Beyond Chant

VA - Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979-1986 (2022)

VA - Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979-1986 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.4 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 721 MB
5:00:12 | Classical, Experimental | Label: Blank Forms Editions

Irida Associates U.S.A., an obscure and short-lived record label formed by composer-performer Jerry Hunt, offers a glimpse into the revelatory world of new music and composition in the artist’s native Third Coast. Based first in Dallas and later in Hunt’s home outside the rural town of Canton, Texas, Irida presented the innovative and daring experiments—into aleatoric methods, environmental acoustics, improvisation, homemade technologies, and more—pursued by Hunt and his select collaborators, primarily working in or near Texas between 1979 and 1986.
Levon Minassian and Friends - The Doudouk - Beyond Borders (2003)

Levon Minassian and Friends - The Doudouk - Beyond Borders (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG, Scans (jpg) | 55:32 | 255.3 MB
Folk | Long Distance France

Lévon Minassian is a French-Armenian duduk player.
He played for the soundtrack of Mayrig and The Passion of the Christ. He cooperates with Charles Aznavour, Helene Segara, Peter Gabriel, Armand Amar and Sting.

Behemoth - Discography (1995-2014)  Music

Posted by cha77os at Dec. 13, 2017
Behemoth - Discography (1995-2014)

Behemoth - Discography (1995-2014)
Poland | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 1.35 GB
Black Metal (early), Black/Death Metal (later)

Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate. Over the years Behemoth has moved from traditional black metal into blackened death metal and then into modern death metal with each consecutive release. Until the late 1990s, the band played a traditional black metal style with heathen lyrical content, but soon changed to that of occult and thelemic themes written by their lead vocalist Nergal and Krzysztof Azarewicz. With the 1999 release of Satanica, the band demonstrated their presence in the death metal scene, while retaining their own signature style characterized by the drum work of Inferno, multi-layered vocals and Middle-Eastern influences.
Capella de la Torre - Vidi Speciosam: A Lady Mass From The 16th Century (2018) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Capella de la Torre, Tiburtina Ensemble - Vidi Speciosam: A Lady Mass From The 16th Century (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 65:21 minutes | 1,12 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The present recording reconstructs the sound of a Marian Mass in a Spanish convent towards the end of the 16th century: plainchant performed by women’s voices alternates with polyphonic works featuring a combination of women’s voices and instruments, together with a number of instrumental movements.
Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall - Ibn Battuta: The Traveler of Islam (2019)

Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall - Ibn Battuta: The Traveler of Islam (2019)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:27:04 | 875 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: AliaVox | Catalog: AVSA9930

Ibn Battuta, dubbed the traveler of Islam, was a Moroccan scholar who at the age of 21 began a series of travels that eventually covered all of the Muslim world and several lands beyond. He traversed the Middle East, making the pilgrimage to Mecca and seeing the other great capitals of the region; traveled to what was then El Andalus in Spain and along the Mediterranean coast; recorded the glories of the Byzantine empire in its later stages; traveled to India, where he was appointed the Sultan's ambassador to China and described that culture as well…
VA - Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (2018)

VA - Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 594 MB
2:17:31 | Jazz, Pop, Easy Listening, Mambo, Pacific, Surf, Space-Age, Lounge | Label: Numero Group

It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring woman on the album jacket for best results. Liberty Records co-founder Si Waronker called it Exotica; the soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden, packaged for mid-century, tiki torch-wielding armchair safariers. In the five years after Exotica—Martin Denny’s 1957 landmark Liberty debut—arrived, hundreds of other ethnographic forgeries washed up in record racks all over the U.S., bearing titles like Sophisticated Savage, Sacred Idol, Chant of the Jungle, Polynesian Paradise, Exotic Paradise, Taboo, Primitiva, Forbidden Island, Afrodesia, Hypnotique, Percussion Exotique, and a barrel’s worth of other portmanteaus. “All of those ica and itiva endings I came up with because I thought I was being cute,” Waronker said. “And I don’t know why, but nobody got wise.”
VA - Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (2018)

VA - Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans, booklet) - 783 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 517 MB
2:17:31 | Jazz, Pop, Easy Listening, Mambo, Pacific, Surf, Space-Age, Lounge | Label: Numero Group

It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring woman on the album jacket for best results. Liberty Records co-founder Si Waronker called it Exotica; the soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden, packaged for mid-century, tiki torch-wielding armchair safariers. In the five years after Exotica—Martin Denny’s 1957 landmark Liberty debut—arrived, hundreds of other ethnographic forgeries washed up in record racks all over the U.S., bearing titles like Sophisticated Savage, Sacred Idol, Chant of the Jungle, Polynesian Paradise, Exotic Paradise, Taboo, Primitiva, Forbidden Island, Afrodesia, Hypnotique, Percussion Exotique, and a barrel’s worth of other portmanteaus. “All of those ica and itiva endings I came up with because I thought I was being cute,” Waronker said. “And I don’t know why, but nobody got wise.”
Davy Graham - He Moved Through The Fair: The Complete 1960s Recordings (2024)

Davy Graham - He Moved Through The Fair: The Complete 1960s Recordings (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 2,14 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,09 Gb | 08:06:20
Folk, Blues, Guitar | Label: Cherry Tree Records

Bringing together all his 1960s studio recordings plus demo and live recordings. With extensive sleeve note essay, original liner notes and a rare 2000 interview with Davy Graham. The godfather of British acoustic guitar, Davy Graham has had a tremendous influence on guitarists from Martin Carthy, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Paul Simon to Jimmy Page, Graham Coxon and Bernard Butler. He studied music from India, the Middle East and North Africa to devise new tunings and ways of playing blues, jazz and English traditional music.

Various Artists ~ Sacred Treasures, Vol. I - V (5CDs Set)  Music

Posted by illaryon at April 22, 2010
Various Artists ~ Sacred Treasures, Vol. I - V (5CDs Set)

Various Artists ~ Sacred Treasures, Vol. I - V (5CDs Set)
Classical | Easy CD-DA / Flac & Cue, No Log | Covers included | 5 % recovery | 1,3 GB | RS.com
Audio CDs: 1998 - 2007 | Label: Hearts of Space

Sacred Treasures V: From A Russian Cathedral is the latest installment in the critically acclaimed Hearts of Space series of sacred choral music. Each piece from this collection is infused with a deeply devotional, solemn and lyrical quality. The voices are spacious and warm, creating an atmosphere of holiness and benediction..
All the pieces and performances are infused with a solemn and deeply devotional quality. The singing is spacious and warm, creating an atmosphere of holiness and benediction. The intention was to weave hymns and verses into a seamless tapestry in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the individual elements of the compilation become movements in a choral symphony of timeless beauty…
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The Hilliard Ensemble - Old Hall Manuscript  Music

Posted by peachfuzz at March 14, 2007
The Hilliard Ensemble - Old Hall Manuscript

The Hilliard Ensemble: Old Hall Manuscript
EAC (APE & CUE) | Classical | 1 CD | 231 MB

The Old Hall Manuscript is the earliest surviving English manuscript which includes substantial composer attributions. It dates from the beginning of the 15th century, and shows the English contribution to the late Ars Nova, as well as some smoother harmonies which foreshadow the future. As apparent above, the manuscript consists entirely of sacred music.