Santana – Santana III (1971) [2021, Japan Limited Edition, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Santana - Santana III  (1971) [2021, Japan Limited Edition, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Santana – Santana III (1971) [2021, Japan Limited Edition, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel (Quadraphonic) | Scans Included
Total Size: 3.24 GB (ISO) + 5.89 GB (DSF) + 2.45 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Records | Japan | Cat#: SICP 10138 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Latin Rock

Santana III is an album that undeservingly stands in the shadows behind the towering legend that is the band’s second album, Abraxas. This was also the album that brought guitarist Neal Schon — who was 17 years old — into the original core lineup of Santana. Percussionist Thomas “Coke” Escovedo was brought in to replace (temporarily) José Chepitó Areas, who had suffered a brain aneurysm, yet who recovered quickly and rejoined the band. Continue reading “Santana – Santana III (1971) [2021, Japan Limited Edition, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Santana – Blessings And Miracles (2021)

Santana - Blessings And Miracles (2021)

Santana – Blessings And Miracles (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 485 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BMG | US | Cat#: 538714542 | Genre: Pop Rock, Latin Rock

Blessings and Miracles belongs to the Supernatural lineage, an album where Santana often cedes the spotlight to a diverse array of guest stars. What sounded fresh in 1999 now sounds slightly formulaic in 2021, especially since Santana reunite with Rob Thomas, the Matchbox Twenty singer who helped turn Supernatural’s “Smooth” into an international hit back in the days of Y2K. Continue reading “Santana – Blessings And Miracles (2021)”

Various Artists – The Hits Album The 70s Pop Album Strikes Back! (2020) [4CD]

Various Artists - The Hits Album The 70s Pop Album Strikes Back! (2020) [4CD]

Various Artists – The Hits Album The 70s Pop Album Strikes Back! (2020) [4CD]
EAC Rip | 4xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.79 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: UMC | EU | Cat#: 19439721072 | Genre: World, Funk, Pop Rock
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Santana – Blessings And Miracles (2021) [Official Digital Release] [Hi-Res]

Santana - Blessings And Miracles (2021) [Official Digital Release] [Hi-Res]

Santana – Blessings And Miracles (2021) [Official Digital Release] [Hi-Res]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 1.28 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BMG | Genre: Latin Rock, World, Pop Rock

Music legend and guitar master Carlos Santana delivers one of the most ambitious, inspired and flat-out magical records of his storied career. There’s thrilling feats of bravura musicianship that pair the guitar master with fellow icons like Chick Corea and Steve Winwood, knockout rockers with Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Living Colour’s Corey Glover, and genre-bending, hook-filled celebrations featuring Rob Thomas, Chris Stapleton, G-Eazy, American Authors and Ally Brooke, among others. The album’s first single, “Move,” is the long-awaited reteaming of Santana and Matchbox 20 vocalist Rob Thomas, and it’s a sensation. Thomas is dynamic and magnetic, and he’s ably backed by the punchy vocal talents of American Authors (especially the band’s Zac Barnett, who takes the lead spot in the second verse). Continue reading “Santana – Blessings And Miracles (2021) [Official Digital Release] [Hi-Res]”

Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club (1997) [2021, 50th Anniversary Edition, Remastered, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]

Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (1997) [2021, 50th Anniversary Edition, Remastered, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]

Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club (1997) [2021, 50th Anniversary Edition, Remastered, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
WEB Download | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 2.58 GB (Hi-Res) + 753 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: World Circuit | Genre: World, Jazz, Latin

This album is named after a members-only club that was opened in Havana in pre-Castro times, a period of unbelievable musical activity in Cuba. While bandleader Desi Arnaz became a huge hit in the States, several equally talented musicians never saw success outside their native country, and have had nothing but their music to sustain them during the Castro reign. Ry Cooder went to Cuba to record a musical documentary of these performers. Continue reading “Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club (1997) [2021, 50th Anniversary Edition, Remastered, WEB, CD-Quality + Hi-Res]”

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – La Camorra: La Soledad De La Provocación Apasionada (1989) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet - La Camorra: La Soledad De La Provocación Apasionada (1989) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – La Camorra: La Soledad De La Provocación Apasionada (1989) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2 GB (ISO) + 922 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: American Clavé | Japan | Cat#: ewsac 1021 | Genre: Jazz, latin

Astor Piazzolla, who was by far the world’s leading exponent of tango music and a gifted composer as well as a world-class bandoneon player, died in 1992, four years after this album was originally recorded and released on the American Clave label. Continue reading “Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – La Camorra: La Soledad De La Provocación Apasionada (1989) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero (1986) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet - Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero (1986) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero (1986) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.93 GB (ISO) + 871 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: American Clavé | Japan | Cat#: ewsac 1013 | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Tango

Considered by Piazzolla to be his best work, 1986’s Tango Zero Hour was the culmination of a career that began in Argentina in the 1930s. Piazzolla started out auspiciously enough working with one of the brightest lights of the classic tango era, singer Carlos Gardél. After Gardél’s tragic death in 1935 (by turning down an offer to tour with the singer at the age of 13, Piazzolla amazingly avoided the plane crash that killed Gardél), Piazzolla went on to perfect his bandoneón playing in various tango bands during the ’40s and ’50s, eventually studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Continue reading “Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero (1986) [2010, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Astor Piazzolla – The Rough Dancer And The Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) (1988) [2009, Japanese Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Astor Piazzolla – The Rough Dancer And The Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) (1988) [2009, Japanese Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Astor Piazzolla – The Rough Dancer And The Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) (1988) [2009, Japanese Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.72 GB (ISO) + 795 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: American Clavé | Japan | Cat#: ewsac 1019 | Genre: Tango, Latin

This fine Astor Piazzolla album came on the heels of the tango innovator’s universally praised Tango: Zero Hour from 1986. Back again for this outing are Quinteto Nueva Tango members like pianist Pablo Zinger and violinist Fernando Suarez Paz, with guest spots being filled by bassist Andy Gonzalez and Latin jazz alto sax star Paquito d’Rivera. Continue reading “Astor Piazzolla – The Rough Dancer And The Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) (1988) [2009, Japanese Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Eleanor McEvoy – Out There (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Eleanor McEvoy - Out There (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Eleanor McEvoy – Out There (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 979 MB (ISO) + 1.14 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Moscodisc | Ireland | Cat#: MOSACD303 | Genre: Folk, World, & Country

This new studio album from Ireland’s most accomplished female singer songwriter features twelve brand new tracks, including “Quote I Love You Unquote” written with Dave Rotheray of the Beautiful South. This collection of upbeat songs take a wry view on life, love and modern society. Eleanor does it all on this album, contributing vocals, guitars, mandolin, keyboards, electric bass and percussion on the disc! Highlights include covers of the Marvin Gaye classic “Mercy Mercy Me” and Lowell George’s “Roll Um Easy” and “Non-Smoking Single Female.” Continue reading “Eleanor McEvoy – Out There (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Eleanor McEvoy – Early Hours (2004) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Eleanor McEvoy - Early Hours (2004) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Eleanor McEvoy – Early Hours (2004) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.60 GB (ISO) + 2.19 GB (FLAC MCH) + 859 MB (FLAC STEREO) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Market Square | Ireland | Cat#: MSM51SACD128 | Genre: Folk, Country, World

‘Early Hours’ takes Eleanor McEvoy’s music to new heights. Couched now in a mature jazz/blues context, her melodic and sensitive songs – packed as ever with wry, insightful social observation – benefit from first rate performances. “It would be a tragedy given the exquisite understated magnificence and warmth of these 42 minutes if all Eleanor McEvoy were remembered is ‘fl Woman’s Heart”. Eleanor’s Dido-before-Dido voice and some of the best happy/sad songs she has ever written plus deconstructed classics by Chuck Berry and Bert Jansch, this is her ‘White Ladder’, her ‘Life for Rent’. a triumph. MOJO. Continue reading “Eleanor McEvoy – Early Hours (2004) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Gotan Project – La Revancha Del Tango (2001) [2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango (2001) [2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Gotan Project – La Revancha Del Tango (2001) [2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.75 GB (ISO) + 3.41 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.13 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Barclay | EU | Cat#: 981 878-7 | Genre: Electronic, latin

An unrivaled collection of themes representing a unique fusion amid traditional forms of music and the nouvelle fields of electronica, Gotan Project’s La Revancha del Tango discloses unknown frontiers for the modern beat explorers. Inspired by Argentinean tango, Philippe Cohen Solal and Christophe H. Müller, responsible for projects such as Boys From Brazil or Stereo Action Unlimited, united their efforts with Eduardo Makaroff to record what ultimately became a daring musical piece. Continue reading “Gotan Project – La Revancha Del Tango (2001) [2004, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Eugene Ruffolo – Even Santa Gets The Blues (2009) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Eugene Ruffolo - Even Santa Gets The Blues (2009) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Eugene Ruffolo – Even Santa Gets The Blues (2009) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.12 GB (ISO) + 978 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Stockfisch Records | Germany | Cat#: SFR 357.4066.2 | Genre: Pop, World, Xmas

When it comes to Christmas, there are two camps. There are those who find it commercial and hollow, and those who are bewitched by the season’s traditions, music, and unique magic. 1 fall decidedly in the latter category. lt’s long been an ambition of mine to record a Christmas CD, and when I approached Günter Pauler with the idea last year, he was more than enthusiastic. Continue reading “Eugene Ruffolo – Even Santa Gets The Blues (2009) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Kodō – One Earth Tour Special (2004) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Kodō - One Earth Tour Special (2004) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Kodō – One Earth Tour Special (2004) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 4.21 GB (ISO) + 2.95 GB (FLAC Mch) + 1.09 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | Japan | Cat#: SICL 10001 | Genre: Folk, World, Country

Since their debut at the Berlin Festival in 1981 , Kodo has brought the sound of the taiko to the ears of the world through their ongoing “One Earth Tour” Through this continuing project Koda uses the taiko’s unique ability to transcend language and cultural barriers and reminds listeners in all places of their membership in a larger community : the world. Continue reading “Kodō – One Earth Tour Special (2004) [Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall – Jérusalem – La Ville Des Deux Paix : La Paix Céleste Et La Paix Terrestre (2008) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall - Jérusalem - La Ville Des Deux Paix : La Paix Céleste Et La Paix Terrestre (2008) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall – Jérusalem – La Ville Des Deux Paix : La Paix Céleste Et La Paix Terrestre (2008) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
2x SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 7.29 GB (ISO) + 5.93 GB (FLAC Mch) + 2.73 GB (FLAC Stereo) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Alia Vox | EU | Cat#: AVSA 9863 A+B | Genre: World, Medieval
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Harry Belafonte – Belafonte At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (1959) [2016, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Harry Belafonte - Belafonte At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (1959) [2016, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Harry Belafonte – Belafonte At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (1959) [2016, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
2x SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 4.03 GB (ISO) + 1.98GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music Direct | Japan | Cat#: SSVS-001~002 | Genre: World, Calypso

The granddaddy of all live albums, this double-LP set captured the excitement of a Harry Belafonte concert at the height of his popularity. Sampled from two consecutive performances of identical material, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall was an anomaly at a time when only comedy albums were recorded outside of the studio environment. Continue reading “Harry Belafonte – Belafonte At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (1959) [2016, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”