Gregorian – Pure Chants (2021) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Gregorian
Title: Pure Chants
Genre: Classical, Choral
Label: © Ear Music – 0215656EMU
Release Date: 2021

Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 00:46:07
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 3000 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio #1: LPCM Audio / Undetermined / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio #2: DTS-HD Master Audio / Undetermined / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4316 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio #3 :Dolby TrueHD Audio / Undetermined / 6529 kbps / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 6529 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps)

The world’s most successful choir of all time is back with a new studio album for the dark season: PURE CHANTS will be released on 17 December.

PURE CHANTS is exactly what the title promises. True to the motto: “In tranquillity lies strength”, Gregorian have recorded half of the songs on PURE CHANTS largely without instrumental accompaniment, relying entirely on the power and beauty of the human voice.

The latest addition to the impressive GREGORIAN discography contains everything you could wish for a relaxing festive time of year and, with its purist choral songs, invites you to unwind and recharge your batteries for the new year.

This Pure Audio Blu-ray combines the Blu-ray format’s vast storage capacity and bandwidth necessary for high resolution sound in surround and stereo with the easy and straight-forward handling of a CD.

Pure Audio Blu-ray can be operated in two ways:
by on-screen menu navigation or by remote control without a TV screen.

Remote control operation is as easy as with CD:
Besides the standard transport controls the numeric keys directly access the corresponding track number and the desired audio stream can be selected by the coloured keys on the remote control. For example, press the green button for Dolby Atmos, red for 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio or yellow for 2.0 Stereo PCM.

Pure Audio Blu-ray plays back on every Blu-ray player.

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Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit (2013/2015) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Gregory Porter
Title: Liquid Spirit
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Modern Jazz, R&B, Soul Blues
Label: © Blue Note Records/Universal Music
Release Date: 2013/2015
Recorded: Sear Sound, NY, March 28th, 29th, 30th and April 15th, 2013
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 01:08:49
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 96 kHz / 3184 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 2.0 / 96 kHz / 2520 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)

Gregory Porter wields one of the most captivating baritone voices in music today. It emits enormous soul that conveys both emotions and intellect. ‘Gregory Porter has most of what you want in a male jazz singer, and maybe a thing or two you didn’t know you wanted,’ wrote Nate Chinen in the New York Times. Liquid Spirit, the 2014 Grammy®-winning Best Jazz Vocal Album, and Gregory Porter’s Blue Note Records debut, is now available on BluRay Audio.

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Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette (2016) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Grace Jones
Title: Warm Leatherette
Genre: Pop, Club/Dance, Post-Disco, Dance Rock, Reggae, New Wave
Label: © Island Records/Universal International Music B.V.
Release Date: 1980/2016
Recorded: Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 03:01:01
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 96 kHz / 3674 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 2.0 / 96 kHz / 3117 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Size: 18.62 GB

Warm Leatherette represents a watershed moment in the career of Grace Jones. It was the first of her much loved and critically-lauded ‘Compass Point trilogy’ and also very much a leap into the unknown when it was released on Island Records in May 1980. At that time, Jones had a reputation as a disco-diva second to none, a fact underlined by her first three Island albums (Fame, Portfolio and Muse). But, by the end of the 70s, disco was over. It was time to move on.

This is a beautiful newly-remastered collection, bringing together the entire Warm Leatherette album, b-sides and rare in-era mixes and instrumental versions (to fit the album on to the 39 minutes prescribed for vinyl at the time, a considerable amount of editing had to be done). It is a perfect demonstration of players, writers, producers, at the very apex of their game, headed up by the most singular performer, singing as if her life depended on it.

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Grace Jones: Nightclubbing (1981/2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Genre: Electronic, Dub, Downtempo, Disco
Year Album: 1981
Year of publication: 2014
Duration: 1:55:28
Size: 14.72 GB

Quality: Blu-ray Disc
Container: BDMV
Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Audio Codec: LPCM | DTS-HD Master Audio | Dolby TrueHD

In a career of myriad highlights ‘Nightclubbing’ remains the high water mark of Grace Jones’s imperial years with Island Records. It is indisputably the album on which her musical legacy rests, and rightly considered one of the greatest albums of all time. A sophisticated mêlée of sound, blending post-punk cool with a hot Caribbean vibe and a catwalk Studio 54 sensibility, it’s a perfect example of artist and musicians working in complete accord. It contains the all-time Grace classics in ‘Pull Up To The Bumper’, ‘Walking In The Rain’, ‘Demolition Man’ (written by Sting) and of course the Bowie / Iggy Pop-penned title track. There is magic in its every groove

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George Michael – Symphonica (2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Duration : 1h 19mn 12s 900ms
Quality : 1080p
Video Codec : MPEG-4 AVC
Audio Codec : LPCM / Dts-HD Master Audio / Dolby TrueHD
Video :1920×1080 / 16:9 / 24 fps / 17.09 Mbps
Audio :
LPCM Audio English 4608 kbps /2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps
DTS-HD Master Audio English 3111 kbps /2.0 / 96 kHz / 3111 kbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 2631 kbps /2.0 / 96 kHz / 2631 kbps
Size: 9.78 GB

Live album by the English singer-songwriter. Debuting at #1 in the UK Albums Chart, the album features the single ‘Let Her Down Easy’ as well as popular hits ‘Brother Can You Spare a Dime’ and ‘John and Elvis Are Dead’.

Gestating for a long time — at least two years, although George Michael hasn’t released an album for a decade — Symphonica is a curious way for the pop singer to return to action. A live album recorded on his 2011-2012 tour, Symphonica showcases a singer on the supper club circuit, trading in a few of his big hits, all middle-brow favorites (“Praying for Time,” “One More Try,” “A Different Corner”) and spending a lot of time on songs the audience knows and love, whether it’s Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Anthony Newley’s “Feeling Good,” or the American Popular Songbook standard “My Baby Just Cares for Me.” Michael does indulge in some personal favorites — —he tackles Terence Trent D’Arby’s “Let Her Down Easy” and the deep Elton John track “Idol” — but the context is something familiar: a popular singer luxuriating in a symphonic setting. He doesn’t push the limits of this template, choosing to enjoy the lush surroundings, so this winds up slightly anti-climactic: Michael is in good form but he’s coasting, doing no more than he needs to, satisfying fans without surprising.

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Gentle Giant – Three Piece Suite (Steven Wilson Mix) (2017) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Title: Gentle Giant – Three Piece Suite
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock
Production/Label: Alucard Publishing Limited
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Container/Video/Audio codec: BDMV/AVC/DTS, PCM
Duration: 03:56:20
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 14811 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6498 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English LPCM 5.1 / 96 kHz / 13824 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#3: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#4: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4613 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#5: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 35.4 GB

Following the highly successful releases of the Steven Wilson remixes of ‘The Power And The Glory’ and ‘Octopus’, Steven has now remixed a specially curated selection of songs and compositions from the band’s first three albums (Giant, Acquiring the Taste, Three Friends) presented in both 5.1 surround sound and stereo. Only a few songs from each of the band’s first three albums are known to exist as multi-tracks, with the rest presumably lost, and it is these nine tracks – plus the previously unreleased pre-debut song ‘Freedom’s Child’ – that have been remixed by Steven Wilson for this very special release.

‘Three Piece Suite’ includes the songs ‘Giant’, ‘Nothing At All’ and ‘Why Not’ from the first album ‘Giant’; ‘Pantagruel’s Nativity’, ‘The House, The Street, The Room’ from the second album ‘Acquiring The Taste’; and ‘Schooldays’, ‘Peel the Paint’, ‘Mr. Class And Quality’ and ‘Three Friends’ from the album ‘Three Friends’. The previously commercially unreleased song ‘Freedom’s Child’ is from the first recording sessions with legendary producer Tony Visconti. The liner notes contain an essay by noted journalist Anil Prasad, in which Gentle Giant’s members reflect upon the writing and recording sessions. Furthermore, Steven Wilson and Tony Visconti share their observations about the early days of this unique collection of timeless music from one of progressive rock’s most influential bands.

Tony Visconti: “I was a very optimistic young man in 1970… I thought music like theirs would save the world from mediocrity. I couldn’t wait to sink my teeth in it.”

Steven Wilson: “There was never a question of trying to outdo the original mixes, but offer different perspectives on them.”

This Blu-Ray + CD Digipak contains the new Steven Wilson mixes both in 96/24 PCM and in DTS 5.1 Surround Sound Master Audio. The Blu-ray also includes animated videos for the Steven Wilson mixes, instrumental mixes of all tracks, as well as flat transfers of all three complete albums in their original mixes.

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Gentle Giant – The Power and the Glory (1974/2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Gentle Giant
Title: The Power and the Glory
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock, Art Rock
Label: © Alucard Publishing Ltd.
Release Date: 1974/2014
Recorded: December 1973 – January 1974, Advision Studios, London
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Size: 21.82 GB

• 2014 New 5.1 & Stereo Mix by Steven Wilson
Length: 00:41:17
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 23912 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7574 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: EEnglish LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
• Instrumentals Stereo Mix
Length: 00:46:31
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 11994 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
• 1974 Original Stereo Mix
Length: 00:37:23
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 11994 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit

A brand new mix in both high resolution stereo and 5.1 surround sound of this classic album from one of the most gifted and ambitious but perhaps also most underrated of the original wave of seventies progressive rock bands. For many (including Steven) The Power and the Glory from 1974 is their masterpiece. The remix was done from the master tapes at 96/24 and this is the 2 disc Blu-Ray/CD edition on the band’s own label Alucard. Also includes bonus tracks of the non-album title-track (originally released as a single), and an alternate take of Aspirations. The Blu-Ray also includes animated videos for the whole album, and exclusive instrumental mixes.

The group’s first U.S. release in two years featured ornate playing from Kerry Minnear on keyboards and Gary Green’s loudest guitar work up to that time. The Power and the Glory is also a fairly dissonant album, yet it made the charts, albeit pretty low. There seems to be a unifying theme having to do with one’s place in the social order, but it’s very vague in contrast to Pink Floyd’s re-creations of the post-’60s drug experience, Yes’ sweeping album-length suites, and ELP’s sci-fi epics. “No God’s a Man” is an infinitely more challenging piece of music than anything on Jethro Tull’s Aqualung, but that wasn’t a commercial virtue; nor could the electric violin break on “The Face” or the rippling electric guitar passages throughout cover the effort involved in absorbing these songs. The Power and the Glory vaguely resembled Genesis’ early art-rock albums, but without any presence as charismatic as Peter Gabriel. “Playing the Game” and “So Sincere” were the most accessible tracks and ended up as key parts of their concert set. –Bruce Eder

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Gentle Giant – Octopus (1972/2015) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Gentle Giant
Title: Octopus
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock, Sympho Rock
Artist: Gary Green (Electric guitars, maracas), Kerry Minnear (Piano, Hammond, Minimoog, electric piano, Mellotron, Clavinet, harpsichord, regal, vibraphone, tambourine, cello, lead vocals and backing vocals), Derek Shulman (Lead vocals, alto saxophone), Phil Shulman (Trumpet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, mellophone, lead vocals and backing vocals), Ray Shulman (Bass, violin, viola, electric violin, acoustic guitar, tambourine, backing vocals), John Weathers (Drums, bongos, varispeed cymbal, xylophone)

Label: © Alucard Publishing/Universal
Release Date: 1972/2015
Recorded: July 24 – August 5, 1972, Advision Studios, London, England
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 14948 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7753 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)

UK prog rockers Gentle Giant‘s fourth album, Octopus has been remixed (in part) by Steven Wilson for an expanded CD+Blu-ray audio reissue. The new edition of the 1972 album sees Wilson remix five of the eight tracks for stereo and 5.1 surround sound (this is due to missing multi-tracks). The remaining three tracks (Advent of Panurge, Raconteur Troubadour and The Boys in the Band) are the original stereo remixes on the CD and on the blu-ray have been processed through Penteo upmix software for 5.1 surround sound. Steven did this for Broken on Tears For Fears‘ Songs From The Big Chair, if you remember. Both discs also include a bonus track of a 16 minute live version of Extracts from Octopus, again newly mixed into stereo and 5.1 surround sound.
As well as the album tracks in 96/24 Stereo LPCM & DTS 5.1 Master Audio, the blu-ray element of this set contains a flat transfer of the original 1972 mix, and instrumental versions of the five stereo remixes, all in high resolution.

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Eric Clapton – Give Me Strength: The ’74/’75 Recordings (2013) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Eric Clapton – Give Me Strength: The ’74/’75 Recordings (2013) [Blu-Ray Audio Disc] > 20,6 GB
Program One: LPCM 5.1 – 24bit/96kHz & DTS MA 5.1 Surround 24bit/96kHz | Time – 57:32 minutes
Program Two: LPCM 4.0 – 24bit/96kHz & DTS MA 4.0 Surround 24bit/96kHz | Time – 39:37 minutes
Program Three: LPCM 4.0 – 24bit/96kHz & DTS MA 4.0 Surround 24bit/96kHz | Time – 40:22 minutes

The 1974/1975 Recordings, a massive five-CD/one-BluRay box set documenting Clapton’s mid-’70s recordings… The BluRay contains a previously unreleased 5.1 mix of 461 Ocean Boulevard, along with its original quadraphonic mix, plus the quad mix of There’s One in Every Crowd.

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Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973/2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973/2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc] | 16.86 GB

LPCM Audio          4608 kbps       2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
DTS-HD Master Audio 3566 kbps       2.0 / 96 kHz / 3566 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Dolby TrueHD Audio  3004 kbps       2.0 / 96 kHz / 3004 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the album that turned Elton John into a true superstar. Although he was already known in 1973 due to the growing success of his previous albums – including Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player, Elton John and Honky Chateau – it was the release of this double album that made Elton a household name, going on to sell a staggering 31-million copies. Goodbye… perfectly marries the various elements of Elton’s craft: classic songwriting, glam stomp, R&B, gospel, jaw-dropping performances, soul and a large helping of brilliant showmanship.

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Diana Krall – The Look Of Love (2001/2013) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Name: Diana Krall: The Look of Love
Released: 2001
Genre: Vocal Jazz

Issued: France | Universal
Duration: 00:50:34
Size: 6.03 GB

The Look of Love is the sixth album by Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music). It became Diana Krall’s best-selling album, best-selling album of Canada and best-selling album of 2001. Billboard ranked album at number 5 on the magazine’s Top Jazz Albums of the Decade.

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Depeche Mode – Delta Machine (2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Depeche Mode
Title: Delta Machine
Genre: Synthpop, Dance-Rock, Alternative Dance
Label: © Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment
Release Date: 2014
Recorded: March–October 2012; Sound Design (Santa Barbara, California); Jungle City Studio (New York City, New York)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:16:42
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 14876 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7101 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 15.06 GB

Depeche Mode have announced the global release of their CD/DVD/Blu-ray release of Depeche Mode Live In Berlin for November 17th via Columbia Records. Directed by their longtime creative collaborator, Anton Corbijn, Depeche Mode Live in Berlin features two hours worth of never before released, live concert footage.

Depeche Mode Live in Berlin was filmed on location at the O2 World Berlin on November 25th and 27th, 2013 during the band’s extremely successful Delta Machine Tour which saw them play to over 2.4 million people in 32 countries. Depeche Mode was touring in support of their lauded 13th studio album, Delta Machine, which debuted at #1 in 12 countries worldwide in March 2013. The CD/DVD will include not only performances of tracks from Delta Machine but also some of their most memorable and biggest hits including “Personal Jesus” and “Policy of Truth”.

The deluxe version offers a total immersion, all access experience for fans. This will include the Live in Berlin DVD, the Live in Berlin full show audio across two CDs, as well as a second DVD, Alive in Berlin. Also directed by Corbijn, Alive in Berlin includes the full live show, inter-spliced with behind-the-scenes footage, multiple interviews with the band and their fans, and a 2-song acoustic session, which was filmed at Salon Bel Ami, the oldest existing brothel in Berlin.

The package also includes the band’s 2013 album Delta Machine 5.1 mix on Blu-Ray CD. All this comes specially packaged in a beautiful lift off box that includes 5 CD mini-jackets housing the aforementioned discs and a 16 page booklet.

“Alive in Berlin is a record of Depeche Mode visiting Berlin for two concerts and the impact it has on fans following the band. Berlin has a special place in the hearts of Depeche Mode. Likewise, Depeche Mode has a strong following in the German capital and the film tries to capture the highlights of these concerts as well as that special connection through interviews with fans and bands alike,” states director Anton Corbijn.

Also available will be a double CD package of the full audio from Live in Berlin.

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Derek And The Dominos – Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (1970/2013) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Genre: Blues Rock, Classic Rock
Record Year: 1970
Release Year: 2013

Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Container: BDMV

Audio №1: LPCM Audio 4608 kbps 2.0 / 96kHz / 24-bit
Audio №2: DTS-HD Master Audio 4013 kbps 2.0 / 96 kHz / 24-bit (DTS Core: 3.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio №3: Dolby TrueHD Audio 3384 kbps 2.0 / 96 kHz / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)

Universal Music Group has gone back to the original master tapes to deliver fully uncompressed, high-resolution versions of many of your favorite albums on Blu-ray Pure Audio Disc. Mastered at 24bit/96kHz, Blu-ray Pure Audio Discs deliver the sound the artists originally heard in the studio when these classic albums were recorded. These discs provide all the recorded musical information. While convenient due to their small file size, today’s heavily compressed music files do not represent the true fidelity of the original album.

•     Recordings are transferred from the original master tapes and delivered in high-resolution 24-bit/96kHz audio

•     No compression is utilized, and the sound quality is vastly superior to MP3 or standard CD

•     Three separate choices of audio file format for playback: PCM 2.0, Dolby True HD, or DTS-HD Master Audio (5.1 available where noted)

•     Your preferred audio format is chosen either by pressing the “Audio” button on your Blu-ray remote or via your onscreen menu display

In the world of rock there are recordings that truly resonate in historical importance and continue to cast an enduring shadow of influence. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is one of the most steadfastly revered musical treasures of its era. Its famous title track is still hailed as an essential rock guitar anthem, a signature tune of rock’s leading guitar hero, Eric Clapton.

 

Recorded in 1970 by Derek and the Dominos, the group was comprised of Clapton and top American musicians Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs music offers a timeless blend of rock, electric blues and Southern gospel influences that has shaped generations of roots-oriented musicians.

 

Derek and the Dominos came together at a very special time and place, riding a late ‘60s wave of interest in roots music and blues-based rock and roll. In 1969, Clapton found inspiration playing in the loose, family-like structure of Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, an American, R&B-influenced entourage whose 1969 U.K. tour hit the British music scene with seismic proportion.

 

Despite the tongue-in-cheek, spontaneously chosen name, Derek and the Dominos represented a sincere effort to recreate the friendly, leaderless vibe and easy, groove-driven sound Clapton had enjoyed in ’69. The foursome originally featured Delaney and Bonnie’s rhythm section, keyboardist/vocalist Whitlock, bassist Radle and drummer Jim Gordon, plus Clapton on vocals and guitars. They first came together in late spring of 1970, developing their sound while performing on George Harrison’s breakthrough solo album, All Things Must Pass (their studio jams pushed the album to a three-disc package.) That June, Derek and the Dominos premiered publicly in London. By August they began recording their debut album at Criteria Studios in Miami, with legendary producer Tom Dowd in the control room.

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Deep Purple – Made In Japan (1972/2014) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]



Genre: Hard Rock
Duration: 2:32:30

Quality: Blu-ray Disc
Container: BDMV
Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Audio Codec: LPCM | DTS-HD Master Audio | Dolby TrueHD

A Rolling Stone magazine readers poll in 2012 voted “Made In Japan” as the sixth greatest live album of all time. Together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple have been referred to as the “unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal”. 2014 see’s Made in Japan newly remastered and released in a number of special formats. (more…)

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Cream – Fresh Cream – 50th Anniversary (2016) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Cream
Title: Fresh Cream – 50th Anniversary
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Electric Blues, British Blues, British Psychedelia, Hard Rock
Label: © Polydor Records | Universal Music Enterprises
Release Date: 1966/2017
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:46:22 + 00:46:20
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 19451 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 16,8 GB

A three-CD + Blu-ray Audio package that comprises the UK mono album plus outtakes, mono singles on mono EPs on the first disc, the UK stereo album plus stereo outtakes and stereo remixes on the second disc, early versions, demos and BBC recordings on the third CD and a 24/96 hi-res version of US mono & stereo albums and bonus tracks on the fourth and final disc which is a Blu-ray Audio. (more…)

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