Terry Riley & Krishna Bhatt - Terry Riley Krishna Bhatt Duo (2017)
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Huminoida - The Grey Area (2018)
Artist: Huminoida
Title Of Album: The Grey Area
Release Date: 2018
Location: Finland
Label: Out Of Range Records (7OUTRCD)
Genre: Synth-pop, New Wave, Darkwave
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue+covers)
Length: 43:24 min
Tracks: 9
Total Size: 316 MB (+5%)
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Kalapacs - Orokfekete (2018)
Artist: Kalapacs
Title Of Album: Orokfekete
Release Date: 2018
Location: Hungary
Label: HMRCD (176)
Genre: Heavy Metal
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Length: 50:02 min
Tracks: 12
Total Size: 372 MB (+5%)
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Middle Of The Road - The Collection (1998)
Artist: Middle Of The Road
Title Of Album: The Collection
Release Date: 1998
Location: Scotland
Label: BMG (74321 56562 2)
Genre: Pop, Bubblegum
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue+covers)
Length: 51:06 min
Tracks: 16
Total Size: 343 MB (+5%)
Middle of the Road is a Scottish pop group who have enjoyed success across Europe and Latin America since the 1970s. Before ABBA established themselves in the mid 70s, Middle of the Road were the sound of early europop with their distinctive harmonies and lead vocals from Sally Carr. Four of their singles sold over one million copies each, and received a gold disc: "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" (one of only a few all-time singles to have sold in excess of 10 million physical copies), "Sacramento", "Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum" and "Soley Soley". By early 1972 the group had sold over five million records.
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Shelter - First Stop [Reissue 2018] (1983)
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Artist: Shelter
Title Of Album: First Stop
Release Date: 2018 (1983)
Location: USA
Label: Rock Candy (CANDY382)
Genre: AOR, Melodic Rock
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue+covers)
Length: 35:16 min
Tracks: 10
Total Size: 324 MB (+5%)
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Sisters of Suffocation - Anthology of Curiosities (2017)
Artist: Sisters of Suffocation
Title Of Album: Anthology Of Curiosities
Release Date: 2017
Location: Netherlands
Label: Suburban Records (BURBCD 162)
Genre: Death Metal (Female Voice)
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Length: 30:59 min
Tracks: 9
Total Size: 249 MB (+5%)
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Surturs Lohe - Nornenwerk (2011)
Artist: Surturs Lohe
Title Of Album: Nornenwerk
Release Date: 2011
Location: Germany
Label: Christhunt Productions (CHP120)
Genre: Viking Metal, Folk Metal, Pagan Metal
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue+covers)
Length: 50:16 min
Tracks: 9
Total Size: 384 MB (+5%)
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Scott Mathews – The Great Untold (2018)
320 kbps | 83 MB | LINKS
John Martyn’s true musical heir, Wolverhampton-born Scott Matthews’ studio albums have always featured an array of top-flight musicians, Robert Plant among them. Expanding from the largely acoustic Passing Stranger to a fuller sound, his early live work was always about just him and a guitar, accentuating the blues veining his folk inclinations. For The Great Untold, his sixth, he’s gone back to that basic approach, recording the ten tracks at home and in various rural churches. There is no orchestration, no layered instrumentation, just, for the most part, sparse, minimal piano and acoustic guitar accompaniment and that glorious grainy, otherworldly falsetto weaving a pervasive atmosphere throughout what he describes as “a lot of soul searching”, but also addressing universal concerns and truths.
It opens on the title track’s ethereal notes, an introspective, reflective song about the changes he’s been through. He tells of “Trawling the blues under spotlights/Putting my world on the line” and the chapters yet to unfold in addressing the prospect of becoming a father: “You’ll be mother’s precious gold /And I’ll see new reasons through your eyes.”
That same mood infuses the six-minute, tonal shape-shifting Lawless Stars. Redolent of Nina Simon’s reading of Lilac Wine, it’s a song that again draws on the image of an unborn child in its contemplation of a search for calm and tranquillity. It’s mingled with thoughts of loss and separation in what, at the end of the day, seems to be essentially loneliness of the gigging musician number.
The dreamy strum and softly tumbling chorus melody of Silence once again seeks for serenity, “to realign my wayward mind”, to reconnect with self and find an escape from “the daily race you’ll never win/And find a space to reassemble any hopes misplaced.” Musically starlit in a melodically gossamer manner that conjures Jeff Buckley but also romantic reverie sequences from old movies, Something Real extends that idea of mental turmoil and the palliative power of love “to tame those wild thoughts again”. It also talks of the need to let down the defences because “When someone is bruised and scarred/They wear their armoured heart” as he pleads “Give me something real/That isn’t make believe”, the song swelling to a dying fall.
Swimming on gentle keyboard waves, the slow swaying Cinnamon is a particularly sensuous post-coital love song. He sings as “Your warmth in the cold/Lingers with the scent of cinnamon on my clothes/Our bodies radiate to the bone”, a song of sexual healing as “Starlings murmurate/Like clouds of cinders up in smoke.”
The sensory imagery of scent returns for As The Day Passes. It’s a heady, fingerpicked number of Andalusian melodic influences, but here the lyrics are darker. It conjures images of a lament for a love that’s died or remains unrequited, or of a soldier writing home to his mother in what is basically a heartfelt carpe diem message about not holding on to anger until it’s too late to forgive and forget.
Echoing such sentiments in its line “I forever long to be seen by your eyes/Your forgiveness is all I need”, as the title suggests, the simple guitar and piano arrangement of Goodnight Day is something of a nocturne. The lyrics again draw on the lonely life of the travelling musician on a desolate road where the rearview mirror shows only “a figure of a man/In the shadow for company.”
The final stretch begins with Song To A Wallflower, the spare opening drone gradually building to a relatively fuller arrangement that even has hints of percussion on a beautifully bittersweet poetic lyric about the song’s subject being crushed by a troubled past and the inability to articulate longings and feelings, seeking release in “a woman, paid by the hour…the faker with all the power” as Matthews folds in hints of Catholicism with the line about Mother Mary.
With its softly cascading chords, the dreamily fingerpicked Daydreamer brings us back to the album’s overarching theme of seeking escape from the harshness of reality, here emblemised in a woman with “her head stuck in a magazine/Full of posers… A distraction from the things that make her cry.” However, as the arrangement appropriately gathers to include drums and ebow, with Matthews multi-tracking his voice, this is not advocacy for numbing yourself against the world, of not wanting to wake and face it, but rather a reminder of what we let slip by while we “sleep walk on the sand”. It ends with the call to “smell the roses/Their scent will survive the fire.”
It ends with Chapters, a harmonica-coloured campfire waltzer about making connections, across distances, across time, and perhaps of the ripples music can make, the meanings it can impart as, in closing, he sings “Come alive and read my heart each time/There’s always a song in sight…”
The album has no major variations in mood, no great peaks and troughs in terms of tempo or tone, but the cumulative effect is at once stilling, affirmative and inspiring, as you emerge at the other end as if you’ve been soaking in a bath of aural dead sea salts. Matthews says that when he’s writing, “I’m almost hearing voices from The Masters and thinking: ‘Would they approve?’” Most assuredly.
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Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba - An Evening With Belafonte / Makeba (1965/2016) [HDtracks]
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Harry Belafonte - An Evening with Belafonte (1957/2016) [HDtracks]
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David Starr – South and West (2018)
320 kbps | 104 MB | LINKS
Blabber’n’Smoke was glad to have a sneak preview of Colorado musician David Starr’s latest album, South and West prior to him playing a show in Glasgow this week. The follow up to his acclaimed Love & Sabotage (from 2016 with a John Oates’ produced EP in between), South and West is another robust and joyful dive into those halcyon days of freewheeling and hair flowing country rock songs from the seventies with a dash of more introspective melodies giving the album just enough emotional ballast to prevent it from flying down the freeway.
Written in Cedaredge, Colorado and recorded in Nashville (hence the title) Starr and his accomplished band (Dan Dugmore, guitars, pedal and lap steel, mandolin; Erik Stucky, mandolin; Mark Prentice, bass; Mike Severs, guitars; Howard Duck, keyboards and accordion; Tommy Hayden, drums) expertly navigate the difficult waters of playing like a plethora of the usual suspects (Eagles, Poco, Fleetwood Mac) while not copying them and even occasionally wandering into unexpected backwaters as when they deliver Could Have Run Together with its churchy organ and sweet guitar outro recalling The Stones’ in their more mellow moods. Starr, who wrote or co-wrote all bar one of the songs here, has his finger on the button throughout with arresting images such as on the opening lines of Nothing Short as he sings, “There’s a jar full of nickels on a stand beside the bed. The sun hits it in the morning, shines like a million bucks.”
The album opens with a classic wide open road song on Good As Gone, the restless spirit of the adventurer bouncing out of the speakers buoyed on frantically scrubbed acoustic guitar, a propulsive rhythm and some muscular guitar breaks. There are several such numbers here. Love Won’t Make Itself starts off as a breezy Fleetwood Mac like number before Dugmore’s pedal steel weighs in and transports the song into cosmic cowboy territory. Even better is the fiery Until It’s Gone with Starr singing, “Of the ten commandments I’ve broken nine, and the tenth I’ll believe I’ll break in time,” as the band really rock out with barrelhouse piano, wicked slide guitar and caroming bass and drums, the song coming across as a brilliant mash of Springsteen and Joe Walsh.
Nestled between these rousing anthems are several more laid back numbers. The sweet accordion and pedal steel laced Don’t Give Me Hope, the yearning that is the mandolin speckled Night Rolls Around, a song reminiscent of Jackson Browne, and the closing These Damn Goodbyes, an excellent song which conveys a wonderful sense of bittersweet memories and letting go. Nestled within these songs Starr conjures up an excellent cover of Elton John’s Country Comfort, a fine reminder that the man with the funny specs (and his writing partner) used to matter. While it’s fairly faithful to the original the band swell out the song excellently and Starr sounds uncannily like John. He’s aided and abetted here by his quartet of harmony singers who sing throughout the album adding yet more texture to the fine band sound.
All in all South and West is an almost perfect collection of breezy country rock with some added muscle provided by the excellent ensemble playing. Starr is obviously well versed in his forebears and he is well able to dig a similar seam. Perfect summer listening.
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DIDIRRI - MEASUREMENTS (2018) (24bit Hi-Res) FLAC
Artist: DIDIRRI | Album: MEASUREMENTS | Released: 2018 | Genre: Folk, Acoustic, Pop
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Etsakor – Sound Voices vol.2 Ijebor Records 1978
Uit 1978 en op Ijebor hebben we deze plaat vandaag. Etsakor
Sound Voices uit Nigeria. Hij kraakt behoorlijk maar ik wilde
hem toch brengen. Ik kan er weinig zinnigs over zeggen maar
telkens als ik er naar luister intrigeert hij me. De laidback
sound is ondanks de mindere geluidskwaliteit heel fijn.
Van de laatste beurs in Utrecht bracht ik een stapel
duistere Nigeriaanse platen mee naar huis waarvan
dit er eentje is, meer obscuur materiaal volgt..
From 1978 and on Ijebor Records we’ve got this record today.
Etsakor Sound Voices from Nigeria. It has a considerable
amount of background noise but I wanted to bring it anyway.
There is not much I can say about it but everytime I listen to
it I get intrigued. The laidback sound is very nice despite
the crackle and hiss. Brought home a pile of mysterious
Nigerian records from the last fair in Utrecht of which
this is one. More obscure material to follow..
tracks ;
01 – Alhaji y.a. ahmed managing director
—–Y.a. ahmed group of company ltd. kaduna
02 – Oke oke accountant odidi
03 – Patrick okolo sp. pace industry warri
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Kontor Top Of The Clubs - The Ultimate House Collection II (2018)
Artist: Various Performers
Title: Kontor Top Of The Clubs - The Ultimate House Collection II
Label: Kontor Records GmbH
Style: UK Garage, Groove, Disco, New Jack Swing, Funky, Club, Eurodance, Progressive, Dream Trance
Release Date: 06-07-2018
Format: CD, Compilation, Mixed
Quality: 256 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 03 Tracks
Time: 03:36:49 Min
Size: 381 MB
Title: Kontor Top Of The Clubs - The Ultimate House Collection II
Label: Kontor Records GmbH
Style: UK Garage, Groove, Disco, New Jack Swing, Funky, Club, Eurodance, Progressive, Dream Trance
Release Date: 06-07-2018
Format: CD, Compilation, Mixed
Quality: 256 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 03 Tracks
Time: 03:36:49 Min
Size: 381 MB
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Options Sound Convention 180615 (2018)
Artist: Various Performers
Title: Options Sound Convention 180615
Label: Zhyk Group
Style: Future House, Moombahton, Reggaeton, Trap, Country, Progressive, Electro, Indie Dance
Release Date: 16-06-2018
Format: CD, Compilation
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 112 Tracks
Time: 06:53:28 MIn
Size: 1004 MB
Title: Options Sound Convention 180615
Label: Zhyk Group
Style: Future House, Moombahton, Reggaeton, Trap, Country, Progressive, Electro, Indie Dance
Release Date: 16-06-2018
Format: CD, Compilation
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 112 Tracks
Time: 06:53:28 MIn
Size: 1004 MB
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Top Selection Dance Today 15 June (2018)
Artist: Various Performers
Title: Top Selection Dance Today
Label: Zhyk Group
Style: Club, Future Bass, Nu Disco, Tropical, Reggae Fusion, Hands Up
Release Date: 16-06-2018
Format: CD, Compilation
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 25 Tracks
Time: 01:39:07 Min
Title: Top Selection Dance Today
Label: Zhyk Group
Style: Club, Future Bass, Nu Disco, Tropical, Reggae Fusion, Hands Up
Release Date: 16-06-2018
Format: CD, Compilation
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 25 Tracks
Time: 01:39:07 Min
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Power Hits Estate (2018)
Artist: Various Performers
Title: Power Hits Estate
Label: Baraonda Edizioni Musicali
Style: Folk, Rock, Latin, Indie, Alternative, Disco, Reggae
Release Date: 06-07-2018
Format: CD, Compilation
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 62 Tracks
Title: Power Hits Estate
Label: Baraonda Edizioni Musicali
Style: Folk, Rock, Latin, Indie, Alternative, Disco, Reggae
Release Date: 06-07-2018
Format: CD, Compilation
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 62 Tracks
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Mastermix Grandmaster - Summer Shakedown (June 2018)
Artist: Mastermix
Title: Grandmaster Summer Shakedown June 2018
Label: Music Factory
Style: Reggae Fusion, Nu-Disco, Eurodance, Merengue Latin, Tropical, Dancehall
Release Date: 01-07-2018
Format: CDr, Megamix CD, Mixed
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 01 Track
Time: 00:57:12 Min
Size: 131 MB
Title: Grandmaster Summer Shakedown June 2018
Label: Music Factory
Style: Reggae Fusion, Nu-Disco, Eurodance, Merengue Latin, Tropical, Dancehall
Release Date: 01-07-2018
Format: CDr, Megamix CD, Mixed
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Codec: MP3
Tracks: 01 Track
Time: 00:57:12 Min
Size: 131 MB
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Ben Tyler Johnson – Whiskey over You (2018)
320 kbps | 72 MB | LINKS
A man of few spoken words, Ben Tyler Johnson sure has a lot to say. He’s as old-school Texas as they come, blue collar to his core, dusty boots and Wranglers his signature look. Songwriting is his passion, and his written words are countless, sometimes writing ten songs in a day. He’s a hard-working man with dreams as big as the Lone Star State—dreams like writing songs that’ll someday grace the likes of country’s most classic artists
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Walk Off the Earth - R.E.V.O. (2013) FLAC (tracks + .cue)
Artist: Walk Off the Earth | Album: R.E.V.O. | Released: 2013 | Genre: Indie, Rock, Reggae | Country: Canada | Duration: 00:36:22
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