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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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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
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Island Def Jam
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
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: ProStudioMasters | Front Cover | © Mercury Records
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
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source:highresaudio.com | Booklet, Front cover | © Ondine Oy, Helsinki
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
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | © 222 Records/Interscope Records
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
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Artwork: Digital Booklet, Front Cover
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
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital Booklet| © Mercury Records
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…)
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