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James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Msm Molecular Systematic Music Live (2022)

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James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Msm Molecular Systematic Music Live (2022)

James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Msm Molecular Systematic Music Live (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:29:55 | 533 / 205 Mb
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative / Label: Intakt Records

The charismatic saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis is the musician of the moment in the broad field of contemporary jazz. After the internationally acclaimed albums Molecular and Code of Being, he now presents a double CD of a memorable concert with his top-class quartet. The demanding but thoroughly melodic compositions of Molecular shine on this live album compared to the studio album in an unleashed form and with much desire to create and courage for open interplay. “The live recording shows not only the great joy of playing and pleasure in interplay and groove, but also the musical maturation process of four great musicians”, writes Florian Bissig in the liner notes about the concert immortalised on this double CD, and, “It was a celebration that made one’s ears perk up…James Brandon Lewis’ saxophone sound seemed to radiate a quivering liveliness and an expressive urgency rarely heard before. The four musicians, for all their precision and refinement of interplay, seemed to be playing as if it were the last time.”

Katharina Weber - In Marta's Garden (2022)

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Katharina Weber - In Marta's Garden (2022)

Katharina Weber - In Marta's Garden (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 54:27 | 125 / 180 Mb
Genre: Classical Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

Fred Frith describes the Swiss pianist Katharina Weber as a “piano icon”. The classically trained pianist and composer moves in the large world of today‘s music, where borders no longer exist and new music and jazz improvisation merge. 12 years after her celebrated solo CD Woven Time. In Márta‘s Garden is her second solo album.

Lucas Niggli & Matthias Loibner - Still Storm (2022)

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Lucas Niggli & Matthias Loibner - Still Storm (2022)

Lucas Niggli & Matthias Loibner - Still Storm (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 62:14 | 144 / 341 Mb
Genre: Classical Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

Hurdy-gurdy meets percussion. Matthias Loibner, the undisputed innovator of this strikingly exotic, medieval instrument and Lucas Niggli, who has been at the forefront of European Jazz for many years team up. Touching and intoxicating, fed by a huge repertoire between classical music, electronics, tradition and imagination, these two exceptional artists paint sounds into the now. In every colour, every note of their vibrant playing, a silent storm lurks, waiting to break loose in rhythmic cascades and avalanches of sound. “The result is an aural experience that is sometimes pondering, sometimes conversational, allowing the listening ear to float away; purely by means of the music. The album, laid out in comparatively short pieces, is made up of acoustic mind games. Haikus, or even more so, Japanese Tankas, evoke the moment. A form of poetry without rhyme, confidently created collectively out of the moment through improvisation, and with an indispensable reference to the present,” writes Johannes Rühl in the liner notes.

Marillion - Distant Lights - Port Zelande (2022)

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Marillion - Distant Lights - Port Zelande (2022)

Marillion - Distant Lights - Port Zelande (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:51:10 | 703 / 255 Mb
Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock, Pop / Label: Intact Records

While the U.K.'s Marillion aren't the best-known rock band in the 21st century, they've influenced many acts that followed in their wake, directly or indirectly, from Porcupine Tree and Radiohead to the Pineapple Thief and Gazpacho. They are rightfully credited with having established the neo-prog subgenre, and have explored many types of music over the decades that, thanks to their expert musicianship, have celebrated their long, inventive passages for electric guitars and keyboards.

Ingrid Laubrock & Andy Milne - Fragile (2022)

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Ingrid Laubrock & Andy Milne - Fragile (2022)

Ingrid Laubrock & Andy Milne - Fragile (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 52:30 | 199 / 120 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

For the third installment of Ingrid Laubrock's duo series on Intakt (following Kasumi with Aki Takase and Blood Moon with Kris Davis) Ingrid Laubrock and Andy Milne develop their own sounds in a common sound world. Fragile is characterized by the great empathy that unites these two artists. The music, which is both stirring and soothing, confident and intuitive, is deeply expressive and inventive. “Laubrock’s growth as an original writer and improviser has been marked in the last two decades, during which time she has led several bands, notably Sleepthief and Anti-House, and proved adept at creating for large ensembles and small groups that revealed her own individuality, mostly within avant-garde traditions. As for Milne he has more than fulfilled the promise he showed as a member of Steve Coleman’s Metrics in the early ‘90s. The Laubrock-Milne duo has a balance between the drive and momentum of large ensembles and the stillness and engagement with silence and space of smaller groups. Making music that releases a form of energy, something that pulses with life, while also drawing down into intimacy, suggesting feelings of tenderness or uncertainty, is no mean feat”, writes Kevin Le Gendre in the liner notes.

Yuko Fujiyama - Quiet Passion (2022)

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Yuko Fujiyama - Quiet Passion (2022)

Yuko Fujiyama - Quiet Passion (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 52:12 | 206 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Intakt

With Quiet Passion, pianist Yuko Fujiyama finally releases another album as a leader after a long break from publishing. For this eagerly awaited addition to her sparse discography, Yuko invites the great innovators Graham Haynes on cornet and Ikue Mori on electronics.

Ingrid Laubrock, Brandon Lopez, Tom Rainey - No es la Playa (2022)

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Ingrid Laubrock, Brandon Lopez, Tom Rainey - No es la Playa (2022)

Ingrid Laubrock, Brandon Lopez, Tom Rainey - No es la Playa (2022)
FLAC tracks | 56:44 | 295 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

Dreamlike experiences. Sparks fly and a musical interaction works without arrangement or plan. An organic musical process develops out of intuition alone. The same magic happens every time.

Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson & Dave King - Broken Shadows (2021)

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Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson & Dave King - Broken Shadows (2021)

Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson & Dave King - Broken Shadows (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 44:25 | 102 / 268 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

Broken Shadows brings together four luminaries of the American jazz scene: Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King. Broken Shadows has very strong connections, intwos. Saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed have been playing together since 1992; Bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King – two thirds of the legendary band The Bad Plus –have been playing together for over 35 years.

Chris Speed - Light Line (2021)

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Chris Speed - Light Line (2021)

Chris Speed - Light Line (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 45:51 | 107 / 206 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

Chris Speed, a driving force of modern jazz for decades, presents Light Line, an impressive solo statement on the clarinet. The repertoire of this musical legacy includes his own pieces and short improvisations, as well as compositions by inspiring luminaries such as John Coltrane, Julius Hemphill, Eric Dolphy and Paul Motian. In addition, there are compositions by friends and long-time musical companions such as Andrew D'Angelo, Skúli Sverrisson and Hilmar Jensson. There is "an implicit guiding light through the whole project: the commitment to reduction, to finding the power in taking things away, the power in trusting that there is still a lot there once you do take the surface layers away, and above all an undying commitment to melody in some elemental sense as the primary element in music", writes Anthony Burr in the liner notes.

Silke Eberhard Trio - Being The Up and Down (2021)

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Silke Eberhard Trio - Being The Up and Down (2021)

Silke Eberhard Trio - Being The Up and Down (2021)
FLAC tracks | 50:13 | 270 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

"Being the Up And Down", Silke Eberhard’s new CD with her trio with Jan Roder on bass and Kay Lübke on drums was recorded both in the studio as well as at a live concert at the A-Trane in Berlin. This was the result of her winning the prestigious Berlin Jazz Prize, which affords the winner the honor of playing a concert and getting some recording days by Radio Berlin Brandenburg. Thus on this disc you hear a seamless blend of studio and live performances. The artwork on the cover, as on her previous Intakt release The Being Inn, is by Roman Signer, one of the most prestigious Swiss artists of today. The American jazz critic Lynn René Bayley writes in the liner notes: "Yet whether being sensual or being edgy and experimental, there is so much to like and so much to hear in Silke Eberhard’s playing both solo and when interacting with this trio that one is held spellbound from first note to last. Small wonder that she has such a high reputation in the German jazz world!"

Michael Formanek - Imperfect Measures (2021)

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Michael Formanek - Imperfect Measures (2021)

Michael Formanek - Imperfect Measures (2021)
FLAC tracks | 55:26 | 189 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

With his extensive artistic biography, Michael Formanek is one of the most outstanding figures in American jazz – As a composer, as a bassist in ensembles, and as a soloist. Although the bass often plays in the background, bassists write jazz history. So does Michael Formanek, who makes an impressive solo statement with Imperfect Measures (24 years after his first solo album).About the creative process, Formanek writes: "I came to realize that for me, playing solo bass is much closer to a compositional process than a performance practice … Any structure inherent in a piece evolves in the moment, the product of the improvisation itself – as if one were building and traveling along a road simultaneously. The road only extends as far as we are in the moment, so there must be a total commitment to what is being created and constructed in real time, lest things quickly fall apart.“

Punkt.Vrt.Plastik - Somit (2021)

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Punkt.Vrt.Plastik - Somit (2021)

Punkt.Vrt.Plastik - Somit (2021)
FLAC tracks | 45:29 | 266 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Intakt Records

Following their acclaimed 2018 debut album, the band Punkt.Vrt.Plastik, which brings together Kaja Draksler, Petter Eldh and Christian Lillinger, three of the most exciting, profound and versatile musicians on the European jazz scene, presents another stroke of genius. With Somit they take their urgent ensemble playing to new heights, creating a highly individual sound aesthetic with unusual instrumentation (Kaja Draksler plays two different upright pianos) and sophisticated post-production, culminating in a deceptive puzzle of acoustic and manipulated sounds."Punkt.Vrt.Plastik have an amazing sound and a unique vision," writes Alexander Hawkins in the liner notes.