From The Company of Shadows

VA - Deep In The Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975 (2022)

VA - Deep In The Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 553 MB
3:51:54 | Full scans Included | Folk, Funk, Psychedelia | Label: Strawberry

Triple CD set collecting rare cuts and cult favourites from the worlds of psychedelic, pastoral and funky folk, 1968-1975. Focusing on the outpouring of psychedelic folk flavours that emerged swiftly after the first psychedelic era. Featuring some wonderful selections from long collectable acts such as Sunforest, Mellow Candle, Trees, Heron, Trader Horne, Christine Harwood and many more. Compiled by Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve/The Grid), the compilation is themed around UK and Irish music from that hallowed period, and comes with a 7000 word essay and sleeve notes from the musician/producer. Celebrating the collision of traditional folk with new psychedelic studio techniques, new and exotic textures, and a developing groove. It's a wide and broad range of styles, drawing from folk, it's oral storytelling tradition, and also from jazz, beat, rhythm and blues, and the more mind opening sounds of psychedelia. Housed in a 3 CD digipack, designed in a striking wraparound collage by Lyndon Pike.

Helen Shapiro - The Best Of The EMI Years (1991)  Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 18, 2023
Helen Shapiro - The Best Of The EMI Years (1991)

Helen Shapiro - The Best Of The EMI Years (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 292 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 119 Mb | Scans ~ 67 Mb | 00:52:00
AM Pop, Vocal Pop, British Invasion, Early Pop/Rock | Label: EMI | # CDP 7 96448 2

Helen Shapiro is remembered today by younger pop culture buffs as the slightly awkward actress/singer in Richard Lester's 1962 debut feature film, It's Trad, Dad. From 1961 until 1963, however, Shapiro was England's teenage pop music queen, at one point selling 40,000 copies daily of her biggest single, "Walking Back to Happiness," during a 19-week chart run. A deceptively young 14 when she was discovered, Shapiro had a rich, expressive voice properly sounding like the property of someone twice as old, and she matured into a seasoned professional very quickly.
Jim Reeves - The Real... Jim Reeves: The Ultimate Collection (2013) 3CD Set

Jim Reeves - The Real… Jim Reeves: The Ultimate Collection (2013) 3CD Set
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 676 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 349 Mb | Scans included
Country, Pop, Ballads | Label: RCA, Sony Music | # 88883778182 | Time: 02:26:47

Gentleman Jim Reeves was perhaps the biggest male star to emerge from the Nashville sound. His mellow baritone voice and muted velvet orchestration combined to create a sound that echoed around his world and has lasted to this day. Detractors will call the sound country-pop (or plain pop), but none can argue against the large audience that loves this music. Reeves was capable of singing hard country ("Mexican Joe" went to number one in 1953), but he made his greatest impact as a country-pop crooner. From 1955 through 1969, Reeves was consistently in the country and pop charts – an amazing fact in light of his untimely death in an airplane accident in 1964. Not only was he a presence in the American charts, but he became country music's foremost international ambassador and, if anything, was even more popular in Europe and Britain than in his native America.
Skinshape - Arrogance is the Death of Men (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Skinshape - Arrogance is the Death of Men (2020) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 38:08 minutes | 388 MB
Rock | Label: Lewis Recordings, Official Digital Download

Second album in less than a year from the prolific William Dorey.

Accordion War: Korea 1951--Life and Death in a Marine Rifle Company  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Free butterfly at March 9, 2023
Accordion War: Korea 1951--Life and Death in a Marine Rifle Company

Accordion War: Korea 1951–Life and Death in a Marine Rifle Company by Charles Hughes
English | 2006 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B001AUAWNO | 416 pages | MOBI | 2.11 Mb

The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story (Repost)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at Jan. 5, 2019
The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story (Repost)

The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story By Robert Baer, Dayna Baer
2012 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0307588157 | EPUB | 3 MB
VA - The Backbeat of Rock and Roll 1948 - 1962: Seminal Sounds from the Instrumental Epoch (Deluxe Edition) (2014)

VA - The Backbeat of Rock and Roll 1948 - 1962: Seminal Sounds from the Instrumental Epoch (Deluxe Edition) (2014)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 694 MB
4:44:54 | Rock 'N' Roll, Instrumental | Label: Famous Flames Recording Company

Throughout the 1950s, the concept of the instrumental track was wrestled away from the cloying strings of MOR orchestras and into the hands of screwdriver-wielding guitarists, sleazy saxophonists, primal garage bands and dance craze creators. The teenage generation demanded music with everything and non-vocal versions of the hits sat next to specially created rabble-rousing gems that transcended genres and styles. This was music where words were just not enough.
Baikida Carroll - Shadows and Reflections (1982) {Soul Note 121023-2}

Baikida Carroll - Shadows and Reflections (1982) {Soul Note 121023-2}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 267 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 102 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 23 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1982 Soul Note | 121023-2
Jazz / Neo Bop / Trumpet / Flugelhorn

Trumpeter Baikida Carroll was once again in the company of alto saxophonist Julius Hemphill for a January 1982 recording with pianist Anthony Davis, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Pheeroan Ak Laff for Soul Note called Shadows & Reflections. The material here sounded like it could have been a late Blue Note recording; in fact, there were times when the horns brought back flashbacks of the Jackie McLean-Charles Tolliver front line of the '60s. And for all their avant-garde credentials, this group sounded very comfortable and at home with the squirrelly free bop displayed here.

The Seeds - Future (1967) [Japanese Edition 2010] (Re-up)  Music

Posted by gribovar at June 12, 2022
The Seeds - Future (1967) [Japanese Edition 2010] (Re-up)

The Seeds - Future (1967) [Japanese Edition 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 308 MB | Covers - 54 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Hayabusa Landings (HYCA-2035)

Though the Seeds' third album, 1967's Future, was pegged by critics as the band's attempt to ride the wave of baroque/psychedelic/orchestral magic the Beatles defined with Sgt. Pepper's, the recording was actually complete before the release of the Beatles' far more popular breakthrough album, making it impossible for the influence to touch the uncannily similarly minded flower power tones of Future. The Seeds had their own relatively huge smash with the raw high-pressure garage thumper "Pushin' Too Hard" the year before, and saw nothing wrong with recycling that tune's melody on more than a few songs on their first two albums…
VA - The Best of the Best Air Guitar Albums in the World… Ever! [3CD] (2005)

VA - The Best of the Best Air Guitar Albums in the World… Ever! [3CD] (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 1.3 GB | No Scans
Genre: Rock, Guitar Rock | Label: Virgin Records | Catalog Number: VTDCD759

Another epic release from Virgin in the Best of Series. This release containing 3CD of classic Air Guitar tracks from Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody, Boston – More Than a Feeling, 52 Tracks in all.