New Album Releases Project 2020-1-25

NARP, the New Album Releases Project, got its start at NAR, New Album Releases, and back then – January 17,  2018, I had no idea that it would evolve into a project and be still going strong just about two years later. A proper backgrounder can be read here: https://www.dagogo.com/what-is-nar/

In light of NARP’s longevity and my personal/selfish (transparency) predilections, starting on January 4, 2020, NARP will be first published at Dagogo,https://www.dagogo.com, and subsequently, the post’s link will be shared as it always has in/on the NARP Facebook group.

The groupings of New Releases, Re-issues, Re-masters and Miscellany shall stay the same. Within Miscellany one might find all manner of live performances, as well as archival/historic recordings.

Note: entries in both bold and larger typeface particularly drew my attention this week.

New Releases

Alawishus Jones & The Outright Lies – Little White Lies

Alexandre Tharaud – Pesson, Abrahamsen & Strasnoy- Piano Concertos

Behzod Abduraimov, Concertgebouworkest, Valery Gergiev – Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

Benjamin Righetti – Franck & Brahms – Chorals

Bocephous Duphrane – Morning Wood

Bruce Ackley, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Aram Shelton – Unexpected Twins

Elaine Lennon – Elaine Lennon

Elsa Dreisig – Morgen

Fazil Say – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

Gatomojado – Clamores

Iris Bergcrantz – Young Dreams

Ivar Grydeland & Henry Kaiser – In the Arctic Dreamtime

Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – Arianna

Kyrie Kristmanson – Lady Lightly

Les Amazones d’Afrique – Amazones Power

Marcus Kings – El Dorado

Markus Howell – Get Right!

Mary Bevan & Joseph Middleton – The Divine Muse

Massimo Biolcati – Incontre

Various Artists – Modulation Necklace New Music from Armenia

Ola Gjeilo – Night

Philon Trio – Max Bruch: 8 Pieces, Op. 83

Tomislav Goluban – Memphis Light

Véro Hermann Sambin – Sky Loom

Vox Luminis – A Nocte Temporis: Reinoud Van Mechelen, Lionel Meunier – Charpentier – Orphee aux enfers

Yannick Nezet-Seguin – Mahler: Symphony No. 8

Yelena Eckemoff – Nocturnal Animals

ReIssues & ReMasters & Miscellany

Cal Tjader – Black Hawk Nights

Cal Tjader – Mambo With Tjader!

Charlie Byrd – The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd

Johnny Barnes Group – The Johnny Barnes Group (Live at the Rat 1977)

Kim Lenz – Up To My Old Tricks Again

Share with your friends, share with your enemies. Music does not discriminate, nor should it.

In the interest of making NARP even more portable than it is, I’ve made the list downloadable so it cannot only be read but shared from my Google Drive.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hBlfExm-4tHK7FaiaashEy9ulTtu7SfhrzPMND6cxmM/edit?usp=sharing

Now NARP is portable, it can be taken wherever one goes.

Criteria for inclusion into the NARP list

David compiles the list every week using the following criteria:

1. The music has to make it to his desk/desktop each week.
2. He has to be interested and intrigued not only by the music’s content but how it sound on his systems.
3. The music must be 99.9% current, within the last month, unless it is of exceptional merits and somehow slips through cracks.