Label: Curious

The Curious Bards - Indiscretion (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 29, 2023
The Curious Bards - Indiscretion (2023)

The Curious Bards - Indiscretion (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 340 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:22
Classical, Celtic | Label: harmonia mundi

Following on their impressive debut album [*Ex]tradition*, the Curious Bards—an early-music ensemble founded by violinist Alix Boivert in 2015—continue to explore material from the Scottish and Irish folk traditions preserved in 18th-century publications. This new collection of airs and dances is a chance to discover more of this fascinating repertoire, in which the distinctions between serious music and popular inspiration need no longer apply.

Modey Lemon - The Curious City (2005) [Re-Up]  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 17, 2017
Modey Lemon - The Curious City (2005) [Re-Up]

Modey Lemon - The Curious City (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 392 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 133 Mb | Scans included
Garage Rock, Garage Punk, Alternative Rock | Label: Mute | # CDSTUMM238 | 00:54:24

The Modey Lemon's Phil Boyd (guitars, Moogs, vocals) and Paul Quattrone (drums) invited Jason Kirker to join the band on bass and keys after he produced Thunder + Lightning. But that's not the only change on 2005's Curious City. In the band's earlier work, Boyd sang in a slithering rasp that matched Modey's blues-punk skuzz ably, if only satisfactorily. But on City his suddenly clearer vocals are the key hinge to mounting blasts of hellacious Moog noise and weird melodies that slink from under the belly of classic rock & roll. (On Curious they're weird even when quiet, as the downcast Animals redux "Countries" proves.) The background of "Fingers, Drains" warbles in heat and melting instrument noises, and Boyd's vocal on it is downright sultry. Meanwhile "Sleep Walkers" is some of the most efficient music Modey Lemon's ever made; it sounds like a lost Golden Earring B-side with its throbbing bass and insistent drum clap.

Tinyfish - Curious Things (2009)  Music

Posted by Andi_Deris at May 5, 2017
Tinyfish - Curious Things (2009)

Tinyfish - Curious Things (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC: Tracks+Cue+Log | 185 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 72 Mb | Time: 28:52
Festival Music | 200901
Progressive Rock, Crossover Prog

Curious Things is a mini-album by the English progressive rock band Tinyfish. Six pieces of music from the vaults of Tinyfish, from before there even was a Tinyfish. Recorded and produced by Jem Godfrey of Frost, you can hear the strands of rock, acoustic pop, and electronica that were weaved together to form the band.

Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling (1979) {Reissue}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Sept. 11, 2021
Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling (1979) {Reissue}

Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling (1979) {Reissue}
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 373 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 150 Mb
Full Scans | 00:54:28 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Art Rock | Virgin Records / Charisma Records #CASCD1148

A Curious Feeling is the début solo album from Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks. Recorded at ABBA's Polar Music Studios during a brief Genesis hiatus, it was released in 1979 on Charisma Records and is one of only two of Banks' solo albums to have entered the UK Albums Chart, reaching 21 and staying on the chart for five weeks. According to Banks himself, the album "got some extremely scathing reviews, I don't think they were fair" but he conceded "this was post-punk and this was really not the album that people wanted to hear". Classic Rock reviewer Jerry Ewing agrees with Banks, writing that the album is made of "lush pastoral English prog rock that deserved better at the time" and is probably the musician's best solo effort.

Phil Manzanera - Live At The Curious Arts Festival (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at May 6, 2017
Phil Manzanera - Live At The Curious Arts Festival (2017)

Phil Manzanera - Live At The Curious Arts Festival
Prog-Rpck | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 45:49 min | 107 MB
Label: EarMusic | Tracks: 10 | Rls.date: 2017

UK live release by the British guitarist best known for his work with Roxy Music. Live At The Curious Arts Festival captures Manzanera and the band's show stopping performance at this well-known UK literary festival, held in July 2015. The set list included storming versions of Roxy classics, such as 'Take a Chance with Me', 'More Than This' and 'Love is the Drug' with Sonia Bernardo giving these songs an electrifying new twist, she is indeed a star in the making. The band packed full of talent, many still in their 20's, crackled and sizzled, inspiring Manzanera, whose playing on this set shows just why he is one of the world's greatest guitarists.
The Curious Bards & Ilektra Platiopoulou - The Curious Bards: [Ex]tradition - harmonia nova #1 (2017)

The Curious Bards & Ilektra Platiopoulou - The Curious Bards: [Ex]tradition - harmonia nova #1
Classical, Celtic | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 49:21 min | 296 MB
Label: harmonia mundi | Tracks: 14 | Rls.date: 2017

Since 2014, The Curious Bards has united five musicians, who love Gaelic and Celtic traditional music. These five musicians had an early music education and have studied in prestigious institutions in Lyon, Paris and Basel. Their musical paths have integrated traditional Irish and Scottish practice for many years.

Seamus Fogarty – The Curious Hand (2017)  Music

Posted by varrock at Oct. 5, 2017
Seamus Fogarty – The Curious Hand (2017)

Seamus Fogarty – The Curious Hand (2017)
MP3 CBR 320kbps | Tracks: 11 | 42:46 min | 101 Mb
Style: Folk, Indie, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Domino Records

Originally from County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, Fogarty now resides in London, and the capital provides the canvas for The Curious Hand. It's there in the starkly heartbroken 'Seems Wherever', written from the perspective of the tube system and the deep well of the city's troubled soul, and in the stony-faced rush hour commuters in 'Van Gogh's Ear', pouring onto train carriages "bound for Egham or Whimple or West Ham". But The Curious Hand also reaches back to Seamus' homeland and past in charmingly simple and direct ways.
Curious Chamber Players, UmeDuo & Karin Hellqvist - Structures of Light & Spruce (2018)

Curious Chamber Players, UmeDuo & Karin Hellqvist - Structures of Light & Spruce (2018)
Classical | 00:59:47 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 305 MB
Label: NEOS Music

"Structures of Light and Spruce" comprises world premiere recordings of chamber works by Malin Bang.
The Residents - Wormwood Box: Curious Stories From The Bible pREServed (2022)

The Residents - Wormwood Box: Curious Stories From The Bible pREServed (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2,9 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,17 Gb | 08:44:38
Avant-Garde Rock, Electronic | Label: Cryptic Corporation

As the second Millennium AD drew to a close, The Residents began to take stock on a couple of thousand years of reasonably fruitful human endeavour. One text, they felt, had inescapably set the tone and dominated the narrative throughout the Western world for most of that period, often clouding the view as they looked back. Sure enough, The Bible, Testaments Old and New, seemed like fertile ground for a confused, anonymous band approaching their fourth decade. Throughout 1998 and 1999, The Residents set about writing, recording and extensively touring a set of songs based around some of the more curious, unsettling and downright messed up stories they found upon revisiting their old Sunday School Bibles, and present here the results of those industrious years. Complete with demos and sketches, two full live recordings, a live-in-the-studio reworking and the usual assorted ephemera plus later live recordings, 'The Wormwood Box' showcases a project the band still think of very fondly, and have often revisited. Join us and marvel as the Eyeball Oddballs somehow cram murder, rape, incest, vengeance, slaughter and, erm, circumcision into a radio friendly pop format!

Solasta - A Cure for the Curious (2018)  Music

Posted by aasana at Oct. 6, 2018
Solasta - A Cure for the Curious (2018)

Solasta - A Cure for the Curious (2018)
Celtic Folk | 00:52:06 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 276 MB
Label: Solasta

Solasta are comprised of award-winning fiddler Elisabeth Flett, cellist Hannah Thomas and guitarist Jamie Leeming. On their debut album "A Cure For The Curious", their instruments blend together seamlessly, taking the listener on a spellbinding journey from raucous plate smashing at a Greek wedding to the songs of water sprites from the shores of Inishvickalline. Notable performances include Celtic Connections Festival, Sidmouth Folk Week, Cecil Sharp House, The Green Note and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club.