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Polo & Pan – Caravelle (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:07 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Caroline Distribution
After working together behind the decks for over five years, the French DJ duo Polo & Pan (Alexandre Grynszpan and Paul Armand-Delille) presents this highly-anticipated debut album, packed full of sunshine and good vibes.
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Alberto Schiavo – Baroque Pearls (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:18 minutes | 550 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Amadeus Arte
The musical language adopted for these arrangements never strays too far from their original sonorities, but on the other had it is not a simple transcription, but an interpretation of a repertoire that is more relevant than ever, and consequently a source of inspiration and raw material for contemporary composers.
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Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary SACD Multi-ch Hybrid Edition) (1973/2023)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | 2.0 – DSD64; 5.1 – DST64 | 01:25:57 minutes | Full Scans included | 4,01 GB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock | Publisher (label): Sony Records Int’l – SICP-10143, Pink Floyd Records – SICP-10143
Features 5.1ch Surround Sound and remastering. Japanese original mini LP reissue of “The Dark Side of the Moon” from Pink Floyd. Uses the Hybrid Multichannel SACD masters released by Analogue Productions in 2021. Features 7-inch cardboard sleeve packaging, faithfully replicating its UK original LP design. Comes with an obi featuring the “golden obi” used for its 4ch Quadraphonic edition released in 1970’s in Japan. Rare items related to their second Japan tour in 1972 are faithfully replicated as follows
[1972 Japan tour related reissue]
1972 Pink Floyd In Japan Photo Book (48pages, Airport, Live, and Japan stay in 1972)
1972 Pink Floyd In Japan Tour Pamphlet (16 pages)
Ticket for 1972 tour in Japan (Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, March 6, 1972 )
Ticket for 1972 Tour in Japan (Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, March 7, 1972 )
1972 Tour in Japan Tour Poster (Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium)
The leaflet of the lyrics “The other side of the moon – works for all kinds of madmen -” distributed at the venue of 1972 tour in Japan
Flyer announcing the 1972 tour in Japan (Osaka: Festival Hall)
Promotional leaflet (handwritten by record company to promote “The other side of the moon”)
Commemorative sticker (round sticker for the campaign to promote the band’s visit to Japan at that time)
Commemorative single jacket (“Pink Floyd/Big 4”)
Commemorative single jacket (“Point Me at the Sky”)
[Original LP related reissue]
2 kinds of posters which were enclosed in the original LP
2 kinds of stickers which were enclosed in the original LP
Peter Frampton – Wind Of Change (Remastered) (1972/2023)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:43:20 min | Scans incl. | 1,77 GB
Genre: Pop Rock | Publisher (label): Intervention Records – IR-SCD20
At just 21 years old Peter Frampton had already played with The Herd and co-formed and left Humble Pie. So he struck out on his own with the appropriately named, ”Wind of Change.” Freed from Humble Pie’s narrower focus on hard-rock boogie, Frampton’s debut solo album reveals an artist exploring more dimensional, delicate and nuanced songwriting and guitar playing … Frampton showed his own brand of rocking hard with tunes like ”It’s a Plain Shame,” ”All I Wanna Be (is by your side)” and even made a Stones song his own with ”Jumping Jack Flash,” which became a staple of Frampton’s live shows. But these tunes and even the hook-laden ”The Lodger” are balanced with intricate, beautiful tunes like the elegiac ”Fig Tree Bay” and the title track ”Wind of Change.” An auspicious and stirring debut, ”Wind of Change” launched Frampton’s solo career and began the inexorable path to superstardom. Intervention’s Frampton@50 series hybrid CD/SACD reissues are mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering from the best analog tape sources available. Intervention worked for months with Universal’s archive team, scouring the vaults in the US and UK for the best-sounding tapes. Several sets of tapes, including 1970s-era tape copies, were sent to mastering and evaluated by IR’s Shane Buettner and Chris Bellman. The best-sounding tapes are 1/2? safety copies from the 1990s A&M Safety Program. The ”Wind of Change” and ”Frampton” safeties are sourced from UK Production Masters, while the ”Frampton’s Camel” safety is sourced from the Original Stereo Master. These tapes sound sensational, vibrant, detailed and alive. Combined with Chris Bellman’s work at the board, and the superbly transparent mastering chain at Bernie Grundman Mastering, legions of fans will hear what Peter and the band really put on tape during this seminal period. Fans will hear bottom-end authority, dynamics and textural details never revealed on any previous edition. These are the definitive versions of these amazing albums that made Peter Frampton one of the greatest artists of his time!
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Pieces Of A Dream – No Assembly Required (2004)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 47:19 minutes | Full Scans included | 3,14 GB
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz | Publisher (label): Heads Up – HUSA 9080
Run down the roster of some of the greatest jazz and pop music collectives of the late 20th century – the Beatles, Earth, Wind and Fire, Weather Report, just to name a few – and the old adage rings true: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
In a career that spans nearly thirty years, Pieces of a Dream has remained true to that lesson, maximizing the talents and ideas that each individual member has brought to the mix over the years and distilling them into a compelling and satisfying whole. Their latest effort, No Assembly Required, merges the seasoned songwriting skills of charter and founding members James Lloyd and Curtis Harmon with the talents of some newer members of the roster. The resulting whole is indeed greater than the sum of the individual parts.
Heads Up International released No Assembly Required (HUCD 3080) with a simultaneous worldwide release in 5.1 surround sound (HUSA 9080).
The creative dynamic may have been a little different with this project – more collaborations than usual for Pieces, according to Lloyd – but the resulting album is consistent with the band’s usual entertaining and compelling groove. “It’s really cool when you work with people whom you respect musically and personally,” he says. “You just sort of get a vibe going and bam, there it is.”
As with any Pieces album, the high points among the ten tracks are numerous. Vocalist Tracy Hamlin returns (following her debut with the band on their 2002 release, Love’s Silhouette) with an upbeat and inspiring rendition of Earth Wind and Fire’s “Devotion,” a tune first heard thirty years ago on EWF’s 1974 release, Open Our Eyes.
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Sonny Clark Trio – Sonny Clark Trio (2003) [Audio Fidelity SACD #AFZ-001]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 1:14:45 minutes | Full Scans included | 3,05 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Audio Fidelity – AFZ 006
This lesser-known Sonny Clark session (his only studio album not made for Blue Note) is sometimes issued under drummer Max Roach’s name too. They are joined by bassist George Duvivier for a set of generally obscure Clark originals including “Minor Meeting,” “Blues Mambo,” & “My Conception” (which is taken as an unaccompanied piano solo). Although not obvious while listening to his recording, Clark’s life was on the decline & this would be his penultimate date as a leader.
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Southern Brothers – Gopalnath Newton Srinivason (1999)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 47:57 minutes | Full Scans included | 2,14 GB
Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, Indian Classical, Carnatic, Fusion | Publisher (label): Water Lily Acoustics – WLA-CS-56-SACD
Southern Brothers was recorded in a mere 5 hours. It must have taken many more to write the 19 pages of liner notes that accompany the CD & attempt to locate it within a celebrated tradition of cross-cultural musical encounters. While the album is certainly interesting as an experiment, it does not achieve a great new synthesis, but instead, reflects the difficulty of actually bridging the gulf between cultures. It sounds as though Gopalnath & Newton are literally working out their relationships as the recording session unfolds. They appear like 2 congenial strangers who meet in a formal setting & then proceed to manufacture the illusion of a very heady conversation. Nevertheless, Southern Brothers does contain segments of dazzling virtuosity. The difficulties of the encounter are also interesting to observe.
~Joshua Levin
Miles Davis – Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (Analogue Productions 2014) (1957/2014)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:33:48 minutes | Full Scans included | 1,61 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Analogue Productions – CPRJ 7094 SA
Hybrid Mono SACD for sale individually and as part of Analogue Productions’ Prestige Mono Series
Mini “old style” gatefold jacket packaging
These SACD jackets feature printed wraps mounted to chipboard shells, producing an authentic, “old school” look and feel. Some people call these “mini LP” jackets.
Cookin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet is the first classic album of four total that emerged from two marathon and fruitful sessions recorded in 1956 (the other three discs released in Cookin’s wake were Workin’, Relaxin’ and Steamin’). All the albums were recorded live in the studio, as Davis sought to capture, with Rudy Van Gelder’s expert engineering, the sense of a club show á la the Café Bohemia in New York, with his new quintet, featuring tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. In Miles’s own words, he says he called this album Cookin’ because “that’s what we did—came in and cooked.” What’s particularly significant about this Davis album is his first recording of what became a classic tune for him: “My Funny Valentine.” Hot playing is also reserved for the uptempo number “Tune Up,” which revs with the zoom of both the leader and ’Trane.
Originally released in 1957
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Miles Davis – Cookin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet [Japanese SHM-SACD 2014 # UCGO-9045]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 33:22 minutes | Full Scans included | 1,41 GB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop | Publisher (label): Prestige – UCGO-9045
【SA-CD～SHM仕様～】【限定生産】
黄金のマイルス・クインテットによる名高いマラソン・セッションから生まれた1枚。ほぼ全曲がワン・テイクで収録されたのが信じられない完成度。中でも「マイ・ファニー・ヴァレンタイン」における孤高の美は唯一無二。〈パーソネル〉マイルス・デイヴィス(tp) ジョン・コルトレーン(ts) レッド・ガーランド(p) ポール・チェンバース(b) フィリー・ジョー・ジョーンズ(ds)
★1956年10月26日、ニュージャージーにて録音
https://www.universal-music.co.jp/miles-davis/products/ucgo-9045/
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Monty Alexander – Stir It Up (The Music of Bob Marley) (1999)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:10:49 min | Scans incl. | 2,89 GB
Genre: Jazz, Reggae, Pop | Publisher (label): Telarc SACD-63469
Stir It Up features pianist Monty Alexander, his trio and a reggae band performing 12 Marley favorites.
It’s a Direct to DSD recording and has excellent sound quality. Highly Recommended
Various Artists – Opus 3: A selection from Test-records 1, 2 & 3 (2008)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 / 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:51:28 min | Scans incl. | 2,5 GB
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Classical, Folk, World, & Country | Publisher (label): Opus 3 – SACD 195201
Classic Opus 3 from 1977 – 1984
In 1995, this album was released as an ordinary CD. (CD 19500)
On this totally re-mastered version for SACD – directly from the original analogue tapes – we have added two ”Bonus tracks”: One with our nowadays famous artist, Eric Bibb from his debut album on Opus 3 in 1977, ”Rainbow People” – an album that in the past only been available on LP. (Soon, it will be re-mastered and released on SACD!)
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Pain – Coming Home (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:26 minutes | 902 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
‘Coming Home’, is the 8th studio release of the Industrial institution PAIN. Take a deep breath, before you jump into this sea of Industrial Metal, thunderous orchestra arrangements and thrilling conspiracy theories – and Swedes, who are just designed to piss you off, in their most elegant way.
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Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Thomas Zehetmair – #4 Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 23 & 38 “Prague” / Violin Concerto No. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:41 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SKO RECORDS
What can we hear on this album? Firstly, a symphony that is only around nine minutes long, formally and tonally an Italian piece (with three merged movements). KV 181 in D major, composed in May 1773, shortly after the Milan premiere of “Lucio Silla”, begins with fanfares in Allegro spiritoso, followed by highly dramatic, expansive contrasts between major and minor, forte and piano, light and shadow, spanned over a “walking” bass, as well as effective dialogues between the first and second violins, which audibly emulate the tonal ideals of the Mannheim School. In the second movement, an Andantino grazioso, the solo oboe sings a melody that resembles a (two-part) opera aria. The Presto assai finale, a finely structured Rondo, uses dotted notes as it marches towards a happy end in a narrative that speaks to us without words.
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Space Time Continuo – Terra e cielo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:50 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Leaf Music Distribution
Leaf Music announces the distribution of a new recording, terra e cielo (STC2024) from Montreal’s Space Time Continuo baroque bass ensemble. This captivating album, to be released on March 8, re-imagines Italian vocal and instrumental music spanning the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. It features works by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Diego Ortiz, Giulio and Francesca Caccini and Girolamo Frescobaldi.
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