Love Letter

Kim Waters - It's Time For Love (1994)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Aug. 19, 2020
Kim Waters - It's Time For Love (1994)

Kim Waters - It's Time For Love (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 384 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 138 Mb
Full Scans ~ 65 Mb | 00:57:11 | RAR 5% Recovery
Jazz-Funk, Smooth Jazz, R&B, Soul | Warlock Records #WARCD-2745

Maryland-born saxophonist Kim Waters is a gifted performer known for his romantic, cross-over jazz style. Influenced by both bluesy jazz and soulful R&B, Waters debuted in 1989 with Sweet and Saxy. His next several albums, 1991's Sax Appeal, 1993's Peaceful Journey, and 1994's It's Time for Love, found him moving in a more smooth jazz direction. It was a creative transformation that culminated in 1998's Love's Melody and 1999's One Special Moment.

Maria Muldaur - Steady Love (2011)  Music

Posted by Designol at July 5, 2024
Maria Muldaur - Steady Love (2011)

Maria Muldaur - Steady Love (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 414 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included | 00:56:40
Contemporary Blues, R&B, Blues-Rock | Label: Stony Plain | # SPCD 1346

The sounds of New Orleans have always been in Maria Muldaur's blood and catalog. Dr. John appeared on her first solo album back in 1974 and she arguably hit a career high point on her first full-fledged love letter to the city, 1992's Louisiana Love Call. She returns to the Crescent City for this 2011 release, employing veteran New Orleans keyboardist Dave Torkanowsky as musical director and "facilitator" and returning to the swampy "Bluesiana music" sound that includes heavy doses of gospel and blues along with touches of jazz, soul, and funk. This is a major shift from her past two acoustic jug band releases and plays to her sultry strengths as a vocalist who can convincingly sing any style of music she feels passionate about. Muldaur revisits a few tracks she has previously recorded (an earlier version of "As an Eagle Stirreth in Her Nest" was included on 1976's Sweet Harmony) but with a band that features guitarist Shane Theriot and Subdudes bassist Johnny Allen, they and the rest of the handpicked material boil with fresh enthusiasm.

Sade - Soldier Of Love (2010) {Japanese Edition} Re-Up  Music

Posted by popsakov at July 18, 2022
Sade - Soldier Of Love (2010) {Japanese Edition} Re-Up

Sade - Soldier Of Love (2010) {Japanese Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 253 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 101 Mb
Full Scans ~ 509 Mb | 00:41:58 | RAR 5% Recovery
Soul, Pop | Epic / Sony Music Japan #EICD 1324

Sade’s longest absence yet did not prevent their return from being an event. It at least seemed eventful whenever “Soldier of Love,” released to radio a couple months prior to the album of the same title, was heard over the airwaves. Even with its brilliantly placed lyrical allusions to hip-hop past and present and its mature sound, the single stuck out on stations aimed at teens and twentysomethings, as well as points on the dial that court an older audience. It was the most musical and organic, while also the most dramatic yet least bombastic, song in rotation. Crisp snare rolls, cold guitar stabs, and at least a dozen other elements were deployed with tremendous economy, suspensefully ricocheting off one another as Sade Adu rewrote “Love Is a Battlefield” with scarred, assured defiance.

Bibio - A Mineral Love (2016) [Japanese Edition]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Oct. 31, 2024
Bibio - A Mineral Love (2016) [Japanese Edition]

Bibio - A Mineral Love (2016) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 285 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 119 MB | Covers - 136 MB
Genre: Indie Pop, Electronic | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-507)

Bibio's Stephen Wilkinson is no stranger to revisiting and updating the past on his albums, whether it's the history of music in general or just his own. On Silver Wilkinson, he returned to the folktronic idylls of the Vignetting the Compost era with a newfound purpose; on A Mineral Love, he dissects the fusion of 21st century electronic music and '70s and '80s R&B, funk, and pop that made Ambivalence Avenue so compelling. The warmth of the bubbling keyboards and easy grooves on songs like the summery "Town & Country" suggest that Wilkinson spent hours crate-digging for the perfect samples. However, he actually created each and every sound in the studio, a traditional approach that reflects - and enhances - that this is one of Bibio's most song-oriented albums…

Hercules & Love Affair - Omnion (2017)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 31, 2017
Hercules & Love Affair - Omnion (2017)

Hercules & Love Affair - Omnion (2017)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:54:22 | 125 Mb
Electronic, Disco, House | Label: Big Beat Records, Atlantic Records

Anyone who's engaged disco with the same depth and seriousness that Hercules & Love Affair ringmaster Andrew Butler has, knows that by its nature and at its finest, this is a music of balances made in the spirit of losing one's balance. And among disco's glories is how these contrasting fundamentals play out: the celebratory and the elegiac, the social politics and personal emotions, pop songwriting and club functionality, the traditionally soulful and the technologically modern.
Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree - A Poet's Love, Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Schumann: Dichterliebe (2021)

Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree - A Poet's Love, Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Schumann: Dichterliebe (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 183 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:57:28
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

In their debut recording for harmonia mundi, the young viola prodigy Timothy Ridout and his musical accomplice Frank Dupree celebrate the power of love, with selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, performed in Borisovsky’s popular arrangement, and with their own transcription of Schumann’s Dichterliebe. The voice of the heart and the soul of candour, here the viola displays an astonishing range of emotions and expressive colours – from boisterous to tender or introspective in the Prokofiev excerpts, while also mirroring the myriad nuances of Heine’s poems in Schumann’s sublime musical love letter to his Clara.

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Letter Full Of Tears (1993)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 22, 2024
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Letter Full Of Tears (1993)

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Letter Full Of Tears (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 399 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 163 Mb | Scans included
Soul, R&B | Label: Relic Records | # RELIC CD 7045 | Time: 01:07:05

One of the greatest American soul music families in the history of R&B, Gladys Knight & The Pips elevated the world of soul music to higher heights through a long string of hits beginning in the mid 1960's including such classic recordings as "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" and "Midnight Train To Georgia." The act featured the amazing Gladys Knight on lead vocals, with The Pips, who included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and their cousins Edward Patten and William Guest, as backup singers. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation in 1998. Presented here is a compilation of some of the legendary group's earliest recordings, recorded just a few years before they would achieve world-wide fame. Originally recorded in 1962, all selections have been newly remastered.

Ralph Towner - Open Letter (1992)  Music

Posted by Designol at May 10, 2024
Ralph Towner - Open Letter (1992)

Ralph Towner - Open Letter (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 242 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 123 Mb | Scans ~ 30 Mb | 00:53:44
Contemporary Jazz, Guitar Jazz | Label: ECM | # ECM 1462, 78118-21462-2

It might be tempting to dismiss this Ralph Towner effort as New Age fluff, but the music is so gorgeous that any such considerations fall to the wayside. Yet the wayside is precisely where Towner sets his sights, which is to say that his interest lies in edges where musical idioms meet. He explores these lines, not unlike the blotted cover, with an ease of diction at the fret board that is recognizable and comforting. Drummer Peter Erskine shares the bill, but Towner adds a few synth touches for broader effect, as in “The Sigh,” which opens the session in a cleft of fluid energy.
Tim Buckley - Dream Letter: Live In London 1968 (2CD) {Straight/Enigma Retro}

Tim Buckley - Dream Letter: Live In London 1968 (2CD) {Straight/Enigma Retro}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and LOG | scans | 649 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 265 mb
Genre: folk rock

Dream Letter: Live In London 1968 is a 2CD live recording by Tim Buckley, recorded in 1968. This was released in 1990 by Straight/Enigma Retro.

Flying Colors - Third Degree (Limited Edition) (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 4, 2019
Flying Colors - Third Degree (Limited Edition) (2019)

Flying Colors - Third Degree (Limited Edition) (2019)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 721 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 250 Mb | 01:49:20
Progressive Rock | Label: Mascot Label Group, Music Theories Recordings

In chemistry, when certain galvanizing elements come together, they become quite explosive. In music, when certain galvanizing artists come together, they become Flying Colors. In fact, whenever the five gentlemen who encompass Flying Colors — guitarist Steve Morse (Deep Purple, Dixie Dregs, ex-Kansas), drummer/vocalist Mike Portnoy (Winery Dogs, ex-Dream Theater, Transatlantic, Sons Of Apollo), keyboardist/vocalist Neal Morse (Transatlantic, ex-Spock’s Beard, and a prolific solo artist in his own right), bassist Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs, ex-Joe Satriani), and powerhouse vocalist and songwriter Casey McPherson (Alpha Rev, The Sea Within) — are able to conjoin their collective talents, the result is a sweet sonic bouillabaisse that reflects where their inherent mastery of melody intersects with top-shelf progressive musicianship. With Third Degree, Flying Colors continue to fire on all cylinders — and, in the process, they also handily prove the third time’s an unquestionable sonic charm.