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Sandrine Piau, Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier - Clair-Obscur (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Sandrine Piau, Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier - Clair-Obscur (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 50:42 minutes | 478 MB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

‘The dreamer! That double of our existence, that chiaroscuro of the thinking being’, wrote Gaston Bachelard in 1961. ‘The old is dying, the new cannot be born, and in that chiaroscuro, monsters appear’, adds Antonio Gramsci. Sandrine Piau has chosen to use these two quotations as an epigraph to her new recording: ‘My family and friends know about this obsession that never leaves me completely. The antagonism between light and darkness. The chiaroscuro, the space in between…’
El León de Oro, Peter Phillips & Marco Antonio García de Paz - Guerrero: Magnificat, Lamentations & Canciones (2021)

El León de Oro, Peter Phillips & Marco Antonio García de Paz - Guerrero: Magnificat, Lamentations & Canciones (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 300 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 Mb | Artwork included | 01:00:53
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Hyperion Records

Francisco Guerrero is still insufciently well known by comparison to his great contemporary and compatriot Victoria. El León de Oro here afrms his rightful place in the history of the Golden Age of Spanish polyphony.

Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie (1978)  Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 3, 2022
Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie (1978)

Leon Redbone - Champagne Charlie (1978)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 171 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 113 Mb | Scans included
Label: Warner Bros. Records | # 3165-2 | Time: 00:32:25
Blues, Ragtime, Guitar Jazz, Folk Jazz, Standards

From the opening track, "Champagne Charlie," to the dazzling finale, "T.B. Blues," Leon Redbone presents an introspective collection of blues and big band melodies in timeless fashion, a rare feat because of its release date in 1978. The record was highly acclaimed and regarded as the purest of jazz and classic blues by a remarkable legend and icon in this musical form. Most of the record, like the amiable "Sweet Sue (Just You)" and memorable "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)," is filled with the best that blues and ragtime has to offer. The music itself is quite light and jolly during the more uplifting moments, with others such as "I Hate a Man Like You" very depressing and sorrowful. The band backing up Redbone is delightful, filled with jubilant horns, oboes, and trumpets. "T.B. Blues" closes out this record as a charming look back into the world of blues via pioneer Jimmie Rodgers. Two melodies written and composed by giant Jelly Roll Morton are featured here, with fresh and stunning new arrangements by Leon Redbone and company, "If Someone Would Only Love Me" and "I Hate a Man Like You".
Leon Russell - Leon Russell and the Shelter People (1971) [Audio Fidelity, Remastered 2016]

Leon Russell - Leon Russell and the Shelter People (1971) Mastered by Kevin Gray, 2016
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 318 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 137 Mb | Scans included
Classic Rock, Rhythm & Blues | Label: Audio Fidelity | # AFZ 259 | 00:53:40

Leon Russell's accolades are monumental in a number of categories, from songwriting (he wrote Joe Cocker's "Delta Lady") to session playing (with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, just to name a few) to his solo work. Unfortunately, it's the last category that never really attracted as much attention as it should have, despite a multitude of blues-based gospel recordings and piano-led, Southern-styled rock albums released throughout the 1970s. Leon Russell and the Shelter People is a prime example of Russell's instrumental dexterity and ability to produce some energetic rock & roll. Poignant and expressive tracks such as "Of Thee I Sing," "Home Sweet Oklahoma," and "She Smiles Like a River" all lay claim to Russell's soulful style and are clear-cut examples of the power that he musters through his spirited piano playing and his voice. His Dylan covers are just as strong, especially "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh," while "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" and "It's a Hard Rain Gonna Fall" have him sounding so forceful, they could have been Russell's own.
Baptiste Trotignon, Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier - Anima (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Baptiste Trotignon, Orchestre Victor Hugo & Jean-François Verdier - Anima (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 55:27 minutes | 1 GB
Classical, Jazz | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

An eminent ambassador of the ‘French touch’ in jazz and winner of many awards (Django-Reinhardt, Victoires du Jazz, Django d’Or, SACEM jazz awards) – Baptiste Trotignon has been composing for symphony orchestras and classical musicians for several years. The music on this album is not ‘symphonic jazz’, says Trotignon, ‘but you can hear the sounds of the Afro-American musical language, whether in the harmonies or in the very motoric rhythms that are always in motion (dances, toccatas, grooves)’.

Leon McCawley - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 16, 2021
Leon McCawley - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 (2021)

Leon McCawley - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 209 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 180 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:18:08
Classical | Label: SOMM Recordings

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the fourth volume in Leon McCawley’s much-praised series of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Piano Sonatas.

Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 28, 2021
Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound (2021)

Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:36:46 | 203 Mb
R'n'B, Soul | Label: LisaSawyer63, Columbia Records

Gold-Diggers Sound is the new album from Leon Bridges. This R&B collection is birthed from extended late nights at the Los Angeles, California studio of the same name. The album celebrates Leon’s immersive experience of creating music in the same East Hollywood room where he lived, worked, and drank over the course of two years. The soulful collaboration between Leon as an artist and the space itself was so encompassing that he chose to name the album after the soon-to-be legendary complex.

Leon Russell - Leon Russell (1970) [DCC, GZS-1049]  Music

Posted by v3122 at Dec. 19, 2020
Leon Russell - Leon Russell (1970) [DCC, GZS-1049]

Leon Russell - Leon Russell (1970)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
1993 | DCC, GZS-1049 | ~ 358 or 139 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 50 Mb
Southern Rock

Leon Russell never quite hit all the right notes the way he did on his eponymous debut. He never again seemed as convincing in his grasp of Americana music and themes, never again seemed as individual, and never again did his limited, slurred bluesy voice seem as ingratiating…
Leon Berben - Joan Cabanilles: Tientos, Pasacalles y Gallardas (2008)

Leon Berben - Joan Cabanilles: Tientos, Pasacalles y Gallardas (2008)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:18:00 | 456 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Aeolus | Catalog: 10671

Joan Cabanilles worked for most of his life in Valencia, whose magnficent cathedral was a reminder of that trading city's glorious past. Organist Léon Berben plays an organ not in that cathedral, but an instrument in Basque country from the middle of the eighteenth century. It's a magnificent choice, and this collection of Cabanilles organ pieces would be worth the money for the graphic design alone. Check the booklet cover reproduction of the screaming faces painted on some of the organ pipes, for a start. Annotator Miguel Bernal Ripoll, whose words appear in English, French, Spanish, and German, writes that "Cabanilles appears like a Janus-headed deity with one face turned toward the past and the other definitely towards the future.

Leon Redbone - Double Time (1977)  Music

Posted by Designol at Aug. 22, 2022
Leon Redbone - Double Time (1977)

Leon Redbone - Double Time (1977)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 157 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 80 Mb
Label: Warner Bros. | # 2971-2 | Time: 00:34:57 | Scans ~ 94 Mb
Blues, Ragtime, Guitar Jazz, Folk Jazz, Standarts

Leon Redbone followed up his debut long-player On the Track (1975) with Double Time (1977), an equally enchanting, if not somewhat eclectic blend, of jazz, folk, blues and pop standards – all in Redbone's undeniably distinct throaty baritone. While the tunes may be familiar, these renderings are steeped in the artist's unique sensibilities. The results are uniformly ingenious and commence with a New Orleans ragtime flavored interpretation of Blind Boy Blake's dirty "Diddy Wa Diddie" blues. Augmenting Redbone's acoustic guitar is an extended cast of session stalwarts and a host of other musical notables – such as Milt Hinton (bass), Jonathan Dorn (tuba), Vic Dickenson (trombone) and Jo Jones (drums). Don McLean (banjo) sits in, supplying his criminally underutilized instrumental versatility on the endearing revamp of Jimmie Rodgers' "Mississippi Delta Blues." The decidedly demented reading of "Sheik of Araby" is nothing short of inspired insanity. Redbone incorporates a Screamin' Jay Hawkins-esque persona belting out a variety of hoots, snorts, howls and hob-gobbles set behind a hot-steppin' fret board flurry à la Django Reinhardt.