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Nick Palmer – Turns It On (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:38 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy
Plush voice, plush style. That, and two singles that have received some notice, are the factors here for Nick Palmer. In addition, Palmer has an impressive way of handling, a ballad, and a pair of popular songs from the movies. At the time of release it has been a bonus to Easy Listening radio stations.
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Nick Palmer – For the First Time (Coma Prima) (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 28:18 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy
Plush voice, plush style. That, and two singles that have received some notice, are the factors here for Nick Palmer. In addition, Palmer has an impressive way of handling, a ballad, such as “No Arms Can Ever Hold You”. At the time of release it has been a bonus to Easy Listening radio stations.
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Nick Murphy / Chet Faker – Run Fast Sleep Naked (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 502 MB | Genre: Downtempo
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Future Classic
2019 release from Nick Murphy, the artist formerly known as Chet Faker. Run Fast Sleep Naked is the follow-up to his 2014 debut, Built on Glass, which was released under the Chet Faker moniker, and his most recent effort, 2017’s Missing Link EP. Co-produced by Dave Harrington, the vocals for the collection were captured all around the world during the last four years. For the record, Murphy found “spaces and environments that most inspired him,” ranging from his grandmother’s living room to a studio in Tokyo to a New Zealand rental home while on vacation with his family. During this period, the musician began a process of intense self-examination, using Joseph Campbell’s writings to question his role as an artist in modern society. The instrumentation for the album was later recorded at Brooklyn, New York’s Figure 8 with help from over 15 musicians and a full orchestra.
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Nick Mulvey – Wake Up Now (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:19 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fiction
In 2014, Nick Mulvey launched his career with the album First Mind, after having dazzled as a part of the Portico Quartet, a bizarre jazz formation which was showered with awards between 2008 and 2014. This opus gave us a look at a fairly gifted songwriter, whose heart seems to hold a special place for folk. But this was a very singular folk, like that concocted by John Martyn or Nick Drake many years ago. And it was hardly a normal pop music – minimalist and repetitive (Glass?), sometimes risking bifurcations which are a long way from Western music (Mulvey studied music in Havana for a long time). The result was pretty bewildering, stunning and simply good… Three years later, we find a Nick Mulvey once again hungry for a diversity of sound. We traverse this Wake Up Now as if we were flicking through an atlas. The Latin American and African influences are never overpowering, but rather they subtly destabilise the structures of these compositions, be they pop or folk. They make a colourful fuel for these songs that deal with the refugee crisis as well as the simple joy of life.
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Nick Mulvey – Live From BBC Radio 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 14:32 minutes | 286 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Acoustic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fiction
Nick Mulvey is an English musician, singer and songwriter who studied music in Havana, Cuba. He played the Hang as a founder member of 2008 Mercury Prize nominated band Portico Quartet, until 2011 when he left to pursue his career as a singer-songwriter releasing the EPs The Trellis (2012) and Fever to the Form (2013) and his studio album First Mind in 2014 which received a Mercury Music Prize nomination. His second album, Wake Up Now, was released on the 8th September 2017. Now we listen here 3 tracks for Live From BBC Radio 1.
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Nick Mulvey – Nick Mulvey (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:01 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fiction
First Mind is an engrossing listen, and not easily defined. It encourages an open-mind (the ‘First Mind’ perhaps), and a sense of the worldliness that Nick poured into its making. Cucurucu is an interpretation of DH Lawrence’s poem, Piano, wrapped within a heady groove. And groove, for all its modern day baggage, is at the heart of everything Nick Mulvey does. Nitrous, a song about a daydreamer selling laughing gas, positively radiates with a classic chug and groove when the bassline slinks in. There are contemplative moments too, Fever to the Form and Meet Me There are poignant odes, whilst The Trellis and Juramidam showcase that leftfield, Eastern-inflected guitar technique. It is a record that gets under your skin, and its sense of exploration is palpable.
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Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets – Live at the Roundhouse (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:36:08 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
“Live at the Roundhouse” is unlike any other concert film connected with Pink Floyd. It’s the nearest thing you can get to a time machine, transporting you back to the very earliest days of the band. Nick Mason, the only band member to have played on all of Pink Floyd s studio albums, returns to the group’s earliest records, joined in the line-up by Gary Kemp, Guy Pratt, Lee Harris and Dom Beken. Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets took the drummer back to clubs for the first time in 1967, then to theatres, across the UK, North America and Europe, playing only music his old band had recorded before The Dark Side of the Moon. Captured from the band’s celebrated shows at London’s Roundhouse, where Pink Floyd played some of their most revered early shows in the 1960s, the film features a uniquely thrilling set list including songs hailing from Syd Barrett’s time with the band. Only four songs from this eclectic roster have ever previously appeared on official live releases by Pink Floyd or its members. Everything else is being experienced for the first time since their original live performances.
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Nick Mason & Rick Fenn – White of the Eye (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1987/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:07 minutes | 469 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
Nick Mason is the drummer of Pink Floyd and the only member to have remained in the group for its entire existence. Born Nicholas Berkeley Mason on January 27, 1944, in the Downshire Hills area of Birmingham, England, he met future bandmates Roger Waters and Rick Wright while studying architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic. He began playing with them in Sigma 6 in 1963, then the Screaming Abdabs the following year, and finally in 1965 the Syd Barrett-led blues/R&B outfits that soon became Pink Floyd. Although drumming for Floyd was far and away Mason’s primary concern over the next few decades, he did occasionally delve into extracurricular projects. He moonlighted as a producer during the ’70s (particularly during the latter half of the decade), working not just with fellow proggers like Robert Wyatt, Gong, and Steve Hillage, but also post-bop jazz eccentric Michael Mantler and punk group the Damned. In 1981, Mason released the first album ever under his own name, Fictitious Sports. The music was a quirky blend of jazz and rock composed by Carla Bley, who also played keyboards; other supporting musicians included vocalist Wyatt, trumpeter Mantler, and guitarist Chris Spedding. In turn, Mason played drums with Mantler off and on over the ’80s, including on the albums Something Else (1982) and Live (1987). Mason also formed a production company with former 10cc guitarist Rick Fenn, which produced music for films (including White of the Eye), television, and advertisements. As Mason + Fenn, the two also recorded a pop album in 1985, called Profiles, which produced the David Gilmour-sung single “Lie for a Lie.” As Floyd’s recording and touring schedule grew more sporadic, Mason was left with more time to pursue his favorite hobby, auto racing. ~ Steve Huey
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Nick Mason & Rick Fenn – Profiles (Remastered) (1985/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:21 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK
Profiles is an album by Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason and 10cc’s guitarist Rick Fenn, released in 1985. It is almost entirely instrumental, save for two songs: “Lie for a Lie,” featuring Pink Floyd singer and guitarist David Gilmour and Mike Oldfield’s early 80s singer Maggie Reilly; and “Israel,” sung by UFO keyboardist Danny Peyronel.
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Title: Midnight Oil – Armistice Day: Live At The Domain, Sydney
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Rock / New Wave
Production/Label: Sony Music
Duration: 02:11:34
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM,DTS-HD
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 19999 kbps / 1080i / 25 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio 2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2826 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Audio 3: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
Audio 4: Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 256 kbps
Size: 23,1 GB
In February 2017 Midnight Oil take to Sydney Harbour and announce The Great Circle World Tour. The Circle will begin where the band started out – in Sydney’s pubs – then circumnavigate the globe. It will be their first tour in over 15 years. Over the next 6 months Midnight Oil played in 16 countries across 5 continents – speaking out for a healthy planet and social justice along the way. Eventually they returned to circle around Australia – the land that shaped the Oils and their music. Finally this epic tour circled back to the city where it all began. The venue? Sydney’s Domain – a place that encapsulates a nation’s history. And so after 76 gigs to over half a million people around the world this is where The Great Circle would finally come to a close.
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Nick Mason – Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports (Remastered) (1981/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:20 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
Columbia, apparently attempting to cash in on Pink Floyd’s explosion in popularity, released this album in 1981 under Nick Mason’s name when in reality he’s simply the drummer in this incarnation of Carla Bley’s ensemble; Ms. Bley composed all the music and lyrics for this project. It’s possibly her most overtly pop-oriented album, with all eight songs featuring vocals by Soft Machine alumnus Robert Wyatt. The music, by Bley’s standards, is fairly pedestrian if occasionally catchy, though the lyrics are often wryly amusing. So we have songs about failed car motors and a skeptic’s encounter with a flying saucer, and one dedicated to unappreciative audiences titled “Boo to You Too.” Though the band is staffed with several fine jazz musicians, the music has more of a rock or jazz-rock feel, largely due to the spotlight on guitarist Chris Spedding, who evidences slick, if relatively uninteresting, chops. To the extent the songs succeed, Wyatt can take much of the credit. His engagingly hoarse voice is capable of both wrenching sincerity and mordant humor; pieces like “Do Ya?,” where he is asked to tortuously squawk the line “God knows I try!,” would collapse entirely with a less convincing vocalist. The closing cut, “I’m a Mineralist,” is the one that leaves a lasting impression. Conflating geology and minimalism, it includes lines like “Erik Satie gets my rocks off/Cage is a dream/Philip Glass is mineralist to the extreme,” before launching into a note-perfect rendition of some pointedly bland Glassian measures. For Pink Floyd completists, this album might provide a glimpse into an alternate universe of which they were otherwise unaware, but fans of Bley’s earlier masterpieces like Escalator Over the Hill are likely to emerge somewhat disappointed.
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Nick Lowe – Haw River Ballroom 2019 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:36:26 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
We are not in the times of 100 Club Oxford Street, The Nashville, Hope and Anchor … when a multitude of young people tried to escape from the musical prison that prevailed in England in the mid-70s, where rock stadium and virtuosity They made up the bars for a bunch of low-class misfits who just wanted to get out of the routine between paints.
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Nick Lowe – Party of Four (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 13:04 minutes | 146 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
Party of Four features two unreleased tracks and two demos from the Party of One sessions, showing Nick’s recording process at the time. “You Stabbed Me in the Front” and “Rocket Coast” could’ve fit perfectly on the album, showcasing Nick’s unrivaled wit and razor-sharp songwriting. The demo for “Rocky Road” shows an early example of how the studio cut came to be, and the demo for “Don’t Think About Her” would later become fully realized when Little Village, Nick’s supergroup with Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and Jim Keltner, released their self-titled album in 1992.
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Nick Lowe – Nick the Knife: Demos and Rarities (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 08:47 minutes | 92 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
Nick the Knife is one of master songwriter, producer and performer Nick Lowe’s most underrated albums, and these demos and rarities give insight into his recording process at the time. The demo version of “Heart” shows its reggae-influenced guitar work that separates it from Rockpile’s version, and the demo of “Raining Raining” exhibits Nick’s vocal range that makes it sound like a long-lost soulful classic. Also included is the rarity “I Got a Job,” a funny but rocking number that gets Nick laughing.
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Nick Lowe – Live at the Agora 1982 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 10:12 minutes | 121 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yep Roc Records
Nick Lowe and His Noise To Go rocked Cleveland’s Agora Ballroom on February 10, 1982, adding live fury to some of Nick’s most celebrated songs. The band rolls through a version of Rockpile’s “Pet You and Hold You,” followed by an electric performance of “Cracking Up” from Nick’s Labour of Lust. The show concludes with a rockin’ rendition of Nick’s most enduring composition, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?”
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