Richard Bennett – Tall Tale Tunes (2021)

Richard Bennett - Tall Tale Tunes (2021)

Richard Bennett – Tall Tale Tunes (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 206 MB
Label: Moderne Shellac | US | Cat#: MSCD 107 | Genre: Jazz, Blues, Pop

Tall Tale Tunes is the latest instalment in an ongoing series of guitar instrumental masterpieces from Richard Bennett. This project like its predecessors, is a study in the art of touch, tone, taste and timing. The compositions are exquisitely crafted scores with melodies that carry the listener on dreamy flights of fantasy, up and don the fretboards of various guitars that can only be made to sound the way they do in the hands of Richard Bennett. Continue reading “Richard Bennett – Tall Tale Tunes (2021)”

Novelty Island – Wallsend Weekend Television (2023)

Novelty Island - Wallsend Weekend Television (2023)

Novelty Island – Wallsend Weekend Television (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 301 MB
Label: Nine x Nine | UK | Cat#: NXN015CD | Genre: Pop

Novelty Island follow up their stunning debut How Are You Coping With This Century? with Wallsend Weekend Television. Novelty Island is the bizarre-pop project of Liverpool-based songwriter / producer, Tom McConnell. Wallsend Weekend Television is an album that has been a long time coming. His body of work started taking shape through various incarnations and projects over the years. In 2018 he made the ultimate pilgrimage from his native north to Abbey Road Institute with all of these songs in hand. Continue reading “Novelty Island – Wallsend Weekend Television (2023)”

Norah Jones – …Little Broken Hearts (2012) [2023, Japanese SHM-CD, Deluxe Edition]

Norah Jones - ...Little Broken Hearts (2012) [2023, Japanese SHM-CD, Deluxe Edition]

Norah Jones – …Little Broken Hearts (2012) [2023, Japanese SHM-CD, Deluxe Edition]
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 887 MB
Label: Universal Music LLC. | Japan | Cat#: UCCQ-1185/6 | Genre: Folk, Country, World

Norah Jones defied expectations with her 5th studio album Little Broken Hearts, a striking collaboration with Danger Mouse that arrived a decade after her debut Come Away With Me, prompting SPIN to call it “the 2nd essential record of Norah Jones’ career.” Deluxe Edition features an expanded 31-track set curated by Jones with rare bonus tracks, alternate versions, remixes, and a previously unreleased live version of the album recorded for Austin City Limits in 2012. Continue reading “Norah Jones – …Little Broken Hearts (2012) [2023, Japanese SHM-CD, Deluxe Edition]”

Michael Bolton – Spark Of Light (2023) [Deluxe Edition]

Michael Bolton - Spark Of Light (2023) [Deluxe Edition]

Michael Bolton – Spark Of Light (2023) [Deluxe Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 391MB
Label: Montaigne Records | US | Cat#: A23001-2 | Genre: Pop

Deluxe edition includes two bonus tracks. 2023 release. Spark Of Light is the first album of original music co-written by Michael Bolton in almost 15 years. Michael worked with contemporary writers, producers, artists and DJs including Walk The Moon frontman Nicholas Petricca, Zac Barnett (American Authors), Justin Jesso (songwriter and featured singer on “Stargazing” with Kygo), producer Tushar Apte (Demi Lovato, ZAYN, Nicki Minaj, Adam Levine, Noah Cyrus) and many more. Continue reading “Michael Bolton – Spark Of Light (2023) [Deluxe Edition]”

Thread – Thread (1995) [2023, Remastered, 2CD]

Thread - Thread (1995) [2023, Remastered, 2CD]

Thread – Thread (1995) [2023, Remastered, 2CD]
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 819 MB
Label: Escape Music | UK | Cat#: ESM377 | Genre: Progressive Rock, Arena Rock

Film coomposer VinceDicola and former Jethro Tull drummer Doane Perry have a long music history together and have been close friends for decades. Thread, featuring DiCola alongside vocalist Ellis Hall, was a band that proudly offered progressive rock at its finest. Continue reading “Thread – Thread (1995) [2023, Remastered, 2CD]”

Rory Gallagher – All Around Man (Live In London) (2023)

Rory Gallagher – All Around Man (Live In London) (2023)

Rory Gallagher – All Around Man (Live In London) (2023)
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 692 MB
Label: Cadet Concept | EU | Cat#: 4882495 | Genre: Blues Rock

All Around Man – Live In London features a collection of 23 live career classics as well as material from his then latest albums, Fresh Evidence and Defender. Also included is a previously unreleased concert from Rory Gallagher’s late 1990 U.K. tour. Mixed from recently found multi-tracks and mastered at Abbey Road Studios. Digipak 2 CD set. Continue reading “Rory Gallagher – All Around Man (Live In London) (2023)”

Mother Gong – The Robot Woman Trilogy (2019) [Box Set]

Mother Gong - The Robot Woman Trilogy (2019) [Box Set]

Mother Gong – The Robot Woman Trilogy (2019) [Box Set]
EAC Rip | 4xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.22 GB
Label: Madfish | UK | Cat#: SMABX1097 | Genre: Jazz Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Newly remastered and presented in deluxe 64-page hardback book with fourth disc of new material Gilli Smyth, co-founder of Gong alongside Daevid Allen, formed Mother Gong with Harry Williamson in 1978. Mother Gong’s ‘Robot Woman’ trilogy is widely accepted as one of the pinnacles of the band’s career. Previously only available on 3 vinyl LP releases pressed in small number in the 1980’s this long-awaited release heralds the first appearance of ‘Robot Woman’ 1, 2 and 3 on CD, something devoted Gongsters have been requesting for years. Continue reading “Mother Gong – The Robot Woman Trilogy (2019) [Box Set]”

Village People – The Album Collection 1977-1985 (2020) [Box Set]

Village People - The Album Collection 1977-1985 (2020) [Box Set]

Village People – The Album Collection 1977-1985 (2020) [Box Set]
EAC Rip | 10xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.17 GB
Label: Edsel | EU | Cat#: EDSL0061 | Genre: Pop, Disco

Village people were a phenomenon and one of the most successful pop groups of the late-1970s, selling tens of millions of Records worldwide, charting one of the all-time top 40 best-selling singles. They were known for their catchy tunes, on-stage costumes and suggestive lyrics but they transcended all barriers. They simply released great pop Records, which were mostly composed and produced by Jacques morali for can’t Stop productions, INC., who came up with the group’s concept. Continue reading “Village People – The Album Collection 1977-1985 (2020) [Box Set]”

Extreme – Six (2023)

Extreme - SIX (2023)

Extreme – SIX (2023)
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Total Size: 395 MB
Label: Ear Music | EU | Cat#: 0218614EMU | Genre: Hard Rock

Fifteen years in the making, Extreme’s sixth studio album (the aptly named Six) is the long-gestating follow-up to 2008’s workmanlike Saudades de Rock, which marked the studio debut of new drummer Kevin Figueiredo. Featuring the same crew (Gary Cherone, Nuno Bettencourt, Pat Badger, and Figueiredo), the 12-song set is as polished, energetic, and inventive as one would expect from musicians of this caliber Continue reading “Extreme – Six (2023)”

Ian Anderson – The Secret Language Of Birds (2000)

Ian Anderson - The Secret Language Of Birds (2000)

Ian Anderson – The Secret Language Of Birds (2000)
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Total Size: 402 MB
Label: Papillon Records | UK | Cat#: BTFLYCD0002 | Genre: Progressive Rock

The Secret Language of Birds is Ian Anderson’s third solo album, but the first to specifically highlight his melodic skill and guitar prowess on a set of folk-inspired songs. His first solo album, 1983’s Walk into Light, was marred by its full embrace of sterile ’80s production in lieu of rusticity. Continue reading “Ian Anderson – The Secret Language Of Birds (2000)”

Nighthawk – Prowler (2023) [Japanese Edition]

Nighthawk - Prowler (2023) [Japanese Edition]

Nighthawk – Prowler (2023) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 287 MB
Label: Marquee Inc. | Japan | Cat#: MICP-11787 | Genre: Hard Rock

Friday night. The weekend is still a brilliant prospect and the tiredness suddenly transforms intoan energetic urge to have fun, to go on the prowl, to just live. hat’s when NIGHTHAWK’sperfect blend of classic AOR and world-class hard rock kicks in best. Unapologetic, in-your-faceand brilliant-as-fuck. “Prowler”, their new album, delivers exactly what it promise: first classrock’n’roll. Nighthawk started out as a solo project by Robert Majd (bass player in Metalite & Captain Black Beard). After that first album release in the summer of 2021 Robert got an itch to do more. Continue reading “Nighthawk – Prowler (2023) [Japanese Edition]”

Gov’t Mule – Peace…Like A River (2023) [Deluxe Edition]

Gov't Mule - Peace...Like A River (2023) [Deluxe Edition]

Gov’t Mule – Peace…Like A River (2023) [Deluxe Edition]
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 739 MB
Label: Fantasy | Cat#: FAN02046 | Genre: Blues Rock, Southern Rock

Though sounding completely different from one another, Gov’t Mule’s Peace…Like a River is a companion album to 2021’s Heavy Load Blues. The dates were actually recorded simultaneously in different spaces inside the same studio. In different rooms, the band — guitarist / vocalist Warren Haynes, drummer Matt Abts, bassist Jorgen Carlsson, and keyboardist Danny Louis Continue reading “Gov’t Mule – Peace…Like A River (2023) [Deluxe Edition]”

Jethro Tull – RökFlöte (2023) [Japanese Blu-spec CD2]

Jethro Tull - RökFlöte (2023) [Japanese Blu-spec CD2]

Jethro Tull – RökFlöte (2023) [Japanese Blu-spec CD2]
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Total Size: 416 MB
Label: Sony Records Int’l | Japan | Cat#: SICP-31603 | Genre: Progressive Rock

RökFlöte – Jethro Tull – The name of the album comes from “Rock Flute” as the original idea was to make an album of mostly instrumental flute music. But eventually Ian Anderson stated that he was drawn to the phrase Ragnarök with “rök” meaning destiny, course, or direction. Continue reading “Jethro Tull – RökFlöte (2023) [Japanese Blu-spec CD2]”