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Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1998)

Posted By: tirexiss
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1998)

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 65:11 | 290 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | Catalog: 8.225087

There has not been much of a symphonic tradition in Portugal, but this century has thrown up two symphonists of some significance – Luis de Freitas Branco (brother of the conductor Pedro), who is absent from the catalogues, and, more importantly, his pupil Joly Braga Santos, whose own protege Alvaro Cassuto is opening our eyes and ears to his stature. His First and Fifth Symphonies (Marco Polo, 7/98) came as something of a revelation: here again we have one work from each of his two contrasting compositional periods.

Air - Moon Safari Rarities (25th Anniversary Edition) (1998/2024)

Posted By: Rtax
Air - Moon Safari Rarities (25th Anniversary Edition) (1998/2024)

Air - Moon Safari Rarities (25th Anniversary Edition) (1998/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 241 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 102 MB
41:16 | Electronic, Downtempo, Synth-pop | Label: Parlophone (France)

Air Plot North American Tour to Mark 25th Anniversary of Debut Album ‘Moon Safari’.

Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love (1998) {Japan 1st Press}

Posted By: popsakov
Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love (1998) {Japan 1st Press}

Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love (1998) {Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 424 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 147 Mb
Full Scans ~ 160 Mb | 01:00:45 | RAR 5% Recovery
Adult Contemporary R&B, Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Pop | Arista / BMG Japan #BVCA-21017

For all intents and purposes, Whitney Houston retired from being a full-fledged recording artist after her third album, 1990s I'm Your Baby Tonight, choosing to be a Streisand-like celebrity who cultivated a career through movies, soundtrack contributions, and social appearances. She may have been content to continue in that direction for many years if Arista president Clive Davis didn't push her into recording My Love Is Your Love, her first album in eight years, which easily ranks among her best. Never before has Houston tried so many different sounds or tried so hard to be hip. It's one thing to work with Babyface, the standard-bearer of smooth soul in the '90s, but it's quite another to hire Wyclef Jean, Lauren Hill, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, and Q-Tip – all cutting-edge artists (albeit on the accessible side of the cutting edge), the kind who never would have been associated with Houston in the late '80s.

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 (1998)

Posted By: tirexiss
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 (1998)

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:16 | 310 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | Catalog: 8.223879

Hearty thanks to Marco Polo for finding another lost gem. Braga Santos (1924-1988) was born in Portugal and, through his teacher, Luis de Freitas Branco, inherited a fondness for music that mixed elements of Modernism with Portuguese Renaissance polyphony. Yet Vaughan Williams is the greatest influence in Braga Santos's music. Braga Santos, like Vaughan Williams, hunted down and extensively used folk melodies, folk songs, and anonymous sacred compositions for church services.

Rudolf Werthen, I Fiamminghi - John Tavener: The Protecting Veil; The Last Sleep of the Virgin (1998)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Rudolf Werthen, I Fiamminghi - John Tavener: The Protecting Veil; The Last Sleep of the Virgin (1998)

Rudolf Werthen, I Fiamminghi - John Tavener: The Protecting Veil; The Last Sleep of the Virgin (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 60:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Telarc | # ACC 24368 | Recorded: 1997

Continuing its acclaimed series of 20th-century music performed by I Fiamminghi, Telarc presents a stunning recording of two mystical pieces by John Tavener, the composer of the poignant recessional music for the funeral of Princess Diana.

Jody Miller - The Best Of Jody Miller (1998/2016)

Posted By: Rtax
Jody Miller - The Best Of Jody Miller (1998/2016)

Jody Miller - The Best Of Jody Miller (1998/2016)
FLAC (tracks) - 232 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 MB
40:14 | Country, Folk, Pop | Label: EMI Music Nashville

Myrna Joy "Jody" Miller (November 29, 1941 – October 6, 2022) was an American singer, who had commercial success in the genres of country, folk and pop. She was the second female artist to win a country music accolade from the Grammy Awards, which came off the success of her 1965 song "Queen of the House". By blending multiple genres together, Miller's music was considered influential for other music artists.

Phillip Walker - I Got A Sweet Tooth (1998)

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Phillip Walker - I Got A Sweet Tooth (1998)

Phillip Walker - I Got A Sweet Tooth (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 278 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 108 MB | Covers - 16 MB
Genre: Blues, Modern Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Black Top Records (BT-1146)

Phillip Walker delivers 11 prime cuts of funky, down-to-earth blues on this easygoing release. He is backed by some fine musicians, including guitarist Derek O' Brian and grunting saxman Mark Kazanoff. The songs are well crafted; "My Name Is Misery" is as down and out as it gets, the title cut takes Walker back to his roots with lots of brooding guitar and passionate lyrics, and "I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy" is about that dreadful heartbreak we've all felt. Then there's "Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time," a New Orleans style rocker in the best sense with a little added social commentary thrown in for good measure. This is groove oriented music. It's not about flashiness, it's about telling it as Mr. Walker sees it and he sees it as it is.

Carole Laure - Alibis (1978/1998)

Posted By: Rtax
Carole Laure - Alibis (1978/1998)

Carole Laure - Alibis (1978/1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 266 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 111 MB
48:17 | Pop Rock, Chanson | Label: Saravah / Omagatoki Co. Ltd.

Japanese edition contains two bonus tracks not on original album, track 12 (English version of "J'Ai Une Chanson") and track 13 (English version of "Joue Moi Un Tango").

R.E.M. - Upload (1998)

Posted By: Rtax
R.E.M. - Upload (1998)

R.E.M. - Upload (1998)
CD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 991 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 328 MB
2:22:49 | Alternative Rock, Pop Rock | Unofficial Release | Label: Thunderball

Tracks on CD1 + Tracks 1-3 on CD2 recorded live in Stockholm, Grand Hotel Winter Garden on November 9th, 1998. Tracks 4-14 on CD2 recorded live in Hamburg, The Gruenspan on November 2nd, 1998. Tracks 15-16 on CD2 recorded live in New York at The Late Night Show with David Letterman on October 22nd and 23rd, 1998.

Otis Rush - Any Place I'm Going (1998)

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Otis Rush - Any Place I'm Going (1998)

Otis Rush - Any Place I'm Going (1998)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 356 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 131 Mb | Scans ~ 58 Mb
Label: House Of Blues | # 51416 1343 2 | Time: 00:56:49
Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Soul-Blues

This album on the House of Blues label is a bit smoother and more slickly produced (by Rush and famed Memphis producer Willie Mitchell) than Rush's classic, rough-edged Chess recordings, but there's still plenty here to like. With a solid horn section backing him on most cuts, Rush gets ample room to show off his razor-sharp guitar chops. And his distinctive, emotionally charged voice remains a true blues treasure. In addition to his own no-nonsense originals, Rush draws on some familiar tunes from classic soul and blues performers like Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Nappy Brown, and Little Milton.

Liv Kristine - Deus ex Machina (Remastered) (1998/2024)

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Liv Kristine - Deus ex Machina (Remastered) (1998/2024)

Liv Kristine - Deus ex Machina (Remastered) (1998/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 792 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 292 MB
1:58:52 | Electronic, Rock, Folk Rock, Modern Classical, Downtempo | Label: Metalville

Deus ex Machina”, the fantastic solo debut from 1998, will be released for the first time as a double DigiPak CD with unreleased bonus tracks!

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - A Musical Book of Hours (1998)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - A Musical Book of Hours (1998)

Alexander Blachly, Pomerium - A Musical Book of Hours (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 75:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 457 586-2 | Recorded: 1997

This is one of the most beautiful early music discs in the catalog–equally attributable to the music and to the perfectly tuned and blended voices, whose timbres couldn't be more appealing to the ear or more appropriate to the style of the repertoire. The very first track–a charming, gentle, hopeful little piece by Dufay, "Bon jour, bon mois, bon an"–leads us easily into the heart and spirit of this well-conceived program, which seeks to duplicate in music the expressive power and visual beauty of the richly illustrated Books of Hours–lovingly created volumes that were a cherished fixture of religious devotional practice in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Among the composers represented are Dufay, Desprez, Busnoys, Dunstaple, and Ockeghem. Put this at the top of your list.

Dom Um Romao - Rhythm Traveller (1998) {Mr Bongo}

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Dom Um Romao - Rhythm Traveller (1998) {Mr Bongo}

Dom Um Romao - Rhythm Traveller (1998) {Mr Bongo}
EAC 1.0b4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 452MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 178MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Latin Jazz, Fusion

This 1998 release by Brazilian percussion god Dom Um Ramao marks his first solo recording in more than 30 years. Romao has been an in-demand session player since the mid-'60s and was one of the founding members of Weather Report. His own albums on the late, great Muse label, one named eponymously and the other entitled Spirit of the Times, were rhythm orgies that pasted together all of the traditions he'd worked in up until that time: from Sergio Mendes and Sinatra to Flora, Airto, and Weather Report. Rhythm Traveler is a return, of sorts, in that it is an engagement with Brazilian song forms from both folk musics and popular song, all translated through a jazzman's manner of hearing.

The Carpenters - Love Songs (1998) {Japan 1st Press}

Posted By: popsakov
The Carpenters - Love Songs (1998) {Japan 1st Press}

The Carpenters - Love Songs (1998) {Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 442 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 185 Mb
Full Scans ~ 99 Mb | 01:16:33 | RAR 5% Recovery
Pop, Soft Rock | A&M Records / Polydor K.K. #POCM-1560

There may be too many Carpenters compilations on the market – there are certainly enough to confuse the average neophyte – but Love Songs is a welcome addition to the clutter, since it offers 20 of the duo's very best love songs, including "We've Only Just Begun" and "Top of the World." Anyone looking for a collection of the duo's romantic songs should definitely consider this fine collection, even it does leave off some of their poppier, rock-inflected material.

The Derek Trucks Band - Out Of The Madness (1998)

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The Derek Trucks Band - Out Of The Madness (1998)

The Derek Trucks Band - Out Of The Madness (1998)
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 513 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 248 Mb
Full Scans | 01:03:39 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Jazz Fusion, Jam Rock, Southern Rock | House Of Blues #51416 1436 2

The Derek Trucks Band is an American jam band founded by young slide guitar prodigy, Derek Trucks, who began playing guitar and touring with some of blues and rock music's elite when he was just nine years old. After experimenting as an adolescent with musicians he met between tours and recording sessions, Trucks founded The Derek Trucks Band in 1994. With family ties to The Allman Brothers Band, Trucks continued to experiment and play with others, carefully assembling his own band over a period of several years. Loosely based in his family home in Jacksonville, Florida, with Trucks as unquestionable bandleader, the band is made up of six individuals. Out of the Madness is the second studio album by American jam band The Derek Trucks Band, released on October 20, 1998. The album was recorded between June 14, 1997 – April 11, 1998 at Dockside Studios, Maurice The album is mainly re-arranged jazz and blues classics and the rest is original compositions by the band. Derek was eighteen years old at the time of the release of the album.