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Peggy March - Raritäten (2023)

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Peggy March - Raritäten (2023)

Peggy March - Raritäten (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 214 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 84 MB
35:22 | Pop, Schlager | Label: Electrola

Standing at only 4' 9", 13-year-old child prodigy Margaret Annemarie Battavio was nicknamed Little Peggy March by her record company. Within two years she'd topped the Billboard 100 in April 1963 with the single I Will Follow Him and in the process became, at the age of 15, the youngest ever artist to do so. It's a record which still stands to this day. Although I Will Follow remains her biggest selling single, March enjoyed further chart success in the States with three more top 30 hits one of which, Goodbye Love also made it into the UK Singles Chart. Her style found favour with European and Asian audiences and in 1969 March, along with husband and manager Arnie Harris, moved to Germany where the singer enjoyed a number of German language hits.

David Storrs - Sedona Sunrise (1985/2023)

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David Storrs - Sedona Sunrise (1985/2023)

David Storrs - Sedona Sunrise (1985/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 221 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 91 MB
39:57 | New Age | Label: Numero Group

From press release: Inspired by the Sedona Arizona, energy vortexes. Imagine yourself at sunrise in the beautiful, high desert environment. Experience awakening in the vortex at sunrise; watch as the sun's first rays fall across the red rock canyon walls. Side 2 is "Night In The Vortex." A mystical wooden flute, a harp and ethereal voices merge.

Adam Faith - I Survive (Deluxe) (1974/2023)

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Adam Faith - I Survive (Deluxe) (1974/2023)

Adam Faith - I Survive (Deluxe) (1974/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 254 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 MB
46:22 | Rock & Roll | Label: Cherry Red Records

Once one of Britain's most reliable hit-makers, Adam Faith slipped out of the recording studio in 1965, and did not return for another decade, a period during which he established himself as both an actor (well-received roles in That'll Be the Day and Stardust) and a manager – he was part of the team that launched Leo Sayer to fame. 1974, however, brought him back to a recording career, with a comeback album that now stands as one of the great unsung records of the 1970s – and one of the last great "super-sessions" of the age as well. Co-produced by Faith and David Courtney, I Survive was engineered by Deep Purple faithful Martin Birch, mastered by Mickie Most, and draws in guest appearances from Ritchie Blackmore, Russ Ballard and Argent's Bob Henrit, with Blackmore's lead guitar flourishes through the title track the match of anything he'd done with his own band lately.

VA - Instrumental Greats Of The 60's (1990)

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VA - Instrumental Greats Of The 60's (1990)

VA - Instrumental Greats Of The 60's (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 390 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 208 Mb | Scans included
Label: EMI Music For Pleasure | # CC 260, CDB 7 94226 2 | Time: 01:12:18
Instrumental Pop/Rock, Surf Rock, Beat, Easy Listening

32 Tracks. The Ventures, The Shadows, John Barry Seven, The Fentones, The Dakotas, Sandy Nelson, The Cannons, The Cougars, Norrie Paramor, The Packabeats, The Piltdown Men, B. Bumble & The Stingers, The Nu-Notes, Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra, The Federals and many more.

R.E.M. - Reckoning (1984) Expanded Reissue 1992

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R.E.M. - Reckoning (1984) Expanded Reissue 1992

R.E.M. - Reckoning (1984) Expanded Reissue 1992
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 376 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 161 Mb
Label: I.R.S. | # 0777 7 13159 2 3 | Time: 00:52:38 | Scans included
Alternative Rock, College Rock, Jangle Pop

R.E.M. abandoned the enigmatic post-punk experiments of Murmur for their second album, Reckoning, returning to their garage pop origins instead. Opening with the ringing "Harborcoat," Reckoning runs through a set of ten jangle pop songs that are different not only in sound but in style from the debut. Where Murmur was enigmatic in its sound, Reckoning is clear, which doesn't necessarily mean that the songs themselves are straightforward. Michael Stipe continues to sing powerful melodies without enunciating, but the band has a propulsive kick that makes the music vital and alive. And, if anything, the songwriting is more direct and memorable than before – the interweaving melodies of "Pretty Persuasion" and the country rocker "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" are as affecting as the melancholic dirges of "Camera" and "Time After Time," while the ringing minor-key arpeggios of "So. Central Rain," the pulsating riffs of "7 Chinese Bros.," and the hard-rocking rhythms of "Little America" make the songs into classics. On the surface, Reckoning may not be as distinctive as Murmur, but the record's influence on underground American rock in the '80s was just as strong.

Kronos Quartet - Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace (1989) 2CDs

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Kronos Quartet - Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace (1989) 2CDs

Kronos Quartet - Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace (1989) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 495 Mb | Scans included
Label: Elektra/Nonesuch | # 7559-79217-2 | Time: 01:58:32
Genre: Classical, Minimalism, Avant-Garde

There is no string quartet that has ever been written that can compare length and diversity with Terry Riley's Salome Dances for Peace. Morton Feldman has written a longer one, but it is confined to his brilliant field of notational relationships and open tonal spaces. Riley's magnum opus, which dwarfs Beethoven's longest quartet by three, is a collection of so many different kinds of music, many of which had never been in string quartet form before and even more of which would – or should – never be rubbing up against one another in the same construct. Riley is a musical polymath, interested in music from all periods and cultures: there are trace elements of jazz and blues up against Indian classical music, North African Berber folk melodies, Native American ceremonial music, South American shamanistic power melodies – and many more. The reason they are brought together in this way is for the telling of an allegorical story. In Riley's re-examining Salome's place in history, he finds a way to redeem both her and the world through her talent.

Miklós Spányi, Concerto Armonico Budapest - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 20 (2013)

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Miklós Spányi, Concerto Armonico Budapest - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 20 (2013)

Miklós Spányi, Concerto Armonico Budapest - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 20 (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log ~ 335 Mb | Total time: 59:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-1967 CD | Recorded: 2012

With this disc, Miklós Spányi’s survey of the complete keyboard concertos of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, begun in 1995, reaches its conclusion. But over the years it has already been described as ‘a unique monument to one of the 18th century's most underrated composers’ (Gramophone) as well as ‘one of the most important and monumental recording projects of the century so far’ (MusicWeb International) and ‘an epoch-making achievement… in the history of recorded music’ (klassik-heute.de). Together, the 64 works – composed over a period of fifty-five years (1733-88) – form an endlessly fascinating picture of their composer’s various choices made in the course of a long career.

Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6 (2019)

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Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6 (2019)

Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 232 Mb | Total time: 56:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555 240-2 | Recorded: 2014

Donizetti Edition with the Pleyel Quartet Gaetano Donizetti not only was very well acquainted with the Viennese models that then were dominant on the international market; at the latest since his study years in Bologna he had also been familiar with the most important exponents of Italian quartet culture. This is why his string quartets offer valuable insights into his education and early artistic development and are important documents attesting to the existence of a chamber music culture specific to Bergamo. In Quartets Nos. 4-6 conventional and innovative elements combine to form an astonishing synthesis.

Nikolai Lugansky - César Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020)

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Nikolai Lugansky - César Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020)

Nikolai Lugansky - César Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 210 Mb | Total time: 66:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902642 | Recorded: 2019

Given the paucity of César Franck's piano music on disc, Nikolai Lugansky's focus on this composer is to be commended. On his third release for harmonia mundi, the Russian pianist reveals an organ master strongly attached to the musical forms inherited from J.S. Bach: the prelude, the fugue, and the chorale. Translated to the piano keyboard, Franck's music, with its expansively conceived structures, requires a completely fresh approach that puts the greatest performers to the test: here, Lugansky took on an additional challenge by preparing his own transcription (a brilliant one, at that!) of Franck's celebrated Choral pour grand orgue No.2.

Pink Floyd - Box N°1 & Box N°2 - Soundtracks From The Films [The Committee · More · Zabriskie Point · The Body] (2021)

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Pink Floyd - Box N°1 & Box N°2 - Soundtracks From The Films [The Committee · More · Zabriskie Point · The Body] (2021)

Pink Floyd - Box N°1 & Box N°2 - Soundtracks From The Films [The Committee · More · Zabriskie Point · The Body] (2021)
FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 + 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 694 + 607 MB
5:03:23 + 4:25:10| Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Soundtrack | Unofficial Release | Label: The High Resolution Remasters

Some bands turn into shorthand for a certain sound or style, and Pink Floyd belongs among that elite group. The very name connotes something specific: an elastic, echoing, mind-bending sound that evokes the chasms of space. Pink Floyd grounded that limitless sound with exacting explorations of mundane matters of ego, mind, memory, and heart, touching upon madness, alienation, narcissism, and society on their concept albums of the '70s.

Louis Bertignac - Dans le film de ma vie (2023)

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Louis Bertignac - Dans le film de ma vie (2023)

Louis Bertignac - Dans le film de ma vie (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 317 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 MB
41:59 | Rock, Chanson | Label: Universal Music Division Barclay

Six ans après le triomphe des Insus au Stade de France, et au lendemain du succès de son autobiographie ‘Jolie petite histoire’, Louis Bertignac signe son grand retour avec ‘Dans le film de ma vie’. Le son de sa guitare fétiche est au rendez-vous pour des riffs Stoniens, des clins d'œil aux Beatles ou à ZZ TOP, du blues et de solides balades qui ont fait la signature de Louis. Enregistrées entre Londres, Hambourg, Nashville, Osaka et la France, 11 nouvelles chansons originales fusionnent l’ADN des plus grands tubes de Téléphone et la sensibilité profonde de Louis Bertignac.

Teun Wisse & Teun Braken - Unico: Dutch Recorder Sonatas from the early 18th Century (2023)

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Teun Wisse & Teun Braken - Unico: Dutch Recorder Sonatas from the early 18th Century (2023)

Teun Wisse & Teun Braken - Unico: Dutch Recorder Sonatas from the early 18th Century (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 295 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 Mb | 00:55:25
Classical | Label: Challenge Classics

The Story of Dutch baroque music is a story of cultural connections, of European history. There was not a shortage of music, including repertoire for recorder, in Holland: Amsterdam was not only a center of composition and instrument making, but also one of the most important centers for music publishing. Many of the most esteemed Italian composers had their work published in Amsterdam, making it available there earlier there than in their own country. Dutch composers as well as musicians of the time were thus ironically more ‘close to the source’ than many of their Italian colleagues. The music that was written by Dutch composers was heavily influenced by the Italian style.

Stéphane Bois - Bach à Leipzig: L'Apogée d'une pensée créatrice (2023)

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Stéphane Bois - Bach à Leipzig: L'Apogée d'une pensée créatrice (2023)

Stéphane Bois - Bach à Leipzig: L'Apogée d'une pensée créatrice (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 351 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:18:57
Classical | Label: Edition Hortus

From 1739 onward, the publication of the Clavier-Übung III, that imposing corpus essentially focused on the Art of the Chorale heightened to the furthest-developed and most consummate potentiality of the genre, marked a decisive turning point and a change of perspective in Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative process. His music for organ, gradually unmoored from the sole liturgical functionality, henceforth responds more to an inner necessity and within a most perfect balance conjugates ars and scientia. This programme offers an immersion into the heart of these ten last years in the life of Bach that Gilles Cantagrel so appropriately calls the testamentary decade.

Ivan Petričević - Guitar Intersections (2023)

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Ivan Petričević - Guitar Intersections (2023)

Ivan Petričević - Guitar Intersections (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 205 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 118 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:50:01
Classical | Label: hänssler Classic

The starting point for our attention here is the work of the Spanish composer, guitarist and guitar teacher Francisco Tarrega ( 1852-1909), whose "school" influenced numerous Spanish composers who, like Tarrega himself, saw the guitar as Spain's national instrument. The 19th century was a time when large concert halls were being constructed, something which, as the guitar began to enjoy increasing popularity, became rather problematic for guitarists, particularly as far as the acoustics were concerned. It was the Spanish guitar maker Antonio Torres ( 1817-1892) who, basing his designs on those of previous guitar makers, combined with the most up-to-date research into acoustics, developed larger instruments, something which Tarrega found vitally interesting, so much so that he developed a new playing technique. Through the evolution of his style of legato fretting and his own particular perception of the diverse timbral possibilities of the guitar, Tarrega created sounds that virtually made the in-strument sing.

Lonestar - Ten To 1 (2023)

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Lonestar - Ten To 1 (2023)

Lonestar - Ten To 1 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 258 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 94 MB
39:00 | Country, Country Rock | Label: Band Cave Records

Lonestar celebrated their 30th anniversary as a band in 2022, and this year, they're looking back on their record-breaking career with a new album full of reimagined hits. The new project, Ten to 1, will feature re-recordings of their 10 No. 1 hits. It will be released on June 2.