Mike Johnson

Mike Zito & The Wheel - Keep Coming Back (2015)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 6, 2015
Mike Zito & The Wheel - Keep Coming Back (2015)

Mike Zito & The Wheel - Keep Coming Back
Blues Rock | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 49:37 min | 122 MB + 5% Recovery
Label: Ruf Records | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 2015

Mike Zito has walked many roads. At 44, his backstory is a travelogue that starts in Missouri and finds salvation in Texas, pinballs from solo career to supergroup (and back), dices with both death and glory. And yet, wherever his career leads him, Mike always returns to his founding values of honest, original songs, drawn from the emotional depths, twisting the great American genres into bold new shapes. "Keep Coming Back is all in the title," explains the songwriter of his latest release on Ruf Records. "I love the blues, I love rock 'n' roll and I love country music. It's what I do and who I am."
Molly Johnson - Because Of Billie (2014/2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Molly Johnson - Because Of Billie (2014/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 59:54 minutes | 1,36 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Renowned Canadian multi-genre chanteuse Molly Johnson sixth studio album, "Because Of Billie", is a tribute to Billie Holiday. Recorded in Toronto with producers John Bailey and Mike Downes, Johnson wanted to infuse Because Of Billie with her idol’s spirit, preparing the songs emotionally and technically so many could be recorded in one take. Billie Holiday’s journey inspires Johnson not only as an artist, but as a model citizen. “Billie and her generation were the civil rights movement,” Johnson notes. “Her generation sacrificed for my privilege and I am honour-bound to them. I love history. I love to look back while pushing forward”.
Molly Johnson - Because Of Billie (2014/2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Molly Johnson - Because Of Billie (2014/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 59:54 minutes | 1,36 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Renowned Canadian multi-genre chanteuse Molly Johnson sixth studio album, "Because Of Billie", is a tribute to Billie Holiday. Recorded in Toronto with producers John Bailey and Mike Downes, Johnson wanted to infuse Because Of Billie with her idol’s spirit, preparing the songs emotionally and technically so many could be recorded in one take. Billie Holiday’s journey inspires Johnson not only as an artist, but as a model citizen. “Billie and her generation were the civil rights movement,” Johnson notes. “Her generation sacrificed for my privilege and I am honour-bound to them. I love history. I love to look back while pushing forward”.

Mike Zito - Make Blues Not War (2016)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 17, 2016
Mike Zito - Make Blues Not War (2016)

Mike Zito - Make Blues Not War
Blues Rock | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 53:38 min | 123 MB
Label: Ruf Records | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 2016

Modern life moves fast. Rolling news. Rapid-fire tweets. A relentless barrage of (mis)information. Make Blues Not War is an album that demands you sign out, log off and turn yourself over instead to the old-fashioned pleasures of great music.

Mike Zito - Make Blues Not War (2016)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 27, 2016
Mike Zito -  Make Blues Not War (2016)

Mike Zito - Make Blues Not War
Blues Rock | FLAC (image)+cue, log, scans | 53:49 min | 399 MB
Label: Ruf Records (RUF 1238) | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 2016

Modern life moves fast. Rolling news. Rapid-fire tweets. A relentless barrage of (mis)information. Make Blues Not War is an album that demands you sign out, log off and turn yourself over instead to the old-fashioned pleasures of great music. "We hear about everything 24/7 now," says Mike Zito. "The news never stops and it's all become propaganda. But when you turn off the news and turn on some blues, the world is a beautiful place. I think music is the cure for all ailments.

Lloyd Miller - Jazz At The University Of Utah (2018)  Music

Posted by varrock at May 7, 2018
Lloyd Miller - Jazz At The University Of Utah (2018)

Lloyd Miller - Jazz At The University Of Utah (2018)
MP3 CBR 320kbps | Tracks: 10 | 57:31 min | 132 Mb
Style: Jazz, World | Label: Now Again Records

Modal and Eastern Jazz by Spiritual Jazz maestro Lloyd Miller, originally issued in a run of 500 copies in 1967. This reissue – the first in a series focusing on Miller’s catalog on Now-Again – was overseen by Miller and pressed from new stampers made from the original metal parts. Contains an extensive booklet detailing Miller’s amazing life in jazz and his worldwide travels by jazz historian Francis Goding. Also includes a download card for WAV files of the album and video of late 60s performances.
Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga About Rock in Opposition (2012)

Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga About Rock in Opposition (2012)
2xDVD-5: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | Dolby AC3, 2 ch
Zeitgeist Media | Scans | ~ 4.28 + 4.23 Gb
RIO / Avant-Prog

This 98-minute documentary, written, produced, and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder of the Washington, D.C. area's Zeitgeist Media, begins and ends at the 2011 Rock in Opposition festival in Carmaux, France, and between those two bookends tells the story of this idiosyncratic movement – or style, or whatever you want to call it – that was birthed in the late '70s and has against all odds persisted on and off to the present day…

Mike Garson - Mike Garson's Jazz Hat (2008)  Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 24, 2023
Mike Garson - Mike Garson's Jazz Hat (2008)

Mike Garson - Mike Garson's Jazz Hat (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 364 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 177 Mb | Scans included
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Piano Jazz | Label: Reference | # RR-114 | 01:14:47

What do Freddie Hubbard, Stan Getz, Elvin Jones, Lee Konitz, Stanley Clarke, Eddie Daniels, Joe Farrell, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, Gwen Stefani, Seal, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Martha Reeves (to name a few) have in common? The answer is, Mike Garson has played with them all!. These have been called “The fastest fingers in jazz.” David Bowie, for whom Garson has long been music director, says, “He’s the best rock & roll pianist I know.” Recording group Free Flight took advantage of his classical training, and Hollywood calls when it needs a virtuoso assoluto. In short, Mike Garson is a phenomenon, able to mimic Bill Evans or Liberace on command, or to soothe an audience with New Age hypnotics. But he’s at his very best wearing his “jazz hat.” Supported by a stellar cast of Brian Bromberg (acoustic bass), Ralph Humphries (drums) and Eric Marienthal (alto saxophone), Garson turns in a memorable set of originals and imaginative arrangements of standards.
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey For The Holy Ghost (1994/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Mark Lanegan - Whiskey For The Holy Ghost (1994/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 49:25 minutes | 1,06 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

On his second solo outing, 1994's „Whiskey for the Holy Ghost“, Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan unveils a set of tunes that is more dynamic and cohesive than his spare, brooding debut, „The Winding Sheet“. Once again collaborating with multi-instrumentalist Mike Johnson, among others, Lanegan uses his deep, gravelly voice to maximum effect on these wonderful songs of woe, which include the hypnotic, David Lynchian "The River Rise" and the dark, pastoral "Kingdoms of Rain." Arguably Lanegan's best solo album, „The Holy Ghost“ predicted that the perpetually melancholy Pacific Northwestern performer would be just fine on his own when Screaming Trees eventually split.
Thinking Plague - Early Plague Years (1984/1986) {2000, 2 LPs on 1 CD, Remastered}

Thinking Plague - Early Plague Years (1984/1986) {2000, 2 LPs on 1 CD, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 467 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 190 Mb
Full Scans ~ 154 Mb | 01:18:44 | RAR 5% Recovery
Avantgarde, Progressive Rock, RIO | Cuneiform Records #Rune 141

Early Plague Years combines Thinking Plague's first two albums on one CD. Moonsongs was a 1986 cassette released the next year on LP by Dead Man's Curve. …A Thinking Plague was first released on LP in 1984, then on cassette in 1986. Both were long out of print and impossible to find. The remastering is fabulous, giving these albums a sound far superior to what they ever had. Due to time limitations, a few edits had to be done. "Warheads" misses four bars toward the end, the improv "Collarless Fog That One Day Soon" fades out two minutes earlier, and the percussion section on "Moonsongs" has been shortened a bit. Nothing dramatic and all seamless, but one can't help but wonder why Cuneiform put the second album first on the CD. Fans of Thinking Plague and of American avant-prog bands like the Motor Totemist Guild, U Totem, and 5uu's will be delighted, but newcomers to this style should begin with In This Life or In Extremis.