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Califone – villagers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:33 minutes | 892 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jealous Butcher Records
Part experimental indie and part ‘70s soft rock, Califone’s first record in three years finds creative force Tim Rutili reaching new levels of harmony, fragility, and confidence. Whether detailing aging goths retaining their identity through year-long spooky decorations (“Halloween”), an imagined conversation with an inbred monarch (“Habsburg Jaw”), or the conflicts between identity and technology (“Ox-Eye”), Villagers’ nine tracks spread out and luxuriates in the messy darkness of modern life. Like sitting in awe on the porch swing at the end of the world, Califone’s latest marvels at the edge of the universe spreading into the darkness of infinity.With 25 years of Califone in his catalog (not to mention a variety of other projects, including alt rock heroes Red Red Meat), the Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based knows well how to find that moment of awe and bliss even as things are falling apart. Part poet, part abstract painter, and always surrounded by a variety of hyper-talented collaborators (here including longtime cohorts Ben Massarella, Michael Krassner, Rachel Blumberg, and Brian Deck, as well as the likes of Nora O’Connor and Finom’s Macie Stewart), Rutili has always excelled at luring listeners through elusive lyrics, flashes of shadows and images coming together in disarming unity.
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Caleb Elliott – Weed, Wine & Time (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:22 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Single Lock Records
Like the sprawling branches of a tenured Magnolia, Caleb Elliott’s sophomore album Weed, Wine & Time is beauty and grit personified. From the first track of the record (Sweeter Paradigm) Elliott lays bare a thesis of hope and healing that continues throughout the album’s entirety. Elliott’s opening chorus states that, “You learn as you go along, simple as a song,” and this theme courses like blood through each of the 11 tracks that follow.
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Title: Metallica – Through the Never
Release Date: 2013
Genre: Thrash Metal
Production/Label: Blackened Recordings
Duration: 01:32:55
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG4 H.264
Audio codec: DTS-HD MA
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 26000 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2982 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Audio # 2: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1271 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 16-bit)
Size: 44.46 GB
METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER is a groundbreaking and universally praised by critics music-driven motion picture event. The film combines a spectacular concert performance by Metallica created exclusively for the film and a suspenseful narrative to produce a bracing, raw and visceral cinematic experience. Emerging young star Dane DeHaan (A PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 & 3) portrays Trip, a young roadie sent on an urgent mission that turns into a surreal adventure, while Metallica performs it’s most iconic songs during a roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena. METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER features the most elaborate live-performance stage ever built and was filmed with state-of-the-art 3-D photography captured using up to 24 cameras simultaneously along with ground-breaking audio. The film is written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Nimrod Antal.
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Title: Metallica – Some Kind of Monster
Year: 2004/2014
Genre: Rock, Documentary
Directed by: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Performers: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo an more.
Released: Paramount
Duration: 2:20:33 + 0:26:32
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio Codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 21404 kbps / 1920 * 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16: 9 / High Profile 4.1
# 1 Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4059 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio # 2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio # 3: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Metallica‘s 2004 documentary, ‘Metallica: Some Kind of Monster’ (the one where they aired their dirty laundry for everyone to see), will get a special 10th-anniversary Blu-ray edition in November.
• The movie, which has been out of print for a number of years, chronicles the band’s rough stretch while making their much-maligned 2003 ‘St. Anger’ album. Backstage bickering led to their management assigning a “performance-enhancing coach” to help group members get through some of their problems.
• It was also a tough time for the band personally, as they battled addictions and some domestic bumps. All of which filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky captured in the movie, which ended up winning the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature that year.
• This new Blu-ray edition, which comes out on Nov. 24, includes a new feature, ‘Metallica: This Monster Lives,” a 25-minute follow-up that was shot at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, when the band premiered its second movie, ‘Metallica: Through the Never.’
bonus:
• “Metallica: This Monster Lives”
Manitas de Plata – Guitarra Flamenco (1963) [Reissue 2001]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 53:34 minutes | Scans included | 2,16 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,02 GB
One of the greatest masters of flamenco guitar in a landmark l963 recording with singers Jose Reyes and Manero Baliardo on four of the ten tracks. This is the raw, real stuff of flamenco, putting the listener in the middle of the gypsy campfire scene. The entire heart and soul of this gypsy goes into his emotional music. The recording venue was a medieval chapel and the acoustics are perfect, both for the echoing castanets and shouts, as well as the increasing ability of SACD reproduction to preserve such subtle sound reflections. If your only exposure to such gypsy fire is the Gypsy Kings, get a load of the real thing with this disc.
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Manowar – Warriors Of The World (2002)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 47:41 minutes | Scans included | 3,45 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 999 MB
Heavy Metal | Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound
Like most latter-day Manowar outings, Warriors of the World is a mixed affair rife with all of the clichés that make Manowar either Gods or an amusing joke, depending on what side of the inner circle you reside on. No matter how big a fan of the band someone might be, it’s hard to take the operatic “Nessun Dorma” and succeeding power ballad “Valhalla” seriously, as they sound like something Spinal Tap would have thought up when not worrying about amps that went to 11. In fact, too much of this disc relies on similar cheeseball balladry that, try as it might to be gallant and heroic, really comes off as self-parody. Fortunately, the disc has enough tracks that do reach higher decibels, including the last four and disc-opener “Call to Arms,” that are more indicative of what made Manowar great, namely heavy riffs and heavier attitude that, even when embracing an ethos that many would be embarrassed about, still comes off sincere. Manowar mean it when they sing about the “House of Death” and how they will “Fight Until We Die,” and that’s why you should love them, warts and all.
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Malene Mortensen – Desperado (a.k.a. Malene) (2006) [Reissue 2007]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:38 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 932 MB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,19 GB
Malene Mortensen is a Danish jazz singer. She is an unmistakable musical talent. One can only be fascinated by a vocalist who mixes the taste of her own generation with a choice of repertoire and musicians to produce an album of such persuasive and elegant pop- perfumed jazz. On her third album, Malene has combined a set of personal originals with songs that she just plain likes. Some jazz, some pop. However, there is no doubt that Malene Mortensen’s basic approach is that of a jazz vocalist. She dares give her material that essential personal twist – often with surprising results. Her phrasing is blessed with a natural swing, her lyrical interpretations have an easy flow, and her vocal control is supple and virtuosic.
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Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott – Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2009)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:23:29 minutes | 3,6 GB | Genre: Classical | © Tudor
This recording is perfectly timed for the centenary of Mahler’s 9th Symphony. Jonathan Nott and his Bamberger Symphoniker have added a moving, powerfully expressive interpretation to the extensive discography. By choosing measured tempi for the outer movements, Nott and this totally committed orchestra achieve a fantastic sound.
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Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott – Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (2013)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 + 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:18:24 minutes | 3,6 GB | Genre: Classical | © Tudor
“the verdict is ‘decent but not world-beating’, with shortcomings in his soloists pulling him up well short of the best available. There is uplift and impulse in the opening movement, with brilliant details…The great peroration is impressive” – Gramophone MagazineDecember 2013
”Lucky Bamberg…This reading of the Eighth makes a perfect climax to its Mahler cycle under its Solihull-born conductor, who is surely one of the most underestimated musicians on the planet.” – Sunday Times, 20th October 2013
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Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott – Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2012)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 + 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:19:4 minutes | 4,08 GB | Genre: Classical | © Tudor
Jonathan Nott and the Bamberger Symphoniker have written a special chapter in recording history with this series. Currently nominated in the 2012 BBC Music Magazine Awards, their recording of Mahler Symphony No.3 (TUDOR7170) was a BBC Music Magazine Orchestral Choice; “a recorded spaciousness which lets every ensemble and solo spiritually resound.”
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Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic – Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2007)
PS3 Rip | 2 SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 37:03 (Disc 1), 42:7 (Disc 2) | 6,49 GB Total
2 Discs FLAC 2.0 Stereo (PS3 ISO extract / Weiss Saracon conversion) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 1.68 GB Total
Label: Sony Music Japan | Year: 1965, 2007 | 3% Recovery Info
Sony should issue this recording at birth to everyone! It’s simply amazing! I originally heard Bernstein do this performance live and have lived with it ever since it was issued, first as LP then as CD. However, with this Japanese SACD issue, it’s like I’m really there. It comes to life like never before!
Mahler’s 7th Symphony, the “Song of the Night” as it is sometimes called, is perhaps Mahler’s most ambitious symphonic work, in five movements with two “nachtmusik” movements as the second and fourth movements, and a brilliant rondo as the last movement where the light finally breaks through. This recording is among the most acclaimed of the all the Mahler 7 recordings, superbly played and recorded with life-like brilliance.
My only complaint about the SACD issue that Sony makes us pay a usurious price. Do they think that only the Japanese enjoy SACD quality, and make the rest of us pay through the nose for it?
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Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (2013)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:20:32 minutes | 3,71 GB | Genre: Classical | © Tudor
“It’s not only as compelling as this team’s Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, it also counts among the most bracing, revelatory Sixths on disc…The all-embracing theatricality is equal to Leonard Bernstein’s first New York recording…the torrents around the fallout from the hammerblows of fate in the colossal finale.” – BBC Music Magazine, January 2014
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bvdub – Days of Gold (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:24 minutes | 825 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © quiet details
Over the course of the six pieces on the album, bvdub’s signature melodic richness is on full display – beautiful and spine-tingling passages create huge expanses that engulf you entirely – and the range of dynamics is astonishing. From soft and peaceful to overwhelmingly powerful – this is music to take you to the deepest places – made by an enigmatic and special artist with an uncompromising vision.
quiet details has always been about total creative freedom for the artists I love to explore what it means to them – this album is a perfect example of that, a truly wonderful piece of music that reflects Brock’s personality and stays true to the ethos of the label, it’s an honour to be sharing it with you.
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Butcher Brown – Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:45 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Jaz, Hip-Hop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz
Richmond-based five-piece collective Butcher Brown officially announces their forthcoming big band album Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey featuring Tennishu and R4ND4ZZO BIGB4ND, due September 16th via Concord Jazz. The album was originally written and produced by the band’s MC and multi-instrumentalist Tennishu as a hip hop album, but has since evolved into Butcher Brown’s own eclectic ode to big band jazz, their first foray into this format.
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Burhan Öçal, Musikkollegium Winterthur – Prokofiev: Peter ve Kurt, çocuklar için müzikal bir masaldır Op. 67 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:09 minutes | 510 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records
Recognized worldwide as a virtuosic percussionist Burhan Öçal has made the bridging of musical cultures his central mission. A native of Kirklareli in Thrace region, he grew up in a musical family. From his father, he learned a variety of percussion instruments, while his mother introduced him to religious vocal music. After his first contact with Western music, he became interested in combining other genres and cultural traditions, such as jazz and Western classical music, with his own.
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