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The Farmer Boys – The Farmer Boys – Complete Recordings – 1957 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:41 minutes | 394 MB | Genre: Country, Rockabilly
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Crazy Warthog Media
The Farmer Boys were an American country music duo consisting of Bobby Adamson and Woody Murray.
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The Family Crest – The War: Act I (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:04 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Mer Records
Based in San Francisco, The Family Crest blends genres and dense orchestrations to create a sweeping musical landscape while maintaining a pop sensibility. The Family Crest have already earned widespread national applause for their extraordinary orchestral pop ambition but with THE WAR, the San Francisco-based collective makes their boldest, most fully articulated musical statement thus far. The second installment of what promises to be an epic musical saga, THE WAR: ACT I represents ”the next version of The Family Crest,” says frontman-founder Liam McCormick and indeed, the album reveals a band more in tune with its own large-scale Baroque eclecticism. Preceded in early 2017 by the PRELUDE TO WAR EP, the new album marks the first act of a greater multi-tiered project, a kind of serial concept album with a pronounced thematic arc that weaves ideas of pride and memory, dissonance and divergence, into a purposefully ambiguous but undeniably unified whole.
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The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band – Live at the “Quartier Latin” (1981/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:34:23 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
One of Europe’s most venerated band leaders, Swiss pianist-composer George Gruntz fronted small and large groups stacked with international jazz greats. This double album represents the 1980 version of Swiss pianist/composer Gruntz’s celebrated all-star international ‘Concert Jazz Band’. Over the years, each one of Gruntz’s bands was stacked with a new set of jazz greats, but his aim was always to mold the band in the Ellingtonian fashion: each member was picked, not only because he fitted into the group concept; it was especially important that he contributed a unique creative color to the band’s palette.
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The Gap Band – The Gap Band IV (1982/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:10 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury Records
Gap Band IV is the sixth album (contrary to the title) by The Gap Band, released in 1982 on Total Experience Records. The album reached #1 on the Black Albums chart and #14 on the Pop Albums chart, achieved platinum status, and is considered their most successful project.
The album produced the singles “Early in the Morning” (#1 Black Singles, #13 Club Play Singles, #24 Pop Singles), “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” (#2 Black Singles, #39 Club Play Singles, #31 Pop Singles), and “Outstanding” (#1 Black Singles, #24 Club Play Singles, #51 Pop Singles). It also achieved a rare feat in which every song on the album received radio airplay.
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The Funk Ark – Man Is A Monster (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:52 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Jazz, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ropeadope Records
Will Rast (Antibalas, Thievery Corporation, Ocote Soul Sounds) and The Funk Ark grab the best parts from some of the most American genres of music. There’s the bluegrass-like slide guitar, the precision lines from fusion jazz, and of course, the locked down thick pocket taken from the style of music they bare in their name. With all of this comes the sophistication and swagger that one would expect from a group so steeped in these expansive musical traditions.
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The Friends Of Distinction – Real Friends (1970/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:18 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Real Friends is the third studio album by R&B group The Friends of Distinction, released in 1970 on the RCA Victor label.
The album peaked at No. 9 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 68 on the Billboard 200. The album features the single “Love or Let Me Be Lonely”, which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 13 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.
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The Flying Eyes – Burning The Season (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:44 minutes | 541 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ripple Music
Ripple Music is thrilled to welcome Baltimore’s heavy psych rockers, The Flying Eyes, to it’s roster of the best of modern heavy psych, stoner, doom and heavy rock. The Flying Eyes name comes from a 1962 science fiction novel about giant, disembodied eyes that descend from outer space to control humanity… Since forming ten years ago, they have released four albums, several 7″ singles, and toured the world, supporting bands such as Dead Meadow, The Raveonettes, The Black Angels and Dan Auerbach among others. The Flying Eyes have achieved a notable following in Europe with extensive club touring and festival appearances. Highlights include: Burg Herzberg Festival (sharing the main stage with Jeff Beck and Hawkwind), Rockpalast Crossroads Festival, Stoned From The Underground (DE), Desert Fest Belgium (BE), Trutnov Open Air (CZ) as well as the Synchronicity Festival in India.After extensive touring in South America, playing shows and festivals in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, they linked up with producer Gabriel Zander (Mars Red Sky) at Super Fuzz Studio in Rio de Janeiro to record their upcoming Ripple Music debut album Burning of the Season. Season is a return to the band’s roots of fuzzed-out blues and soulful psychedelia with the maturity and craftsmanship of age. Coming out this fall on Ripple Music (US and non-European Territories), it is their heaviest statement to date.
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The Epiphoni Consort & Tim Reader – When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:05 minutes | 638 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records
The Epiphoni Consort follow up on their acclaimed debut, of music by David Bednall, with a portrait album of another young choral composer on the ascendant.
Owain Park’s musical tracks were set early, when he joined the choir of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol as a boy chorister. Subsequently organ scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, he draws – while still only in his twenties – on a specially English tradition of text-setting and choral writing which links him to figures such as Stanford and Vaughan Williams.
His innate understanding of the medium is shown in the skillfully contrasted weights and colours of Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time, one of two Shakespeare cycles included here, and the Epiphoni Consort singers make the most of the luxuriant chordal writing that characterizes Park’s style as a whole – what his former teacher John Rutter has described as ‘towers of sound’.
The choir is joined by a solo violin for the call and response patterns of Antiphon for the Angels, while Sing to me, windchimes movingly sets loss and yearning alongside poetic images of spring and youth.
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The English Concert and Andrew Manze – Vivaldi: Concertos for the Emperor (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:18:54 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
No, not more Vivaldi Violin Concertos! How can there be any more? Have not decades of scholarships overturned every possible rock to find every possible violin concerto by the composer of The Four Seasons, everybody’s perennial favorite? Although the answer is apparently not, that is, in fact, good news: that there are still more lovely, charming, hilarious, touching, and mind-bogglingly difficult Violin Concertos by Vivaldi should warm the hearts and open the wallets of classical music lovers around the world.
And that is not all the good news. The really good news is that seven more-or-less new Violin Concertos by Vivaldi have been recorded by super-virtuoso Andrew Manze leading the super-fine English Concert. And while none of them, not even the super-sultry L’amoroso, will make most listeners shed their allegiance to Vivaldi’s four greatest hits, all of them are in truth just as lovely, charming, hilarious, touching, and perhaps even more mind-bogglingly difficult Violin Concertos that Manze dispatches with his by now customary panache and aplomb. Yes, more Vivaldi Violin Concertos! Harmonia Mundi’s digital sound is vivid and immediate.
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The Dunwells – Blind Sighted Faith (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:04 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
Blind Sighted Faith is the breakthrough debut from gifted British quintet The Dunwells. The up-and-coming band is one of the most exciting groups to emerge from England, quickly making waves for their impeccable harmonies, compelling passion and exquisite songwriting. Their sound is reminiscent of The Eagles and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Concord Records has announced a world-wide agreement with indie label Playing In Traffic to re-release this smash hit. The album will include the newly written and recorded track, “So Beautiful,” by George Drakoulias (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, The Black Crowes and The Jayhawks). Blind Sighted Faith also includes the classic rock opener “I Could Be A King” and the gospel-tinged ballad “Oh Lord.” Experience one of music’s shining prospects as a pristine hi-res download!
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The Drifters – Becoming The Shadows (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:06 minutes | 516 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters) are an English instrumental rock group. They are Cliff Richard’s backing band from 1958 to 1968 and on numerous reunion tours, including 2020. The Shadows have had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 credited to the Shadows and 34 to Cliff Richard and the Shadows. The group, who were in the forefront of the UK beat-group boom, were the first backing band to emerge as stars. As pioneers of the four-member instrumental format, the band consisted of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums. Their range covers pop, rock, surf rock and ballads with a jazz influence.
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La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249 (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:34 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
This double album assembles two oratorios and three cantatas for the feasts of Easter and Ascension. Often overshadowed by the Christmas Oratorio, the two oratorios presented here rely on a form of dramaturgy absent from the cantatas; whether directly portraying the protagonists of the Passion of Christ (Easter Oratorio) or having the Evangelist narrate events, Bach draws on the music of earlier cantatas to produce two works whose beauty and coherence Philippe Herreweghe has brought out more convincingly than any other interpreter.
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Carmen McRae – Carmen for Cool Ones (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:31 minutes | 359 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Carmen for Cool Ones is a 1958 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae, arranged and directed by cellist Fred Katz.
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The Dogs – Rid Me of Knives (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:54 minutes | 386 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Drabant Music
The Dogs were essentially a second-rate version of the 2 Live Crew – an X-rated, bass-heavy rap group based in Miami. There wasn’t anything novel about the group’s raps or their beats; however, the group attained notoriety at the time as part of the Joey Boy roster – one of the definitive Miami bass labels of the early ’90s – and, subsequently, because group member Labrant Dennis was charged with the 1996 murder of a University of Miami football player, an incident which garnered substantial publicity, particularly in the Miami area. In addition to Dennis, the Dogs also featured Keith Bell, Dennis’ longtime friend. The duo’s recording career began with “Take It Off,” a sleazy song about stripping that became a local hit in late 1989. The following year, Joey Boy released the group’s debut album, which featured the group’s breakthrough hit. A follow-up album, Beware of the Dogs, came in 1991 and featured two singles, “Do the Nasty Dance” and “Your Mama’s on Crack Rock,” the latter featuring Disco Rick. These two albums sold well for the independent Joey Boy label, which churned out primarily bass music rather than rap. The group’s success was aided by the censorship controversy surrounding the 2 Live Crew at the time, along with the group’s freaky live show, which was notorious for featuring semi-nude, if not completely nude, dancers. Though more releases followed, few consumers took notice as the hype surrounding the 2 Live Crew and Miami bass music – not to mention the novelty of the Dogs’ X-rated raps – began to wane. Then, in 1996, after the group had dissolved, the Dogs were suddenly thrust into the media spotlight when word spread of Dennis’ murder charge. On April 13, 1996, he had beat to death UM reserve linebacker Marlin Barnes and Timwanika Lumpkins with the head of a shotgun. Lumpkins had mothered Dennis’ child, and the former rapper apparently murdered her and Barnes out of jealousy. Dennis was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to die, according to Miami Dade County Circuit Court records. ~ Jason Birchmeier
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