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John Newman - Tribute (2013)  Music

Posted by SuniR at Feb. 20, 2019
John Newman - Tribute (2013)

John Newman - Tribute (2013)
EAC | FLAC (log,tracks+cue) -> 308 Mb (5% Rec.) | Covers included
Soul, Pop | Label: Universal Island Records, #:3743662 | 0:44:08

Debut album by the English singer/songwriter. The album, which includes the singles 'Love Me Again' and 'Cheating', entered the UK Albums Chart at #1.

Newman - One Step Closer (1999) [Japanese Edition]  Music

Posted by JET 1 at Sept. 7, 2023
Newman - One Step Closer (1999) [Japanese Edition]

Newman - One Step Closer (1999) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 420 MB | Scans
Genre: Arena Rock | Label: Escape Music / Victor | Catalog Number: VICP-60799

It is a strong piece of AOR & rock, with an emphasis on more keyboard influenced songs and an modern, but 80's influenced sound.But the production is with 90's values, insuring that this does not sound dated in any way. Any fan of Escape's back catalogue should be pleased to add this to it.Steve Newman produced this album himself, which he has done a good job of. His voice is one I can't pigeon hole, so I will just say that it is quite a deep voice and capable of holding a good melody.In typical grand rock style, the album opens with One Step Closer.This sounds remarkably close to the style of The Distance.
David "Fathead" Newman - House Of David - The David "Fathead" Newman Anthology (1993)

David "Fathead" Newman - House Of David - The David "Fathead" Newman Anthology (1993)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 788 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 313 MB
2:16:50 | Jazz, Funk, Soul, Swing, Rhythm & Blues | Label: Rhino

David "Fathead" Newman made his name as the standout tenor saxophonist in the Ray Charles Band for 20 years, and seven of the 27 tracks in this set feature Newman echoing Charles's jazzy R&B vocals or piano riffs. Other tracks find Newman blowing behind R&B singers Zuzu Bollin, Aretha Franklin, Jimmy Scott, Dr. John, and Aaron Neville. There was a soulful, vocal quality to Newman's sax, even on the instrumental jazz dates where he was the leader, and the melody and emotion of the song never slipped out of focus. Neither a great composer, improvisor, nor innovator, Newman was nonetheless a master of playing simple but appealing jazz variations on catchy R&B themes.–Geoffrey Himes
John Williams & The Boston Pops Orchestra - Complete Philips Recordings (2022)

John Williams & The Boston Pops Orchestra - Complete Philips Recordings (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, booklet) - 4.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 2.3 GB
17:06:06 | Marches, Score, Theme, Musical, Religious, Easy Listening, Romantic, Modern, Neo-Romantic, Swing, Contemporary, Spirituals, Impressionist, Baroque, Celtic, Pipe & Drum | Label: Decca

Presenting the Complete Philips Recordings of John Williams on 21 CDs, with the original jackets, celebrating the maestro's 90th birthday on February 8. This box set includes the original artwork and spined wallets, a 32-page booklet with new liner notes by Dr. Emilio Audissino (author of The Film Music Of John Williams and Film Music In Concert: The Pioneering Role Of The Boston Pops Orchestra). All packaged in a 2-piece lift-off lid box with V-shaped thumb-cuts on either side of the lid.
John Williams - The Towering Inferno: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974) Expanded Limited Edition 2001 [Silver Age]

John Williams - The Towering Inferno: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974)
Expanded Limited Edition 2001 [Silver Age Classics]

EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 337 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 184 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Film Score Monthly | # FSM Vol. 4, No. 3 | Time: 01:16:29

Great balls of fire! The Towering Inferno (1974) was the biggest success of the Master of Disaster, Irwin Allen, and his last collaboration with the world's most famous film composer, John Williams. Williams had written TV themes and scores for Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants, as well as the score for The Poseidon Adventure (1972). The Towering Inferno was both the summa of his work for Allen and a large-scale lead-in for his legendary run on 1970s and early '80s blockbusters for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Williams has always had a talent for opening themes and The Towering Inferno features one of his best: the bustling, five-minute "Main Title" accompanies a helicopter flight over San Francisco in soaring, heroic fashion. From there the score encompasses distinct romantic themes—presented symphonically as well as in the "light pop" style of the period—and a wide variety of suspense, chaos and action music as the characters struggle valiantly to stay alive. Unlike The Poseidon Adventure, which featured sparse and claustrophobic interior scoring in addition to a thrilling main theme, The Towering Inferno was scored much extensively and emotionally.

Kygo - Kids in Love (2017)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Dec. 4, 2017
Kygo - Kids in Love (2017)

Kygo - Kids in Love (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, m3u, scans - 332 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 102 MB | 00:44:08
Electronic, Pop, Dance | Label: Columbia / Sony Music

With roughly half the number of songs found on his 2016 debut LP, Kygo's sophomore effort, Kids in Love, actually ends up being a more satisfying and enjoyable experience now that he's learned to trim the fat. Clocking in at less than half an hour, the 12 song collection is a focused dose of sunshine that avoids much of the homogeneity of his overstuffed Cloud Nine, trading tropical cool for warm emotion. Of course, there are nods to his earlier work, like the breezy "I See You" with the gruff vocals of Billy Raffoul and the big pop moment of "Stranger Things," which features OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. However, much of Kids in Love finds Kygo taking stylistic steps outside his comfort zone, which pays off during the impeccable middle stretch.
John McCabe - Herbert Howells: Lambert's Clavichord & Howells' Clavichord (1994) Reissue 2005

John McCabe - Herbert Howells: Lambert's Clavichord & Howells' Clavichord (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 222 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 181 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion/Helios | # CDH55152 | Time: 01:19:04

John McCabe's recording of Herbert Howells' clavichord music is a chance to hear some twentieth century music inspired by C.P.E. Bach's favorite instrument. While other composers were re-discovering the harpsichord, Howells' love for early English music and the instruments of two modern clavichord makers led to the composition of the three sets of miniatures: Lambert's Clavichord and Howells' Clavichord Books One and Two. Howells dedicated every piece in each set to a friend, and in the last two sets he even sometimes attempted to put something of the dedicatee into the music, whether it was a description of that person's character or an imitation of a fellow composer's style. Howells' titles, and in many instances the style of the piece, is a reference to the keyboard compositions of the English virginalists of the late sixteenth/early seventeenth centuries. On the one hand, "Lambert's Fireside" and "Goff's Fireside," named after Herbert Lambert and Thomas Goff, the two clavichord makers, are almost completely idiomatic of virginal music. On the other, the meandering tonality of "Rubbra's Soliloquy" and "E.B.'s Fanfarando" marks them as twentieth century compositions.

Dr. John - Creole Moon (2001)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 5, 2020
Dr. John - Creole Moon (2001)

Dr. John - Creole Moon (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 439 MB | Covers - 142 MB
Genre: Blues, R&B, Funk | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: EMI (7243 5 34591 2 3)

Between his various standards albums of the '90s and the heavily collaborational Anutha Zone from 1998, by the end of the millennium it'd been nearly a decade since Dr. John's last record of straight-ahead New Orleans R&B. Creole Moon rectifies that situation nicely - it's "a personal interpretation of New Orleans" (as he says in the liner notes), and these 14 vignettes of New Orleans life are soaked in Crescent City soul. Creole Moon is also a return to the sound of his classic mid-'70s records (Dr. John's Gumbo, In the Right Place), right from the spidery electric piano and testifying back-up vocals on the opener "You Swore." Most of his band, the Lower 9-11 Musician Vocaleers, have been playing with him for close to 20 years, and provide solid accompaniment…
Olivia Newton-John - Let Me Be There (1973) [1998, Digitally Remastered]

Olivia Newton-John - Let Me Be There (1973) [1998, Digitally Remastered]
Pop/Rock, Country | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 42:14 | 437,57 Mb
Label: Festival Records/Warner Music Australia (AU) | Cat.# D35026 (D21035) | Released: 1998 (1973-03-20)

"Let Me Be There" is the 3rd studio album album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1973. It consisted of her performances of a collection of 11 cover songs, plus "Let Me Be There", a new song first recorded by Newton-John herself. Outside the United States, it was called "Music Makes My Day" and it was published in the United Kingdom by Pye International, with some different songs, including the noted song "Music Makes My Day" a non-US release. It was produced by Bruce Welch, John Farrar and Alan Hawkshaw.

John Baldry - It Ain't Easy (1971) [Reissue 2005]  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 15, 2023
John Baldry - It Ain't Easy (1971) [Reissue 2005]

John Baldry - It Ain't Easy (1971) [Reissue 2005]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 423 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 163 MB | Covers - 33 MB
Genre: Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Bros./Stony Plain (SPCD1310)

It Ain't Easy features a British blues/rock lineup befitting the man behind the Long John Baldry moniker. This album returns Baldry to a decidedly edgier and hipper audience, with a literal cast of all-stars on some of the more adventurous material he had covered to date. This is no doubt due, at least in part, to the involvement of rock superstars Rod Stewart and Elton John. (In fact, John confesses to have taken the last name in his stage moniker from Baldry's first.) Among their contributions to the project, Stewart and Elton divided the production tasks - each taking a side of the original album. Immediately, Baldry sheds the MOR blue-eyed pop soul image. The backing band on Stewart's side include fellow Face and future Rolling Stone, Ron Wood, on electric guitar and acoustic guitarist Sam Mitchell, who appeared on many of Stewart's early-'70s solo albums…