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Earth, Wind & Fire – Head To The Sky (1973)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:35 minutes | 832 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
Head to the Sky is the 4th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1973. Their second album on Columbia Records, Head to the Sky was EWF’s first commercially successful album and it has been certified platinum in the United States for sales of over a million copies by the RIAA.
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Earth, Wind & Fire – Electric Universe (Expanded Edition) (1983/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:38 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Soul, Funk, Disco
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
Commercially, Earth, Wind & Fire were slipping in 1983. Though a decent album, Powerlight wasn’t the type of big seller EWF was used to. Maurice White responded with a change of direction that proved to be both a commercial and artistic fiasco. Working with very in-demand (and very formula-oriented) studio figures like Martin Page and David Foster, EWF went for a much slicker and more high-tech approach on the weak and disappointing Electric Universe. White saw that synthesizers and drum machines were playing more and more of a role in both R&B and pop, and wanted to acknowledge technology’s impact on music with this album. But EWF usually ends up sounding insincere and even sterile. The type of synth-funk that worked so well for the System doesn’t work for EWF. A few of the songs are interesting (including “Electric Kingdom” and the single “Magnetic”), but they don’t prevent Electric Universe from being EWF’s weakest album ever. When this release flopped, EWF’s members temporarily went their separate ways, with Philip Bailey and Maurice White concentrating on solo careers.
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Earth, Wind & Fire – All ‘N All (1977)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:04 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
All ‘N All is the eighth studio album by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1977 on Columbia Records. It is one of the group’s most well known albums and has been certified triple platinum in the United States for sales of three million copies by the RIAA, gold in Canada by Music Canada and silver in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry.
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Earth, Wind & Fire – Raise! (1981/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:28 minutes | 884 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
Raise! is the eleventh studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, produced by the band’s leader Maurice White for Kalimba Productions, and released in 1981 on CBS Records. Raise! has been certified platinum in the US by the RIAA for sales of over a million copies and gold in the UK and Canada by the British Phonographic Industry and Music Canada respectively.
Raise! was the bestselling R&B album of 1982. The album featured the #1 R&B and # 3 Pop hit “Let’s Groove”. The single “Wanna Be With You” won EWF a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group. Raise also marked the return to the band of rhythm guitarist Roland Bautista, last heard from on 1972’s Last Days and Time.
Raise! would be the final EWF album to be released on ARC. The label would be discontinued by Columbia Records the following year.
Earth, Wind & Fire – Faces (1980/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:09 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Faces is the tenth studio album, a double-LP by R&B artists Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1980 on ARC/Columbia Records. The album reached number 2 and number 10 on the Billboard Black and Pop albums charts.
It has been certified gold in the US by the RIAA. In a 2007 interview when asked which EWF album is his favorite Earth, Wind & Fire leader Maurice White replied “Probably Faces because we were really in tune, playing together and it gave us the opportunity to explore new areas”.
The lead-off single was “Let Me Talk”. The songs “You”, and “Sparkle” followed as single releases. Unlike previous Earth, Wind and Fire albums, there was no U.S. tour in support of the album. This was also the last Earth Wind and Fire recording with guitarist Al McKay, who left the group the next year. This album is noted for featuring Steve Lukather, guitarist for EWF’s label mate Toto, on the songs “Back on the Road” and “You Went Away”.
Earth, Wind & Fire – I Am (1979/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:41 minutes | 861 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
I Am is the ninth studio album by the R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire, released on June 9, 1979 on CBS Records. The album features the singles “Boogie Wonderland” with The Emotions and “After the Love Has Gone”. I Am has been certified double platinum in the US by the RIAA and platinum in the UK and in Canada by the British Phonographic Industry and Music Canada.
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Earth, Wind & Fire – Spirit (1976/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:21 minutes | 785 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Spirit is the seventh studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1976 on Columbia Records. The album reached number 2 on the Billboard Pop and R&B Albums Chart and has been certified double platinum in the US by the RIAA. Charles Stepney died during the sessions for Spirit, and Maurice White took over fully the arranging and production duties for the band.
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Earth, Wind & Fire – Last Days and Time (1972/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:50 minutes | 854 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
Last Days and Time is the third studio album by American R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1972, their first on Columbia Records. It was recorded at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood, California.
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Early Times and the High Rollers – The Corner (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:12 minutes | 464 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © VizzTone
Early Times is a Blues/Rock street poet, living in a gritty urban landscape spanning the Eastside street corners, bodegas, and the project park, ‘ populated by characters like Little Hustler, Uptown Charlie, Tijuana Madonna, Sweet Lou the Butcher, Ruby, Shakey, funky old Mabel, and of course Mary with her Cha Cha hat. Early and his High Rollers create moods so thick you could cut them with a chainsaw, and his incisive guitar playing is always spot on.
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Early James – Singing for My Supper (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:04 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Easy Eye Sound – Nonesuch
Early James’ debut features ten wide-ranging songs, co-produced by Auerbach and David ‘Fergie’ Ferguson, is full of world-weary wisdom. ‘Blue Pill Blues’ details a period when James, who was being treated for depression, quit his antipsychotic medication cold turkey. ‘High Horse’ is a lament of the ways his adolescent excitement faded with the arrival of the vices of adulthood, while ‘Easter Eggs’ finds the songwriter coming to terms with some of the darker sides of his heredity.
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Early Day Miners – Placer Found (20th Anniversary Edition) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:27 minutes | 649 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Secretly Canadian
The opening title track sets the mood just right, its comforting guitar interplay and gentle vocals holding your hand toward an unseen destination that’s “still a ways to go.” “East Berlin at Night” is the definition of cinematic, almost like an Ativin song with the amplifiers turned down from 12 to 3, while the last two minutes of “Texas Cinema,” are the equivalent of a deep embrace from which you never want to let go. Why some sharp-eared music supervisor hasn’t utilized “In These Hills” in a movie montage of two people falling in love, I’ll never understand. This new edition brings it all back to the proverbial start, as it is being released on the Bloomington label Secretly Canadian which championed Ativin from the beginning and quickly became a home for Early Day Miners after the initial Western Vinyl release of “Placer Found.” The two unreleased instrumental tracks on side D are fascinating glimpses into creative paths not taken. “Prospect Refuge” is a delicious slice of posivibes math-rock, while the taut, vaguely ominous “Blue Casino” makes an entirely different song out of a riff later utilized for the standout “Jefferson” from the band’s 2003 “Jefferson at Rest” LP.
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Earl Van Dyke – The Motown Sound: The Complete Albums & More (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:34 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Funk, Soul, Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Motown
The 2012 double album collection devoted to the works of Motown session keyboardist (and Funk Brother extraordinaire) Earl Van Dyke. Originally, some of the Hitsville studio musicians would be „allowed“ to cut soulful Blues and Jazz tracks for the company’s Workshop Jazz label, as long as they handled the regular gig, cutting hits on the Hitsville U.S.A. assembly line. By 1964, however, Workshop Jazz was dead.
Motown made good on their promise, somewhat, giving Earl Van Dyke a rare opportunity in the spotlight by issuing in his name a single and a subsequent LP, That Motown Sound. Earl’s artistic disappointment belies the gems contained within those vocal-less Motown hits and the additional bonus tracks from Motown’s vaults that comprise Disc One of this set.
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Earl St. Clair – My Name Is Earl (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 27:47 minutes | 323 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Circa 13 – Def Jam
Earl St. Clair a name you should know if you’re a fan of R&B. For that matter, actually, you should know his name if you flat out love great music. While he is classified mainly as an R&B artist, his music is soul through and through, peppered with roots and even perhaps a hint of bluegrass influences. St. Clair is making wholesome old school music sound new on his latest album My Name Is Earl. Spanning seven tracks, the production is a strong, upbeat compilation of effective, pure lyrics and throaty, powerful vocals.
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Earl Hooker – The Essential Earl Hooker (1977)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:56 minutes | 775 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jewel Records
If there was a more immaculate slide guitarist residing in Chicago during the 1950s and ’60s than Earl Hooker, his name has yet to surface. Boasting a fretboard touch so smooth and clean that every note rang as clear and precise as a bell, Hooker was an endlessly inventive axeman who would likely have been a star had his modest vocal abilities matched his instrumental prowess and had he not been dogged by tuberculosis (it killed him at age 41).
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Earl Hines and Jaki Byard – Duet! (1975/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 38:37 minutes | 694 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
Earl Hines is seen as the “Fatha” of modern jazz piano (see Fatha and His Flock), while Jaki Byard is best known for his play on some of Charles Mingus’ greatest albums. Hines was a major influence on the 15 year younger Byard, one of the reasons Jaki had such a deep-rooted understanding for tradition. Byard’s A-Toodle-Oo, Toodle Oo is a romp with a boogie-woogie beat. Hines’ This Is Always has Earl’s and Jaki’s arpeggios flowing through this lovely ballad. The two offer up a harmonically lush version of the Hines classic, Rosetta, while I Can’t Trust Myself Alone is a Hines solo tour de force. Hines starts off the evergreen Sweet Georgia Brown rubato before the two take off on an up-tempo escapade. As Long As I Live presents a breathtaking battle between friendly giants, and Byard portrays Genoa To Pescara in an impressionistic solo. On La Rosita the two tango, exchanging lead and accompaniment with ease and grace. Two piano giants in an incomparable get-together – this is something to treasure.
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