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Mark Knopfler - Golden Demos & Hamburg 2001 (2002) [Unofficial Release]

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Mark Knopfler - Golden Demos & Hamburg 2001 (2002) [Unofficial Release]

Mark Knopfler - Golden Demos & Hamburg 2001 (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 497 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 188 Mb | Scans included
Folk-Rock, Country-Rock, Celtic | Label: Free Music | # MK15638 | Time: 01:17:23

This is a totally unique recording featuring very rare studio demos! Taken from the soundboard during the Golden Heart sessions sometime 1994/95. Includes five very good unreleased songs. Song number 10 is very very nice, but not written by Mark Knopfler unfortunately. The sound quality is good. Also featured on this official bootleg are 5 songs from the Hamburg 2001 radio broadcast, also in very good sound quality.

Miles Davis - Get Up With It (1974) 2CD, Japanese Reissue 1996

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Miles Davis - Get Up With It (1974) 2CD, Japanese Reissue 1996

Miles Davis - Get Up With It (1974) 2CD [Japanese Reissue 1996]
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 779 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 284 Mb | Scans ~ 40 Mb
Fusion, Jazz Rock, Jazz Funk, Worldbeat | Label: Sony | # SRCS 9126~7 | Time: 02:04:23

Get Up with It is an album collecting tracks recorded between 1970 and 1974 by Miles Davis. Released on November 22, 1974 as a double LP, it was Davis' last studio album before five years of retirement from music. J. D. Considine, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), described the album's music as "worldbeat fusion".

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979)

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Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979)

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 347 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 152 Mb | Scans included
Industrial, Experimental, Post-Punk | Label: The Grey Area/Mute | # TGCD 4 | Time: 01:01:22

20 Jazz Funk Greats is the third studio album by industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle, recorded in August 1979 and released in December 1979 by the band's record label Industrial. Despite its tongue-in-cheek title and stylistic diversions, the album generally continued the group's work in industrial and electronic music. It has been characterized as the band's best work.

Akiko Suwanai, Ivan Fischer, BFO - Dvorak: Violin Concerto, Mazurek; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Carmen Fantasy (2001)

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Akiko Suwanai, Ivan Fischer, BFO - Dvorak: Violin Concerto, Mazurek; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Carmen Fantasy (2001)

Antonín Dvořák: Violin Concerto; Mazurek, Op.49
Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen; Carmen Fantasy (2001)
Akiko Suwanai, violin; Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 252 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 141 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips Classics | # 464 531-2 | Time: 00:55:27

Dvorák’s Violin Concerto has been undergoing a renaissance of sorts on disc, one that it entirely deserves. Its critics (starting with Joachim and Brahms) dismissed it for not adopting the usual sonata-form first movement structure, instead welding the truncated opening to the gorgeous slow movement. But really, how many violin concertos are there where you can really say that the best, most characterful and highly developed movement is the finale? And what could possibly be bad about that? Clearly Fischer and Suwanai understand where the music’s going: the performance gathers steam as it proceeds, and really cuts loose in that marvelous last movement. Suwani displays a characteristically polished technique and fine intonational ear (lending a lovely purity of utterance to the slow movement), but she’s not afraid to indulge in some “down and dirty” gypsy fiddling in the finale, or in the two Sarasate items that open the program.

Morcheeba - Big Calm (1998) [US Bonus Track Edition]

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Morcheeba - Big Calm (1998) [US Bonus Track Edition]

Morcheeba - Big Calm (1998) [US Bonus Track Edition]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~318 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 116 Mb | Scans ~ 57 Mb
Electronic, Trip-Hop, Alternative | Label: Sire/China | # 31020 | Time: 00:50:38

Realizing that trip-hop was a dead end, at least as far as hipness goes, Morcheeba expanded their sonic palette on their second album, Big Calm. Trip-hop and dance rhythms remain, but the trio has spent more time writing songs, crafting an album where pop, lounge, film soundtracks, reggae, jazz, and electronica all peacefully coexist. Consequently, Big Calm is a stylistic tour de force, evidence that Morcheeba have turned into a mature, sophisticated group with impeccable taste. Occasionally, the album can sound a little distant, as if the fusions and productions were more important than the actual songs, but the trio is so musically adept, and Skye Edwards' voice is so enchanting, that Big Calm become irresistible in its own way.

James Taylor - Covers (2008)

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James Taylor - Covers (2008)

James Taylor - Covers (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 273 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 107 Mb
Label: HEAR Music | # HRM-30829-02 | Time: 00:42:13 | Scans included
Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Folk Rock

Covers is the sixteenth album and the first "covers" album by singer-songwriter James Taylor, released on September 30, 2008. The album was recorded by Taylor's regular touring band. Some of the tunes Taylor had been performing off and on in concerts for years, while others were new to his repertoire. The effort garnered modestly good reviews and two Grammy Award nominations.

Dave Brubeck - All The Things We Are (1976) Remastered 2013

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Dave Brubeck - All The Things We Are (1976) Remastered 2013

Dave Brubeck - All The Things We Are (1976) Remastered 2013
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 271 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 119 Mb | Scans included | 00:45:05
Mainstream Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Atlantic/Warner Bros. | # 8122-79641-1/WPCR-27216

All the Things We Are is a bit unusual in the Dave Brubeck discography. The pianist is heard in a quartet with altoist Lee Konitz on "Like Someone in Love" and a brief "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," with avant-garde giant Anthony Braxton (also on alto) featured on "In Your Own Sweet Way," while both Konitz and Braxton team up for "All the Things You Are." In addition, the Brubeck Trio (with bassist Jack Six and drummer Alan Dawson) plays an exquisite and frequently exciting 21-minute, five-song "Jimmy Van Heusen Medley." A total success, this "experimental" Brubeck set is highly recommended.

Neil Diamond - Gold: Recorded Live at the Troubadour (1971)

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Neil Diamond - Gold: Recorded Live at the Troubadour (1971)

Neil Diamond - Gold: Recorded Live at the Troubadour (1971)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 259 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 111 Mb | Scans included
Label: MCA Records | # MCD 01683, MCAD 1683 | Time: 00:38:39
Singer-Songwriter, Pop Rock, Soft Rock, AM Pop

Gold: Recorded Live at the Troubadour is a live album by singer/songwriter Neil Diamond. While no singles were released in support of the album, the opening track "Lordy" appeared as the B-side of "Cracklin' Rosie". This is the only recording available of this song.

Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivitat (1975) [Non-Remastered, German Version]

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Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivitat (1975) [Non-Remastered, German Version]

Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivität (1975)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 209 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 106 Mb | Scans included
Experimental Electronic | Label: Kling Klang/EMI Electrola | # CDP 564-7 46132 2 | 00:38:01

A concept album exploring themes of broadcast communications, Radio-Activity marked Kraftwerk's return to more obtuse territory, extensively utilizing static, oscillators, and even Cage-like moments of silence to approximate the sense of radio transmission; a pivotal record in the group's continuing development, the title track – the first they ever recorded in English – is their most fully realized electro-pop effort to date, while "The Voice of Energy" precipitates the robot voice so crucial to their subsequent work.

Gloria Estefan - The Essential Gloria Estefan (2006) 2CD

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Gloria Estefan - The Essential Gloria Estefan (2006) 2CD

Gloria Estefan - The Essential Gloria Estefan (2006) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 359 Mb | Scans included
Label: Epic, Legacy | # 82876 89085 2 | Time: 02:33:20
Pop, Dance-Pop, Latin Pop, R&B, Adult Contemporary

The 2006 release of The Essential Gloria Estefan satisfied a long unmet need for a career-spanning English-language retrospective, one that includes the singer's popular hits with Miami Sound Machine in the mid-'80s as well as her subsequent solo recordings. For years, Estefan fans had few best-of choices to choose from – the Spanish-language Exitos de Gloria Estefan (1990), the two-volume Greatest Hits series (1992, 2001), and the latter-day Amor y Suerte: Exitos Romanticos collection (2004) – with no alternatives, not even budget-line knockoffs. The long-overdue release of The Essential Gloria Estefan thankfully resolved this gripe, for it includes the highlights from all aspects of Estefan's varied output, spread generously across two jam-packed discs.

Billy Strayhorn - The Peaceful Side (1963) Remastered Reissue 1996

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Billy Strayhorn - The Peaceful Side (1963) Remastered Reissue 1996

Billy Strayhorn - The Peaceful Side (1963) Remastered Reissue 1996
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 122 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 84 Mb | Scans included
Piano Jazz, Bop, Cool | Label: Capitol Jazz | # CDP 7243 8 52563 2 5 | Time: 00:35:26

This is a little-known and rather melancholy set, virtually Billy Strayhorn's only recording away from the world of Duke Ellington. The focus is totally on Strayhorn's piano throughout his interpretations of ten of his compositions (including "Lush Life," "Take the 'A' Train," and "Something to Live For"). Three selections have the Paris Blue Notes adding sparse wordless vocals, two other numbers add some quiet playing by the Paris String Quartet, and bassist Michel Goudret is on five of the ten selections (including one apiece with the strings and the voices). "Strange Feeling" and "Chelsea Bridge" are taken as unaccompanied piano solos. Of the ten songs, only "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" hints at happiness; otherwise, Strayhorn's melodic and concise playing is quite somber, peaceful in volume but filled with inner tension.

Bojan Gorisek - Philip Glass: Solo Piano (2013)

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Bojan Gorisek - Philip Glass: Solo Piano (2013)

Bojan Gorišek - Philip Glass: Solo Piano (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 238 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Minimalism | Label: Audiophile Classics | # APC 101060 | Time: 01:04:11

Bojan Gorišek is the leading Slovenian pianist in the field of contemporary music, perhaps best known for recording the complete piano opus (10 CDs) of Erik Satie for the Blaricum Music Group of the Netherlands and the English label LTM Recordings. Those recordings, rated among the best ever made, represent the most complete review of Satie’s piano compositions to date. He has recorded over 30 CDs to date, including four CDs by George Crumb, the piano sonata Concord by Charles Ives and two CDs by Philip Glass for the Blaricum Music Group (Audiophile Classics series). He has also recorded the complete piano opuses of a number of Slovenian composers. Most recently, he has received high regard for his interpretations of Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass.

Odetta - Ballads For Americans And Other American Ballads / At Carnegie Hall (1960) 2 LPs on 1 CD, Reissue 2002

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Odetta - Ballads For Americans And Other American Ballads / At Carnegie Hall (1960) 2 LPs on 1 CD, Reissue 2002

Odetta - Ballads For Americans And Other American Ballads / At Carnegie Hall (1960) 2 LPs on 1 CD, 2002
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 462 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 207 Mb | Scans included
Folk, Blues, Folk-Blues, Country Blues | Label: Universe | # UV 039 | Time: 01:19:21

This CD, issued under license from Vanguard by Italy's Universe label (on their Comet imprint), is one of the handsomest re-releases of its kind ever to turn up on CD. The sound is fine – and it's so hard to find an unworn copy of Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads that anything would be welcome – but the producers have taken special care to re-create the original artwork and annotation in all of it thoroughness in a mini-LP-style gatefold CD package that's neat, handsome, and respectful of the original release, and will probably last for decades on shelves. As for the music, the CD showcases four sides of Odetta's work – her gifts in art-song and conceptual music in "Ballad for Americans," her solo folk and blues singing in the accompanying studio sides, her way with an audience in a live setting with the Carnegie Hall tracks, with her singing in a choral setting on the final four tracks of that LP. It all sounds great, and could arguably be a best of Odetta, even if it isn't an official anthology of that type. It's just sort of a shame – and an enigma – that it takes an Italian-based label to give these recordings their due respect in the 21st century.

The Korgis - The Kollection (2005)

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The Korgis - The Kollection (2005)

The Korgis - The Kollection (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 506 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 180 Mb | Scans included
Pop/Rock, Pop, New Wave | Label: Angel Air Records | # SJPCD204 | Time: 01:13:17

Kollection is a compilation album by English pop/rock band The Korgis. The album contains some of the band's best known songs such as "If I Had You", "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime", "All The Love In The World", material from album This World's For Everyone, four new recordings as well as rarities previously unreleased on CD.

George Benson - Goodies (1968) Japanese SHM-CD Remastered Reissue 2016

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George Benson - Goodies (1968) Japanese SHM-CD Remastered Reissue 2016

George Benson - Goodies (1968) Japanese SHM-CD Remastered Reissue 2016
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 242 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 90 Mb | Scans ~ 77 Mb
Crossover Jazz, Guitar Jazz, Soul | Label: Verve | # UCCV-9614 | Time: 00:39:04

Goodies is the sixth album by jazz guitarist George Benson recorded in 1968 and released on the Verve label.