The Who Offficial Digital Download

Sometimes we feel ridiculously small when we discover an artist and learn their story. That’s the case here. Since I received this album and did my research on this artist, I struggled to find a way to talk about it. Indeed, I came across her website, where these few words appeared at first glance… ‘Jazz Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore.

Johannes Ockeghem - Missae Cuiusvis Toni & Prolationum - The Sound and The Fury (2013) {Digital Download fb1302202}
FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44kHz - Official Digital Download (qobuz.com) -> 521 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 260 Mb | Artwork | 5% repair rar
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Classical / Renaissance / Early Music / Sacred / Polyphony / Masses

Both as composer and person, Johannes Ockeghem remains an enigmatic figure to us today. His surname refers to a small village, Okegem, in eastern Flanders, where the name appears as early as the 13th century. Yet payment documents from St. Martin’s church in Saint-Ghislain in Henegauen near Mons, some 25 kilometres from Okegem, show that our composer was born there and that a mass was endowed to his memory, celebrated up until the French revolution of 1789. We do not know when Ockeghem was born, but the fact that he wrote a mass ­based on the tenor of a chanson by the famous composer Gilles de Binche, ­‘Binchoys’, together with an impressive Lamento in remembrance of him, may suggest that ­Ockeghem received his musical education in Mons (in today’s Belgium), where ­Binchoys held the post of organist of Ste Waudru from 1419 to 1423 and with which he remained in contact until his death.

The Who… smashed guitars… demolished hotel rooms…cars in swimming pools… the legendary band in their most explosive performances. Re-live the glory from their pre-Who days as The High-Numbers to their final appearance with notorious madman and drummer extraordinaire Keith Moon. From raucous rehearsals to major festivals… from rock operas to rock anthems…

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