Manfred Schoof – Jazz Meets India (1967/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 37:31 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Even from the globalized world’s point of view in the year 2017: whenever you listen to recordings J.E.Berendt initiated in the ’60s you are completely amazed about his visionary character. This is THE landmark album which showcases his explorations. Mani Neumeier, the incomparable drum wizard of Guru Guru fame, convinced Berendt to get the Jazz meets India idea into shape by engaging the Irène Schweizer Trio (which also featured bassist Uli Trepte) and calling in an Indian trio, with sitar player Dewan Motihar, responsible for arousing the Beatles’ interest in India. In-between: German trumpet player Manfred Schoof and French saxophonist Barney Wilen. Jazz meets India is a stunning set in which it is a natural course of action that every musician respects and listens to each other – and we dare to say a more sincere approach to Indian music than many of the half-hearted world music blendings of nowadays. (more…)
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Mallory Knox – Wired (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:06 minutes | 510 MB | Genre: Rock
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British rock quintet Mallory Knox present their third full-length album, Wired, the follow-up to 2014’s Asymmetry. This record is framed as a journey of self-discovery for Mallory Knox, as they come to terms with the issues that plague their everyday lives. Wired is brought to listeners by RCA Records and features the singles “Giving It Up,” “Lucky Me,” and “Better Off Without You.” ~ Liam Martin (more…)
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Lorenzo Naccarato – Lorenzo Naccarato Trio (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 31:56 minutes | 372 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The French trio, lead by Lorenzo Naccarato elaborates on the concept of a kinematic jazz, in that the notion of movement lies at the heart of its musical exploration. The release of the trio’s first album, on the label Laborie Jazz, was released on March 11th 2016. (more…)
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Le Grand Mellon – Columbia Singles (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192kHz | Time – 17:42 minutes | 347 MB | Genre: Pop
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LeGrand Mellon is an American actress who guested as ‘Miranda’ in the mid-60s TV show, the spy/western hybrid The Wild Wild West starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. Marketed as a young but accomplished siren to rival contemporaries like Nancy Sinatra and Ann-Margret, LeGrand Mellon was seemingly plucked from the stage lot and dropped into the recording studio for a trio of singles for Columbia Records. “Baby Please Don’t Go” / “Summertime” was the final release after “Everybody But Me” / “Growin’ My Own” and “Move It On Over” / “The Sound Of The Blues”. (more…)
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Larry Coryell’s Eleventh House – Seven Secrets (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 63:52 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The final recording by legendary jazz fusion pioneers Larry Coryell and Alphonse Mouton in the reformed the Eleventh House in their all new album Seven Secrets. The late guitarist Coryell assembled founding members Randy Brecker (trumpet), long-timer John Lee (bass), the addition of son Julian (guitar) and the late Alphonse Mouzon (drums) to bring the rock and funk back to jazz again with a batch of eleven powerhouse tracks. The album is truly a group effort with Coryell relying on each member to contribute compositions to the new album, like he did back in the 70s.
The Eleventh House was an important jazz fusion group of the 1970s, led by the guitarist Larry Coryell. The band was formed in 1973 and disbanded in 1976. The Eleventh House, alongside bands such as The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report and Return to Forever, is considered as one of the pioneering jazz rock bands of the mid-1970s.
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Khalife-Tristano-Schumacher – Afrodiziak (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:04 minutes | 941 MB | Genre: Jazz
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A trio of contrasts pursue a common cause: with the vibrancy of pioneering spirits, Khalife-Scumacher-Tristano release their first album. Worlds encounter one-another. Now living in Paris, Bachar Khalifé’s familial roots are in Lebanon. He represents the musical moments of the Near East, anchored in Arabian culture and colored by the variegated sound-world of the French scene. Luxembourgian vibraphonist Pascal Schumacher is the jazzman in the alliance, a much-celebrated master of improvisation who provokes unusual textural structures out of his instrument. With his piano and electronics play, fellow countryman Francesco Tristano bridges over to the classical, which the internationally-renowned Bach interpreter uses as the basis of his playing style. He also brings the sounds and impulse of the club scene with him, a perspective that opens up new musical directions.
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Kasabian – Kasabian (2004/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:33 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Alternative
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Kasabian is the debut studio album by British rock band Kasabian. Four singles were released from the album; the highest chart position on the UK Album Chart was number 4. The hirsute Leicester band swaggers like the Stone Roses, plays dance-rock like Primal Scream, and mouths off like Oasis. But these are also the things that make Kasabian’s debut so endearing. It’s an album that spills over with personality and confidence, delivering massive club anthems in the form of songs like “Processed Beats,” “Cutt Off” and “L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever),” where the band finds just the right balance between primitive riffs and space-age grooves.
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Joe Feeney – Joe Feeney Sings For Heaven’s Sake (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:43 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Pop, Vocal
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Joe Feeney was an American tenor singer who was a member of The Lawrence Welk Show television program. From 1957 to 1982, when the Welk show ended production, Feeney was the program’s featured Irish tenor. Among his selection of musical numbers that were popular with the Welk audience were Danny Boy, Galway Bay, Sweet Leilani and the Mario Lanza classic “Be My Love”. He also has the distinction of singing for five US Presidents and performed at Carnegie Hall three times; in 1975 he sang for Pope Paul VI at the canonization of Mother Seton, the first native-born American saint.
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Joana Gomila Folk Souvenir – Folk Souvenir (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:19 minutes | 393 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Joana Gomila, together with Arnau Obiols, Santi Careta, Alex Reviriego and Laia Vallès, proposes a concert that invites the audience to travel through the sounds and echoes of traditional Majorcan music, based on popular tunes from the island with wild and delicate sounds that mix with samples of country men, children, grandparents… Within the soul of these melodies, Joana Gomila searches inspiration to allow the whole band reveal their creativity. Songs of labour and sound experiments, countryside and city, silence and noise.
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Jean-Michel Cabrol – La Route Bleue (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:35 minutes | 668 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Brought together by its leader Jean Michel, this quartet is the fruit of the complicity between 4 inspired Languedoc musicians claiming the tradition of jazz through a personalized and original music. The participation in many festivals and national scenes positions the group among the most affirmed and experienced regional formations. It offers a communicative music in which energy, lyricism and cohesion are undeniably perceptible. The musical aesthetics of this new project is focused on mixing the different Jazz styles with a “fusion” color. The album features original compositions and current Jazz standards revisited.
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J.J. Johnson – The Total J.J. Johnson (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:15 minutes | 1,4 GB | Genre: Jazz
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All but one selection (“Blue”) from thisbig-band album has been reissued on CD. J.J. Johnson, the main soloist throughout on trombone, also contributed all the compositions and arrangements for the 13- and 14-piece bands heard on the three sessions. There are short spots for some of the other players, particularly pianist Hank Jones, but the emphasis is on the arranged ensembles, making this project an excellent example of Johnson’s often-overlooked writing talents.
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Genre: Pop, Dance, Electronic, Rock
Duration: 00:05:34
Year: 2011
Quality: Master
Video Resolution / Scan: 1080p
Container: MOV
Video codec: Apple ProRes
Audio Codec: PCM
Video: APCH, 1920 * 1080p, 163 Mbps, 23.976 fps
Audio: PCM, 2 304 kb / s, 48.0 KHz, 2 channels
Size: 6.45 GB
“Judas” is a song by American singer Lady Gaga, recorded for her second studio album, Born This Way (2011). It was released by Interscope Records on April 15, 2011 as the second single from the album. Written and produced by Lady Gaga and RedOne, “Judas” is a dance and electro house song about a woman in love with a man who betrayed her. It embodies the incidents that have haunted Gaga in the past, and its core meaning refers to the negative parts of her life that she cannot escape. Gaga has further explained that the song was also about honoring one’s inner darkness in order to bring oneself into the light.The artwork for the single was designed by Gaga in Microsoft Word. In spite of a polarizing impact on several religious groups, the song was generally well received by critics, who likened the song to “Bad Romance” with some noting it should have been the album’s lead single.
“Judas” received generally positive reviews from most music critics. The song has a similar sound to Gaga’s previous RedOne-produced tracks, including “Poker Face”, “LoveGame”, “Bad Romance”, and “Alejandro”. It contains three distinct hooks and a house-influenced break down. Gaga explained that the lines spoken during the breakdown talk about her as beyond redemption, regarding the traditional views of what a woman should be. “Judas” initially had a strong sales opening, but was less successful commercially in comparison to Gaga’s previous singles. The song reached the top ten of the charts in most major music markets, and also reached the top of the charts in South Korea.
A music video for the song was filmed in April 2011, co-directed by Gaga and Laurieann Gibson and co-starring Norman Reedus. It has a Biblical storyline where Reedus played Judas Iscariot and Gaga played Mary Magdalene. The video portrays them as modern day missionaries going to Jerusalem. It included the Biblical story of Judas betraying Jesus, and ended with Gaga as Magdalene getting stoned to death. Before its release, the Catholic League condemned Gaga for the use of religious imagery and her role in the video. However, the video was generally praised by critics and nominated for two awards at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Gaga has performed “Judas” on a number of television shows, including The Graham Norton Show, Saturday Night Live, Good Morning America’s “Summer Concert Series”, the French X Factor as well as on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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Genre: Pop
Duration: 00:07:13
Year: 2011
Quality: Master
Video Resolution / Scan: 1080p
Container: MOV
Video codec: ProRes 0
Audio Codec: PCM
Video: APCH, 1920 * 1080p, 151 Mbps, 23.976 fps
Audio: PCM, 2 304 Kbps, 48.0 KHz, 2 channels
Size: 7.72 Gb
“Born This Way” is a song by American singer Lady Gaga, and the lead single from her second studio album of the same name. Written by Gaga and Jeppe Laursen, who produced it along with Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow, the track was developed while Gaga was on the road with The Monster Ball Tour. Inspired by 1990s music which empowered women and the gay community, Gaga explained that “Born This Way” was her freedom song. She sang part of the chorus at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in 2010 and announced the song as the lead single from the album, released on February 11, 2011.
“Born This Way” is backed by rumbling synth sounds, a humming bass and additional chorus percussion, with sole organ toward the end. The lyrics discuss the self-empowerment of minorities including the LGBT community as well as racial minorities, referring to “cholas” and “orients”, which drew criticism from Latino and Asian communities. Critics positively reviewed the song, calling it a “club-ready anthem”, though it faced criticism for having similarities with Madonna’s 1989 single “Express Yourself”. The song reached number one in over 25 countries and was her third single to top the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the 1,000th song in that chart’s history (since 1958) to reach number one. “Born This Way” has sold 8.2 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time.
Nick Knight directed the accompanying music video, which was inspired by surrealist painters like Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon. Gaga is depicted as giving birth to a new race during a prologue. After a series of dance sequences, the video concludes with the view of a city populated by this race. Critics noted the video’s references to the work of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Björk, and the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, as well as to Greek mythology and surrealism.
Gaga performed the song at the 53rd Grammy Awards after coming out of an incubating vessel. It was also performed during the last leg of The Monster Ball Tour and on television shows such as Saturday Night Live, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and Good Morning America. The song was treated with different remixes, including a “Country Road” version recorded by Gaga herself and another by Indian production duo Salim-Sulaiman. Alice Cooper, Madonna, Katy Perry, Maria Aragon, and the cast of the TV series Glee have covered the song.
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Genre: Pop
Duration: 00:08:52
Year: 2009
Quality: Master
Video Resolution / Scan: 1080p
Container: MOV
Video codec: H.264
Audio Codec: PCM
Video: AVC, 1920 * 1080p (16: 9), 68.9 Mbps, 23.976 fps
Audio: LPCM, 1 536 Kbps, 48.0 KHz, 2 channels
Size: 4.36 GB
“Alejandro” is a song by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released as the third single from her third extended play (EP) The Fame Monster (2009). Co-written and produced by herself and RedOne, the song inspired by her “Fear of Men Monster”, the lyrics portray Gaga bidding farewell to her lovers. Musically, it is a mid-tempo synth-pop song.
Contemporary critics predominantly gave “Alejandro” positive reviews and noted that it takes influence from the pop acts ABBA, Ace of Base and Madonna. The song charted in the United Kingdom and Hungary due to digital sales following the album’s release. Upon release, “Alejandro” charted again in the United Kingdom as well as in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United States while topping the Finnish, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, and Romanian charts. “Alejandro” became Gaga’s seventh successive single to reach the top-ten of the US Billboard Hot 100.
The accompanying music video was directed by fashion photographer Steven Klein and inspired by Gaga’s love for her gay friends and admiration of gay love. Within the video, Gaga dances with a group of soldiers in a cabaret, interspersed with scenes of Gaga as a nun swallowing a rosary and near-naked men holding machine guns. The music video was controversial and received mixed reviews. Critics complimented its idea and dark nature while the Catholic League criticized Gaga for alleged blasphemy, despite Klein dismissing the idea and claiming that the scene in question (the swallowing of Rosary beads) was Gaga’s “desire to take in the Holy”.[3] Gaga performed the song on the ninth season of American Idol and has performed it on all dates of The Monster Ball Tour. The song was also included on her 2012–13 tour The Born This Way Ball, as well as on her 2014 tour, ArtRave: The Artpop Ball.
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