Magenta Flac

After the critical acclaim of their self-titled debut and Return to Magenta in 1977 and 1978, respectively, Willy DeVille and his band took another look at the sassy, street-tough rock & roll they'd dished up and took the first step toward the swinging Spanish soul the band's subsequent albums would strive for and the crooning R&B heartbreaker DeVille himself would become as a solo artist…

Duke Ellington - Carnegie Hall Concerts (1943-1947) {Prestige 8CD Box Set, Joe Tarantino Remaster rel 2010}
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© 1943-47, 2010 Prestige / Universal | 0600753232491
Jazz / Big Band / Early Jazz / Swing

2010 eight CD box set from the legendary Jazz pianist, composer, arranger and Big Band leader. This box set contains a plethora of material that Ellington recorded at the legendary venue, Carnegie Hall, during the height of the Big Band movement. Spanning the years 1943-47, this box set features 85 performances by Ellington backed by some of Jazz's greatest musicians including Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Junior Raglin, Al Hibbler, Claude B. Jones, Harry Carney, Oscar Pettiford, Sonny Greer, Ray Nance, Jimmy Hamilton, Al Sears and Ellington himself.

The second album by Chimpan A, The Empathy Machine, finally gets released after 14 years in the making. The core of the band are vocalist Steve Balsamo (Balsamo Deighton, Jesus Christ Superstar, Eric Woolfson) and multi-instrumentalist Robert Reed (Magenta, Sanctuary, Kompendium). The album follows their self-titled debut album, released in 2006.

Glass Hammer - Ode To Echo (2014) {Sound Resources}
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Rock / Progressive Rock

Featuring co-founders Steve Babb and Fred Schendel joined by guitarist Kamran Shikoh,drummer Aaron Raulston, vocalist Jon Davison and fan-favorites Carl Groves and Susie Bogdanowicz. The fourteenth studio album by Americas top-prog group also features cameo performances by past GH members Walter Moore and Michelle Young with cameos by Randy Jackson of Zebra, Rob Reed of Magenta and David Ragsdale of Kansas. Artwork by Michal Xaay Loranc, mastered by Bob Katz of Digital Domain, Ode To Echo is the highly anticipated studio album by prog-legends Glass Hammer.

Anthony Braxton - 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (2010) {4CD Set, Leo Records CD LR 572/575}
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© 2003, 2010 Leo Records | CD LR 572/575
Jazz / Modern Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone

In 2003 Anthony Braxton Quartet went on a European tour which has become legendary. The members of this quartet were Kevin O'Neil on guitar, Kevin Norton on percussion and Andy Eulau on bass. The concept of the tour was to perform jazz standards and during the tour the quartet performed over 60 different ones. The results of the tour were two 4-CD sets entitled 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 and 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 released by Leo Records. Both sets received tremendous critical acclaim. Reviewers noted that Braxton performed jazz standards in an entirely new way. Rather than echoing, aping or diminishing the tradition he was reinventing it making both the past and present much richer than it was before. Now we are releasing the remaining 19 standards (no duplication with previous volumes), totalling 4.5 hours of music. The set is a must not only for Braxton's followers but for all jazz fans at large. Limited edition 500 copies.

La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25 (6:17.50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC) (1987) {5CD Gramavision 18-8701-2 rec 1981}
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Classical / Modern Classical / Modern Composition / Microtonal / Piano

The Well-Tuned Piano is La Monte Young's magnum opus, the work in which many of his theories are crystallized and laid out for the listener. It's a massive solo piano performance, lasting a little over five hours, during which Young displays virtually every combination of chords that he deems special, seguing one into another. At the end of the day, the question is: Given the formal system and obviously huge amount of time devoted to its investigation, is the resultant music beautiful enough to justify the large amount of hype accompanying the project? The first thing that strikes the listener is the sound of the piano itself, a Bosendorfer that has been tuned in just intonation.

Sensitive To Light has it's genesis in 2006 when the French multi-instrumentalist Vynce Leff, former player of the Neo Prog band Saens decides to form a Symphonic band, with the collaboration of Jenny Lewis (lead vocals), Claude Thill (bass, vocals, keyboards), Jean-Philippe Dupont (keyboards, vocals) and Georgio Salvini in the drums. The band releases their debut called "Almost Human", a conceptual record based in Carlo Collodi's "Adventures Of Pinocchio". Despite the quality of the performers and the voice of Jenny Lewis (reminiscent of Christina Murphy Booth from Magenta), the album doesn't impress the audience due to the lack of elaboration. The melodies are good, the composition also, but something is missing…

The third album in Robert Reed’s acclaimed Mike Oldfield influenced Sanctuary series of releases displays more of Rob's own inventive musical quirks. Produced, mixed and engineered by Reed, who plays most of the instruments himself, Sanctuary III features legendary drummer Simon Phillips, and also contains contributions from recorder player Les Penning, and the Tubular Bells production team of Tom Newman and Simon Heyworth. A double cd / dvd (ntsc, all regions) set, this limited edition contains the main album, a disc of bonus material (including a Tom Newman mix of the album), plus a 5.1 surround mix of the album, promo videos and interview footage.