The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South (1970) [Deluxe Edition Remastered 2015]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:31:43 minutes | 3,25 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Allman Brothers’ second album, Idlewild South has been remastered from its original tapes. This mixture of chunky grooves and sophisticated textures showcases both Gregg Allman’s and Dickey Betts’ skills as songwriters. This classic album includes the hit “Midnight Rider.” The Deluxe edition adds 12 tracks not included on the original release. Bonus tracks are a combination of live tracks, studio cuts and outtakes. (more…)
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The Allman Brothers Band – Win, Lose Or Draw (1975/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:42 minutes | 843 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
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Recorded: February – July 1975, Capricorn Sound Studios, Macon, GA and The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA
The Allman Brothers Band’s fifth studio album, 1975’s Win, Lose or Draw directly followed in the wake of the critical acclaim of its excellent predecessor Brothers and Sisters (1973) and growing tensions between Gregg Allman and Dickie Betts who both released solo albums with The Gregg Allman Tour and Highway Call respectively the year prior. The recording sessions were fractured and it’s certainly palpable all over the 7-track effort, yet a strong cover of Muddy Waters’ “Can’t Lose What You Never Had,” Allman’s title cut and Betts’ instrumental “High Falls” prove that the band may be doing things differently but they weren’t throwing in the towel quite yet.
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Einojuhani Rautavaara – Modificata, Towards the Horizon & Incantations – Colin Currie, Truls Mork, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:16 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recordings: Helsinki, Finlandia Hall, 15.1.2011 (Incantations), Music Centre, 10.–12.8.2011
A 24-bit recording in dXd (digital eXtreme definition)
This new recording couples Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s latest concerto works with an orchestral piece from his early Modernist period (Modificata; 1957/2003)
The virtuoso Percussion Concerto Incantations (2008) features the Scottish percussion soloist Colin Currie, who is the dedicatee and première performer of this work. Currie wrote himself the virtuoso cadenza to the final movement.
Rautavaara’s Second Cello Concerto Towards the Horizon (2009) was written for cellist Truls Mørk and plays continuously in one 20-minute movement. Reviewing the premiere the Star Tribune noted that the composer “acknowledges a ‘taste for eternity’ and a vain of mysticsm runs through his work.”
Einojuhani Rautavaara is recognized as one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius. His recordings on Ondine have been bestsellers and garnered numerous awards (including a recent GRAMMY nomination for his opera Kaivos).
Under their chief conductor John Storgårds, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra builds on long-time pedigrees of performing their compatriot’s music.
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Maroon 5 – V (2014) [Deluxe Edition]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:20 minutes | 1,3 GB | Genre: Pop
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Maroon 5’s latest provides a sonic summation of the group’s journey to date – capturing the essence of the earliest M5 hits through to their most recent successes, as well as providing a picture of its artistic growth into the future. Bringing it all back home, V features the return of M5’s original keyboardist Jesse Carmichael to the fold, rejoining frontman Adam Levine, guitarist James Valentine, bassist Mickey Madden, drummer/percussionist Matt Flynn, and keyboardist PJ Morton after a two-year hiatus. The group’s fifth studio album features singles “Maps” and “Animals”. (more…)
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Big George Brock – Heavyweight Blues (2007/2013)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 53:08 minutes | 2,09 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 01:11:40 minutes | 1,00 GB
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Genre: Blues | © APO Records
From APO Records and Blue Heaven Studios…blues so raw and real they’ll make you sore. There’s no surprises here – just straight-ahead force. The songs are standards, some of ’em covered thousands of times. But NOBODY, that’s a guaranteed NOBODY, comes closer to evoking the real feel of Muddy Waters or Howlin’ Wolf than Big George Brock. His voice is as rich as fertile soil. But this isn’t some imitation-contest record. Big George has got the goods all his own and has had ’em on display since the 1950s. He’s a former Heavyweight boxer, and just like with the best of that sport, he’ll gladly tell you what’s coming. You still can’t get out of the way. (more…)
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Various Artists – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000/2011) {10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition}
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:36:27 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
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This 10th Anniversary Special Deluxe Edition features 12 previously unreleased tracks from T Bone Burnett’s recording sessions! A double album worth of music.
The blockbuster soundtrack of the Coen Brothers’ critically acclaimed film won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2001 as well as for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (“I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow”), and Best Male Country Vocal Performance (“O, Death”). Featuring performances by Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Soggy Bottom Boys, The Stanley Brothers and more, the album hit #1 on Billboard’s 200, Top Country Albums, and Top Soundtracks charts. NPR’s All Songs Considered included the soundtrack on its list of “The Decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings.” (more…)
Read moreBorusan Quartet – Company: Glass, Part, Ucarsu, Vasks (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Borusan Quartet – Company: Glass, Part, Ucarsu, Vasks (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:36 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Taking its title from the 2nd String Quartet by Philip Glass, the Borusan Quartet’s exciting new album focuses on contemporary repertoire, embracing the spiritual minimalism of Arvo Pärt’s ‘Summa’, to the expansive 4th Quartet of Peteris Vasks. This work, with its multi-faceted emotions swings from the contemplative to the combative: “I saw an angel flying over the world; the angel looks at the world’s condition with grieving eyes, but an almost imperceptible, loving touch of the angel’s wings brings comfort and healing”, wrote the composer of the quartet’s finale. The work has moments of conflict reminiscent of Shostakovich in places: a depiction of the condition of the world today perhaps?
The world of theatre is the background to the Glass. The source of this Quartet was a 1983 dramatisation of Samuel Beckett’s prose poem ‘Company’.
Traditional music from the Borusan Quartet’s homeland and in particular Anatolia is to be found in the String Quartet No.2 ‘The Untold’ by Turkish composer Hasan Ucarsu. It draws on Turkish folk music and traditions, especially the festival of ‘Hidrelliz’ which celebrates the coming of Summer. The songs of Neset Ertas were in the composer’s mind when writing this quartet, especially in the 2nd movement. Rhythmically complex it is a colourful and dramatic work influenced by the music of the composer’s country in the same way as Hungarian folk music colours Bartok’s Quartets and Balkar and Kabardinian folk music does in Prokofiev’s F major Quartet. Born in 1965, Hasan Ucarsu studied in Turkey with Ahmed Adnam Saygun and then in the USA with George Crumb.
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Tony Fontane – An Evening Concert by Tony Fontane (1965/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:38:57 minutes | 802 MB | Genre: Gospel, Soul, Folk
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Tony Fontane was born Anthony Trankina on Sept. 18, 1925, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After a stint in the Coast Guard during World War II, he hit the nightclub circuits in New York and Chicago hoping for a break as a singer. Using the stage name Tony Fontane, he won the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, which started him on a career as a popular singer. He recorded for Mercury Records, with his biggest hits being “The Syncopated Clock” and “Cold, Cold Heart,” which sold 1.4 million records in 1950. He toured Australia in two shows, and made several hit records in that country. In 1957, back in the United States, Fontane was involved in a car crash that put him in a coma for more than a month and severely threatened his life. After recovering, he devoted his life solely to Christian music and, by the 1960s, was one of the most famous gospel singers in the world. A recording contract with RCA produced 20 or more very successful gospel albums. On June 30, 1974, Fontane died at the age of 48. His funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park was attended by an estimated 10,000 people. (more…)
Read moreThe Sisters Of Mercy – First and Last and Always (1985/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
The Sisters Of Mercy – First and Last and Always (1985/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 01:21:02 minutes | 1,7 GB | Genre: Rock
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With the band itself falling to bits shortly after the March 1985 debut of First and Last and Always, the album’s place in the skewed history of the rise of goth rock would, on one hand, be permanently linked with that discord but, on the other, not impacted in the slightest, leaving the fractious set’s success and structure to become a blueprint for an entire generation of up-and-comers. With static drumbeats and jangle-angled guitars backing Andrew Eldritch’s atonic, graveyard vocals, the songs on First and Last and Always paid to play alongside the ghosts of myriad forgotten post-punkers as well as the band’s own goth forebears. From the opening air-fire claustrophobia of “Black Planet” to the melancholy “No Time to Cry,” Eldritch continually assured listeners that “everything’s gonna be alright” — but, really, coming out of that mouth, did anyone actually believe him? Even on the occasional wobbly patches imbedded in the now classic “Marian” and the title track, where the song threatens to dissolve into irrelevance despite Eldritch’s chirky vocal, they pull up wonderfully on the bass-driven, bee-stung guitar gem “Possession” and the closing “Some Kind of Stranger,” an untouchable epic that, clocking in at over seven minutes, is the best of its kind from any time — period. “Some Kind of Stranger” not only became a love song for the doom and gloom crowd, but was also an anthemic, anemic declaration of intent laid bare in a haze of sonic smoke and mirrors. Copied to death, its brilliance has never been replicated. Indeed, the entire album remains unequaled in the genre, permanently granted top place on a pedestal from which it cannot be toppled. (more…)
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Tony Bennett – Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album (1968/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:07 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Holiday
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Snowfall is Tony Bennett’s 1968 Christmas album. Arranged and conducted by Robert Farnon, the album was Tony Bennett’s first Christmas album. Bennett and Farnon had been friends since the early 1950s but had not worked together before recording this album, which included arrangements by Don Costa, Marion Evans, and Torrie Zito. (more…)
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Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart In San Francisco (1962/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:18 minutes | 685 MB | Genre: Jazz
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I Left My Heart in San Francisco is revered vocalist Tony Bennett’s 1962 album. The record peaked at number 5 on the Billboard pop charts and is one of Bennett’s best selling albums. The record features the popular title track, along with “Smile”, “Love for Sale”, “The Best Is Yet to Come” and more! (more…)
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Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap – The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:01 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Tony Bennett is joined by pianist Bill Charlap in The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern. Including popular tunes “The Way You Look Tonight”, “I Won’t Dance” and many more! (more…)
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Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973/2000)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:12 minutes | 993 MB | Genre: R&B
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The landmark 1973 release from one of the most iconic figures in music history, Innervisions is a testament to Wonder’s musicality and brilliance. The soulful concept album encompasses themes of social and urban issues performed, produced, written and arranged by Wonder. Wonder’s expressive and charming funk is showcased on the chart-topping hits “Higher Ground,” “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing” and Living for the City.” The album swings between fanciful and spacious ballads, Latin-tinged hits and full-blown Gospel numbers. The songs themselves are in such contrast that it’s hard to believe they all occur on the same album. This monumental works is now available as a pristine high resolution download.
Innervisions was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. (more…)
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Seth MacFarlane – No One Ever Tells You (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:19 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The creator and multi-voice talent of Family Guy (among other shows) returns for his third album of American Songbook era classics, showcasing that his voice can do anything!
“There was a time during the mid-1950s and early 1960s when popular song was stretching its creative boundaries, experimenting with more ambitious structures and tones. During this period, a song set out to really tell a story: not just with the lyric and the vocal, but with the arrangements and orchestral interpretations. The songs on this record attempt to do just that.” –Seth MacFarlane (more…)
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Motorhead – Bad Magic (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time –42:48 minutes | 558 MB | Genre: Metal
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The immortal Motörhead (Lemmy, Phil Campbell and Mickey Dee) are still going strong with their 2015 release, Bad Magic. This is their 22nd studio album! (more…)
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