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Eric Bibb, North Country Far and Danny Thompson – The Happiest Man In The World (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 51:52 minutes | 875 MB | Genre: Blues
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The Happiest Man In The World is a tasty gumbo of new bluesy-country songs recorded in the English countryside. This stellar acoustic band is made up of musicians who have known each other for years: Eric Bibb on vocals and guitars, Petri Hakala on mandolin and mandola and Olli Haavisto on dobro and weissenborn as well as other slide instruments. The band are joined by legendary upright bassist Danny Thompson (Alexis Korner, Pentangle, Donovan, John Martyn and more). The exuberant, soulful sound at the heart of these songs makes The Happiest Man In The World a delicious treat. Eric Bibb’s career spans five decades, 36 albums, countless radio & TV shows and non-stop tours, making him one of the leading bluesmen of his generation.
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Eric Bibb – Migration Blues (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:56 minutes | 541 MB | Genre: Blues, Acoustic
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With Migration Blues eric Bibb reminds us that if we look at the history of the world we discover that we all have migrants among our ancestors. Eric also draws a parallel between the former African American sharecroppers leavind the brutal segregation and economic misery of the rural South for the industrial cities of the North and the current migratory movement to Europe of the refugees from the war-torn countries of the Middle East and Africa World.
Migration Blues will certainly be considered one of Eric Bibb’s major albums due to the high quality of the songwriting, the raw emotion delivered by Eric’s voice, the richness of the orchestration (despite the sobriety) and the seriousness and topicality of its main theme.
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Eric Bibb – Lead Belly’s Gold, Live At The Sunset… And More (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:19 minutes | 831 MB | Genre: Blues
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This album took shape when the producer Philippe Langlois, the guitarist Eric Bibb, and the harmonica player Jean-Jacques Milteau joined forces to record a tribute to the legendary Lead Belly. The latter, still too little known by the public at large, is the source for a multitude of timeless covers and compositions from the likes of Nirvana, The Animals, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bob Dylan… and many more! Many of the songs here are from live interpretations, performed both with and without and audience, which adds a palpable freshness to the disc. Accompanied by a strong battery attack and an acoustic bass, indulge in the singing and snapping guitars of Eric Bibb and the delicate harmonica lines of Milteau; they chime in perfect cohesion. The result is a joyous album of concentrated blues and high-quality folk.
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Eric Bibb – Jericho Road (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:03 minutes | 687 MB | Genre: Blues
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With this new effort, Eric Bibb gives a personal vision of today’s world in his own poetic and contemporary way. Born and raised in New York, Bibb has traveled the planet extensively. He describes the people of this earth at length here, conjuring their conflicts and hardships, as well as their compassion, tolerance and empathy. “Jericho Road” was produced by Glen Scott, a young Englishman originally from Jamaica endowed with outstanding talent and creativity. Scott’s lavish musical arrangements and attention to sound make this new recording an exceptionally fine production. Eric gives a whole new meaning to the blues of the 21st Century, proving that the genre remains as lively and relevant as ever. Jericho Road is an event in itself, and a superlative album.
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Eric Bibb – Global Griot (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:35:00 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Blues
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Bringing groovy blues with an African flavour, Eric Bibb returns to soothe our souls with his deep, smooth voice on this colourful record, Global Griot. Alongside the Malian Habib Koité and the Senegalese Solo Cissokho, he brings us 25 songs from the borders of gospel and reggae (Wherza Money At). This is an album that takes you on a journey, and the destination is clear: Africa. The word “Griot” in the title refers to African musicians, and more precisely to the “traditional communicators”. The word is rich with history and Eric Bibb treats it with respect. Be they Americans, Europeans or Jamaicans, the artists brought together on this album manage to include all manner of influences. The album also has a folky side and many of the themes of the album focus on human beings. Global Griot echoes the sound of the album he recorded in collaboration with his wife Ulrika, Pray Sing Love. The New Yorker never tires of musical declarations of love, or indeed of political songs, here he covers Big Bill Broonzy, Black Brown and White. He performs this alongside Harrison Kennedy and the pair give a terrifically lively rendition of the track. – Clara Bismuth
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Eric Bibb – Dear America (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:03 minutes | 981 MB | Genre: Blues
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The scion of a musical dynasty (his father was folk-singer Leon Bibb and his uncle was jazzman John Lewis), Eric Bibb released his first album almost 50 years ago. He grew up in the blues, but he has long been much, much more than simply a bluesman. He has travelled and lived extensively outside the United States, sought inspiration in African music, and refined his technique through contact with other styles and musicians. Dear America, released in the year of his 70th birthday, is a kind of return to his roots. This is a historian’s album, which visits some tragic pages of Afro-American history in song. Musically, this is a record rooted in blues, soul and gospel choirs. These are genres so old and well-worn that one wonders how musicians can still draw life from them without falling into clich’es. But Eric Bibb succeeds, and with young-at-heart verve, he transforms this return to the roots into an elixir of youth. He does not handle this old music like an antiques dealer, but like a craftsman or a sculptor who is perpetually dazzled by the forms that emerge from the raw material. The picking is soft, the tempo laid-back, and all the tracks here are bathed in a sober elegance. He moves from blues to acoustic soul or folk with a unique fluidity that he shares with his musicians, including drummer Steve Jordan, bassist Ron Carter, guitarist Eric Gales, singers Shaneeka Simon and Lisa Mills. This is an album of American music by a zen master of the form. – St’ephane Deschamps
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Eric Bibb – Blues People (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:47 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Blues
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Eric Bibb’s new album is both a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and a homage to the original “blues people,” the Afro-American creators of a style celebrated today as part of the common heritage of mankind. “Blues People” is an album voluntarily bare, haunted by the spirit of the blues. Many good friends managed to join the recording sessions and brought their own contributions. They include The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Taj Mahal, J.J. Milteau, Popa Chubby, Ruthie Foster, Harrison Kennedy, Leyla McCalla, André De Lange and Guy Davis.
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Eric Benoit – Heartrender (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:17 minutes | 489 MB | Genre: Electronic
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Eric Benoit’s second album Heartrender takes a step into a new direction with even more energy than his previous album. Benoit is inspired by a variety of different genres such as: indie folk-rock, dance music, and rock. Benoit is unapologetic when presenting his listeners with raw and controversial subject matter.
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Eric Bachmann – No Recover (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:40 minutes | 405 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
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There was something sinister about Crooked Fingers, both the name of the project and the music that Eric Bachmann wrote at the helm of its ever-shifting lineups over 15 years. He retired the moniker a couple of years ago, but with his third album under his own name, the transformation feels gorgeous and final and irreversible: No Recover.The drunken louts and red devil dawns are a thing of the past now, monuments to a different time. Bachmann, husband and recent father, has some new lenses through which to view the world. But while No Recover is decidedly mellow and reflective, do not mistake it for the work of a relaxed, satisfied songwriter, sitting on some Georgia porch with a stalk of wheat between his lips, gently rocking a cradle with his foot and whistling an old tune. No, the Eric Bachmann of 2018 seems to view life with a sort of disgruntled maturity and righteous resignation. No Recover is both harrowing and beautiful, and its mellowness can be deceiving. The album is mostly just him, a classical guitar, some treated rhythm tracks, and otherworldly drop-ins from singer Avery Leigh Draut and guitarist Eric Johnson, Bachmann’s old pal from their Archers of Loaf days. He’s got a lot on his mind, only some of it pretty. The sunset on the album’s cover might be the end of a cruel world for the duo in Jaded Lover, Shady Drifter, who introduce No Recover; they feel like flip-side lovers, both sonically and lyrically, of the couple at the center of Bring On the Snakes’ The Rotting Strip. But that dark sentiment is quickly reversed with Daylight, one of Bachmann’s most stunning vocal performances ever: For a guy who earned his stripes by shredding his vocal cords in the ’90s, he sure can croon. And though the words cast some shadows—“fight for your life,” he implores—ultimately there is hope. “If you try, you can be loved.” Same goes, to a less direct degree, for Waylaid, the record’s jauntiest song, and a meditation on failure and love that leaves room for Johnson’s bright-but-mournful electric guitar to take center stage. But leave it to Bachmann to save the best for last: No Recover ends with one song for his wife and another for his son. Wild Azalea, for Liz Durrett—who also makes a brief appearance earlier in the album—is pure ’70s AM gold, including the tinge of sadness that the best of that era embraced. And Dead and Gone offers wistful, Bachmann-style comfort to a child. It’s vulnerable and giving, a lifetime promise that somehow intertwines regret and hopefulness.
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Eric Andersen – Be True to You (1975/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:35 minutes | 861 MB | Genre: Folk
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In the early 1960s, Eric Andersen was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York. His best-known songs from that time are “Violets of Dawn”, “Come to My Bedside”, and “Thirsty Boots” (the latter recorded by Judy Collins and Bob Dylan, among others). The folk singer/songwriter’s 1975 album for RCA features 10 tracks including the tender title track and the epic “Time Run Like A Freight Train”.
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Eric & Ulrika Bibb – Pray Sing Love (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:07 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Blues, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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Like Josh White, Jr. son of folksinger Josh White singer, songwriter, and guitarist Eric Bibb was raised in the folk tradition, the son of folksinger Leon Bibb. Bibb’s uncle was the world-famous jazz pianist and composer John Lewis, part of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Bibb was raised in a music-filled household, and family friends in the ’50s and ’60s included Pete Seeger, Odetta, Bob Dylan, and the late Paul Robeson, who was named Eric’s godfather. Dixiefrog Records presents new album Eric & Ulrika Bibb – Pray Sing Love.
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Eric Alexander – Song of No Regrets (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:07 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Hearing tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander is one of the great treats in jazz. There are few artists on stage today who combine chops, imagination and technique with a fluidity of ideas as he does. This imposing improviser is reunited here with pianist David Hazeltine and they’re joined by another jazz great , the always daring trumpeter Jon Faddis on a couple of the tracks. Add in the swing engendered by bassist John Webber and drummer Joe Farnsworth and you have a formula for excellence, if ever there was one. Alexander produced the session and there is a strong latin feel throughout thanks to the contributions of vibrant percussionist Alex Diaz spurring the band on with a whole trunk load of Latin percussion instruments. In addition to the Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’66 title tune, the set-list features a satisfying mix of originals and covers all given the patented Alexander treatment.
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Eric Alexander – Second Impression (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:49 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Jazz
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It can be argued with some validity that one’s overall movement through life is reflected in his creative endeavor, and Eric Alexander’s strength and versatility on the saxophone can be viewed from this perspective. At this point in his career, Eric has certainly covered a lot of territory, both literally and figuratively. He himself has lost count of how many albums feature his playing; our guess is 100 or more. While he has garnered critical acclaim from every corner, what has mattered most has been to establish his own voice within the illustrious bop-based jazz tradition which is exactly what he does on his latest HighNote release. The close-knit ensemble of a band of regular buddies, coupled with the bass-clef contributions of the extraordinary Bob Cranshaw, make for a listening experience not soon forgotten.
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Eric Alexander – Eric Alexander with Strings (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 36:29 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Eric Alexander’s prowess on the tenor saxophone, his unimpeachable virtuosity and technical skill, is obvious to anyone who has paid attention to his fluent and stirring work over the past three decades.
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Erdődy Chamber Orchestra & Zsolt Szefcsik – Laks, Rózsa, Orbán & Kilar: Orchestral Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:11 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Erdody Chamber Orchestra’s third album includes works by both Polish and Hungarian composers active in the 20th century including Laks, Rozsa, Orban and Kilar. In 1994, Zsolt Szefcsik founded the Erdody Chamber Orchestra in Budapest to promote the Hungarian musical heritage and present achievements of contemporary composers. Over 25 years, the ensemble, using Hungarian manuscript collections, has presented over one hundred forgotten pieces. Thanks to this fact, it has become an orchestra with currently the most extensive repertoire of Hungarian music. A large group of works by composers operating in the 18th and 19th centuries has become available only thanks to the concerts of the Erdody Chamber Orchestra.
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