The Jacksons – Goin’ Places (Expanded Version) (1977/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]
The Jacksons – Goin’ Places (Expanded Version) (1977/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:55 minutes | 538 MB | Genre: Soul, Funk, R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
The Jacksons’ late-Seventies albums — recorded between the time they ditched the Jackson 5 moniker and Michael Jackson became solo superstar — will get a reappraisal in February in the form of expanded releases.
The group’s The Jacksons (1976), Goin’ Places (1977), and Destiny (1978) will arrive digitally on February 12th with the addition of bonus tracks. A double-LP edition of The Jacksons Live! (1981, recorded on the Triumph tour) will come out on March 25th.
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The Jacksons – Destiny (Expanded Version) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:35 minutes | 875 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
Epic Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release expanded digital editions of the classic albums recorded by The Jacksons as they built on their Jackson 5 boy band origins and emerged as avatars of an R&B/pop revolution.
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Jackson 5 – Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 (1969/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:30 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Motown
“Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5” is the debut studio album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band the Jackson 5, released on the Motown label in December 1969. Less than two weeks before the 1960s were left to be deciphered in the history books, Motown unleashed Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 (1969) and in doing so fittingly marked the beginning of a new era in crossover pop and soul. For all intents and purposes, this dozen-song disc introduced the world to the sibling talents of Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and most significantly of all, a prepubescent powerhouse named Michael Jackson. The brothers’ inextricably tight vocal harmonies were fueled by the ebullience of youth and inexperience while the flames of their collective success were stoked with the funkified vibe of urban America. Immediately evident is the influence that Sly & the Family Stone (whose “Stand!” is an unmitigated zenith in the Jackson 5’s care), James Brown, and even Funkadelic had on the J5. In fact, the quintet would actually cover George Clinton’s “I Bet You” on their sophomore effort, ABC (1970). The burgeoning sounds coming out of Philly were having a similarly sizable impact, as evidenced by the addition of the Thom Bell/William Hart track “Can You Remember,” which is one of the album’s highlights. Another discernibly affective force was found closer to home, as they also drew on the considerable Motown back catalog with “My Cherie Amour,” “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” and a powerful reading of “(I Know) I’m Losing You.” Under the moniker of “the Corporation,” Motown staffers and artists including Bobby Taylor, instrumentalists Deke Richards (guitar), Freddie Perren (keyboard) , and Fonce Mizell (keyboards), and the label’s co-founder, Berry Gordy, came up with a handful of dominant originals. Prominent among them are the midtempo “Nobody” and their double-sided chart-topping single “I Want You Back” b/w the Smokey Robinson-penned “Who’s Lovin’ You.”
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The Isley Brothers & Santana – Power Of Peace (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:07 minutes | 816 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
Led by the legendary Ronald Isley on lead vocals and the album’s main producer/arranger Carlos Santana on lead guitar, rhythm guitar, percussion and background vocals, Power of Peace covers songs first made familiar by the Chambers Brothers (“Are You Ready”, “Love, Peace, Happiness”), Swamp Dogg (“Total Destruction to Your Mind”), Stevie Wonder (“Higher Ground”), Billie Holiday (“God Bless the Child”), Eddie Kendricks (“Body Talk”), Curtis Mayfield (“Gypsy Woman”), Muddy Waters/Willie Dixon (“I Just Want to Make Love to You”), Dionne Warwick/Jackie DeShannon (“What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love”), Marvin Gaye (“Mercy Mercy Me – The Ecology”), Leon Thomas (“Let the Rain Fall on Me”) and Sy Miller and Jill Jackson (“Let There Be Peace on Earth”). Power of Peace also premieres a new song, “I Remember”, written and sung by Cindy Blackman Santana.
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The Isley Brothers & Jimi Hendrix – In the Beginning (1971/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:03 minutes | 603 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
One bit of positive fallout from the seemingly endless glut of remastered CD reissues that fill the record store bins each Tuesday is that they sometimes offer an occasion to throw all critical objectivity to the wind. When a recording is an acknowledged classic, a writer generally has but two options — go against the grain to poke holes in its legacy, or celebrate its already known brilliance and hope there’s some piece of previously unavailable insight to be had. Well, The Isley Brothers’ 1973 soul masterpiece 3 + 3, recently cleaned up and put back into circulation by Epic/Legacy, leaves this critic no choice but to follow the path of least resistance and offer three reasons as to why it’s one of the most indisputably amazing R&B records of all time.
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Heavy Water – Dreams Of Yesterday (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:43 minutes | 448 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Silver Lining Music
Heavy Water, the lockdown project from Saxon frontman Biff Byford and his son Seb Byford, is entering its second round with the follow-up album to Red Brick City (2021).
Songs with a rich groove, great riffs – a swinging collection of timeless rock’n’roll with the beautiful title “Dreams of Yesterday”. The album Dreams of Yesterday has a proud, sweaty thrust and begins with the psychedelic swinging title track: “Dreams of Yesterday”. Musically, it is not necessarily associated with the north of England – it is more reminiscent of a patchouli-scented summer night in Los Angeles.
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Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra – Scary Music (2002/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:46 minutes | 2,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Scary Music features an eerie collection of sound effects and frighteningly memorable performances of theme music from such well-known Hollywood horror films as Ghostbusters, The Blob, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, The Haunting, Sleepy Hollow and The Shining. Also included are themes from television series Tales from the Crypt, Dark Shadows, The Munsters, and Addams Family.
Popular songs provide yet another source for Scary Music. Two of the biggest singles of the early 1960s were one-hit wonders: the Ran-Dells’ “Martian Hop” and Bobby Pickett’s “Monster Mash”. Chilling pop music of a different sort is represented by Rod Temperton’s title song for Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, and Michael Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells”, which was used in the movie The Exorcist.
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Annie Ross – Annie Ross And Friends – Annie’s Lament (In Memoriam Annie Ross) (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:50 minutes | 725 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Annabelle McCauley Allan Short (25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020), known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
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Richard Townend, The Mighty BossCats – Are You the Person You’ve Always Wanted to Be? (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:25:04 minutes | 982 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Mighty BossCats
The latest fantastic album form the Mighty Boasscats – dripping with quality songs and musicianship. “‘Are You The Person You’ve Wanted To Be?’ maintains this trend as it slips oh so easily into the listener’s ears with a laid back groove JJ Cale would be proud of. It’s reminiscent of that period when UK players were challenging the Americans as to who could be the swampiest, most soulful and grooviest, with bands like Ace and singers like Jess Roden almost winning the competition. American import Jeb Loy Nicol still flies that flag and The Mighty Bosscats are here to support him on the joysome grooves of ‘How’s It All Come To This’ and the bluesy ‘How Many Times’. Best of all is the witty take on modern dating on ‘Several Ways To Replace A Lover‘ although it has to be said that when they belt up and put on boots and braces on ‘Weatherman’ they strike out quite mightily. Overall the groove is boss here and for that Townend is to be thanked.”
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Postscript – à Amsterdam (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:46 minutes | 2,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TRPTK
The idea to dedicate an album to music from Amsterdam, where Postscript was formed, had been on our minds for some time, but it really came into focus with the beginning of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. We were isolating at our respective homes in Amsterdam; however, on the rare occasions that music- making was possible, we were able to do it together, since we formed a small enough group to gather safely. The hectic travel schedules that normally shaped our lives came to a halt, and we had the opportunity to spend more time in our home city, enjoying contemplative walks in the eerily now-quiet streets. It was, therefore, quite natural to keep the theme of local exploration and to base our next musical project around the city of Amsterdam, by rediscovering a part of its history that is underappreciated by both musicians and audiences today.
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Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto & Marco Angius – Henze: Reinventions Arrangements of Mozart, C.P.E. Bach & Vitali (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:41 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
German composer Hans Werner Henze’s (1926–2012) admiration for the great masters of the Baroque and musical Classicism manifested in compositions born from a desire to transcribe, rework and transform 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces into new orchestral textures. The project Travestimenti (Disguises), managed by conductor Marco Angius and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, from which this CD was created, makes reference to Henze’s ‘reinventions’ of masterpieces by Mozart, C.P.E. Bach and Vitali, clothed in new, modern fashion.
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Matt Haimovitz, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dennis Russell Davies – De Hartmann: Cello Concerto (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:09 minutes | 384 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
Cellist Matt Haimovitz, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies present the first commercial recording of Ukrainian unsung composer Thomas de Hartmann’s cello concerto. De Hartmann was an important compositional voice in his own time, connected to the greatest musicians and artists of his era, but has sunk into oblivion after his death in 1956.
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Labirinti Armonici – Bonporti: Sonatas, Op. 6 for 2 Violins and B.C. (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:06 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Volume 4 in a critically acclaimed survey of Bonporti’s music reaches Op.6, perhaps the most overlooked treasure in the output of the ‘gentleman from Trento’. This was the nickname bestowed on himself by Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672 – 1749), who was born in the northern Italian city, and made his career as a musician in the surrounding region before dying in Padova.
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La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Leipzig Cantatas (Remastered) (2001/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:25 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
The Christmas cantatas have in common the use of a church chorale as their conceptual starting point, and their intimate performing forces. In Bach’s output they constitute a kind of meditation on the meaning of the feast of Christmas.
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