レーベル Sony Music Labels Inc.
配信開始日 2014.09.24
収録曲数 全14曲
販売データ ハイレゾ｜FLAC｜96.0kHz/24bit
45万枚を突破した前作『VOICE』から約2年振り、中島美嘉待望の通算6枚目となるオリジナルニューアルバム! 本作は、ヒット曲満載の充実の一枚。2010年最初の涙をさらったバラード「ALWAYS」(中山美穂主演映画『サヨナライツカ』主題歌)をはじめ、自身の出演で話題沸騰中のドラマ『うぬぼれ刑事』挿入歌「一番綺麗な私を」、新リプトンリモーネTV-CMソング「Over Load」、もはや中島美嘉の使命とも言うべき星をモチーフにした歌「流れ星」(ハウスメイトCMソング)、レディースウェアブランドとのコラボで話題となったTシャツ付きシングル「CANDY GIRL」まで、全てのシングルを網羅した大傑作! (more…)
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レーベル Sony Music Labels Inc.
配信開始日 2014.09.24
収録曲数 全14曲
販売データ ハイレゾ｜FLAC｜96.0kHz/24bit
前作『YES』より約1年半ぶりとなる中島の5枚目のアルハ゛ム『VOICE』!困難に立ち向かう全ての人にエールを送った『LIFE』(フシ゛テレヒ゛系土曜ト゛ラマ「ライフ」主題歌)、中島×星×冬という大傑作の方程式で彩られた『ORION』(TBS系金曜ト゛ラマ「流星の絆」挿入歌)、女芸人”森三中”とのコラホ゛ロックハ゛ント゛”MICA 3 CHU”で世間の度肝を抜いた『I DON’T KNOW』(KATE TV-CFソンク゛)、ひたむきながらも強い意志を貫く女性像を描いた『永遠の詩』(豊川悦司主演映画「サウスハ゛ウント゛」主題歌)、別れと旅たちが交差する切ない春という季節にしっかりと前をみて歩く決意を歌った『SAKURA~花霞~』(今アルハ゛ムにはDAISHI DANCE Ver.を収録!)、更に!配信限定でリリースされ、そのクオリティゆえにCD化の声が殺到した『あなたがいるから』(ケータイ小説老舗サイト”魔法のiらんど”とのタイアッフ゜曲)それに加え!キャノン「IXY DIGITAL 920IS」TV-CMソンク゛として大量オンエア中のエレクトロホ゜ッフ゜『FOCUS』など、その音楽的レンシ゛の広さを証明するヒット曲、話題満載の全14曲収録!タイトル『VOICE』通り、中島の”声”、そして”強く生きる女性”としてのライフスタイルが堪能できる音楽ファン待望の一枚、ついに完成です!初回生産限定盤はシンク゛ルヒ゛テ゛オクリッフ゜が収録されたDVD付! (more…)
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レーベル Sony Music Labels Inc.
配信開始日 2014.09.24
収録曲数 全14曲
販売データ ハイレゾ｜FLAC｜96.0kHz/24bit
中島美嘉の新たなステージを拓く、待望の4thアルバム
前作『MUSIC』以降、POPシンガーとしてのきらめきを保ちながら、完成度の高いサウンドプロダクションによる作品群を提示し続ける歌姫・中島美嘉。そのアーティスティックな魅力を改めて実感できる待望の4thアルバムです。5枚のシングルに加え、CMで話題の『I LOVE YOU』のアルバム・ヴァージョンなどを含む全14曲を収録。クリエイター・プレイヤー陣にアラン・トゥーサン、RYOJI(ケツメイシ)、奥田民生、宮沢和史(THE BOOM)、佐藤タイジ(シアターブルック)、Dr.kyOn、土屋公平、持田香織(Every Little Thing)、五島良子、Lori Fine(COLDFEET)など世界規模で活躍するトップミュージシャンを数多く起用した代表曲・名曲の揃った、期待を裏切らない作品です。
『CRY NO MORE』『ALL HANDS TOGETHER』『MY SUGAR CAT』『見えない星』と圧倒的なスピードと存在感で”リズム&ブルース”をテーマに次々とヒットを放ち、表現力・歌唱力を成長させてきた軌跡。さらに、アメリカ南部メンフィス~ニュー・オーリンズへの音楽巡礼の旅、NANA名義での映画出演、”NANA”として最初で最後のアルバム『THE END』の発表。その活動の集大成作品への期待が高まり続ける中、満を持してリリースされるニューアルバムです。
◇『見えない星』…日本テレビ系ドラマ「ハケンの品格」主題歌
◇『素直なまま』…ドコモ春のキャンペーンTVCMタイアップソング
◇『CRY NO MORE』…MBS・TBS系全国ネットアニメ『BLOOD+』エンディングテーマ
◇『DANCE WITH THE DEVIL』…KATE TV-CFソング
◇『BLACK & BLUE』…KATE TV-CFソング
◇『MY SUGAR CAT』…KATE TV-CFソング (more…)
The Connection – Labor Of Love (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1kHz | Time – 30:48 minutes | 378 MB | Genre: Garage Rock / Power Pop
Official Digital Download – Source: Bandcamp | @ Rum Bar Records
They’ve been applauded by rock pioneer, visionary, and former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. They’re championed by “E Street” legend Little Steven Van Zandt and heard just about every day on the Underground Garage. Now The Connection on the roll again with their new album. – “Labor Of Love” is the soundtrack to the love child of Nick Lowe, Flamin’ Groovies, the Kinks, and Graham Parker stumbling through the Bowery with the swagger of Exile-era Rolling Stones; finishing off the night by passing out on the Ramones’ studio floor. (more…)
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Susan Wong – 511 (2009/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 00:47:22 minutes | 947 MB | Genre: Jazz, Pop
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Evosound
Two years on since her last studio album, Susan Wong returns with a new album and a fresh direction. Working with Swiss based producer, Adrien Zerbini and Spanish guitarist Ignacio Lamas, Susan took a more ‘hands on’ approach for the 13 new songs recorded in Switzerland in early 2009. The opening song on the album is a bossa nova influenced version of the Earth Wind & Fire classic, September.
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Makaya McCraven – In The Moment (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1 kHz | Time – 1:13:41 minutes | 810 MB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: Bandcamp | @ International Anthem
Drummer/producer Makaya McCraven brings together “future-is-now drumming” with his roots in jazz and world music to form his unique and powerful sound. Regarded as “one of Chicago’s most versatile and in demand drummers” (Chicago Reader) and described by Downbeat Magazine as “exceptional on the drums,” Makaya McCraven moves between genres at lightning speed. “In The Moment” is nearly 48 hours of live improvised performance recorded at 1 venue over 12 months and 28 shows – culled, cut, rendered, and remixed into 19 potent pieces of organic beat music. This is music made by a 21st century man who sees no need to suppress his hip hop chops or rock spirit in an effort to fit in and be dubbed a jazz drummer. (more…)
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Lianne La Havas – Is Your Love Big Enough? {Deluxe Edition} (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1 kHz | Time – 1:02:49 minutes | 657 MB | Genre: Alternative
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Nonesuch
Following critically acclaimed EPs, sold-out shows worldwide and a BBC Sound of 2012 nomination, songstress Lianne La Havas has emerged as one of the U.K.’s shining new prospects. The honey toned vocalist captivated audiences with her appearance on Later … with Jools Holland in 2011 and excitement quickly spread. Her full-length debut, Is Your Love Big Enough? is a profound statement about the many facets of love, blending elements of pop, folk and soul. The material on the album ranges from the lyrically compelling opener “Don’t Wake Me Up” to the stunning piano tune “Gone.” Is Your Love Big Enough? has already been praised byThe Washington Post as not only the best debut of the year, but arguably one of the year’s best albums.
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“…a 22-year-old Londoner with a haunting, jazz-inflected voice…” – Entertainment Weekly
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Jimmy Rogers – Blue Bird (1994/2012)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 53:44 minutes | 1,55 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:51 minutes | 763 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: AcousticSounds
Genre: Blues | @ APO Records
Analogue Productions is proud to present the definitive album by Jimmy Rogers, one of the three founders of Muddy Water’s first and greatest band, and a Chicago blues giant in his own right.
Jimmy, whose evocative and earthy guitar sound embodies Chicago Blues, is recognized as a writer of Chicago blues songs second only to Willie Dixon and is regarded as one of the greatest Chicago blues singers by fans and musical legends alike, including Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who credits Jimmy as being one of his three greatest musical influences along with Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry.
As the musical genre Jimmy pioneered is gaining mass popularity in the nineties, Jimmy’s classic guitar work has been heard by millions in television commercials featuring songs such as Rock Me by Muddy Waters and I Ain’t Superstitiousby Howlin’ Wolf.
Jimmy is joined on this album by an all-star group comprised of the legendary pianist Johnnie Johnson, who was the backbone of all Chuck Berry’s greatest hits, harmonica virtuoso Carey Bell, bassist Dave Myers, drummer Ted Harvey and lead guitarist Jimmy D. Lane. This recording won a W.C. Handy Award for the Best Traditional Blues Album in 1995. (more…)
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James Falzone’s Renga Ensemble – The Room Is (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:11 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: Bandcamp | @ Allos Documents
The debut recording from James Falzone’s Renga Ensemble, handpicked by Falzone, drawing together some of the most diverse and adventurous clarinet and saxophone players working in jazz and improvised music today. (more…)
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 1,58 Gb
Mastered By David Gold
Label: Reprise Records/2RX 2296 | Release: 1979 | Genre: Country-Rock
All the kudos Neil Young earned for Rust Never Sleeps he lost for Live Rust, the double-LP live album released four months later. Live Rust was the soundtrack to Young’s concert film Rust Never Sleeps (he had wanted to give it that title, but Reprise vetoed the idea, fearing confusion with the earlier album), and likewise was recorded October 22, 1978, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. But much of the Rust Never Sleeps album had been recorded on the same tour, and Live Rust repeated four songs from that disc; besides, since Young had released the career retrospective Decade in 1977, critics felt he was unfairly recycling his older material and repeating his new material. In retrospect, however, Live Rust, now a single 74-minute CD, comes off as an excellent Neil Young live album and career summary, starting with the early song “Sugar Mountain” and running through then-new songs like “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)” and “Powderfinger.” Young is effective in both his acoustic folksinger and hard-rocking Crazy Horse bandleader modes. The various distractions of the concert itself and the film, such as the pretentious props and cowled roadies, are absent, and what’s left is a terrific Neil Young concert recording.
Review by William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com (more…)
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Man - Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 746mb
Label: United Artists Records/29 417 I | Release: 1972 | Genre: Progressive-Rock
Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day is a bit of classic in the Man catalogue, not least because it contains the classics C’mon and Bananas which have been live favourites since this release in 1972. The album only contains four tracks so there’s ample opportunity for the band to stretch out on the Psychedelic west coast influenced jams much like they do live. This original version of C’mon sets a fine standard for the rest of the album to live up too. Less frantic than it usually is live it starts with a wonderful Micky Jones guitar riff familiar to all Man fans before settling into an easy groove courtesy of inventive drummer Terry Williams. Things are taken down a notch for the instrumental Organ dominated mid section before some of the bands trademark harmonies bring us back in to where we started. As testimony to the greatness of this track is it must have made more appearances on Man live albums than any other song by the band some of which are even better versions than this one here.
Keep On Crinting keeps the standard high with some lovely guitar picking and a great Williams shuffle on the drums. It’s an instrumental with Phil Ryan’s Keyboards (not always an instrument present in the band line up) given equal rein to the guitars of Jones and Clive John. (Yes, no Deke Leonard here who must have kicked himself for missing out on this one).
Bananas opens side 2 of the original vinyl version and as already mentioned was to become another Man classic with it’s jagged rhythmic structure, though a more steady groove prevails, at least in part for the excellent instrumental interplay of the mid section which builds up to a frantic pace before things calm down again to fade out with some spacey guitar work.
Life On The Road closes and is a bluesy shuffle propelled by Williams and bassist Phil Youatt. Once again between the vocal sections there’s space for instrumental workouts and although it’s probably the weakest of the four tracks it’s still an enjoyable listen not least for the guitar interplay between Jones and John.
This comes close to being the very best of Man studio albums but is just beaten by the brilliant Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics but due to the inclusion of the essential C’mon and Bananas makes it the perfect place to start your Man collection from.
Review by Nightfly, progarchives.com
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Mainhorse - Mainhorse
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 844mb
Label: Polydor/2383 049 | Release: 1971 | Genre: Progressive-Rock
I was 10 when I heard the song “More tea vicar” in an AM radio, by the way a melody I didn’t know his authorship and name. This melody has accompanied me throughout my life. My surprise was great when I knew it was a symphonic rock group called “Mainhorse” (many years later.)
The LP is wonderful from start to finish and is the only work of this group, which has distinguished the Swiss keyboardist Pratrick Moraz (Yes, Refugee, etc). I am pleased to leave this recording and you can enjoy this jewel of progressive rock.
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Lennon-Plastic Ono Band - Shaved Fish
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 826mb
Mastered At Master Cutting Room
Label: Capitol Records/SW-3421 | Release: 1975 | This Issue: 1978 | Genre: Pop-Rock
At the time of its release, Shaved Fish didn’t attract as much attention as any compilation of John Lennon’s work would have either a few years before or a few years after. Lennon had just issued the somewhat disappointing genre album, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and was only a year from Walls and Bridges, not one of his strongest albums, and had also grown somewhat stale as a public figure. Drawing on his singles up to that point in his career, it shows a punkier, more defiant vision of Lennon’s work than subsequent compilations, which would dwell on a broader cross section of his output. “Happy Christmas” and “Imagine” are moments of peace in the company of artifacts from his political/agitprop (“Power to the People”) and primal scream (“Mother”) periods, and his attempts at topical songwriting (“Woman Is the Nigger of the World”), and “Whatever Gets You Through the Night,” which was unique to this LP, was a better piece of mainstream rock & roll than any of the late-’50s numbers that he ground out for Rock ‘n’ Roll. This collection, which was the last LP release to come from Lennon in any form until Double Fantasy five years later, was the only compilation of his work released in Lennon’s own lifetime, and has since been supplanted by various posthumous assemblies of his music.
Review by Bruce Eder, allmusic.com (more…)
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Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy (1973)
Vinyl rip in 24 bit/96 kHz | 894 Mb, 3% RAR Recovery | FLAC tracks | Artwork
Atlantic – K 50014 (First UK, Porky Pecko, 1973) | Rock
Houses of the Holy follows the same basic pattern as Led Zeppelin IV, but the approach is looser and more relaxed. Jimmy Page’s riffs rely on ringing, folky hooks as much as they do on thundering blues-rock, giving the album a lighter, more open atmosphere. While the pseudo-reggae of “D’Yer Mak’er” and the affectionate James Brown send-up “The Crunge” suggest that the band was searching for material, they actually contribute to the musical diversity of the album. “The Rain Song” is one of Zep’s finest moments, featuring a soaring string arrangement and a gentle, aching melody. “The Ocean” is just as good, starting with a heavy, funky guitar groove before slamming into an a cappella section and ending with a swinging, doo wop-flavored rave-up. With the exception of the rampaging opening number, “The Song Remains the Same,” the rest of Houses of the Holy is fairly straightforward, ranging from the foreboding “No Quarter” and the strutting hard rock of “Dancing Days” to the epic folk/metal fusion “Over the Hills and Far Away.” Throughout the record, the band’s playing is excellent, making the eclecticism of Page and Robert Plant’s songwriting sound coherent and natural.
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John Wetton - King’s Road: 1972-1980
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 1,03 Gb
Label: EG/EGLP 70 | Release: 1987 | Genre: Progressive-Rock
This collection, marking the end of John Wetton’s association with E.G. Records, is a somewhat skewed compilation of his work in the seventies. Five songs by U.K., five from his first solo album, one track listed as coming from the one album from his seventy-nine one-off band Jack-Knife (the track isn’t listed on sites I can find for the album, so I presume it was left off of the LP), and, strangely, only two tracks by King Crimson (and only one of these was on the original LP version). For the most part, the sonds tend toward Wetton’s pop side, a direction he was heading in when U.K. was declining. At least the U.K. songs have a small amount of prog in them. The songs from “Caught In The Crossfire” are just a small hair better (for the most part) than the AOR drivel Wetton created in Asia.
The better songs are In The Dead Of Night, from U.K.’s debut, and Starless (the track not on the LP) dfrom King Crimson’s “Red”.
Eyesight To The Blind by Wetton’s Jack-Knife (which also included Richard Palmer-James) is worth hearing just because it’s so different from any other version I know of, but only adds slight value to this collection.
Review by Evolver, progarchives.com (more…)
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