Hamid El Shaeri – Habibi Funk 018: The SLAM! Years (1983 – 1988) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:34 minutes | 534 MB | Genre: World, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Habibi Funk Records
If you were to ask us for a defining Habibi Funk track, there are a few that come to mind: from Fadoul’s “Sid Redad,“ Dalton’s “Soul Brother“ to Ahmed Malek’s “Omar Gatlato.“ However, none are as widely connected with us at this point as Hamid Al Shaeri’s “Ayonha.“ We heard the track for the first time when we were working on selecting tracks for your first compilation and we instantly loved it. We obviously had heard of Hamid El Shaeri’s music before, but only material from his Al Jeel phase when he was already the full-blown superstar he is now. Listening to his releases from the early 1980’s opened a whole new door for us. At the time, Hamid had just left Libya to pursue his career in Egypt via a detour in London, where he recorded his first album.
Read moreJimmy Buffett – One Particular Harbour (1983/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:25 minutes | 855 MB | Genre: Country Rock, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen
One Particular Harbour is the twelfth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released in September 1983 as MCA 5447 and was produced by Buffett and Michael Utley. It was Buffett’s first involvement producing an album. “Stars on the Water” was a minor hit for its original writer, country music songsmith Rodney Crowell and was later covered by Texan country music singer George Strait on his 2001 album, The Road Less Traveled.
Read moreJimmy Buffett – Living And Dying In 3/4 Time (1974/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:59 minutes | 833 MB | Genre: Country Rock, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen
Living and Dying in ¾ Time is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It is the second major label album in Buffett’s Don Gant-produced “Key West phase”. It was initially released in February 1974 as his second album for Dunhill Records. It contains the song “Come Monday”, his first top-40 hit single.
The album was Buffett’s first to chart on the Billboard 200 album chart, but it only reached number 176. Unlike A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean before it, it failed to make the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The single of “Come Monday” reached number 30 on the Hot 100 and number three Easy Listening and number 58 Country. In addition, “Pencil Thin Mustache” hit number 44 Easy Listening and “Saxophones” “bubbled under” the Hot 100 at number 105.
Read moreJimmy Buffett – Fruitcakes (1994/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:45 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MCA Nashville
Fruitcakes is the eighteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Initially to be called Quietly Making Noise, the album was released in May 1994. It was Buffett’s first studio recording since Off to See the Lizard (1989), with its five-year gap being the longest between two albums in his career. Buffett had used the hiatus to focus on writing books such as Tales from Margaritaville (1989) and Where Is Joe Merchant? (1992).
Fruitcakes reached #5 on the Billboard 200 album chart making it Buffett’s first top five album. The album was also certified “Platinum” by the RIAA on December 19, 2004.
The first single from the album, “Fruitcakes,” charted at No. 29 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The second single, “Frenchman for the Night,” did not chart.
Read moreEarly Day Miners – Outside Lies Magic (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:32 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solid Brass Records
After 7 studio albums with both Secretly Canadian and Western Vinyl, Early Day Miners have returned with their latest offering, and their first with Solid Brass Records, titled “Outside Lies Magic”.
Led by Daniel Burton—founding member and engineer of albums by Songs: Ohia, Papa M, Okkervil River, and Windsor For The Derby—the band has enlisted various friends to round out their studio and live performances since their formation in Bloomington, IN over 20 years ago.
Read moreCapella Jenensis – Capella Jenensis: Klingende Thüringer Residenzen (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:14 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rondeau Production
On its latest CD, Capella Jenensis presents a fascinating insight into the unique musical landscape of Thuringia during the Baroque period. The diversity of the small states of Thuringia is reflected in the works of several outstanding composers who received their artistic inspiration from all over Europe in the court chapels of this region. The ensemble performs works by Andreas Oswald, Christian Herwich, Adam Drese, Johann Krieger, Johann Michael Nicolai and others. The recording presents previously unpublished pieces from the Gothaer Partiturbuch Ludwig, the Dübensammlung Uppsala and other important manuscripts and thus offers a unique listening experience and a vivid picture of the musical diversity of the Baroque period in Thuringia.
Read moreArtful Dodger – Rave On (1980/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:51 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
I believe Rave On was Artful Dodger’s best LP. I have all their albums and Rave On is a listen from beginning to end every time. I was lucky enough to receive the CD release from the Cleveland Agora back in the day. When I say lucky I mean really lucky! The first copy was blank, nothing was recorded on it and after I contacted the Cleveland Agora and they sent me a replacement. I’ve had the pleasure of listening to it ever sense. I also have the LP for when I want to hear this great album on vinyl. Forty three years and it never gets old.
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