The Great Music City

Thomas Dolby - A Map Of The Floating City (2011) 2CD Deluxe Edition [Re-Up] Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 16, 2021

Thomas Dolby, the iconic '80s star whose smash hits 'She Blinded Me With Science' and 'Hyperactive' helped define the MTV generation/revolution, will break his 20-year silence with A Map of the Floating City. The album, featuring appearances by special guest artists Mark Knopfler, Regina Spektor, Natalie MacMaster, Bruce Woolley, Imogen Heap and Eddi Reader, will be will be released on Lost Toy People Records as a physical CD, and in a special Deluxe Edition featuring a second disc of instrumentals and bonus tracks. Of the album, which is divided into three parts, Dolby says, "The new songs are organic and very personal. A Map of the Floating City is a travelogue across three imaginary continents: In Amerikana I'm reflecting with affection on the years I spent living in the U.S.A., and my fascination with its roots music. Urbanoia is a dark place, a little unsettling… I'm not a city person. And in Oceanea I return to my natural home on the windswept coastline."

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Ed Palermo Big Band - The Great Un-American Songbook, Volume III (2020) Music

Posted by Domestos at March 20, 2021

Ed Palermo Big Band - The Great Un-American Songbook, Volume III (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 367.90 Mb | 55:06 | Cover
Jazz Big Band, Third Stream | Country: USA | Label: Self Release

While pundits and experts debate whether the United States of America has entered an age of decline as a world power, New York saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and inveterate troublemaker Ed Palermo makes an incontrovertible case for un-American ascendance. With The Great Un-American Songbook Volume 3: Run for your Life, slated for release on guitarist/vocalist Bruce McDaniel’s Sky Cat label on November 6, 2020, he turns his attention to the music of the nation’s former colonial overlords. Focusing on material by Lennon and McCartney (and several acts that followed in The Beatles’ footsteps), one of jazz’s finest working big bands delivers another batch of reverently irreverent arrangements with enviable precision and improvisational aplomb.

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VA - Street Sounds From The Bay Area: Music City Funk & Soul Grooves 1971-75 (2011) Music

Posted by Rtax at April 13, 2024

VA - Street Sounds From The Bay Area: Music City Funk & Soul Grooves 1971-75 (2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 470 MB |MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 230 MB
1:16:35 | Funk, Soul | Label: BGP

It’s about time BGP got seriously funky and over the next few months we will be serving up some fantastic collections of rare funk and groovy soul from the depths of the black American recording industry. In the last decade funk has gone from the forgotten cousin of soul to the genre that has been most quickly excavated and then sometimes discarded. It often seems that every rare record has been snapped up and compiled already (it’s not true but sometimes it seems like it). However, the Ace collective really does have the ability to go deeper; as with the world of rare soul, our access to the tape vaults of various companies allows us to bring the world some exceptional music that has never been heard since the day it was recorded. “Street Sounds From The Bay Area” is the result of our examination of the recordings made, and then on the whole not released, by Ray Dobard’s Music City outfit between 1971 and 1975.

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Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Carl Davis - The Film Music of Charles Chaplin (1996) Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 10, 2024

This CD contains selected themes from five of Chaplins brilliant films. The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936). If you love the music from these films then you will love this album. Carl Davis has been very sensitive when rerecording the original scores. The music sounds amazing and he has remained true to Chaplins own styles and tempo's. The thing that will strike you more than anything is how amazing these scores really are in Stereo! They really do sound very good indeed. It also fully demonstrates just how good a composer Chaplin really was, and his talent for marrying music to film. As music it is beautiful from the harshness of "Gold Rush" to the haunting "Modern Times" and not forgetting the swinging "City Lights". Magical stuff! 5 out of 5, 10 out of 10 etc… But if you are planning on listening to this 80 minute album from beginning to end, you'd better make sure you have some Chaplin films close to hand because you WILL want to watch them all again. Nostalgia at its very best.

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Tony Bennett: Duets II - The Great Performances (2012) Music

Posted by peotuvave at Jan. 25, 2015

Duets II: The Great Performances is a visually stunning video companion to Tony Bennett's history-making #1 album, Duets II. The Blu-Ray features the full song performances from Tony and today's greatest artists as they were recorded live in the studio. The musical segments are enhanced by insights on the process from Tony and the duet partners, providing an inside look at this landmark album in an unprecedented career.

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Toontrack Music City USA SDX v1.5.0 SOUNDBANK Software

Posted by orientazure at Dec. 15, 2019

Toontrack Music City USA SDX v1.5.0 SOUNDBANK | 10.44 Gb

Premier drum samples recorded to perfection that you hone, mold and shape to fit in any style of music – from country to pop, rock and soul.

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Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at July 1, 2013

Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)
Il Grande e Potente Oz - Le Monde fantastique d'Oz - Oz: Wielki i potężny
A Film by Sam Raimi
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 1,85:1 | 16:9 | 720x576 | 02:05:09 | 5% Recovery | 7.32 GB
Languages Available: English, Italian, French, Polish Dolby Digital 5.1 AC3
Subtitle: English, Italian, Polish, Arabic, Dutch, French
Extra: Menù, Scene Selection, Walt Disney and the Road to Oz, Bloopers
Genre: Fantasy | 1 win & 7 nominations

In 1905 Kansas, Oscar "Oz" Diggs works as a small-time magician in a traveling circus. As a storm approaches, the circus strongman learns Oscar has flirted with his wife and goes to attack him. Oscar escapes in a hot air balloon, but is sucked into a tornado that takes him to the Land of Oz. There the witch Theodora believes him to be a wizard prophesied…

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Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at Aug. 28, 2013

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Phantom Surfers - The Great Surf Crash of '97 - 1996 (1998) Music

Posted by mfrwiz at March 8, 2010

Phantom Surfers - The Great Surf Crash of '97 - 1996 (1998)
WavPack (Img + Cue + Log + Audio Identifier Report Included): 233 Mb | EAC Secure Mode Rip | Mp3 (Fraunhofer IIS - 320 kbps): 89 Mb | Scans | Rar Files (3% Recovery)
Audio CD (February 10, 1998) - Original Release Date: September 24, 1996 - Label: Lookout Records - Catalog Number: LK155
Rock, Surf Rock

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Hidehiko Matsumoto - The Session: Sleepy Meets The Great Jazz Trio (1980) {Universal Japan SHM-CD UCCJ-4101 rel 2009} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Oct. 8, 2018

Hidehiko Matsumoto - The Session: Sleepy Meets The Great Jazz Trio (1980) {Universal Japan SHM-CD UCCJ-4101 rel 2009}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 259 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 97 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 19 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1980, 2009 Next Wave /Universal Japan } UCCJ-4101
Jazz / Post Bop / Cool / Saxophone / Jazz Piano Trio

Hidehiko "Sleepy" Matsumoto (October 12, 1926, Okayama - February 29, 2000, Tokyo) was a Japanese jazz saxophonist and bandleader. Matsumoto played bebop in Japan in the late 1940s with the group CB Nine, then joined The Six Josés and The Big Four, a group which included George Kawaguchi, Hachidai Nakamura, and Mitsuru Ono. In 1959 he became a member of Hideo Shiraki's small ensemble, and played with Gerald Wilson at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival and Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1964. Starting in 1964 he led his own ensembles, which have included as sidemen Takeshi Inomata, Akira Miyazawa, George Otsuka, and Isao Suzuki.

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