Britney Spears – In The Zone (2003) [DVD-Audio ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Britney Spears – In The Zone (2003)
DVD-Audio ISO | 5.1 88,2/24,  2.0 88,2/24, Dolby Digital 5.1 48/16, 2.0 48/16 | 5,1 GB
FLAC Stereo (tracks) 24 bit/88.2 kHz | Time – 00:49:58 minutes | 974 MB
FLAC 5.1 (tracks) 24 bit/88.2 kHz | Time – 00:49:58  minutes | 2,48 GB
Jive Records | Genre: Pop

In the Zone is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears. It was released on November 12, 2003, by JIVE Records. Its music incorporates dance, house, trip hop and hip hop styles with instrumentation from guitars, drums, synthesizers, strings, and Middle Eastern musical instruments. Its themes range from love, dancing, empowerment, and in the case of songs such as “Touch of My Hand”, sex and masturbation. Contributions to the album’s production came from a wide range of producers, including Bloodshy & Avant, R. Kelly, Trixster, Moby, Guy Sigsworth and The Matrix. (more…)

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Labyrinth – Return to Live (2018) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DD 5.1 + BDRip 720p/1080p

Title: Labyrinth – Return to Live
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Progressive Power Metal
Artist: Andrea Cantarelli – Guitars , Olaf Thörsen – Guitars , Roberto Tiranti – Vocals , Nik Mazzucconi – Bass
John Macaluso – Drums , Oleg Smirnoff – Keyboards

Production/Label: King Record
Duration: 01:19:11
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9
Audio#1: LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio#2: Dolby Digital Audio English 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -4dB
Size: 22.6 GB

LABYRINTH, Italy’s finest purveryors of power/prog metal, held their first reunion show at Frontiers Metal Festival in Trezzo Sull’Adda on October 30, 2016. The revamped lineup played “Return To Heaven Denied”, the band’s most popular record (so far), in its entirety for only the second time ever. The landmark album was originally released by Metal Blade in 1998 and is considered by many to be one of the highlights of the power metal genre in the late ’90s.

LABYRINTH‘s Olaf Thorsen says: “It was a real mix of feelings to play ‘Return To Heaven Denied’ in its entirety as it was something which we never did before, not even during the many tours we did back in ’98-’99! It is even crazier when you think that this was our very first live show with our new lineup, but when we saw so many people from different countries singing every single song with us, we just felt that it has all been worth it. Unforgettable.”

A recording of the Frontiers Metal Festival performance, “Return To Live”, will be released as a CD/DVD and Blu-ray on January 26, 2018 via Frontiers Music Srl. (more…)

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Lavinia Meijer – Fantasies and Impromptus (2011) [DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz]

Lavinia Meijer – Fantasies and Impromptus (2011)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz  | Time – 01:12:05 minutes | 2,84 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: ISO SACD | © Channel Classics Records B.V. | Front Cover, Booklet
Recorded: November 2010, Doopsgezinde Kerk, Deventer

What prompts a composer to write fantasies and impromptus? And what do the fantasy, a free form, and the impromptu, originally an improvised poem, have in common? We know that Spohr was inspired by a young harpist who was later to become his wife. But did Fauré, as director of the Paris Conservatory, simply have no option than to write, because a compulsory solo piece was required for the harp class examinations? Was the marine officer Roussel influenced by his travels to distant shores? And were the fantasias by Saint-Saëns inspired by his great love of the Arab world? We can sometimes only guess. What we do know is that the harp has always appealed to the imagination, and that both fantasies and impromptus have inspired many composers to give free rein to their creative powers. (…) –Lavinia Meijer ( from liner notes)

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Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire De Melody Nelson (1971/2013) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Artist: Serge Gainsbourg
Title: Histoire De Melody Nelson
Genre: Rock, Pop, French Chanson
Label: © Mercury Records | Universal Music France
Release Date: 1971/2013
Recorded: (rythm section playbacks): 21 to 23 April 1970 at Studio Marble Arch, London 21 to 23 April 1970; (orchestra): 4, 5, 8 & 11 May 1970 at Studio des Dames, Paris; (vocals): 11 to 14 January 1971 at Studio des Dames, Paris; (overdubs): 1st, 2 et 4 February 1971 at Studio des Dames, Paris.
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 01:01:56
Size: 9.19 GB

Video: MPEG-4 AVC 3134 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 96 kHz / 3583 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 3.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: LPCM 5.1 / 96 kHz / 13824 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 5750 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)

French icon and national treasure Serge Gainsbourg is no stranger to sexual proclivities, and with his 1971 release Histoire De Melody Nelson he shared an erotic tale as seductive today as the day it was released. With help from actress, amour, and inspiration Jane Birkin, arranger/conductor and co-conspirator Jean-Claude Vannier (L’Enfant Assassins Des Mouches), not to mention a tight hand picked crew of top shelf U.K. session musicians, Histoire De Melody Nelson is often cited as Gainsbourg’s master work, an essential album for the discerning music lover.
You don’t need to speak a word of French to understand Histoire de Melody Nelson — one needs only to look at the front cover (with its nearly pornographic portrait of a half-naked nymphet clutching a rag doll) or hear the lechery virtually dripping from Serge Gainsbourg’s sleazily seductive voice to realize that this is the record your mother always warned you about, a masterpiece of perversion and corruption. A concept record exploring the story of — and Gainsbourg’s lust for — the titular teen heroine, Histoire de Melody Nelson is arguably his most coherent and perfectly realized studio album, with the lush arrangements which characterize the majority of his work often mixed here with funky rhythm lines which underscore the musky allure of the music. Perhaps best described as a dirty old bastard’s attempt to make his own R&B love-man’s record along the lines of a Let’s Get It On (itself still two years away from release), it’s by turns fascinating and repellent, hilarious and grim, but never dull — which, in Gainsbourg’s world, would be the ultimate (and quite possibly the only) sin. –Jason Ankeny (more…)

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Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor, BWV 232 – Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven (2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor, BWV 232 – Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:45:34 minutes | 3,2 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: channelclassics.com | Booklet, Front Cover | © Channel Classics Records B.V.
Recorded: Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 2006

From the moment that a decision was made to record Bach’s Mass in b minor, it was clear tome that the scoring would have to be small-scale. After our successful and highly-praised recording of the St.John Passion in 2004-in which a small group of singcrs performed both the solo parts and the chorus parts there was really no way back. We had come to know a new kind of collaboration between instrumentalists and singers, which gave us an ideal foundation for the interpretation of Bach’s music and led to deeply expressive performances. Together, we discovered a new definition for the word ‘choir’. But at the same time, the Mass in b minor is a large-scale score: Bach, in his last completed work, demanded every possible performing force available to him. For example, in this unique and incomparable score, he used nearly every imaginable combination of voices and virtually the entire spectrum of instrumentation of his day. The enormous wealth of genres and structures is dazzling for the listener: timeless polyphony, fugues, canrus-firmus techniques, polychoral work, vocal and instrumental concern, concern for groups of instruments, concern grossi, osninani, solo arias and duets – in scorings from three to seven voices and in remarkably varied combinations-and choruses ranging from four to eight parts. It is certain that Bach never performed his masterpiece in complete form, and it remains unclear for what purpose or occasion he composed it. The beautiful autograph score remains a closed book in many respects: it contains hardly any tempo indications or dynamic signs. The movements are simply called Kyrie, Gloria, or Agnus Dci. All of the parts of the enormous score indicate one-on-a-part settings for instrumentalists or singers. Nowhere does Bach give suggestions for how to score the continuo. Is it written for soloists, or is Bach writing for a ‘real’ chorus? How large should the string groups be, and is variable scoring another option?

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Culture Club – Live at Wembley: World Tour (2017) Blu-ray 1080p AVC DTS HD-MA 5.1 + BDRip 1080p

Title: Culture Club – Live at Wembley: World Tour 2016
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Pop, Pop Rock, New Wave, R&B, Blue-Eyed Soul
Director: Mark Richie
Artist: Boy George – lead vocals; Roy Hay – guitar, sitar, electric sitar, keyboards, synthesizer, piano, backing vocals; Mikey Craig – bass guitar, keytar, piano, backing vocals; Jon Moss – drums, percussion, electronic drums, steel drum, congas, backing vocals

Production/Label: Cleopatra Entertainment
Duration: 01:27:22
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 19956 kbps / 1920*1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#2: English / DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 5069 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#1: English / LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitle: English
Size: 22.9 GB

The Iconic Multi Platinum Selling 80’s Pop Legends, Culture Club return home for the holidays and perform “Live At Wembley” , after a hugely successful 60 city world tour featuring ALL ORIGINAL MEMBERS featuring Boy George, Roy, Mikey and John, along with an explosive horn section and mindblowing backup soul singers, the band ignites the stage before a sold out hometown crowd, as Boy George commands the Catwalk with his masterful charm and smooth soulful voice, performing the bands biggest hits, showing why Cullture Club’s unique Pop. Soul and Reggae styles resonate with fans 35 years later. Featuring Iconic Hits like “Karma Chameleon”, ” Black Money”, “It’s A Miracle”, “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, I’ll Tumble 4 Ya”, “Church Of The Poison Mind,” “Miss Me Blind,” along with an encore rockin’ performance of T Rex’s “Get It On”. in this once in a lifetime concert film! (more…)

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Kreator – Gods Of Violence – Live at Wacken 2014 (2017) Blu-ray 1080p AVC PCM 2.0 + BDRip 1080p

Title: Kreator – Gods Of Violence – Live at Wacken 2014
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Rock, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal
Artist: Miland “Mille” Petrozza – vocals, guitar; Jürgen “Ventor” Reil – drums, vocals; Christian “Speesy” Giesler – bass; Sami Yli-Sirniö – guitar

Production/Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Duration: 01:12:51
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 25435 kbps / 1920*1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size: 14.9 GB

Finishing »Gods Of Violence« took KREATOR – featuring Petrozza, Sami Yli-Sirniö (guitars), Christian “Speesy” Giesler (bass) and Jürgen “Ventor” Reil (drums) – about three years. After Petrozza had pre-produced all of the eleven tracks in winter of 2015, KREATOR went to Sweden in order to team up with legendary metal producer Jens Bogren in his Fascination Street Studios once again. What emerged from the recording sessions was bound to fundamentally redefine what KREATOR is all about. An opus that surprises with some lines in German and an unexpected guest in the form of indie pop artist DAGOBERT. Moreover, Italian death metallers FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE lent a hand with the orchestral parts of four songs and 12-year-old Tekla-Li Wadensten played the harp for »Gods Of Violence«.

Die limitierte Erstauflage im edlen Digibook kommt inkl. der Bonus-Blu-ray mit dem triumphalen Wacken-Auftritt aus dem Jahr 2014!

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Will & Rainbow – Over Crystal Green (2002) [Japan] {SACD ISO + FLAC}

Will & Rainbow – Over Crystal Green (2002) [Japan]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 53:01 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 2,13 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,09 GB
Genre: Jazz

In 1976, a fusion band called Rainbow featuring pianist Will Boulware recorded an album entitled “Crystal Green”, which included saxophonist Michael Brecker, trumpeter Randy Brecker, and drummer Steve Gadd. In 2002, Boulware, the Brecker brothers and Gadd-along with the late saxophonist Bob Berg and bassist Will Lee-reconvened in a New York studio to record “Over Crystal Green” under the group name Will & Rainbow. The album proves that the intervening years have clearly not diminished their rapport. (more…)

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Weather Report – Heavy Weather (1977) [Audio Fidelity 2017] {PS3 ISO + FLAC}

Weather Report – Heavy Weather (1977) [Audio Fidelity 2017]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 37:52 minutes | Scans included | 1,52 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 782 MB
Mastered by Kevin Gray | Audio Fidelity # AFZ-258 | Genre: Jazz

Weather Report were a jazz supergroup formed in 1970, best known outside the jazz world for their hit “Birdland”. Heavy Weather is Weather Report’s 7th album, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. It is the band’s 2nd album with bassist Jaco Pastorius. On Black Market, Pastorius played on 2 of the 7 tracks, but here he is a full member of the band. It is on the short list of LP’s considered to be the greatest of all Jazz-Fusion recordings. (more…)

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Wayne Horvitz – Sweeter Than The Day (2001) {SACD ISO + FLAC}

Wayne Horvitz – Sweeter Than The Day (2001)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 57:19 minutes | Full Scans included | 3,01 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,09 GB

The debut album from Wayne Horvitz’s sideline acoustic project Sweeter Than The Day expresses the reflective side of pianist Horvitz’s temperament: bittersweet, melodically distinctive chamber jazz, an evocative combination of swing, bop, blues, West Coast cool and the occasional edge of free jazz, with echoes of French impressionism and other classical piano music and popular music of the 1950s and 1960s. (more…)

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EuropaKonzert 2011 from Madrid – Chabrier, Rodrigo, Rachmaninov – Canizares, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle (2011) Blu-ray 1080i MPEG-2 DTS-HD MA 5.1

Сomposer: Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894), Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999), Sergey Rachmaninov (1873–1943)
Title: EuropaKonzert 2011 from Madrid
Release Date: 2011
Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, 1 May 2011
Genre: Classical
Director: Rhodri Huw
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Artist: Cañizares – guitar; Berliner Philharmoniker

Production/Label: EuroArts Music International
Duration: 01:36:45
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-2
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-2 27858 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3900 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size: 27.12 GB

  Every year since 1991, the Berliner Philharmoniker have marked the anniversary of their foundation with a concert in a different cultural capital: for their twenty-first European Concert on 1 May 2011, they were the guests of the magnificent Teatro Real in Madrid. Their programme comprised the exuberant rhapsody España by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier, Rachmaninov’s dramatic Second Symphony and a quintessential Spanish composition: Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.

  Schiller’s play Don Carlos famously opens with the line “The pleasant days here in Aranjuez are now drawing to a close”. Music lovers are more fortunate because thanks to Rodrigo’s immortal guitar concerto they can continue to savour the magical mood in the summer palace of the Spanish kings, especially when the soloist is a flamenco virtuoso like Cañizares, who can throw such fascinating light on every facet of this multi-layered score.

  After the interval, the orchestra turn to Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony, a relatively unknown work, which Sir Simon Rattle – a self-confessed fan of the composer – conducts without a score. As he noted afterwards, the orchestra “played the hell out of it”, resulting, in the opinion of the press, in a thrilling and very special experience. “The orchestra was urged on by Rattle’s impulsive direction, playing with brio and unleashing wave after wave of tension, turning the symphony’s sweeping movements into a self-contained and thrilling whole.”

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Unruly Child – Unhinged: Live from Milan (2018) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DD 5.1 + BDRip 720p/1080p

Title: Unruly Child – Unhinged: Live from Milan
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Artist: Marcie Free – Vocals; Bruce Gowdy – Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals; Guy Allison – Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals; Larry Antonino – Bass, Vocals; Jay Schellen – Drums

Production/Label: Frontiers Music Srl
Duration: 01:17:00
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24818 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English Dolby Digital 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -4dB
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size: 15.25 GB

Following Mark Free’s successful career with King Kobra and Signal, Unruly Child were born when he started writing songs with with Bruce Gowdy (Stone Fury, World Trade) and Guy Allison (Lodgic, World Trade, Doobie Brothers). With a lineup completed with Jay Schellen (Hurricane, World Trade, Asia) and Larry Antonino (Pablo Cruise), UNRULY CHILD debuted with a milestone debut in 1992 for Interscope Records.
After a lot of line-up and style changes, the original members of the quintet finally decided to reunite to release a brand new album, on Frontiers, entitled “Can’t Go Home,” released on February 2017.
The band accepted the label invitation to play the label festival in april 2017 and they performed a special set featuring the band’s critically acclaimed self-titled debut-album in its entirety, along with another couple of other classic songs. (more…)

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Steve Hackett – Wuthering Nights: Live in Birmingham (2018) Blu-ray 1080p AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1 + BDRip 720p/1080p

Title: Steve Hackett – Wuthering Nights: Live in Birmingham
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock
Artist: Steve Hackett – Guitar, Vocals; Amanda Lehmann – Guitar, Vocals; Nick Beggs – Bass, Twelve-String Guitar, Vocals, Variax Guitar; Gary O’Toole – Drums, Percussion, Vocals; John Hackett – Flute; Roger King – Keyboards; Rob Townsend – Saxophone, Woodwind, Percussion, Vocals, Keyboards, Pedals Bass; Nad Sylvan – Vocals, Tambourine

Production/Label: Inside Out Music/Century Media Records Ltd./Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH
Duration: 02:27:05
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 17981 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4719 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 36.72 GB

Guitar virtuoso and rock legend, Steve Hackett (formerly of Genesis), releases his latest album The Night Siren on 24th March 2017 through InsideOut Music (Sony). As implied in the title, The Night Siren is a wake-up call… the warning of a siren sounding in this era of strife and division.
The Night Siren showcases Steve’s incredible guitar as strongly as ever, along with musicians from several different countries who Steve invited to join him in celebrating multicultural diversity and unity. This includes singers from Israel and Palestine, who both actively campaign to bring Jewish and Arabic people together. There are also instrumentals from the USA and Iraq and a multiplicity of sounds, including the exotic strains of Indian sitar and Middle Eastern tar and oud, the ethnic beauty of the Peruvian charango and the haunting Celtic Uilleann pipes.
Steve is widely travelled, making friends everywhere he goes and has always embraced multicultural diversity. In these times of unrest, he has been inspired to express his belief that the world needs more empathy and unity. His wish to involve a range of musical sounds, instruments, musicians and singers from different parts of the world is both a development of his eclectic approach to music and shows how people can be brought together, even from war torn regions.
Talking about his latest work, Steve says, “This latest waxing represents a bird’s eye view of the world of a musical migrant ignoring borders and celebrating our common ancestry with a unity of spirit, featuring musicians, singers and instruments from all over the world. From territorial frontiers to walled-up gateways, boundaries often hold back the tide. But while the night siren wails, music breaches all defences. To quote Plato, ‘When the music changes, the walls of the city shake’.”
The musical journey takes us from ‘Behind the Smoke’, focusing on the plight of refugees throughout the ages, to the penultimate track ‘West to East’ which reflects on the damage of war and the hope for a better world. From personal to universal, the themes celebrate the life force, breaking free from chains of repression.
In addition to singers Kobi and Mira (Israeli and Palestinian), also featured on the album are Nick D’Virgilio (drums) from the USA, Malik Mansurov (Tar) from Azerbaijan & Gulli Breim (drums & percussion) from Iceland, along with regular Hackett collaborators: Roger King, Nad Sylvan, Gary O’Toole, Rob Townsend and Amanda Lehmann. Additional musicians who add to the rich flavour of the album are Christine Townsend (violin & viola), Dick Driver (double bass) and Troy Donockley (Celtic Uilleann).
Steve Hackett is returning with an exciting new show Genesis Revisited with Classic Hackett for a 15 date UK tour in April 2017. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic Genesis album Wind and Wuthering, Steve and his band will be performing several tracks from the album as well as fan favourites such as ‘The Musical Box’ and other Genesis numbers never performed before by Steve’s band including ‘Inside & Out,’ ‘One For The Vine’ and ‘Anyway’ as well as material from The Night Siren. (more…)

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The Australian Jazz Quartet – The Australian Jazz Quartet (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Australian Jazz Quartet – The Australian Jazz Quartet (1955/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:53 minutes | 386 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: PrestoClassical | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records

This debut album from the short-lived Australian Jazz Quartet/Quintet was released in 1955. The quartet’s unique instrumental lineup, including bassoon, flute and vibes, gives these eight standards and two original numbers a sound unlike any other jazz combo of the time.

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The Afghan Whigs – In Spades (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

The Afghan Whigs – In Spades (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:26 minutes | 416 MB | Genre: Rock, Alternative
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Front Cover | © Sub Pop Records

On the one hand, In Spades is as quintessentially Afghan Whigs as anything the group has ever done – fulfilling its original mandate to explore the missing link between howling Midwestern punk like Die Kreuzen and Hüsker Dü, The Temptations’ psychedelic soul symphonies, and the expansive hard-rock tapestries of Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd. At the same time, this new record continues to push beyond anything in the Whigs’ previous repertoire – another trademark, along with the explosive group dynamic captured on the recording.

The joys, sorrows, and upheavals of innocence and experience echo throughout In Spades: it powerfully documents where The Afghan Whigs have been, and where they might go next.

In Spades was recorded at Rick Nelson’s studio Marigny Sound in New Orleans, LA. (more…)

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