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Nigel Kennedy - The Kennedy Experience (1999)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 19, 2022
Nigel Kennedy - The Kennedy Experience (1999)

Nigel Kennedy - The Kennedy Experience (1999)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 385 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 168 Mb
Full Scans | 00:55:06 | RAR 5% Recovery
Chamber Music, Classical Pop, Experimental, Free Improvisation | Sony Classical #SK 61687

Tribute albums sometimes can backfire and come across as acts of extreme hubris. The name of Jimi Hendrix, who wrote the six songs on this album, appears only once, buried in teeny type in the booklet’s credits. Sure, we gather as much from the album’s title and names of the tracks, but Hendrix at least deserves cover credit. As for the music, Kennedy and his young pals perform arrangements that are exquisitely crafted and stunningly clear, but only remotely related to the originals. Most are three times as long as the songs, and dwell on riffs that Hendrix threw away in performance. The ensemble is lovely in its own way, but folksy acoustic guitar strums and genteel plucks of the cello are just not what Hendrix was about. Kennedy’s attempts to transform his violin into a psychedelic instrument–playing with harmonics to reproduce feedback, doubling a line with octaves–sound clever, but he spills his bag of tricks early on. Whoever this album is aimed at, it comes across as a gimmick.
Nigel Kennedy - Inner Thoughts: Bruch, J.S. Bach, Brahms, Vivaldi, Elgar, Mendelssohn (2005)

Nigel Kennedy - Inner Thoughts (2005)
Max Bruch, J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Antonio Vivaldi, Felix Mendelssohn, Edward Elgar

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 394 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 0946 3 31049 2 1 | Time: 01:09:33

Medieval Baebes and other far greater shocks to the bourgeoisie have come along. Wild adventures placed under the rubric of performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons are commonplace. Yet Nigel Kennedy continues to roost atop the classical sales charts in Europe, and even to command a decent following in the U.S. despite a low American tolerance for British eccentricity. How does he do it? He has kept reinventing himself successfully. Perhaps he's the classical world's version of Madonna: he's possessed of both unerring commercial instincts and with enough of a sense of style to be able to dress them up as forms of rebellion. Inner Thoughts is a collection of slow movements – inner movements of famous concertos from Bach and Vivaldi to Brahms, Bruch, and Elgar.

Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2014)  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 4, 2022
Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2014)

Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 344 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Scans included
Classical Crossover, Contemporary | Label: Sony Classical | # 88875076722 | Time: 01:01:21

If anyone has earned the right to mess around with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons it is Nigel Kennedy, the violin world’s Marmite violinist. Remember how fresh he made this music sound on his recording of a quarter-century ago? This latest version offers a ferment of all he’s played since – concertos, jazz, Jimi Hendrix. It’s affectionate and irreverent in equal measure, and Kennedy and his Orchestra of Life never sound less than riveting. Pretty much all Vivaldi’s notes are there; around, above and in between them come interjections, overlays and linking passages involving guest musicians from jazz and rock: Orphy Robinson, Damon Reece, Z-Star and others. Spring is welcomed in by a distant-sounding intro on an electric-guitar. Summer’s storms bring forth bursts of crazily sampled static. Autumn tears off at a cracking pace, but with a jazz trumpet sauntering lazily over the top. It all sounds like a colossal jam session from the inside of a Botticelli painting.

Gareth Koch & Martin Kennedy - Music in the Afterlife (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 17, 2023
Gareth Koch & Martin Kennedy - Music in the Afterlife (2023)

Gareth Koch & Martin Kennedy - Music in the Afterlife (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 180 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 100 Mb | 00:40:44
Electronic, Ambient, Easy Listening | Label: Foghorn Records

The idea of an afterlife has fired imaginations across cultures for millennia and is one of the earliest belief systems in recorded history. It is fascinating to consider that a type of identity or stream of consciousness might exist in the absence of the physical body.
National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (2022)

National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center & Gianandrea Noseda - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 322 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 173 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:14:18
Classical | Label: National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) and Music Director Gianandrea Noseda will release the first installment of their complete Beethoven symphony cycle, a recording of Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3.
Vincent Kennedy, RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Mark Redmond - Vincent Kennedy: Music of People and Place (2023) [24/44]

Vincent Kennedy, RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Mark Redmond - Vincent Kennedy: Music of People and Place (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 83:47 minutes | 866 MB
Classical | Label: Navona Records, Official Digital Download

Composer Vincent Kennedy and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra bring MUSIC OF PEOPLE AND PLACE to Navona Records. Selected from some of his most beloved works and inspired by the people, mysticism, mythology, history, and landscapes of his native Ireland, this album is a rich collection of 19 stories, each appealing to the human spirit with sublime performances by the superb musicians of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.: The Life and Legacy of the Patriarch Behind America’s Most Famous Political Dynasty

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.: The Life and Legacy of the Patriarch Behind America’s Most Famous Political Dynasty by Charles River Editors
English | November 20, 2017 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B077NSK6YG | 82 pages | EPUB | 1.28 Mb

Myles Kennedy - The Ides of March (2021)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at May 13, 2021
Myles Kennedy - The Ides of March (2021)

Myles Kennedy - The Ides of March (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 386 MB | Cover | 51:36 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 118 MB
Rock | Label: Napalm Records

Iconic frontman and instrumentalist MYLES KENNEDY (Alter Bridge, Slash ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators) proves that tumultuous downtime can spark creative genius with The Ides Of March - the long-anticipated full-length follow up to his 2018 solo debut, Year Of The Tiger. The Ides Of March once again showcases the organic side of Kennedy's musical spectrum and one-of-a-kind voice, but while bright inclusions of lap steel and mandolin have replaced some of the pummeling kick drum and downtuned electric riffage his other renowned projects are known for, each of its offerings maintain the same steadfast energy that never relents. Fluxing between heritage rock outcries featuring Jimmy Page-worthy solos, and stripped-down, bluesy beckonings, the album manifests as an uplifting refresher arriving when society needs it most. Lyrically, the album's 11 unique offerings embrace all listeners, championing themes of unity and solidarity over separation and spite, allowing the sonic warmth of each track to stand out.
Nigel Kennedy, Paul Tortelier - Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Rococo Variations (1993)

Nigel Kennedy, Paul Tortelier - Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Rococo Variations (1993)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:11 | 211 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 0777 7 54890 2 6

Nigel Kennedy’s repackaged 1986 recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is an adventure – free, rhapsodic, emphasising the constant flow of song which is the work’s main asset. Perhaps he’s a little over-keen to emphasise what melancholy there is here, nearly bringing the outer movements to a halt with the bitter-sweet dreams of second subjects, but the Canzonetta is a miracle of introspection. All this passes Gil Shaham by. While the young Israeli clearly has a fabulous palette, conjuring a bright, beautiful sheen at the top of the instrument (though unduly spotlit by DG), he rarely uses it discriminatingly enough, and the sense of flexible movement so vital for the Tchaikovsky is missing.
If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History

Jeff Greenfield, "If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History"
English | ISBN: 0399166963 | 2013 | 272 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 427 KB + 723 KB