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Faith No More - Album Of The Year (1997) [Deluxe Edition 2016] (Official Digital Download) Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Aug. 2, 2023

Faith No More - Album Of The Year (1997) [Deluxe Edition 2016]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 77:45 minutes | 915 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Album of the Year" is Faith No More's sixth full-length release. It demonstrates the same kind of straight-ahead approach as its predecessor, „King For A Day“, but also contains plenty of surprises. The album was recorded entirely at bassist Billy Gould's home studio, and contains the highlights 'Collision,' 'Stripsearch,' 'Last Cup of Sorrow,' 'Naked in Front of the Computer,' and 'Helpless.' Despite the emergence of numerous up-and-coming bands that were mentioning FNM as an important influence, the bandmembers amicably went their separate ways upon the completion of their 1997-98 tour.

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The Stars Of Faith Of Black Nativity - Swing Low Sweet Chariot (1970/2017) [Official Digital Download 24/88] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at July 12, 2023

The Stars Of Faith Of Black Nativity - In Europe: Swing Low Sweet Chariot (1970/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 45:49 minutes | 895 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

One of America’s greatest gospel groups, The Stars of Faith was founded in 1958 by five members of the legendary Clara Ward Singers. Faith performed at the Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, and Madison Square Garden. They performed and toured with famed poet Langston Hughes’ Broadway play Black Nativity, gave a command performance for the English Royal Family, and appeared in Berlin with the Reverend Martin Luther King in front of a crowd of 20,000. Recorded live during a three-month European tour in 1969 the album represents an apotheosis of Afro-American gospel.

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Mahan Esfahani, Peter Watchorn - Dr. John Bull: Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 1 (2009) 2 CDs Music

Posted by Designol at July 8, 2024

The portrait of John Bull on the cover of this two-CD U.S. release gives an idea for the uninitiated of what to expect from the composer's music: it's intense, single-minded, and even a bit demonic (although the hourglass topped with a skull with a bone in its mouth is apparently an alchemical symbol). Bull was, in the words of an unidentified writer quoted by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, "the Liszt of the virginals." The most immediately apparent feature of his music is extreme virtuosity, on display especially in the mind-boggling set of variations entitled Walsingham (CD 1, track 8) and in the galliards of the pavan-galliard pairs. But the opposite pole in Bull's style exerts just as strong a pull: he is fascinated by strict polyphony by what would be called harmonic progressions, and by the close study of the implications contained within small musical units. As spectacular in their way as the keyboard fireworks are, the three separate settings of a tune called Why Ask You? on CD 2 are marvelous explorations of compressed musical gestures.

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