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Gary Schocker – Music for Introverts (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:07 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.
Gary Schocker is a prolific contemporary composer. He has composed widely for the flute, an instrument he plays himself, but also composes for other instruments, including the piano, which is his other instrument. These are wonderful melodic works, full of personal introspection. Born into a musical family in Easton, Pennsylvania, Schocker began his musical career on piano, making his recital debut at the age of three. By the time he was ten, he had added flute to his musical studies. Schocker made his professional debut as a flutist at the age of 15, appearing as soloist with both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, thus establishing a name for himself even before attending The Juilliard School and winning numerous prestigious competitions, including the National Flute Associations Young Artist Competition, the New York Flute Clubs Young Artist Competition, the East and West International Concert Artists Competition, and Young Concert Artists Competition. In 1988, he cemented his reputation as a versatile performer by filling in, with only a few hours notice, for an ailing Jean-Pierre Rampal in a performance of the Mozart D Major Concerto with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, composing new cadenzas in his head on the way to the concert hall.
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Gary Peacock, Marilyn Crispell – Azure (2013/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:10 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Azure features beautiful duets by two great improvisers who proved their compatibility long ago. Bassist Gary Peacock and pianist Marilyn Crispell made some outstanding music together in Crispell’s trio with late drummer Paul Motian, but their duo project also has an extensive history, until now unrecorded. With their shared sense of lyricism, their individual compositional styles and their profound background in free playing, Peacock and Crispell are exceptional musical partners. The album, self-produced in upstate New York, home territory for both musicians, contains pieces written by each one, duo improvisations and highly inventive piano and bass solos.
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Gary Peacock Trio – Tangents (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:10 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Whenever he’s not twisting and turning with Jack DeJohnette in Keith Jarrett’s trio (it’s been going on since 1983!), Gary Peacock focuses on his own trio. Along with drummer Joey Baron and bassist Marc Copland, the American double bass player is releasing his second album with a band of impressive calibre. An album recorded in Lugano in May 2016 and produced by Manfred Eicher of ECM. Much like Now This, also released by the label from Munich a year earlier, there is a Himalayan musicality in this album, owing as much to its leader as to his two sidemen – although the term “sidemen” doesn’t apply here – and throughout which none of the protagonists try to draw attention to themselves. Each one contributes to the repertoire (five compositions by Peacock, two by Baron and one by Copland) and the three colleagues reinterpret Miles Davis’ Blue In Green as well as Alex North’s theme for Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, providing a fantastic base for improvisation… Being one of the main figures that helped develop the role of double bass in the 60s, Gary Peacock has always been particularly attached to the melodic fabric of what he plays. And Tangents is only one more proof of this artistic commitment.
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Gary Peacock – Voice From The Past – Paradigm (1982/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:58 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
In the realm of the piano trio the bar is set high, and creative bassist Gary Peacock has helped raise it in the groups of Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett. However, the formative 1981 ECM release Voice from the Past: Paradigm finds Peacock working in a unique quartet setting with stellar accompaniment from Jan Garbarek (tenor & soprano saxophone), Tomasz Stanko (trumpet) and Jack DeJohnette (drums). The uncanny interplay between Peacock and DeJohnette on standouts like “Voice From the Past,” “Moor” and “Ode for Tomten” wonderfully foreshadows the top flight work they would go on to do together in just a few years time in Keith Jarrett’s trio.
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Gary Peacock – Tales Of Another (1977/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:55 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Tales of Another is an album by American bassist Gary Peacock featuring Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette recorded in 1977 and released on the ECM label. The album marks the first recording by the group who later became well known as Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio.
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Gary Peacock Trio – Now This (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:54 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
In the realm of the piano trio the bar is set high, and creative bassist Gary Peacock has helped raise it in the groups of Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett. ‘Now This’ is an album with the bassist’s current trio, recorded in the summer of 2014 in Oslo and issued in time for Peacock’s 80th birthday (on 12 May, 2015).
Powerful new versions of some Peacock classics – such as ‘Moor’, ‘Vignette’, ‘Requiem’ and ‘Gaya’ – are interspersed with recent compositions. Pianist Marc Copland and drummer Joey Baron each contribute tunes, and the group also tackles Scott La Faro’s ‘Gloria’s Step’. In this band, roles are very evenly shared, and this is an optimum context in which to appreciate the melodic invention of Peacock’s bass playing. Marc Copland always honours the needs of the compositions and Joey Baron supplies both drive and sensitive detail.
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Tubeway Army – Gary Numan – Replicas (1979/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:17 minutes | 761 MB | Genre: Rock, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
Replicas is the second and final album by British band Tubeway Army, released in 1979. After this, Tubeway Army frontman Gary Numan would continue to release records under his own name, though the musicians in Tubeway Army would continue to work with him for some time. Replicas was the first album of what Numan later termed the “machine” phase of his career, preceding The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, a collection linked by common themes of a dystopian science fiction future and transmutation of man/machine, coupled with an androgynous image and a synthetic rock sound.
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Gary Numan & The Skaparis Orchestra – When the Sky Came Down (Live at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:00:52 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Gary’s sold out live show with The Skaparis Orchestra at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. The setlist includes songs from his highly successful ‘Savage’ album and classic tracks including the No.1 single ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’. A breathtaking concert for fans to relive again.
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Gary Numan / Tubeway Army – Replicas – The First Recordings (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:44 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
In late 1978, Gary Numan was booked into a small studio in London’s Chinatown with the same musicians that had played on Tubeway Army’s debut album, released a month earlier. Two stereo master tapes were compiled of eleven tracks. A month later they again went to Gooseberry Studio and recorded an additional three tracks, including “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” and “Replicas”. At the same time, the band recorded a session for the BBC’s John Peel show, taping alternate versions of three songs from the December recordings. Finally Numan returned to an upgraded studio, Marthus Music, in February to overdub and remix the Gooseberry recordings into their released versions. Only one alternative out take still exists (“Down In The Park”) which is included in this release.
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Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle (1979/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:10 minutes | 864 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
The legendary proto-new wave / electronic hit from Gary Numan that went on to influence an entire generation of synth-heads and knob twiddlers. The Pleasure Principle went to number 1 in the United Kingdom.
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Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle – The First Recordings (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:21 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
Even before the single “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” was released, Numan had recruited a permanent drummer and keyboard player and demoed an album’s worth of new material between April 9-12, 1979 at Freerange Studio in London’s Covent Garden. This was supplemented by a second session, probably the following June, that yielded four further songs and two re-recordings. Following the hectic schedule of promoting “AFE?”, Numan recorded a new session for John Peel the day after the single hit #1 on the UK charts. Rather than record as Tubeway Army, the session was credited to Gary Numan and the group name abandoned at the peak of its success. As before, rather than promote the current album, Numan chose to record four new songs. While the album Replicas hit #1, Numan was busy recording a follow up in Marcus Music Studio. From the surviving tapes there are six mixes marked as out-takes and these have been included in the CD package. The discs have been sequenced with the stronger, second Freerange demo preceding the first session but all tracks are in the order of the tapes.
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Gary Numan – Telekon (1980/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:28 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
Telekon is the fourth studio album (and second album under his own name) by the British musician Gary Numan. It debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart in September 1980, making it his third consecutive (and to date, final) No. 1 album. Telekon was also the third and final studio release of what Numan retrospectively termed the “machine” section of his career, following 1979’s Replicas and The Pleasure Principle.
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Gary Numan – Intruder (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:57 minutes | 767 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Gary Numan has released a new song, “Intruder,” the title track from his upcoming album, out May 21st.
The song boasts an ominous industrial stomp, although there’s an eerily serene edge to the vocal melodies as Numan shows his continued knack for pop craftsmanship. The accompanying video, directed by Chris Corner, finds Numan delivering a dramatic performance of “Intruder” in a setting where futuristic tech seems to collide with the natural world.
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Gary Numan – I, Assassin (1982/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:50 minutes | 871 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
After the spare and lengthy reflections and dislocated experiments of his excellent Dance album, Gary Numan made a return to a more focused approach with I, Assassin, which turned out to be his last truly great album for many years. Much of what would characterize his later music in the ’80s did start to show up here, to be sure, but instead of the formless flailing all too apparent on Warriors, and especially on Berserker, Numan’s work here with modern electronic funk combines his early rigor and to-the-point rhythms with a deft, creative hand in the arrangements. “White Boys and Heroes,” the brilliant opening number, remains one of his best singles, featuring fretless bass work from Pino Palladino (long before both it and him had turned into rent-a-clichés), and set against droning, distorted vocals and doom-laden keyboards. The vaguely Asian (or at least the group Japan)-inspired textures of Dance linger on in songs like “A Dream of Siam” and the title track (the latter possessing a captivating hollow-drum-punch introduction), while one of Numan’s most randomly entertaining songs pops up with “The 1930s Rust.” It’s a suave finger-snapping number that even features harmonica, but somehow Numan’s ear for to-the-point rhythm and strange futurism still comes through. Perhaps the most underrated song remains the sharp hipshaker “War Songs” – U2 may never want to admit it, but “Numb” takes more than a little from the distorted up-and-down introductory guitar clips.
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Gary Numan – Dance (1981/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:37 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Beggars Banquet
A transition album of sorts, Dance saw Numan departing from the jerky machine music of his synth pop prime to embrace a (bit) warmer sound that is less robotic and more free-form. The subject matter on highlights like “She’s Got Claws,” “Slowcar to China,” “Cry the Clock Said,” and “Crash” are quintessentially Numan, but their musical frameworks are quite far removed from early hits like “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” and “Cars.” Undoubtedly a shock to fans, Dance hasn’t aged very well, either. The music is just a bit too far removed from the subjects to make much sense.
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