Tete Montoliu Trio – Catalonian Rhapsody (1992) [Japan 2017]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:40 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 2,11 GB
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This wonderful studio date by the talented Catalonian blind pianist Tete Montoliu was recorded in his native Barcelona in March of 1992, but until now it had been only available on a long out of print CD issued in Japan by the Alfa Jazz label shortly after being recorded. The renowned VENUS label presents it back again for everyone to enjoy. Tete is backed by New Orleans drummer Idris Muhammad, and Netherlands born bassist Hein Van de Geyn, and the program features a selection of Catalan traditional songs, plus two versions of songs by the remarkable Joan Manuel Serrat (“Words of Love”, which Tete recorded on several other occasions, and the more seldom heard “My Street”), and one Montoliu original, “I Don’t Smoke Anymore”.

Tete Montoliu (1933-1997) was a bebop-oriented pianist from Barcelona whose influences included Bud Powell, Al Haig, Lennie Tristano, Oscar Peterson, and Wynton Kelly as well as Art Tatum and Bill Evans. He began to be recognized outside of Spain in the late 1950s, recording with Lionel Hampton in 1956 and playing with the touring Roland Kirk in 1963. He also worked with Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Lucky Thompson, and Anthony Braxton, and eventually became one of the most celebrated jazz pianists in Europe.

Catalonian Rhapsody is a very special album Tete recorded in his late period. This recording, which took place in Barcelona in 1992, captured Tete playing traditional Catalonian melodies in a trio setting, supported by bassist Hein Van de Geyn and drummer Idris Muhammad. This great album is now remastered by Venus Records and presented to jazz fans with superb sound quality.

Tracklist:

01. The Lady From Aragon
02. Catalonian National Anthem
03. Three Young Ladies
04. The Singing Of The Birds
05. Song Of The Robber
06. Words Of Love
07. Don’t Smoke Anymore
08. My Street

Personnel
Tete Montoliu – piano
Hein Van de Geyn – bass
Idris Muhammad – drums

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Tetsuo Hara. Engineered by Albert Moraleda.
Recorded on March 8, 1992 at Albert Moraleda Studio in Barcelona, Spain.
Venus Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix. VENUS Japan # VHGD-265.

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The Charlie Byrd Trio – The Bossa Nova Years (1991) [Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:19 minutes | Scans included | 3,22 GB
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Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound

Guitarist Charlie Byrd revisits a variety of bossa nova songs, including nine by Antonio Carlos Jobim on this pleasing and accessible set. What makes this release stand out from his many similar dates is that Ken Peplowski’s clarinet and tenor are well featured, adding variety to the music and a lead voice for Byrd to play off of. Otherwise the music is predictably excellent, with such classics as “One Note Samba”, “Corcovado”, “Dindi”, “O Pato”, and “The Girl from Ipanema” receiving very favorable treatment.

Tracklist:

01. Meditation
02. One Note Samba
03. Corcovado
04. Triste
05. Dindi
06. O Pato
07. The Girl From Ipanema
08. Samba D’Orpheo
09. How Insensitive
10. Wave
11. P’Ra Dizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye)
12. O Nosso Amor

Personnel
Charlie Byrd – guitar
Ken Peplowski – clarinet, tenor sax
Dennis Irwin – bass
Chuck Redd – drums
Michael Spiro – percussion on “4,9,11,12”

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The Doobie Brothers – Farewell Tour (1983) [Japan 2017]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 65:17 minutes | Scans included | 2,64 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,39 GB

Farewell Tour is the first live album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers. It documents the group’s 1982 Farewell Tour and is a double LP set. By the early 1980s, the Doobie Brothers had evolved from the guitar-boogie sound under original band frontman Tom Johnston to a soulful keyboard-driven AOR sound under Michael McDonald. Despite the many personnel changes in the group, Patrick Simmons remained from the original incarnation of the group. The front cover shows Keith Knudsen cutting the strings on John McFee’s guitar as a symbolic gesture. The last two songs on the album were recorded at the final concert of the tour in Berkeley, California, on September 11, 1982 with vocals by original lead vocalist and guitarist Tom Johnston. For a long time the album was available on CD only in Japan.

With the benefit of hindsight, the name of this album should more accurately be “Farewell Tour: The Michael McDonald/Warner Brothers Years.” That’s because the Doobie Brothers made a relatively successful comeback in 1989 (without McDonald) on a different label and have continued to tour sporadically through the 90s and ’00s. Oddly, there are no songs from the outfit’s final Warner studio album, One Step Closer, included here. As a live rendition of greatest hits, this doesn’t measure up since so many classics, such as “It Keeps You Runnin’,” “Another Park,” “Another Sunday,” and “Rockin’ Down the Highway” are M.I.A. Only co-founder Patrick Simmons remains from the original lineup, although Tom Johnston, who wasn’t touring with the act at the time, makes a guest appearance for the final two tracks, “China Grove” and “Long Train Runnin’.” Why he doesn’t contribute vocals to “Listen to the Music,” a tune tied to his distinctive tenor, is unclear, but McDonald’s husky voice doesn’t do the peppy tune justice. The rest is a professional, unmemorable, trawl through the McDonald blue-eyed soul hits, most of them nearly indistinguishable from the studio versions. Simmons brings some much needed rootsy folk-blues to the mix with spirited if somewhat rote rendition of “Black Water,” and a nod to the band’s bluesy past with an Allman Brothers-styled take on Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Don’t Start Me Talkin’.” It seems that McDonald leaves the stage for these performances, since his contributions are inaudible. One new track is included in the form of McDonald’s forgettable “Olana,” a studio version of which ultimately showed up on the Doobie Brothers’ four-disc box. The only energy or spontaneity exhibited here is on the jaunty six-minute take of “Long Train Runnin'” where the group opens up for some jamming. Otherwise, this is a contract-fulfilling double album (boiled down to a single CD) that was, not surprisingly, removed from print and finally resuscitated for hardcore fans, the only ones who would be interested, as a digital-only release in 2009.

Tracklist:

01. Slippery St. Paul
02. Takin’ It To The Streets
03. Jesus Is Just Alright
04. Minute By Minute
05. Can’t Let It Get Away
06. Listen To The Music
07. Echoes Of Love
08. What A Fool Believes
09. Black Water
10. You Belong To Me
11. Slat Key Soquel Rag
12. Steamer Lane Breakdown
13. South City Midnight Lady
14. Olana
15. Don’t Start Me To Talkin’
16. Long Train Runnin’
17. China Grove

Personnel
Patrick Simmons – guitars, lead vocals
John McFee – guitars, pedal steel guitar, violin, vocals
Michael McDonald – keyboards, synthesizers, lead vocals
Cornelius Bumpus – saxophone, synthesizer, organ, vocals, lead vocal on “Jesus Is Just Alright”
Willie Weeks – bass, vocals
Keith Knudsen – drums, vocals, lead vocal on “Don’t Start Me To Talkin'”
Chet McCracken – drums, vibraphone, marimbas
Bobby LaKind – congas, percussion, vocals
with Tom Johnston – guitar and lead vocals on “China Grove” and “Long Train Runnin'” (and “Slippery St. Paul”)

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The Flying Burrito Bros. – Burrito Deluxe (1970) [Reissue 2020]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 33:19 minutes | Scans included | 1,34 GB
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Genre: Country Rock

Burrito Deluxe is the second album by the country rock group the Flying Burrito Brothers, originally released in May 1970 on A&M Records. It is the last to feature Gram Parsons prior to his dismissal from the group. It contains the first issued version of the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards-written song “Wild Horses”, released almost a year before The Rolling Stones own take on it appeared on Sticky Fingers.

Gram Parsons had a habit of taking over whatever band he happened to be working with, and on the first three albums on which he appeared – the International Submarine Band’s Safe at Home, the Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and the Flying Burrito Brothers’ The Gilded Palace of Sin – he became the focal point, regardless of the talent of his compatriots. Burrito Deluxe, the Burritos’ second album, is unique in Parsons’ repertoire in that it’s the only album where he seems to have deliberately stepped back to make more room for others; whether this was due to Gram’s disinterest in a band he was soon to leave, or if he was simply in an unusually democratic frame of mind is a matter of debate. But while it is hardly a bad album, it’s not nearly as striking as The Gilded Palace of Sin. Parsons didn’t deliver many noteworthy originals for this set, with “Cody, Cody” and “Older Guys” faring best but paling next to the highlights from the previous album (though he was able to wrangle the song “Wild Horses” away from his buddy Keith Richards and record it a year before the Rolling Stones’ version would surface). And while the band sounds tight and they play with genuine enthusiasm, there’s a certain lack of focus in these performances; the band’s frontman sounds as if his thoughts are often elsewhere, and the other players can’t quite compensate for him, though on tunes like “God’s Own Singer” and a cover of Bob Dylan’s “If You Gotta Go,” they gamely give it the old college try. Burrito Deluxe is certainly a better than average country-rock album, but coming from the band who made the genre’s most strongly defining music, it’s something of a disappointment.

Tracklist:

01. Lazy Days
02. Image of Me
03. High Fashion Queen
04. If You Gotta Go
05. Man In The Fog
06. Farther Along
07. Older Guys
08. Cody, Cody
09. God’s Own Singer
10. Down In the Churchyard
11. Wild Horses

Personnel
Gram Parsons – vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
Chris Hillman – vocals, bass, mandolin
Bernie Leadon – vocals, guitar, Dobro
Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
Michael Clarke – drums
+
Leon Russell – piano on “5 & 11”
Byron Berline – fiddle
Tommy Johnson – tuba
Buddy Childers – cornet, flugelhorn
Leopoldo C. Carbajal – accordion
Frank Blanco – percussion

Intervention Records # IR-SCD8

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The Great Jazz Trio – Blue Minor (2008) [Japan]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 48:49 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 1,98 GB
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Hank Jones, who has just turned 90, is still wowing audiences around the world with his elegant swing and “magic touch”. The tradition of combining Hank Jones with an unexpected rhythm section continues in this wonderfully recorded hybrid SACD. The latest iteration of Jones’ Great Jazz Trio includes veteran bassist George Mraz and explosive Billy Kilson who represents a new generation of jazz drummers. His sharp and powerful drumming is surely one of the highlights of this album.

Two guests add variations to the program. Japanese singer Keiko Lee sings “I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart” and another Japanese singer and trumpeter Toku appears on “My Ideal,” a song made famous by Chet Baker. More than anything, however, the star of the show is Hank Jones. He is a true master whose delicate touch and perfect control of the keyboard coaxes stunningly beautiful sounds out of the piano.

Tracklist:

01. Nica’s Dream
02. Dear Old Stockholm
03. Lonely Moments
04. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
05. Blue Minor
06. Comin’ Home Baby
07. Wave
08. My Ideal
09. I Got Rhythm
10. Misty

Produced by Yasohachi “88” Itoh. Engineered & Mixed by Yoshihiro Suzuki.
DSD Recording. Recorded & Mixed in September 2008 at Sony Music Studios, Tokyo.
Mastered by Koji “C-chan” Suzuki.

Personnel
Hank Jones – piano
George Mraz – bass
Billy Kilson – drums
+ TOKU – trumpet, vocals on “8”
+ Keiko Lee – vocals on “4”

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The Great Jazz Trio – July 6th, Live at Birdland, New York (2007)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 62:34 minutes | Scans included | 3,9 GB
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At age 89, Hank Jones is playing as well as any point in his long, celebrated career. He is still constantly challenging himself, teaming up with younger musicians, performing and recording new materials. This disc, simply titled July 6th, is the second part of the Great Jazz Trio, contains more tunes that Jones had never recorded before.

Long-traveled jazz juggernaut led by pianist Hank Jones. His Great Jazz Trio, which was born in 1975 with Tony Williams and Ron Carter, has undergone numerous personnel changes, and the latest, 21st century iteration includes John Patitucci and Omar Hakim. Hakim is generally known as a fusion/contemporary drummer, but unexpected chemical reaction of seemingly incompatible elements has been the hallmark of the Great Jazz Trio from its beginning.

On this release, recorded in 24-channel pure DSD with a mobile recording unit and mixed and mastered in Tokyo at Sony Studios, Hank Jones’ piano playing is elegant, fresh and inventive. Patitucci aids with superb musicality, and Hakim with impeccable comping and explosive solos.

Tracklist:
01. Mercy,Mercy,Mercy
02. Blue Monk
03. In A Sentimental Mood
04. Amapola
05. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
06. Waltz For Debby
07. Five Spot After Dark
08. The Sidewinder
09. Moose The Mooche

Pure DSD Recording.
Recorded live at Birdland, New York, on July 6, 2007.

Personnel:
Hank Jones – piano
John Patitucci – bass
Omar Hakim – drums

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The Great Jazz Trio – July 5th, Live at Birdland, New York (2007)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 57:50 minutes | Scans included | 3,59 GB
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At age 89, Hank Jones is playing as well as any point in his long, celebrated career. He is still constantly challenging himself, teaming up with younger musicians, performing and recording new materials. This disc, simply titled July 5th, contains nine tunes that Jones had never recorded before.

Long-traveled jazz juggernaut led by pianist Hank Jones. His Great Jazz Trio, which was born in 1975 with Tony Williams and Ron Carter, has undergone numerous personnel changes, and the latest, 21st century iteration includes John Patitucci and Omar Hakim. Hakim is generally known as a fusion/contemporary drummer, but unexpected chemical reaction of seemingly incompatible elements has been the hallmark of the Great Jazz Trio from its beginning.

On this release, recorded in 24-channel pure DSD with a mobile recording unit and mixed and mastered in Tokyo at Sony Studios, Hank Jones’ piano playing is elegant, fresh and inventive. Patitucci aids with superb musicality, and Hakim with impeccable comping and explosive solos.

Tracklist:
01. Intimidation
02. Wind Flower
03. Have You Met Miss Jones?
04. Lush Life
05. Interface
06. Rosetta
07. All Blues
08. St Thomas
09. Oleo

Pure DSD Recording.
Recorded live at Birdland, New York, on July 5, 2007.

Personnel:
Hank Jones – piano
John Patitucci – bass
Omar Hakim – drums

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The Great Jazz Trio – Autumn Leaves (2002) [Japanese SACD 2005 #VRCL-18808]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:48 minutes | Scans included | 2,21 GB
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The Great Jazz Trio was a working cooperative working with various lineups led by Hank Jones in during the 1970s and 1980s, but the revival of this defunct group finds Jones joined by two newcomers to the group, seasoned veterans Richard Davis on bass and the leader’s brother, Elvin Jones, on drums. Oddly enough, the two brothers have recorded together very infrequently during their long careers, so this opportunity must have been special to them. The opening track signals a different direction for the group, with Elvin’s explosive solo stealing the show in “Autumn Leaves.” The pianist’s imaginative arrangement of “Yesterdays” begins as a stunning solo before Davis’ sparse bass and Elvin’s brushes join him. The buoyant treatment of Kenny Dorham’s “Blue Bossa” finds Hank in a humorous mood, inserting several brief quotes from well-known works such as “Hot House” and “Blue Skies.” The trio is clearly cooking by the time it recorded the percolating take of Oliver Nelson’s “Six and Four.” Hopefully, this delightful date by The Great Jazz Trio will result in a follow-up recording session.

Tracklist:
01. Autumn Leaves
02. Yesterdays
03. Rhythm-A-Ning
04. Blue Bossa
05. Take the “A” Train
06. Summertime
07. Caravan
08. Six and Four
09. My Funny Valentine
10. Bye Bye Blackbird

Produced by Yasohashi “88” Itoh.
Recorded at Avatar Studios, NY. on May 12-12, 2002.

Hank Jones – piano
Richard Davis – bass
Elvin Jones – drums

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The Guess Who – Rockin’ / The Best Of The Guess Who, Volume II (1972+73) [Reissue 2019]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 79:57 minutes | Front, Scans NOT included | 3,62 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | 80:21 min | Front Cover | 1,76 GB
2 LP on 1 SACD | Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Vocalion # CDSML 8562

Rockin’ takes The Guess Who into a new direction in 1972 primarily featuring the songwriting of Burton Cummings, striding away from their bread and butter Top 40 hit parade. But this album never received the same level of notoriety as the first four Guess Who albums, including the first one without Randy Bachman, Share the Land. This strange exercise has its best parts showing up on The Best of the Guess Who, Vol. 2, which is now restored on Hybrid Quad SACD from the original masters by Michael J. Dutton.

Rockin’
Rockin’ is Greg Leskiw’s last of three albums with the Guess Who; he came onboard with Kurt Winter for Share the Land and recorded So Long, Bannatyne as well, the two men slipping into the big shoes of Randy Bachman. This finds Burton Cummings in a definite ’50s mode, “Running Bear” and “Nashville Sneakers” being throwbacks to another time. The album predominantly features the songwriting of Cummings, though Kurt Winter does lend a generous hand. As an artistic statement it’s all very interesting, but for a band whose bread and butter was the Top 40, this stuff tempts fate a bit too much. Along with the musical about-face, this is also the darkest Guess Who album, featuring a black-and-white cover and a black-and-white gatefold, and when the band’s not back in the past, pre-color TV, they are doing boogie-woogie like “Get Your Ribbons On” or going negative with “Guns, Guns, Guns.” “Guns, Guns, Guns” does have a terrific melody (though you’ll swear Aerosmith nicked from this one as well), with Burton Cummings showing signs of life. “Smoke Big Factory” is the only other tune next to “Heartbroken Bopper” and “Guns, Guns, Guns” that sounds truly like the Guess Who, a good album track borrowing much from Lou Reed’s first solo album version of “Berlin.” The guitars are innovative and it’s too bad the album wasn’t full of more of these instead of the travels back in time. The “Sea of Love”/”Heaven Only Moved Once Yesterday”/”Don’t You Want Me” medley is another oddity, quasi-psychedelia meets doo wop, stranger than the Zappa-ish “Musicione” track from the Guess Who’s #10 LP. When you spin this right next to 1973’s Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, you can really feel what both Bachman and Cummings brought to the table, and despite Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s reign of hits initiated with that album, neither band achieved the heights of the first four Guess Who albums, including the first one without Bachman, Share the Land. Rockin’ is a strange exercise whose best parts showed up on The Best of the Guess Who, Vol. 2.

The Best Of The Guess Who, Volume II
The Guess Who have released many hits compilations, beginning with the two-volume Best of the Guess Who collections in 1971 and 1974, respectively. A pair of superior collections from the the CD era are 1988’s Track Record: The Guess Who Collection and 1999’s Greatest Hits. Track Record: The Guess Who Collection includes all but two songs from The Best of the Guess Who, Vol. 1 and all but four from The Best of the Guess Who, Vol. 2. Those who want the four left off of Track Record: The Guess Who Collection will find them on Greatest Hits.

Tracklist:

01. Heartbroken Bopper
02. Get Your Ribbons On
03. Smoke Big Factory
04. Arrivederci Girl
05. Guns Guns Guns
06. Running Bear
07. Back To The City
08. Your Nashville Sneakers
09. Herberts A Loser
10. Hi Rockers!: Sea Of Love / Heaven Only Moved Once Yesterday / Don’t You Want Me
11. Broken
12. Albert Flasher
13. Rain Dance
14. Sour Suite
15. Life In The Bloodstream
16. Guns Guns Guns
17. Heartbroken Bopper
18. Runnin Back To Saskatoon
19. Follow Your Daughter Home
20. Orly
21. Glamour Boy

Tracks “01-10” is “Rockin'” (LP ‘1972)
Tracks “11-21” is “The Best Of The Guess Who, Volume II” (LP ‘1973).
Remastered from the Original Master tapes by Michael J. Dutton.

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The Guess Who – Wheatfield Soul / Canned Wheat (1969) [Reissue 2019]
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2 LP on 1 SACD | Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Vocalion # CDSML 8570

While the Guess Who did have several hits in America, they were superstars in their home country of Canada during the 1960s and early ’70s. However, further American success eluded the Guess Who until the 1969 Top Ten hit “These Eyes”; the recording session for the accompanying album, “Wheatfield Soul”, was paid for by producer Jack Richardson, who mortgaged his house to do so. “Canned Wheat” produced three Top 40 singles later that year. This Dutton Vocalion’s reissue combines both these albums, remastered from the Original Master tapes by Michael J. Dutton.

Wheatfield Soul
Wheatfield Soul by the Guess Who has become a collectors item of sorts over the years, fetching various prices in fan circles, and it is an important “first” step for the reconstituted group which initially hit with “Shakin’ All Over” when it was led by Chad Allan. The album is Jack Richardson’s excellent production of Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings’ music played by this particular four-piece unit, which Peter Clayton’s liner notes claim were together “for three years when they cut this album in late 1968.” The naïve sound of Cummings’ voice on the album tracks is charming, but the hit “These Eyes” has that authority which the band would repeat on diverse chart songs like “No Time,” “American Woman,” and even “Star Baby” further down the road. “Pink Wine Sparkles in the Glass” is a precursor to “New Mother Nature,” but the solo Cummings composition “I Found Her in a Star” is very nice Guess Who-style pop that their fans adore. “Friends of Mine” is a strange one, though, ten minutes and three seconds of Burton Cummings imitating Jim Morrison, not just Morrison, but the copping of his vocal riffs straight from “When the Music’s Over.” This is a band stretching and searching for direction, and rather than hit you with hard Randy Bachman assaults which were a welcome addition to future long-players by this group, as well as Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Wheatfield Soul concentrates on Brit-pop and experimental songs. Randy Bachman’s “A Wednesday in Your Garden” is British rock meets jazz, and is one of the LP’s most interesting numbers. The Chick Crumpacker and Don Wardell liner notes to Ultimate Collection note that “These Eyes” “was technically the 18th release by the band.” The key is that it was the first from the quartet of Cummings, Bachman, Kale, and Peterson as produced by Jack Richardson. Ultimate Collection also notes that “Lightfoot” was written for “fellow Canadian Gordon Lightfoot.” The notes go on to point out that “Maple Fudge” and “We’re Coming to Dinner” were real oddities, but a style that would reappear over the band’s long and illustrious catalog. Maybe that’s what makes Wheatfield Soul so sought after, inventive themes that eventually found their way onto later albums like Artificial Paradise and Rockin’. Perhaps the tragedy is that they didn’t get to work with Frank Zappa – the Guess Who’s left-field musings would have been the perfect follow-up to Zappa’s work with Grand Funk. Take two of “Lightfoot” appears on Ultimate Collection, which only utilized three songs from this important first album after the band was reborn. But for all the musical wandering, it is “These Eyes” which remains timeless, the song that stands out as the masterpiece on this creative adventure.

Canned Wheat
As far as late-’60s and early-’70s rock bands go, the Guess Who has been both blessed and cursed. Blessed because their songs are still played quite frequently on oldies radio stations, cursed because they’re only remembered for those songs. Truth be told, the Guess Who was a darn good rock band: Burton Cummings’s great rock & roll voice – similar in power to Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers – keeps even the most overdone Guess Who song fresh, and Randy Bachman’s underrated guitar work always serves the song’s needs. “Undun”‘s wonderful, jazzy riff, which fits the song perfectly, is associated with the overall sound of the Guess Who, not Bachman. 1969’s cleverly-titled Canned Wheat introduced several of the band’s most remembered songs: “Laughing,” “Undun,” and “No Time.” The album also has six other keepers, including the mellow “6 A.M. or Nearer,” complete with jazzy guitar and flute, and the lovely ballad “Minstrel Boy.” The original version of “No Time” is fun, even if it isn’t radically different; little nuances, like the fade out, shake the listener out of the “I’ve heard this song a thousand times” syndrome. There are a couple of throwaway bonus tracks, “Species Hawk” and “Silver Bird,” that are nice to have, even if they aren’t up to the other material. The liner notes are helpful, and it’s funny to learn that radio stations ordered copies of “Undun” for airplay, not realizing that it was the B-side of “Laughing.” Canned Wheat still sounds incredibly fresh, a product from the heyday of classic rock. For those who want to dig beneath the band’s “oldie” status to find the real thing, this album shouldn’t be missed.

Tracklist:

01. These Eyes
02. Pink Wine Sparkles In The Glass
03. I Found Her In A Star
04. Friends Of Mine
05. When You Touch Me
06. A Wednesday In Your Garden
07. Lightfoot
08. Love And A Yellow Rose
09. Maple Fudge
10. Were Coming To Dinner
11. No Time
12. Minstrel Boy
13. Laughing
14. Undun
15. 6 AM Or Nearer
16. Old Joe
17. Of A Dropping Pin
18. Key
19. Fair Warning

Tracks “01-10” is “Wheatfield Soul” (LP ‘1969)
Tracks “11-19″ is ” Canned Wheat” (LP ‘1969).
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The Guess Who – American Woman / Share The Land (1970) [Reissue 2019]
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2 LP on 1 SACD | Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Vocalion # CDSML 8564

Though influenced by the British Invasion, The Guess Who were purely Canadian rockers. The band scored a string of Top Ten hits in the late ’60s and early ’70s, including the psychedelic-romantic smash “These Eyes” and the riff-rocking anthem “American Woman”. The band was a huge success in the States and even performed at President Nixon’s inaugural ball (with the acerbic “American Woman” conspicuously omitted from the set list). Burton Cummings’ throaty baritone vocals and guitarist Randy Bachman’s theatrical riffs gave the band their versatile sound – and their rocking classics sound as vital today as they did when they were first released. This Dutton Vocalion’s reissue combines a pair albums from 1970 “American Woman” and “Share The Land”, remastered from the Original Master tapes by Michael J. Dutton.

American Woman
The Guess Who’s most successful LP, reaching number nine in America (and charting for more than a year), has held up well and was as close to a defining album-length statement as the original group ever made. It’s easy to forget that until “American Woman,” the Guess Who’s hits had been confined to softer, ballad-style numbers – that song (which originated as a spontaneous on-stage jam) highlighted by Randy Bachman’s highly articulated fuzz-tone guitar, a relentless beat, and Burton Cummings moving into Robert Plant territory on the lead vocal, transformed their image. As an album opener, it was a natural, but the slow acoustic blues intro by Bachman heralded a brace of surprises in store for the listener. The presence of the melodic but highly electric hit version of “No Time” (which the band had cut earlier in a more ragged rendition) made the first ten minutes a hard rock one-two punch, but the group then veers into progressive rock territory with “Talisman.” Side two was where the original album was weakest, though it started well enough with “969 (The Oldest Man).” “When Friends Fall Out,” a remake of an early Canadian release by the group, attempted a heavy sound that just isn’t sustainable, and “8:15” was a similar space filler, but “Proper Stranger” falls into good hard rock groove. In August of 2000, Buddha Records issued a remastered version of this album with a bonus track from a subsequent session, “Got to Find Another Way.” Ironically, American Woman was the final testament of the original Guess Who – guitarist/singer Randy Bachman quit soon after the tour behind this album; the group did endure and even thrive (as did Bachman), but American Woman represented something of an ending as well as a triumph.

Share The Land
Recorded in the immediate aftermath of lead guitarist Randy Bachman’s departure from the group, Share the Land was a better album than anyone could rightfully have expected, and it was the biggest selling original album in their entire output, appearing in the wake of “American Woman” and lofted into the Top 20 (with a lot of advance orders) with a pair of hits of its own. The music ranges from the catchy, anthem-like title tune to proto-metal excursions, with coherent digressions into blues and country (“Comin’ Down Off the Money Bag”/”Song of the Dog”). Burton Cummings is in excellent voice on the lead vocals, and the other members provide some of the finest harmonies ever heard on a Guess Who album, on “Do You Miss Me Darlin'” and “Three More Days.” The new double lead guitar team of Kurt Winter and Greg Leskiw gave the band a greater range than they’d ever had, moving freely in various rock and blues idioms, and the rhythm section was as solid as ever. That having been said, however, the music hasn’t necessarily aged well (or, perhaps, those who’ve achieved a maturity level beyond age 18 have aged past it) – listening to details such as Winter’s shouts of “Freedom!” and “Paint me a picture” on “Three More Days,” one can’t escape the thought that at least half of this album not only wasn’t aimed at the overachieving end of the high school and college populations, but was aggressively not aimed at them. And from here on, beyond whatever virtuosity the members brought to their sound, it seemed as though the group was working from formula rather than inspiration. The fall 2000 reissue on the Buddha label features a high-resolution remastering, and includes a pair of very good lost numbers from the early sessions for the record, “Palmyra” and “The Answer,” featuring Bachman on guitar.

Tracklist:

01. American Woman
02. No Time
03. Talisman
04. No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature
05. 969 The Oldest Man
06. When Friends Fall Out
07. 8:15
08. Proper Stranger
09. Humpty’s Blues / American Woman (Epilogue)
10. Bus Rider
11. Do You Miss Me Darlin’
12. Hand Me Down World
13. Moan for You Joe
14. Share the Land
15. Hang On to Your Life
16. Coming Down Off the Money Bag / Song Of The Dog
17. Three More Days

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Tracks “10-17” is “Share The Land” (LP ‘1970).
Remastered from the Original Master tapes by Michael J. Dutton.

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The Guess Who – Road Food / #10 (1974-1973) [Reissue 2018]
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2LP on 1SACD | Features Stereo & Multichannel Surround Sound | Vocalion # CDSML 8538

Canadian rock trailblazers The Guess Who are spotlighted on a disc that unites arguably their two finest latter-era albums, 1973’s #10 and 1974’s Road Food.

Recorded in the immediate wake of Artificial Paradise’s disappointment (and released just five months later), #10 acts as something of a diary for how the group was feeling at the time, chronicling their collective exhaustion, disappointment and frustration. In contrast to its weary lyrical tone however, #10 finds a band at its peak both instrumentally and vocally, battle-hardened from nearly a year of relentless touring. From tracks like the frenetic Musicione (a remarkable combination of searing lead guitar and gorgeous vocal harmonies) and the epic rocker Cardboard Empire to country-inflected gems like Lie Down and Take It Off My Shoulders, #10 boasts a depth in both songwriting and playing that the band’s earlier pop hits would struggle to match.

Released in April 1974, Road Food covered many of the same topics as #10, but it also showed a realisation amongst the band that it didn’t have to entirely abandon its AM pop roots in pursuit of FM album credibility. The result was not only a more varied album, but also a more commercially successful one. The album’s first single, Star Baby, was a moderate hit, and its second single, Clap for The Wolfman (featuring a vocal cameo from legendary DJ Wolfman Jack) reached No. 6 in the US charts, making it the group’s first US Top 10 hit since 1970. Counterbalancing the album’s radio-friendly singles are some of the band’s best deeper album tracks, from the ominous One Way Road to Hell to the barbershop-meets-jazz (with a twist) of Straighten Out to the epic seven-minute album closer, The Ballad of The Last Five Years.

Tracklist:

01. Star Baby
02. Attilas Blues
03. Straighten Out
04. Dont You Want Me
05. One Way Road to Hell
06. Clap for the Wolfman
07. Pleasin for Reason
08. Road Food
09. Ballad of the Last Five Years
10. Take it Off My Shoulders
11. Musicione
12. Miss Frizzy
13. Glamour Boy
14. Self Pity
15. Lie Down
16. Cardboard Empire
17. Just Let Me Sing

Tracks “01-09” is “Road Food” (LP ‘1974)
Tracks “09-17” is “#10” (LP ‘1973).
Remastered from the Original Master tapes by Michael J. Dutton.

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Oscar Peterson – Supreme Jazz (2006) [2.0 & 5.1]
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Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound | Label: Membran Music Ltd.

Oscar Peterson was one of the greatest piano players of all time. A pianist with phenomenal technique on the level of his idol, Art Tatum, Peterson’s speed, dexterity, and ability to swing at any tempo were amazing. Very effective in small groups, jam sessions, and in accompanying singers, O.P. was at his absolute best when performing unaccompanied solos. His original style did not fall into any specific idiom. Like Erroll Garner and George Shearing, Peterson’s distinctive playing formed during the mid- to late ’40s and fell somewhere between swing and bop. Peterson was criticized through the years because he used so many notes, didn’t evolve much since the 1950s, and recorded a remarkable number of albums. Perhaps it is because critics ran out of favorable adjectives to use early in his career; certainly it can be said that Peterson played 100 notes when other pianists might have used ten, but all 100 usually fit, and there is nothing wrong with showing off technique when it serves the music. As with Johnny Hodges and Thelonious Monk, to name two, Peterson spent his career growing within his style rather than making any major changes once his approach was set, certainly an acceptable way to handle one’s career. Because he was Norman Granz’s favorite pianist (along with Tatum) and the producer tended to record some of his artists excessively, Peterson made an incredible number of albums. Not all are essential, and a few are routine, but the great majority are quite excellent, and there are dozens of classics.

Tracklist:
01. ‘S Wonderful
02. Oh! Lady Be Good
03. I Got Rhythm
04. Ad Lib Blues
05. Cheek To Cheek
06. Bounce Blues
07. Blue Moon
08. I Only Have Eyes For You
09. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
10. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
11. Come Rain Or Come Shine
12. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
13. Frenesi
14. I Let A Song Go Out Of You

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The Jimmy Castor Bunch – Dimension III (1973) [Reissue 2017]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 29:30 minutes | Scans included | 1,36 GB
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Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Label: Vocalion # CDSML 8529 | Genre: Soul, Funk ,Jazz

The worldwide digital debut of The Jimmy Castor Bunch’s 1973 hidden gem, Dimension III. To say that Castor, a multi-talented R&B singer/songwriter/producer/arranger/saxophonist (and self-proclaimed “Everything Man”), had a colourful career would be an understatement. Starting as a doo-wop singer, by the age of 15 Castor (almost by accident) had become the author of a hit single when neighbourhood friends Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers covered his own group’s I Promise To Remember as the follow-up to their smash hit Why Do Fools Fall In Love, taking the song to No. 10 in the US R&B charts in 1957. Plying his trade as an arranger and studio musician for most of the next ten years, Castor would go from doo-wop singer to sax-playing Latin soul bandleader.

His new group landed a leftfield hit in 1967 with Hey Leroy (Your Mama’s Calling You), a song that perfectly paired Castor’s gonzo sense of humour with his ability to craft an irresistible groove. Castor’s uncompromising attitude would lead to a fall out with the label that released Hey Leroy and he’d return to relative obscurity in the following years, but by late 1971 his band (now called The Jimmy Castor Bunch) had signed with RCA. His first album for the label (which one critic described as “grunge funk”) seemed destined to stay underground, but when FM radio DJs started playing the album cut Troglodyte (Cave Man) it became a word-of-mouth sensation. Released as a single in early 1972, it made it to the upper reaches of both the US Pop and R&B Top 10. A second album was rush-released by the end of the summer but underperformed, and an obvious cash-in single, (Luther the Anthropoid (Ape Man), didn’t even crack the Top 100. Castor, who feared being pigeonholed, knew he had to change things up and Dimension III was the result. Eschewing much of the aforementioned “grunge funk” and scatological humour of his previous two RCA albums in favour of sophisticated horn and string arrangements and a stronger focus on melodic songwriting, Dimension III sees Castor employing every one of his many talents to great effect. Castor divided the album into vocal and instrumental sides, and the vocal side finds him tackling a wide array of R&B, from modern cinematic funk to sweet soul and even a little bit of the doo-wop of his youth. On the instrumental flipside, Castor stretches out as a soloist for the first time on one of his records, proving in the process that his sax playing may be the most polished of all his talents.

One of the first QuadraDisc LPs that RCA ever released, Dimension III holds the unique distinction of being a “single inventory” title, meaning the four-channel quadraphonic mix was the only mix of the album done, as the label wanted to tout the backwards compatibility of quadraphonic records with existing stereo systems. In the wake of Castor’s acrimonious departure from RCA in late 1973, the label took Dimension III out of print and it has remained that way – until now. This new SACD edition presents the original quadraphonic mix in all its glory, along with a stereo fold-down of the quad mix – more than forty years later the universal compatibility of the QuadraDisc fulfilled in a way its inventors could never have imagined.

Tracklist:

01. Revelation Prologue
02. The Last Ole
03. How Beautiful You Are
04. Im Not a Child Anymore
05. Helpless
06. Bridge Over Troubled Water
07. Soul Serenade
08. Whiter Shade Of Pale
09. The Lone Ranger
10. Revelation

Remastered from the Original Master tapes by Michael J. Dutton.

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The Larry Coryell Organ Trio – Impressions: The New York Sessions (2008)
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Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Label: Chesky Records # SACD 337 | Genre: Jazz

This smoking organ trio recording is both a first for guitarist Larry Coryell and a return to his roots. More than 40 years after moving to New York City from Seattle, Coryell comes full circle back to his roots with this inspired organ trio outing. And in the stellar company of Yahel and Wertico, he is pushed to some exhilarating heights on these nine tracks.

Larry Coryell is one of the top jazz guitarists working today, and this album is a first for him in the guitar/Hammond B-3/drums trio format. For this session he used his regular drummer of the past five years and one of the newer breed of B-3 players, Israeli-born Sam Yale. The nine tunes include two Coryell originals and one by drummer Wertico, and contributions from Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Bill Evans and John Coltrane. The venue was St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in NYC, often used by Chesky for its natural acoustics for surround compared to the usual studio situation. Coryell’s guitar is dead center, with the drums on the right and B-3 on the left. There’s no overdubs or gimmicks, just the natural sounds of the three players. Coryell’s guitar has a clean and wide range timbre, and he refrains from over-electronic tricks. The trio’s bouncy treatment of Come Rain or Come Shine is a classic, and the tender slowed-down tempo of their Embraceable You offers welcome variety from the more energetic numbers. Coryell’s veneration of the late guitarist Gabor Szabo is shown in Szabodar, and the style of the Hungarian guitarist shares with that of Wes Montgomery in influencing Coryell’s approach. Strongly appreciated is the absence of guest vocalists on any of the nine tracks.

Tracklist:

01. Very Early
02. Stowaway
03. Come Rain or Come Shine
04. Embraceable You
05. Caribe
06. Impressions
07. Szabado
08. Full Moon Over Istanbul
09. Centerpiece

Personnel
Larry Coryell – electric guitar
Sam Yahel – Hammond B3 organ
Paul Wertico – drums

Produced by David Chesky. Engineered by Nicholas Prout.
Recorded at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, NYC.
Editing and Mastering Engineer: Nicholas Prout.

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The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices feat. Lisa Gerrard – BooCheeMish (2018)
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or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/44,1 kHz | Full Scans included | 529 MB

The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices released their first album of new studio recordings in over two decades. Better known to many as Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (Grammy winner for “Best Traditional Folk Recording”), ‘BooCheeMish’ sees the esteemed Bulgarian choir performing together with erstwhile 4AD Records label mate Lisa Gerrard (co-founder of the duo Dead Can Dance) on several tracks, thereby uniting two of the most distinctive vocal acts working in music. Gerrard, who is also well known for her movie soundtrack work on films such as ‘Gladiator’ and ’The Insider’, has often spoken about the influence the choir exerted on her singing technique when she discovered their music in the early 1980’s.

In successfully connecting Bulgarian folklore with other traditions and cultures, the album manages to retain the unique identity of the voices, vocal styles and techniques of the individual choir members, even when allying them with acoustic accompaniment such as stringed instruments and various types of percussion, including beatbox. Once described as “the marriage of the avant-garde and the Middle Ages”, the magic of the ensemble stems from its success in mastering Bulgaria’s diverse, age-old vocal traditions while simultaneously sounding strikingly modern and original, thanks to the unique choral music structure – multi-part a cappella arrangements that transform its collective sound into strange colours as if something other than the human voice is being heard.

Tracklist:

01. Mome Malenko
02. Pora Sotunda
03. Rano Ranila
04. Mani Yanni
05. Yove
06. Sluntse
07. Unison
08. Zableyalo Agne
09. Tropanitsa
10. Ganka
11. Shandai Ya
12. Stanka

Recorded at “Bulgaria” Concert Hall, Sofia.

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The Players – Wonderful Guys (1980) [Japan 2000]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 43:55 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 1,77 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 0,98 GB

Wonderful Guys is the second album of Hiromasa Suzuki’s supergroup of Japanese Jazz & studio musicians. Funky jazz-rock fusion with mellow moments and more jumping parts. This is one of their most successful albums.

Tracklist:

01. Second Sight
02. Wonderful Guy
03. Touch Of The Rainbow
04. Slush
05. Romance
06. Sirius
07. Midnight Mellow
08. Dascinating Glance
09. Peaceful Sleep

Personnel
Hiromasa “Colgen” Suzuki – steinway piano, Rhodes piano, Oberheim, Prophet 5, mini-moog, Hammond B3
Mabumi Yamaguchi – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Tsunehide Matsuki – electric guitar, acooustic guitar, voice bag
Akira Okazawa – electric bass
Yuichi Togashiki – drums

Produced by Kiyoshi Itoh & Yasohachi Itoh. Recording and Mixing engineer: Yoshihiro Suzuki.
Recorded & Mixed in November-December 1979 at CBS Studio Tokyo.

ISO

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FLAC

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Dave Brubeck – Supreme Jazz (2006) [2.0 & 5.1]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 72:27 minutes | Scans included | 3,99 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,27 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound

Over a long career that is still going strong, Dave Brubeck has always been one of jazz’s most popular performers. Furthermore, that success has not been achieved at the cost of compromising; Brubeck has consistently experimented with rhythms, time signatures and tonalities not often found even in jazz. At the beginning of his career, his influences were the great piano players of early jazz – Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, and, like Ellington, as his career developed he introduced extended pieces into his repertoire of self-composed material. Music for ballet and theatre features amongst his work, and he has written an oratorio, a Mass and tone poems. Brubeck has performed regularly for American presidents, and he has toured the world many times over. Dave Brubeck is one of the giant talents of jazz.

Tracklist:
01. Audrey
02. Jeepers
03. Pennies From Heaven
04. Why Do I Love You
05. Stompin’ For Mili
06. Keepin’ Out Of Mischief Now
07. A Fine Romance
08. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
09. Sometimes I’m Happy
10. The Duke
11. Indiana
12. Love Walked In
13. Look For The Silver Lining
14. Two-Part Contention

Tracks “01-12” Recorded in 1954-1955
Dave Brubeck (p), Paul Desmond (as), Bob Bates (b), Joe Dodge (d).

Track “13” – Look For The Silver Lining – Recorded in 1951, Hollywood.
Dave Brubeck (p), Paul Desmond (as), Wyatt Ruther (b), Herb Barman (d).

Track “14” – Two-Part Contention – Recorded in Oakland, CA. on April 19, 1956
Dave Brubeck (p).

ISO

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Alice In Chains – Greatest Hits (2001) [2.0 & 5.1]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64/DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 43:44 mins | Scans included | 3,91 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 880 MB
Genre: Metal

Giants of the early-’90s Seattle grunge scene, with Black Sabbath-style riffing and an unconventional vocal style, in many ways, Alice in Chains was the definitive heavy metal band of the early ’90s. Drawing equally from the heavy riffing of post-Van Halen metal and the gloomy strains of post-punk, the band developed a bleak, nihilistic sound that balanced grinding hard rock with subtly textured acoustic numbers. They were hard enough for metal fans, yet their dark subject matter and punky attack placed them among the front ranks of the Seattle-based grunge bands.

Tracklist:
01. Man In The Box
02. Them Bones
03. Rooster
04. Angry Chair
05. Would?
06. No Excuses
07. I Stay Away
08. Grind
09. Heaven Beside You
10. Again

ISO

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FLAC

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Andrea Bocelli, LSO, Lorin Maazel – Sentimento (2002)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 62:52 minutes | Covers included | 4,36 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Basic Covers included | 1,27 GB
Features Stereo & Multichannel Surround sound | Label: Philips # 470620-2

Though Andrea Bocelli kicks off SENTIMENTO with a 20th Century piece, the stately setting of Rodrigo’s “En Aranjuez con tu amor,” the balance of the album wisely focuses on one of the renowned vocalist’s greatest strengths, the Romantic period, as Rodrigo quickly gives way to the more sprightly feel of Leoncavallo’s “Mattinata.” After moving arrestingly through similar fare, Bocelli bookends things nicely by closing with a pair of canzonas from Tosti; the passionate, poignant “‘A vucchella” and the quietly elegant “Vorrei morire,” followed immediately by Donaudy’s “Vaghissima sembianza,” which ends things on a fulsome, appropriately romantic (with a small “r”) note. Throughout SENTIMENTO, the sympathetic accompaniment of the London Symphony Orchestra, masterfully conducted by Lorin Maazel, provides the perfect instrumental setting for Bocelli’s evocative voice.

Tracklist:
01. En Aranjuez con tu amor
02. Mattinata
03. Barcarolle
04. L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra
05. Sogno d’amore
06. La serenata
07. L’ultima canzone
08. Malia
09. La danza
10. Ideale
11. Sogno
12. Plaisir d’amour
13. Musica proibita
14. Occhi di fata
15. ‘A vucchella
16. Vorrei morire!
17. Vaghissima sembianza
18. Non t’amo piщ
19. Quand je dors

ISO

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FLAC

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