Veterans Bob Brookmeyer and Kenny Wheeler explore shared sensibilities on Island, a collection that could have fit comfortably in Wheeler’s ECM catalogue, but instead spearheads the resuscitated Artists House label. Although they’ve not recorded together before, they set eachother up and finish eachother’s thoughts like a long married couple. The island in question seems more north Atlantic than Caribbean. While the program tends toward moody mid-tempo tunes, the high level of playing keeps monotony at bay.

Culture Club - The Best Of Culture Club
Release: 1989 | Label: Disky | Number: VI 863122
Genre: Pop | Mono/Stereo: 2 Channel
EAC Rip | Included: EAC Log + CUE + Flac + Full Covers (300dpi)
Size: 390 MB | RAR 3% Rec. | RS.com

Culture Club is a Grammy Award-winning British pop group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George (lead vocals), Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards), and Jon Moss (drums and percussion). From the time of the band's first album release in 1982 to its dissolution in 1986, Culture Club had amassed hits in several countries around the world, including ten Top Forty hits in the US, most of which went Top Ten. They went on to have subsequent hits in the UK during a reunion period of 1998-2002, where they scored a #4 single and a #25 single. Culture Club has sold approximately 22 million albums worldwide.

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Hymns of Nordic Folk and pounding Metal summon the ghost of Tyr's ancestors. Scandinavian mythology, Viking warriors, and heroic battles become the lyrical backdrop that accompanies powerful Viking choruses, traditional melodies, and timeless Heavy Metal. Tyr has refined their trademark sound in their latest work, Ragnarok. Technically brilliant and 100 percent authentic, Ragnarok emerges as a masterpiece within the true Viking Metal genre! The special Ltd. Ed. contains two bonus tracks not found on the regular edition.

TYR, who hail from the Faroe Islands, have recently signed with Napalm Records, who have re-released the band's 2003 release Eric the Red. Combining classy old school styles with Viking metal, Eric the Red is half sung in English, the other in their native tongue Faroese (a derivative of Old Norse), and contains plenty of catchy melodies, epic guitar hooks, huge choirs, and rock solid rhythms. There's a strong folk feel to many of the songs, although it's more a feel and not in the form of instrumentation. This is metal all the way folks, but extremely melodic, with plenty of blazing guitar solos and sing along choruses. Many of the songs are in the 5-7 minute length, which gives ample time for instrumental fireworks, atmospheric and symphonic passages, and pure headbanging fun. Songs like "The Edge", "Stýrisvølurin", and the title track sizzle with a "raise your pint and sing along" attitude, regardless of the language the tune is sung in.