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Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond (2024)

Posted By: Rtax
Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond (2024)

Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 389 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 121 MB
50:53 | Power Metal, Progressive Metal | Label: Atomic Fire

Sonata Arctica have been many things in their storied career. Finnish power metal messiahs, relentlessly touring powerhouses, champions of sublime melody. First and foremost, however, they have been stalwarts in showcasing the magic and the enchantment flowing through heavy metal. They have been embodying the majesty and serenity of Nordic nature since their foundation in 1995 and have been spellbinding their world with ten records, EPs and countless tours. “Clear Cold Beyond” easily is the most relentless Sonata Arctica record to date, a spectacular resurgence of their trademark, lightning fast power metal forged far, far north. “We’ve felt for a while now that we’d need to get heavier again after some unintentionally softer albums,” Tony says. With production duties handles by your truly Mikko Karmila, key figure of their early days, “Clear Cold Beyond” sounds massive, heavy and hungry and takes a bow to their early work when everything was shrouded in a profound sense of magic and mystery. This magic is back now – only with a band that’s 25 years down the road and nothing less than an experienced beast urging to go mental like they never did before.

Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Chinese Songs, Symphony No. 4 (2000)

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Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Chinese Songs, Symphony No. 4 (2000)

Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Chinese Songs, Symphony No. 4 (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 63:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1066 | Recorded: 1999

Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s Fourth Symphony (1972) contains, in its three movements, elements both typical of his early work and prophetic of things to come. The first movement’s fugal exposition reveals a continuation of that concern with musical shape and form already quite evident in Aho’s previous symphonies. His skillful use of counterpoint to convey an impression of sadness or dread echoes that great master of creepy fugue writing, Bartók. The second movement unleashes a violent whirlwind of sound very much in the spirit of Mahler’s or Shostakovich’s more nihilistic moments, and its instrumental virtuosity very much anticipates the composer’s most recent, concertante-style symphonic writing.

VA - Anthology Of Electroacoustic Music From Finland (2023)

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VA - Anthology Of Electroacoustic Music From Finland (2023)

VA - Anthology Of Electroacoustic Music From Finland (2023)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 286 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 MB
1:06:47 | Experimental, Electroacoustic, Ambient, Abstract, Musique Concrète, Neofolk | Label: Unexplained Sounds Group

There is a long tradition of Electroacoustic music in Finland beginning in the 1950’s with the experimentation of tape music. Finland’s first electronic musical instrument the "Sähkövalopiano" or "Electric Light Piano" was built before this in 1894. It was constructed in the Polytechnic Institute (now Aalto University) in Helsinki. Finland also has a tradition of blending archaic traditional music in the contemporary music scene. The Kalevala tradition for example dates back centuries before today and the instruments associated with it were used to accompany shepherds on their lonely watches, or village dance parties bringing joy and sense of belonging to communities. These musical traditions have been revitalised by being used in a modern context. Even with the emerging of new technologies to open new horizons for composing music, the avant garde movement and a plethora of new and continuously evolving music genres, the very root of Finnish Kalevala tradition has stayed alive and has been brought to the present, not only in its original form, but also being integrated into electroacoustic realm by the musicians willing to experiment.

Lain Huuto & Paavo Hyökki - Valoon! (2023)

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Lain Huuto & Paavo Hyökki - Valoon! (2023)

Lain Huuto & Paavo Hyökki - Valoon! (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 285 MB | Cover | 48:31 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 112 MB
Pop, Vocal, Classical | Label: Z-Trading

Lain Huuto kutsuu juhlistamaan kesän tuloa ja Valoon!-levynsä julkistamista ainutlaatuiselle
klubikeikalle Korjaamon Kulmasaliin. Luvassa on toiveikasta ja aurinkoista poppia Saima Haapasen
sovituksilla, joiden kaikkia aisteja hivelevät harmoniat pääsevät tässä intiimissä tilassa oikeuksiinsa.

Sinikka Langeland - The Magical Forest (2016)

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Sinikka Langeland - The Magical Forest (2016)

Sinikka Langeland - The Magical Forest (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 248 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 112 MB | Covers - 104 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, World Fusion, Nordic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 2448)

The colours of The Magical Forest glow in this remarkable recording which brings together Sinikka Langeland’s Norwegian-Finnish-Swedish Starflowers quintet with the singers of the Trio Mediӕval. It’s an inspired concept: the Trio Mediӕval, with their affinity for folk music and their unique vocal blend, adapt themselves ideally to Sinikka’s sound-world, which is once archaic, timeless and contemporary. The quintet members, all bandleaders in their own right, are amongst the most characterful players in Scandinavia today, and Sinikka sets them free to improvise around her cycle of songs, built upon myths and legends of the world tree.

V.A. - Kalevala: A Finnish Progressive Rock Epic [3CD Box Set] (2003) [Reissue 2008]

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V.A. - Kalevala: A Finnish Progressive Rock Epic [3CD Box Set] (2003) [Reissue 2008]

V.A. - Kalevala: A Finnish Progressive Rock Epic [3CD Box Set] (2003) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 1,63 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 569 MB | Covers - 845 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Musea (FGBG 4755.AR)

Famous among Progressive rock fans worldwide for being probably the classiest (and most complete) publication in this style, the Finnish magazine Colossus had the great idea to ask thirty bands of the whole world to illustrate the national Finnish epic: "Kalevala". It is made of old ballads and traditional songs, but is also part of a huge group of legends, which has inspired both J.R.R. Tolkien for his mythic "Lord Of The Rings" and composer Sibelius, among others. The idea that contributed to the creation of "Kalevala - A Finnish Progressive Rock Epic" was to use exclusively instruments of the Seventies, in order to obtain the "Aging" that the story needed. The result is absolutely stunning: three albums included in a box-set designed as beautifully as the famous Colossus covers. As for the music, the listener won't be disappointed! He'll be delighted to hear about four hours of sumptuous and rich (Vocal or instrumental) Progressive rock…

Okko Kamu, The Royal Danish Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: The Tempest (2022)

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Okko Kamu, The Royal Danish Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: The Tempest (2022)

Okko Kamu, The Royal Danish Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: The Tempest (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 64:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.574419 | Recorded: 2021

Symphonic in scale and ambition, the incidental music to Shakespeare's play The Tempest was among the last orchestral works Sibelius composed before entering the mysterious 'silence of Järvenpää' that lasted until his death. Commissioned by leading Danish theatre producer Johannes Poulsen in 1925, the wide expressive demands of the play saw Sibelius calling on large musical forces. From the terrifying tone picture of the opening shipwreck via ethereal songs, boisterous character portraits and remarkable evocations of nature, Sibelius took full advantage of being set free to convert the themes of Shakespeare's magical world into his own unique sound.

The Guildmaster - Liber De Dictis (2022)

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The Guildmaster - Liber De Dictis (2022)

The Guildmaster - Liber De Dictis (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 405 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 162 MB | Covers - 216 MB
Genre: Progressive Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Seacrest Oy (SCR-1036)

Those who are familiar with the multi-national recording project The Samurai Of Prog, are hopefully also aware of this related project, which is more oriented to Folk and Old Music elements, albeit always staying within modernly produced progressive rock. Liber de Dictis is the follower to the warmly received debut album The Knight and the Ghost (2020). The core line-up has changed for the main keyboards: Ton Scherpenzeel (Kayak) has been replaced by Alessandro di Benedetti, who contributed on one track on the debut. As always, the guest musicians are very numerous, but unlike with TSOP where the various collaborators usually also write the music, The Guildmaster is more self-contained in this matter, Rafael Pacha being the most prolific composer. This 68-minute album is loosely conceptual: each track draws inspiration from folkloristic sayings.

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää & Esa Kotilainen - Eanan, Eallima Eadni (1989)

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Nils-Aslak Valkeapää & Esa Kotilainen - Eanan, Eallima Eadni (1989)

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää & Esa Kotilainen - Eanan, Eallima Eadni (1989)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 334 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 145 MB | Covers - 18 MB
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Folk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: DAT (CD-5)

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, (Sami language Áillohaš, also kown as "Ailu") (March 23 1943 - November 26 2001) was a Saami writer, musician and artist of Finnish citizenship born in Enontekiö in the Finnish part of Lapland. Significant portions of his life he lived in Käsivarsi, close to the border to Sweden, and also in Skibotn in Norway. It is sometimes said that Valkeapää is the Sami person who is most well known internationally. Valkeapää was born in a family of the traditional trade of herding reindeer, but was trained as a school teacher. The traditional sami singing yoik was important in his art, in music as well as in painting and in writing. The yoik also was the first genre he got recognised in. During the 1960s, young Sami searched for their cultural roots and Valkeapää was one of the most prominent persons as a yoiker…

Pia Freund, Anna Laakso, Chrys Salt - Ilari Laakso: Jam Pot, compositions for piano and soprano (2022)

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Pia Freund, Anna Laakso, Chrys Salt - Ilari Laakso: Jam Pot, compositions for piano and soprano (2022)

Pia Freund, Anna Laakso, Chrys Salt - Ilari Laakso: Jam Pot, compositions for piano and soprano (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 206 Mb | Total time: 66:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 518 | Recorded: 2022

Alba Records julkaisee Ilari Laakson sävellyksiä pianolle ja sopraanolle pianisti Anna Laakson ja sopraano Pia Freundin tulkitsemina. Julkaisun sävellykset tutkivat perheen, katoavuuden sekä kielen merkityksiä. “Runous on minulle läheisin kirjallisuuden laji. Ajatusten ja tunnetilojen kiteyttäminen muutamiin sanoihin ja sanaryhmiin on taito sui generis.”, Ilari Laakso toteaa.

Marianne Beate Kielland, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Petr Popelka - Sibelius: Orchestral Songs (2022)

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Marianne Beate Kielland, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Petr Popelka - Sibelius: Orchestral Songs (2022)

Marianne Beate Kielland, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Petr Popelka - Sibelius: Orchestral Songs (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 177 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 107 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:44:18
Classical, Vocal | Label: LAWO Classics

Mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland is famous for her strong stage presence and musical integrity. Gramophone Magazine writes about her: The mezzo-soprano is quite outstanding: strong, firm, sensitive in modulations, imaginative in her treatment of words, with a voice pure in quality, wide in range and unfalteringly true in intonation.

Marianne Montonen, Jasper Koekoek, Elisaveta Rimkevitch & Aarne Mansikka - Merikanto: Art Songs (2022)

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Marianne Montonen, Jasper Koekoek, Elisaveta Rimkevitch & Aarne Mansikka - Merikanto: Art Songs (2022)

Marianne Montonen, Jasper Koekoek, Elisaveta Rimkevitch & Aarne Mansikka - Merikanto: Art Songs (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 510 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 303 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:09:25
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alba Records

These days, Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958) is one of the best-known early 20th century modernists in Finnish classical music. In his early years, he composed in the National Romantic style, but by the time he was 23, he had developed a much more progressive style. By the beginning of the 1920s, he was writing in a modern, free-tonal musical language with a strong focus on timbral colour. Merikanto himself considered his “radical” style to be innate, but we know he was in fact inspired by Debussy and Scriabin, and especially Sibelius’ Fourth Symphony. After moving from the countryside back to Helsinki in 1928, Merikanto started actively networking with other Finnish composers, which also had an effect on his music.

Finnforest - Alpha to Omega: The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-1980 [3CD Box Set] (2018) (Re-up)

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Finnforest - Alpha to Omega: The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-1980 [3CD Box Set] (2018) (Re-up)

Finnforest - Alpha to Omega: The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-1980 [3CD Box Set] (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 1,04 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 412 MB | Covers - 142 MB
Genre: Progressive/Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Svart Records (SRE056BOXCD)

Featuring 45 minutes of material that’s previously completely unreleased, this box set contains everything Finnforest recorded in the studio. It has the three rare studio albums originally released on Love Records in 1975, 1976 and 1979, plus all non-album tracks from singles and compilations. But we didn’t stop there: we dug through the band’s archives of tape reels and found some completely unreleased music. These sessions are compiled on the fifth album: first is the band’s debut studio session from 1973 and the flipside has four songs the band managed to finish during studio sessions for a planned fourth album in 1980 before splitting up…

Melis Jaatinen, Juho Alakärppä - Impressions du Nord (2021)

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Melis Jaatinen, Juho Alakärppä - Impressions du Nord (2021)

Melis Jaatinen, Juho Alakärppä - Impressions du Nord (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 172 Mb | Total time: 57:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD504 | Recorded: 2018

This album includes a repertoire of Nordic composers influenced by French impressionism and Debussy’s music in particular. In Finland, both Toivo Kuula and Leevi Madetoja are known for taking influence from impressionism. After spending extensive time at the National Library in Oslo I decided to add songs by Alf Hurumin and with the helpful advice from the principal of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, Astrid Kvalbein, Pauline Hall. Juho Alakärppä brought in Gösta Nystrom`s Sånger vid havet. This work was originally written for Finnish soprano Aulikki Rautava.

Christiane Karg, Gerold Huber - Licht der Welt (A Christmas Promenade) (2021)

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Christiane Karg, Gerold Huber - Licht der Welt (A Christmas Promenade) (2021)

Christiane Karg, Gerold Huber - Licht der Welt (A Christmas Promenade) (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 71:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902399 | Recorded: 2021

In a follow-up to her acclaimed album of Mahler songs, Christiane Karg takes us on a Christmas tour, in the select company of fellow music-makers. Revisiting holiday memories through the eyes of a child, but with the benefit of her superb artistry as a lieder specialist, the German soprano shines a light on some enchanting rarities of German and French repertoire, along with examples of Spanish, Basque, and Scandinavian traditions… A treasure trove of hidden gems!