Trésors du Moyen-Âge (Treasures of the Middle Ages) is a monumental and deeply evocative four-CD box set released by RCA Red Seal in 2004, offering a comprehensive panorama of European musical creation from the 12th through the 15th centuries. This collection intricately balances the sacred and the profane, pairing celestial liturgical masterworks with the earthier, vibrant expressions of secular courtly love and folk traditions. Listeners are guided through the hauntingly beautiful mystic visions of Hildegard von Bingen, the pioneering Notre Dame polyphony of Pérotin, and Guillaume de Machaut's structural landmarks, alongside the timeless verse of troubadours like Jaufré Rudel and Richard the Lionheart. Spanning everything from Icelandic sagas and Breton prophecies to Spanish Cantigas de Santa Maria, Sephardic Jewish ballads, and theatrical liturgical dramas like Le Jeu de Daniel, this box set serves as an invaluable, pristine audio archive of the medieval mind and spirit.

Released in 1995 by the specialty label Block Buster, 100 Rolling Oldies Vol.2 is a massive, gold-edition 4CD box set that serves as an extensive archival treasury of fifties, sixties, and seventies popular music. Spanning a vast sonic landscape, the collection brings together foundational rock & roll trailblazers, British Invasion beat pioneers, powerhouse soul shouters, and infectious seventies sunshine-funk outfits. Listeners are treated to an eclectic mix of definitive studio masters, rare early cuts from legendary artists like the Bee Gees, and high-octane live performances from iconic names including The Mamas & The Papas, Donovan, and Jimi Hendrix. From the driving rhythm and blues grooves of Sam & Dave and Percy Sledge to the dancefloor-ready hooks of K.C. & The Sunshine Band and the timeless rock textures of The Beach Boys and Johnny Cash, this high-fidelity compilation provides a spectacular, sweeping retrospective of the golden age of radio pop and rock.

Likely planned back in 2009, when the four-disc box The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998 appeared, Live 1976-1998: Tonight's the Night is another deep dip into Stewart's archive – a four-disc box containing 58 unreleased recordings crossing three decades…

Barb Wired Tour Vol. 2 is the second of two volumes of Empress Valley’s ambitious nine disc compilation of important tapes from Ron Wood’s New Barbarians side project in support of his solo album Gimme Some Neck. Picking up where The Drug Dealer Tapes Vol. 1 (Empress Valley EVSD 196/200) leaves off, Vol. 2 contains four discs with another hour of the tour rehearsal tape along with two complete shows…

Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It may be meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place, usually with a tranquil theme, such as a jungle, an island paradise or outer space. The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music–influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout, and downtempo influences), while remaining thematically focused on its retro-space-age cultural elements…

Collecting Nightwish's first three albums and the EP "Over the Hills and Far Away" (which includes six additional songs that were not on the original spinefarm edition) into one package, this boxed set is a nice addition to any fan's collection…

Bon Jovi's four-CD/one-DVD box set of rarities, 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, inspires two immediate reactions. The first: How in the world did Bon Jovi have four discs' worth of unreleased material in their vaults? The second: Who on earth would want to hear 50 rarities from Bon Jovi? To anybody who's not a devoted fan, the New Jersey group always seemed like a quintessential singles-driven band…

The plainly named Box Set – that's the actual title – contains four CDs by a band that made only three albums in their brief lifetime. It goes without saying that this has a lot of great music, and is an essential purchase for fans of this phenomenal 1960s folk-rock-psychedelic band, containing no less than 36 previously unreleased demos, outtakes, and previously unissued mixes. It's the unreleased stuff that holds the most interest, especially since even on their outtakes, Buffalo Springfield were often superb…

From the start of her career, Sarah Vaughan had a wondrous voice. She never declined and her voice remained a miracle throughout her career. She learned about bop phrasing during 1943-1944 when she was with the orchestras of Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine (singing alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker) and, although she would perform many pop tunes throughout her life, she always phrased like a jazz singer and was never shy to change notes and improvise…

Well known for her creative compositional style and distinct singing, Björk's recording career began in 1977 at the age of 11, when she released (as Björk Guðmundsdóttir) her first album, while studying piano and flute at music school. Although the album became platinum, she refused to make another disco-folk follow-up and, at the age of 13, formed her first short-lived punk band, all-girl alliance Spit and Snot (Saliva and Phlegm), where she played the drums. Later on she was involved in projects such as Exodus and Jam 80, all of which without known record releases…

Since Charly Records began working with the catalog of the fabled Texas label International Artists Records, they've released a steady stream of material by Lone Star psychedelic pioneers the 13th Floor Elevators, beginning with the definitive 2009 box set Sign of the 3 Eyed Men. But while Charly's releases have been beautifully assembled and annotated, they've also been created with serious fans in mind, rather than someone looking for the band's basic oeuvre. While a four-disc box set might seem a bit much for someone who just wants the basics, The Albums Collection is a thorough but elegant collection that delivers the Elevators' essential repertoire in one package…

Stormwatch is the album that they often call the third of the Tull folk rock trilogy and after Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses (and their subsequent five star extended version in this series) it has a hard job to do…