Paul McCartney – Pipes Of Peace (1983) [Deluxe Edition 2015]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96(44,1) kHz | Time – 1:11:54 minutes | 1,18 GB + 840 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | © Hear Music
Pipes of Peace is the fourth solo studio album by Paul McCartney. The album, released in 1983, was produced by George Martin and includes the hit single Say Say Say, a duet with Michael Jackson that stayed at #1 on the US Chart for 6 weeks. Now, the album is newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios and features bonus audio, includes previously unreleased and rare tracks, plus a new remix of Say Say Say.
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Paul McCartney – McCartney II (1980) [Remaster 2011] {UNLIMITED Edition}
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 127:29 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: www.paulmccartney.com | Digital Booklet
The third release from the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, an ambitious reissue program that encompasses 41 years of cherished, classic material from the most successful songwriter and recording artist in music history. McCartney II originally issued in May of 1980 was McCartney’s return to solo work after nine years touring and having released several massively successful albums with Wings. Reaching #1 in the UK, and #3 in the U.S., the album produced enduring classics such as “Coming Up,” “Waterfalls,” & “Temporary Secretary”. (more…)
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Paul McCartney – McCartney (1970) [Remaster 2011] {UNLIMITED Edition}
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 60:15 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: www.paulmccartney.com | Digital Booklet
The second release from the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, an ambitious reissue program that encompasses 41 years of cherished, classic material from the most successful songwriter and recording artist in music history. The album featuring the original remastered album plus seven bonus audio tracks including the previously unreleased outtakes “Suicide” and “Don’t Cry Baby” plus a rare live 1979 recording of “Maybe I’m Amazed”. (more…)
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Paul McCartney – Kisses On The Bottom (2012) [Deluxe Version]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:23 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: www.paulmccartney.com | Artwork: Digital booklet
Kisses On The Bottom is a collection of standards Paul grew up listening to in his childhood as well as the two new McCartney compositions “My Valentine” and “Only Our Hearts.” With the help of Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band–as well as guest appearances from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, McCartney’s new album is a deeply personal journey through classic American compositions that, in some cases, a young Paul first heard his father perform on piano at home. This limited edition version includes the exclusive bonus tracks “Baby’s Request” and “My One And Only Love”. (more…)
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Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run (1973) [Remaster 2010] {UNLIMITED Edition}
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 75:31 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Official Web | Artwork: Digital booklet | © Hear Music
The first release from the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, an ambitious reissue program that encompasses 41 years of cherished, classic material from the most successful songwriter and recording artist in music history. (more…)
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Paul McCartney – Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom (Studio and Live Audio) [2011]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:44:00 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | © Hear Music
McCartney’s debut into the world of ballet is a story of good and evil, love and war that takes place in the depths of the ocean. An hour long score featuring four stunning movements – “Ocean’s Kingdom,” “Hall of Dance,” “Imprisonment” and “Moonrise” – the ballet tells of a love story within the story of an underwater world whose people are threatened by the humans of Earth. A potently expressive and richly varied work, the score is Paul’s most challenging and emotionally complex yet.
Commissioned by New York City Ballet, the music draws on late Romanic composers while maintaining McCartney’s genius for simplicity and melody. The result is a breathtaking and imaginative orchestral work—one that proves yet another artistic facet of the legendary musician.
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Alison Krauss + Union Station – New Favorite (2003)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0, 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:57 minutes | All Scans included | 2,89 GB
Following the success of the startlingly popular traditional old-timey soundtrack for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, contemporary bluegrass pioneers Alison Krauss & Union Station moved in the opposite direction for their 2001 release, New Favorite. While Krauss and Union Station guitarist/vocalist Dan Tyminski got deeply in touch with their dust bowl Americana roots for their work on the film, their follow-up studio album is certainly the slickest, most progressive work they’ve recorded to date. New Favorite seems almost neatly divided into two albums: one following the same path as Krauss’ 1999 contemporary country solo album, Forget About It, and the other helmed by Tyminski, bringing a progressive slant to Union Station’s traditional bluegrass feel. The whole album is well crafted (with the exception of Tyminski’s laborious, drawn-out “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn”) but will certainly not sit right with certain elements of the band’s core audience, who has come to know them as the strongest traditionally based bluegrass act still recording. The whole album feels a little too slick and reverbed out; the brilliant dobro work of Jerry Douglas seems mired in echoes, and at times Krauss’ vocals seem to be coming out of some deep studio well. The musicianship, however, is beyond top-notch. The players (specifically banjo player Ron Block and guitarist Tyminski) are among the best in the genre, and the harmonies between the two vocalists are stunning and chill inducing. Their call and response vocals on “Daylight” serve as the highlight of the album, traced delicately by Douglas’ dobro and chilling to the end. Unfortunately, the collective spirit that was so evident on their 1997 release So Long So Wrong seems to be dissolving, and the award-winning fiddle playing that brought Krauss to the nation’s attention seems to be becoming almost a background instrument (if it shows up at all). While there are intriguing moments in the album, it lacks the spark that So Long So Wrong had in spades, and even their few moments on the O Brother soundtrack seemed to breathe more life into the band than New Favorite does.
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Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:38 minutes | 400 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Master, Master Quality Audio Rip – Source: Tidal | Front cover | © Anti – Epitaph
“If All I Was Was Black” is the sixteenth studio album by Mavis Staples. The album was written and produced by Jeff Tweedy, who also features on the fourth track. Staples said about the album “(It) bring us all together as a people. That’s what I hope to do. You can’t stop me. You can’t break me. I’m too loving. These songs are going to change the world”.
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Alicia Keys – Songs In A Minor (2003)
Genre: R&B | Year: 2003 | Quality: DVD-Audio (MLP 5.1 96kHz/24Bit, LPCM 2.0 kHz / 24 Bit ) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 16 | Size: ~6.82 Gb | Covers: in archive | Release: J-Records/BMG, 2003 | Note: Not Watermarked
Alicia Keys’ debut album, Songs in A Minor, made a significant impact upon its release in the summer of 2001, catapulting the young singer/songwriter to the front of the neo-soul pack. Critics and audiences were captivated by a 19-year-old singer whose taste and influences ran back further than her years, encompassing everything from Prince to smooth ’70s soul, even a little Billie Holiday. In retrospect, it was the idea of Alicia Keys that was as attractive as the record, since soul fans were hungering for a singer/songwriter who seemed part of the tradition without being as spacy as Macy Gray or as hippie mystic as Erykah Badu while being more reliable than Lauryn Hill. Keys was all that, and she had style to spare — elegant, sexy style accentuated by how she never oversang, giving the music a richer feel. It was rich enough to compensate for some thinness in the writing — though it was a big hit, “Fallin'” doesn’t have much body to it — which is a testament to Keys’ skills as a musician. And, the fact is, even though there are some slips in the writing, there aren’t many, and the whole thing remains a startling assured, successful debut that deserved its immediate acclaim and is already aging nicely.
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