Title: Celtic Woman – Destiny (Live in Concert, Dublin 2015)
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Folk, World, Celtic
Production/Label: Universal Music Group
Duration: 01:30:43
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-2 Video
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 25952 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9
Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 19.17 GB
Global music sensation Celtic Woman look to their DESTINY with an enchanting new TV special, album, DVD/Blu Ray and world concert tour. The Destiny Tour features four sublimely gifted Irish women – three glorious vocalists and a brilliant Celtic violinist accompanied by full band, bagpipers, and Irish dancers whose exceptional talent and high energy bring a fresh fusion to centuries of musical and cultural tradition. The unforgettable live music experience will feature the group performing repertoire off their brand-new album and DVD, Destiny, including timeless traditional and contemporary Irish standards, wrapped in the group s celebrated style.
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Title: Celtic Woman – Emerald Musical Gems – Live In Concert
Release Date: 2014
Genre: Folk, World, Celtic
Production: Manhattan Records (Universal)
Runtime: 1:12:25
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS,LPCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 26967 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4305 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Global music sensation Celtic Woman will release a brand-new album on February 25, 2014 titled EMERALD: MUSICAL GEMS that spotlights newly reimagined performances of fan favorites from the group’s treasure chest of Celtic songs. A celebration of the Emerald Isles’ rich musical heritage, EMERALD: MUSICAL GEMS includes the uplifting ‘Mo Ghile Mear’ and ‘Dulaman’, the enchanting ‘She Moves Thru the Fair’ and ‘Caladonia’ and the ever-haunting ‘Danny Boy’ and ‘The Voice’. Also featured are new interpretations of Celtic Woman’s inspiring performances of the beloved ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘You Raise Me Up’.
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Gruff Rhys – Sadness Sets Me Free (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:42 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rough Trade
Gruff Rhys is pleased to announce his new album “Sadness Sets Me Free” which will be released by Rough Trade Records. This incredibly will be the 25th album he has released in his 35 year career individually, collaboratively and as a member of various bands. “Sadness Sets Me Free” is also the follow up to 2021’s “Seeking new Gods”, his first solo top ten record. Lead-off single “Celestial Candyfloss” is a telling four minute glimpse of the forthcoming album, revealing the heady wonders and classic pop sounds within. Soaring strings carry the sweet melodies along, anchored by just enough necessary melancholy to add emotional ballast. The eye-popping video was created by long-time collaborator Mark James and compliments the scope and style of the song on a galactic scale. “Celestial Candyfloss” is, Gruff says, “an attempted pocket symphony about the cosmic lengths that people will travel in the pursuit of love and acceptance. Mark James has brought the Sadness Sets Me Free album cover to life & managed to place me watching TV interference in a shipping container that’s lost in space. For what is apparently the 25th album I’ve had a hand in writing I’ve reverted to a rich seam of inspiration relating to shedding some light on sadness and the general terror of cosmic loneliness.” And so it was that Gruff and his band – Osian Gwynedd (piano), Huw V Williams (double bass) and former Flaming Lips drummer turned Super Furry Animals archivist Kliph Scurlock (drums) piled into a van driven by the late, legendary tour manager “Dr” Kiko Loiacono and raced from Dunkirk, where they had just played the final show of a tour of Spain and France, to the outskirts of Paris in the early hours of a March morning in 2022. There, in La Frette Studios, a recording facility installed in a 19th-century house, Gruff and his road-hardened group tracked “Sadness Sets Me Free” in just three days. Backing vocals were added along the way by Kate Stables from This Is The Kit along with additional strings and orchestration and it was mixed between Marseille and Cardiff. What finally emerged from these intense bouts of cross-continental activity was Gruff’s most accomplished and beautiful record to date. In a career that has taken him from the slate-mining towns of north-west Wales, down to the expat communities of Patagonia, up to the Mandan tribe of the Great Plains of North America and across to the Tuareg rock groups of the Saharan Desert, Gruff Rhys, one of Britain’s most beloved and successful singer-songwriters, has always been willing to follow an opportunity, wherever it may lead him. “At this point I quite like working with serendipity,” he says. “Not in a cosmic way, [but] I try and leave things open to chance encounters and chance geography. As I’m around 25 albums in I’m always looking for ways to make a different-sounding record”
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Go West – Dancing On The Couch (Deluxe Edition) (1987/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:35:27 minutes | 3,25 GB | Genre: New Wave, Pop, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chrysalis Records
Go West’s 1987 album Dancing On The Couch will be reissued in January. This follow-up to their platinum self-titled debut saw Peter Cox and Richard Drummie continuing to explore their signature pop-soul sound, and includes the singles ‘True Colours’, ‘I Want To Hear It From You’, ‘From Baltimore To Paris’, and ‘The King Is Dead’ (with guest backing vocals from a certain Kate Bush).
This new deluxe edition is available as a 3CD+DVD set which includes the original album newly remastered by producer Gary Stevenson; a second CD of B-sides, rarities and previously unreleased material; a third CD featuring the Hammersmith Odeon show recorded on the ‘Runaway Train’ tour in 1987; and a DVD featuring promo videos from the period and the Hammersmith concert (on DVD for the first time). This set is packaged as a seven-inch hardcover book with a 20-page booklet with photos, lyrics and new sleeve notes from the band.
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Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:58 minutes | 900 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 4AD
Future Islands was never meant to last. After eighteen years and 1,400 live shows, Future Islands show they’re not only still here, they’re making the most powerful music of their fascinating, but unexpectedly long and storied career. For Future Islands, albums aren’t a static reflection of a moment in time, they are a fluid chapter in their lives that can change and mutate. People change and pull away. The band is no different, coming up against their future while staring at their past. They’re not the same people they were when Future Islands began nearly two decades ago. They are now spread about, some settled down and some still moving. People Who Aren’t There Anymore reflects the transience of a band’s existence; the rare privilege of travelling all over the world contrasting with the sadness of fleeting moments in and out people’s lives. Being everywhere but also nowhere. Remembering the lives lost and the living they’ll never see again, cherishing the present and being grateful for the past.
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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Dark Rainbow (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:18 minutes | 431 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © International Death Cult
Frank Carter’s breakthrough came as the energetic frontman of the nihilistic hardcore punk band Gallows. He left the band in 2011 to pursue a much more positive approach with his next project, Pure Love. This was also reflected in the sound of their only album “Anthems”, which had clear influences from classic rock and power pop.
The Brit founded Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes together with guitarist Dean Richardson in 2015 to find the perfect middle ground between these two approaches. The energy and directness of hardcore on the one hand, melody and emotion on the other.
With their fifth album “Dark Rainbow”, the band succeeds in this endeavor amazingly perfectly. The songs convince with audibly mature songwriting and even more personal lyrics than before. Musically, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes now allow whatever they like. The framework is still timeless punk rock. In order to cover the necessary spectrum of emotions and energies, however, strings, piano or synthesizers are sometimes used.
This courage for variety suits “Dark Rainbow” perfectly. The album’s sound, which spans epochs and genres, is sometimes even reminiscent of the desert rock of Queens Of The Stone Age.
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Franco Battiato – Orizzonti Perduti (1983/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:01 minutes | 344 MB | Genre: Pop, Electronic, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.
Orizzonti perduti is Franco Battiato’s thirteenth studio album, released in December 1983 on the Italian EMI label. The album, which the author took particular care during the recording phase, reached seventh place in the charts and was the thirty-second best-selling of 1984. The album, unlike the previous ones, presents a greater use of electronics and computers for the reproduction of sounds, with the total elimination of acoustic instruments. The album is in some ways autobiographical: it is no coincidence, in fact, that the main narrative scenario is the Sicilian environment. Themes such as musical satire and the cultural decadence of the West are then touched upon.
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Franco Battiato – Come Un Cammello In Una Grondaia (1991/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 31:48 minutes | 350 MB | Genre: Pop, Neo-Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI Marketing
Come Un Cammello In Una Grondaia is Franco Battiato’s sixteenth album, released in 1991.
The album is divided into two parts: the first four songs are works by Battiato while the remaining four are lieder by classical music authors.
It reached tenth place in the charts and sold over 250,000 copies, making it the thirty-fourth best-selling album in Italy during the year.
On the cover there is a detail from a painting by Süphan Barzani, the pseudonym with which Battiato initially signed his paintings.
The title of the album is a quote from Al-Biruni, a Persian scientist who lived in the 11th century, who used to pronounce this phrase to indicate the inadequacy of his language in describing scientific topics.
Schmerzen is one of the five Lieder of the Wesendonck-Lieder cycle (WWV 91), composed by Richard Wagner in 1857 on a poem by Mathilde Wesendonck.
The song Plaisir d’amour (1785) by Johann Paul Aegidius Martin was proposed to Sibilla for the 1984 single Plaisir d’amour/Sex appeal to Europe, the latter composed, like the other songs performed by the singer, by Battiato-Pio . The piece is also cited by Battiato in the song Shakleton (Gommalacca, 1998).
Gestillte Sehnsucht is taken from the Op. 91 Two cantos for contralto, viola and piano (1863-1884) by Johannes Brahms.
Oh Sweet Were the Hours is taken from the Op. 108 Twenty-Five Scottish Songs (1818) by Ludwig Van Beethoven; the English text is attributed to William Smyth (1765-1849). The piece is part of Beethoven’s project to re-arrange songs from British folk heritage.
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Fiasco – Anger Artist (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:07 minutes | 378 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Unit Records
“Anger Artist”, Washington DC-based ¡FIASCO!’s first recording in nearly three years, and first release on Unit Records, is evidence of evolution in isolation, growth in relative quiet, and further extension of the group’s sonic and stylistic reach.
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Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel – The Room (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:50 minutes | 378 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, World Fusion, Latin
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Real World Records
The Room is a collection of folkloric pieces from various regions around South America, as interpreted by Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel, on 7-string nylon guitar and soprano saxophone, respectively. Presented with purity and focus, soaring and lamenting, this album presents a unique journey through lesser-known musical landscapes and traditions stretching from Argentina to the Amazon.
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Erasure – The Neon (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:27:28 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mute Artists Ltd
On April 8th 2022 Erasure will be releasing ‘The Neon Live’, a brand new live album to celebrate ‘The Neon Tour’. Recorded at Manchester’s O2 Apollo on 9th and 10th October 2021 ‘The Neon Live’ will be released initially in three deluxe physical formats by Live Here Now.
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Duke Ellington – Ellington In Order, Volume 7 (1936-37) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:35:42 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra’s appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol’s “Caravan”, which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz.
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Doris Day – The Complete Columbia Singles, Volume 6 (1953-1957) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:06:51 minutes | 683 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Doris Day (* April 3 1922 as Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio; † May 13, 2019 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California) was an American film actress and singer.
At first, Day successfully performed as a singer of various big bands. From 1947 she was under contract with the Warner Brothers film studio, where she could be seen mainly in musicals. After that, it was mainly romantic and family-friendly comedies, especially with her film partner Rock Hudson, that significantly shaped her image as a “clean woman” and with whom she was one of the most popular and commercially successful Hollywood stars in the 1950s and 1960s. After the end of her film career, Doris Day became increasingly involved in animal welfare, for which she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004.
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Dead Poet Society – FISSION (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:08 minutes | 575 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Spinefarm
Los Angeles quartet DEAD POET SOCIETY are pleased to announce their second album FISSION. It arrives on January 26. Pre-order it here.
After a decade defining, redefining, and perfecting their art, Fission finds Dead Poet Society poised to be rock’s next breakout act. The album is a 13-track study of personal change and the turbulence of growth that, as frontman Jack Underkofler attests, takes “a microscopic and broad look at the events that changed who we are.”
Today, the band has dropped two singles — “I hope you hate me.” and “How Could I Love You?”
Both songs address the sometimes bittersweet, more often simply bitter, fallout from a tumultuous relationship. The latter is an excruciating yet intoxicating journey, backed by searing guitars, while the former addresses the aftermath of a relationship.
The video for “I hope you hate me” features dancer and breakout social media star This Robot Cannot Human, whose carefully choreographed moves perfectly reflect the song’s tension and slow, calculated build up. The track effortlessly mixes a subtle take on ’80s nu wave with alt rock fury, thanks to pulsating riffs and drumbeats that echo your own heartbeat.
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Danielle Nicole – The Love You Bleed (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:08 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Forty Below Records
Danielle is a Grammy nominated, 7X Blues Music Award winner and one of the finest singers and bassists in roots music today. At the beginning of the ”The Love You Bleed’ recording sessions; Danielle Nicole knew this new album would be different from those in the past. “Maybe that’s because over half the songs are about falling in love and not falling through the destruction of it,” she says. The album, produced by Tony Braunagel (Taj Mahal, Eric Burdon, Robert Cray) and mixed by John Porter (B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Bryan Ferry), is full of love, loss, will, determination, and all the other things that go together with love.
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