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Bryan Ferry - Boys And Girls [Hybrid SACD - DTS 5.1]
Hybrid SACD Release: April 12, 2005 (Orig Year: 3 June 1985) | Label: Virgin Records Ltd.
Genre: Pop/Rock, Art Rock | Mono/Stereo: Multi Channel
Included: EAC + CUE + Wav + Covers | Size: 359 MB

Album Notes
Having at last laid Roxy to bed with its final, intoxicatingly elegant albums, Ferry continued its end-days spirit with his own return to solo work. Dedicated to Ferry's father, Boys and Girls is deservedly most famous for its smash single "Slave to Love." With a gentle samba-derived rhythm leading into the steadier rock pace of the song, it's '80s Ferry at his finest, easy listening without being hopelessly soporific. As a whole, Boys and Girls fully established the clean, cool vision of Ferry on his own to the general public. Instead of ragged rock explosions, emotional extremes, and all that made his '70s work so compelling in and out of Roxy, Ferry here is the suave, debonair if secretly moody and melancholic lover, with music to match. Co-producer Rhett Davies, continuing his role from the latter Roxy albums, picks up where Avalon left off right from the slinky opening grooves of "Sensation." The range of people on the album is an intriguing mix, from latterday Roxy members like Andy Newmark and Alan Spenner to avid Roxy disciples like Chic's Nile Rodgers. Everyone is subordinated to Ferry's overall vision, and as a result there's not as much full variety on Boys and Girls as might be thought or hoped. The album's biggest flaw is indeed that it's almost too smooth, with not even the hint of threat or edge that Ferry once readily made his own. As something that's a high cut above the usual mid-'80s yuppie smarm music, though, Boys and Girls remains an enjoyable keeper that has aged well.---allmusic.com

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4
London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink
PS3 SACD ISO: 4,06 GB (2.0/5.1) | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 251 MB (2.0) | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 1,07 GB | Lossless Artwork: 110 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: LSO Live LSO0716 | Country/Year: UK 2011 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

…The LSO play with their customary precision and refinement, which goes a long way in music that can often be so ethereal and uplifting as Bruckner's. And when the orchestra get a chance to come into full bloom in the biggest crescendos and fortissimos, they sound wonderful, especially with Haitink guiding them so evenhandedly…

Limited edition of 1500 copies. Housed in a white cardboard box, containing another black velvet box and all albums and the EP, re-mastered on hybrid stereo SACD in vinyl replica sleeves. SACD mastered at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab…

Paray - Chabrier And Roussel
Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Paul Paray
PS3 SACD ISO (2.0/3.0): 2,97 GB | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 355 MB | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 1,22 GB | Lossless Artwork: 62 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Mercury Living Presence 475 618-3 | Country/Year: Germany 2004 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

This Mercury Living Presence SACD of orchestral works by Chabrier and Roussel presents, for the first time, Paray's celebrated recordings in their original 3-channel (left, right & centre) versions. In addition to this direct-to-DSD 3-channel stereo, the disc includes a new DSD stereo, plus the original CD transfer.

Bill Frisell - Richter 858
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 235 MB | Full Artwork: 110 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Songlines # SGL SA1551-2 | Country/Year: Canada 2005
Genre: Rock, Avant-Garde, Jazz | Style: Modern Classical, Ambient Rock, Jazz Guitar

"The music from Richter 858 was originally commissioned and recorded to accompany a book of paintings by Gerhard Richter, which was only available in limited quantities back in 2002. Tony Reif of Songlines decided to rescue the recordings from obscurity, and re-released them in early 2005. The band is Frisell on guitar and delay, Eyvind Kang on viola, Jenny Scheinman on violin, and Frisell's old bandmate Hank Roberts on cello. The pieces were directly inspired by a specific painting, and recorded live to two-track with no editing or overdubs."

Are You Experienced on Hybrid SACD from Analogue Productions! Newly remastered by Bernie Grundman, from the original analog master tapes!

Are You Experienced on Hybrid SACD from Analogue Productions! Newly remastered by Bernie Grundman, from the original analog master tapes!