The St Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, Cambridge & Edward Wickham – Sing Levy Dew (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:39 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics
The St Catharine’s Girls’ Choir is currently made up of 28 girls, aged between eight and fifteen (years four to ten), drawn from local schools. The choir meets twice a week – on Monday and Tuesday afternoons after school – and sings a service in chapel every Tuesday, as well as participating in special concerts. There are a small number of ‘pre-probationers’ (school year 3) who attend on Mondays only and do not ordinarily participate in services.
Read moreThe Sidekicks – Fifi the Flea (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:44 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
The Redcoats were an American garage rock band formed in Wildwood, New Jersey, in 1964. Heavily influenced by the Beatles from the onset, the group released one single as the Redcoats before recording as the Sidekicks. As the Sidekicks, the band earned a national hit with their tune, “Suspicions”, and recorded an album in 1966. Although it is rare for recently discovered recordings by a garage band to be released on an album, in 2001 Meet the Redcoats! Finally was issued with all of the group’s recovered material.
Read moreThe Sons of the Pioneers – The Sons of the Pioneers Sing the Songs of Bob Nolan (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:07 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
A collection of Bob Nolan songs that are far less well known than, but only slightly less compelling than “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” or his other standards. Any real fan will want it, and RCA or Special Music should reissue it.
Read moreThe Shadows – Shadoogie: An Anthology Of Their Early Years Vol.2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:28 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Crazy Warthog Media
The Shadows are usually thought of as the quintessential British instrumental group and, along with the American band the Ventures and the Swedish group the Spotnicks, one of the most popular instrumental groups in the world. But that barely tells the story of their true significance in the history of British rock & roll including the fact that they were the first home-grown British rock & roll band to dominate the U.K. charts; or that they weren’t originally an instrumental group, either. The band’s roots go back to Chesthunt, Hertfordshire, in early 1958, when a young Indian-born singer/guitarist named Harry Webb joined with drummer Terry Smart and guitarist Norman Mitham to form a group that they ended up calling the Drifters at the time, none of the records by the American R&B group of the same name, founded by Clyde McPhatter, had been released in England, so they had no inkling of the name’s already being used.
Read moreZimoun – ModularGuitarFields I-VI (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:43 minutes | 575 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Drone
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 12K
Zimoun is a multi-disciplilnary Swiss artist who is best recognized for his immersive and site-specific installations with cardboard, DC motors and other industrial objects to create large-scale installations of orchestrated noise and movement. His mechanized environments have been shown in prestigiuos museums and galleries worldwide. On his latest musical release, ModularGuitarFields I-VI is entirely based on the sounds of a Tenor Baritone Guitar, combined with select elements of a Modular Synth and a vintage 1960s Magnatone Amp.
Read moreYoshiko Shimizu – George Crumb: Works for Amplified Piano(S) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:26 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kairos
Japanese pianist Yoshiko Shimizu, a graduate of the Toho Gakuen School of Music (both the high school and college divisions), first heard Crumb’s Makrokosmos I during her college years. Previously, she studied with Toshio Iwashita, Michiko Chisaka, Yoshie Kohra, Toh Tomimoto, Yuko Ninomiya, and Haruna Miyake. Captivated by Crumb’s unique voice, she then went to America and entered the Eastman School of Music in New York, where she found a mentor in David Burge, the pianist to whom the Makokosmos I is dedicated and with whom she would work closely. Upon receiving her master’s degree from Eastman, Yoshiko Shimizu returned to a career as a concertizing artist in Japan. As a solo pianist and a member of the Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble, she played many pieces, especially of contemporary music, as follows: Allan Shindler’s Take Me Places, Joseph Schwantner’s Music of Amber, Paul Hindemith’s Kammermusik No.1, Kamilló Lendvay’s Concertino per pianoforte, fiati, percussion ud arpa, Howard Hanson’s A Sea Symphony (as a Celestist), Joe
Hudson’s Reflexives for piano and tape, George Walker’s Spatials – Variations for piano, Curtis Curtis-Smith’s Rapsodies, Ann Silsbee’s Doors, Leon Kirchner’s Piano Sonata, Elliot Carter’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Theodor Adorno’s Drei Klavierstücke, P.K.B.Eine Kleine Kindersuite, and Drei Kurze Klavierstücke, Michaël Levinas’s 3 Etudes pour Piano, Henry Cowell’s The Banshee and Aeolian Harp, John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, David Burge’s Go-Hyang, “Poignant,” “Spirited,” and “Folksong” from 24 Preludes, Yoshio Hachimura’s Improvisation pour piano, Satoshi Tanaka’s The Afterworld, Grisaille, and Oracle, etc.
Title: The Smashing Pumpkins: Oceania – 3D in NYC
Released: 2012
Genre: Alternative Rock
Released: Universal Music
Duration: 02:03:08
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio Codec: AC3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 19608 kbps 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: English Dolby TrueHD Audio 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7275 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio # 2: English Dolby TrueHD Audio 2.0 / 96 kHz / 2813 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Size: 44.4 GB
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history having sold more than 30 million albums, and won multiple Grammy Awards in the process. Formed in Chicago in 1988, they released Gish, their influential and platinum debut in 1991, which was followed by albums including the nine-time platinum Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and the four-time platinum Siamese Dream, as well as the platinum certified 1998 album Adore. The pivotal group’s many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation. The PUMPKINS returned in 2007 with their acclaimed sixth album Zeitgeist. They have since remained on the cutting edge of music and technology with various online releases. In June 2012, the band released their acclaimed album Oceania, via Martha’s Music/EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution. Marking THE SMASHING PUMPKINS’ 7th studio record, it is ‘an album within an album,’ part of their 44-song workin- progress Teargarden By Kaleidyscope. Oceania entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart at #4 and earned the #1 spot on the Independent Albums Chart.
At Barclays Center, the Pumpkins’ singer/guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Mike Byrne and bassist Nicole Fiorentino performed their acclaimed OCEANIA CD in full, followed by classics and deep cuts from their body of work for the second half of the show. The Pumpkins were backed by visuals prepared by Evans, whose most recent project was assisting Roger Waters on the newest staging of ‘The Wall.’ The OCEANIA: LIVE IN NYC package is directed by Milton Lage and was produced by Rock Fuel’s Barry Summers. This Blu-ray edition can be viewed in either 3D or 2D.
Read moreGavin DeGraw – A Classic Christmas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 19:55 minutes | 231 MB | Genre: Pop, Vocal Jazz, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music Nashville
Gavin DeGraw will deck the halls this winter with A Classic Christmas, a six-song project showcasing his bluesy, soulful take on holiday standards releasing Oct. 13.
“My favorite record of all time is ‘White Christmas’ by Bing Crosby. It may be the greatest record ever made. It happens to be a damn good movie, too,” said DeGraw. “I decided to make a Christmas record because I love classic Christmas songs. It’s got a special place in my heart and makes me feel like I’m with my family whenever I put it on. I listen to it all year round.”
With timeless yuletide ballads such as “Silent Night,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and “The Christmas Song” alongside merry tunes “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and “White Christmas,” the collection, produced by Steve Greenwell, encompasses the spirit of the season.
Read moreEstrio – Schumann: Complete Piano Trios (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:54:07 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic
After many years of creating intensely original solo piano and song repertoire, Robert Schumann made a relatively late entry into chamber music. The piano trio genre was initially inspired by Mendelssohn who was considered by Schumann to be ‘the 19th-century Mozart.’ After testing his creative freedom with the Phantasiestucke Schumann increasingly relished the sonorities and musical discourse of strings and piano, and from the effusive energy and ardour that shines through in Op. 63 to the deep convictions expressed in Op. 110, these works include pages of incredible lyricism and pure enchantment for which Schumann had no rivals.
Read moreEnsemble Ofanìm and Avishay Shalom – Wheels of Heaven (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]
Ensemble Ofanìm and Avishay Shalom – Wheels of Heaven (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:09 minutes | 273 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Avner Finberg, Avishay Shalom, and Ohad Stolarz decorate the choral scene in WHEELS OF HEAVEN, a new setting of sacred Hebrew and Aramaic texts admirably performed and recorded by Ensemble Ofanìm. WHEELS OF HEAVEN is a devotion to the literary elements of Hebrew traditions, illustrations of a rich and cherished history. These artists have composed, arranged, and presented a beautiful collection of a vast literary tradition in this release, and the resulting sound is remarkable.
Read moreEli Paperboy Reed – Hits And Misses (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:48 minutes | 418 MB | Genre: Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
Eli Paperboy Reed’s Hits And Misses is a remastered collection of rarities, originals, & covers, featuring Eli’s spin on Motorhead’s “The Ace of Spades”. Eli takes Motorhead’s hard rock classic and reimagines it as a soul revival with Hammond organ, brass horns, electric guitar, Eli’s signature vocal wails and a backbeat that creates a new take on the song that is no less powerful than the original.
Hits And Misses also includes Eli’s noirish R&B take on Steely Dan’s 1972 hit “Do It Again” that brings the original song back in time 30 years and a cover of Latimore’s 1974 hit “Let’s Straighten It Out,” showcasing a vocal intensity that’s not quite as present in the nearly spoken word original.
In addition to covers, Eli Paperboy Reed’s original, IDKWYCTD (I Came to Play) is an anthemic party starter. This high-energy track is featured in Disney’s Marvel comic series, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. The album also includes covers of Bob Dylan’s, “To Be Alone With You,” Merle Haggard’s “I’m Gonna Break Every Heart I Can,” and more.
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