Scottish Memories From January 2017

Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Feb. 9, 2017
Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now (2017)

Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 38:53 min | 89.4 MB
Label: Sub Pop | Tracks: 09 | Rls.date: 2017

Jesca Hoop's album Memories Are Now wastes no time in making clear its confidence, confrontation, and craftsmanship. The stark and reverberant title track opens the album with "a fighting spirit," says Hoop, serving as an anthem to push through any obstacle and put forth your very best work. And she has unequivocally done that here, with an album of stunningly original songs–minimalist yet brimming with energy, emerging from a wealth of life experience, great emotional depth, and years of honing the craft of singing.

Distant Dream - It All Starts From Pieces (2017)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 24, 2019
Distant Dream - It All Starts From Pieces (2017)

Distant Dream - It All Starts From Pieces (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 270 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 97 MB | Covers (3 MB) included
Genre: Post-Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Self-released

"It All Starts From Pieces" is the debut album of Polish instrumental progressive/post-rock group Distant Dream. With beautifully poetic and monumental melodies, amazingly conceived and well written guitar lines - as well as majestically crafted and executed solos - are the strongest quality present on the album, that has on cautious, but mindfully expansive harmonies the greatest virtue of the work. Although the compositions are cohesively solid, and all the instruments converge precisely to the same musical horizon, the guitar work is obviously highlighted, given the fact that it becomes from the very first moment laboriously prominent in the convergent sonorous panorama of their stylistically elaborated frame, becoming what drives and guides their entire artistic perception…
Goran Bregovic - Three Letters From Sarajevo (2017) {Universal Music 578 2234}

Goran Bregovic - Three Letters From Sarajevo (2017) {Universal Music 578 2234}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 260 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 94 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 96 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2017 Tetak / Mercury / Universal Music | 578 2234
World Music / Balkan Music / Gypsy Music

Goran Bregović has done it all. A rock star in the former Yugoslavia, he went on write film scores and ride the fashion for brassy Balkan Gypsy music, selling over 6m albums and collaborating with everyone from Iggy Pop to the Gipsy Kings. Now he celebrates the history of his birthplace Sarajevo, a meeting place for Christians, Muslims and Jews before the Balkan war, with a wildly varied set. There are instrumental pieces honouring the three religions, each dominated by a different violinist, and including powerful atmospheric work from Tunisia’s Zied Zouari. They would work well as a documentary soundtrack. And then there are songs, many of which develop into a brassy knees-up. The cast includes the cool and dramatic Spanish singer Bebe, the Israeli folk-rocker Asaf Avidan, and – best of all – the exuberant Algerian rai-punk rocker Rachid Taha. Patchy, maybe, but often enormous fun.

Cut Copy - Haiku From Zero (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 25, 2017
Cut Copy - Haiku From Zero (2017)

Cut Copy - Haiku From Zero
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, front cover | 42:08 min | 284 MB
Label: Cutters Records, Astralwerks – 2557864014 | Tracks: 09 | Rls.date: 2017
Electronic, Indie

On their fifth studio album, dance-rock mainstays Cut Copy sound more than ever like a proper band, boldly fusing psychedelic textures (“Counting Down”), tropical rhythms (“Standing in the Middle of the Field”), and electro-funk grooves in the spirit of Daft Punk and Talking Heads (“Airborne”). In many ways, Haiku from Zero is a reflection of the era’s dizzying information overload and political paranoia. “Keep moving, no slowing down,” frontman Dan Whitford chants on “Living Upside Down,” a delirious cut about embracing uncertainty. “Do what you want until the rhythm runs out.”

Ashnaia Project - Escape From Reality (2017)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 27, 2017
Ashnaia Project - Escape From Reality (2017)

Ashnaia Project - Escape From Reality (2017)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 540 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 199 MB | Front cover
Genre: Psychill, Downtempo, Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Self-Released

Escape From Reality is an album released on April 27, by Spanish electronic music artist Alex Cortez, here attending by the alias of Ashnaia Project. A marvelously epic, delightfully beautiful and profoundly fascinating ambient album, Escape From Reality is an extremely groundbreaking and audacious record. Sidelined by a majestic expressionistic minimalism intertwined by intrinsically beautiful melodies, the album has a signature sound of its own, and ostensibly shows the powerful scope of expansive tides correlated with an introspective universe of sensational infinity and everlasting majesty, preordained by a drastic sensibility that excels its extraordinary alignment of dynamic contingencies over an exceptional layer of laborious harmonies.

Tim Bennett - The View From Here (2017)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Sept. 5, 2017
Tim Bennett - The View From Here (2017)

Tim Bennett - The View From Here (2017)
Country, Country Blues, Country Rock | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:45:02 | 104 MB
Label: Sandy Beach Records

In January of 2014, Tim Bennett was the lead singer and main songwriter of a band called Whistler’s Father who had just recorded an album called, Highly Irregular. “I was unfamiliar with Americana as a music genre,” he explains. “That album was what I came to think Americana was all about; country, blues, folk, bluegrass and a little bit of rock.” Since then, Bennett has gone on to record two solo albums, Inevitable Discovery (2016) and now The View From Here which will release on August 11th. Straddling country rock, The View From Here employs the same musicians that Bennett met while working with Whistler’s Father. “That project took a year and a half,” said Bennett. “What I got from that experience was a great place to record, Custom Taylored Studios, and a great group of session musicians that I fondly refer to as ‘The Demolitionists’. These guys were pitched to me as today’s ‘Wrecking Crew’ and they have certainly lived up to that comparison.”

Hayden Pedigo - Greetings from Amarillo (2017)  Music

Posted by aasana at Dec. 11, 2017
Hayden Pedigo - Greetings from Amarillo (2017)

Hayden Pedigo - Greetings from Amarillo (2017)
Country, Folk, New Age | 30:07 min | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 144 MB
Label: Driftless Recordings

In 2015 Michael Hall wrote in Texas Monthly that “twenty-year-old Hayden Pedigo is making the most innovative, audacious music in the country” and then asked the inevitable question: “So why is he still in Amarillo?” Two years later, we have Pedigo’s answer: instead of leaving his hometown, he’s been writing its soundtrack. His new album, Greetings from Amarillo (Driftless Recordings), is a collection of ten instrumental and ambient tracks that vibrate intimately, ring out expansively, and resoundingly justify his staying put.

Espiral - Love From Melmac (2017)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 24, 2021
Espiral - Love From Melmac (2017)

Espiral - Love From Melmac (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue +m3u + Log ~ 432 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 201 Mb
Full Scans | 00:51:49 | RAR 5% Recovery
Avantgarde, Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock, Experimental | Estudio Tierra

Espiral is instrumental avant-prog/experimental-fusion four-piece band from Santiago de Chile. It was formed in 2016 by experienced musicians with various background: Miguel Angel Rodriguez (keyboards), Jose Luis Cayul (guitar), Ignacio Larrain (bass, saxophone), and Cristian "Joven Billy" Hidalgo (drums). In January 2017, the band presented 4-track self-titled demo EP, which was followed in July by the debut full-length album "Love From Melmac". The band tends to perform thoroughly composed and arranged, complex, tight, variable, and dark instrumental music bringing together elements of avant-garde, progressive rock, jazz-fusion, and space-rock.

Javo Barrera - Far From Home (2017)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Aug. 31, 2017
Javo Barrera - Far From Home (2017)

Javo Barrera - Far From Home (2017)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 243.26 Mb | 00:37:42 | Cover
Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | Country: USA | Label: Behind The Tree Music

The Latin word for passionate is apasionado, and in any language, the meaning is synonymous with the extraordinary talent of drummer, producer & songwriter, Javo Barrera! “I believe timing in life is the most important thing; so this is the perfect time for my first album release as a label owner, musician, producer & songwriter on the worldwide contemporary jazz stage,” says Javo Barrera. The focus track, “Just In Time”, was co-produced & features the great Najee on flute. Far From Home is a pristine masterful work of art that will thoroughly delight jazz aficionados & audiophiles alike!

Tyketto - Live from Milan (2017)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Oct. 13, 2017
Tyketto - Live from Milan (2017)

Tyketto - Live from Milan (2017)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 523 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 160 MB | 01:09:58
Hard Rock, Melodic Rock, AOR | Label: Frontiers Records

When I first saw the ‘Forever Young’ video back in 1991, I knew that Tyketto would become one of my all time favorite AOR bands – especially after hearing the rest of their stunning debut in “Don’t Come Easy”! Now, some 26 years later, the stirring passion of that release is captured on this superb live album filmed at the Frontiers Rock Festival IV this year. Recorded back to front with 3 extra songs in ‘Rescue Me’ (from sophomore “Strength In Numbers” in 1994), ‘Dig In Deep’ (from “Dig In Deep” in 2012) and ‘Reach’ (taken from the latest 2016 release)