Exit North‘s second studio album Anyway, Still continues the quartet’s appetite for exploring provocative song structures.

Weaving classic elements such as piano and strings into the layered threads of the bands material. Where intimacy and atmospherics give way to powerful dynamics, animated rhythms and grooves, driving distortions and crescendos in cinematic scale.

Like excavators with uncompromising autonomy, Exit North relish the exploration of every nuance and detail of the recorded performance.

Exit North
Steve Jansen – backing vocals, various instruments
Charles Storm – backing vocals, various instruments
Thomas Feiner – lead vocals, various instruments
Ulf Jansson – piano, keyboards

Guest String Musicians
Max Wulfson – violin 1
Terje Skomedal – violin 2
Emil Jonasson – viola
David Bukovinsky – cello
Hans Adler – double bass

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The new edition of the Grammy Award winning album Modern Cool by Patricia Barber on Impex Records is Exclusively Available at NativeDSD.Com in Stereo & 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD 256, DSD 128 and DXD, Stereo DSD 512 and 5.1 Channel Surround Sound Dolby Atmos TrueHD and DTS MA MKV (with no height channels)

Patricia Barber’s Modern Cool was the recording that made Barber an International Jazz Star with a classic version of Light My Fire, first made famous by The Doors.

On the initial tour for this album, Barber played a four night stand at The Jazz Standard in New York where she was heard by Bruce Lundvall of Blue Note Records. This led to a string of Barber recordings for both Premonition and Blue Note, worldwide touring and unapologetic critical acclaim from which Barber never looked back.

Audiophiles were well aware of Barber from her 1994 Premonition recording Cafe Blue. Sonically, Modern Cool copied the Cafe Blue playbook: same recording studio, engineer, and recording approach. Musically, Barber added trumpeter Dave Douglas to her stellar working band and showcased her original compositions more than on any previous recording.

Grammy-Winning Audiophile Classic now with many First Time features:

• First time Modern Cool has been offered as a digital download
• Issued in Stereo & 5.1 Channel Surround Sound digital formats which Patricia Barber prefers for “maximum clarity and definition”

Sonically, one of the best recordings ever made by a Jazz Singer with small acoustic ensemble.
–Downbeat, rated 5 stars

Smart songs about the way we think and live, not just about the way we love. This is the kind of art we need to be on the lookout for everywhere. The 21st century has started. We can’t afford to be left behind.
–New York Times

An Album To Die For.
–Stereophile

NOTICE: For the time being, Dolby Atmos MKV dowloads are provided as direct download dropbox links and are not available for download through the downloader app. The download link will be supplied at checkout.

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Rachmaninoff presents works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, performed by the critically acclaimed British pianist Sebastian Stanley.

These works have been associated closely with Sebastian his entire performing life, having been at the heart of many of his early career competition successes. They include the monumental but highly underrated Variations on a theme of Chopin and the seldom performed Nocturnes.

Sebastian’s previous albums by Albeniz and Granados have been praised with 5 star reviews in many major magazines such as Fanfare, the American Record Guide, Carnet Critique and Musical Pointers. With this new Hi Resolution release for HR recordings, he dips his toe into the world of one of the great pianist-composers of the Romantic era. It marks the start of a great collaboration between Sebastian Stanley and HR recordings, with many and diverse new recordings to come.

Sebastian Stanley, Piano

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John Williams At The Movies from Christopher Martin (trumpet) and Jerry Junkin conducting The Dallas Winds. The album includes 13 tracks with Movie and TV music composed by John Williams including the Olympic Fanfare and Theme, The Cowboys Overture, Superman March, Theme From J.F.K. and music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lincoln, E.T., 1941 and the Star Wars series.

John Williams At The Movies features soloist Christopher Martin, principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic. The recording was made in Dallas Texas, in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, one of the world’s greatest concert halls, and the site of an annual Dallas Winds concert featuring the film music of John Williams.

Brilliant performances by the Dallas Winds, were recorded in spectacular audiophile sound by Reference Recordings’ own award-winning engineering team: Keith O. Johnson and Sean Royce Martin. The engineers and album received Grammy nominations for Best Engineered Album, Classical and Best Classical Compendium.

Dallas Winds
Jerry Junkin, Music Director
Christopher Martin, Trumpet

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Magdalena Kožená’s album Folk Songs brings together folk-inspired song cycles from across the globe. Ranging from Berio’s Folk Songs to sets by Bartók, Ravel and Montsalvatge, this collection provides a kaleidoscope of twentieth-century orchestral song composition. Kožená performs them together with the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle.

Kozena says “Folk songs accompanied my entire childhood. My mum used to sing them while cooking or ironing and during our summer holiday evenings we often replaced watching television with sitting down in the kitchen together with my sister and our grandparents, learning new melodies from them and improvising second, third voices.

Every village in Moravia where I grew up had its own tunes and folk poetry and this art form is still present today at many feasts, weddings, funerals or just at ordinary visits to a wine cellar. (…) I think it is essential that folksongs remain an inseparable part of our cultural heritage and I hope you will be inspired by them and love them as much as I do.” 

Magdalena Kožená, Mezzo-Soprano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

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Verdi: Otello is a Double Album featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus and 9 Soloists including Simon O’Neill, Gerald Finley and Anne Schwanewilms conducted by Sir Colin Davis.  The performance was called “an electrifying account of a masterpiece, conducted with an explosive energy that belies Sir Colin’s eighty years and pushed the LSO to the top of its game.”

Verdi had retired from opera following the premiere of Aida in 1871 but was eventually persuaded by his publisher to work with the librettist Arrigo Boito. As with Falstaff, Verdi’s final opera on which they would subsequently collaborate, they turned to Shakespeare for inspiration. Otello, which was premiered in 1887, marked a significant evolutionary development in Italian opera and is widely regarded as one of the great operatic masterpieces.

Sir Colin Davis, Conductor
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Chorus

Soloists
Simon O’Neill, Tenor
Gerald Finley, Bass-Baritone
Anne Schwanewilms, Soprano
Allan Clayton, Tenor
Ben Johnson, Tenor
Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Bass
Matthew Rose, Bass
Lukas Jakobski, Bass
Eufemia Tufano, Mezzo-Soprano

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File Under Zawinul by The Syndicate features the Music of Weather Report and its leader Joe Zawinul. Joe Zawinul was best known as the leader and co-founder of the legendary Jazz Fusion group Weather Report. He was one of the most legendary, visionary and influential musicians and bandleaders that Jazz Fusion ever produced.

Joe Zawinul’s passing in 2007 left a big hole in the Jazz world. If anybody could fill the gap, it would be The Syndicate – the 8 member Jazz Fusion band that he chose as the vehicle for his innovative and genre-busting musical styles, after the breakup of the Weather Report in the mid 1980s.

Joe Zawinul had a true midas touch in picking his band members. Not only picked because of their virtuoso instrumental skills, but with a special ear for how, ultimately, each musician would contribute to the whole that was totally unique in Joe Zawinul’s vision.

The Syndicate decided to keep the band together and continue and expand on the vision that Joe Zawinul laid out. In 2012, Joe Zawinul would have celebrated his 80th birthday. On this occasion The Syndicate recorded an album at the SuperSize Recording Studio in Budapest, Hungary.

All the music on the album is composed by Joe Zawinul.  The songs bring back memories of his work in Weather Report and in the world of Jazz Fusion. We invite you to relive these wonderful moments of music history with this album.

The Syndicate
Alune Wade – Bass
Aziz Sahmaoui – Percussion & Vocals
Thierry Eliez – Keyboards & Acoustic Piano
Emile Parisien – Saxophone
Paco Sery – Drums
Jorge Bezerra – Percussion
Munir Hossn – Guitar
Sabine Kabongo – Vocals

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