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Hailed as ‘the new voice of Russia’ and the star of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Venera Gimadieva has quickly become one of the most sought-after lyric coloratura sopranos in Europe. Her performances as Violetta in La Traviata have earned sensational reviews, with the Guardian describing her at her Glyndebourne Festival debut as “a soprano of huge presence, compelling to watch, with a voice of thrilling security and range, and a special quality to her quieter singing that makes you hang on every note.”

German four-piece speed/thrash metal band, regarded as very influential to the modern black metal scene…

German four-piece speed/thrash metal band, regarded as very influential to the modern black metal scene…

Tito Puente - Quatro: The Definitive Collection (2012) {5CD Box Set, Sony Music Latin 88725469882 rec 1956-1960}
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© 1956-60, 2012 Sony Music Latin | 8872 546988 2
Jazz / Latin / Cuban Traditions / Mambo / Afro-Cuban Jazz

Quatro: The Definitive Collection assembles four truly classic Tito Puente albums recorded between 1955 and 1960 for RCA, and adds a disc of outtakes, alternate takes, and rarities in a lavishly designed limited-edition box set. The box is 6" x 6" with each album housed individually in a thick cardboard sleeve with back and front facsimile cover art. These four albums were cut in chronological order: Cuban Carnival (1956), Night Beat (1957), Dance Mania (1958), and Revolving Bandstand (1960), the last recorded in collaboration with the Buddy Morrow Orchestra.

As was the case with their very uneven career, Sodom's two-disc greatest-hitsset, Ten Black Years: The Best of Sodom, is not the sort of collection one can easily appreciate when heard from start to finish…

Rita Lee - Discografia [21CDs Box Set] (2015)
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Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Hard Rock, MPB, Funk | Label: Universal Music

For the first time in her career, the biggest female rockstar in Brazil of all time has all of her works reunited on a deluxe box set. All of her 20 albums were digitaly remastered with all the graphic material redone on its details, turning into an unique project that took a year to be made.
Along with the hard deluxe box, a bonus CD with the most diverse pearls of the artists, which didn't make out any album of her career, like "Sassaricando", from a soup opera theme, "Felicidade", from a TV commercial and "Dias Melhores Virгo", from a homonym movie.

Born in Granada in 1983, Sergio Pamies is one of the most promising young Spanish musicians of the present day. The album begins with “Borrachito” (“Tipsy”), the title song of the disc, allowing the key of the very personal synthesis of jazz and flamenco to enter, a synthesis that characterizes this artist. The song is a very catchy one in which the piano improvisation supports the subtle and exciting background of hand clapping, cajón, and drums. The elegant voice of José Cortés “The Pirate” creates a perfect counterpoint that finishes with an exhilarating celebration by way of the “bulerías”: “borrachito, borrachito/ tu amor a mí me tiene borrachito” (“Tipsy, tipsy/ your love has got me tipsy”).

Tito Puente was never one for half measures, and even in death there's no modesty involved, as the label calls him King of Kings. It might be an exaggeration, but only a slight one, and it gets the attention. Still, as the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and there's a hearty meal here, albeit one missing one or two choice dishes, like Puente's original version of "Oye Como Va," a song that indirectly brought him a whole new audience. However, "Honk Kong Mambo" is here, "Dance Mania," and "Dance of the Headhunters," so it's hard to find too much fault with the disc's 21-track selection. While the man wasn't shy about having his timbales, or himself, front and center, he truly was a driving force in his music - and, as this CD shows, he knew how to write more than his share of good tunes, too…