David Downes
David Preston - Purple / Black (Vol. 2) (2024) Music
Posted by Fizzpop at Oct. 1, 2024
David Preston - Purple / Black (Vol. 2) (2024)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 227 MB | Cover | 40:50 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 102 MB
Jazz | Label: Whirlwind Recordings
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 227 MB | Cover | 40:50 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 102 MB
Jazz | Label: Whirlwind Recordings
This album is a companion to David Preston’s 2023 debut under his own name: a set of recordings that confounded expectations as much as they delighted audiences. He went into the studio with a coherent set of compositions that focused on texture and mood as much as improvisational virtuosity, and a band of front-rank players whose ability to work outside the confines of genre matched his own. The sessions were so productive that they yielded two albums worth of material, of which this is the second. Like its predecessor, Purple/Black Volume 2 combines the unique talents of Kit Downes, Kevin Glasgow and Seb Rochford into an intuitively coherent unit that explores the carefully crafted material in a way that impresses with its focus and control as much as with its spontaneity. The result is an album that combines the directness and accessibility of mainstream popular music forms with the depth and subtlety of jazz.
David Preston - Purple / Black (Vol. 2) (2024) Music
Posted by Fizzpop at Oct. 1, 2024
David Preston - Purple / Black (Vol. 2) (2024)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 227 MB | Cover | 40:50 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 102 MB
Jazz | Label: Whirlwind Recordings
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 227 MB | Cover | 40:50 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 102 MB
Jazz | Label: Whirlwind Recordings
This album is a companion to David Preston’s 2023 debut under his own name: a set of recordings that confounded expectations as much as they delighted audiences. He went into the studio with a coherent set of compositions that focused on texture and mood as much as improvisational virtuosity, and a band of front-rank players whose ability to work outside the confines of genre matched his own. The sessions were so productive that they yielded two albums worth of material, of which this is the second. Like its predecessor, Purple/Black Volume 2 combines the unique talents of Kit Downes, Kevin Glasgow and Seb Rochford into an intuitively coherent unit that explores the carefully crafted material in a way that impresses with its focus and control as much as with its spontaneity. The result is an album that combines the directness and accessibility of mainstream popular music forms with the depth and subtlety of jazz.
Vin Downes - Good Light to Go By (2020) Music
Posted by varrock at Jan. 5, 2020
Vin Downes - Good Light to Go By (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 228 MB | Tracks: 12 | 51:40 min
Style: New Age, Instrumental, Guitar | Label: Riverwide Records
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 228 MB | Tracks: 12 | 51:40 min
Style: New Age, Instrumental, Guitar | Label: Riverwide Records
Vin Downes began studying guitar at the age of eleven. His early interests were in electric guitar, but this all changed when he heard the opening notes of David Cullen’s “Along the Way” on a Windham Hill Records guitar sampler. He immediately immersed himself in the fingerstyle music of Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, David Cullen, Leo Kottke, and Mississippi John Hurt.
Downes Braide Association - Halcyon Hymns (2021) Music
Posted by v3122 at July 19, 2021
Downes Braide Association - Halcyon Hymns (2021)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Magical Thinker, DBA-CD-05 | RU | ~ 413 or 150 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 9.48 Mb
Crossover Prog, Pop Rock
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Magical Thinker, DBA-CD-05 | RU | ~ 413 or 150 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 9.48 Mb
Crossover Prog, Pop Rock
Nostalgic reveries can offer a life-line after a year such as we’ve endured. If you’re needing a little pick-me-up to inspire better times, be they from the past or yet to arrive in the future, these “Halcyon Hymns” offer just the ticket. Featuring a soundtrack as lush and colorful as the Roger Dean cover art, this fourth collection from the Downes Braide Association finds the duo at the top of their game…
Sebastian Rochford, Kit Downes - A Short Diary (2023) Music
Posted by Fizzpop at Jan. 19, 2023
Sebastian Rochford, Kit Downes - A Short Diary (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 125 MB | Cover | 36:52 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 84 MB
Jazz | Label: ECM
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 125 MB | Cover | 36:52 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 84 MB
Jazz | Label: ECM
On A Short Diary, Sebastian Rochford leads from behind. The jazz drummer’s first release under his own name for ECM is unquestionably informed by recent events in his own life, yet Rochford—a former member of Sons of Kemet and Polar Bear who also works with Brian Eno and Andy Sheppard—settles into a restrained, secondary role. Pianist Kit Downes is the main animating force on an album where the two celebrated British players coexist in a gentle place clouded by melancholy.
Vin Downes - Unlike the Stars (2014) Music
Posted by SERTiL at Aug. 7, 2014
Vin Downes - Unlike the Stars
New Age | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 54:56 min | 134 MB + 5% Recovery
Label: Riverwide Records | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 21-01-2014
New Age | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 54:56 min | 134 MB + 5% Recovery
Label: Riverwide Records | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 21-01-2014
Vin Downes' third release, “Unlike the Stars”, is a musical dream come true. It has given him the opportunity to write and record with Grammy Award winning producer Will Ackerman and co-producer/engineer Tom Eaton at Imaginary Road Studios. Guests Will Ackerman, Tom Eaton, Eugene Friesen, Tony Levin and David Watson join Downes on this CD consisting of eleven songs. These songs are emotional, expressive and show off Downes’ musical voice.
Lara Downes - America Again (2016) Music
Posted by tomashass at Nov. 3, 2016
Lara Downes - America Again (2016)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 01:06:20 | 153 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sono Luminus
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 01:06:20 | 153 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sono Luminus
America Again, a collection of American music inspired by Langston Hughes's poem Let America Be America Again. Pianist Lara Downes mines the traditions of the concert hall, the American Songbook, jazz, ragtime, and folk ballads to capture the essence of the American dream and the American struggle.
Edward Downes, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - The Verdi Edition: Rigoletto (2013) Music
Posted by ArlegZ at Dec. 4, 2021
Edward Downes, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - The Verdi Edition: Rigoletto (2013)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch ) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 135 min | 7,04 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Opus Arte | Sub: English | Recorded: 2001
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch ) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 135 min | 7,04 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Opus Arte | Sub: English | Recorded: 2001
If there are lingering doubts about the Royal Opera House's artistic renaissance after its mid-1990s doldrum years, David McVicar's gritty and sexy production of Rigoletto should blow them all away. One of the principal reasons is McVicar's decision to emphasize the tyrannical nature of the Duke (beautifully sung by Marcelo Alvarez), and the appalling social injustice that springs from a corrupt leader: his court is a place of physical and sexual abuse (graphically, but by no means gratuitously, depicted). This violence throws the dual nature of Paolo Gavanelli's energetic, insectlike Rigoletto into relief, making his sycophancy seem all the worse and his vengefulness all the more sympathetic.
Downes Braide Association - Celestial Songs (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR
Posted by delpotro at Sept. 8, 2023
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Downes Braide Association - Celestial Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 67:47 minutes | 1,38 GB
Progressive Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Spirit of Unicorn Music, Official Digital Download
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 67:47 minutes | 1,38 GB
Progressive Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Spirit of Unicorn Music, Official Digital Download
Geoff Downes is a legendary British keyboard player known the world over for being a member of supergroups The Buggles, Asia, and Yes. He has been the powerhouse behind some of the most memorable keyboard driven pop-rock-prog songs of the last 40 years. He has worked with an exceptional caliber of musician from Kate Bush and Mike Oldfield to Billy Idol and Agnetha Faltskog.
Celtic Woman: The Show (2005) mp3 Music
Posted by areb_bsn at June 15, 2009
Celtic Woman: The Show (2005) mp3
Celtic | 1CD | MP3 CBR 192 Kbps | 201 Mb
Publisher: EMI Music Distribution | Language: English, Italian, Latin, Gaelic
CELTIC WOMAN is the brainchild of David Downes, a composer/conductor who was heavily involved with the American production of RIVERDANCE. Not surprisingly, all of the lights, drama, and musical bombast of that esteemed show are present on this production as well. Instead of showcasing legions of dancers, however, CELTIC WOMAN puts the emphasis on the rich heritage of traditional and contemporary Irish music, as performed by five talented female performers from varying musical backgrounds.
Plus! Plus! Plus!
* Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring * My Lagan Love * Somewhere * I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls *
* Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring * My Lagan Love * Somewhere * I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls *