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Sipho Gumede - Spotlight On Sipho Gumede (2005) Music

Posted by Domestos at June 17, 2018

Sipho Gumede - Spotlight On Sipho Gumede (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 441.64 Mb + 39.16 Mb (Scans) | 01:09:20
Fusion, African | Country: South Africa | Label: African Cream Music - ACM CD035

Tracks 2,3.4,6 and 11 were originally released on the album Ubuntu — Humanity in 1996. Recorded at the SABC studios in Durban by Peter Thwaites. Mixed by Chris Lewis at Ronnie Scotts studios in London. Ubuntu-Humanity, Sipho Gumede's second solo album for M.E.L.T.2000 is a predominantly instrumental album featuring the cream of South African musicians and many other artists from the Outernational Meltdown, including Pops Mohamed, Madala Kunene, the late Moses Molelekwa, Mabi Thobejane, Barney Bophela and Zim Ncqawane. Ubuntu, an inherently African concept, encapsulates the values of being honest, sharing with those in need, passing on what you know to the young, respecting everyone, saving life at all costs and criticizing constructively.

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Jerry Bergonzi - Spotlight on Standards (2016) Music

Posted by Domestos at Jan. 3, 2021

There’s an old saying that a great jazz musician never plays a song the same way once. That could certainly be said of Jerry Bergonzi. He is an intellectual artist of uncompromising integrity and a bold, original composer. On Jerry’s new Savant recording he returns to the organ-tenor trio format after a long hiatus from it. From the opening track, Cy Coleman’s “Witchcraft” with its hypnotic organ vamp and “bewitching” chord substitutions Jerry gives to the first 8 bars, you know this isn’t going to be your parents’ organ-tenor gig. Bergonzi and his discmates, Renato Chicco on organ and Andrea Michelutti on drums, take these standards down new harmonic paths and use them as a launching pad for fertile and impressive improvisation. The playing is always intense and distinctive, fresh and spontaneous.

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Simone Kopmajer - Spotlight on Jazz (2018) Music

Posted by Domestos at Aug. 26, 2018

On her new album „Good Old Times“ (Lucky Mojo Records), SIMONE KOPMAJER transforms old favourites, clothing pop of the past in a fresh new sound. And she does it in a truly wonderful way… Talking about Simone Kopmajer means talking about one of the most internationally successful contemporary jazz musicians from Austria. Not many in her métier can claim to have played concerts across the planet. There aren’t many stages in Europe the 15-year veteran from Styria hasn’t stood upon. Her expressive and sensitive voice has graced 11 albums and she performed for a loyal fanbase on tours in the US, Japan and Southeast Asia.

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Jorn - Live On Death Road (2019) [Blu-ray, 1080i] Music

Posted by v3122 at June 29, 2019

Jorn - Live On Death Road (2019)
Blu-ray: MPEG-4 AVC 1080i, 29.970 fps, 16:9, High Profile 4.1
LPCM 2.0, 48 kHz, 2304 kbps, 24-bit / DD 5.1, 48 kHz, 384 kbps
Heavy Metal | Scans | 1:31:48 | ~ 22.61 Gb

Whether you know his voice from ARK, Masterplan, Avantasia, Ayreon’s 01011001 album, or in collaboration with “Sir” Russell Allen, if your musical journey has ever taken you within earshot of power metal, you know Norway’s Jorn Lande very well. In his prodigious body of work as a solo vocal artist, his band is eponymously known simply as Jorn. His 2019 Live On Death Road has just been released to CD, MP3, DVD, and Blu-Ray, offering an impressive 50th Birthday look at the voice of so much of European metal in the last twenty years…

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Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - In the Past Only Geniuses Were Capable of Staging the Perfect Crime... (2019) Music

Posted by Domestos at Nov. 25, 2019

Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - In the Past Only Geniuses Were Capable of Staging the Perfect Crime… (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 476.57 Mb | 01:17:30 | Cover
Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Black Truffle Records (Australia)

The 9th release by Black Truffle’s core ensemble spits fire and psychedelic balm in a handful of durational pieces running up to 19 minutes long, ‘cuz, as we all know by now; they’re no 3 minute type of guys. Leading down the rabbit hole from ‘This Dazzling, Genuine “Difference” Now Where Shall It Go?’ [2017], their incendiary group intuition blazes a tortuous route between flaying, free metallurgy, astrally inclined hymns and devil’s-ass-kissing swagger in a way that makes most others look like generic plods.

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The Monkees - Live 1967 (1987/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Sept. 14, 2022

"Live 1967" features performances from The Monkees’ exhilarating U.S. tour. The group performed hits including “I Wanna Be Free” and “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone”, featured on this twelve-track collection. The recording captures the band at its rawest.

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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Studio Album Collection 1965-1971 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 13, 2021

Paul Butterfield was the first white harmonica player to develop a style original and powerful enough to place him in the pantheon of true blues greats. It's impossible to overestimate the importance of the doors Butterfield opened: before he came to prominence, white American musicians treated the blues with cautious respect, afraid of coming off as inauthentic. This collection includes the studio tracks recorded between 1965 and 1971.

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Dogstar - Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 5, 2023

Dogstar - Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 351 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 183 MB
39:58 | Alternative Rock, Grunge | Label: Dillon Street Records

Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees is Dogstar's third studio album. Features "Everything Turns Around." First things first: There is no discussing Dogstar without talking about the reason the trio is famous—bassist Keanu Reeves. And there is no dismissing the fact that they traded off his Hollywood fame in the late 1990s; what other band toured and got the chance to open for Bowie at the Palladium (in 1995) despite not having a radio hit or even an American release for three years after that? They were the quintessential "big in Japan" band and broke up after their last 2002 show there. But in March 2023, Dogstar played a Napa, California, music festival and let it be known that they were back—and releasing their first album in 24 years, with producer Dave Trumfio (Wilco, OK Go) at the board. It's solid, cleanly produced and age-appropriate adult-contemporary, but maybe not the most exciting record you've heard this year.

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The Cookers - Time And Time Again (2014) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Feb. 6, 2024

The Cookers - Time And Time Again (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 61:53 minutes | 734 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

For their fourth release, a true Jazz supergroup, The Cookers, have swapped out saxophonist Craig Handy for Donald Harrison, raising the median age of the septet to just under 70. All of that longevity doesn’t mean complacency, however: The 69-year-old pianist George Cables, septuagenarians Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Billy Harper (tenor saxophone), Cecil McBee (bass) and Billy Hart (drums) and the Cookers’ two youngsters, Harrison (54) and trumpeter David Weiss (49) may bring well-defined personal styles to this ongoing project, but there’s nothing retro about them. The Cookers cook, all right, and if anything they’ve become even more assured, skillful and single-minded with each new offering.

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The New Mastersounds - 102% (2007) {3 On The B Records 3BRCD 005 rec 2006} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Jan. 23, 2020

The New Mastersounds - 102% (2007) {3 On The B Records 3BRCD005 rec 2006}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 346 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 132 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 16 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2006, 2007 3 On The B Records / One Note Records | 3BRCD005
Jazz / Jazz Funk / Acid Jazz / Groove

It won't take long – maybe ten seconds into the first cut – to know that the Meters are a primary influence on the U.K.'s New Mastersounds. The opening title track is such a ringer for "Cissy Strut" that you may check your CD sleeve to see if the discs weren't accidentally swapped. As the album unwinds, though, the all-instrumental quartet reveals more of its own identity: a sort of acid jazz mixed with crisp early-'70s funk grabbed from New Orleans' finest. Certainly drummer Simon Allen has been practicing to his Zigaboo Modeliste records, and it's his attack that principally drives the sound.

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