H.r. Typhonian Highlife

R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition) (1996/2021)

R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition) (1996/2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 808 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 277 Mb | 02:00:39
Alternative Rock | Label: Craft Recordings

R.E.M.‘s 1996 album New Adventures In Hi-Fi will be reissued for its 25th anniversary in October across three physical formats. This was the band’s final album with drummer Bill Berry and was mostly written and recorded on the road, during their 1995 Monster tour. Bassist Mike Mills recalls: “We wanted to make a record about being on the road without singing about being on the road. The idea was that the feeling of being on the road would come through in the sound and feel of the record itself.”

Arovane & Porya Hatami - C.H.R.O.N.O.S. (2019)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 26, 2019
Arovane & Porya Hatami - C.H.R.O.N.O.S. (2019)

Arovane & Porya Hatami - C.H.R.O.N.O.S. (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 192 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 88 MB | Front cover
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Karlrecords

On "C.H.R.O.N.O.S", their 3rd album on Karl, Arovane and Porya Hatami deliver five delicate ambient pieces, rich in textures and zen-like atmospheres.
After "Organism" (2017) and the musique concrete influenced "Organism_evolution" (2018) Uwe Zahn alias Arovane and Porya Hatami continue their sonic explorations with "C.H.R.O.N.O.S.", the fifth collaborational album by the German electronic producer and the Iranian sound artist…

VA - The Complete H.R.S. Sessions (1999)  Music

Posted by Rtax at July 13, 2024
VA - The Complete H.R.S. Sessions (1999)

VA - The Complete H.R.S. Sessions (1999)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.07 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 881 MB
6:23:21 | Jazz, Dixieland, Swing, Bop | Label: Mosaic Records

"The Hot Record Society, a New York-based group of jazz recording enthusiasts organized in 1937 by Stephen W. Smith, quickly evolved from a clearinghouse and auction outlet for collectors into a real recording organization. … HRS recorded such outfits as Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers (an ad hoc group formed by members of Count Basie's and Eddie Condon's bands), Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier, Rex Stewart's Big Seven, Brick Fleagle's Orchestra, Sandy Williams' Big Eight, Jimmy Jones, J.C. Higginbotham, Joe Thomas, Harry Carney, Buck Clayton, Trummy Young, the Billy Taylor Quartet, Russell Procope, Dicky Wells, Babe Mathews and Joe Thomas, and Billy Kyle. It's all here, 124 tracks encompassing everything from prewar New Orleans jazz to the early bop period of the mid-'40s, and while there are gaps … it's a good account of what happened with jazz over the decade represented here. Some of the selected material is a little odd, owing to choices made based on copyright accessibility (or nonexistence), and there are perhaps too many alternate takes for the novice listener. On the other hand, the sources are excellent, the recording venue was very fine, and the Mosaic people have done their usual excellent remastering job, so that, say, Budd Johnson's tenor sax and Jimmy Jones' piano on "Sunny Side Up" and "Strollin' Easy" sound incredibly clean and close, and Freddie Green's guitar gets one of its better showcases of the era. And the Brick Fleagle sides, starting with the extraordinary "Brick's Boogie," are almost worth the price of admission by themselves, just to hear what this overlooked, prodigiously talented musician had to offer in his prime, 60 years earlier."
Howard Roberts - Color Him Funky (1963) & H.R. Is A Dirty Guitar Player (1963) [Reissue 2002]

Howard Roberts - Color Him Funky (1963) & H.R. Is A Dirty Guitar Player (1963) [Reissue 2002]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 349 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 144 MB | Covers - 10 MB
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: EMI/Euphoria (Euphoria 190)

Howard Roberts was a talented guitarist on the level of a Barney Kessel or Herb Ellis, who spent most of his career playing commercial music in the studios. Shortly after he moved to Los Angeles in 1950, Roberts was firmly established in the studios, although on occasion he recorded jazz (most notably twice for Verve during 1956-1959, a Concord session from 1977, and one for Discovery in 1979); however, most of his other output is of lesser interest.
Color Him Funky (1963). Recorded with organ trio, Howard is slick and soulful. Find this one and you'll smile and tap your foot. The organ sounds a bit dated, but it's part of the charm…
VA - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93 (2024)

VA - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93 (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 757 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 259 Mb | 01:52:26
Highlife, Funk, Afrobeat | Label: Soundway Records

In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife. Drum machines and synthesisers appeared alongside lilting guitar lines and punchy horns, and the emerging Ghanaian diaspora began incorporating US disco and boogie, R&B, European new wave, and Caribbean zouk and soca into their music.
Alhaji Waziri Oshomah - World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah (2022)

Alhaji Waziri Oshomah - World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah (2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 449 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 Mb | 01:16:34
World, Highlife | Label: Luaka Bop

Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, “the greatest entertainer in all of Edo State”, delivers a joyful sermon of Muslim Highlife on the same Luaka Bop series that gave us The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Xenia Löffler - C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos (2020)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Xenia Löffler - C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 301 MB | Tracks: 12 | 63:05 min
Style: Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

The Berlin public of the mid-Eighteenth Century was fascinated by the ‘original genius’ of C. P. E. Bach and never tired of listening to his concertos. These works call for a talented soloist capable of mastering the multiple facets of an original and finely worked musical texture: a challenge taken up with panache (and on a period instrument) by the oboist Xenia Löffler, surrounded by her distinguished colleagues of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant (Deluxe Edition) (2011)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 1, 2023
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant (Deluxe Edition) (2011)

R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant (Deluxe Edition) (2011)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:34:08 | 649 / 215 Mb
Genre: Alternative Rock / Label: Capitol Records

Fables of the Reconstruction was intentionally murky, and Lifes Rich Pageant was constructed as its polar opposite. Teaming with producer Don Gehman, who previously worked with John Mellencamp, R.E.M. developed their most forceful record to date. Where previous records kept the rhythm section in the background, Pageant emphasizes the beat, and the band turns in its hardest rockers to date, including the anthemic "Begin the Begin" and the punky "Just a Touch." But the cleaner production also benefits the ballads and the mid-tempo janglers, particularly since it helps reveal Michael Stipe's growing political obsessions, especially on the environmental anthems "Fall on Me" and "Cuyahoga." The group hasn't entirely left myths behind – witness the Civil War ballad "Swan Swan H" – but the band sound more contemporary both musically and lyrically than they did on either Fables or Murmur, which helps give the record an extra kick. And even with excellent songs like "I Believe," "Flowers of Guatemala," "These Days," and "What if We Give It Away," it's ironic that the most memorable moment comes from the garage rock obscurity "Superman," which is sung with glee by Mike Mills.
R.E.M. - Green (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1988/2013)

R.E.M. - Green (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1988/2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 870 MB
2:23:38 | Alternative Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Concord Records

R.E.M.'s sixth studio album was a milestone for the band, marking their departure from longtime label I.R.S. Records. Featuring the singles "Stand" and "Orange Crush," 1988's Green was also their first album to be certified double platinum in the US and platinum in the UK. This 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes the remastered album, a 21-track bonus disc capturing a full live show from the 1989 Green Tour, plus 4 postcards, a foldout poster, and liner notes by Uncut's Allan Jones.
Julie Coker - A Life In The Limelight: Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife, 1976 - 1981 (2019)

Julie Coker - A Life In The Limelight: Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife, 1976 - 1981 (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 190 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 71 Mb | 00:30:50
Disco, Highlife, Funk, Female Vocal | Label: Kalita Records

Kalita are honoured to release the first ever compilation focusing on the musical career of Julie Coker, the queen of Nigerian television. Here we collate seven of Julie’s most sought-after Afro disco and hauntingly-beautiful Itsekiri highlife recordings.