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Beck – The Information (2006/2014) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Beck – The Information (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 1:01:33 minutes | 763 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital Booklet | © Interscope

Hailed as “a deeply natural songwriter” (The New Yorker) who “defies expectations in his own way” (Time) and “Gen X’s most famous absurdist” (Blender), Beck is the single most inventive and eclectic figure to emerge from the ’90s altertnative revolution. In an era obsessed with junk culture, Beck seamlessly blends pop, folk, hop-hop, indie/underground and electronica with the end result being an authentically uncategorizable musical style that nevertheless has sold millions of records and scored multiple Grammy awards.

Three years in the making, The Information is the album Beck began work on in 2003 with producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead’s OK Computer, Kid A; Beck’s Sea Change, Mutations) and finally completed this year once Guero‘s massive success and encore touring engagements, as well as Nigel’s other commitments, were fulfilled.

Upon its release, The Information peaked at #7 on the US Billboard 200 and #3 on the US Top Rock Albums chart.

Tracklist

01-Elevator Music
02-Think I’m In Love
03-Cellphone’s Dead
04-Strange Apparition
05-Soldier Jane
06-Nausea
07-New Round
08-Dark Star
09-We Dance Alone
10-No Complaints
11-1000BPM
12-Motorcade
13-The Information
14-Movie Theme
15-The Horrible Fanfare – Landslide – Exoskeleton

Personnel:
Beck – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, melodica, piano, organ, keyboards, programming, effects, scratching, sitar, bass guitar, harmonica, kalimba, percussion, drums, drum effects, glockenspiel, Game Boy
Nigel Godrich – production, mixing, keyboards, programming, effects, scratching, tambourine, percussion, background vocals, Speak ‘n Spell, whistle, Tote-A-Tune, kalimba, drums, Game Boy
Jason Falkner – bass guitars, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, African bass, Moog synthesizer bass, background vocals, percussion, drums
James Gadson – drums, percussion, background vocals
Joey Waronker – drums, percussion, background vocals
Smokey Hormel – intro sounds
Justin Meldal-Johnsen – intro sounds
Roger Manning Jr. – intro sounds
Alex Acuña – percussion, background vocals
Harvey Mason – drums
Brian LeBarton – Speak ‘n Spell
Justin Stanley – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals, percussion, flute
Greg Kurstin – keyboards, berimbau, piano, bass keyboard, synthesizer, background vocals, acoustic guitar
DJ Z-Trip – scratching
Stevie Black – cello, percussion, background vocals
Lucia Ribisi – girl on “Cellphone’s Dead”
Cosimo Hansen – talking
Sean Davis – bass guitars
Rachel Shelley – shipping forecast
David Campbell – string arrangements, conductor
Suzie Katayama – strings
Charlie Bisharat – strings
Spike Jonze – talking on “Exoskeleton”
Dave Eggers – talking on “Exoskeleton”

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Beck – Morning Phase (2014) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Beck – Morning Phase (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:07 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover | © Capitol Records

Winner of multiple Grammy Awards in 2015: Album of the Year, Best Rock Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Nominated for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song.

Beck’s newest album, titled Morning Phase, has been described as a companion piece of sorts to Beck’s 2002 classic Sea Change. Featuring many of the same musicians who played on that record (who are also currently accompanying him live) —Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Joey Waronker, Smokey Hormel, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and Jason Falkner — Morning Phase harkens back to the stunning harmonies, song craft and staggering emotional impact of that record, while surging forward with infectious optimism.

Morning Phase caps off a yearlong creative tear that traces back to the December 2012 release of the lavishly packaged and illustrated Song Reader featuring sheet music for 20 new original Beck songs. The project quickly took on a life of its own, with musicians from across the globe recording their own interpretations, as well as Beck’s own special shows featuring eclectic lists of co-conspirators putting their own stamp on the compositions.

Tracklist:
01 – Cycle
02 – Morning
03 – Heart Is A Drum
04 – Say Goodbye
05 – Blue Moon
06 – Unforgiven
07 – Wave
08 – Don’t Let It Go
09 – Blackbird Chain
10 – Phase
11 – Turn Away
12 – Country Down
13 – Waking Light

Please note: Tracks 4, 5, 7, 10, 11 contain elements of 48k tracking, mastered in 96/24.

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Beck – Mutations (1998/2014) [AcousticSounds FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Beck – Mutations (1998/2014) 
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:13 minutes | 2,09 GB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Artwork: Front cover | © Geffen

Although the album features such traditional rock instrumentation as guitars, bass and drums, it also features organs, keyboards and indian sitars, which help lend a spacey yet organic feel to some songs. Beck’s experimental space-age folk rock album done with his backup band and produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead).

According to party line, neither Beck nor Geffen ever intended Mutations to be considered as the official follow-up to Odelay, his Grammy-winning breakthrough. It was more like One Foot in the Grave, designed to be an off-kilter, subdued collection of acoustic-based songs pitched halfway between psychedelic country blues and lo-fi folk. The presence of producer Nigel Godrich, the man who helmed Radiohead’s acclaimed OK Computer, makes such claims dubious. Godrich is not a slick producer, but he’s no Calvin Johnson, either, and Mutations has an appropriately clean, trippy feel. There’s little question that with the blues, country, psych, bossa nova, and folk that comprise it, Mutations was never meant to be a commercial endeavor — there’s no floor-shaker like “Where It’s At,” and it doesn’t trade in the junk culture that brought Odelay to life. Recording with his touring band — marking the first time he has entered the studio with a live band — does result in a different sound, but it’s not so much a departure as it is a side road that is going in the same direction. None of the songs explore new territory, but they’re rich, lyrically and musically. There’s an off-the-cuff wit to the songwriting, especially on “Canceled Check” and “Bottle of Blues,” and the performances are natural, relaxed, and laid-back, without ever sounding complacent. In fact, one of the nifty tricks of Mutations is how it sounds simple upon the first listen, then reveals more psychedelic layers upon each play. Beck is not only a startling songwriter — his best songs are simultaneously modern and timeless — he is a sharp record-maker, crafting albums that sound distinct and original, no matter how much they may borrow. In its own quiet, organic way, Mutations confirms this as much as either Mellow Gold or Odelay.

Tracklist:
01 – Cold Brains
02 – Nobody’s Fault But My Own
03 – Lazy Flies
04 – Canceled Check
05 – We Live Again
06 – Tropicalia
07 – Dead Melodies
08 – Bottle Of Blues
09 – O Maria
10 – Sing It Again
11 – Static
12 – Diamond Bollocks

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 14 – Ronald Brautigam (2015) [eClassical FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 14 – Ronald Brautigam (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:58 minutes | 0,97 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: eclassical.com | @ BIS Records
Recorded: August 2014 at Österåker Church, Sweden

Ludwig van Beethoven’s first printed work was a set of variations – published in 1783 when he was only twelve years old – and his final keyboard composition was the massive set of thirty-three variations on a theme by Anton Diabelli, composed almost four decades later. Not counting the several movements in variation form included in the sonatas, his twenty-one sets of piano variations thus trace a line of development in his production, parallel to those formed by the 32 piano sonatas or the 16 string quartets. On this the 14th volume in his acclaimed traversal of Beethoven’s keyboard music, Ronald Brautigam performs five sets, composed between 1802 and 1809. In three of these Beethoven uses themes of his own, including the Ruins of Athens Variations, Op.76, nick-named after the play for which Beethoven later wrote incidental music, reusing the martial theme in a ‘Turkish march’. The two remaining sets both use English themes; Beethoven’s choice of God save the King and Rule Britannia may well reflect his often expressed respect for that country – as well as his interest in the English market for sheet music. As the final part of the programme, Brautigam includes a selection of smaller pieces, most of them of an earlier date than the preceding variations. Some of these are probably student pieces, in particular the Preludes Op.39 and WoO 55 and the Fugue in C major, fruits of the counterpoint exercises Beethoven was assigned by his first teacher, Christian Gottlob Neefe, and by Johann Albrechtsberger. Six dances close a disc that offers many opportunities to glimpse another Beethoven than the composer we all believe we know.

Tracklist:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sechs Variationen in F major über ein eigenes Thema, op.34
1. Thema 1’39
2. Var. 1 1’32
3. Var. 2 1’02
4. Var. 3 1’13
5. Var. 4 1’17
6. Var. 5 1’54
7. Var. 6 4’37
Sieben Variationen in C major über God save the King, WoO 78
8. Thema 0’55
9. Var. 1 0’43
10. Var. 2 0’43
11. Var. 3 0’47
12. Var. 4 0’48
13. Var. 5 1’11
14. Var. 6 0’50
15. Var. 7 1’47
Fünf Variationen in D major über Rule Britannia, WoO 79
16. Thema 0’38
17. Var. 1 0’35
18. Var. 2 0’34
19. Var. 3 0’33
20. Var. 4 0’35
21. Var. 5 1’14

22. Zweiunddreissig Variationen in C minor über ein eigenes Thema, WoO 80 9’30
Sechs Variationen in D major (Die Ruinen von Athen), Op.76
23. Thema 0’37
24. Var. 1 0’37
25. Var. 2 0’35
26. Var. 3 0’44
27. Var. 4 0’43
28. Var. 5 0’37
29. Var. 6 1’49
Zwei Praeludien durch alle Dur-Tonarten for piano or organ, Op.39
30. I. 4’31
31. II. 2’11

32. Dreistimmige Fuge in C major, Hess 64 1’38
33. Präludium in F minor, WoO 55 2’17
34. Menuett in F major, WoO 217 1’53
35. Allemande in A major, WoO 81 1’31
36. Anglaise in D major, WoO 212 0’39
37. Menuett in E flat major, WoO 82 3’17
38. Walzer in E flat major, WoO 84 2’05
39. Walzer in D major, WoO 85 0’35

Personnel:
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink (2015) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:19 minutes | 773 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download  – Source: Q0buz | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ BRmedia Service GmbH
Recorded live 25./26.09.2014 at Herkulessaal der Residenz, Munich, Germany

It was originally intended as a Solemn Mass for the investiture of the Archduke Rudolph, one of Beethoven’s piano pupils, as the Archbishop of Olomouc. Beethoven did not complete the piece in time, however, and when he did finally finish it in 1823, it had developed into a work of art that far exceeded the liturgical requirements. With its dedication “Arising in the heart, may it return to the heart!” Beethoven’s “Missa solemnis” enters entirely new territory as a musical interpretation – deeply personal, yet aspiring to general truth – of the old and venerable Mass Ordinary.

The old compositional techniques, modes, and traditional rhetorical formulae, the deeply contemplative prelude with the great violin solo, and also the plea for peace introduced by military sounds in the Agnus Dei, all combine on a large scale to form a unique tableau of Beethoven’s skills and ideas. Ever since its premiere in 1824 in St. Petersburg, this work has been at home in all the concert halls of the world.
With the current production of the “Missa solemnis”, BR-KLASSIK presents a premiere – just as it did with the previously released CD of Haydn’s “Creation”. This is the first recording of Beethoven’s “Missa solemnis” under the baton of Bernard Haitink, that grand seigneur among today’s world-class conductors. His choice of orchestra for it was no accident; he has after all been connected with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks for more than 55 years now. They are joined by the Chorus of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and a finely coordinated ensemble of soloists, consisting of Genia Kühmeier, Elisabeth Kulman, Mark Padmore and Hanno Müller-Brachmann. In this recording Bernard Haitink achieves a light and youthful urgency, plumbing all the musical depths of Beethoven’s score with great wisdom of age.

Tracklist:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Missa solemnis, Op. 123
1. Kyrie. Assai sostenuto 09:48
2. Gloria. Allegro vivace 18:39
3. Credo. Allegro ma non troppo 19:58
4. Sanctus. Adagio 15:10
5. Agnus Dei. Adagio 15:46

Personnel:
Genia Kühmeier, soprano
Elisabeth Kulman, mezzo-soprano
Mark Padmore, tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass-baritone
Anton Barachovsky, solo violine
Chor and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink, conductor

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 – Maria Joao Pires, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 – Maria Joao Pires, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:29 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Digital Booklet | © Onyx Classics
Recorded: Berwaldhalle, Stockholm, 9–11 October 2013

Beethoven’s turbulent Third Piano Concerto and the serene Fourth, the last of his concertos Beethoven played in public before his deafness became total, are the two works chosen by Maria João Pires for her first recording for ONYX Classics. Her penetrating and passionate interpretations are the fruit of many years of performing these works, resulting in an intimate and deeply personal relationship with Beethoven’s genius.

This release on the Onyx Classics label has no right to be as good as it is. Pianist Maria-João Pires, 70 years old when the album appeared in 2014, has never been known as a Beethoven specialist. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding is a competent group, surely, but hardly on Europe’s or even Scandinavia’s A-list. The Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, and Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, hardly lack for varied and incisive interpretations. Yet there it is: this one delivers ideas that nobody else has offered before. In a nutshell, Pires makes the piano the quiet partner to a rather martial orchestra in these works. The Third Concerto loses its epic quality and has Pires offering gentle answers to the orchestra’s turbulent phrases, with a slow movement that brings to mind Pires’ true specialty: Chopin. The tempos are generally deliberate, and the long opening movement of the Piano Concerto No. 3 gives the feeling that every note fits into a larger structure. The overall effect is wondrously lyrical, yet very well controlled on the part of both soloist and conductor, who seem really to have worked these performances out together. Those who really do not like low-key Beethoven might think twice about this, but even so might find it extraordinary. –AllMusic Review by James Manheim

Tracklist:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor op.37
1 I Allegro con brio 17.15
2 II Largo 9.50
3 III Rondo: Allegro 9.11

Piano Concerto no.4 in G op.58
4 I Allegro moderato 19.43
5 II Andante con moto 4.57
6 III Rondo: Vivace 10.21

Personnel:
Maria João Pires, piano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor

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Ludwig Van Beethoven – Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 – Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner (1962/2015) [PrestoClassical FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Ludwig Van Beethoven – Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 – Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner (1962/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:14  minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: prestoclassical.co.uk | Digital booklet | © Deutsche Grammophon
Recording: 1961 at UFA-Studio, Berlin, Germany

In the most beautiful of all piano concertos it isn’t the orchestra which introduces the main theme but the piano”: Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991) justified in this way his preference for Beethoven’s lyrical Fourth Concerto in G major. During his long, troublefree career, he played both the Fourth and “Emperor” Concertos all over the world, from the capital of his homeland Prussia, the Berlin of the Kaisers, to Japan and South America, from Scandinavia to Baalbek. He used to improvise the two cadenzas in the G major Concerto, employing a musical imagination that had been schooled in composition, and he made no exception when he recorded the work in July 1961, at the age of 66. This poet of pianism was accompanied by an orchestra he knew well, the Berlin Philharmonic, under the distinguished German conductor Ferdinand Leitner (born 1912). Kempff’s witty and sensitive approach reveals new subtleties in the heroic E flat major Concerto, the “Emperor”, a performance recorded at the same time as the G major that has frequently been singled out for the highest praise. The Penguin Guide has called it “perhaps the most refreshing and imaginative of all. Strength there is in plenty and excitement, too. [Kempff’s] range of tone-colour is extraordinarily wide, from the merest half-tone as though the fingers are barely brushing the keys to the crisp impact of a dry fortissimo.”

“… Kempff’s Beethoven playing is one of our great modern miracles. More self-forgetful than any great pianist I know, Kempff greets the music with spontaneous delight and, greeting it, never for a moment tries to fix it. In Kempff’s playing, mind and imagination, wit and fantasy, long-term concentration and smiling delight in the briefest brushed innuendo, sit happily side by side, perfectly fused.” –Gramophone

Tracklist:
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58
1. 1. Allegro moderato 17:17
2. 2. Andante con moto 04:50
3. 3. Rondo. Vivace 10:39
Piano Concerto No.5 In E Flat Major Op.73 “Emperor”
4. 1. Allegro 20:18
5. 2. Adagio un poco mosso 07:36
6. 3. Rondo (Allegro) 10:38

Personnel:
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Berliner Philharmoniker
Ferdinand Leitner, conductor

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Ben E. King – Spanish Harlem (1961/2012) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

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Ben E. King – Spanish Harlem (1961/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192kHz | Time – 31:11 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Rhino Atlantic

Ben E. King possesses one of the richest baritone voices in music history. The Rock N’ Roll Hall of Famer made a stellar debut with Spanish Harlem. This Latin-influenced work blends together pop and soul. It includes breathtaking renditions of “Besame Mucho,” “Perfidia,” “Frenesi” and the title track. Backed by a fantastic string section, the album is a full display of King’s repertoire.

A close look at this album reveals just how ambitious Atlantic Records could be in the early 1960s, in generating LPs. Technically speaking, Ben E. King’s debut long-player is a concept album — or, at least, a thematic album. Put together in the wake of his first solo hit, “Spanish Harlem,” a Latin flavor and beat run all the way through this 12-song platter, which, at times, is really more of a pop record than a soul record. The dense, busy string section that characterized most of King’s work of this era is present, and a lot of his singing may recall more the work of Sammy Davis, Jr. than that of any R&B artist one might think of from this period. And apart from the Jerry Leiber/Phil Spector co-authored title hit, most of what is here dates from a decade or more (sometimes several) earlier — “Frenesi,” “Besame Mucho,” and “Perfidia” were standards during the big-band era, and most of the rest is of similar or even older vintage. All of which doesn’t mean that it is bad — King’s version of “Besame Mucho” is a very successful reinterpretation in a Latin soul vein, and “Perfidia” never sounded better than it does in his hands, even if it and a lot of the rest is a long way from what most of us define as “soul.” And for better or worse, the production is first-rate within the context of King’s established sound, with a phenomenal string section and a percussion section to die for. –AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder

Tracklist:
1 Amor 3:05
2 Sway 2:17
3 Come Closer To Me 2:34
4 Perfidia 2:12
5 Granada 2:25
6 Sweet And Gentle 2:24
7 Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps) 2:14
8 Frenesi 3:09
9 Souvenir Of Mexico 2:20
10 Besame Mucho 2:58
11 Love Me, Love Me 2:35
12 Spanish Harlem 2:54

Personnel:
Ben E. King, vocals

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Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.7 – Bernard Haitink, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam (1983/2012) [HighDefTapeTransfers FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

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Bernard Haitink, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam – Mahler: Symphony No.7 (1983/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 69:02 minutes | 2,98 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HighDefTapeTransfers.com | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The Mahler Seventh comes not from a commercial recording but from someone connected with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Made in 1983, it is of excellent fidelity but also suffers somewhat from the stridency problem. Possessed of the two mysterious “Night Music” movements with the devilish scherzo in between, plus a gangbusters rousing conclusion in the key of C, the Seventh has been my personal favorite Mahler symphony for some years. The Dutch audience is very quiet in spite of this being an exciting live recording.

Tracklist:
01 – Mahler Symphony No. 7 • 1st Movement
02 – Mahler Symphony No. 7 • 2nd Movement
03 – Mahler Symphony No. 7 • 3rd Movement
04 – Mahler Symphony No. 7 • 4th Movement
05 – Mahler Symphony No. 7 • 5th Movement

Transferred from a 2-track tape.
Recorded 23 September 1983 at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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FLOWER FLOWER –色 [Mora FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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レーベル Sony Music Labels Inc.
配信開始日 2015.02.11
収録曲数 全5曲
販売データ ハイレゾ|FLAC|96.0kHz/24bit

http://mora.jp/package/43000001/4988009104195/

映画『リトル・フォレスト』主題歌のために書き下ろした「春」「夏」「秋」「冬」四季4部作に加え、四季のアウトロであるpostludeを収録。

収録曲

1 – 春 04:47
2 – 夏 05:17
3 – 秋 06:02
4 – 冬 04:41
5 – postlude 03:23

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FLOWER FLOWER –実 [Mora FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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レーベル Sony Music Labels Inc.
配信開始日 2014.11.26
収録曲数 全13曲
販売データ ハイレゾ|FLAC|96.0kHz/24bit

http://mora.jp/package/43000001/4988009098302/

FLOWER FLOWER本格始動!

FLOWER FLOWER初のパッケージ作品は、1STアルバム「実」(み)。
2013年初頭からセッションを重ね仕上がった、直感とインテリジェンスの交錯する13曲。

※こちらの商品は、ハイレゾ音源(高音質音源、Hi-Res)商品です。

【タイアップ】
「月」・・・au TVCMソング
「素晴らしい世界」・・・テレビ東京系ドラマ24「玉川区役所 OF THE DEAD」エンディングテーマ

収録曲

1 – 願い 06:15
2 – 神様 03:25
3 – 空気 05:06
4 – とうめいなうた 05:21
5 – おはようのキスを 05:06
6 – 水滴 05:11
7 – 素晴らしい世界 03:42
8 – 席を立つ 04:27
9 – ひかり 07:07
10 – きみのこと 06:51
11 – スタートライン 05:50
12 – 月 04:41
13 – バイバイ 06:08

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Falcom Sound Team jdk – [ハイレゾ]閃光の行方【「英雄伝説 閃の軌跡II」オープニングテーマ】 [Mora FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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レーベル Falcom
配信開始日 2014.08.06
収録曲数 全1曲
販売データ ハイレゾ|FLAC|96.0kHz/24bit

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軌跡シリーズ最新作「英雄伝説 閃の軌跡II」より、オープニングテーマを先行配信!

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1. 閃光の行方【「英雄伝説 閃の軌跡II」オープニングテーマ】 04:27

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LiSA – Brave Freak Out(Special Edition) [Mora FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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配信開始日 2016.08.24
収録曲数 全5曲
販売データ ハイレゾ|FLAC|96.0kHz/24bit

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1 – Brave Freak Out 04:15
2 – AxxxiS 04:25
3 – ツヨガリ・ファンファーレ 05:02
4 – シャッフル 04:21
5 – Brave Freak Out -Instrumental- 04:13

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Leonard Cohen – New Skin for the old Ceremony (1974/2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Leonard Cohen – New Skin for the old Ceremony (1974/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1kHz | Time – 00:37:21 minutes | 355 MB | Genre: Folk Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | © Columbia Records
Recorded: February 1974, Sound Ideas Studio, New York

Leonard Cohen was a poet long before he decided to pick up a guitar. Despite singing in a dry baritone over spare arrangements, Cohen is a gifted lyricist who captivates the listener. New Skin for the Old Ceremony may be Leonard Cohen’s most musical album, as he is accompanied by violas, mandolins, banjos, and percussion that give his music more texture than usual. The fact that Cohen does more real singing on this album can be seen as both a blessing and a curse — while his voice sounds more strained, the songs are delivered with more passion than usual. Furthermore, he has background vocalists including Janis Ian that add significantly to create a fuller sound. It is no surprise, however, that he generally uses simple song structures to draw attention to the words (“Who By Fire”). The lyrics are filled with abstract yet vivid images, and the album primarily uses the metaphor of love and relationships as battlegrounds (“There Is a War,” “Field Commander Cohen”). Cohen is clearly singing from the heart, and he chronicles his relationship with Janis Joplin in “Chelsea Hotel No. 2.” This is one of his best albums, although new listeners should start with Songs of Leonard Cohen. –Vik Iyengar

Tracklist:
1 Is This What You Wanted 4:13
2 Chelsea Hotel 3:06
3 Lover Lover Lover 3:19
4 Field Commander Cohen 3:59
5 Why Don’t You Try 3:50
6 There Is A War 2:59
7 A Singer Must Die 3:17
8 I Tried To Leave You 2:40
9 Who By Fire 2:33
10 Take This Longing 4:06
11 Leaving Green Sleeves 2:38

Personnel:
Leonard Cohen – guitar, vocals, producer
John Lissauer – woodwinds, keyboards, backup vocals, producer, arranger
Emily Bindiger – backup vocals
Gerald Chamberlain – trombones
Erin Dickins – backup vocals
Lewis Furey – viola
Ralph Gibson – guitar
Armen Halburian – percussion
Janis Ian – vocals
Gail Kantor – backup vocals
Jeff Layton – banjo, mandolin, guitar, trumpet
Barry Lazarowitz – percussion
Roy Markowitz – drums
John Miller – bass
Don Payne – bass

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Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems (2014) [HDTracks 24bit/96kHz]

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Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:00 minutes | 702 MB | Genre: Rock, Pop
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front cover

Popular Problems is Leonard Cohen’s thrilling new studio album, where he takes us down into the avenues of our dreams and sets a new tone and speed of hope and despair, grief and joy. Cohen here is an astonished lover rocking to the human condition as “the soul unfolds in the chambers of its longing.” His legendary basso resonates as never before with a presence and urgency that arises from the very the depths of the heart. The clarity and strength of these nine hypnotic songs will have us singing them over and over.

Popular Problems is Cohen’s 13th studio album, and will be released just two days after his 80th birthday. In collaboration with co-writer Patrick Leonard, Popular Problems is a masterpiece from the ever-fresh imagination of a musical legend whose songs continue to captivate new listeners and devoted fans. Popular Problems was produced by Patrick Leonard, mastered at Marcussen Mastering and was recorded and mixed by Jesse E. String with additional mixing by Bill Bottrell.

Leonard Cohen is a master songwriter, musician, poet, novelist and visual artist whose stunning body of original work has touched the lives of millions with a career spanning six decades. His explorations of spiritual, interpersonal, romantic and political themes have impacted countless contemporary recording artists and writers. He has sold over 23 million albums, worldwide and published 12 books, the most recent of which was 2006’s ‘Book of Longing’, a collection of poetry, prose and drawings, which reached #1 on the Top 10 Hardcover Fiction Books in Canada.

Cohen’s influence on musical and theatrical artists the world over is inestimable. In fact, when Cohen was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in March 2008, the revered Lou Reed singled out Leonard as one of the “highest and most influential echelon of songwriters.” Cohen’s songbook has been covered by hundreds of recording artists including Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, Tori Amos, Nick Cave, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Rufus Wainwright and the Civil Wars. Tribute albums have been released in Cohen’s honor in France, Norway, Canada, Spain, Swedish, Czech Republic, South Africa and the United States. In 2008 Cohen’s “Hallelujah” became the fastest-selling digital single in European history when three separate versions of the song appeared simultaneously on the UK singles chart – Cohen’s own original recording, a version from Jeff Buckley and another from X Factor winner Alexandra Burke. Additionally, Leonard’s songs have been frequently selected to illustrate the emotion of motion pictures and television programs and have been heard in Watchmen, The Passion of The Christ, Natural Born Killers, The Wonder Boys, Pump Up The Volume, Secretary, The West Wing, The O.C. and many others.

Tracklist:
01 – Slow
02 – Almost Like the Blues
03 – Samson in New Orleans
04 – A Street
05 – Did I Ever Love You
06 – My Oh My
07 – Nevermind
08 – Born in Chains
09 – You Got Me Singing

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Leonard Cohen – Recent Songs (1979/2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Leonard Cohen – Recent Songs (1979/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1kHz | Time – 00:53:20 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Folk Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | © Columbia Records
Recorded: April – May 1979 at A&M Studios, Hollywood

The first thing Leonard Cohen’s music fans noticed about his sixth new studio album, given the typically open-ended title Recent Songs, was that, musically, it marked a return to the gypsy folk sound of his early records after the incongruous arrangements Phil Spector imposed on its predecessor, Death of a Ladies’ Man, only two years earlier. There were subtle musical developments, particularly a flavor of the American Southwest, courtesy of the band Passenger, which played on several tracks, but the acoustic guitars and violin recalled classic Cohen. Fans of the artist’s poetry noticed something else. His writing had become increasingly bitter and angry during the 1970s in the books The Energy of Slaves and Death of a Lady’s Man as well as in his lyrics, but there was a new equanimity in these Recent Songs that began with the welcoming introduction of “The Guests.” All was not suddenly well, of course, but “the open-hearted many” outnumbered “the broken-hearted few.” Cohen’s usual mixture of religious and sexual imagery in the songs was elegant and evocative rather than painful. If he was conscious of the sacrifices he had made in vain in “Came So Far for Beauty,” he was nevertheless able to make a sincere plea to a woman in “The Window,” mixing it with a prayer to “gentle this soul.” The album was full of references to absence and dislocation, but Cohen deliberately countered them with humor. The cover of “The Lost Canadian (Un Canadient Errant)” was enlivened by a mariachi arrangement, and the album ended with “Ballad of the Absent Mare,” an allegory about a cowboy’s search for a horse that ended with the suggestion that the pursuit was only a romantic game. Though often abstract, Recent Songs suggested Cohen had regained a certain equilibrium after a long dark period. –William Ruhlmann

Tracklist:
1 The Guests 6:37
2 Humbled In Love 5:13
3 The Window 5:54
4 Came So Far For Beauty 4:01
5 The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien Errant) 4:40
6 The Traitor 6:14
7 Our Lady Of Solitude 3:11
8 The Gypsy’s Wife 5:10
9 The Smokey Life 5:15
10 Ballad Of The Absent Mare 6:40

Personnel:
Leonard Cohen – Vocals
Charles Beck – Bass
John Bilezikjian – Guitar
Earl Dumler – Oboe
Jim Gilstrap – Vocals
Bill Ginn – Keyboards
Ricardo Gonzalez – Guitar
Garth Hudson – Keyboards
Abraham Laboriel, Sr. – Bass
John Lissauer – Keyboards
Steve Meador – Drums
John Miller – Bass
Paul Ostermayer – Saxophone
Jose Perez – Trumpet
Roger St Kennerly – Vocals
Everado Sandoval – Guitar
Pablo Sandoval – Trumpet
Stephanie Spruill – Vocals
Julia Tillman Waters – Vocals
Randy Waldman – Keyboards
Jennifer Warnes – Harmony, Vocals
Mitch Watkins – Guitar
Maxine Willard Waters – Vocals

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Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967/2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1kHz | Time – 00:41:32 minutes | 435 MB | Genre: Folk Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | © Columbia Records
Recorded: August 1967, Columbia Studio E, New York

At a time when a growing number of pop songwriters were embracing a more explicitly poetic approach in their lyrics, the 1967 debut album from Leonard Cohen introduced a songwriter who, rather than being inspired by “serious” literature, took up music after establishing himself as a published author and poet. The ten songs on Songs of Leonard Cohen were certainly beautifully constructed, artful in a way few (if any) other lyricists would approach for some time, but what’s most striking about these songs isn’t Cohen’s technique, superb as it is, so much as his portraits of a world dominated by love and lust, rage and need, compassion and betrayal. While the relationship between men and women was often the framework for Cohen’s songs (he didn’t earn the nickname “the master of erotic despair” for nothing), he didn’t write about love; rather, Cohen used the never-ending thrust and parry between the sexes as a jumping off point for his obsessive investigation of humanity’s occasional kindness and frequent atrocities (both emotional and physical). Cohen’s world view would be heady stuff at nearly any time and place, but coming in a year when pop music was only just beginning to be taken seriously, Songs of Leonard Cohen was a truly audacious achievement, as bold a challenge to pop music conventions as the other great debut of the year, The Velvet Underground & Nico, and a nearly perfectly realized product of his creative imagination. Producer John Simon added a touch of polish to Cohen’s songs with his arrangements (originally Cohen wanted no accompaniment other than his guitar), though the results don’t detract from his dry but emotive vocals; instead, they complement his lyrics with a thoughtful beauty and give the songs even greater strength. And a number of Cohen’s finest songs appeared here, including the luminous “Suzanne,” the subtly venomous “Master Song” and “Sisters of Mercy,” which would later be used to memorable effect in Robert Altman’s film McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Many artists work their whole career to create a work as singular and accomplished as Songs of Leonard Cohen, and Cohen worked this alchemy the first time he entered a recording studio; few musicians have ever created a more remarkable or enduring debut. –Mark Deming

Tracklist:
1 Suzanne 3:50
2 Master Song 5:58
3 Winter Lady 2:17
4 The Stranger Song 5:07
5 Sisters Of Mercy 3:36
6 So Long, Marianne 5:40
7 Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye 2:57
8 Stories Of The Street 4:37
9 Teachers 3:02
10 One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong 4:29

Personnel:
Leonard Cohen – Vocals

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Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate (1971/1995) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate (1971/1995)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1kHz | Time – 00:44:58 minutes | 469 MB | Genre: Folk Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | © Columbia Records
Recorded: September 22–26, 1970 at Columbia Studio A, Nashville

Songs of Love and Hate is one of Leonard Cohen’s most emotionally intense albums — which, given the nature of Cohen’s body of work, is no small statement. While the title Songs of Love and Hate sums up the album’s themes accurately enough, it’s hardly as simple as that description might lead you to expect — in these eight songs, “love” encompasses the physical (“Last Year’s Man”), the emotional (“Famous Blue Raincoat”), and the spiritual (“Joan of Arc”), and the contempt in songs like “Dress Rehearsal Rag” and “Avalanche” is the sort of venom that can only come from someone who once cared very deeply. The sound of the album is clean and uncluttered, and for the most part the music stays out of the way of the lyrics, which dominate the songs. Thankfully, Cohen had grown noticeably as a singer since his first two albums, and if he hardly boasts a range to rival Roy Orbison here, he is able to bring out the subtleties of “Joan of Arc” and “Famous Blue Raincoat” in a way his previous work would not have led you to expect. And while Bob Johnston’s production is spare, it’s spare with a purpose, letting Cohen’s voice and guitar tell their stories and using other musicians for intelligent, emotionally resonant punctuation (Paul Buckmaster’s unobtrusive string arrangements and the use of a children’s chorus are especially inspired). And Songs of Love and Hate captured Cohen in one of his finest hours as a songwriter, and the best selections (especially “Famous Blue Raincoat,” “Joan of Arc,” and “Love Calls You by Your Name”) rank with the most satisfying work of his career. If Songs of Love and Hate isn’t Cohen’s best album, it comes close enough to be essential to anyone interested in his work. –Mark Deming

Tracklist:
1 Avalanche 4:59
2 Last Year’s Man 5:56
3 Dress Rehearsal Rag 6:03
4 Diamonds In The Mine 3:48
5 Love Calls You By Your Name 5:37
6 Famous Blue Raincoat 5:07
7 Sing Another Song, Boys 6:09
8 Joan Of Arc 6:21

Personnel:
Leonard Cohen – acoustic guitar, vocals
Ron Cornelius – acoustic and electric guitars
Charlie Daniels – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, fiddle
Elkin “Bubba” Fowler – acoustic guitar, banjo, bass guitar
Bob Johnston – piano, production
Corlynn Hanney – vocals
Susan Mussmano – vocals
The Corona Academy, London – children’s voices
Michael Sahl – strings on third verse of “Last Year’s Man”
Paul Buckmaster – string and horn arrangements, conductor

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Leonard Cohen – Songs from a Room (1969/2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Leonard Cohen – Songs from a Room (1969/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1kHz | Time – 00:36:08 minutes | 369 MB | Genre: Folk Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | © Columbia Records
Recorded: October 1968 at Columbia Studio A, Nashville

Leonard Cohen’s first album was an unqualified triumph which announced the arrival of a bold and singular talent, and many who heard it must have wondered what Cohen could do for an encore. By comparison, Cohen’s second album, 1969’s Songs from a Room, was something of a letdown. While it’s a fine LP, it ultimately feels neither as striking nor as assured as Songs of Leonard Cohen. Bob Johnston stepped in as producer for Songs from a Room, and his arrangements are simpler than those John Simon crafted for the debut, but they’re also full of puzzling accents, such as the jew’s harp that punctuates several tracks, the churchy organ line in “The Old Revolution,” and the harsh synthesizer flourishes on “A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes.” Johnston also had trouble coaxing strong vocal performances from Cohen; his singing here sounds tentative and his meter is uncertain, which regardless of how one feels about Cohen’s much-debated vocal prowess is not the case with his other work. And finally, the quality of the songs on Songs from a Room is less consistent than on Songs of Leonard Cohen; as fine as “Bird on a Wire,” “You Know Who I Am,” “The Story of Isaac” and “Seems So Long Ago, Nancy” may be, “The Butcher” and “A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes” simply aren’t up to his usual standards. Despite the album’s flaws, Songs from a Room’s strongest moments convey a naked intimacy and fearless emotional honesty that’s every bit as powerful as the debut, and it left no doubt that Cohen was a major creative force in contemporary songwriting. –Mark Deming

Tracklist:
1 Bird On The Wire 3:29
2 Story Of Isaac 3:39
3 A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes 3:18
4 The Partisan 3:29
5 Seems So Long Ago, Nancy 3:41
6 The Old Revolution 4:50
7 The Butcher 3:22
8 You Know Who I Am 3:32
9 Lady Midnight 3:02
10 Tonight Will Be Fine 3:53

Personnel:
Leonard Cohen – Vocals
Ron Cornelius – acoustic and electric guitar
Bubba Fowler – banjo, bass guitar, violin, acoustic guitar
Charlie Daniels – bass guitar, violin, acoustic guitar
Bob Johnston – keyboards

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Leonard Cohen – Ten New Songs (2001/2014) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Leonard Cohen – Ten New Songs (2001/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:46 minutes | 577 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover | Source: HDTracks

Ten New Songs (2001) was co-written and produced by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson, and was Cohen’s first album recorded after he had spent a several years (starting in 1994) at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center in Southern California. The album was the first Cohen album that was recorded and produced digitally.

“I’m back on Boogie Street,” declares Leonard Cohen on two different songs in this collection, titled with characteristic understatement Ten New Songs. (Previous album titles have included Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, and Recent Songs.) More poet than musician, Cohen has, since his early albums, tended to rely on collaborations with musicians to put together his music: John Lissauer on 1974’s New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Henry Lewy on 1979’s Recent Songs, and, notoriously, Phil Spector on 1977’s Death of a Ladies’ Man. On Ten New Songs, his partner is former backup singer Sharon Robinson, who co-wrote “Everybody Knows” on 1988’s I’m Your Man and earns co-writing credit on all the material here. She has also conjured the musical backgrounds (“All tracks arranged, programmed, and performed by Sharon Robinson,” reads the credit), and she harmonizes with Cohen throughout. But all collaborators (even Spector) are in the service of Cohen’s poetic vision, which remains the dominant element on this elegiac set. After a restatement of purpose on “In My Secret Life,” he turns in a moody set of reflections on decline, even alluding to fellow poet Robert Frost’s famous “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” in “A Thousand Kisses Deep”: “And maybe I had miles to drive/And promises to keep/You ditch it all to stay alive/A thousand kisses deep.” The songs are full of leave-taking, with titles like “Alexandra Leaving” and “You Have Loved Enough” accurately describing the tone, concluding with the prayer-like valedictory “The Land of Plenty,” which gently remonstrates with the consumer society the poet has always engaged and rejected: “May the lights in the land of plenty/Shine on the truth some day.” Even in the quietude of Cohen’s catalog, the result seems like a coda.

Tracklist:
01 – In My Secret Life
02 – A Thousand Kisses Deep
03 – That Don’t Make It Junk
04 – Here It Is
05 – Love Itself
06 – By the Rivers Dark
07 – Alexandra Leaving
08 – You Have Loved Enough
09 – Boogie Street
10 – The Land of Plenty

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