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Rockets - Hits & Remixes (1996)

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Rockets - Hits & Remixes (1996)

Rockets - Hits & Remixes (1996)
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 968 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 371 Mb
Full Scans | 01:13:28 + 01:13:33 | RAR 5% Recovery
Space Disco, Space Rock, Synth-Pop, Euro-Dance | Dig It International #DCD 11000

Despite being renowned in certain parts of the world (especially in Italy and their hometown of Paris), the space-age outfit Rockets remains largely obscure – even though they arrived on the scene at almost he same exact time as Kraftwerk and prefaced Devo by several years. The multi-membered outfit originally formed in 1972, under the name Crystal, performing on-stage in their regular street clothes. But by 1974, Crystal had evolved into Rocket Men, issuing a debut self-titled single, while its members began to assume the identities of aliens; complete with silver makeup covering their skin, grey contact lenses, space suits, and bald heads. It was also around this time that the group hooked up with producer Claude Lemoine, who would remain behind the studio boards until the early '80s. Over the next year, the group went through another name (Rocketters), before finally settling on Rockets, and issuing further singles, including such titles as "Rocket Man," "Future Woman," and "Samurai."

Sterling Koch - Let It Slide (2013)

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Sterling Koch - Let It Slide (2013)

Sterling Koch - Let It Slide (2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 419 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 169 Mb
Full Scans | 00:47:59 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Slide Guitar Blues | Full Force Music #FFM118

Sterling Koch returns with a new album "Let It Slide," the follow up to his very successful 2011 release "Slide Ruler." "Let It Slide" includes 13 songs, 8 originals and 5 covers, of varying blues and blues/rock styles. The cover songs include songs by Elmore James, Doyle Bramhall (I and II) and Rick Vito (Fleetwood Mac) as well as the single "Mercury Blues" by K.C. Douglas. "Let It Slide" features Gene Babula on bass and John Goba on drums taking over for Tommy Shannon (Double Trouble) and Chet McCracken (Doobie Brothers) from the "Slide Ruler" album. Sterling only began to play the lap steel in 2004 as the result of a neck injury, a herniated disk. He had previously played the conventional 6 string guitar for 35 years. Sterling specializes in playing slide guitar blues on the lap steel guitar and is widely acclaimed as one of the foremost propnents of the lap steel guitar.

Gary Hoey - American Made (2006)

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Gary Hoey - American Made (2006)

Gary Hoey - American Made (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 446 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 181 Mb
Full Scans | 00:50:47 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Guitar Virtuoso | Surfdog Records #44110-2

On Gary Hoey's American Made, the guitarist's talent is once again confirmed as he tackles everything from blues to prog rock to metal. He has the most success when he lets his guitar do his talking for him, not because his voice is unpleasant; on the contrary, Hoey can master multiple styles vocally, but his guitar playing trumps his other talents (especially on "Gonzo Guru") and really deserves center stage. Hoey gives an edge to the Tom Cochrane and Red Rider one-time minor progressive rock hit "Lunatic Fringe" and takes his solos to beautiful new levels on the instrumental tracks, "Tribal Mania" and "The Deep."

Susan Maughan - The Best Of Susan Maughan (1999)

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Susan Maughan - The Best Of Susan Maughan (1999)

Susan Maughan - The Best Of Susan Maughan (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 256 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 101 Mb | Scans ~ 58 Mb
Pop, Vocal Pop | Label: Spectrum Music | # 554 752-2 | Time: 00:43:59

Born Marion Susan Maughan but dropping her first name, Susan's big hit was a cover of Bobby's girl. Originally an American hit for Marcie Blane, Susan took the song to the top three in the British charts. Neither singer had much success after that although as I explained in a review of a Marcie Blane compilation, Marcie really wasn't interested in a recording career, or indeed a singing career of any kind, and contented herself with a normal life away from the spotlight. As a contrast, Susan has built a singing career on the strength of Bobby's girl, performing on cruise liners, at seaside resorts and elsewhere on the cabaret circuit.

Elvin Bishop - Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio (2017)

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Elvin Bishop - Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio (2017)

Elvin Bishop - Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 246 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 101 Mb | Scans included
Modern Electric Blues, R&B, Blues Rock | Label: Alligator | # ALCD 4973 | Time: 00:42:57

The Big Fun Trio (Elvin on guitar and vocals, Willy Jordan on cajon and vocals, and Bob Welsh on guitar and piano) forges a new blues and R&B sensibility, colored by the distinctive, stripped-down instrumentation and shot through with Elvin’s exuberant, down home vibe. There are seven Bishop originals here (including a remake of the title track from his Ace In The Hole release), plus Lightnin’ Hopkin’s Honey Babe, Fats Domino’s Let The Four Winds Blow, Sunnyland Slim’s It’s You, Baby, and Bobby Womack’s It’s All Over Now. Charlie Musselwhite, Rick Estrin and Kim Wilson guest.

Myrthen Ensemble - Songs to the Moon (2016) 2CDs

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Myrthen Ensemble - Songs to the Moon (2016) 2CDs

Myrthen Ensemble - Songs to the Moon (2016) 2CDs
Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Peter Warlock, Samuel Barber, Elizabeth Maconchy
Camille Saint-Saëns, Joseph Szulc, Federico Mompou, Jules Massenet, Henri Duparc
Claude Debussy, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn, Gabriel Fauré

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 320 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 186 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Vocal | Label: Signum | # SIGCD443 | Time: 01:20:42

Described by The Telegraph as "the crème de la crème of young British-based musical talent", and praised in BBC Music Magazine for their "irresistible combination of arresting programing and vocal flair assembled around pianist Joseph Middleton", the newly formed Myrthen Ensemble brings together rising stars in the world of art-song and Lieder. This disc features performances by founder members Mary Bevan, Clara Mouriz, Allan Clayton, Marcus Farnsworth and Joseph Middleton. Joseph Middleton writes to introduce the recording: "The moon has, since antiquity, inspired artists, musicians and wordsmiths. The programme on this disc looks to its many characteristics for inspiration. The songs are at turns consoling, sometimes seductive in serenades and occasionally paint the moon as a threatening force through its extinguishing of the sun's rays. The moon’s silver beams cast their magic in music by Brahms and Schumann in the first of these CDs, and in the second, inspire the exquisite treatment of 'Clair de lune' by a selection of the finest French song composers. Short English nocturnal overtures begin each disc".

Viktor Lazlo - Hot & Soul (1989)

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Viktor Lazlo - Hot & Soul (1989)

Viktor Lazlo - Hot & Soul (1989)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 314 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 121 Mb
Full Scans | 00:49:16 | RAR 5% Recovery
Soul, Synth-Pop | Polydor #837 921-2

Viktor Lazlo (real name: Sonia Dronier) is a French-Belgian singer of Grenadian and Martiniquan descent. She studied in Belgium, where she is primarily known. Her biggest hit was "Breathless" in 1987. That year she also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 held in Brussels. Dronier took her stage name from Paul Henreid's character Victor Laszlo in the 1942 film Casablanca. She sings in French, English, Spanish and German. Most of her albums were released in an English/international and a French version. Also, numerous compilation albums have been released.

Sic Vikki - The Early Years 1985-92 (2022)

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Sic Vikki - The Early Years 1985-92 (2022)

Sic Vikki - The Early Years 1985-92 (2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (Image) +CUE, LOG | 514 MB | Scans
Genre: Hard Rock, AOR, Glam | Label: FnA Records | Catalog Number: 247365-159-2

Sic Vikki releases ‘The Early Years‘, an album that epitomizes the hair-metal, glam-band era full of sex appeal, and power pop tunes with great hooks…. Available now thru FnA Records! Take a little bit of Steve Plunkett (Autograph) and a little bit of Bill Aucoin (Kiss) and you get a recipe for a whole lotta Success!

Blues Section - Some Of Love (1968) {2012, Remastered}

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Blues Section - Some Of Love (1968) {2012, Remastered}

Blues Section - Some Of Love (1968) {2012, Remastered}
XLD Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 228 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 126 Mb
Full Scans | 00:40:56 | RAR 5% Recovery
Psychedelic Rock | Love Records #LRCD 6

Blues Section is considered a seminal and ground-breaking band in Finnish rock music. They started in 1967, formed around the vocalist Jim Pembroke, a British expatriate song-writer now living in Finland. The other members of the band were Eero Koivistoinen (saxophone), Ronnie Österberg (drums), Hasse Walli (guitar), and Måns Groundstroem (bass). Their influences came above all from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Jimi Hendrix, who had played a gig in Helsinki in May 1967. One can also hear in Pembroke's British-flavoured song-writing some echoes from The Beatles and The Kinks. Their debut album from '67 transcends R&B, beat & psychedelia… with awesome songwriting, and a trail-blazing amalgam of styles.

Tony Bennett - Eight Classic Albums (2019)

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Tony Bennett - Eight Classic Albums (2019)

Tony Bennett - Eight Classic Albums (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,26 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 623 Mb | Scans included | 03:57:38
Vocal Jazz, Swing, Traditional Pop | Label: Real To Reel

EU-only four CD set containing eight albums from the legendary crooner: Because of You, Cloud 7, Alone at Last with Tony Bennett, Tony, the Beat of My Heart, Long Ago Far Away, Strike Up the Band and Hometown My Town.

Paulin Bündgen & Clematis - Vater unser: German Sacred Cantatas (2018)

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Paulin Bündgen & Clematis - Vater unser: German Sacred Cantatas (2018)

Paulin Bündgen & Clematis - Vater unser: German Sacred Cantatas (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 384 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 189 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:39
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Ricercar, Outhere Music

This recording, whose title is here embodied in an instrumental version by Georg Böhm of the renowned chorale Vater unser, brings together sacred works and Lutheran cantatas for the alto voice. The concertante role allotted to the instruments is particularly important in these works and contributes to their deeply expressive character; these works were heavily influenced by Italian styles of the period. All of the instrumental works are closely linked to sacred music, the majority of them being constructed around chorale melodies.

VA - Canada 150: A Celebration Of Music (ICON) (2017)

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VA - Canada 150: A Celebration Of Music (ICON) (2017)

VA - Canada 150: A Celebration Of Music (ICON) (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 321 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 Mb | 00:46:03
Pop Rock, AOR, Pop | Label: Universal Music

Calling all patriotic Canadians… Universal Music Canada will issue Canada 150: A Celebration of Music at the end of this month; a multi-format release issued on the eve of Canada’s sesquicentennial (yes, that’s a word – it means 150th anniversary), which includes a six-CD super deluxe edition that comes complete with a ‘coffee table’ book.

Trish Clowes featuring Chris Montague, Ross Stanley & James Maddren - A View with a Room (2022)

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Trish Clowes featuring Chris Montague, Ross Stanley & James Maddren - A View with a Room (2022)

Trish Clowes featuring Chris Montague, Ross Stanley & James Maddren - A View with a Room (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 244 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 117 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:49:24
Jazz, Post-Bop, Fusion | Label: Greenleaf Music

While the global pandemic has been a challenging time in-particular for artists around the world, it has afforded new opportunities for creativity. If art imitates life, then our Feature Album this week on ABC Jazz certainly lives up to that age-old philosophy. Stuck at home during lockdowns in the UK, saxophonist Trish Clowes turned her home into both a studio and a performance space. This afforded her the opportunity to collaborate with her band 'My Iris', giving her the space to flesh out a series of new tunes that were workshopped over a series of live streams and online jams. The result? Her new album A View With A Room. It's an intrepid recording, cut with bandmates Ross Stanley on keys, guitarist Chris Montague and drummer James Maddren.

Matthias Schwengler - Soulcrane & Strings (2022)

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Matthias Schwengler - Soulcrane & Strings (2022)

Matthias Schwengler - Soulcrane & Strings (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 240 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | 00:56:03
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: Mons Records

Soulcrane was formed at the beginning of 2015 by trumpeter Matthias Schwengler. The Trio performs its own compositions and its musical direction is constantly being reshaped in response to new ideas. All three musicians bring their own influence to the band to create a collective and innovative sound, a blend of novelty and tradition. For their second album “Another Step We Take”, Soulcrane invites Matthew Halpin on saxophone. He greatly contributes to the intimate atmosphere created by the band and shifts seemingly from soulful balladesque to harmonically complex. The four Cologne-based musicians are working and composing together, preserving the warm and chamber music character of their work.

Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void (2010) [Limited Tour Edition]

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Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void (2010) [Limited Tour Edition]

Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void (2010) [Limited Tour Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 511 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 157 MB | Covers - 203 MB
Genre: Melodic Death Metal | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Century Media (9979550)

So consistent have Dark Tranquillity's albums been throughout the years, that it ironically takes an especially spectacular effort like 2010's We Are the Void to make one realize that the prior few - specifically 2005's Character and 2007's Fiction - had actually left something wanting. Yes, both of those releases boasted several standout songs, yet, as a whole, they retroactively seem somewhat unexciting as compared to We Are the Void‘s significant boosting of DT's alchemical interaction between death metal ferocity and melodic sensitivity. For as foreign as the notion of "hooks" may be to extreme metal's fundamental principles, the fact is that this latest long-player is just dripping with them - whether they take shape as contagious guitar lines, plaintive synthesizer figures, or even Mikael Stanne's fearsome death growl…