Paul McCartney – Kisses On The Bottom (2012) [Deluxe Version]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:23 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: www.paulmccartney.com | Artwork: Digital booklet
Kisses On The Bottom is a collection of standards Paul grew up listening to in his childhood as well as the two new McCartney compositions “My Valentine” and “Only Our Hearts.” With the help of Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band–as well as guest appearances from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, McCartney’s new album is a deeply personal journey through classic American compositions that, in some cases, a young Paul first heard his father perform on piano at home. This limited edition version includes the exclusive bonus tracks “Baby’s Request” and “My One And Only Love”. (more…)
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Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run (1973) [Remaster 2010] {UNLIMITED Edition}
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 75:31 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Official Web | Artwork: Digital booklet | © Hear Music
The first release from the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, an ambitious reissue program that encompasses 41 years of cherished, classic material from the most successful songwriter and recording artist in music history. (more…)
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Paul McCartney – Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom (Studio and Live Audio) [2011]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:44:00 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | © Hear Music
McCartney’s debut into the world of ballet is a story of good and evil, love and war that takes place in the depths of the ocean. An hour long score featuring four stunning movements – “Ocean’s Kingdom,” “Hall of Dance,” “Imprisonment” and “Moonrise” – the ballet tells of a love story within the story of an underwater world whose people are threatened by the humans of Earth. A potently expressive and richly varied work, the score is Paul’s most challenging and emotionally complex yet.
Commissioned by New York City Ballet, the music draws on late Romanic composers while maintaining McCartney’s genius for simplicity and melody. The result is a breathtaking and imaginative orchestral work—one that proves yet another artistic facet of the legendary musician.
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Alison Krauss + Union Station – New Favorite (2003)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0, 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:57 minutes | All Scans included | 2,89 GB
Following the success of the startlingly popular traditional old-timey soundtrack for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, contemporary bluegrass pioneers Alison Krauss & Union Station moved in the opposite direction for their 2001 release, New Favorite. While Krauss and Union Station guitarist/vocalist Dan Tyminski got deeply in touch with their dust bowl Americana roots for their work on the film, their follow-up studio album is certainly the slickest, most progressive work they’ve recorded to date. New Favorite seems almost neatly divided into two albums: one following the same path as Krauss’ 1999 contemporary country solo album, Forget About It, and the other helmed by Tyminski, bringing a progressive slant to Union Station’s traditional bluegrass feel. The whole album is well crafted (with the exception of Tyminski’s laborious, drawn-out “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn”) but will certainly not sit right with certain elements of the band’s core audience, who has come to know them as the strongest traditionally based bluegrass act still recording. The whole album feels a little too slick and reverbed out; the brilliant dobro work of Jerry Douglas seems mired in echoes, and at times Krauss’ vocals seem to be coming out of some deep studio well. The musicianship, however, is beyond top-notch. The players (specifically banjo player Ron Block and guitarist Tyminski) are among the best in the genre, and the harmonies between the two vocalists are stunning and chill inducing. Their call and response vocals on “Daylight” serve as the highlight of the album, traced delicately by Douglas’ dobro and chilling to the end. Unfortunately, the collective spirit that was so evident on their 1997 release So Long So Wrong seems to be dissolving, and the award-winning fiddle playing that brought Krauss to the nation’s attention seems to be becoming almost a background instrument (if it shows up at all). While there are intriguing moments in the album, it lacks the spark that So Long So Wrong had in spades, and even their few moments on the O Brother soundtrack seemed to breathe more life into the band than New Favorite does.
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Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:38 minutes | 400 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Master, Master Quality Audio Rip – Source: Tidal | Front cover | © Anti – Epitaph
“If All I Was Was Black” is the sixteenth studio album by Mavis Staples. The album was written and produced by Jeff Tweedy, who also features on the fourth track. Staples said about the album “(It) bring us all together as a people. That’s what I hope to do. You can’t stop me. You can’t break me. I’m too loving. These songs are going to change the world”.
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Hubert Laws – The Rite Of Spring (1971/2013)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 30:50 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: e-Onkyo | Booklet, Front Cover | © CTI Records
Recorded: June 8, 10 and 25, 1971 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Long before Wynton decided he could play classical chops as well as the real long-haired interpreters, even though he was a jazz musician, Hubert Laws and his partners at CTI gave it a run with a jazz twist, and for the most part with a far more adventurous repertoire. Unfortunately, the results were just about as thrilling as Wynton’s, with a few notable exceptions. For whatever reason, flutist Hubert Laws, known for his soul-jazz deftness, decided to take on handful of classical texts with the help of Bob James on piano, harpsichord, and electric piano; bassist Ron Carter, who doubles on cello; and drummer Jack DeJohnette, along with percussionists Airto and David Friedman, a pair of classical guitarists, and a trio of bassoonists. The program ranges from Debussy’s lovely “Syrinx” and Faure’s “Pavane,” to Stravinsky on the title cut and two movements of the third Brandberg Concerto by Bach. The problem with so much variation and ambition is that it’s bound to get caught up somewhere. That catching place is in the articulation of the actual transcriptions. They are stiff, rigid, oddly intoned, and lackluster — except in Debussy’s “Syrinx,” which is gorgeous throughout with its strange meter and lilting cadence. On the rest, the only place the tunes work is in the sections where the players engage in jazz improvisation upon the score, which is a swirling, engaging free-for-all of color, texture, and nuance. But since this happens so irregularly, the pieces just seem to grate on the listener. This is a brave but ultimately failed experiment.
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Nightwish – Once (2004)
Artist: Nightwish | Album: Once | Style: Symphonic Power Metal | Year: 2004 | Quality: DVD-Audio (MLP 5.1 48kHz/24Bit, MLP 2.0 48kHz/24Bit, Dolby AC3 5.1, Dolby AC3 2.0) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 12 + 3 bonus tracks + 2 videoclips | Size: ~ 4.34 Gb | Recovery: 3% | Covers: in archive | Release: Nuclear Blast (27361 16252), 2004 | Note: Not Watermarked
Following in the footsteps of the Gathering and Lacuna Coil (goth-influenced “symphonic” metal bands with female vocalists), Nightwish were formed in Kitee, Finland, in 1997 by keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen. Initially attempting to create acoustic music, he recruited trained opera vocalist Tarja Turunen, but soon added full metal-band instrumentation in the persons of guitarist Emppo Vuorinen, bassist Sami Vänskä, and drummer Jukka Nevalainen. The band’s demos landed them a contract with the Finnish label Spinefarm, which released their debut album Angels Fall First in late 1997 (it appeared in the rest of Europe the following year). The follow-up, Oceanborn, appeared in late 1998 and made Nightwish a bonafide mainstream success in their homeland; the album reached the Finnish Top Five and spun off three Top Ten singles. The band toured Europe heavily, consolidating their success, and in 2000 recorded their third album Wishmaster. Not only did it top the Finnish charts, but it also became the group’s first album to be released in the US (by Century Media, which reissued their previous albums in 2001 as well). –All Music Guide
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Roger Waters – Radio K.A.O.S. (1987/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:41:20 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: Q0buz | © Columbia
Radio K.A.O.S. is the second studio album by British rock musician and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters. It was Waters’ first album after his split from Pink Floyd in 1985. Like his previous and future studio albums and many works of his during his time with Pink Floyd, this is a concept album. The album is based around a number of key factors of politics in the late 1980s – monetarism, and its effect on citizens. It also makes criticisms of Margaret Thatcher’s government, much like Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut, another album conceived by Waters. Other influences include popular culture of the 1980s, and the choices and consequences of the Cold War and its effect on world politics and society. (more…)
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Roger Waters – Amused To Death (1992/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 1:12:38 minutes | 2,72 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Columbia/Legacy
Roger Waters’ album Amused to Death returns in a remastered release from Columbia Records/ Legacy Recordings. Amused to Death sounded the alarm about a society increasingly – and unthinkingly – in thrall to its television screens. Twenty-three years later, Amused to Deathspeaks to our present moment in ways that could scarcely have been anticipated two decades ago. (more…)
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The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed (1969/2005/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz / 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 42:23 minutes | 882 MB / 1,43 GB
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Digital booklet | © ABKCO Records
The Stones’ legendary 1969 masterpiece includes the classics “Gimme Shelter”, “Midnight Rambler” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.
The album marks the first appearance of guitarist Mick Taylor on a studio album and features a number of noteable guest musicians and vocalists:
Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, Jack Nitzsche, Ry Cooder, Leon Russell, Al Kooper, Bobby Keys, Byron Berline, Rocky Dijon, Merry Clayton, Madeline Bell, Doris Troy, Nanette Newman and The London Bach Choir
ABKCO Music and Records Inc. and HDTracks® are announcing the first-ever release of high definition digital downloads of The Rolling Stones ground-breaking catalog of studio, compilation and live albums in High-Fidelity FLAC formats offered in both 176.4kHz/24-bit and 88.2kHz/24-bit. (more…)
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Barclay James Harvest – Gone To Earth (1977/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:13 minutes | 809 MB
DAD to Hi-Res FLAC – Source: DVD Audio| Front Cover | © Polydor | Esoteric Recordings
Recorded: March to June 1977, Strawberry Studios, Stockport
Gone To Earth is an album by the English rock group Barclay James Harvest released in 1977. It reached #30 in the UK charts, but in Germany it peaked at #10 and stayed for 197 weeks in the German album charts. As of 2011 it is ranked #6 on the list of longest running albums in the German album charts. Only the My Fair Lady soundtrack and albums by Simon & Garfunkel (Greatest Hits), The Beatles (1962-1966), Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here) and Andrea Berg (Best Of) spent more weeks in the charts. It was the band’s largest selling album, eventually selling more than a million copies worldwide.
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Сomposer: Georges Bizet (1813-1901)
Title: Otello
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Classical, Opera
Director: David Kneuss
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Artist: Johan Botha (Otello), Renée Fleming (Desdemona), Falk Struckmann (Iago) & Michael Fabiano (Cassio), Renée Tatum (Emilia), James Morris (Lodovico), Eduardo Valdes (Roderigo), The Metropolitan Opera, Chorus & Ballet
Production/Label: Decca
Duration: 02:42:11
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 27031 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3875 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, German, Korean
Size: 40.2 GB
Verdi’s Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with Johan Botha in the title role and Renée Fleming playing Desdemona. Semyon Bychkov conducts. The opera was originally filmed as part of the Met Opera Live series, which saw operas beamed live from New York to cinema screens around the world. (more…)
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The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East (1971/1997)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 78:46 minutes | 1.68 GB | Genre: Blues-Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Digital Booklet | © Mercury Records
One of rock’s greatest live performances, 1971’s At Fillmore East illuminated a virtuosic band at the very height of its power. Produced by legendary engineer Tom Dowd, the double album became one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. “Whipping Post” is also included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. This hi res release puts you in the front row of one of this seminal concert, bringing a new depth and clarity to an already essential recording.
“…one of the greatest live rock albums ever released, a gold standard of electric-blues ecstasy and improvisation.”
–David Fricke, Rolling Stone, March 2011 (more…)
The Allman Brothers Band – Brothers And Sisters (1973/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 247:37 minutes | 5,69 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | © Mercury Records
By the time they released their fifth album Brothers And Sisters in August 1973, The Allman Brothers Band had experienced dizzying highs and soul-crushing lows. The group had spent its first two years developing its formidable collective chemistry into an unprecedented stylistic fusion that established it as the era’s most influential American rock act.
Brothers And Sisters bested the sales of At Fillmore East and Eat A Peach, spending five weeks at #1 and becoming the first Allman Brothers Band release to gain Platinum sales status.
This 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition features the original recording, a second album of previously unreleased Jams, Rehearsals and Outtakes, in addition to two extra albums that feature the entire live show from Winterland in San Francisco on September 26, 1973.
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The Allman Brothers Band – The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 6:05:22 | 7,26 GB | Genre: Southern rock, blues, blues rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: ProStudioMasters.com | Label: © Mercury Records
Recorded: March 12-13, June 27, 1971 at the Fillmore East in New York, NY.
The Allman Brother Band’s breakthrough 1971 album at Fillmore East expanded to six-CD box set The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings. Universal Music Enterprises and Mercury Records release The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Band’s historic 1971 performances at Bill Graham’s iconic New York City venue. The recordings feature all four performances from the legendary weekend of March 12-13, which yielded at Fillmore East, as well as the Allmans’ headlining set from the Fillmore East’s closing weekend June 27,1971. (more…)
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