The Knightsbridge Theatre Orchestra And Chorus – Hello Dolly! (1965/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Knightsbridge Theatre Orchestra And Chorus – Hello Dolly! (1965/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:46 minutes | 575 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Society Records

Society Records presents this pristine digital remaster of The Knightsbridge Theatre Orchestra And Chorus conducted by Len Stevens as they perform the musical hit Hello Dolly!
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The Kinks – Timeless Classics (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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The Kinks – Timeless Classics (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 24:53 minutes | 377 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965. Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned “You Really Got Me”, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States.
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The Kinks – Party (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Kinks – Party (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 20:40 minutes | 287 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965. Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned “You Really Got Me”, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States.
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The Kinks – 60s Classics (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Kinks – 60s Classics (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 15:28 minutes | 140 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965. Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned “You Really Got Me”, became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States.
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The Jazz Butcher – The Highest in the Land (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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The Jazz Butcher – The Highest in the Land (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:09 minutes | 383 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Jangle Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tapete Records

It’s not often that an artist gets to do a Bowie by consciously carving their personal epitaph into the grooves of their final LP. The Highest in the Land is that rarity of an album, and it could not have been made by a more brilliantly poetic and fearlessly sarcastic writer than Pat Fish, also known as The Jazz Butcher.

‘My hair’s all wrong / My time ain’t long / Fishy go to Heaven, get along, get along,’ he sings, to a ticking-clock beat in ‘Time’, rhyming its title with ‘a one-way ticket to a pit of Council lime’ in just one of many existentially charged moments on a record whose songs were written throughout the last seven years of Fish’s life before his untimely passing in October 2021, aged only 63. ‘Self-knowledge, urgency,’ he wrote as a comment to this song in his private notes to the album’s producer Lee Russell, ‘He’d been around the block. and knew he was on the last lap.”We had closure,” Russell remembers, “We had worked together for three months, and then on the last day I drove him home. And for the first time we hugged and said goodbye, and that was it.’

Recent years have seen a long overdue re-appreciation of The Jazz Butcher catalogue, all the way back to that astonishing 11-album run of the first 13 years of their career, now celebrated and handily compiled in a series of box-sets after decades of shameful neglect.
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The Jacksons – The Jacksons (1976/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Jacksons – The Jacksons (1976/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:41 minutes | 809 MB | Genre: Soul, Funk, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic

After the commercial reprieve of the innovative “Dancing Machine” single (and album of the same name), the Jackson 5’s successful five-year relationship with Motown and Berry Gordy ended. Their last Motown effort, Moving Violation, had barely made a dent. After an acrimonious split, brother Jermaine Jackson stayed at Motown, and Gordy fought and won, keeping the Jackson 5 moniker. The Jacksons isn’t only their Epic label debut, it’s the first album to feature youngest brother Randy Jackson. To ensure chart success, the group was teamed with Philadelphia producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, as well as their staff of writers and players. Despite the promise, The Jacksons is hampered by derivative tracks and a lack of knowing what to do with the group, particularly lead singer, Michael Jackson. The big hit here, the jerky “Enjoy Yourself,” perfectly captured Michael Jackson’s late adolescence, with his newfound vocal tics and inflections. “Show You the Way to Go” best captures the Philly sound, with a pretty melody and a great vocal from Michael, but it’s a weak lyric. The Dexter Wansel-written and -produced “Keep on Dancing” matches a substandard discofied track to Michael Jackson’s singular vocals. The last track, the graceful “Blues Away” marks the writing debut of the group and is a great match between artists and producers. For the most part, The Jacksons gives the guys by-the-numbers Philly tracks that could have been easily done by Lou Rawls. Despite the best songs, The Jacksons misses more than it hits. ~ Jason Elias
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The Hated – No More We Cry (1958/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Hated – No More We Cry (1958/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 12:15 minutes | 292 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Numero Group

The debut 7” from Annapolis, Maryland’s godfathers of emo, No More We Cry raged into 1985 in a fit of 4/4 blast beats, speed-folk, overdriven power chords, and the tortured howls of adolescence.
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The Honky Tonk Pounders – Dead End Road (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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The Honky Tonk Pounders – Dead End Road (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:38 minutes | 425 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rockin’Rollin’ Products

For their silver wedding anniversary in 2021, the German Honky Tonk Pounders release their fourth album. With a lot of heart and soul, passion and the still lasting joy of honest, handmade music.

Five years after their last release “20th Anniversary Session EP” the band follows up with “Dead End Road” another album on PART Records. The fine line between “we reinvent ourselves, but stay true to ourselves” succeeds amazingly well after a quarter of a century. Lots of gritty rock and roll, driving rockabilly, no frills and no compromises! The band proves that even at the age of 50 you are still able to play rock’n’roll full of energy and power. No matter if in the studio or on stage.
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Dizzy Gillespie – Dizzy Gillespie And Stuff Smith (1994/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Dizzy Gillespie – Dizzy Gillespie And Stuff Smith (1994/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:32 minutes | 229 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Gillespie was born one of the younger of ten children and was supported and encouraged in his musical development by his father, a construction worker and local amateur bandleader. He played the piano at age four, then self-taught on the slide trombone, and before he was twelve, he switched to the trumpet. He received a scholarship to Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina, but soon left school to become a full-time musician.

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The Duke Spirit – Sky Is Mine (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

The Duke Spirit – Sky Is Mine (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:08 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ex Voto Records

In almost fifteen years of existence, The Duke Spirit have beautifully refined their rock’n’roll. And while Liela Moss’ crew’s singular blend of shoegaze, garage rock and cold wave has always kept a kind of fervour, Sky Is Mine shows the British band under a more radiant light than ever. Although it might be misleading to describe this beautifully dark, almost gloomy, music with the term “radiant”… Much like Wolf Alice or the Kills, the Duke Spirit have perfectly assimilated their multiple influences to create their own style. It is worth noting that Josh T Pearson from the cult band Lift To Experience  is involved on the song How Could, How Come.

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The Drifters – The Drifters’ Golden Hits (Mono) (1968/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The Drifters – The Drifters’ Golden Hits (Mono) (1968/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:36 minutes | 938 MB | Genre: Pop, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic

The Drifters’ Golden Hits is a 1968 compilation album by American doo wop/R&B vocal group The Drifters. The collection of the bands’ later hits charted at #22 on Billboard’s “Black Albums” chart and at #122 on the “Pop Albums” chart.

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Bruce Soord – Luminescence (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bruce Soord – Luminescence (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:27 minutes | 771 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kscope

Founding member & chief songwriter of his prolific band The Pineapple Thief, Bruce Soord’s output & profile has grown substantially over the last decade. In addition to his own musical output / compositions, his exceptional production skills & coveted surround sound mixing has seen him delivering mixing work for acts including TesseracT, Opeth & Jethro Tull.

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Bobby Watson – Appointment in Milano (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Bobby Watson – Appointment in Milano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:26 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Red records

Robert “Bobby” Watson, who was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, grew up to become a jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and education of formidable talent and acclaim. He got his degree from the University of Miami before becoming a member (and later the musical director) of legendary drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He remained an invaluable member for four years, from 1977 until 1981.

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Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:34 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Dreampop, Post-Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Saddle Creek

This land runs through Katherine Paul’s blood. And it called to her. In dreams she saw the river, her ancestors, and her home. When the land calls, you listen. And KP found herself far from her ancestral lands during a time of collective trauma, when the world was wounded and in need of healing. In 2020 she made the journey from Portland back to the Skagit River, back to the cedar trees that stand tall and shrouded in fog, back to the tide flats and the mountains, back to Swinomish.

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Adam Kośmieja – Infinity. Adam Kośmieja Plays Canto Ostinato (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Adam Kośmieja – Infinity. Adam Kośmieja Plays Canto Ostinato (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:41 minutes | 797 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Poland – WMI

“INFINITY” is an album on which Polish pianist Adam Kośmieja shows his individual take on a legendary minimal music masterpiece: “Canto Ostinato” (1976) written by a Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt (1923-2012). Holt wrote music of trance, meditation, and at the same time, filled with very strong emotions, which built culminations based on repetitive musical structures. Its repetitiveness, motoricity and spaciousness go far beyond the realm of a classical piano music performance.

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