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Jean-Louis Murat - Lilith (2003)

Posted By: tirexiss
Jean-Louis Murat - Lilith (2003)

Jean-Louis Murat - Lilith (2003)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) - 688 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 288 MB | Covers Included | 01:38:11
Genre: Rock, Pop, French, Chanson | Label: Labels | Catalog: 7243 5 90613 2 0

Lilith is the 2003 release by France's most creative singer-songwriter. With 23 songs this double CD has plenty of space to hit on many styles and feelings. Less "poppy" than his pre-Mustango albums. Lilith continues Murat's trend toward simpler arrangements that will remind English speaking audiences of the Velvet Underground(Emotion), Matthew Sweet(Le Cri du Papillon), and of course Neil Young and Leonard Cohen.

Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won [Recorded 1972] (2003) [Japanese Edition]

Posted By: gribovar
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won [Recorded 1972] (2003) [Japanese Edition]

Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won [Recorded 1972] (2003) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 960 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 353 MB | Covers - 233 MB
Genre: Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-11585~7)

For years, Led Zeppelin fans complained that there was one missing item in the group's catalog: a good live album. It's not that there weren't live albums to be had. The Song Remains the Same, of course, was a soundtrack of a live performance, but it was a choppy, uneven performance, lacking the majesty of the group at its peak. BBC Sessions was an excellent, comprehensive double-disc set of their live radio sessions, necessary for any Zeppelin collection (particularly because it contained three songs, all covers, never recorded anywhere else), but some carped that the music suffered from not being taped in front of a large audience, which is how they built their legacy - or, in the parlance of this triple-disc collection of previously unreleased live recordings compiled by Jimmy Page, How the West Was Won. The West in this case is the West Coast of California, since this contains selections from two 1972 concerts in Los Angeles…

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan (2003)

Posted By: popsakov
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan (2003)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 567 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 239 Mb
Full Scans | 01:14:03 | RAR 5% Recovery
Modern Electric Blues | Epic / Legacy #EK 90495

While 2002's Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble is the place to go for the complete picture, Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan works well as a nice single-disc introduction to the work of the influential blues guitarist. Perhaps a few more hits could have been included to make this more attractive to the curious buyer, but with a previously unreleased live version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and a track listing that dodges much of the 1995 Greatest Hits collection, this does offer an alternative for longtime fans.

Miklós Spányi, Concerto Armonico - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 12 (2003)

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Miklós Spányi, Concerto Armonico - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 12 (2003)

Miklós Spányi, Concerto Armonico - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 12 (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log ~ 314 Mb | Total time: 66:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-1127 CD | Recorded: 1998, 1999

This series of the complete harpsichord concerti of C.P.E. Bach is one of the most important and monumental recording projects of the century so far… it is a whole planet of delights and amazing discoveries.

Calexico - Feast of Wire (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2003/2023)

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Calexico - Feast of Wire (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2003/2023)

Calexico - Feast of Wire (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2003/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 605 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 221 MB
1:29:23 | Folk Rock | Label: Quarterstick Records

In early 2003, Calexico released their seminal album ‘Feast of Wire’, the album that truly marked the duo’s critical and commercial breakthrough. Beginning in June, the band will play a series of headline shows across the year performing the landmark ‘Feast of Wire’ in full as well as a slew of beloved songs from the band’s full repertoire. In addition to the headline dates, the band will play a handful of festivals as well across Europe. City Slang releases a re-mastered deluxe edition of the album incl bonus track and a bonus live album.

Sonny Clark Trio - Sonny Clark Trio (1960) {2003, Hybrid SACD} Audio CD Layer

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Sonny Clark Trio - Sonny Clark Trio (1960) {2003, Hybrid SACD} Audio CD Layer

Sonny Clark Trio - Sonny Clark Trio (1960) {2003, Hybrid SACD}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 436 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 222 Mb
Full Scans | 01:14:51 | RAR 5% Recovery
Jazz | Audio Fidelity #AFZ 006

This lesser-known Sonny Clark session (his only studio album not made for Blue Note) is sometimes issued under drummer Max Roach's name, too. They are joined by bassist George Duvivier for a set of generally obscure Clark originals including "Minor Meeting," "Blues Mambo," and "My Conception" (which is taken as an unaccompanied piano solo). Although not obvious while listening to his recording, Clark's life was in decline and this would be his penultimate date as a leader.

Ingrid Matthews, Seattle Baroque - Alessandro Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Esiliati (2003)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Ingrid Matthews, Seattle Baroque - Alessandro Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Esiliati (2003)

Ingrid Matthews, Seattle Baroque - Alessandro Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Esiliati (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 355 Mb | Total time: 78:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Centaur | # CRC 2664 | Recorded: 2001

This opera-pretending-to-be-oratorio (opera was banned in Rome during the period in which the work was composed) offers an excellent way to discover and appreciate Alessandro Scarlatti’s vocal/dramatic facility and his engaging manner of setting melody to appropriately varied, effectively complementary accompaniment. We enter the famous Abraham/Sarah/Hagar/Ishmael story (from Genesis, chapter 21) at the point where Abraham’s wife Sarah insists that he must banish the slave Hagar and her son Ishmael to protect their own son Isaac’s inheritance.

Joe Cocker - The Ultimate Collection 1968-2003 (2003)

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Joe Cocker - The Ultimate Collection 1968-2003 (2003)

Joe Cocker - The Ultimate Collection 1968-2003 (2003)
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 925 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 324 Mb
Full Scans | 01:00:20 + 01:09:03 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Soft Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul | Parlophone #7243 5 96775 2 1

Calling something "The Ultimate Collection" is fraught with problems – usually of omission. Certainly over these two discs – containing a total of 30 tracks – there are plenty of fine moments from some of Joe Cocker's earliest material, such as "The Letter," "With a Little Help From My Friends," "Delta Lady," "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window," etc. Also present are virtually all of his later hits and some that should have been: "Up Where We Belong," "You Are So Beautiful," "Many Rivers to Cross," "Leave Your Hat On," etc. But there's just too much that isn't here. Where are "Bird on a Wire" and "Hitchcock Railway," for starters? Nonetheless, given the length of Cocker's career, this is not an unusual complaint. One thing that is unique about this set – other than the fine sound – is the sequencing that crisscrosses over the breadth and chronology of Cocker's discography.

Keb' Mo' - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Keb' Mo' (2003)

Posted By: gribovar
Keb' Mo' - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Keb' Mo' (2003)

Keb' Mo' - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Keb' Mo' (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 412 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 143 MB | Covers - 82 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OKeh/Epic/Legacy/Sony (512577 2)

The occasion of the series of television films broadcast under the umbrella title The Blues in the fall of 2003 provided the opportunity to compile the highlights of Keb' Mo''s recording career thus far into a single-disc collection. One might argue that, with only four regular albums under his belt (there was also a children's album, Big Wide Grin), Keb' Mo' wasn't quite ready for a best-of, but those albums attracted a wide audience among blues fans; each one lodged in the Top Five of Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart, and the second and third, Just Like You and Slow Down, won Grammys for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Actually, it's the self-titled first album from 1994 that is the most impressive (as well as the least "contemporary"), and six tracks from it have been excerpted here, with three from Just Like You, four from Slow Down, and one from the fourth album, The Door…

Christoph König, Orchester der Oper Zürich - Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2003)

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Christoph König, Orchester der Oper Zürich - Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2003)

Christoph König, Orchester der Oper Zürich - Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2003)
PAL 16:9 (720x576) | Deutsch | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 7,55 Gb (DVD9) | 143 min
Classical | Bel Air Classiques | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol

Nous ne sommes pas certains que les spectateurs de l’Opéra de Zurich aient éprouvé tout à fait le même plaisir que nous à la vue de cette production de Jonathan Miller. Car la réussite de cette captation doit beaucoup au travail de la réalisatrice vidéo Chloé Perlemuter qui, avec un dispositif volontairement réduit, a décidé d’épouser le regard du spectateur, furtif, parfois inquisiteur et parfois distrait. Quelques regards sur les chanteurs en coulisses, des cadrages audacieux, rompent la monotonie d’un spectacle assez statique où l’investissement se lit presque exclusivement sur les visages, ce que soulignent parfaitement de pertinents gros plans. La captation offre donc au travail minimaliste et pudique de Jonathan Miller une profondeur supplémentaire, comme elle offre d’autres perspectives au décor d’une sobriété monacale d’Isabella Bywater, également signataires de costumes chatoyants qui nous renvoient directement au siècle des Lumières.

Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2003)

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Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2003)

Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 911 Mb | Total time: 60:30+57:35+63:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Avie | # AV 0001 | Recorded: 2001

What a strange, wondrous work this is! Dealing almost exclusively with emotions–paternal, filial, and romantic love, sacrifice, jealousy, hatred, spite–there is very little “action” per se. But in Handel’s Tamerlano we are smack in the middle of these people’s hearts and it’s more suspenseful and moving than operas with battles, great political themes, wind machines, and exotic dancers. In short, absolute ruler Tamerlano has conquered and taken the Turkish Emperor Bajazet captive. Despite his engagement to Irene, Tamerlano loves Bajazet’s daughter Asteria; Andronicus, his Greek ally, loves her too and Asteria returns Andronicus’ love. Although it appears as if Asteria also has accepted Tamerlano’s love (to the horror of Bajazet, Andronicus, and Irene), in fact she plans to kill him. She and her father are condemned to death when her plot is discovered, but Bajazet commits suicide and in a last minute change of heart, Tamerlano allows Andronicus and Asteria to wed, while he takes Irene as bride.

Ensemble Cantus figuratus, Dominique Vellard - Pedro de Escobar: Missa in Granada c. 1520 (2003)

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Ensemble Cantus figuratus, Dominique Vellard - Pedro de Escobar: Missa in Granada c. 1520 (2003)


Ensemble Cantus figuratus, Dominique Vellard - Pedro de Escobar: Missa in Granada c. 1520 (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:59 | 289 MB
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Label: Christophorus | Catalog: CHR 77263

Pedro de Escobar (c. 1465-c.1535) was a composer of the same renaissance generation as Josquin, Isaac, Mouton and De La Rue. He was born in Porto, Portugal but was of Castilian ancestry; his work was in great demand in his time and he spent part of his working life in Spain, much of this in the service of the Catholic Queen Isabella I. His best-known works today are a Requiem Mass (recorded twice so far), a Magnificat setting and a handful of motets, but this present CD brings us the first recording of a complete ordinary Mass setting, simply titled ‘Missa 4v.’

Janis Joplin - The Essential Janis Joplin (2003)

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Janis Joplin - The Essential Janis Joplin (2003)

Janis Joplin - The Essential Janis Joplin (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 772 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 294 MB | Covers - 39 MB
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Classic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia/Legacy (510593 2)

Columbia has managed to squeeze an impressive, perhaps excessive, number of compilations out of Janis Joplin's relatively slim body of recordings. With this two-CD set, The Essential Janis Joplin, the label's at it again, though it's a good one to get if you don't want to collect all the Joplin releases, and certainly don't want to get the expensive Joplin boxes, but want more than what fits onto a single disc. Including both solo recordings and highlights of her stint with Big Brother & the Holding Company, it has all the songs fans and critics would consider milestones in her career: "Ball and Chain" (a version recorded live in 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, not the more familiar one from Cheap Thrills), "Piece of My Heart," "Down on Me," "Summertime," "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)," "Tell Mama" (the live 1970 performance from the expanded edition of Pearl)…

Todd Rundgren - Greatest Classics With A Twist (2003)

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Todd Rundgren - Greatest Classics With A Twist (2003)

Todd Rundgren - Greatest Classics With A Twist (2003)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:40:28 | 230 / 717 Mb
Genre:Classic Rock, Progressive Rock / Label: Purple Pyramid

old on because this can get confusing. In 1997, Todd Rundgren released an album called With a Twist, where our hero decided rework a bunch of his favorites in the bossa nova style so popular with the hipsters in the waning days of the great mid-'90s lounge revival.

Candy Dulfer - Right In My Soul (2003) {Japanese Edition}

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Candy Dulfer - Right In My Soul (2003) {Japanese Edition}

Candy Dulfer - Right In My Soul (2003) {Japanese Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 540 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 228 Mb
Full Scans | 01:09:20 | RAR 5% Recovery
Smooth Jazz, Nu Jazz, Jazz-Dance | Eagle Records / Victor Entertainment #VICP-62301

In the summer of 2002, with the help Eagle Records - Candy was given total creative freedom to create the CD of her dreams, giving her the opportunity to push the boundaries with her seamless fusion of R&B, Drum `n Bass, Funk, Jazz and Ambient sounds. Right In My Soul marks Dulfer's first studio album in four years. Right In My Soul has all the trademark riffs, solos and that fit in with the new Candy Dulfer but still instantly recognizable to her legions of fans.