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Chicago – The Chicago Transit Authority (1969) [MFSL 2015] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Chicago – The Chicago Transit Authority (1969) [MFSL 2015]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 76:49 minutes | Scans included | 3,09 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,48 GB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2134
Genre: Rock

Few debut albums can boast as consistently solid an effort as the self-titled Chicago Transit Authority (1969). Even fewer can claim to have enough material to fill out a double-disc affair. Although this long- player was ultimately the septet’s first national exposure, the group was far from the proverbial “overnight sensation.” Under the guise of the Big Thing, the group soon to be known as CTA had been honing its eclectic blend of jazz, classical, and straight-ahead rock & roll in and around the Windy City for several years. Their initial non-musical meeting occurred during a mid-February 1967 confab between the original combo at Walter Parazaider’s apartment on the north side of Chi Town. Over a year later, Columbia Records staff producer James Guercio became a key supporter of the group, which he rechristened Chicago Transit Authority. In fairly short order the band relocated to the West Coast and began woodshedding the material that would comprise this title. In April of 1969, the dozen sides of Chicago Transit Authority unleashed a formidable and ultimately American musical experience. This included an unheralded synthesis of electric guitar wailin’ rock & roll to more deeply rooted jazz influences and arrangements. This approach economized the finest of what the band had to offer — actually two highly stylized units that coexisted with remarkable singularity. On the one hand, listeners were presented with an incendiary rock & roll quartet of Terry Kath (lead guitar/vocals), Robert Lamm (keyboards/vocals), Peter Cetera (bass/vocals), and Danny Seraphine (drums). They were augmented by the equally aggressive power brass trio that included Lee Loughnane (trumpet/vocals), James Pankow (trombone), and the aforementioned Parazaider (woodwind/vocals). This fusion of rock with jazz would also yield some memorable pop sides and enthusiasts’ favorites as well. Most notably, a quarter of the material on the double album — “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?,” “Beginnings,” “Questions 67 and 68,” and the only cover on the project, Steve Winwood’s “I’m a Man” — also scored as respective entries on the singles chart. The tight, infectious, and decidedly pop arrangements contrast with the piledriving blues-based rock of “Introduction” and “South California Purples” as well as the 15-plus minute extemporaneous free for all “Liberation.” Even farther left of center are the experimental avant-garde “Free Form Guitar” and the politically intoned and emotive “Prologue, August 29, 1968″ and “Someday (August 29, 1968).” The 2003 remastered edition of Chicago Transit Authority offers a marked sonic improvement over all previous pressings — including the pricey gold disc incarnation.

Tracklist:
01. Introduction
02. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
03. Beginnings
04. Questions 67 And 68
05. Listen
06. Poem 58
07. Free Form Guitar
08. South California Purples
09. I’m A Man
10. Prologue, August 29, 1968
11. Someday (August 29, 1968)
12. Liberation

Mastered by Rob LoVerve at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA.

SACD-R

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Coryell, Bailey & White – Traffic (2006) [Hybrid-SACD] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Coryell, Bailey & White – Traffic (2006)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 2,81 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,14 GB | Artwork
Label/Cat#: Chesky Records # SACD 322 | Country/Year: US 2006 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Jazz | Style: Fusion, Contemporary Jazz

The latest Chesky Jazz recordings, The New York Sessions, are, to me, the best recordings ever because they are the most natural sounding ever. They always record live, not in studios, with minimal but highest quality technical equipment. There is no multi-tracking, overdubbing or compressing what makes the music sound so natural with its original dynamics. The lack of technical equipment may be the reason for the natural, pleasing sound of so many Jazz records of the 50`s, even the monaural ones, combined with the highest quality technical equipment of today Chesky makes the perfect sound. Listening to Cheskys for the first time you will recognize they are out of the ordinary, but I think you`ll have to get familiar with them to hear that they are best. In some of the booklets there are diagrams showing the positions of the musicians during the recording session. That was not necessary, you can see them when playing the record.
Uncommon for Chesky, this is an electric line up and Coryell and his guys are playing jazz-rock fusion of the best kind most time, eight of ten are originals plus Hendrix`s Manic Depression and Monk`s Misterioso. The whole thing sounds like jamming and improvising with fantastic solos and thrilling interplay, sometimes relaxed sometimes aggressive, always attracting. For example: Bailey and White are demonstrating for 7 minutes what “Drum & Bass” does mean to jazz men. One can use this instruments in another than a stupid way. If you like modern intelligent fusion by a small group, mixed with wonderful relaxed acoustic guitar tracks, here`s one for you. ~sa-cd.net

SACD Info:

Coryell, Bailey & White – Traffic

Label: Chesky Records
Catalog#: SACD 322
Format: Hybrid-SACD, Album, Stereo, MCH
Country: US
Released: 2006
Genre: Jazz
Style: Fusion, Contemporary Jazz

Tracklist:

01. Judith Loves Jazz
02. Manic Depression
03. Door #3
04. Joyce’s Favorite
05. Misterioso
06. Dedication
07. Drums & Bass
08. Jake’s Lullaby
09. Overruled
10. Electric Jam (aka Back in Our day)

Recorded April 17th 2006, St Peter’s Episcopal Church, NYC.

SACD-R

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FLAC 24-88.2

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Cream – Goodbye (1969) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Cream – Goodbye (1969) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 30:28 minutes | Scans NOT included | 1,23 MB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans NOT included | 614 MB
Gerne: Rock

After a mere three albums in just under three years, Cream called it quits in 1969. Being proper gentlemen, they said their formal goodbyes with a tour and a farewell album called — what else? — Goodbye. As a slim, six-song single LP, it’s far shorter than the rambling, out-of-control Wheels of Fire, but it boasts the same structure, evenly dividing its time between tracks cut on-stage and in the studio. While the live side contains nothing as indelible as “Crossroads,” the live music on the whole is better than that on Wheels of Fire, capturing the trio at an empathetic peak as a band. It’s hard, heavy rock, with Cream digging deep into their original “Politician” with the same intensity as they do on “Sitting on Top of the World,” but it’s the rampaging “I’m So Glad” that illustrates how far they’ve come; compare it to the original studio version on Fresh Cream and it’s easy to see just how much further they’re stretching their improvisation. The studio side also finds them at something of a peak. Boasting a song apiece from each member, it opens with the majestic classic “Badge,” co-written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison and ranking among both of their best work. It’s followed by Jack Bruce’s “Doing That Scrapyard Thing,” an overstuffed near-masterpiece filled with wonderful, imaginative eccentricities, and finally, there’s Ginger Baker’s tense, dramatic “What a Bringdown,” easily the best original he contributed to the group. Like all of Cream’s albums outside Disraeli Gears, Goodbye is an album of moments, not a tight cohesive work, but those moments are all quite strong on their own terms, making this a good and appropriate final bow.

Tracklist:
01. I’M So Glad (Live)
02. Politician (Live)
03. Sitting On Top Of The World (Live)
04. Badge
05. Doing That Scrapyard Thing
06. What A Bringdown

DSD flat transferred from analogue master tapes at Sterling Sound, NY, in 2014.
Edited in DSD by Masaru Takagi at at SUnrise Studio, Tokyo, in 2014.

SACD-R

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FLAC 24-88.2

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Dana Winner – Beautiful Life (2005) {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Dana Winner – Beautiful Life (2005)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 48:34 minutes | Scans included | 2,96 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 0,97 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound
Genre: Pop

Dana Winner is the stage name of Chantal Vanlee. She is a Belgian singer who is famous especially in Flanders and the Netherlands. After her first success, Dana Winner also became well known in Germany and South Africa. At the end of the 1990s, she began singing in other languages and did not release an album in Dutch between 2000 and 2006.

Tracklist:
01. It’s a beautiful life
02. Sail Away
03. Stand van de maan
04. Where your road leads
05. Every night
06. End of time
07. Wherever you go
08. Tweede jeugd
09. Angels
10. Love the one you’re with
11. Falling from grace
12. Je pense a toi
13. Man in the moon

SACD-R

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FLAC 24-88.2

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Dana Winner – Unforgettable Too (2002) {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Dana Winner – Unforgettable Too (2002)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:32 minutes | Scans included | 4,34 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,25 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound
Genre: Pop

Dana Winner is the stage name of Chantal Vanlee. She is a Belgian singer who is famous especially in Flanders and the Netherlands. After her first success, Dana Winner also became well known in Germany and South Africa. At the end of the 1990s, she began singing in other languages and did not release an album in Dutch between 2000 and 2006.

Tracklist:
01. Conquest of Paradise
02. Love Is All
03. Sealed With A Kiss
04. Everything I Do
05. Downtown
06. Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
07. Dust In The Wind
08. Try To Remember
09. It’s A Heartache
10. Love Is The Reason To Be
11. Crying
12. Plaisir d’Amour – Can’t Help Falling In Love
13. Against All Odds
14. Streets of London
15. ABBA Medley

SACD-R

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FLAC 24-88.2

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Dimitrie Cantemir – Hespèrion XXI / Savall – Istanbul: The Book of Science of Music (2009) [Hybrid-SACD] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Dimitrie Cantemir – Istanbul: The Book of Science of Music
Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall – Gursoy Dincer, Lior Elmaleh & Montserrat Figueras
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,29 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,13 GB | Full Artwork: 786 MB
Label/Cat#: Alia Vox # AVSA9870 | Country/Year: Spain 2009 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, World Classical

Jordi Savall’s continued interest in Mediterranean traditions brings him to Sephardic and Armenian music centered in Istanbul and an author who wrote The Book of the Science of Music, a volume that he discovered as he was preparing his earlier program Orient–Occident. Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723) had two brief spells as Prince of Moldavia but is better known as a leading intellectual of Eastern Europe and the only one with a reputation known in the West. His interesting background and career, told in the notes, need not be summarized here, but he grew up at the Sultan’s court while his father and brother were successive princes of Moldavia under the Sultan’s protection. Succeeding as prince, he transferred his allegiance to the tsar with disastrous results and spent his last 12 years in exile in Russia. His book contains 355 works, including nine of his own compositions, all notated in a system of his own devising. Seven works on this disc are makam taken from this source, another seven tracks are improvised preludes to each of them, and the remaining seven tracks are devoted to Sephardic and Armenian selections, the former drawn from Isaac Levy’s modern editions. Four other makam from the same book were heard in Orient–Occident.

While such an extended concert of unfamiliar and exotic instrumental music can be off-putting, repeated hearings become mesmerizing. The booklet identifies three separate groups of players for Turkish, Armenian, and Sephardic repertoire, but members of Hespèrion XXI are included in all three groups. The notes are printed in the label’s usual half-dozen languages as well as Turkish and Armenian (the last in its unique non-Roman alphabet). The 196-page booklet is lavish in its display of art and manuscripts of the period, photos of the performers, and the covers of the ensemble’s previous productions. The surround sound adds to the appeal of the production. Few labels are turning out such lavish albums as consistently and regularly as Savall’s own. – J.F. Weber, Fanfare

“This is a typical Alia Vox Hesperion release: sumptuously packaged, richly illustrated, and supported by edifying scholarly notes about the music and its historical context. It’s recorded in clear yet atmospheric sound…In addition to the late Montserrat Figueras, there is wonderful singing by the Israeli Lior Elmaleh ad the Turk Gursoy Dincer.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2012 *****

SACD Info:

Dimitrie Cantemir – Istanbul: The Book of Science of Music

Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall – Gursoy Dincer, Lior Elmaleh & Montserrat Figueras

Label: Alia Vox
Catalog#: AVSA9870
Format: Hybrid-SACD, Album, Stereo, Multichannel
Country: Spain
Released: 2009
Genre: Classical
Style: Classical, World

Tracklist:

1 Taksim (Kanun, Viele, Oud, Kemence et Tanbur) 2:48
2 Der makam-i Uzzal usules Devr-i kebir (Mss. Dimitri Cantemir 118) 3:03
3 Los Paxaricos (Isaac Levy I.59) – Macico de Rosas (I.Levy III.41) 5:06
4 Taksim (Kanun) 1:36
5 Der makam-i Muhayyer usules Muhammes (Mss. D.Cantemir 285) 5:05
6 Chant et Danse (2 Duduk et percussion) 4:01
7 Taksim (Oud) 1:18
8 Der makam-i Huseyni Sema i (Mss. D.Cantemir 268) 7:49
9 El amor yo no savia (I.Levy II.80) 4:09
10 Taksim (Lira) 1:32
11 Der makam-i Suri Semma’i (Mss. D.Cantemir 256) 3:33
12 Lamento: Ene Sarere (2 Duduk) 2:35
13 Madre de la gracia (I. Levy III.29) 3:06
14 Taksim (Kanun, Tanbur, Oud) 1:23
15 Der makam-i Saba Huseyni usules Cenber (Mss. D.Cantemir 96) 2:47
16 Taksim & Makam Esmkhetiet-Yis kou ghimeten-Tchim guichi 7:18
17 Taksim (Kanun, Tanbur, Oud) 1:31
18 Der makam-i Uzzal usules Berevsan (Mss. D.Cantemir 148) 3:20
19 Venturoso Mancevo (I. Levy II.58) 4:39
20 Taksim (Kemence, Kanun, Oud et Tanbur) 2:50
21 Der makam-i Huseyni Sakil-i Aga Riza (Mss. D.Cantemir 89) 3:31

HESPÈRION XXI
Yair Dalal oud
Driss El Maloumi oud
Pierre Hamon ney & flûte
Dimitri Psonis santur
Pedro Estevan percussion
Jordi Savall rebab, vielle et lire d’archet

MUSICIENS INVITÉES
Kudsi Erguner ney
Derya Türkan Istanbul kemençe
Yurdal Tokcan oud
Fahrettin Yark?n percussion
Murat Salim Tokaç tanbur
Hakan Güngör kanun
Gaguik Mouradian kemancha
Georgi Minassyan duduk
Haïg Sarikouyomdjian duduk et ney « Beloul »
Haroun Taboul tanbur à archet

Direction: JORDI SAVALL

SACD-R

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Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "New World" and other orchestral masterworks (2005) [Hybrid-SACD] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “New World”, Carnival Overture / Smetana / Weinberger
Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 2,43 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,15 GB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal “Living Stereo” # 82876663762 | Country/Year: US 2005, 1955-1957
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

This performance exemplifies the magic that occurs when a perfect symbiosis is achieved between a music director and orchestra. Nothing sounds forced or contrived, and when Reiner takes some slightly unusual tempo liberties in the Largo the performers seem to innately understand his intent and everything flows and makes perfect sense. Reiner emphasizes the minor/major key changes in the Scherzo to brilliant effect, and the 4th movement dazzles with energy and virtuosity. The Carnival Overture, Smettena and Weinberger are lovely surprise ornaments to a must-have Symphony No. 9.

The multitrack transfer reflects the 3-mike original recording (left, center and right channels only) and does not add engineering to a splendid recording. This disc is like a time machine bringing the listener back to a main floor center seat a Orchestra Hall. The strings reveal their wooden resonance, and you can hear the buzz of string on frets during the bass pizzicato passages. That said, we are talking about 1950’s recording technology and I have heard more detailed SACDs. Still, the difference between the CD and SACD multichannel layers is not subtle.

I’ve known and loved the Solti/CSO “New World” recording for years; it is now relegated to the re-gifting pile. If you are a Dvorak fan, buy this disc. ~sa-cd.net

SACD Info:

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “New World”, Carnival Overture / Smetana / Weinberger

Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Label: RCA Red Seal
Series: Living Stereo
Catalog#: 82876663762
Format: Hybrid-SACD, Album, Stereo, MCH, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 2005, 1955-1957
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic

Tracklist:

1. Adagio/Allegro Molto
2. Largo
3. Scherzo: Molto Vivace
4. Allegro Con Fuoco
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

5. Carnival (Karneval), concert overture, B. 169 (Op. 92)
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

6. Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), overture to the opera
Composed by Bedrich Smetana
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

7. Schwanda the Bagpiper, opera Polka and Fugue
Composed by Jaromir Weinberger
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

SACD-R

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Eddie Jobson – Zinc: The Green Album (1983) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Eddie Jobson – Zinc: The Green Album (1983) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:33 minutes | Scans included | 2,04 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 0,97 GB
Genre: Progressive Rock

After his stint with Jethro Tull and as the wave of new romantic pop groups were taking control of the airwaves, Eddie Jobson entered the studio to record his first solo album, known as Zinc, although it was meant to be titled “The Green Album” and billed to the band name “Zinc” — the record company messed things up quite a bit. This is an honest effort of when-prog rock-meets-synth pop. The songs are often better than Drama-era Yes and turn-of-the-’80s FM or Saga. In terms of writing and production, it sounds like Jobson is emulating Rupert Hine, whose art-pop gem Immunity came out two years before Zinc. Jobson handles all keyboards, vocals, and electric violin. Alon Oleartchik and Jerry Watts split bass duties, Michael Barsimanto supplies very early-’80s-sounding drum tracks (cold and square). Nick Moroch, Cary Sharaf, Michael Cuneo and Gentle Giant’s Gary Green appear here and there on electric guitar. Jobson’s lyrics are poor and his attempt to tie them together with a “green” theme doesn’t help. Luckily, the music is better, with “Green Face” and “Resident” standing out as two of the best synth pop songs produced in that era. The second half of the album gets weaker as ideas run thin, but the first half offers a very nice blend of pop songs and instrumentals. Jobson’s high-pitched voice is nothing to write home about, but he conceals it with the favorite gizmo of the time: the vocoder. Of course, the album sounds very dated, but collectors will find it has its moments.

Tracklist:
01. Transporter
02. Resident
03. Easy For You To Say
04. Prelude
05. Nostalgia
06. Walking From Pastel
07. Turn It Over
08. Green Face
09. Who My Friends…
10. Colour Code
11. Listen To Reason
12. Through The Glass
13. Transporter II
14. Turn It Over

DSD flat transferred from U.S. original analogue master tapes.
Edited in DSD by Manabu Matsumura at Universal Music Studios, Tokyo, in 2014.

SACD-R

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Eric Clapton – Pilgrim (1998) [Audio Fidelity ‘2014] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Eric Clapton – Pilgrim (1998) [Audio Fidelity ‘2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 77:25 minutes | Scans included | 3,11 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,40 GB
Mastered for SACD by Steve Hoffman | Audio Fidelity # AFZ 188
Genre: Rock

One strange thing about Eric Clapton’s ’90s success is that it relied almost entirely on covers and new versions of classic hits; he released no albums of new material between 1989’s Journeyman and 1998’s Pilgrim. In the decade between the two albums, he had two new hits — his moving elegy to his deceased son, “Tears in Heaven,” and the slick contemporary soul of the Babyface-written “Change the World” — and Pilgrim tries to reach a middle ground between these two extremes, balancing tortured lyrics with smooth sonic surfaces. Working with producer Simon Climie, his collaborator on the TDF side project, Clapton has created a numbingly calm record that, for all of its lyrical torment, displays no emotion whatsoever. Much of the problem lies in the production, which relies entirely on stiff mechanical drumbeats, gauzy synthesizers, and meandering instrumental interludes. These ingredients could result in a good record, as “Change the World” demonstrated, but not here, due to Pilgrim’s monotonous production. Unfortunately, Clapton doesn’t want to shake things up — his singing is startlingly mannered, even on emotionally turbulent numbers like “My Father’s Eyes” or “Circus.” Even worse, he’s content to take a back seat instrumentally, playing slight solos and fills as colorless as the electronic backdrops. The deadened sonics would make Pilgrim a chore even if there were strong songs on the record, but only a handful of tunes break through the murk. Considering that Journeyman, his last album of original material, was a fine workmanlike effort and that From the Cradle and Unplugged crackled with vitality, the blandness of Pilgrim is all the more disappointing.

Tracklist:
01. My Father’s Eyes
02. River of Tears
03. Pilgrim
04. Broken Hearted
05. One Chance
06. Circus
07. Going Down Slow
08. Fall Like Rain
09. Born in Time
10. Sick and Tired
11. Needs His Woman
12. She’s Gone
13. You Were There
14. Inside of Me

Mastered for SACD by Steve Hoffman at Stephen Marsh Mastering.

SACD-R

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Eric Clapton – Time Pieces: The Best Of Eric Clapton (1982) [Audio Fidelity ‘2014] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Eric Clapton – Time Pieces: The Best Of Eric Clapton (1982) [Audio Fidelity ‘2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 45:37 minutes | Scans included | 1,83 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 883 MB
Mastered for SACD by Kevin Grey | Audio Fidelity # AFZ 190
Genre: Rock

This is a reissue of the Time Pieces comp, a good single-disc collection of Eric Clapton’s solo hits — including “I Shot the Sheriff,” “After Midnight,” “Wonderful Tonight,” Derek and the Dominos’ “Layla,” and “Cocaine” — that has since been supplanted by the more thorough The Cream of Eric Clapton, which combines his solo work with selections of his Cream and Blind Faith work. Nevertheless, the compilation still provides a good introduction for neophyte Clapton fans, especially those who just want copies of his ’70s hits.

Tracklist:
01. I Shot the Sheriff
02. After Midnight
03. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
04. Wonderful Tonight
05. Layla
06. Cocaine
07. Lay Down Sally
08. Willie and the Hand Jive
09. Promises
10. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
11. Let It Grow

Mastered for SACD by Kevin Grey at Cohearent Audio.

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BSO / Munch – Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian"& Symphony No. 5 "Reformation" (2006) [Hybrid-SACD] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 “Italian” & Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch (conductor)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 2,37 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,04 GB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal “Living Stereo” # 82876-71616-2 | Country/Year: US 2006 (1957, 1958, 1960)
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

One has to chuckle at some covers. The picture depicts the Arch of Titus, with what possibly is a pine tree at the edge of the photograph. Yet, when one turns to the jacket of Respighi’s ‘Pines of Rome’ in the same SACD series, what does one see? Very few, if any pines.

This SACD of vintage Munch performances also includes a cherishable bonus, the famous scherzo from the octet.
It is interesting to compare the ‘Italian’ symphony to Szell’s 1962 performance, also on SACD. The only deficiency in the Munch is the absence of the first movement exposition repeat, which Szell observes. Szell’s performance could well be described as ‘brilliant’, the outer movements bursting out of the starting blocks and maintaining this pace to the end. Some might find this verging on the militant.

Munch’s tempi are less fleet. Indeed, all the movements in this disc strike a happy medium. The orchestra is recorded slightly more closely than Szell’s Clevelanders. The string sound of the Boston orchestra consequently sounds fuller. The woodwinds have a slight but appealing nasality which I gather represents the orchestra’s Gallic tinge during the Munch era. The brass has presence and bite, without blare. Throughout the performances of both symphonies, I was reminded of Munch’s conducting of Berlioz. Szell’s phrasing sounds leaner, more streamlined, and aimed to contain longer stretches of music.

In contrast, Munch’s style, especially amongst the strings, presents more highly moulded and articulated phrasing. Every now and then, the strings will ‘dig in’ over some notes, before relaxing the pressure to allow details from the woodwind to suddenly shine through. One is reminded here of Berlioz’s orchestration and melodic writing, with the quicksilver and unexpected handovers of melody from one set of instruments to another. This is not to say that Munch’s performance is maverick, nor that he moulds the music in a style at odds with the composer’s intentions. The shifts in emphasis are subtle, but audible if one is alert. In other words, there is more to discover the more one listens, unlike some superficially more exciting renditions. ( Szell is brilliant and not superficial, although charm is jettisoned along the way.) Munch’s inner movements may in principle lean towards the stately, but because of the detailed perspectives, especially from the woodwinds, there is so much of interest that one welcomes unhurried tempi. These comments I aim mainly at the ‘Italian’. I am almost certain he weaves the same individual magic in the ‘Reformation’, but as I barely know the piece, I’m not familiar with the standard interpretative formulae for these nuances. This is the first time I have actually found the ‘Reformation’ symphony semi-interesting, so it must function as an enthusiastic welcome.

The sound has remarkable little tape hiss, and is typical of the Boston recordings from this source. The strings are warm and solid, the brass not as piercing and obviously virtuostic as at Chicago, the stereo spread rather wide but without a hole in the middle, the orchestra bathed in a lush but not overresonant acoustic.

Copyright © 2006 Ramesh Nair and SA-CD.net ~sa-cd.net

SACD Info:

Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 “Italian” & Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”

Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch (conductor)

Label: RCA Red Seal
Series: Living Stereo
Catalog#: 82876-71616-2
Format: Hybrid-SACD, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Multichannel
Country: US
Released: 2006 (1957, 1958, 1960)
Genre: Classical
Style: Viennese School

Tracklist:

1 Allegro Vivace 8:06
2 Andante Con Moto 5:56
3 Con Moto Moderato 6:26
4 Saltarello: Presto 6:06
5 Andante; Allegro Con Fuoco 10:43
6 Allegro Vivace 4:12
7 Andante 3:24
8 Chorale (‘ein’ Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott’): Andante Con Moto;Allegro Vivace 8:56
9 Octet In E-Flat, Op. 20 – Scherzo: Allegro Leggierissimo 4:09

SACD-R

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Free – Free (1969) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Free – Free (1969) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 47:30 minutes | Scans included | 1,96 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 958 MB
Genre: Rock

Free’s second album was recorded with the band itself in considerable turmoil as principle songwriters Paul Rodgers and Andy Fraser demanded strict discipline from their bandmates, and guitarist Paul Kossoff, in particular, equally demanded the spontaneity and freedom that had characterized the group’s debut. It was an awkward period that saw both Kossoff and drummer Simon Kirke come close to quitting, and only the intervention of label chief Chris Blackwell seems to have prevented it. Few of these tensions are evident on the finished album — tribute, again, to Blackwell’s powers of diplomacy. He replaced original producer Guy Stevens early into the sessions and, having reminded both warring parties where the band’s strengths lie, proceeded to coax out an album that stands alongside its predecessor as a benchmark of British blues at the turn of the 1960s.

Tracklist:
01. I’ll Be Creepin’
02. Songs Of Yesterday
03. Lying In The Sunshine
04. Trouble On Double Time
05. Mouthful Of Grass
06. Woman
07. Free Me
08. Broad Daylight
09. Mourning Sad Morning
10. Broad Daylight <Single Version – Mono Mix>
11. The Worm <Single Version – Mono Mix>
12. I’ll Be Creepin’ <Single Version – Mono Mix>
13. Sugar For Mr Morrison <Single Version – Mono Mix>

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Edited in DSD by Manabu Matsumura at Universal Music Studios, Tokyo, in 2014.

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Free – Free Live! (1971) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Free – Free Live! (1971) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014 # UIGY-9565]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 40:42 minutes | Scans included | 1,64 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 806 MB
Genre: Rock

Although Free made excellent studio records, Free “Live” is perhaps the best way to experience the band in all its glory. Led by singer-guitarist Paul Rodgers and lead guitarist Paul Kosoff, the band swings through nine songs with power, clarity, and a dose of funk. Of course, the hit single “All Right Now” is gleefully extended, much to the audience’s and listener’s delight. Superbly recorded by Andy Johns, this is one of the greatest live albums of the 1970s.

Tracklist:
01. All Right Now
02. I’m A Mover
03. Be My Friend
04. Fire And Water
05. Ride On A Pony
06. Mr. Big
07. The Hunter (Live – Sunderland)
08. Get Where I Belong

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Grateful Dead – American Beauty (1970) [MFSL ‘2014] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Grateful Dead – American Beauty (1970) [MFSL ‘2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 42:44 minutes | Scans included | 1,72 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 848 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # 2138
Genre: Rock

With 1970’s Workingman’s Dead, the Grateful Dead went through an overnight metamorphosis, turning abruptly from tripped-out free-form rock toward sublime acoustic folk and Americana. Taking notes on vocal harmonies from friends Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Dead used the softer statements of their fourth studio album as a subtle but moving reflection on the turmoil, heaviness, and hope America’s youth was facing as the idealistic ’60s ended. American Beauty was recorded just a few months after its predecessor, both expanding and improving on the bluegrass, folk, and psychedelic country explorations of Workingman’s Dead with some of the band’s most brilliant compositions. The songs here have a noticeably more relaxed and joyous feel. Having dived headfirst into this new sound with the previous album, the bandmembers found the summit of their collaborative powers here, with lyricist Robert Hunter penning some of his most poetic work, Jerry Garcia focusing more on gliding pedal steel than his regular electric lead guitar work, and standout lead vocal performances coming from Bob Weir (on the anthem to hippie love “Sugar Magnolia”), Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (on the husky blues of “Operator”), and Phil Lesh (on the near-perfect opening tune, “Box of Rain”). This album also marked the beginning of what would become a long musical friendship between Garcia and Dave Grisman, whose mandolin playing adds depth and flavor to tracks like the outlaw country-folk of “Friend of the Devil” and the gorgeously devotional “Ripple.” American Beauty eventually spawned the band’s highest charting single — “Truckin’,” the greasy blues-rock tribute to nomadic counterculture — but it also contained some of their most spiritual and open-hearted sentiments ever, their newfound love of intricate vocal arrangements finding pristine expression on the lamenting “Brokedown Palace” and the heavenly nostalgia and gratitude of “Attics of My Life.” While the Dead eventually amassed a following so devoted that following the band from city to city became the center of many people’s lives, the majority of the band’s magic came in the boundless heights it reached in its live sets but rarely managed to capture in the studio setting. American Beauty is a categorical exception to this, offering a look at the Dead transcending even their own exploratory heights and making some of their most powerful music by examining their most gentle and restrained impulses. It’s easily the masterwork of their studio output, and a strong contender for the best music the band ever made, even including the countless hours of live shows captured on tape in the decades that followed.

Tracklist:
01. Box Of Rain
02. Friend Of The Devil
03. Sugar Magnolia
04. Operator
05. Candyman
06. Ripple
07. Brokedown Palace
08. Till The Morning Comes
09. Attics Of My Life
10. Truckin’

Mastered for SACD by Shawn R. Britton at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA.

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Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970) [MFSL ‘2014] {SACD-R + FLAC 24-88.2}

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Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970) [MFSL ‘2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:01 minutes | Scans included | 1,45 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 670 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # 2137
Genre: Rock

As the ’60s drew to a close, it was a heavy time for the quickly crumbling hippie movement that had reached its apex just a few years earlier in 1967’s Summer of Love. Death and violence were pervasive in the form of the Manson murders, fatalities at the Altamont concert, and the ongoing loss of young lives in Vietnam despite the best efforts of anti-war activists and peace-seeking protesters. Difficult times were also upon the Grateful Dead, unofficial house band of San Francisco’s Summer of Love festivities and outspoken advocates of psychedelic experimentation both musical and chemical. The excessive studio experimentation that resulted in their trippy but disorienting third album, Aoxomoxoa, had left the band in considerable debt to their record label, and their stress wasn’t helped at all by a drug bust that had members of the band facing jail time. The rough road the Dead were traveling down seemed congruent with the hard changes faced by the youth counterculture that birthed them. Fourth studio album Workingman’s Dead reflects both the looming darkness of its time, and the endless hope and openness to possibility that would become emblematic of the Dead as their legacy grew. For a group already established as exploratory free-form rockers of the highest acclaim, Workingman’s Dead’s eight tunes threw off almost all improvisatory tendencies in favor of spare, thoughtful looks at folk, country, and American roots music with more subdued sounds than the band had managed up until then. The songs also focused more than ever before on singing and vocal harmonies, influenced in no small way by a growing friendship with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The band embraced complex vocal arrangements with campfire-suited folk on “Uncle John’s Band” and the psychedelic cowboy blues of “High Time”.

Tracklist:
01. Uncle John’s Band
02. High Time
03. Dire Wolf
04. New Speedway Boogie
05. Cumberland Blues
06. Black Peter
07. Easy Wind
08. Casey Jones

Mastered for SACD by Rob LoVerde at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA.

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John Lennon – Japanese SHM-SACD Reissue Series 2014 (7x SACD, 1970-1980) SACD-R

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John Lennon – Japanese SHM-SACD Reissue Series 2014 (7x SACD, 1970-1980)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 13,8 GB

John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band (1970) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:36 minutes | Scans included | 1,6 GB

The cliché about singer/songwriters is that they sing confessionals direct from their heart, but John Lennon exploded the myth behind that cliché, as well as many others, on his first official solo record, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Inspired by his primal scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov, Lennon created a harrowing set of unflinchingly personal songs, laying out all of his fears and angers for everyone to hear. It was a revolutionary record — never before had a record been so explicitly introspective, and very few records made absolutely no concession to the audience’s expectations, daring the listeners to meet all the artist’s demands. Which isn’t to say that the record is unlistenable. Lennon’s songs range from tough rock & rollers to piano-based ballads and spare folk songs, and his melodies remain strong and memorable, which actually intensifies the pain and rage of the songs. Not much about Plastic Ono Band is hidden. Lennon presents everything on the surface, and the song titles — “Mother,” “I Found Out,” “Working Class Hero,” “Isolation,” “God,” “My Mummy’s Dead” — illustrate what each song is about, and charts his loss of faith in his parents, country, friends, fans, and idols. It’s an unflinching document of bare-bones despair and pain, but for all its nihilism, it is ultimately life-affirming; it is unique not only in Lennon’s catalog, but in all of popular music. Few albums are ever as harrowing, difficult, and rewarding as John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.

Tracklist:
01. Mother
02. Hold On
03. I Found Out
04. Working Class Hero
05. Isolation
06. Remember
07. Love
08. Well Well Well
09. Look At Me
10. God
11. My Mummy’s Dead

DSD flat transferred from 2010 Digital Remaster.

John Lennon – Imagine (1971) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:46 minutes | Scans included | 1,61 GB

After the harrowing Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon returned to calmer, more conventional territory with Imagine. While the album had a softer surface, it was only marginally less confessional than its predecessor. Underneath the sweet strings of “Jealous Guy” lies a broken and scared man, the jaunty “Crippled Inside” is a mocking assault at an acquaintance, and “Imagine” is a paean for peace in a world with no gods, possessions, or classes, where everyone is equal. And Lennon doesn’t shy away from the hard rockers — “How Do You Sleep” is a scathing attack on Paul McCartney, “I Don’t Want to Be a Soldier” is a hypnotic antiwar song, and “Give Me Some Truth” is bitter hard rock. If Imagine doesn’t have the thematic sweep of Plastic Ono Band, it is nevertheless a remarkable collection of songs that Lennon would never be able to better again.

Tracklist:
01. Imagine
02. Crippled Inside
03. Jealous Guy
04. It’s So Hard
05. I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die
06. Gimme Some Truth
07. Oh My Love
08. How Do You Sleep?
09. How?
10. Oh Yoko!

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John Lennon – Sometime In New York City (1972) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 91:17 minutes | Scans included | 3,68 GB

The first album co-billed to John Lennon and Yoko Ono to actually contain recognizable pop music, Some Time in New York City found the Lennons in an explicitly political phase. This was understandable — at the time, Lennon was neck-deep in his struggle to remain in the United States, a conflict rooted in his antiwar and antiestablishment politics and the enmity of the Nixon administration. At the same time, having written, recorded, and released the music on the Plastic Ono Band and Imagine albums — and musically exorcising many of the emotional demons associated with aspects of his past, and working out a musical and publishing “divorce” from Paul McCartney — he was now reveling in the freedom of being an ex-Beatle and exploring music and other subjects that he’d never felt fully free to delve into during the first decade of his career. This album was actually a long time in coming, as there had been hints of Lennon moving in this direction for years — he’d long looked upon Bob Dylan with unabashed envy, emulating his sound at moments (“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”) and striving for some of the same mix of edginess and depth, once the group got beyond its original two-guitars-bass-drums and love songs sound; “Revolution” (and “Revolution No. 1″) and the anthems “Give Peace a Chance” and “Power to the People” saw him trying to embrace outside subjects in his work, and Some Time in New York City carried his writing a step further in this direction, introducing John Lennon, protest singer — true, he was ten years late, in terms of the musical genre (even Joan Baez and Judy Collins were doing pop-style records by then), but it was a logical development given the time in Lennon’s life and the strife-filled era with which it coincided. Seeking his own voice in all of its permutations, and living amid the bracing pace of New York City (which made London, much less Liverpool, look like a cultural and political backwater), Lennon entered a phase similar to Dylan’s 1963-1964 period, represented by songs such as “The Ballad of Hollis Brown,” “The Death of Emmett Till,” and “Talking John Birch Society Blues.” Except that where Dylan had toned down that side of his work, never officially releasing his versions of two of those songs (the two most confrontational, in fact), Lennon didn’t hold back, delivering his topical songs with both barrels smoking, expounding on such topical subjects as radical feminism, the Attica prison riot, the treatment of activists John Sinclair and Angela Davis, and the rising strife in Northern Ireland (which was on its way to becoming for the British the same kind of military and political quagmire that Vietnam was for America). Lennon had some advantages in getting heard, as an ex-Beatle, not an up-and-coming talent as Dylan had been a decade earlier, and if the subject matter of his new songs puzzled or alienated some fans, he also still had a huge amount of rock & roll street cred, which was only enhanced at the time by his having made Nixon’s enemies list; at the time, there were a lot of people to whom that mattered more than his past as a Beatle — at the April 24 antiwar rally in New York in 1971, where he appeared with Yoko Ono and the Elephant’s Memory Band, he showed himself to be among the few musicians who could get a quarter of a million or more people singing and chanting spontaneously, in unison. And Some Time in New York City was a logical progression from that event. Especially in the case of Lennon’s songs, there is an appealing rock style to the material here, even if the lyrics limit the record’s appeal. And even Yoko’s songs have something to recommend them, “Sisters, O Sisters” representing a peculiar form of reggae-pop, “Born in a Prison” possessing a strange pop ambience, and “We’re All Water” offering a preview of late-’70s punk/new wave rawness (Lena Lovich may well have worn out that track). At the time of its release in June of 1972, all except the most devoted fans were put off by the album’s topicality and in-your-face didacticism, and the bonus live disc was challenging in other ways. Heard today, the studio disc rocks in enough of the right places, as well as drawing on influences ranging from blues to reggae, to surprise listeners and even delight them — the relatively tuneless “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” manages to favorably recall elements of “Come Together,” and both it and “New York City” have some of the best electric guitar ever heard on a Lennon album, while “John Sinclair” shows off Lennon’s blues playing (on a steel National guitar, no less) brilliantly. Even those who were of the left at the time may wince at “Angela” some decades on, but “We’re All Water” has lost none of its intellectual or musical resonances, even if Nixon and Mao are long dead. The Elephant’s Memory Band may not be the best set of musicians that Lennon could have been working with, but that was less important than the fact that he seemed to respond to their club band R&B and jazz background with a roots-oriented approach to songwriting that’s ultimately refreshing. Co-producer Phil Spector gives most of the music a larger-than-life ambience, with a reverb-drenched, rhythm-heavy approach recalling his Wall of Sound productions, which gives a lot of even the most didactic songs a big-band pop/rock smoothness, when the songs weren’t lean and stripped down like “John Sinclair” (which sounds in terms of texture like a Furry Lewis side from 1930). Some Time in New York City was released with a “free” bonus disc containing a live medley of Lennon’s “Cold Turkey” and Ono’s “Don’t Worry Kyoko,” from an antiwar rally at the Lyceum in London with George Harrison, and an appearance by the Lennons at a Mothers of Invention concert from the Fillmore East. The Lyceum tracks were well recorded and, apart from both going on too long, exude a certain power; these may not be the songs you’d have had performed at the one recorded post-Beatles concert appearance by Lennon and Harrison, but “Cold Turkey” is good, if a little disorganized near the end, and “Don’t Worry Kyoko” has some pretty fair rock & roll jamming going on behind Ono’s vocal acrobatics; the Fillmore stuff sounds less good technically, and captures a spontaneous moment that’s mostly wasted, though not without a moment of personal musical reflection from Lennon in “Well (Baby Please Don’t Go).” Alas, the presence of the second disc now makes this the most expensive of all Lennon’s CD releases, virtually ensuring that it remain the least known of his mainline albums, especially for any fans who weren’t around in 1972.

Tracklist:
01. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World
02. Sisters, O Sisters
03. Attica State
04. Born In A Prison
05. New York City
06. Sunday Bloody Sunday
07. The Luck Of The Irish
08. John Sinclair
09. Angela
10. We’re All Water
11. Cold Turkey
12. Don’t Worry Kyoko
13. Well (Baby Please Don’t Go)
14. Jamrag
15. Scumbag
16. Au

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John Lennon – Mind Games (1973) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:03 minutes | Scans included | 1,66 GB

After the hostile reaction to the politically charged Sometime in New York City, John Lennon moved away from explicit protest songs and returned to introspective songwriting with Mind Games. Lennon didn’t leave politics behind — he just tempered his opinions with humor on songs like “Bring on the Lucie (Freda Peeple),” which happened to undercut the intention of the song. It also indicated the confusion that lies at the heart of the album. Lennon doesn’t know which way to go, so he tries everything. There are lovely ballads like “Out of the Blue” and “One Day (At a Time),” forced, ham-fisted rockers like “Meat City” and “Tight A$,” sweeping Spectoresque pop on “Mind Games,” and many mid-tempo, indistinguishable pop/rockers. While the best numbers are among Lennon’s finest, there’s only a handful of them, and the remainder of the record is simply pleasant. But compared to Sometime in New York City, as well as the subsequent Walls and Bridges, Mind Games sounded like a return to form.

Tracklist:
01. Mind Games
02. Tight A$
03. Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)
04. One Day (At A Time)
05. Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple)
06. Nutopian International Anthem
07. Intuition
08. Out The Blue
09. Only People
10. I Know (I Know)
11. You Are Here
12. Meat City

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John Lennon – Walls And Bridges (1974) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 46:22 minutes | Scans included | 1,88 GB

Walls and Bridges was recorded during John Lennon’s infamous “lost weekend,” as he exiled himself in California during a separation from Yoko Ono. Lennon’s personal life was scattered, so it isn’t surprising that Walls and Bridges is a mess itself, containing equal amounts of brilliance and nonsense. Falling between the two extremes was the bouncy Elton John duet “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” which was Lennon’s first solo number one hit. Its bright, sunny surface was replicated throughout the record, particularly on middling rockers like “What You Got” but also on enjoyable pop songs like “Old Dirt Road.” However, the best moments on Walls and Bridges come when Lennon is more open with his emotions, like on “Going Down on Love,” “Steel and Glass,” and the beautiful, soaring “No. 9 Dream.” Even with such fine moments, the album is decidedly uneven, containing too much mediocre material like “Beef Jerky” and “Ya Ya,” which are weighed down by weak melodies and heavy over-production. It wasn’t a particularly graceful way to enter retirement.

Tracklist:
01. Going Down On Love
02. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
03. Old Dirt Road
04. What You Got
05. Bless You
06. Scared
07. #9 Dream
08. Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
09. Steel And Glass
10. Beef Jerky
11. Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down And Out)
12. Ya Ya

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John Lennon – Rock ‘N’ Roll (1975) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:51 minutes | Scans included | 1,61 GB

Although the chaotic sessions that spawned this album have passed into rock & roll legend and the recording’s very genesis (as an out-of-court settlement between John Lennon and an aggrieved publisher) has often caused it to be slighted by many of the singer’s biographers, Rock ‘n’ Roll, in fact, stands as a peak in his post-Imagine catalog: an album that catches him with nothing to prove and no need to try. Lennon could, after all, sing old rock & roll numbers with his mouth closed; he spent his entire career relaxing with off-the-cuff blasts through the music with which he grew up, and Rock ‘n’ Roll emerges the sound of him doing precisely that. Four songs survive from the fractious sessions with producer Phil Spector in late 1973 that ignited the album, and listeners to any of the posthumous compilations that also draw from those archives will know that the best tracks were left on the shelf — “Be My Baby” and “Angel Baby” among them. But a gorgeous run through Lloyd Price’s “Just Because” wraps up the album in fine style, while a trip through “You Can’t Catch Me” contrarily captures a playful side that Lennon rarely revealed on vinyl. The remainder of the album was cut a year later with Lennon alone at the helm, and the mood remains buoyant. It might not, on first glance, seem essential to hear him running through nuggets like “Be Bop A Lula,” “Peggy Sue,” and “Bring It on Home to Me,” but, again, Lennon has seldom sounded so gleeful as he does on these numbers, while the absence of the Spector trademark Wall-of-Sound production is scarcely noticeable — as the object of one of Lennon’s own productions, David Peel once pointed out, “John had the Wall of Sound down perfectly himself.” Released in an age when both David Bowie and Bryan Ferry had already tracked back to musical times-gone-by (Pin-Ups and These Foolish Things, respectively), Rock ‘n’ Roll received short shrift from contemporary critics. As time passed, however, it has grown in stature, whereas those other albums have merely held their own. Today, Rock ‘n’ Roll sounds fresher than the rock & roll that inspired it in the first place. Imagine that.

Tracklist:
01. Be-Bop-A-Lula
02. Stand By Me
03. Rip It Up / Ready Teddy
04. You Can’t Catch Me
05. Ain’t That A Shame
06. Do You Want To Dance
07. Sweet Little Sixteen
08. Slippin’ And Slidin’
09. Peggy Sue
10. Bring It On Home To Me / Send Me Some Lovin’
11. Bony Moronie
12. Ya Ya
13. Just Because

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John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy (1980) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 45:13 minutes | Scans included | 1,82 GB

The most distinctive thing about Double Fantasy, the last album John Lennon released during his lifetime, is the very thing that keeps it from being a graceful return to form from the singer/songwriter, returning to active duty after five years of self-imposed exile. As legend has it, Lennon spent those years in domestic bliss, being a husband, raising a baby, and, of course, baking bread. Double Fantasy was designed as a window into that bliss and, to that extent, he decided to make it a joint album with Yoko Ono, to illustrate how complete their union was. For her part, Ono decided to take a stab at pop and while these are relatively tuneful for her, they nevertheless disrupt the feel and flow of Lennon’s material, which has a consistent tone and theme. He’s surprisingly sentimental, not just when he’s expressing love for his wife (“Dear Yoko,” “Woman”) and child (“Beautiful Boy [Darling Boy]”), but when he’s coming to terms with his quiet years (“Watching the Wheels,” “Cleanup Time”) and his return to creative life. These are really nice tunes, and what’s special about them is their niceness — it’s a sweet acceptance of middle age, which, of course, makes his assassination all the sadder. For that alone, Double Fantasy is noteworthy, yet it’s hard not to think that it’s a bit of a missed opportunity — primarily because its themes would be stronger without the Ono songs, but also because the production is just a little bit too slick and constrained, sounding very much of its time. Ultimately, these complaints fall by the wayside because Lennon’s best songs here cement the last part of his legend, capturing him at peace and in love. According to some reports, that perception was a bit of a fantasy, but sometimes the fantasy means more than the reality, and that’s certainly the case here.

Tracklist:
01. (Just Like) Starting Over
02. Kiss Kiss Kiss
03. Cleanup Time
04. Give Me Something
05. I’m Losing You
06. I’m Moving On
07. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
08. Watching The Wheels
09. Yes, I’m Your Angel
10. Woman
11. Beautiful Boys
12. Dear Yoko
13. Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him
14. Hard Times Are Over

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John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band (1970) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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John Lennon – Imagine (1971) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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John Lennon – Sometime In New York City (1972) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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John Lennon – Mind Games (1973) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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John Lennon – Walls And Bridges (1974) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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John Lennon – Rock ‘N’ Roll (1975) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy (1980) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]

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John Lennon – Signature Box (2010/2014) [Qobuz 24-96]

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John Lennon – Signature Box (2010/2014)
11 Discs | FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 451:10 minutes | 8,87 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download   Artwork: Full Digital Booklet(s)

Originally released in 2010, the John Lennon Signature Box is an acclaimed collection that includes the eight remastered albums and an EP of Lennon’s non-album singles, all newly remastered in hi-res 96kHz/24bit digital resolution, plus several rarities available exclusively within the box set in 44.1kHz/24bit digital resolution.

The crown jewel in Apple/EMI’s extensive 2010 John Lennon remasters series, Signature Box contains all of the solo studio albums Lennon released during his lifetime (minus the trio of experimental duet LPs with Yoko Ono released on Apple and Zapple), his first posthumous album Milk and Honey, a disc of non-LP singles, a disc of home demos, but not the 2010 showcase item Double Fantasy Stripped Down, which is available only as a bonus on the indvidual reissue of Double Fantasy. It is, in other words, close enough to complete to perhaps invite a little bit of quibbling about what is absent — Live Peace in Toronto could fit in nicely with this batch and there are outtakes from Menlove Ave missing but the real niggling comes with the home demo disc, which emphasizes demos and alternate takes of songs from Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, leaving behind demos of songs Lennon gave away, including “I’m the Greatest” and “Goodnight Vienna,” which he handed over to Ringo, and songs that never made it to one of his records. Ultimately, this is nitpicking because Signature Box is handsomely produced and contains the best-sounding Lennon remasters — remastered by the team that did the acclaimed 2009 Beatles remasters, using the original mixes, not the recent remixes — which is enough to make this more than worthwhile for the serious Lennon fan.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:33 minutes | 840 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut solo album by John Lennon. Produced by Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Phil Spector, the album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and Ascot Sound Studios and used the same musicians and production team as Yoko Ono’s album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. Considered to be one of Lennon’s best solo albums, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was ranked at #23 by Rolling Stone magazine on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

The cliché about singer/songwriters is that they sing confessionals direct from their heart, but John Lennon exploded the myth behind that cliché, as well as many others, on his first official solo record, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Inspired by his primal scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov, Lennon created a harrowing set of unflinchingly personal songs, laying out all of his fears and angers for everyone to hear. It was a revolutionary record — never before had a record been so explicitly introspective, and very few records made absolutely no concession to the audience’s expectations, daring the listeners to meet all the artist’s demands. Which isn’t to say that the record is unlistenable. Lennon’s songs range from tough rock & rollers to piano-based ballads and spare folk songs, and his melodies remain strong and memorable, which actually intensifies the pain and rage of the songs. Not much about Plastic Ono Band is hidden. Lennon presents everything on the surface, and the song titles — “Mother,” “I Found Out,” “Working Class Hero,” “Isolation,” “God,” “My Mummy’s Dead” — illustrate what each song is about, and charts his loss of faith in his parents, country, friends, fans, and idols. It’s an unflinching document of bare-bones despair and pain, but for all its nihilism, it is ultimately life-affirming; it is unique not only in Lennon’s catalog, but in all of popular music. Few albums are ever as harrowing, difficult, and rewarding as John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.

Tracklist:
01 – Mother
02 – Hold On
03 – I Found Out
04 – Working Class Hero
05 – Isolation
06 – Remember
07 – Love
08 – Well Well Well
09 – Look At Me
10 – God
11 – My Mummy’s Dead

Personnel:
John Lennon – lead and backing vocals, acoustic/electric guitars, piano/organ
Ringo Starr – drums
Klaus Voormann – bass
Phil Spector – piano on “Love”
Billy Preston – piano on “God”
Yoko Ono – “wind”

John Lennon – Imagine (1971/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:43 minutes | 861 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

John’s first post-Beatles album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, had emerged in late 1970 to critical praise but only muted approval in the marketplace. The conclusions were, to him, pretty obvious. He might be a trail-blazer in all kinds of ways, but he was at heart a populist – an artist but also an entertainer. The task was to frame his deas in music that listeners loved and took inside their hearts Plastic Ono Band had been admired, but often from a distance. The role of the next album – the record that became Imagine – was an attempt for maximum communication offering hopes to the bleeding, battered world. On the musical level he certainly succeeded. Imagine is the best-loved album of his solo career, while its title track is perhaps his most revered. By contrast to its austere predecessor the new music had melodies in abundance, and colour and variety. It had flashes of broad humour and moments of absolute joy.

After the harrowing Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon returned to calmer, more conventional territory with Imagine. While the album had a softer surface, it was only marginally less confessional than its predecessor. Underneath the sweet strings of “Jealous Guy” lies a broken and scared man, the jaunty “Crippled Inside” is a mocking assault at an acquaintance, and “Imagine” is a paean for peace in a world with no gods, possessions, or classes, where everyone is equal. And Lennon doesn’t shy away from the hard rockers — “How Do You Sleep” is a scathing attack on Paul McCartney, “I Don’t Want to Be a Soldier” is a hypnotic antiwar song, and “Give Me Some Truth” is bitter hard rock. If Imagine doesn’t have the thematic sweep of Plastic Ono Band, it is nevertheless a remarkable collection of songs that Lennon would never be able to better again.

Tracklist:
01 – Imagine
02 – Crippled Inside
03 – Jealous Guy [feat. The Plastic Ono Band & The Flux Fiddlers]04 – It’s So Hard
05 – I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama
06 – Gimme Some Truth
07 – Oh My Love
08 – How Do You Sleep?
09 – How?
10 – Oh Yoko!

John Lennon, Yoko Ono – Sometime In New York City (1972/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 91:13 minutes | 1,95 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Some Time In New York City was originally released in 1972 and is John Lennon’s third post-Beatles solo album, as well as his fifth album with Yoko Ono. Produced by Phil Spector, the album did not fare as well as Lennon’s two previous solo albums, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine.

The first album co-billed to John Lennon and Yoko Ono to actually contain recognizable pop music, Some Time in New York City found the Lennons in an explicitly political phase. This was understandable — at the time, Lennon was neck-deep in his struggle to remain in the United States, a conflict rooted in his antiwar and antiestablishment politics and the enmity of the Nixon administration. At the same time, having written, recorded, and released the music on the Plastic Ono Band and Imagine albums — and musically exorcising many of the emotional demons associated with aspects of his past, and working out a musical and publishing “divorce” from Paul McCartney — he was now reveling in the freedom of being an ex-Beatle and exploring music and other subjects that he’d never felt fully free to delve into during the first decade of his career. This album was actually a long time in coming, as there had been hints of Lennon moving in this direction for years — he’d long looked upon Bob Dylan with unabashed envy, emulating his sound at moments (“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”) and striving for some of the same mix of edginess and depth, once the group got beyond its original two-guitars-bass-drums and love songs sound; “Revolution” (and “Revolution No. 1″) and the anthems “Give Peace a Chance” and “Power to the People” saw him trying to embrace outside subjects in his work, and Some Time in New York City carried his writing a step further in this direction, introducing John Lennon, protest singer — true, he was ten years late, in terms of the musical genre (even Joan Baez and Judy Collins were doing pop-style records by then), but it was a logical development given the time in Lennon’s life and the strife-filled era with which it coincided. Seeking his own voice in all of its permutations, and living amid the bracing pace of New York City (which made London, much less Liverpool, look like a cultural and political backwater), Lennon entered a phase similar to Dylan’s 1963-1964 period, represented by songs such as “The Ballad of Hollis Brown,” “The Death of Emmett Till,” and “Talking John Birch Society Blues.” Except that where Dylan had toned down that side of his work, never officially releasing his versions of two of those songs (the two most confrontational, in fact), Lennon didn’t hold back, delivering his topical songs with both barrels smoking, expounding on such topical subjects as radical feminism, the Attica prison riot, the treatment of activists John Sinclair and Angela Davis, and the rising strife in Northern Ireland (which was on its way to becoming for the British the same kind of military and political quagmire that Vietnam was for America). Lennon had some advantages in getting heard, as an ex-Beatle, not an up-and-coming talent as Dylan had been a decade earlier, and if the subject matter of his new songs puzzled or alienated some fans, he also still had a huge amount of rock & roll street cred, which was only enhanced at the time by his having made Nixon’s enemies list; at the time, there were a lot of people to whom that mattered more than his past as a Beatle — at the April 24 antiwar rally in New York in 1971, where he appeared with Yoko Ono and the Elephant’s Memory Band, he showed himself to be among the few musicians who could get a quarter of a million or more people singing and chanting spontaneously, in unison. And Some Time in New York City was a logical progression from that event. Especially in the case of Lennon’s songs, there is an appealing rock style to the material here, even if the lyrics limit the record’s appeal. And even Yoko’s songs have something to recommend them, “Sisters, O Sisters” representing a peculiar form of reggae-pop, “Born in a Prison” possessing a strange pop ambience, and “We’re All Water” offering a preview of late-’70s punk/new wave rawness (Lena Lovich may well have worn out that track). At the time of its release in June of 1972, all except the most devoted fans were put off by the album’s topicality and in-your-face didacticism, and the bonus live disc was challenging in other ways. Heard today, the studio disc rocks in enough of the right places, as well as drawing on influences ranging from blues to reggae, to surprise listeners and even delight them — the relatively tuneless “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” manages to favorably recall elements of “Come Together,” and both it and “New York City” have some of the best electric guitar ever heard on a Lennon album, while “John Sinclair” shows off Lennon’s blues playing (on a steel National guitar, no less) brilliantly. Even those who were of the left at the time may wince at “Angela” some decades on, but “We’re All Water” has lost none of its intellectual or musical resonances, even if Nixon and Mao are long dead. The Elephant’s Memory Band may not be the best set of musicians that Lennon could have been working with, but that was less important than the fact that he seemed to respond to their club band R&B and jazz background with a roots-oriented approach to songwriting that’s ultimately refreshing. Co-producer Phil Spector gives most of the music a larger-than-life ambience, with a reverb-drenched, rhythm-heavy approach recalling his Wall of Sound productions, which gives a lot of even the most didactic songs a big-band pop/rock smoothness, when the songs weren’t lean and stripped down like “John Sinclair” (which sounds in terms of texture like a Furry Lewis side from 1930). Some Time in New York City was released with a “free” bonus disc containing a live medley of Lennon’s “Cold Turkey” and Ono’s “Don’t Worry Kyoko,” from an antiwar rally at the Lyceum in London with George Harrison, and an appearance by the Lennons at a Mothers of Invention concert from the Fillmore East. The Lyceum tracks were well recorded and, apart from both going on too long, exude a certain power; these may not be the songs you’d have had performed at the one recorded post-Beatles concert appearance by Lennon and Harrison, but “Cold Turkey” is good, if a little disorganized near the end, and “Don’t Worry Kyoko” has some pretty fair rock & roll jamming going on behind Ono’s vocal acrobatics; the Fillmore stuff sounds less good technically, and captures a spontaneous moment that’s mostly wasted, though not without a moment of personal musical reflection from Lennon in “Well (Baby Please Don’t Go).” Alas, the presence of the second disc now makes this the most expensive of all Lennon’s CD releases, virtually ensuring that it remain the least known of his mainline albums, especially for any fans who weren’t around in 1972.

Tracklist:
CD1:
01 – Woman Is The Nigger Of The World
02 – Sisters, O Sisters
03 – Attica State
04 – Born In A Prison
05 – New York City
06 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
07 – The Luck Of The Irish
08 – John Sinclair
09 – Angela
10 – We’re All Water

CD2 (Live Jam):
01 – Cold Turkey (Live)
02 – Don’t Worry Kyoko (Live)
03 – Well (Baby Please Don’t Go) (Live)
04 – Jamrag (Live)
05 – Scumbag (Live)
06 – Au (Live)

John Lennon – Mind Games (1973/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:01 minutes | 870 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

John Lennon’s Mind Games was recorded and released in 1973. The album was Lennon’s first self-produced album and although it was initially poorly-received by critics, it was eventually met with favorable reviews. Mind Games reached #13 on the UK charts and #9 in the US, where it was also certified gold. Lennon wrote all of the songs for the album in one week, and the album was recorded in July and August of 1973.

After the hostile reaction to the politically charged Sometime in New York City, John Lennon moved away from explicit protest songs and returned to introspective songwriting with Mind Games. Lennon didn’t leave politics behind — he just tempered his opinions with humor on songs like “Bring on the Lucie (Freda Peeple),” which happened to undercut the intention of the song. It also indicated the confusion that lies at the heart of the album. Lennon doesn’t know which way to go, so he tries everything. There are lovely ballads like “Out of the Blue” and “One Day (At a Time),” forced, ham-fisted rockers like “Meat City” and “Tight A$,” sweeping Spectoresque pop on “Mind Games,” and many mid-tempo, indistinguishable pop/rockers. While the best numbers are among Lennon’s finest, there’s only a handful of them, and the remainder of the record is simply pleasant. But compared to Sometime in New York City, as well as the subsequent Walls and Bridges, Mind Games sounded like a return to form.

Tracklist:
01 – Mind Games
02 – Tight A$
03 – Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)
04 – One Day (At A Time)
05 – Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple)
06 – Nutopian International Anthem
07 – Intuition
08 – Out The Blue
09 – Only People
10 – I Know (I Know)
11 – You Are Here
12 – Meat City

John Lennon – Walls And Bridges (1974/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:21 minutes | 992 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Walls and Bridges was recorded during John Lennon’s infamous “lost weekend,” as he exiled himself in California during a separation from Yoko Ono. Lennon’s personal life was scattered, so it isn’t surprising that Walls and Bridges is a mess itself, containing equal amounts of brilliance and nonsense. Falling between the two extremes was the bouncy Elton John duet “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” which was Lennon’s first solo number one hit. Its bright, sunny surface was replicated throughout the record, particularly on middling rockers like “What You Got” but also on enjoyable pop songs like “Old Dirt Road.” However, the best moments on Walls and Bridges come when Lennon is more open with his emotions, like on “Going Down on Love,” “Steel and Glass,” and the beautiful, soaring “No. 9 Dream.” Even with such fine moments, the album is decidedly uneven, containing too much mediocre material like “Beef Jerky” and “Ya Ya,” which are weighed down by weak melodies and heavy over-production. It wasn’t a particularly graceful way to enter retirement.

Tracklist:
01 – Going Down On Love
02 – Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
03 – Old Dirt Road
04 – What You Got
05 – Bless You
06 – Scared
07 – #9 Dream
08 – Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
09 – Steel And Glass
10 – Beef Jerky
11 – Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down And Out)
12 – Ya Ya

John Lennon – Rock ‘N’ Roll (1975/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:49 minutes | 822 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Rock’N’Roll has one of the strangest back-stories in music folklore. From its unpromising origins in a legal morass and months of drunken time-wasting, John rescued this sparkling tribute to the bygone era that he adored. Its tracks were all cover versions, and hardly the mass anthems or scarred confessionals Lennon was known for. Yet Rock’N’Roll was both revealing and delightful. These same tracks resurrected the leather-clad, greasy-quiffed Liverpool teenager who still lived inside John Lennon’s head…

Although the chaotic sessions that spawned this album have passed into rock & roll legend and the recording’s very genesis (as an out-of-court settlement between John Lennon and an aggrieved publisher) has often caused it to be slighted by many of the singer’s biographers, Rock ‘n’ Roll, in fact, stands as a peak in his post-Imagine catalog: an album that catches him with nothing to prove and no need to try. Lennon could, after all, sing old rock & roll numbers with his mouth closed; he spent his entire career relaxing with off-the-cuff blasts through the music with which he grew up, and Rock ‘n’ Roll emerges the sound of him doing precisely that. Four songs survive from the fractious sessions with producer Phil Spector in late 1973 that ignited the album, and listeners to any of the posthumous compilations that also draw from those archives will know that the best tracks were left on the shelf — “Be My Baby” and “Angel Baby” among them. But a gorgeous run through Lloyd Price’s “Just Because” wraps up the album in fine style, while a trip through “You Can’t Catch Me” contrarily captures a playful side that Lennon rarely revealed on vinyl. The remainder of the album was cut a year later with Lennon alone at the helm, and the mood remains buoyant. It might not, on first glance, seem essential to hear him running through nuggets like “Be Bop A Lula,” “Peggy Sue,” and “Bring It on Home to Me,” but, again, Lennon has seldom sounded so gleeful as he does on these numbers, while the absence of the Spector trademark Wall-of-Sound production is scarcely noticeable — as the object of one of Lennon’s own productions, David Peel once pointed out, “John had the Wall of Sound down perfectly himself.” Released in an age when both David Bowie and Bryan Ferry had already tracked back to musical times-gone-by (Pin-Ups and These Foolish Things, respectively), Rock ‘n’ Roll received short shrift from contemporary critics. As time passed, however, it has grown in stature, whereas those other albums have merely held their own. Today, Rock ‘n’ Roll sounds fresher than the rock & roll that inspired it in the first place. Imagine that.

Tracklist:
01 – Be-Bop-A-Lula
02 – Stand By Me
03 – Rip It Up / Ready Teddy
04 – You Can’t Catch Me
05 – Ain’t That A Shame
06 – Do You Want To Dance
07 – Sweet Little Sixteen
08 – Slippin’ And Slidin’
09 – Peggy Sue
10 – Bring It On Home To Me / Send Me Some Lovin’
11 – Bony Moronie
12 – Ya Ya
13 – Just Because

John Lennon, Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy (1980/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:11 minutes | 965 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The most distinctive thing about Double Fantasy, the last album John Lennon released during his lifetime, is the very thing that keeps it from being a graceful return to form from the singer/songwriter, returning to active duty after five years of self-imposed exile. As legend has it, Lennon spent those years in domestic bliss, being a husband, raising a baby, and, of course, baking bread. Double Fantasy was designed as a window into that bliss and, to that extent, he decided to make it a joint album with Yoko Ono, to illustrate how complete their union was. For her part, Ono decided to take a stab at pop and while these are relatively tuneful for her, they nevertheless disrupt the feel and flow of Lennon’s material, which has a consistent tone and theme. He’s surprisingly sentimental, not just when he’s expressing love for his wife (“Dear Yoko,” “Woman”) and child (“Beautiful Boy [Darling Boy]”), but when he’s coming to terms with his quiet years (“Watching the Wheels,” “Cleanup Time”) and his return to creative life. These are really nice tunes, and what’s special about them is their niceness — it’s a sweet acceptance of middle age, which, of course, makes his assassination all the sadder. For that alone, Double Fantasy is noteworthy, yet it’s hard not to think that it’s a bit of a missed opportunity — primarily because its themes would be stronger without the Ono songs, but also because the production is just a little bit too slick and constrained, sounding very much of its time. Ultimately, these complaints fall by the wayside because Lennon’s best songs here cement the last part of his legend, capturing him at peace and in love. According to some reports, that perception was a bit of a fantasy, but sometimes the fantasy means more than the reality, and that’s certainly the case here.

Tracklist:
01 – (Just Like) Starting Over
02 – Kiss Kiss Kiss
03 – Cleanup Time
04 – Give Me Something
05 – I’m Losing You
06 – I’m Moving On
07 – Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
08 – Watching The Wheels
09 – Yes, I’m Your Angel
10 – Woman
11 – Beautiful Boys
12 – Dear Yoko
13 – Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him
14 – Hard Times Are Over

John Lennon, Yoko Ono – Milk And Honey (1984/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:49 minutes | 740 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Milk and Honey was released in 1984, nearly four years after John Lennon’s death. It was created by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the last months of Lennon’s life, during and following the sessions for Double Fantasy. The album was assembled by Yoko Ono, and features a number of songs presented in their demo form.

The sessions for 1980’s Double Fantasy were supposed to yield two albums, the second to be released at a future time, but Lennon’s assassination tragically halted the project in its tracks. A bit over three years later, Yoko Ono issued tapes of many of the songs planned for that album under the title Milk and Honey, laid out in the same John-Yoko-John-Yoko dialogue fashion as its predecessor. Not unexpectedly, it’s a rougher, less polished product, lacking the finishing touches and additional takes that Lennon most likely would have called for. Nevertheless, Lennon’s songs at this point in their development were often quite strong, tougher than those on Double Fantasy in general, and the ad libs and studio chatter that might not have made the final cut give us more of a glimpse of Lennon’s delightfully quirky personality. “Nobody Told Me,” the advance single off the album, is a rollicking, quizzical piece of work, maybe the best thing to come out of John’s 1980 sessions, despite the unfinished-sounding transition to the chorus. “Borrowed Time,” another single, is a thoughtful, sparely worded meditation on growing older attached to a Caribbean beat. Yoko’s contributions, while not as strong as John’s, are surprisingly listenable — the reggae-based “Don’t Be Scared,” in particular — and more current in texture, and her lyrics do tend to answer John’s songs. As the album comes toward the close, the tone turns sentimental, culminating with one of John’s loveliest tunes, “Grow Old With Me,” as presented on a home-recorded cassette in lieu of a studio recording. The ironies of this song and some of the other Lennon material are obviously poignant in the light of the cruel events of December 8, 1980; that and the fact that these songs haven’t been as exposed as much as those on Double Fantasy lead some to prefer this sequel.

Tracklist:
01 – John Lennon – I’m Stepping Out
02 – Yoko Ono – Sleepless Night
03 – John Lennon – I Don’t Wanna Face It
04 – Yoko Ono – Don’t Be Scared
05 – John Lennon – Nobody Told Me
06 – Yoko Ono – O’Sanity
07 – John Lennon – Borrowed Time
08 – Yoko Ono – Your Hands
09 – John Lennon – (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
10 – Yoko Ono – Let Me Count The Ways
11 – John Lennon – Grow Old With Me
12 – Yoko Ono – You’re The One

John Lennon – Singles & Home Tapes (2010/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 (44,1) kHz | Time – 23:10 / 48:20 minutes | 986 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Bonus Disc for this box & another Bonus Disc for this box.

Tracklist:
DISC ONE – “Non-Album Singles”
01 – Power To The People
02 – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
03 – Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
04 – Cold Turkey (Single Version)
05 – Move Over Ms L
06 – Give Peace A Chance

DISC TWO – “Home Tapes”
01 – Mother (Studio Outtake)
02 – Love (Studio Outtake)
03 – God (Studio Outtake)
04 – I Found Out (Studio Outtake)
05 – Nobody Told Me (Home Recording)
06 – Honey Don’t (Studio Outtake)
07 – One Of The Boys (Home Recording)
08 – India, India (Home Recording)
09 – Serve Yourself (Home Recording)
10 – Isolation (Studio Outtake)
11 – Remember (Studio Outtake)
12 – Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (Home Recording)
13 – I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die (Studio Outtake)

NOTE: Disc Two presented in 24/44,1 resolution

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Aerosmith – Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits (1980/2015) [Qobuz 24-96]

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Aerosmith – Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits (1980/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz  | Time – 00:41:06 minutes | 925 MB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | ©  Columbia Records

Recorded: 1972 at Intermedia Studios, Boston, Massachusetts; 1973–1977 and 1979 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York; February–March 1976 and August 1978 at the Wherehouse, Waltham, Massachusetts; June–October 1977 at the Cenacle, Armonk, New York; 1979 at Media Sound, New York City, New York

Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits remains one of the most popular and enduring best-of collections by any rock band, selling nearly ten million copies in the U.S. alone since its release. But when it was issued in 1980, the band had just about reached its nadir. With original guitarist Joe Perry gone (and Brad Whitford soon to follow), Aerosmith had turned into a directionless, time-consuming ghost of its former self. Since there would be a three-year gap between 1979’s Night in the Ruts and 1982’s Rock in a Hard Place, Greatest Hits was assembled, more or less, to fill the void and buy the band some time. With the album clocking in at only 37 and a half minutes, many Aerosmith classics are not included, such as what many consider the band’s quintessential track, their cover of “Train Kept a Rollin’.” The only poor selection is the forgettable “Remember (Walking in the Sand),” but nine out of ten are bona fide classics — “Dream On,” “Same Old Song and Dance,” “Sweet Emotion,” “Walk this Way,” “Last Child,” “Back in the Saddle,” and “Draw the Line.” Also featured is their venomous cover of the Beatles’ “Come Together,” previously only available as a single and on the soundtrack to the 1978 movie Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. For the casual fan, Greatest Hits will do the job, as well as its sister album, 1988’s Gems. –Greg Prato

Tracklist:
1 Dream On 4:26
2 Same Old Song And Dance 3:04
3 Sweet Emotion 3:14
4 Walk This Way 3:32
5 Last Child 3:28
6 Back In The Saddle 4:41
7 Draw The Line 3:23
8 Kings And Queens 3:49
9 Come Together 3:45
10 Remember (Walking In The Sand) 4:04

Personnel:
Steven Tyler – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
Joe Perry – lead guitar, backing vocals
Brad Whitford – rhythm guitar
Tom Hamilton – bass
Joey Kramer – drums

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Aerosmith – Nine Lives (1997/2015) [Qobuz 24-96]

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Aerosmith – Nine Lives (1997/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz  | Time – 01:02:49 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | ©  Columbia Records
Recorded: September–November 1996 at at Avatar Studios, NYC.

Nine Lives is the 12th studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released March 18, 1997. The album was produced by Aerosmith and Kevin Shirley, and was the band’s first studio album released by Columbia Records since 1982’s Rock in a Hard Place. It peaked at #1 at the Billboard Charts. One of the album’s singles, “Pink”, won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.

 

Aerosmith signed a multi-million-dollar contract with Columbia Records before they had completed their deal with Geffen, which meant that a lot was riding on their Columbia debut, Nine Lives, when it was finally delivered in 1997. During recording, the band nearly broke up, and they worked with a number of producers — including Glen Ballard, the man behind Alanis Morissette — before settling on Kevin Shirley, an in-house producer responsible for Silverchair and Journey. Perhaps that’s the reason why Nine Lives sounds so calculated, as if it was assembled by a band trying to sound like Aerosmith. In a sense, it is — not one of the 13 songs were written without the assistance of professional songwriters. Of course, some of the best moments of Pump and Permanent Vacation were also written with professionals, but they had an appealing, slick surface that made them infectious. Nine Lives, in contrast, is overlabored, with Aerosmith making a conscious effort to sound hip and vibrant, which ironically simply makes them sound tired. Not only are the performances perfunctory, but the songs aren’t catchy — no matter how hard it tries, “Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)” never develops a hook, and it is not an exception. A handful of cuts approximate the raunchy appeal of prime Aerosmith, but Nine Lives is hardly the triumphant comeback it should have been. –Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:
1 Nine Lives 4:01
2 Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees) 3:26
3 Hole In My Soul 6:10
4 Taste Of India 5:53
5 Full Circle 5:01
6 Something’s Gotta Give 3:36
7 Ain’t That A Bitch 5:26
8 The Farm 4:27
9 Crash 4:26
10 Kiss Your Past Good-Bye 4:32
11 Pink 3:55
12 Attitude Adjustment 3:44
13 Fallen Angels 8:17

Personnel:
Steven Tyler – lead vocals, harmonica on “Pink”
Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals
Brad Whitford – guitar
Tom Hamilton – bass
Joey Kramer – drums
Additional:
David Campbell – arranger, conductor
Ramesh Misra – sarangi
John Webster – keyboards, backing vocals

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Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (2015) [PonoMusic 24-44.1]

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Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1kHz | Time – 47:26 minutes | 535 MB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: PonoMusic | © ATO Records
Recorded: Sound Emporium studio in Nashville, Tennessee.

Sound & Color is the highly anticipated follow-up to Alabama Shakes’ 2012 Grammy-nominated debut. “We took our time to write this record, and I’m really glad we did,” says Brittany Howard, lead singer and guitarist of Alabama Shakes, about the band’s new album Sound & Color. “We were able to sit down and think about what’s exciting to us, explore all the things we wanted to on our first album. This record is full of genre-bending songs—it’s even harder now when people ask, ‘What kind of band are you?’ I have no clue.”
The album’s twelve songs reveal a band honed by years on the road, and drawing from a wide range of influences. The bluesy groove of “Shoegaze” or the garage-rock freak-out on “The Greatest” give way to the psychedelic space jam “Gemini.” The gently swaying, chiming title song opens the album with what Howard calls “more of a visual thing, I think of this whole scene going on,” then explodes into the urgent, tightly-coiled funk of “Don’t Wanna Fight.” Long instrumental intros and passages create hazy atmosphere, and then the intensity of Howard’s vocals snaps everything back into riveting focus.
With Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes prove that the response to Boys & Girls was no fluke. Expanding on the soulful blues-rock base that made their name, they defy predictable expectations and map an exciting, surprising, and innovative new direction.

 

On their 2012 debut Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes never hid that they were creatures of the New South — a band with old-fashioned blues, soul, gospel, and country in their blood but raised on modern rock. On their 2015 follow-up, Sound & Color, they free themselves from the vestiges of the past, let loose, and push themselves further in either direction. This could’ve resulted in a disjointed record pulling itself in two opposing directions, but the mess of Sound & Color is invigorating, likely because the album uses its title as a creed. Where Boys & Girls sometimes seemed a shade austere — the band took pains to color within the lines, almost as if to convey their good taste — Sound & Color bursts with oversaturated hues so vivid they seem almost tangible. Such deep digressions into shade and light accentuate both the group’s roots and modernity, but the very fact that they chase after such bold, elastic sounds signals they’re hardly a throwback. Plus, the group’s attack is muscular here: there’s a strong, boundless funk to “Don’t Wanna Fight,” but there’s a similar power behind the slow-churning soul ballad “Gimme All Your Love.” Often, Sound & Color takes flight when Alabama Shakes channel that energy into ever-shifting, liquid performances that almost feel like roots psychedelia, typified by “Future People” skipping off its tight Memphis groove with spooky harmonies and thudding fuzz. Such unaffected weird flourishes are evidence that Alabama Shakes are creatures of their time and place — they play Southern soul-rock in an era where the past is indistinguishable from the present, and how the band interlaces the old and the new on Sound & Color feels startlingly fresh. –Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:
1 Sound & Color 03:02
2 Don’t Wanna Fight 03:53
3 Dunes 04:18
4 Future People 03:22
5 Gimme All Your Love 04:03
6 This Feeling 04:29
7 Guess Who 03:16
8 The Greatest 03:50
9 Shoegaze 02:59
10 Miss You 03:47
11 Gemini 06:36
12 Over My Head 03:51

Personnel:
Brittany Howard – vocals, guitar
Zac Cockrell – bass guitar
Heath Fogg – guitar, backing vocals
Steve Johnson – drums, percussion, backing vocals

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