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Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Shadow Man (2013) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

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Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Shadow Man (2013) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Shadow Man (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 77:05 minutes | 1,54 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The second, eponymous album from saxophonist-composer Tim Berne’s acoustic quartet Snakeoil. Over four years together, Berne and his band of New York standouts - pianist Matt Mitchell, clarinetist Oscar Noriega and drummer/percussionist Ches Smith - have developed a rapport that sounds like communal telepathy. The studio outcome is a marvel of kinetic action, the six pieces of Shadow Man making for music as visceral as it is cerebral; there is roller coaster dynamism and aching lyricism, roiling counterpoint and intriguing harmony, glinting detail and ensemble impact. The album is a dizzying experience for the senses, breathtaking in its sheer imaginative verve.

Michael Formanek, Ensemble Kolossus - The Distance (2016) [Official Digital Download]

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Michael Formanek, Ensemble Kolossus - The Distance (2016) [Official Digital Download]

Michael Formanek, Ensemble Kolossus - The Distance (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 71:19 minutes | 748 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The Distance represents a grand creative leap for bassist-composer Michael Formanek, following two widely lauded ECM releases featuring his quartet with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver. The new album showcases his texturally rich compositions for the dynamic 18-piece big band he has playfully dubbed Ensemble Kolossus. The project saw some of the most distinctive musicians on the New York scene bonding to realize Formaneks epic design, as he re-imagined what a big-band can be. Channeling sounds from the classic to the modern, he also composed for individual soloists in the Ellingtonian tradition.

Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Incidentals (2017) [Official Digital Download]

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Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Incidentals (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Incidentals (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 64:09 minutes | 672 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Tim Berne has been described as a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction by The New York Times. Incidentals is the fourth album from his spirited Snakeoil band and the second to feature the quintet line-up in which his core group with clarinetist Oscar Noriega, pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer/vibraphonist Ches Smith is augmented by guitarist Ryan Ferreira. The music is characteristically action-packed in the Berne tradition: powerful, dynamic, often fast-moving - yet also very clear in all its teeming detail.

Mario Pavone - Vertical (2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Mario Pavone - Vertical (2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Mario Pavone - Vertical (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 51:58 minutes | 1,06 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

A reunion record of sorts, with bass legend Mario Pavone getting together with some long-time colleagues of old in a sextet format. And the results are predictably excellent: multiple horn parts giving life to Pavone’s thorny compositions, a strong yet occasionally unpredictable rhythmic current, and superb musicianship throughout.

Gordon Grdina Quartet - Inroads (2017/2018) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Gordon Grdina Quartet - Inroads (2017/2018) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Gordon Grdina Quartet - Inroads (2017/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 57:40 minutes | 1,02 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The Gordon Grdina Quartet creates their unique jazz musiciansship by combining both classical and avant garde jazz techniques throughout this album. Influenced by a vast range of classical music composers and even rock and roll artists, this ensemble showacses their adventurous spirit and willingness to experiment with new musical styles in this jazz album.