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Gram Parsons – GP (1973) [MFSL 2012] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · February 23, 2023 · Comments off

1973 Landmark Set a Profoundly Influential Record on Country, Folk, and Rock Genres. Influential doesn’t begin to capture the scope, legacy, and brilliance of Gram Parsons’ GP. By wedding traditional country threads with folk, soul, and rock fabrics, the singer/guitarist unconsciously gave birth to a new subgenre that would later evolve into what we now know as country-rock and Americana. Thematically, Parsons proves beyond his then 25-year-old age and addresses heartbreak, yearning, dreams, and wistful feelings with the lived-in conviction of someone many years his senior.

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Game Theory – Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 10, 2023 · Comments off

Packaging contains photos, liner notes & remembrances from members of Wilco and Guided By Voices Throughout the 1980s, the California based Game Theory was ONE OF THE MOST original (and critically acclaimed) indie-rock bands. Their blend of ’60s and ’70s pop influences such as Todd Rundgren and Big Star coupled with a post-punk energy led to a string of diverse albums nearly all produced by Mitch Easter of Let’s Active. For the past several years, Omnivore has painstakingly reissued each and every one of their original albums with the addition of a slew of unreleased bonus tracks. Their final album, 1988’s Two Steps From The Middle Ages was reissued in June 2017. That appeared to be the final chapter of their story, or was it? Hardcore Game Theory fans still talk about the band’s final line-up that toured the West Coast, but never released an album. Circa 1989–90, the band was rejuvenated with leader Scott Miller being joined by the legendary Michael Quercio from The Three O’Clock (who had recently broken up). Other interesting line-up changes included longtime Game Theory drummer Gil Ray moving over to guitar and keyboards, while Scott Miller’s former Alternate Learning bandmate (the original template of Game Theory) Jozef Becker, formerly of True West and Thin White Rope, joined as the drummer. Jozef is the brother of Game Theory’s original keyboardist, Nan Becker. Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript is the album that might have been at the time. There’s a blend of home and studio and live recordings. Songs that many fans haven’t heard unless they were lucky enough to catch a live show at the time and some songs which reappeared in significantly different form on the debut album from Scott Miller and Jozef Becker’s post-Game Theory band The Loud Family, Plants And Birds And Rocks And Things. Miller uniquely blended classic pop songwriting with groundbreaking art-rock influences, which is reflected in home recordings of Brian Eno’s “Needle In The Camel’s Eye” and The Nazz’s “Forget All About It”. There’s a feast of Scott Miller penned delights on the 14-song vinyl LP, and the CD includes an additional 10 unissued bonus tracks with Game Theory originals and songs originally recorded by artists such as Big Star and The Three O’Clock. Journey Across The Barrier Of Sound and enjoy this PostScript to a great band’s career, but also as a wonderful album in its own right.

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Faces – Faces (Live at John Peel’s Sunday Concert, 13 May 1971) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 29, 2023 · Comments off

Faces - Faces (Live at John Peel's Sunday Concert, 13 May 1971) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

The Faces (Russian Faces; from English – “Faces”) – British rock band, formed in 1969 by three members of The Small Faces (Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, Ian McLagan), who replaced the departed Steve Marriott invited Rod Stewart and Ron Wood from The Jeff Beck Group.
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Exoterm – Exits into a Corridor (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 19, 2023 · Comments off

Recorded over two days in Brooklyn in January 2018, Exoterm’s ‘Exits into a Corridor’ presents a new Norway/US supergroup playing compositions by bassist Rune Nergaard that mix thrashy, take-no-prisoners improv with dreamy, electronically-assisted soundscapes. Tough, muscular bass riffs from Nergaard and blasting, out-there saxophonics from Kristoffer Berre Alberts are complemented by the complex, multi-faceted musical personalities of drummer Jim Black and guitarist Nels Cline – both total legends in their field – to produce a distinctively edgy blend of influences and attributes.

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Emitt Rhodes – Rainbow Ends (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 9, 2023 · Comments off

Emitt Rhodes to release first new album in 43 years. Rainbow Ends coming February 26, 2016 from Omnivore Recordings. The singer-songwriter, whose 1971 debut is a power-pop classic, was joined by special guests Roger Joseph Manning Jr. & Jason Falkner of Jellyfish, Nels Cline, Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs, Jon Brion, Bleu, and members of Brian Wilson’s band.

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EOB – Earth (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 3, 2023 · Comments off

You can’t miss Ed O’Brien – he’s the tall fella always stood on the left in Radiohead. He’s the bedrock of the band’s stage presence, and on record holds the centre of their sound with his artful rhythm guitar, synth atmospherics and soulful vocals. Away from their day jobs, the spotlight tends to land his fellow band members: Thom Yorke’s lauded dance music and Jonny Greenwood’s stellar movie scores. “The last thing the world needs is a shit album by me,” O’Brien has confessed.

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Various Artists – Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 1, 2023 · Comments off

Sleater-Kinney are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their third studio album Dig Me Out with the release of a new covers album: Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album is due out October 21. A portion of the proceeds from the album will be donated to SMYRC, an LGBTQIA+ youth center based in Portland.

Earlier this year, the band announced that Wilco, St. Vincent, Courtney Barnett, Low, the Linda Lindas, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio would each be covering songs from the 1997 album, and now, the group has shared the full tracklist. The album will include new versions of the original Dig Me Out songs performed by the aforementioned musicians, as well as Low, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Margo Price, and others.

Ahead of the release, Courtney Barnett has shared her cover of “Words and Guitar.” The track arrives with a new lyric video that you can watch below.

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Trampled by Turtles – Alpenglow (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 31, 2022 · Comments off

Produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Alpenglow is the Minnesota-based sextet’s tenth album. The album, named after the optical phenomenon that takes places when the sun casts a reddish glow across the mountains at dawn and dusk, opens with the wistful beauty of “It’s So Hard To Hold On”. The narrator contemplates the passing of time and how imperative it is to savor it while you have it.

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Diamond Head – Lightning To The Nations 2020 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 19, 2022 · Comments off

Re-imagined, re-recorded and re-born, Diamond Head’s forthcoming 40-year celebration of their genre-defining debut album Lightning To The Nations is a scintillating shot of fresh metal energy. Taking the material which spawned the ground-breaking New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), Diamond Head utilise all their skill, experience and revitalised energy to breathe so much new life into these freshly recorded takes that it feels like experiencing the earth shaking all over again. The levels of fresh energy in these celebration sessions will blow doors and socks off all who hear them, and the potency of timeless riffage such as “It’s Electric” and “The Prince” literally scream at the listener. Founder member, lead guitarist/songsmith Brian Tatler and rhythm guitarist Andy Abberley give the guitars a new razor edge, Karl Wilcox on drums and Dean Ashton on bass are a buoyant bombastic platform, while vocalist Rasmus Bom Andersen brings a brilliant new take on the vocals. Anderson also produced and mixed the album with a freshness and attack which will thrill fans old and new. As if that wasn’t enough, Diamond Head add four covers to the album, Judas Priest’s “Sinner”, Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”, Deep Purple’s “Rat Bat Blue” and a stunning take of Metallica’s “No Remorse”, which is a tribute’s tribute to the band who openly formed under enormous influence from Diamond Head, and covered several of the songs on Lightning To The Nations, decades ago. Diamond Head’s debut was a classic once already; it is about to be a stone cold classic once more.

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Dale Nikkel – Home and Away (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 3, 2022 · Comments off

Dale Nikkel is a restless soul. The proof is in his songs. But more telling might be the stack of Uhaul truck rental receipts on his desk. Stops along the way have included Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and most recently Southern Ontario. Dale has shared festival workshop stages with some of North America’s greatest songwriters including Eliza Gilkyson, Stephen Fearing, Dan Bern and American folk icon David Wilcox. Dale has also shared concert billings with some of Canada’s finest songwriters including Murray McLaughlan, Garnet Rogers, Tom Wilson and The Wailin’ Jennys to name only a few.

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Cup – Spinning Creature (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 26, 2022 · Comments off

CUP is the duo of Nels Cline (the guitarist/composer best known for his work with Wilco) and Yuka C Honda (the composer/keyboardist/programmer best known for her work with Cibo Matto). Combining aspects of electronica, folk, improvisation, and some heated rocking, this debut recording perhaps predictably defies easy categorization. But fear not! Contained within this package is a sometimes sweet, sometimes jarring, but always compelling excursion into what a shared sensibility sounds like, and after taking the journey that is ‘Spinning Creature’ it all feels just right as CUP’s music veers from the accessible to the abstract and back.

‘Spinning Creature’ was recorded in about three days in Brooklyn. In the last several years, Nels and Yuka had performed some of the songs included on this record, while always leaving room for improvisation in their sets as well. This recording was approached with those same parameters. Thus, one hears songs with lyrics and some semblance of song structure as well as pieces that were created spontaneously. A significant bonus factor in the recording process is that Yuka could take tracks to her home studio and give them the “Eucademix” treatment, meaning to sculpt details of the tracks, adding her often meticulous sound production while still honoring the live performance aspects. This balance is what CUP music is all about. Nels and Yuka (who are married, by the way) even sing a little here and there as they enter their singular sound world. And now you can enter it, too!

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Clarence Bucaro – Passionate Kind (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 24, 2022 · Comments off

Ohio-bred songwriter Clarence Bucaro will release his latest album Passionate Kind on May 18. He’s offered up a first taste of the album in the form of “Where Do I Go,” a contemplative folk song that considers Bucaro’s place in an increasingly tumultuous social climate.

“These times are overwhelming,” Bucaro says. “Everyone seems confused and angry, even devastated. There’s a lot of disbelief, a lot of questions, a lot of wondering what’s going to happen next.”

Bucaro recorded Passionate Kind at Chicago studio the Loft with producer Tom Schick, known for his work with Wilco and Ryan Adams. The album will release via 2020 Records.

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Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Kirsty Hopkins & Mark Dobell – Howard Goodall: Invictus. A Passion (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 21, 2022 · Comments off

Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Kirsty Hopkins & Mark Dobell – Howard Goodall: Invictus. A Passion (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:59 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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Persecution of the innocent, malevolent authority exerting itself against ideas that threaten and challenge, the power of a peaceful, loving humility in the face of tyranny, the facing-down of fear. Such is the power of the Passion story and so it appears in Howard Goodall’s new work, Invictus: A Passion. Forty-five years of writing musical theatre (as well as some more hilarious scores for Mr. Bean and for Blackadder!) has inevitably shaped the way he sets narrative texts, carefuly avoiding the abstract, opaque or overly elusive. Likewise he makes no apology for his musical idiom being very, very approachable. Goodall has found a route directly to people’s hearts, telling the story afresh through his choice of texts – not the Gospels but poems by various female authors: Gethsemane by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mary Magdalene and the Other Mary by Christina Georgina Rossetti and Slave Auction by Ellen Watkins Harper, interwoven with the 1611 verse narrative of the biblical Passion by Æmelia Lanyer née Bassano, one of the first books published in the English language by a female poet. The world premiere recording of this brand new choral work is performed by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, with the Lanyer Ensemble and soloists from The Sixteen, conducted by Stephen Darlington, the very same team that gave the European premiere in May 2018.

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The Paranoid Style – For Executive Meeting (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 7, 2022 · Comments off

For Executive Meeting begins with an elegy for the radical, tragic Pop Art titan Barney Bubbles and ends with a revved-up cover of Rosanne Cash’s peerless “Seven Year Ache.” Throughout the ten songs in-between, Elizabeth Nelson weaves together stories about figures like Steve Cropper, P.G. Wodehouse, and Doug Yule, laments the loss of David Berman and Adam Schlesinger, and duets with Patterson Hood from the Drive-By Truckers on an infectious tribute to John Prine.

Loaded with vivid detail and memorable riffs, it proves what in-the-know critics have been saying for years: Elizabeth Nelson is one of our best songwriters.

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Vetiver – Up on High (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 25, 2022 · Comments off

Vetiver is the long-running stage and recording name of San Francisco’s Andy Cabic. ‘Up On High’ is his seventh studio album and the first since 2015. Vetiver has toured around the world on headline tours and supporting artists that include Wilco, The Shins, Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Bob Weir & Phil Lesh, and Vashti Bunyan. Vetiver craft nuanced, understated songs that reward careful listening, building a rich duality; a space where sunshine is only a chord away from melancholy, an introspective lyric underlies an extroverted chorus and subtlety tries to be outgoing in an effort to connect the dots of life’s ellipsis. ‘Up On High’ was recorded with longtime collaborator Thom Monahan (Neko Case, Bedouine, Fruit Bats, The Donkeys, Peter Bjorn and John, Beachwood Sparks, Little Joy). Instrumentation comes from an all-world cast that includes Eric Johnson (Fruit Bats, EDJ), Gabriel Noel (Kendrick Lamar, Father John Misty, Tyler the Creator), Dan Iead (Kevin Morby, Cass McCombs), Josh Adams (Bedouine, Wild Nothing), and Tim Ramsey (Fruit Bats, Little Wings).

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