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Sparks - Hello Young Lovers (Deluxe Edition) (2006/2022)

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Sparks - Hello Young Lovers (Deluxe Edition) (2006/2022)

Sparks - Hello Young Lovers (Deluxe Edition) (2006/2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 406 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 139 Mb | 01:00:46
Art Pop, Pop Rock, New Wave | Label: BMG Rights Management

Hello Young Lovers is the 20th studio album by Sparks and was originally released on 6th February 2005. The album was the most commercially popular Sparks album since the 1970s. Hello Young Lovers has been newly remastered for this CD reissue, which contains sought after bonus material!

Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Deluxe Edition) (2008/2022)

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Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Deluxe Edition) (2008/2022)

Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Deluxe Edition) (2008/2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 374 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 139 Mb | 01:00:39
Art Pop, Pop Rock | Label: BMG Rights Management

Bookended as it is by Russell Mael's wordless chorale vocals that help kick off the opening "Intro" and which recur in the soothing but strange conclusion to the final song, "Likeable," not to mention similar moments throughout the album, it's almost too easy to summarize Exotic Creatures of the Deep as Sparks' most involved tribute to the Beach Boys, late-'60s version. But as with nearly everything the band's ever done, one can't sum up an album quite as simply as that, and Exotic Creatures, if not as completely explosive as Hello Young Lovers at its heights, finds the rude creative health of the Maels still firing on all cylinders.

Sparks - Balls (Deluxe Edition) (2000/2022)

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Sparks - Balls (Deluxe Edition) (2000/2022)

Sparks - Balls (Deluxe Edition) (2000/2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 490 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 159 Mb | 01:09:07
Pop Rock, New Wave, Electronic | Label: BMG Rights Management

Balls is the 18th album by the American rock band Sparks, released in 2000.

Theatre of Hate - Omens: Studio Work 1980-2020 (2022)

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Theatre of Hate - Omens: Studio Work 1980-2020 (2022)

Theatre of Hate - Omens: Studio Work 1980-2020 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 2,85 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,01 Gb | 07:32:36
Post-Punk | Label: Cherry Red Records

Six CD set from the British post-punk band containing albums, singles, sessions, alternate versions and 22 previously unreleased recordings. Theatre of Hate burned briefly but brightly during the first couple of years of the 1980s, leaving behind the seminal Westworld album, a handful of highly regarded Peel sessions and independent hit singles and a then-unreleased second album, Aria Of The Devil. Omens brings together those classic recordings alongside main man Kirk Brandon's Stone In The Rain album (recorded by Brandon and fellow Theatre Of Hate man Stan Stammers and issued in the US as a Theatre Of Hate album), and Yonjuuichi, a band-curated collection of more recent sessions and versions, bringing the Theatre Of Hate story into the present day.

Johnny Hodges - The Best Of The Verve Years (2019)

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Johnny Hodges - The Best Of The Verve Years (2019)

Johnny Hodges - The Best Of The Verve Years (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,6 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 684 Mb | Covers included | 04:53:56
Mainstream Jazz, Swing | Label: Enlightenment

The defining saxophonist of his generation, Johnny Hodges rose to prominence during the big-band era with what Duke Ellington described as 'a tone so beautiful it sometimes bought tears to the eyes'. Perhaps an understated member of Ellington's big band initially, Hodges' deft tone and seductive style soon affirmed him as one of The Duke's most valuable soloists and a vital player in his orchestra. A subdued yet commanding presence in the big band format, Hodges' assured mastery of the alto-sax and his subtle nuance has left him regarded as one of the very best musicians to have worked alongside Ellington. Hodges' career-defining moment came in 1928 when he joined Duke Ellington's orchestra, and from 1937 he led his own studio group drawn from members of the group, with whom he released tracks co-written with Ellington, including 'Jeep's Blues', 'Hodge Podge' and 'Confab With Rab', each composed to complement Hodges' own seductive style of play.

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)

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Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: La Cenerentola (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 668 Mb | Total time: 72:54+75:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 436 902-2 | Recorded: 1992

It is probably now or never. With classic older sets vying with a clutch of more recent recordings, there is currently as complete and interesting an array of recordings of Rossini's La Cenerentola as we are likely to get at any one time. Among recent versions, Chailly's new Decca set is self-evidently a powerful contender. Cecilia Bartoli is arguably the most personable and musically accomplished Cenerentola since Teresa Berganza recorded the role with Abbado in 1971; and there is a strong cast of supporting principals, among them Alessandro Corbelli who offers the best characterized Dandini since Bruscantini. (With the added advantage of being far more technically expert in fioriture passages than was his distinguished predecessor.)

Lambarena - Bach to Africa (Hommage an Albert Schweitzer) (1994)

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Lambarena - Bach to Africa (Hommage an Albert Schweitzer) (1994)

Lambarena - Bach to Africa (Hommage an Albert Schweitzer) (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 227 Mb | Total time: 48:43 | Scans included
Classical, Folk, World & Country | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 64542 | Recorded: 1993

Born as an hommage to Albert Schweitzer, the project “Lambarena, Bach to Africa” was the idea of Mariella Berthéas and the foundation “L’espace Afrique”, organized to make this recording possible. Uniting the two integral elements which formed Schweitzer’s “sound world” - the music of Bach and the native melodies and rhythms of his adopted homeland Gabon - Lambarena is the work of two uniquely talented musicians: Hughes de Courson, French composer and producer, who pieced together the classical structure of Lambarena, and Pierre Akendengué, author, philosopher and guitarist from Gabon with more than 12 recordings to his credit.

Quatuor Arthur-LeBlanc, Roland Dyens - Sor & Guiliani: Works for Guitar (2007)

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Quatuor Arthur-LeBlanc, Roland Dyens - Sor & Guiliani: Works for Guitar (2007)

Quatuor Arthur-LeBlanc, Roland Dyens - Sor & Guiliani: Works for Guitar (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 249 MB | 58:37
Genre: Classical | Label: ATMA Classique

The French-born guitarist Roland Dyens began studying his instrument at the age of nine. By age 33, he was listed as one of the world’s best by The Guitarist Magazine. Dyens is currently a professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Known also as a brilliant arranger, Dyens has chosen some of the most memorable guitar repertoire by late 18th and early 19th - century composers and arranged it for solo guitar and string quartet, specifically the Quatuor Arthur LeBlanc: seven études by the 19th century Catalan composer Fernando Sor; and one of the six Rossiniana composed by Mauro Giuliani on themes from Rossini operas. Dyens also performs Giuliani’s Variations on a Theme by Handel and Sor’s Grand Solo, opus 14 for solo guitar.

Haruko Ueda - Alfredo D'Ambrosio - Concertos 1&2 - pieces pour piano et violon (2023)

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Haruko Ueda - Alfredo D'Ambrosio - Concertos 1&2 - pieces pour piano et violon (2023)

Haruko Ueda - Alfredo D'Ambrosio - Concertos 1&2 - pieces pour piano et violon (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 279 MB | Tracks: 11 | 71:13
Style: Classical | Label: Soupir Editions

There was a time when D'Ambrosio's First Concerto was "the violin piece most prized by violinists from Nice wishing to pass the first round of the Paris Conservatory competition", says Jean-Jacques Kantorow, who did his first studies in Nice. The violinist wished to pay homage to the Italian composer and violinist (1871-1914), former pupil of Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908), who came to settle in France (in Nice then in Paris), whose scores were interpreted by his alive by great virtuosos such as Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Georges Enesco or Josef Gingold. Expressive, even tragic music, alternately fiery and elegiac, in the tradition of the great romantic concertos of Mendelssohn, Bruch, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, which the Frenchman defends with a bow with sober and nobility lyricism.

Quasar, Arte Saxophone Quartets - André Hamel: La Trilogie du Presto (2007)

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Quasar, Arte Saxophone Quartets - André Hamel: La Trilogie du Presto (2007)

Quasar, Arte Saxophone Quartets, Julien Grégoire, Catherine Perron, Angela Tosheva, Catherine Perrin - André Hamel: La Trilogie du Presto (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 319 MB | 01:06:55
Genre: Classical | Label: ATMA Classique

Canadian composers have managed, at least to some degree, to avoid the dichotomy between "high" and "low" art that causes so much animosity on the American new music scene; advocates of "popular" classical composers such as Glass and Adams, and of "serious" classical composers like Babbitt and Carter, tend to be divided by distrust, if not downright contempt for each other's aesthetic. Québécois composer André Hamel is one of a substantial group of Canadian composers who draws freely and productively on a variety of traditions, without embarrassment or apology. His À Huit for eight saxophones is remarkable in that it sounds like it was created almost entirely with computer-generated sonorities and not by live performers.

Constance Taillard - Mozart (2023)

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Constance Taillard - Mozart (2023)

Constance Taillard - Mozart (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 475 MB | Tracks: 11 | 77:56
Style: Classical | Label: Soupir Editions

Received at the age of 17 at the Paris Conservatory, Constance Taillard completed her studies with three masters, in harpsichord, organ and pedagogy. Her passion and her curiosity for five centuries of music lead her to projects as varied as they are ambitious. His soloist repertoire runs from the Renaissance to the creation, in recitals tailor-made for the stages and festivals that invite him: Philharmonie de Paris, Hôtel des Invalides, Royaumont Foundation, Royal Chapel of Versailles, Mars en Baroque, festivals of La Roque d'Anthéron, Pianos folies and La Chaise-Dieu, John Hill Organ Series (London), Organi Antichi season (Bologna), "Generation young performers" and "Classical Chamber" programs on France Musique.

Victoria Brass - Victoria Brass LIVE (2023)

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Victoria Brass - Victoria Brass LIVE (2023)

Victoria Brass - Victoria Brass LIVE (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 362 MB | Tracks: 14 | 79:13
Style: Classical | Label: Move Records

Victoria Brass Live is a new recording by a top class Australian brass band. Expertly directed by Matthew van Emmerik, they offer a full and varied programme of innovative repertoire, including two world premieres, three Australasian premieres, and some well-loved but very welcome classics. Based in Melbourne, the band’s mission statement puts it very well. They are ‘Leading brass musicians with a collective focus on quality repertoire, collegiality and performance’.

Yves Simon - Diabolo menthe (Chanson du film de Diane Kurys) (2023)

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Yves Simon - Diabolo menthe (Chanson du film de Diane Kurys) (2023)

Yves Simon - Diabolo menthe (Chanson du film de Diane Kurys) (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 70 MB | Cover | 06:10 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 16 MB
French Pop, Chanson, Soundtracks | Label: BMG Rights Mgmt France SARL

Le film de Diane Kurys : « Diabolo menthe » est sorti en 1977, offrant la célébrité à 2 jeunes actrices; Eléonore Klarwein et Odile Michel, dans les rôles des soeurs Weber. Une époque, l’adolescence et un morceau écrit par Yves Simon, c’est la chanson du jour.

Free - Free At Last (1972) [Reissue 2002]

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Free - Free At Last (1972) [Reissue 2002]

Free - Free At Last (1972) [Reissue 2002]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 388 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 154 MB | Covers - 38 MB
Genre: Blues Rock, Classic Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Island Records (IMCD 287/586229-2)

Following Paul Rodgers' unsuccessful project titled Peace and Andy Fraser's ill-fated Toby, Free rebuilt themselves and released Free at Last in the summer of 1972. The band went right back to what they knew best, with Rodgers baring his blues-rock soul to Kossof's moody electric guitar. Tracks like "Sail On," "Soldier Boy," and "Travelling Man" come out on top as some of the band's most emotive material, proving that their breakup in 1971 had no real effect on their chemistry. "Little Bit of Love" was released as a single in the U.K., peaking at number 13, while the album itself broke the Top Ten there, stalling at number 69 in the U.S. The band's mixture of laid-back blues and gritty, bare-boned rock & roll is as poignant and as expressive as it was on Tons of Sobs or Fire and Water, even though Paul Kossof's problems with drugs were beginning to be more and more evident…

Minus Two - SWF-Session 1972 (2010)

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Minus Two - SWF-Session 1972 (2010)

Minus Two - SWF-Session 1972 (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 243 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 88 MB | Covers - 87 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Long Hair (LHC95)

This is another truly gem from the SWF broadcast vaults recorded in 1972. Minus Two, founded in early 1971 in Mannheim (hometown of Nine Days Wonder) by organ player Günter Kühlwein and drummer Walter Helbig (also played with Nine Days Wonder and Aera) played a powerful progressive music sound sometimes with a certain sense of drama, melted classical influences with blues-rock and slightly jazzy hints. Early "Hardin & York playing" comes to mind, but Minus Two always showed their own imagination of progressive rock. All titles are self-penned and prove the musicians high level abilities playing their instruments and there are only organ and drums. Believe us, you dont miss any other instruments! This is a very complete sound by perfect trained musicians…