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Billy Joel – Turnstiles (1976/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 5, 2022 · Comments off

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Turnstiles is Billy Joel’s fourth studio album, originally released in May of 1976. The platinum album was written for Joel’s return to New York City after residing in California. Originally recorded under producer James William Guercio with individuals playing from Elton John’s band, the record did not satisfy Joel and he took it upon himself to produce his own alternative version. He rerecorded the album in New York with his own touring band, marking the first time they appeared in one of his albums. Turnstiles features hits “New York State of Mind,” “Say Goodbye to Hollywood,” and “James”.
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Billy Joel – Piano Man (1973/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Chart History/Awards
– “Piano Man” reached #4 on the Adult Contemporary singles charts.

Piano Man, Billy Joel’s debut on Columbia Records, is his sensational breakthrough masterpiece. An important album in his illustrious career, Piano Man saw Joel rise to singer-songwriter stardom. Reaching the Top Thirty on the Billboard charts, the work features signature Joel tunes including “Travelin’ Prayer,” “Worse Comes To Worst” and the title-track. “Piano Man” reached #4 on the Adult Contemporary singles chart and remains one of Joel’s biggest hits.
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Big Big Train – Common Ground (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 3, 2022 · Comments off

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30th July 2021 sees the release of Common Ground, the self-produced new album from Big Big Train released on CD via their own label, English Electric Recordings, and on double LP in a gatefold sleeve via Plane Groovy. The album will also be available as a Bandcamp download and on all major streaming platforms.
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Beyonce – The Lion King: The Gift (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 3, 2022 · Comments off

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Following the appearance of the official soundtrack to the remake of “The Lion King” on the platforms, Beyoncé announced the release of its own album, dedicated to an animated film. The singer, voiced the lioness Nala, will release the album “The Lion King: The Gift”.

The cover of The Gift features a pair of golden lions, one of which bites the other by the tail. In addition to Beyoncé, such giants of the industry as Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino (who got the role of Simba in the Lion King), 070 Shake, Farrell Williams, Wiz Kid and others participated in the recording of 14 tracks. JAY-Z and their daughter Beyoncé Blue Ivy Carter also appear in the tracklist: the singer’s husband is listed in the performers of the song “Mood 4 Eva”, and Blue Ivy in Brown Skin Girl.

Beyoncé called her album “sound film”. “This is a new way to tell a story,” said the singer. “I wanted to do more than just collect a collection of songs inspired by the film. It is a mixture of genres and collaborations that sound different. He was influenced by everything from R & B and pop to hip-hop and afro-beat. I wanted everyone to connect themselves in their own way with this storyline. ”
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Bettye LaVette – Things Have Changed (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 3, 2022 · Comments off

Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

A great, revived soul voice. Politically-conscious songs from the Great American Songbook. This project harks back to the 1960s (and beyond), but it finds a strong echo in today’s America, divided and rocked by President Trump… By dedicating the whole record to covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Bettye LaVette makes her voice heard, literally and figuratively. Produced by Steve Jordan, Things Have Changed which features, amongst others, Keith Richards and Trombone Shorty, alternates between warm, vintage soul, and funkier bursts of real rock’n’roll. Above all, the 72-year old soul artist from Michigan continues to prove that she has a lot of singing in her yet.
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Conan Gray – Superache (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 27, 2022 · Comments off

Platinum-selling singer, songwriter, and Gen Z pop king Conan Gray releases his anxiously awaited second full-length album, Superache. Earlier this year, he initially teased the album with the grungy banger “Jigsaw,” which has amassed 14.5 million Spotify streams. In addition to plugs from NME and coup de main, Rolling Stone praised, “Conan Gray is going down the rock road – and he’s placing the sonic puzzle pieces in all of the right places,” and UPROXX hailed it as “electrifying.”

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Bob James Trio – Feel Like Making Live! (2022) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · August 19, 2022 · Comments off

In the eyes of the rap generation, an older musician’s hipness is often defined by how many times he or she has been sampled for beats and breaks. That means that keyboard wizard Bob James – whose records have been sampled a staggering 1,435 times, according to the website WhoSampled.Com – is a bona fide legend and cooler than cool. Although he’s just celebrated his 81st birthday, Bob James is not about to close the piano lid for the last time and embrace retirement.

Alongside the same trio, bassist Michael Palazzolo and drummer Billy Kilson, that made 2018’s critically-acclaimed Espresso album, Feel Like Making Live! captures James performing a career-spanning selection of material live in the studio.

Feel Like Making Live! includes James’s most well known hits like “Angela”, “Maputo”, “Westchester Lady” and “Nautilus”, as well as an instrumental cover of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”.

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Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 1, 2022 · Comments off

Twelfth solo studio album by the legendary British heavy metal singer. His first album since 2010’s ‘Scream’, it includes the singles ‘Under the Graveyard’, ‘Straight to Hell’ and the title track, which features Elton John. American rapper and singer Post Malone also features on the tracks ‘It’s a Raid’ and ‘Take What You Want’.

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Trollfest – Flamingo Overlord (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 22, 2022 · Comments off

More flamboyant than Elton John; dance tunes that would make ABBA proud, as intense as Slipknot and cooler than Limp Bizkit —TROLLFEST has it all and more. Following their Napalm Records debut EP, Happy Heroes, TROLLFEST returns with their ninth official studio album, Flamingo Overlord (out May 27, 2022), and delivers 11 tracks that will no doubt win new fans and satisfy the old.

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Years & Years – Night Call (2022-01-07) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 21, 2022 · Comments off

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Night Call is the highly anticipated 3rd album from Years & Years (also known as Olly Alexander, the star of the acclaimed Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin).
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Ashley Monroe – Sparrow (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 10, 2022 · Comments off

Following her debut where she appeared as the new short-lived bimbo of country pop, Ashley Monroe quickly proved she had a strong personality, at times moving away from the path clearly marked out by Nashville. Indeed, the singer from Knoxville, Tennessee, ended up collaborating with Jack White and his Raconteurs, and even founded the Pistol Annies with Angaleena Presley and Miranda Lambert. With The Blade, her third album released in 2015, she confirmed her mastery over a large artistic vocabulary, both with her voice and the instruments chosen. Without revolutionising the genre, Monroe put out an album nicely packed up with contemporary country, filled with effective melodies, and most importantly featuring a voice of stunning purity, inspired by two great untouchables, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris… Three years later, Sparrow is the work of a more and more adventurous artist, who never compromises to aim for the top of the charts. Produced by brilliant Dave Cobb who worked with Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Shooter Jennings, Colter Wall, Zac Brown Band and Jason Isbell, this fourth opus takes country music down paths previously walked by the likes of Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, Waylon Jennings, Rick Hall, Shelby Lynne and even early Elton John. In that regard, Sparrow isn’t a current pop country album, but rather an old-stylerecord. Timeless to be exact. Cobb’s work is in fact remarkable in its tendency to blur, even erase any sign of the current era…

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A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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After 18 years, A Tribe Called Quest is back with their final album We got it from Here… Thank You 4 your service. Featuring original members and special guests.

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Art Pepper plus Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics (1959/2006) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Certainly one of the most important sessions in Pepper’s entire recording career, if not the history of jazz, this classic 1959 recording features the legendary sax player backed by an astounding big band that includes drummer Mel Lewis and alto sax icon Bud Shank. The album features brilliant arrangements by Marty Paich (who would later orchestrate for artists like Carly Simon and Elton John).

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Aretha Franklin – Young, Gifted and Black (1972/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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“Young, Gifted and Black” is Aretha Franklin’s remarkable 1972 Gold-certified work, finding the singer at the height of her artistic powers.

For the release, Franklin worked with legendary producers Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin and Tom Dowd. “Young, Gifted and Black” is an eclectic collection of covers coupled with Franklin originals. Standouts include Elton John’s “Border Song” and The Beatles’ “The Long and Winding Road”. Franklin’s own compositions “Day Dreaming” and “Rock Steady” reached #1 and #2 on Billboard’s Top R&B Singles. The album is included on VH1’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” and won a GRAMMY Award for Best Female R&B Performance.
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Aretha Franklin – Young, Gifted And Black (1972/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Chart History/Awards
– Reached #2 on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums.
– “Day Dreaming” reached #1 on Billboard’s Top R&B Singles.
– “Brand New Me” reached #1 on Billboard’s Top R&B Singles.
– GRAMMY®: Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
– Included on VH1’s “Greatest Albums of All Time.”

“…an extremely personal, beautiful record…controlled throughout by one sensibility, Miss Franklin’s…” – Rolling Stone

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