Сomposer: Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Trygve Madsen, Kjell Flem
Album title: Organism
Performer: Terje Winge, organ
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Ålesund Church, Norway
Release date: May 2016
Recording date: April 2015
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 01:09:22
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 11270 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#3: Dolby Atmos (TrueHD) 7.1 / 48 kHz / 4999 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio#4: Auro-3D 9.1 / 96 kHz / 6755 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 22.04 GB
The organ music on this album is written by three composers with different musical backgrounds and development who nevertheless have something of the same close feeling for the instrument, almost an organic oneness with it. Trygve Madsen studied with organist-composer Egil Hovland, one of the 20th century’s most significant pioneers in the field of church music. Kjell Mørk Karlsen grew up in a rich church music milieu, inspired by his father, Rolf Karlsen, who was Oslo cathedral organist for over fifteen years. Kjell Flem studied piano and organ, gaining a close knowledge of the organ’s technical and musical possibilities. While Karlsen’s music builds on the long German-Lutheran tradition, the more playful style of Madsen is closer to that of the French organ symphony. Kjell Flem’s main inspiration has been the music of Olivier Messiaen, evident both in his compositional technique and in his interest in using musical impulses from more exotic parts of the world. However, for all the differences in their approaches and backgrounds, none of these composers have repudiated tonality as their musical foundation. While German organ music continued to adhere to the Lutheran chorale tradition, organ music in France began to see the organ as much more than a liturgical instrument. It is true that French organist-composers felt their roots lay in the melodious plainsong of the Gregorian chant, but, exploiting huge advances in organ-building, they managed during the 19th century to free themselves from the liturgical context and to demonstrate that the organ could match a symphony orchestra in its range of colours and fullness of sound.
Terje Winge (born 1950) is Professor of Organ at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he has taught since the early 1980s. He received his own organ education from the Norwegian organists Ludvig Nielsen and Arild Sandvold, before studying with Jiri Reinberger in Prague and Gaston Litaize in Paris.
Recording sessions: Facebook Photo Album
Immersive Audio is a sonic sculpture that you can literally move around and relate to spatially; surrounded by music you can move about in the aural space and choose angles, vantage points and positions. Dolby Atmos and the Auro-3D on this Pure Audio Blu-ray delivers a new standard in immersion, fully enveloping the audience in a cocoon of life-like audio. (more…)
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Сomposer: Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Album title: TARTINI secondo natura
Performer: Sigurd Imsen, baroque violin (#1-6) and Hardanger fiddle (#7-9); Tormod Dalen, baroque cello; Hans Knut Sveen, cembalo
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Jar Church, Norway
Release date: December 2015
Recording date: June 2014
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 0:51:17
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 11850 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 11.46 GB
Amongst a plethora of musical styles and genres extant during the mid-18th century, the music of Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) finds a special place. Despite a quintessential expressive style of performance and embellishment, he was to become and remain influential across the known musical world, and his legacy was essential to violin playing for at least the next century. Tartini’s obscure writings about Nature and music reveal a close relationship to widespread ideas of a time that was to become known as The Age of Reason. However, these came with a twist: his 135 violin concertos and 200 sonatas, of which many are rarely performed today, still appear enigmatic – impalpable and mysterious. The sonorous Hardanger fiddle, an ideal instrument for imitating the traditional Italian bagpipes, appears in this recording as a tribute to the composer’s frequent use of traditional folk music motifs. (more…)
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In this exclusive Blu-ray Audio-/CD-Edition Nikolaus Harnoncourt dedicated to the Requiems of Mozart and Verdi.Among other things, the soprano Christine Schäfer sings as soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, K. 626, and is accompanied by Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien and the well-known under the direction Harnoncourt.
In the famous Verdi Requiem Harnoncourt conducts the Vienna Philharharmoniker, an orchestra with which he has extensive experience as a conductor. The soloists Eva Mei, Michael Schade and others, and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir round off this recording, which features in Blu-ray quality through HD multi-channel surround sound with 5.1 and offers an unprecedented listening experience. Both Requiems are also attached to 2 audio CDs in hi-fi stereo quality, so that listeners will not miss any of the recordings without Blu-ray equipment.
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Сomposer: Tarquinio Merula, Marco da Gagliano, Bernardo Storace, Claudio Monteverdi, Benedetto Ferrari, Alessnadro Piccinini, Barbara Strozzi, Birolamo Frescobaldi
Artist: José Lemos, Jory Vinikour, Deborah Fox
Title: Io Vidi in Terra
Genre: Classical
Label: © Sono Luminus LLC
Release Date: 2013
Recorded at Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia, USA
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:52:53
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 941 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 14326 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: DTS-HD MA 7.1 / 96 kHz / 10307 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#3: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Artistically breathtaking and engagingly intimate, the vocal music of the early Italian Baroque was an exercise in close artistic collaboration. Bringing together three of the most renowned practitioners of historically-appropriate performance of Early Music and Baroque repertoires, the Sono Luminus release of Io Vidi in Terra provides a rare immersion into a mysterious world that, despite its relative obscurity in the perspectives of 21st-Century observers, shaped almost every aspect of music as it blossomed in subsequent generations. The package will be a 2-disc set, containing a Pure Audio Blu-ray™ Surround Sound disc as well as a standard CD.
Born in Brazil, countertenor José Lemos pursued musical studies in the United States, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the College of Charleston (South Carolina) and a Master’s Degree in Opera Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Awarded Tanglewood Music Fellowships in both 2003 and 2004, his first operatic performances in the United States were in Robert Zuidam’s Rage d’Amours and Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Tanglewood. He also won both the First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2003 International Baroque Singing Competition in Chimay, Belgium. From those beginnings, José’s operatic career has flourished with lauded appearances at Opernhaus Zürich as Nireno in Händel’s Giulio Cesare and Narcisco in the same composer’s Agrippina, both under the baton of Marc Minkowski; an extensive tour with Stefano Landi’s Il Sant’Alessio in a production with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, to name just a few.
Mr. Lemos has recorded multiple albums with Dorian/Sono Luminus over the years. With Baltimore Consort, he recorded Adío España (DSL-90901), a recital of music from Spain’s Age of Discovery. Additionally, he recordedRomance (DSL-90708) and Sol y Luna (DSL-92118) with Brio, featuring the exotic music of Sephardic Jews in Spain. José is thrilled to share his passion for the Italian vocal music of the 17th Century with friends and frequent collaborators Deborah Fox, theorbist and baroque guitarist, and GRAMMY®nominated harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, as well as with listeners throughout the world. (more…)
Artist: The Alan Parsons Project
Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination – 40th Anniversary
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock
Label: © Mercury Records/Universal Music
Release Date: 1976/2016
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:42:35 + 00:40:58
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 8000 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7646 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English LPCM 5.1 / 96 kHz / 13824 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
A landmark release in prog rock history, The Alan Parsons Project’s debut album, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, remains not only one of the most ambitious releases from prog’s mid-70s golden age, but also one of the finest examples of a musician putting literature to music.
Released in 1976, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination saw Alan Parsons and long-time collaborator Eric Woolfson bring to life some of the most enduring works by pioneering gothic poet and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe. Working with a host of musicians, among them legendary God Of Hellfire, Arthur Brown, Hollies singer and guitarist Terry Sylvester, the bands Ambrosia and Pilot, plus keyboardist Francis Monkman (of cult 70s outfit Curved Air), they also managed to snag narration by legendary actor, director, writer and producer Orson Welles – a man with no little experience in bringing works of literature to life in the studio.
For its 40th anniversary, Tales… is being celebrated with a multi-disc box set, made with the full co-operation of Alan Parsons and the family of the late Eric Woolfson. As well as boasting over 70 minutes’ worth of previously unreleased bonus material, the 3CD+Blu-ray+2LP box set also includes the original 1976 album mix (half-speed mastered for vinyl at Abbey Road by leading half-speed mastering expert Miles Showell), Alan Parsons’ 1987 remix, and, for the first time ever, a high-definition 5.1 surround sound mix on Blu-ray, mastered in 2016 by Parsons himself. Rounded out with a 60-page coffee-table book boasting rare photos and new interviews, a poster, replica 1976 press kit and “taped man” sticker, this lavish package does full justice to the legacy of Parsons’ and Woolfson’s stunning work.
“The Tales album is my favourite,” Alan Parsons says today. “Always has been, always will be. It broke new territory all round.” (more…)
In 2014 we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Soundgarden’s massive album Superunknown which to date has sold 9 million albums worldwide and is certified five times platinum by the RIAA in the US. Both a critical and commercial success, in 1994 Superunknown debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts and earned the band two Grammys® for the singles ‘Black Hole Sun’ and ‘Spoonman’ in 1995. As relevant today as they were in 1994, the multi-platinum-selling Soundgarden continues to be in the Top 10 most played artists on Active Rock radio and the band’s top 4 most played radio songs – accumulating over 1 million in total airplay and 4 billion in total audience to date – are all from this very beloved album: ‘Black Hole Sun’, ‘Fell on Black Days’, ‘Spoonman’ and ‘The Day I Tried To Live’. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and the 100 Greatest Albums of the Nineties.
– Packaging: 8.5′ x 12′ hardbound book with approx. 70-80 pages + lenticular cover animating a solar flaring eclipse around the original cover art
– 5k+ word liner notes by David Fricke
– Completely new artwork by Josh Graham
– CD1: remastered album – 16 tracks (including international album bonus track ‘She Likes Surprises’)
– CD2: 14 B-sides and 2 Unreleased Alternative Mixes
– CD3: 9 Unreleased Demos
– CD4: 16 Unreleased Rehearsals from June ’93 (1 month prior to start of July recording session)
– Blu-ray: New 96/24 5.1 Surround Mix of all 16 album tracks, 96/24 High Res Stereo, Lyrics pages animated into video to go with each song
– Includes free download card of the DTS Headphone: X app to experience the original 16-track album in 11.1 surround sound using normal stereo headphones
Valery Gergiev, Wiener Philharmoniker – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 in B minor ‘Pathétique’, Op.74 (2005/2014)
Blu-Ray: LPCM 2.0 24bit/96kHz | DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 & Dolby TrueHD Audio 2.0 24bit/96kHz | No Art | 4,86 GB
or BDAudio Rip > FLAC: 2.0 Stereo, Tracks 24bit/96kHz | 44:00 minutes | Sourced Track – LPCM 2.0 Stereo | 934 MB
Far more than the Tchaikovsky Fourth and Fifth that Decca recorded live with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Gergiev’s Pathetique bids fair to be considered one of the great ones.
Little more than a decade into his international career, Valery Gergiev is being described as “the greatest living conductor.” But is he? Let us compare Gergiev’s new recording of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 with the Vienna Philharmonic and his earlier recording of the same work with the Kirov Orchestra. The new recording is faster, as much as two minutes faster in the outer movements. But it’s not better, no, it’s not at all better. Gergiev’s current interpretation of the Sixth is not only too fast — too fast in the opening movement’s development, too fast in the Allegro molto vivace’s climax, and fatally too fast in the Finale’s Adagio lamentoso — it is too much — too much in its excessive brilliance, too much in its linear intensity, too much in its dramatic exaggerations, and too much in its emotional pathos. In his earlier recording, Gergiev created a performance of sublime despair. In this recording, Gergiev chews the scenery. It doesn’t help that the Vienna Philharmonic now plays with nothing more than its customary virtuosity while the Kirov Orchestra then played with astounding virtuosity and complete dedication. While Philips’ sound now is almost supernaturally present, Philips’ then was preternaturally warm and real. So is Gergiev now the greatest living conductor? The argument could not be made by the evidence of this recording. But was Gergiev then the greatest living conductor? On the evidence of the earlier recording, the argument could be made. (more…)
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Mylene Farmer – Timeless (2013) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]
LPCM 2.0 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 & Dolby TrueHD 2.0 | Time – 01:10:32 minutes | 13,6 GB
Timeless (stylized as Timel3ss) was the sixth concert tour by French recording artist, Mylène Farmer. The tour supported the singer’s ninth studio album, Monkey Me. The tour began on September 7, 2013 and ended on December 3, 2013. It played 39 shows in 5 countries. Over 535,000 people saw Myléne Farmer live on this tour.
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Genre: POP
Duration: 00:53:36 min
Year: 2012
Extras. information:
Issued: France | Polydor
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: H.264
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 1944 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16: 9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio 2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 3650 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 3.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio 3: Dolby TrueHD / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 3106 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps) (more…)
The 19-disc limited edition box set ‘On (and off) The Road’ presents a complete overview of the enduringly popular 1980s incarnation of King Crimson. (Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, Tony Levin and Adrian Belew).
Featuring a wealth of previously unheard audio and / or upgraded audio from the band’s first to final performances, stereo and 5.1 editions of Discipline, Beat and The Three Of A Perfect Pair, plus video recordings of some of the best live shows the line-up played and substantial new concert footage, all presented to the high standards that have been a staple of King Crimson boxed sets of recent years.
Contents include:
* 9cds including new Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp stereo mixes of Discipline (2011), Beat (2016) and Three of a Perfect Pair (2016), and the final concert from each of the band’s tours: Japan 1981 (new to CD), Germany 1982 (new mixes for this edition), Canada (Absent Lovers) 1984 (remastered for this edition)
* 2cds of additional studio recordings including 1 cd containing edited and expanded of sessions for the abandoned third album and a ‘making of…’ CD featuring studio snippets and outtakes from across the studio recordings (providing a fascinating audio insight into the ‘Crimson process’)
* 3dvd-a discs (hybrid discs compatible with all dvd players and rom-drives, region free, ntsc) feature the three original studio albums in high-resolution stereo (new & original mixes), 5.1 Surround Sound mixes and additional audio and videos on all three discs
* 3 blu-ray discs containing all the dvd-a disc material plus extensive additional video material including: Frejus live (Discipline), Alabama-Halle (Beat) (footage unseen since original 1982 broadcast), Japan 1984 (Three of a Perfect Pair) and additional hi-res audio options
* The Three Of A Perfect Pair blu-ray also features previously unseen footage from the final run of 1984 Japanese concerts plus 2 sets of ‘single camera footage’ recordings with shots focusing on each of the individual musicians
* Absent Lovers concert is also included in a new Surround Sound mix on the Three Of A Perfect Pair blu-ray
Presented in a 12″ box with booklet, memorabilia, extensive sleevenotes and eyewitness accounts of KC live.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-11CD-3DVD-3Blu-Ray-Boxed/dp/B01KN6XDNG/
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Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock
Year: 2016
Publisher (label): E.G. Music / Universal Music / Globe Music
Catalog number: GMM9150
Limited 18 disc (14 CDs + 4 Blu-ray audio).box set from the prog rock legends. Thirty eight years after their debut, bandleader and producer Jobson has compiled a 16-disc Ultimate Collectors’ Edition Box Set featuring high-resolution Abbey Road remasters of their original studio recordings and several previously unreleased live recordings of the early group. Includes: U.K. (album) remastered at Abbey Road from original analog masters on CD and lossless 24/96 high resolution audio Blu-Ray; Danger Money remastered at Abbey Road from original analog masters on CD and lossless 24/96 high resolution audio Blu-ray; Night After Night complete 1979 concert remastered at Abbey Road from original analog masters (with 50 minutes of newly mixed material available only in this set) on two CDs and lossless 24/96 high resolution audio Blu-Ray; Reunion, the Jobson-Wetton 2011 reunion concert remastered from digital master on two CDs and lossless 24/96 high resolution audio Blu-Ray; and four CDs of “enhanced bootleg” live recordings from both the original band and the trio, including concerts in Boston, Cleveland, and Philadelphia, and their final 1979 performance in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The packaging and extensive notes include a 64-page book UK – 1977-2015. Referred to as “the great white hope of progressive rock” by Rolling Stone, UK were one of the most influential and acclaimed super groups of the 1970s.
Performer:
UK
Box / Albums:
2016 Ultimate Collector’s Edition
1978 UK • 1978 UK Extras • 1978 UK BD
1978 Live In Boston • 1978 Live In Philadelphia • 1978 Live In Cleveland
1979 Danger Money • 1979 Danger Money Extras • 1979 Danger Money BD
1979 Night After Night Extended Version 2CD • 1979 Night After Night Original Version
1979 Night After Night Extended Version BD
2011 Reunion 2CD • 2011 Reunion BD
1978-1979 Interviews Bonus Disc • 1979 Final Concert Bonus Disc
(18 Disc Box Set Globe Music 2016)
Info:
E.G. Music / Universal Music / Globe Music
Blu-ray / Blu-ray Audio / CD / CD-Text / Remastered
Disc 6 has no Mastering SID Code
Discs 14, 15 and 16 have no Mould SID Code
Catalog Box: GMM9150
Catalog CDs: GMM9150D1~18
Manufactured in USA
Dynamic Range: 11 / 9 / 9 / 9 / 7 / 12 / 13 / 11 • 11 / 11 / 10 • 10 / 8 / 9
Released Year: 2016
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Artist: Nosound
Title: Scintilla
Genre: Rock, Art Rock, Prog Rock
Label: © Kscope
Release Date: 2016
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:49:21 + 00:29:08
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 12163 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: LPCM 5.1 / 96 kHz / 13824 kbps / 24-bit
Nosound’s new studio album, their fifth, entitled Scintilla marks a major departure and includes guest appearances from Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh and acclaimed Italian singer Andrea Chimenti.
After a decade of crafting a very particular type of widescreen melancholia and wistful imagery, Nosound’s fifth studio album Scintilla introduces a wholly new musical and visual approach for Giancarlo Erra’s ever-evolving band.
Genre: Classical
Year of publication: 2014
Duration: 1:21:10
Quality: Blu-ray Disc
Container: BDMV
Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Audio Codec: LPCM | DTS-HD Master Audio | Dolby TrueHD
Tracklist:
Symphony No.2 in C minor – “Resurrection”
[01] Allegro maestoso. Mit durchaus ernstem und feierlichem Ausdruck
[02] Andante moderato. Sehr gemächlich
[03] Scherzo: In ruhig fliessender Bewegung “Urlicht”
[04] “O Röschen rot! Der Mensch liegt in grösster Not!” (Sehr feierlich aber schlicht) Text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn: “Urlicht”
[05] 5a. Im Tempo des Scherzos. Wild herausfahrend
[06] 5b. Maestoso. Sehr zurückhaltend – Wieder zurückhaltend
[07] 5c. Sehr langsam und gedehnt
[08] 5d. “Aufersteh’n, ja aufersteh’n wirst du” (Langsam. Misterioso) – Text after F.G. Klopstock: “Auferstehung”
[09] 5e. “O glaube, mein Herz, o glaube” (Etwas bewegter) Text after F.G. Klopstock: “Auferstehung” (more…)
Artist: Chicago
Title: Quadio
Genre: Rock, Soft Rock, Jazz Rock, AM Pop
Label: © Rhino Entertainment
Release Date: 2016
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:17:00 + 01:07:21 + 01:11:36 + 00:45:09 + 00:38:24 + 01:13:40 + 00:39:40 + 00:45:56 + 00:38:22
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 2528 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 4.0 / 192 kHz / ~11000 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 4.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 192 kHz / ~6000 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size; 71.37 GB
8 Chicago albums plus their Greatest Hits in High Resolution Stereo and original Quadraphonic mixes: Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Greatest Hits, Chicago X. This lavish celebration of the Windy City’s favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album presented in a replica sleeve promised to “replicate the original release down to the last detail, including mini-posters, and the iron-on that came with Chicago VIII.
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