Modern Romance

The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Legendary Profile (1972) [Japanese Edition 2013]

The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Legendary Profile (1972) [Japanese Edition 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 232 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 96 MB | Covers - 22 MB
Genre: Jazz, Third Stream | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27204)

This is an MJQ album that, for most fans, is somewhat off the beaten path. At a time when they had left Apple Records to return to Atlantic, and when fusion was just getting started, the group incorporate more Brazilian music in the mix, and John Lewis plays Fender Rhodes electric piano on two tracks. While their laid-back, mellow, chamber-like sound is very much intact, the rules of sonic preparation had changed, and the band followed in kind. Drummer Connie Kay even adds a bit of R&B funk to the proceedings, as on the chunky opener and title track, which is very atypical for the group. One of two Lewis originals, "Valeria" is a light bossa nova, energized as it goes along, while the absolute beauty of "Romance" is marinated in waltz pace with accenting cymbal zings - the perfect candlelight-and-wine dinner music…

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Plastic Dreams (1972) [Reissue 2005]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 11, 2022
The Modern Jazz Quartet - Plastic Dreams (1972) [Reissue 2005]

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Plastic Dreams (1972) [Reissue 2005]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 339 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 128 MB | Covers - 44 MB
Genre: Jazz, Third Stream | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Atlantic (8122747022)

Christmas came early in 1971; in May, Atlantic released Plastic Dreams, the penultimate studio album from the Modern Jazz Quartet during their main, 22-year run as an ensemble. Of the MJQ's albums, Plastic Dreams has never been a critic's favorite, and was an album that mystified many of the group's longtime followers. First was the gatefold front cover, which featured a "plastic" image of a nude woman that was really pushing the envelope by 1971 standards; it was almost "indecent." Second, the liner notes by arch-New York jazz critic Martin Williams, while appreciative, really made you wonder if Williams was listening to the same album you were…

Modern English - After The Snow (1982) Expanded Reissue 1992  Music

Posted by Designol at April 10, 2023
Modern English - After The Snow (1982) Expanded Reissue 1992

Modern English - After The Snow (1982) Expanded Reissue 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 463 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 191 Mb
Label: 4AD | # GAD 206 CD | Time: 01:10:52 | Scans included
Post-Punk, New Wave, College Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock

"I'll Melt With You" will forever be the one specific moment that's Modern English's place in pop history, but the album it came from, After the Snow, isn't anything to sneeze at. Indeed, in transforming from the quite fine but dour young miserabilists on Mesh & Lace to a brighter incarnation that still had a melancholy side, the quintet found exactly the right combination best suited for their abilities. Like contemporaries B-Movie and the Sound, Modern English used punk and post-punk roots as a chance to introduce a haunting, beautiful take on romance and emotion, while the contributions of Stephen Walker on keyboard helped make the album both of its time and timeless. That said, the secret weapon on the album is the rhythm section of Michael Conroy and Richard Brown, able to shift from the polite but relentless tribal beat clatter on the excellent "Life in the Gladhouse" to the ever more intense punch of the title track, the album's unheralded masterpiece.

Modern Talking - Ready For Romance (1986)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Aug. 14, 2019
Modern Talking - Ready For Romance (1986)

Modern Talking - Ready For Romance (1986)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Hansa, PD 71133 | ~ 319 or 111 Mb | Artwork(png) -> 181 Mb
Europop, Synth Pop, Euro-Disco

Ready for Romance is the third studio album by German duo Modern Talking. It was released on 26 May 1986 by Hansa Records. The album spent five consecutive weeks atop the German chart, and was eventually certified platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for shipments in excess of 500,000 copies in Germany…

Modern Talking: Collection (1986 - 2000) [7CD, Japanese Ed.]  Music

Posted by v3122 at July 16, 2019
Modern Talking: Collection (1986 - 2000) [7CD, Japanese Ed.]

Modern Talking: Collection (1986 - 2000)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Label: various | ~ 2676 or 1164 Mb | Artwork(png) -> 238 Mb
Europop, Synth Pop, Euro-Disco

Modern Talking was a German duo consisting of singer Thomas Anders and arranger, songwriter and producer Dieter Bohlen, with the participation of Luis Rodríguez in the production, the choir and background voices of Rolf Köhler,] Michael Scholz and Detlef Wiedeke. They have been referred to as Germany's most successful pop duo, and have had a number of hit singles, reaching the top five in many countries…
Status Quo - 1+9+8+2 / Back To Back / In The Army Now / Ain't Complaining [Deluxe Editions] (2018)

Status Quo - 1+9+8+2 / Back To Back / In The Army Now / Ain't Complaining [Deluxe Editions] (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 3,5 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,09 Gb | 08:11:36
Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Boogie Rock | Label: Universal Music, Mercury Records

Status Quo are to release another batch of deluxe two and three CD releases via Universal Music. Under the spotlight this time are the '1+9+8+2' album released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the bands formation, 'Back To Back' from 1983, which features the last studio performances of original bass player Alan Lancaster before he left the band in late 1985, 'In The Army Now' (originally released in 1986) and its 1988 follow up, 'Ain't Complaining' which are all due for release by UMC/Mercury on Friday 28th September 2018.

The Twins - A Wild Romance (1983) [Reissue 2003]  Music

Posted by Andi_Deris at April 9, 2017
The Twins - A Wild Romance (1983) [Reissue 2003]

The Twins - A Wild Romance (1983) [Reissue 2003]
EAC Rip | FLAC: Image+Cue+Log | 437 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 157 Mb | Scans | 56 Mb | Time: 56:17
Passion Factory Records | PF 9412-2
Electronic, Synth-Pop

A Wild Romance is the third studio album by the German synthpop band The Twins. The album reached #30 on the German album charts, and contained the band's two top 30 German hits, "Ballet Dancer" (#19) and "Love System" (#27).

Donna Brooks - I'll Take Romance (1956) [Reissue 1988]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 7, 2020
Donna Brooks - I'll Take Romance (1956) [Reissue 1988]

Donna Brooks - I'll Take Romance (1956) [Reissue 1988]
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 131 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 81 MB | Covers (5 MB) included
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Fun House Inc. (32WD-7018)

New York comedy and cabaret singer-cum-jazz vocalist Donna Brooks is heard here on her third recorded outing for the Dawn label, and her first true full-length. Recorded in 1956, the smoky, sultry-voiced Brooks has a delivery that is a dead cross between Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington. With a fronting band of a generic piano trio, Brooks is nonetheless a fine interpreter of modern jazz song. Here she covers the Kaye/Mossman classic "Full Moon And Empty Arms," Mel Torme's "A Stranger In Town," Rodgers and Hart's "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To," and the Martin & Blane nugget "An Occasional Man," and infuses them with a beautifully haunting femme fatale quality, with a perfect ear for nuance and color, and stunning pronunciation and articulation…

Laneous - Monstera Deliciosa (2019)  Music

Posted by aasana at May 13, 2019
Laneous - Monstera Deliciosa (2019)

Laneous - Monstera Deliciosa (2019)
r&b/soul, exotica, funk, indie, rock, jazz, pop | 00:38:47 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 236,63 MB
Label: Soul Has No Tempo

"A genius" - Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote)
"One of the most incredible live performances I’ve seen" - Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 6 Music)
"He's like a human centipede sewn out of all the greatest musicians from the past 80 years" - Liam Pieper (Beat Magazine)

Emerging from Brisbane’s music-art bohemian West End in 2008, self-taught, prodigious musician Lachlan Mitchell aka Laneous, began his eclectic and colourful journey in music as the leading member of funk band KAFKA, stamping his trademark falsetto croon on an Australian music landscape that wasn’t quite ready for an artist whose standout influence was D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’.
Mychael Danna/Jeff Danna - A Celtic Romance: The Legend Of Liadain And Curithir (1998) {Hearts Of Space}

Mychael Danna/Jeff Danna - A Celtic Romance: The Legend Of Liadain And Curithir (1998) {Hearts Of Space}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and LOG | scans | 250 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 102 mb
Genre: new age, modern classical, ambient, celtic

A Celtic Romance: The Legend Of Liadain And Curithir is the 1998 compact disc by Mychael Danna and brother Jeff Danna. This was released by Hearts Of Space.