde - percussion. Wim Mertens - piano.
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Emil Brandqvist Trio
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Emil Brandqvist Trio - Seascapes
Emil Brandqvist Trio - Seascapes
Released: April 30, 2015
Label: Skip Records
Artist: Emil Brandqvist Trio
Composer: Emil Brandqvist
Since the release of the debut album Breathe Out (2013), Emil Brandqvist Tio have established a position as one of Europe’s most exciting jazz trios. The group’s records have been hailed; Seascapes (2015) was nominated for an Echo award in Germany and Falling Crystals (2016) was listed at number 7 on the German jazz list. The 2018 release of Within a Dream was met with raving reviews and peaked at no. 3 on the German jazz list.
Vals · Emil Brandqvist Trio
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The Frozen Vaults - 1816
Released: April 27, 2015
Label: VoxxoV Records
The Frozen Vaults are: Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq), Harry Towell (Spheruleus), Yuki Murata (piano), David Dhonau (cello), Tomasz Mrenca (violin)
1816 is the debut album from modern classical collective The Frozen Vaults. It is thematically based around the year 1816, which recorded one of the coldest years the world has ever seen. At the time, little was known as to why this phenomenally cold year was upon them, which soon become known in history as 'the year with no summer' and 'eighteen hundred froze to death'...
THE FROZEN VAULTS
by James Catchpole
The Frozen Vaults blend a cold and dank ambient sound with a modern classical framing. The strings help to revive the traditional and prevalent sound of the 19th century, and they lend themselves perfectly to the period.
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FRKWYS Vol. 12: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - We Know Each Other Somehow
FRKWYS Vol. 12: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - We Know Each Other Somehow
FRKWYS Vol. 12: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - We Know Each Other Somehow
Released: April 14, 2015
Label: RVNG Intl.
For the twelfth volume of FRKWYS, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and Ariel Kalma offer We Know Each Other Somehow. Recorded outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, the album pairs two synth voyagers for six extended evocations of environmental ambience and entrancing naturalism. Accompanied by Sunshine Soup, a feature length documentary based on the intergenerational collaboration, We Know Each Other Somehow summons another world in an otherworldly part of the planet.
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Joep Beving
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Joep Beving - Solipsism
Joep Beving - Solipsism
Released: March 19, 2015
Label: IAREGANTRECORDS, Amsterdam
Joep Beving is a neo-classical, minimalistic pianist and composer.
"The world is a hectic place right now. I felt a deep urge to reconnect on a basic human level with people in general. Music as our universal language has the power to unite. Regardless of our cultural differences I believe we have an inate understanding of what it means to be human. We have our goosebumps to show for it. It’s incredible to see that a completely independent artist like myself can reach people all over the world simply by playing the music that I believe in – music in its purest form.
”Solipsism” refers to the philosophical idea that reality only exists in one’s mind. Everything outside of it, the external world and the minds of others, cannot truly be known and hence does not exist. My music is an experiment in existential communication, a belief in an absolute aesthetic, to prove that a universal and metaphysical reality does exist." - Joep Beving
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Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott
Ólafur Arnalds
Alice Sara Ott
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Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott - The Chopin Project
Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott - The Chopin Project
Released: March 16, 2015
Label: Mercury Classics
Released on Monday 16th March on Mercury Classics, the album features Alice performing some of Chopin’s much-loved works, including Piano Sonata No. 3: Largo, Prélude in D Flat Major ‘Raindrop’ and Nocturne in G Minor. All these works have been recorded with a distinctive style, on various types of piano in Reykjavik using vintage recording equipment to create an intimate texture of sound.
Alice stars in The Chopin Project
I have always loved the piano music of Frédéric Chopin, but had grown weary of the uniform and standardized perfection of recordings available and I was longing for someone to come along and try something different. And one day, on a long flight to London, I thought: why don't I do it myself? And thus, in partnership with the acclaimed German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott, THE CHOPIN PROJECT was born.
Watching pianist Alice Sara Ott perform is both mesmerising and astonishing. How can someone who looks so ethereal play with such force and explosive energy? How can someone so young command an orchestra with such confidence and élan?
Her seventh album, The Chopin Project, has just rocketed straight to the top of the UK classical music charts. It is number one in 25 countries and Ott is considered by many to be one of the finest interpreters of Chopin alive yet she is a far cry from the stereotypical image of a classical pianist...
The album combines Chopin’s music, played on an old pub piano by Ott, with Arnalds’ own compositions. It works, beautifully.
Alice Sara Ott: meet the hottest new talent in classical music. The Telegraph.
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Kjetil Husebø
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Kjetil Husebø - Steps
Kjetil Husebø - Steps
Kjetil Husebø - Steps
Released: March 6, 2015
Label: Optical Substance Productions
On Steps, Kjetil Huseboe directs his artistic focus in a completely different manner than what was the case on his last album- Skyggespill (Shadow play) - Morphing Between Spaces and Phases. Even though the album Steps is Huseboe ́s third piano album, it constitutes his first entirely acoustic endeavour. Thus, it distingquishes itself from Skyggespill (2014) as it does not include any components of composed, electronic music.
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Fogh Depot
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FOGH DEPOT - FOGH DEPOT
FOGH DEPOT - FOGH DEPOT
FOGH DEPOT - FOGH DEPOT
Released: February 02, 2015
Label: Denovali Records
Fogh Depot is a trio from Moscow, Russia, who makes music that incorporates elements of nu jazz, hip-hop, doom jazz and live-electronic. Baritone sax, double bass, drums, samplers and a whole lot of stomp boxes and effects.
Fogh Depot’s debut album contains eight stories told by different people in different places. "Anticyclone" feels like a massive hedge-maze amidst towering sand dunes of apathetic lust. "Mining" – is a slow descent into a narrow, murky mine, now and then suddenly illuminated by the guide’s flaring torch. Does he even know where he’s leading his patrons? Sorrowful and strange, "Nevalyashka" is a nostalgic waltz, bringing to mind an old wooden attic where forgotten toys are gathering dust, while the clear and springy bass in "Sagittarius" can only be the belligerent footsteps of a mythical centaur.
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Vincent Peirani
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Vincent Peirani – Living Being
Vincent Peirani – Living Being
Released: January 01, 2015
Label: ACT
Accordionist Vincent Peirani is THE new voice of his instrument. In rapid succession he has won the Prix Django d’Or and the Victoires du Jazz in France and was elected “Artist of the Year” by the French “Jazz Magazine”. In Germany he just won the ECHO Jazz award.
In addition to his sheer inexhaustible versatility and unbounded musicality, the album also reflects most of all the varying influences of his band members: Emile Parisien, again shines as a virtuoso of modern jazz; Julien Herne comes from the R’n’B and hip-hop scene; Yoann Serra is just as at home in the jazz tradition as he is in electronic music; and Tony Paeleman has his roots in the French pop scene. And so it is that the new album adds yet another vibrant facet to an already peerlessly varied artist’s profile.
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