Later King

The Stanley Brothers - Ralph & Carter: The Later King Years (1958-1965) {Ace Records CDCHD 1167 rel 2007}

The Stanley Brothers - Ralph & Carter: The Later King Years (1958-1965) {Ace Records CDCHD 1167 rel 2007}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 386 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 151 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 28 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1958-65, 2007 King Records / Ace Records | CDCHD 1167
Bluegrass / Country / Traditional Bluegrass / Bluegrass Gospel

During the final part of their career, the Stanley Brothers did most of their recording for the King label, laying down almost 200 sides for the company between 1958 and 1965. All of those tracks are available in box set form should you want them, but the ordinary fan will be satisfied with more selective samplers such as this one, which has a couple dozen cuts originally released in 1961-1966. The Stanley Brothers were a consistent enough act that the songs picked for best-of comps are pretty much up to the taste of the compiler, but this does a fine job both in the quality and the variety of the material presented. In addition to plenty of originals, there are also interpretations of songs by A.P. Carter, Alton Delmore, and traditional items.
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) {2009, 5HQCD Box Set, Japanese Limited Edition, 40th Anniversary}

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King: An Observation By King Crimson (1969) {2009, 5 HQCD Box Set, Japanese Limited Edition, 40th Anniversary Series}
XLD Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 1,94 Gb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 833 Mb
Scans ~ 516 Mb | 05:44:44 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock | WHD Entertainment, Inc. ‎#IEZP-18

In the Court of the Crimson King (subtitled An Observation by King Crimson) is the debut album from the English rock band King Crimson, released on 10 October 1969 on Island Records in England and Atlantic Records in America. The album is one of the first and most influential of the progressive rock genre, where the band largely departed from the blues influences that rock music was founded upon and combined elements of jazz, classical, and symphonic music. The album reached No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 28 on the US Billboard 200, where it was certified Gold. The album was reissued several times in the 1980s and 1990s using inferior copies of the master tapes. After the masters were located in 2003, a 40th-anniversary edition of the album was released in 2009 with new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes by Steven Wilson.
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) [2019, 3CD + Blu-ray Box Set]

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Panegyric Records, KCXP5008 | ~ 1194 or 489 Mb | Artwork(png) -> 519 Mb
Blu-ray: MPEG-4 AVC 1080p, 23,976 fps, 16:9, High Profile 4.1
DTS-HD MA 5.1 & LPCM 5.1 / DTS-HD MA Stereo & LPCM 24/96
Progressive Rock / Art Rock

The group's definitive album, and one of the most daring debut albums ever recorded by anybody. At the time, it blew all of the progressive/psychedelic competition (the Moody Blues, the Nice, etc.) out of the running, although it was almost too good for the band's own good – it took King Crimson nearly four years to come up with a record as strong or concise. Ian McDonald's Mellotron is the dominant instrument, along with his saxes and Fripp's guitar, making this a somewhat different-sounding record from everything else they ever did…

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at Dec. 25, 2021
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
Vinyl Rip | 32-bit/384 kHz | WavPack(Tracks) > 3.93 Gb | Artwork(jpg) < 1 Mb
or 24-bit/192 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 1.60 Gb
or 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 467 Mb
Discipline Global Mobile, KCLP1 | Prog Rock

~ 2010, Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 200-gram, Gatefold ~
The City (Carole King) - Now That Everything's Been Said (1968) Remastered Reissue 2015

The City (Carole King) - Now That Everything's Been Said (1968) Remastered Reissue 2015
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 243 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 94 Mb | Scans ~ 62 Mb
Soft Rock, AM Pop, Folk-Rock | Label: Light in the Attic | # LITA 136 | Time: 00:37:49

With her marriage on the rocks and looking for a fresh start, Carole King moved to Los Angeles in 1967. More specifically, Laurel Canyon, where she fell in with the nascent singer/songwriter crowd. She and bassist/boyfriend Charles Larkey (formerly of the Myddle Class, a band she and then-husband Gerry Goffin had signed to their record label) soon formed a band, adding old friend from NYC, guitarist Danny Kortchmar. The trio spent time at King's house working on a batch of songs she had written with Goffin (some previously released by other acts, some not), plus some co-written by another member of Myddle Class, Don Palmer, and fellow Brill Building refugee Toni Stern. Thanks to their industry connections it wasn't long before they had a record deal.

King Crimson - 1973-10-26 London, UK (2019)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 26, 2024
King Crimson - 1973-10-26 London, UK (2019)

King Crimson - 1973-10-26 London, UK (2019)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:29:08 | 524 Mb
Genre: Progressive Rock

Although their UK Autumn tour consisted of just six dates King Crimson were on stunning form as this great-sounding audience recording demonstrates.Alongside the warmly-received Larks’ Tongues In Aspic material, including a truly blistering Part I, this concert also highlights tracks which would ultimately appear on their next release in 1974.The Nightwatch, Lament, and Fracture, on which you’ll hear Bruford exclaim at almost precisely the same point he would eighteen gigs later at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, had been rolled out in America earlier in the month. It’s interesting to note how well bedded-in the renditions at The Rainbow are, each exuding a devil-may-care insouciance in places.
Robert King, The King's Consort - Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs, Vol. 3 - Fly, bold rebellion (1990)

Robert King, The King's Consort - Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs, Vol. 3 - Fly, bold rebellion (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 301 Mb | Total time: 76:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA55412 | Recorded: 1989

Fly, bold rebellion was one of Purcell’s early Welcome Songs, composed for Charles II in 1683. The manuscript gives no indication of the date of the first performance, but it seems evident from the anonymous author of the words that it was written shortly after the discovery of the Rye House Plot, which took place in June 1683. The Ode thus would seem likely to have been performed to celebrate Charles’s return from Windsor to Whitehall at the end of June, or perhaps later in the year on his return to London from Winchester (25 September) or Newmarket (20 October). After the splendid two-part Symphony, the Ode contains the already established selection of choruses, trios and solos, interspersed with Purcell’s deliciously scored string ritornelli.
Robert King, The King's Consort - Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs, Vol. 7 - Yorkshire Feast Song (1992)

Robert King, The King's Consort - Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs, Vol. 7 - Yorkshire Feast Song (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 66:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA66587 | Recorded: 1991

With William and Mary duly crowned there was more topical material available than usual, and the Stewards commissioned the best available author and composer to celebrate in ‘a very splendid Entertainment of all sorts of Vocal and Instrumental Musick’. Thomas D’Urfey included the libretto in his Pills to Purge Melancholy, describing it as ‘An Ode on the Assembly of the Nobility and Gentry of the City and County of York, at the Anniversary Feast, March the 27th, 1690. Set to Musick by Mr. Henry Purcell. One of the finest Compositions he ever made, and cost £100 the performing’. Of old, when heroes thought it base was ostensibly a history of York from Roman times onwards, but it also contained allegories of the Glorious Revolution. Despite D’Urfey’s sometimes contrived text, Purcell responds with music of high quality.

King Crimson: Remastered CD Collection. Part 4 (1981-1995)  Music

Posted by v3122 at May 26, 2022
King Crimson: Remastered CD Collection. Part 4 (1981-1995)

King Crimson: Remastered CD Collection. Part 4 (1981-1995)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
10CD | Label: Various | ~ 2244 or 921 Mb | Artwork -> 731 Mb
Progressive Rock

One of the pioneers of the progressive rock genre. The first official rehearsal of the band was on January 13, 1969. The first line-up comprised guitarist Robert Fripp, lyricist and lighting man Peter Sinfield (who “invented” the name of the band), composer and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald, bassist and vocalist Greg Lake, and drummer Michael Giles…
B.B. King: 12 Albums Mini LP SHM-CD Collection (1965-1978) [2012, Universal Music, UICY-94836~47]

B.B. King: 12 Albums Mini LP SHM-CD Collection (1965-1978)
EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Geffen Records / Universal Music Japan, UICY-94836~47 | ~ 3826 or 1691 Mb
Scans(Jpg) Included | Scans(Png) -> 2382 Mb
Blues / Jazz / Soul

Universally hailed as the reigning king of the blues, the legendary B.B. King is without a doubt the single most important electric guitarist of the last half century…