The Beginning Of The End

Tower Of Power - Original Album Classics (2011)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 14, 2021
Tower Of Power - Original Album Classics (2011)

Tower Of Power - Original Album Classics (2011)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
3CD | Sony Music, 88697617222 | ~ 786 or 324 Mb | Scans(png) -> 186 Mb
R&B / Funk / Soul

~ 1976 - Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now & 1978 - We Came To Play! & 1979 - Back On The Streets ~
Various Artists - The Beginning Of The End: The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972) (2018) {OMNI - 195}

Various Artists - The Beginning Of The End: The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1972) (2018) {OMNI - 195}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 403 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 183 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 58 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1956-72, 2018 The Omni Recording Corporation | OMNI - 195
Country / Folk / World Music / Hillbilly

A really great little collection – one that looks at the deeper, darker strands in country music during the 60s – that moody space that lie behind the Rubber Room of Porter Wagoner, and which may not have gotten much chart play at the time, but which makes for one of the most fascinating strands of the music! The collection follows a bit in the spirit of the Hillbillies In Hell collections – but there's maybe less humor here overall, as the depth of sorrow and bleakness of outlook really gives this one a very moody vibe – perfect for those who are always sick of the overplayed cliches of mainstream country, and always know there's something hipper to the music if you just know where to look.

VA - The Best Funk Album In The World... Ever! (1997)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 3, 2022
VA - The Best Funk Album In The World... Ever! (1997)

VA - The Best Funk Album In The World… Ever! (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 985 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 353 MB
2:31:39 | Funk, Soul | Label: Virgin

The Best Funk Album In The World… Ever!, a Various Artists Compilation. Released 1997 on Virgin Records.
Tower Of Power - Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now (1976) {Columbia}

Tower Of Power - Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now (1976) {Columbia}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 247MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 107MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Funk, Soul

Edward McGhee turned in mostly above-average performances on their first post-Lenny Williams release, but it was the beginning of the end. With funk losing its foothold among R&B audiences, they couldn't keep it together. McGhee was an energetic, exuberant vocalist who held his own on up-tempo tunes like "You Ought to Be Havin' Fun" and the title song, but lacked Williams' range or tonal quality on ballads. The group always had a weakness for ponderous message cuts, and "Can't Stand to See the Slaughter" and "While We Went to the Moon" were well-intentioned but clumsy tracks. This was almost the Tower of Power's swan song.

The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits (2016)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 19, 2018
The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits (2016)

The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits (2016)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:40:00 | 281 Mb
Experimental, Jazz Rock | Label: Leaf

The Comet Is Coming. Our saviours Danalogue The Conqueror, Betamax Killer and King Shabaka come bearing their debut album Channel The Spirits. A prophetic document. A celebration. The beginning of the end. Marvel! As it blazes a streak of phosphorescent beauty across the night sky. Listen! As a trailing meteor shower drops hot coals hissing into topographical oceans. Inhale! The burning funk of strange new flavours. The sound of the future… today.

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa (1956) [Reissue 2003]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 8, 2019
The Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa (1956) [Reissue 2003]

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa (1956) [Reissue 2003]
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 137 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 94 MB | Covers (7 MB) included
Genre: Jazz, Third Stream | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Atlantic (81227 3687-2)

This 1956 record marked the beginning of the Modern Jazz Quartet's long and fruitful relationship with Atlantic Records and was one of their most inspired visits to a studio. While there had been excellent bands in the past that created a chamber-jazz genre, such as Red Norvo's trio, John Lewis's vision of a fusion of jazz and classical elements was distinctly original. It's apparent here in the controlled counterpoint of "Versailles," the extended first recording on "Fontessa," with Lewis's spare and precise piano perfectly complementing the looser swing of Milt Jackson's glistening vibraphone sound. The group mingles beautifully around Percy Heath's supple, melodic bass lines and Connie Kay's discrete and gently propulsive beat…
Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Mozart: Symphonies No. 38 "Prague" & No. 39 (1986)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Mozart: Symphonies No. 38 "Prague" & No. 39 (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 59:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | # CDC 7 47334 2 | Recorded: 1985

These distinguished, if not perfect, recordings made in 1984. They should be amongst everyone’s preferred renditions. They are brisk but not tense, dramatic and even playful when need be. Occasionally, but only at rare moments, such as the beginning of the “Prague” Symphony, I would like something a little fiercer. Mostly Marriner is right on, as in the transition between the darkish introduction to the first movement of the Symphony No. 39 and its exuberant main theme.
Rosamunde Quartett, The Hilliard Ensemble - Boris Yoffe: Song Of Songs (2011)

Rosamunde Quartett, The Hilliard Ensemble - Boris Yoffe: Song Of Songs (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 213 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 150 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Chamber, Vocal | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 2174, 476 4426 | Time: 00:52:34

Boris Yoffee was born in Russia in 1968. There, he studied violin and composition and before the breakup of the Soviet Union he immigrated to Israel, where he studied at Tel Aviv University. In 1997, he moved to Germany to study composition with Wolfgang Rihm. By 2009, he had amassed an enormous number of short works. Thus, the performers who had been asked to record his Song of Songs looked through approximately 800 of them in order to select the pieces they wanted to perform. The Rosamunde Quartet is a German string quartet that was formed in 1992; since the group disbanded in 2010, this is its last recording. The Hilliard Ensemble is a British male vocal quartet that is well known for its performance of Renaissance, medieval, and contemporary music. It has often performed the works of Arvo Pärt, whose music is somewhat similar to that of Yoffe.
The Smashing Pumpkins - The End Is The Beginning Is The End (1997) [Japanese Ed.]

The Smashing Pumpkins - The End Is The Beginning Is The End (1997)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Warner Sunset Records / WEA Japan, WPCR-1204 | ~ 107 or 41 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 16 Mb
Alternative Rock

"The End Is the Beginning Is the End" is a Grammy Award-winning song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It is the first full-band song released as a single by the Smashing Pumpkins in the aftermath of their 1995 album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness…
Clifford Brown - The Beginning And The End (1973) {1994 Columbia Legacy}

Clifford Brown - The Beginning And The End (1973) {1994 Columbia Legacy}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and LOG | scans | 153 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 75 mb
Genre: jazz, big band

The Beginning And The End is a 1973 compilation album by Clifford Brown. This was remastered and reissued in 1994 by Columbia Legacy.