Herbie Mann - Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann (1962) [Japanese Edition 2012]

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Herbie Mann - Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann (1962) [Japanese Edition 2012]

Herbie Mann - Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann (1962) [Japanese Edition 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 216 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 78 MB | Covers - 26 MB
Genre: Latin Jazz, Bossa Nova | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27022)

Rather than play a watered-down version of bossa nova in New York studios (which was becoming quite common as the bossa nova fad hit its peak in 1962), flutist Herbie Mann went down to Brazil and recorded with some of the top players of the style. Guitarist Baden Powell and the group of then-unknown pianist Sergio Mendes, which included drummer Dom Um Romao, formed the nucleus for this generally delightful album. Antonio Carlos Jobim himself dropped by to sing two of his compositions, including "One Note Samba," and even on the token jazz standard "Blues Walk," the music is as much Brazilian as it is jazz.

Starcastle - Starcastle (1976) [Japanese Edition 2011]

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Starcastle - Starcastle (1976) [Japanese Edition 2011]

Starcastle - Starcastle (1976) [Japanese Edition 2011]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 251 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 93 MB | Covers - 199 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Air Mail Archive (AIRAC-1637)

A good first effort by a band very much in Yes' orbit - as when "Elliptical Seasons" shows Lutrell's uncanny mastery of Anderson's vocal style - this debut also shows the less complex electric timbre and thinner production that typified American progressive rock by such practicioners as Kansas. The album leads off with the wonderfully sprawling song that broke them on local radio in the hometown of Champaign, the ten-minute Moogs and Merlin epic, "Lady of the Lake." The closing instrumental, "Nova," also gives the band's very tight rhythm section a chance to shine, with Tassler opening the piece with a brief but effective solo. Though later releases would show the band was capable of better work, it's a decent enough debut and an interesting curio for fans of American progressive rock.

M. Griffin & D. Fulton - The Most Distant Point Known (2000)

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M. Griffin & D. Fulton - The Most Distant Point Known (2000)

M. Griffin & D. Fulton - The Most Distant Point Known (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 314 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 155 MB | Covers - 82 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Hypnos (hyp2025)

The first collaboration between Griffin (Hypnos founder and determined minimalist) and Fulton (Dweller at the Threshold co-founder and now-leader) is broad and spacy sonic vista, yet quite listenable - different enough from previous Griffin music and Fulton music, yet working in generally familiar territory. Combining deep, churning drones with analog sequencer loops, The Most Distant Point Known is a deep and ever-changing collage of shifts and patterns.

Area - Are(A)zione (1975) [Japanese Edition 2007]

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Area - Are(A)zione (1975) [Japanese Edition 2007]

Area - Are(A)zione (1975) [Japanese Edition 2007]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 253 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 98 MB | Covers - 170 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Strange Day Records (POCE-1159)

According to classic 1970s dictums, 1975's Are(A)zione is a "live" record by Italian vanguard progressive rock group Area. Taking one song from each of its four previous albums (recorded at as many festivals) and adding a complete freakout on the title track for over 15 minutes, the band nonetheless gives the impression that this is from a single performance. Area's energy and intensity were unequaled by anyone on either side of the Atlantic - rumor has it that Emerson, Lake & Palmer, who headlined a gig in Italy, wouldn't come onto the stage for a full two hours because they didn't want to follow the band that had driven ELP's crowd intro a frenzy…

John Drendall, B.A. Thrower & Friends - Papa Never Let Me Sing The Blues (1972) [Reissue 2009]

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John Drendall, B.A. Thrower & Friends - Papa Never Let Me Sing The Blues (1972) [Reissue 2009]

John Drendall, B.A. Thrower & Friends - Papa Never Let Me Sing The Blues (1972) [Reissue 2009]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 244 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 91 MB | Covers - 4 MB
Genre: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Bella Terra Records (BTR0040)

Rural blues private press with excellent guitar parts throughout. Actually in the second side things get a bit psychedelic too , especially at the superb psychedelic instrumental "Black River Lady". Another highlight is the great ''Old Man Gibbs" with a certain Neil Young + Crazy Horse vibe. The music is diverse with a hint of Neil Young , JJ Cale or even Grateful Dead in their sound. An obscure but solid record overall.

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]

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Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 259 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 104 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Fantasy Records (0025218623629)

This is the third and final guest appearance by clarinetist Bill Smith in the place of Paul Desmond with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Like the earlier record dates, this 1961 session focuses exclusively on Smith's compositions, resulting in a very different sound for the band than its normal mix of the leader's songs and standards. Smith was a member of Brubeck's adventurous octet of the late '40s and, like the pianist, also studied with French composer Darius Milhaud. So the clarinetist is willing to take chances, utilizing a mute on his instrument in "Pan's Pipes," and having drummer Joe Morello use his timpani sticks on the piano strings in the swinging "The Unihorn." Smith proves himself very much in Desmond's league with his witty solos and equally amusing, pun-filled liner notes…

Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) [2CD Japanese Edition 2013]

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Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) [2CD Japanese Edition 2013]

Nektar - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye (1971) [2CD Japanese Edition 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 529 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 208 MB | Covers - 208 MB
Genre: Progressive/Psychedelic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Belle Antique (BELLE 132133-4)

Nektar's debut album was one of their finest releases, saturated with abstract psychedelia and a wonderful science-fiction motif that is magnified through the rigorous but dazzling Mellotron of Allan Freeman and Roye Albrighton's nomadic guitar playing. Throughout Journey's 13 cuts, Nektar introduced their own sort of instrumental surrealism that radiated from both the vocals and from the intermingling of the haphazard drum and string work. With the synthesizer churning and boiling in front of Howden's percussive attack and Mick Brockett's "liquid lights," tracks like "Astronaut's Nightmare," "It's All in the Mind," and both "Dream Nebula" cuts teeter back and forth from mind-numbing, laid-back melodies to excitable, open-ended excursions of fantastical progressive rock…

Ron Boots - Alone on Stage (2023)

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Ron Boots - Alone on Stage (2023)

Ron Boots - Alone on Stage (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 389 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 143 MB | Digital covers
Genre: Electronic, Berlin-School | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Groove Unlimited

The live concert (with some tangenizing) of the Dutch Masters Festival! These tracks where already released on several Downloads and Cd’s but where reworked and heavely changed for this concert! If you like Berlin School Sequencing in the Ron Boots style you will love this release!

The Voices of East Harlem - Right on Be Free (1970) [Japanese Edition 2000]

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The Voices of East Harlem - Right on Be Free (1970) [Japanese Edition 2000]

The Voices of East Harlem - Right on Be Free (1970) [Japanese Edition 2000]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 242 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 85 MB | Covers - 12 MB
Genre: Funk, Soul, Gospel | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: East West Japan (AMCY-6047)

An often stirring 20-member ensemble whose music was better suited for devotional and inspirational material than commercial R&B or soul, the Voices of East Harlem included lead vocalists Gerri Griffin and Monica Burress. Producers Leroy Hutson and Curtis Mayfield worked with the group, whose ages ranged from 12 to 21, and cut some material on the Just Sunshine label that didn't generate any chart action. But their 1973 LP, The Voices of East Harlem, was a superbly performed release nonetheless, and the single 'Cashing In' was a cult favorite. The single 'Wanted Dead or Alive' was later reissued as a 12' remixed cut and got some international dance attention.

Anzen Band - Anzen Band no Fushigi na Tabi (1976) [Reissue 1999]

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Anzen Band - Anzen Band no Fushigi na Tabi (1976) [Reissue 1999]

Anzen Band - Anzen Band no Fushigi na Tabi (1976) [Reissue 1999]
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 246 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 103 MB | Covers - 27 MB
Genre: Progressive/Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Bourbon (TKCA-71790)

Anzen Band is one of the legendary Japanese rock bands in the late ‘70s, which is still admired by many rock fans. Some might question whether Anzen Band (means safety belt) is a prog band. In spite of the short active tenure of the band, the band became so charismatic and legendary. Even after 30 years of the breakup, the band continues to shine in the rock shrine of the fans.

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Chariots Of The Gods? (1970) [Reissue 2009]

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Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Chariots Of The Gods? (1970) [Reissue 2009]

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Chariots Of The Gods? (1970) [Reissue 2009]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 361 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 136 MB | Covers - 7 MB
Genre: Easy Listening, Electronic, Soundtrack | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (06025 1794333)

This album was composed by German cult favorite Peter Thomas and contains the score for Erinnerungen an Die Zukunft, a documentary based upon a best-seller by Erich Von Daniken that proposed the theory that mankind's ancestors were aliens who landed on this planet centuries ago. The resulting soundtrack album is not easy for the listener to assimilate, primarily because it consists of two side-long medleys patched together from several unrelated musical cues. The medleys aren't arranged in a smooth, flowing fashion, and the album probably would have made an easier listen if it had been broken down into a better programmed set of individual tracks. Programming quibbles aside, Chariots of the Gods (Erinnernungen an Die Zukunft) is still pretty impressive…

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kids: Live At The 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival (2006)

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Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kids: Live At The 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival (2006)

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kids: Live At The 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival (2006)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 272 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 105 MB | Covers - 51 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues, Modern Electric Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sanctuary Records (CMRCD1270)

Cut at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival with Stones' bassist Bill Wyman anchoring the rhythm section, the set captures some of the ribald musical repartee that customarily distinguished the pairing of Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, though they certainly break no new ground as they roll through their signature songs.

Area - Caution Radiation Area (1974) [Japanese Edition 2007]

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Area - Caution Radiation Area (1974) [Japanese Edition 2007]

Area - Caution Radiation Area (1974) [Japanese Edition 2007]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 205 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 75 MB | Covers - 107 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Strange Day Records (POCE-1157)

Area's second album takes its cues from the most serious side of early-'70s British progressive rock, particularly Soft Machine and King Crimson. There's a high-voltage, at times furious energy to the quasi-jazz-rock fusion, with keyboards showing some influence from Miles Davis fusion records, and the guitars wheeling off lines with a busy anxiety. This is the first album that contains the better known line up, with Ares Tavolazzi replacing Patrick Djivas on bass.
This album is notable also for being the first one in which experimental music is introduced. For example "MIRage? Mirage!" contains a part in which the whole band can be heard whispering readings (for example a negative review of "Arbeit Macht Frei", a TV guide…), and "Lobotomia" is constructed using loud synth noise, with the clear intention to disturb the listener…

Elza Soares - Elza Soares (1974) [Reissue 2010]

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Elza Soares - Elza Soares (1974) [Reissue 2010]

Elza Soares - Elza Soares (1974) [Reissue 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 299 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 106 MB | Covers - 81 MB
Genre: Latin Jazz, Samba, Bossa Nova | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Discobertas (DB-051)

Legendary Brazilian singer and activist. Her inventive style interpreting classic bossas and sambas justice have made her a national icon.
Owner of a distinctive, harsh voice, Elza Soares is one of the most swinging samba singers. From the time she issued her debut single - "Se Acaso Você Chegasse" in 1959, and on which she introduced scat singing à la Louis Armstrong, to samba - she became a successful recording artist. Her second album, A Bossa Negra, from 1961, is considered a treasure of Brazilian music at home and abroad. With her voice and songs, Soares has always celebrated the gritty aspects of peasant life. It is her birthright, as she was born in a favela…

M. Griffin - Fabrications (2008)

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M. Griffin - Fabrications (2008)

M. Griffin - Fabrications (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 239 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 141 MB | Covers - 92 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Hypnos (hyp2806)

Generally known as an ambient minimalist, utilizing synthesizers for most of his work, this time M. Griffin took advantage of "real world" sounds, captured with binaural microphones using a portable digital audio recorder. For this release, Griffin built up collages of numerous location recording elements, including cars driving on freeways, people walking in long echoing hallways, the ocean waves in Kona at night, a metalworking factory with heavy machinery crunching away, distant trains, and clothes driers. These elements were manipulated, combined, worked-on and re-worked, and overlaid with looped spoken elements later created by Griffin in the studio. The end result comes out something like the Zoviet France soundtrack to a David Lynch film, that is, a dark and dream-like collage of loops, spoken fragments, disembodied whispers, and the echo of far-off machinery.