Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, William Caballero – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” – Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:16 minutes | 2,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reference Recordings
Reference Recordings proudly presents these two iconic works in definitive interpretations from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound.
In his fascinating and scholarly music notes, Maestro Honeck gives us insight into the history of both pieces, and describes how he conducts and interprets each. He reminds us that the “Eroica” was a bold departure from earlier symphonies, a “dance symphony with dramatic inventiveness, full of new elements that had never been heard before.” He quotes Beethoven’s student Ferdinand Ries, who wrote “Beethoven played recently for me (the “Eroica”) and I believe both heaven and earth must tremble when it is performed.” Honeck puts his own inimitable stamp on this interpretation, giving the listener a chance to experience the novelties of the “Eroica” as if hearing it for the very first time.
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Homer & Jethro – Any News from Nashville? (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:52 minutes | 609 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Country music parody and comedy duo. Homer and Jethro met at the age of 12 when both showed up in separate bands for an amateur contest at Knoxville’s WNOX radio station. They were hired by the station after being disqualified from the contest for sounding too professional. A show’s MC forgot their names and introduced them as “Homer and Jethro,” giving them their stage names. Their parodies earned them a BMI award, a gold record, and a 1959 Grammy, and their popularity caused Kellogg’s to feature them in a series of commercials for Corn Flakes. The partnership continued until Homer’s death from a heart attack while preparing for a concert in August, 1971. Jethro continued as a respected jazz and country mandolinist until his death from cancer in February 1989.
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Home Free – Timeless (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:51 minutes | 595 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
Timeless is the third non-Christmas album from Home Free since they won the fourth season of The Sing-Off in 2013. A lot of the promotional press the a cappella group did prior to its release emphasized that this was a little “grittier” than its predecessors, suggesting that it took the band a while to figure out how to cut its own version of “Man of Constant Sorrow,” a song covered by countless other singers. “Man of Constant Sorrow” shouldn’t be seen as indication that Home Free are doing a bunch of country/folk standards. Like its predecessors, Timeless is packed with covers of big pop and country tunes — “Life Is a Highway,” “We Just Disagree,” and “Hillbilly Bone” among them — and features a few originals that highlight the group’s cheerfulness and fondness for melody. While the feel of the record is a little more subdued than its predecessors, it’s still cut from the same cloth, which may mean it wins no new converts but will please old fans. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Hombre Lobo Internacional – The Lost Tape (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:02 minutes | 295 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Luna Llena Records
Here´s the show recorded in Castle Bran, Transylvania during the “Trashylvania Party”.
“Live at Dracula´s House” is the first Rock and Roll live album recorded and the first Rock and Roll show in the history of the Castle Bran.
HOLYCHILD – The Shape of Brat Pop to Come (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:15 minutes | 849 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Los Angeles brat-pop band, Holychild debut full-length album. The band comprised of Liz Nistico and Louie Diller. They met in college in 2011, have been writing music ever since and call their genre, brat pop. On their debut album The Shape Of Brat Pop to Come, Holychild takes on nothing less than the idea of power dynamics and inequality be it racial, social status, or gender-motivated. The beats are wild (thanks in no small part to Diller’s stint in Cuba studying Afro-Cuban drumming), and the tongues are placed firmly in cheek. Nistico assures that while their message is clear, it s not definitive. After all, we’re all humans, right? At the end of the day Holychild is about posing questions not providing answers.
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Holy Zeal – What Is Life? (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:22 minutes | 532 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Holy Zeal
I tell you what – everything has its shelf life. Except these insatiable obsessive fragments of spirit that we cant shake and make us do stupid things like devote serious time to an unserious pursuit like amateur music making. I just try to not think and see what comes out, then you hear you are meant to be a fascist editor once the basic form is there, and, well, that part is a dog chewing on its own innards. But here it is, something kind of childish, angry but middle age frustrated too. Political but selfish and powerless. Before the editorial faculty arrived, it was meant to be about hidden power and about a protagonist i guess is someone i wish i had met, to help them make sense of things. But in the end, its just me.
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Holy Roller Baby – Frenzy (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:26 minutes | 574 MB | Genre: Rock
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With funky, soulful riffs, rampant melodies, hooky songcraft and markedly smooth production, Holy Roller Baby sound like a band with some measure of experience behind them on their upcoming debut album, Frenzy. As well they should since the Texas-based band (Austin and Dallas) features three-fourths of the defunct Heavy Glow. Jared Mullins, Nick Snyder and Patrick Smith from that band join up with drummer Luke Callaway — also in Snyder‘s bluesy solo-ish project, Nick Snyder & The Real Deal, which released a debut EP in March — and while there remains a strong current of Josh Homme-style melody in Mullins‘ voice, Holy Roller Baby feel immediately less restrained by heavy rock convention than the prior outfit. Eschewing psychedelic elements for an earthier feel, a cut like “Blue Devin Inn” finds its way into the ethereal nonetheless, likewise the closer “Mantra,” and the starts and stops of “Id Vicious” and the strut of “Ravings at Your Window” expand on the core desert-hued familiarity one might hear in the opener “Leper Blues/Spread Your Love Around” and a song like “Eve.” It is an encouraging debut, built with a clear intention toward reaching out to an audience beyond the heavy rock underground and offering everyone a glimpse at what they’ve been missing.
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Holy Other – Lieve (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:56 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ホ
One for the believers; Holy Other returns with a loooong awaited slash mythical 2nd album, one decade since his singles and debut LP for Tri Angle dominated our lives circa the short lived but influential w*tch house epoch.
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Holy Holy – Hello My Beautiful World (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:45 minutes | 649 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wonderlick
This is the fourth studio album “Hello My Beautiful World” from Tim Carroll and Oscar Dawson.
“We were given all the freedom in the world to do whatever we wanted, and this is what we did,” explained the band’s Tim Carroll in a statement. “The songs dwell in the details of living. Dreams are a theme. Dreams you have when you’re sleeping. Not the dreams you come up with when you’re awake. Not a series of desires. Dreams where you have no control, and you scare yourself.”
To coincide with the announcement, the duo have shared new single ‘Believe Anything’, a song which “examines the changing nature of truth” and features treatment from Gab Strum (aka Japanese Wallpaper). It’s a sharp, searing cut that’s anchored by a snaking bassline, menacing synths and flourishes of strings.
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Holy Fuck – Deleter (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:21 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Holy EF Music
Arriving at a moment where attention spans are shot and anxieties are going into overdrive, Deleter, Holy Fuck’s fifth studio LP, is a defiantly full-bodied affair. Polyrhythmic and pleasure-focused, Deleter sees Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Matt Schulz, and Matt “Punchy” McQuaid utilises their signature sound – seamlessly fusing the gauzy drive of krautrock and deep house’s dreamy ineffability, expertly blending purring motorik percussion with the sort of fuggy synthetic fizz and tang they are renowned for. From the thrusting minimalism of opener Luxe through to the triumphant chug of closing track Ruby, via club-ready rollocker Free Gloss and the cosmic clatter of San Sebastian, Deleter is a record that joins the Holy Fuck dots within their widescreen, technicolour, crescendo-heavy sound.
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CBSO Youth Chorus, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Edward Gardner – Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:48 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
For its very first album on Chandos, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and earthly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic, encouraging, and experienced baton of Edward Gardner as well as by the sumptuous yet detailed acoustic of Symphony Hall, Birmingham, all fully revealed in this surround-sound recording.
Their performance of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Holst’s The Planets is already a point of reference in the UK after the immensely successful Prom concert that preceded the recording. The concert’s five-star review in The Daily Telegraph praised in particular the orchestra’s ‘great attack and complete absence of anything routine’, while The Guardian emphasised the great performance of the orchestra in this ‘graceful and evocative programme’, especially the ‘depth and richness of sound that belied their youth’.
This unique album is a first milestone in what promises to be a superb discography for the NYO.
Hollywood Vampires – Rise (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:44 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Metal, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
The Hollywood Vampires – return with new music from their explosive second album, “Rise.” Rock and roll royalty Joe Perry, Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp and shock rock icon Alice Cooper join forces once again for the unmissable rock album of 2019.
Seconds into the opening track “I Want My Now,” it’s clear this supergroup has created something special – the chemistry between the individuals is unmistakable when they come together on stage or in the recording studio. Forget the star-studded lineup’s individual reputations, “Rise” is some of the purest, unapologetic and most enjoyable rock and roll of the year, made by masters of the craft and true fans of the form.
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Hollywood Undead – Day Of The Dead (Deluxe) (2015/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:19 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Interscope Records
“Day Of The Dead” from Los Angeles hip-hop/metal veterans Hollywood Undead is the band’s fourth studio album, the follow-up to 2013’s highly-acclaimed smash hit Notes From The Underground. In the weeks leading up to this release, the band unveiled five new singles, one per week, on its website and played a series of intimate preview concerts for fans. This deluxe edition includes three bonus songs.
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Hollywood – Close to You (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:35 minutes | 368 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Braveheart
New album from Norwegian super group Hollywood consisting of Jonas Alaska, Mikhael Paskalev, and Billie Van.
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Hollydays – Hollywood Bizarre (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:09 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Chanson, Trip Hop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Polydor
Hollywood Bizarre est un boulevard plein de surprises. Un boulevard à 13 voies qui scrute notre quotidien, qui dévoile nos petits travers, qui s’amuse de nos contradictions et nous entraîne parfois dans une douce mélancolie. Ici, il est question de génération blasée, de fumette et de weed, de soirées alternatives, de coming out ou d’adultère assumé.
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