Daily Star 2011.01.12

David Bowie & Friends - Birthday Celebration, Live In NYC (2011) {2CD Set, Immortal IMA 104250 rec 1997}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 671 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 300 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 110 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1997, 2011 Immortal / IMC Music | IMA 104250
Rock / Experimental Rock

Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, New York City - January 9, 1997. The purpose was a charity concert for celebrating David Bowie's 50th birthday. Many friends of the artist took actively part at this event, therefore it is referred to as an album of "David Bowie & Friends": Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, Robert Smith (The Cure), Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Sonic Youth. For many years this Live album has circulated as a bootleg, now it has been officially released in April 2011.

Differences is a Dutch band of which few records have survived into the digital age, to the point where even the release year of their initial album appears to be mired in a haze of confusion. But the arguably most reliable sources indicate that the production in question, The Voyage, appeared in 1985. Initially issued as a vinyl LP on short-lived indie label Frizz Bee, then reissued on CD 6 years later by then fledgling Dutch label SI Music. Differences stand exactly on the thin line between the fading 70's Symphonic Rock stylings and the emerging Neo Prog trends of the 80's, leaning slightly towards the first style. The 75'-77' Genesis seem to be their strongest influence with a bit of second-wave Teutonic aura in the process akin to Anyone's Daughter and Rousseau and, of course, some reasonable Marillion echoes in the more haunting moments…