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Asia - Alpha (1983) [2014, Universal Music, UICY-40059]  Music

Posted by v3122 at Sept. 29, 2019
Asia - Alpha (1983) [2014, Universal Music, UICY-40059]

Asia - Alpha (1983)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2014 | Universal Music, UICY-40059 | ~ 332 or 118 Mb | Scans(png) -> 189 Mb
Progressive Rock | Mini LP Platinum SHM-CD

"Alpha" is the second album by the "supergroup", and once again comprises entirely of shorter, more commercially orientated songs than those of the members' previous groups. The album is very much a follow on from the band's debut album, but benefits from the famous four knowing each other that bit better, and thus working more cohesively together…
Dino Saluzzi Group - El Valle De La Infancia (2014) {ECM 2370}

Dino Saluzzi Group - El Valle De La Infancia (2014) {ECM 2370}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 303MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 176MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, World Fusion

Argentinean bandoneonist-composer-improviser Dino Saluzzi returns to his roots with El Valle de la Infancia. Recorded at Saluzzi Music Studios in Buenos Aires, it’s the first of his discs to feature his “family band” since 2005’s Juan Condori. Here Dino is heard with his brother Felix on tenor sax and clarinet, his son José María on guitars, and nephew Matías on basses.

Asia - Asrta (1985) [2014, Universal Music, UICY-40070]  Music

Posted by v3122 at Sept. 30, 2019
Asia - Asrta (1985) [2014, Universal Music, UICY-40070]

Asia - Asrta (1985)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2014 | Universal Music, UICY-40070 | ~ 293 or 106 Mb | Scans(png, 600dpi) -> 214 Mb
Progressive Rock | Mini LP Platinum SHM-CD

Released in 1985, Astra is Asia's third studio album and first without guitarist Steve Howe. While somewhat unfairly regarded in comparison to Asia's first two albums, Astra is nonetheless a solid prog rock outing that finds bassist/vocalist John Wetton, keyboardist Geoff Downes, drummer Carl Palmer, and replacement guitarist, Krokus' Mandy Meyer, delivering a set of melodic and driving rock anthems…

VA - Boogie Uproar: Gems From The Peacock Vaults (2014) 2CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 1, 2023
VA - Boogie Uproar: Gems From The Peacock Vaults (2014) 2CDs

VA - Boogie Uproar: Gems From The Peacock Vaults (2014) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 493 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 313 Mb | Scans ~ 25 Mb
Texas Blues, Rhythm & Blues | Label: One Day Music | # DAY2CD241 | Time: 02:16:39

The formation of Peacock Records in late 1949 dates back to an event nearly three years earlier when a young guitarist called Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown saw his chance to grab the spotlight - and took it with both hands! 'Gate' had never been backward in coming forward. When legendary bluesman T-Bone Walker fell ill in mid-performance, he leapt up, picked up the guitar left on the stage and started playing his own 'Gatemouth Boogie'. 15 minutes later a star was born. The owner of the club, Don Robey, ensured the young upstart put his autograph on a management contact. Robey would eventually found Peacock Records to release his music, and that's where the label's history starts.
Roberta Invernizzi, Craig Marchitelli - La bella più bella: Songs from Early Baroque Italy (2014)

Roberta Invernizzi, Craig Marchitelli - La bella più bella: Songs from Early Baroque Italy (2014)
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:16:54 | 335 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Glossa | Catalog: GCD922902

It is with much pleasure that Glossa is able to announce the release of a further new recording featuring the marvellous vocal talents of that queen of Baroque music, Roberta Invernizzi: La bella più bella. Known for her dazzling and elegant displays in the music of the later Baroque – Handel and Vivaldi come to mind, but also her Naples-related travelogue on the recent I Viaggi di Faustina – the Milanese singer has also nurtured, across her career, the more delicate and nuanced art of the Italian song repertory from the early 17th century, a time when courtly and polyphonic expression were giving way to the “moving of the emotions” by a solo singer accompanied by a single instrument. Renato Dolcini guides us through the musical evolution of this form in his illuminating booklet essay.

Andy Bey - Pages From An Imaginary Life (2014)  Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 9, 2023
Andy Bey - Pages From An Imaginary Life (2014)

Andy Bey - Pages From An Imaginary Life (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 286 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans included
Vocal Jazz, Soul Jazz, Piano Jazz | Label: HighNote | # HCD 7266 | Time: 01:06:40

Coming off his Grammy-nominated 2013 album, The World According to Andy Bey, vocalist/pianist Andy Bey delivers the equally compelling 2014 release Pages from an Imaginary Life. As with its predecessor, Pages finds the jazz iconoclast returning to his roots with a set of American Popular Song standards done in a ruminative, stripped-down style. This is Bey, alone at the piano, delving deeply into the harmony, melody, and lyrics of each song. But don't let the spare setting fool you. Bey is a master of interpretation. In his seventies at the time of recording, and having performed over the years in a variety of settings from leading his own swinging vocal trio, to working with hard bop pioneer Horace Silver, to exploring the avant-garde with Archie Shepp, Bey has aged into a jazz oracle who doesn't so much perform songs as conjure them from somewhere in the mystical ether of his psyche.
Ensemble Meridien; Laia Frigole, Juan de la Rubia - A German Soul: Devotional Music from 17th-century Hamburg (2014)

A German Soul - Devotional Music from 17th-century Hamburg (2014)
Ensemble Méridien; Laia Frigolé, soprano; Juan de la Rubia, organ

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94717 | Time: 01:04:06

This stylishly devised programme juxtaposes cantatas by Rosenmüller, Krieger and Buxtehude with instrumental chorales and sonatas by Scheidemann, Praetorius, Tunder and Weckmann; most of these now known, if at all widely, as forerunners to Bach rather than as fine musicians in their own right as they deserve to be. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Hamburg became a leading commercial port where material and cultural goods circulated freely. Ensemble Méridien has chosen this city as the focal point of a fascinating musical journey through northern Germany, a journey that reveals different aspects of this artistic power. The port of Hamburg was also the driving force behind the north German organ school of the time. Churches were overflowing with magnificent organs, and their building and playing techniques reached extremely high standards, as is evident from the organ music included here. Though most of the music in this recital has been recorded before, it has only appeared on relatively obscure labels, and not in this imaginative context where one may more fully appreciate its dramatic as well as musical merits.

BBC - From Scotland with Love (2014)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 29, 2019
BBC - From Scotland with Love (2014)

BBC - From Scotland with Love (2014)
HDTV | 960x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3002 Kbps | 1 h 10 min | 1.55 GiB
Audio: English AAC 163 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, a journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depths of the vaults to take a starring role. These silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote's poetic music and lyrics.

Various Artists - Great Songs from the War Years (2014)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 17, 2023
Various Artists - Great Songs from the War Years (2014)

Various Artists - Great Songs from the War Years (2014)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:01:17 | 586 / 409 Mb
Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & Country / Label: Big3

The most beautiful country & jazz songs by Murray Johnson, John McCormack, Vera Lynn and many more on one compilation!
Billy Cobham - Tales From The Skeleton Coast (2014) {Creative MultiMedia}

Billy Cobham - Tales From The Skeleton Coast (2014) {Creative MultiMedia}
EAC 1.0b2 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 400dpi | 454MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 158MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Fusion

Today marks the 70th birthday of one of the greatest drummers of this, or any generation; the remarkable Billy Cobham. From his earliest recordings with Horace Silver, Miles Davis and Milt Jackson, to his scintillating and seminal work with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, keyboardist George Duke, and his own groups, like Culture Mix, Asere and the Spectrum 40; Cobham has thrilled audiences around the world by bringing his incomparable talents as a composer, drummer, and producer to the forefront of jazz, rock, fusion and world music. His latest effort is the eagerly awaited "Tales from the Skeleton Coast", part 3 of a series dedicated to his Panamanian parents.