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Johnny Cash - The Mystery of Life

Artist: Johnny Cash

Album: The Mystery of Life

Release Date: September, 1990

Genre: Country

Format: mp3 / FLAC

This album contains re-recorded versions of such Cash favorites as "Hey Porter," "Angel and the Badman," "Goin' by the Book," "The Greatest Cowboy," and more.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:35:00 -0700 André Previn / Yo-Yo Ma - Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85; Walton: Cello Concerto download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/andre-previn-yo-yo-ma-elgar-cello-concerto-op http://vaqulava.posterous.com/andre-previn-yo-yo-ma-elgar-cello-concerto-op
André Previn / Yo-Yo Ma - Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85; Walton: Cello Concerto

Artist: André Previn / Yo-Yo Ma

Album: Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85; Walton: Cello Concerto

Release Date: 1985

Genre: Classical

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:18:00 -0700 Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Make a Joyful Noise: Beloved Choruses download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/mormon-tabernacle-choir-make-a-joyful-noise-b http://vaqulava.posterous.com/mormon-tabernacle-choir-make-a-joyful-noise-b
Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Make a Joyful Noise: Beloved Choruses

Artist: Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Album: Make a Joyful Noise: Beloved Choruses

Release Date:

Genre: Classical

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:18:00 -0700 Glenn Miller - The Popular Recordings (1938-1942) download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/glenn-miller-the-popular-recordings-1938-1942-67740 http://vaqulava.posterous.com/glenn-miller-the-popular-recordings-1938-1942-67740
Glenn Miller - The Popular Recordings (1938-1942)

Artist: Glenn Miller

Album: The Popular Recordings (1938-1942)

Release Date: 1989

Genre: Jazz

Format: mp3 / FLAC

At the time of its initial appearance in 1989, this three-CD set was a significant improvement over any of the compact disc editions of Glenn Miller's music to have made it out before. Not only did its 60 songs offer the proper scope and range to allow one to fully appreciate the depth of Miller's popularity and talent, but this was also part of the CD era's second wave of compilations and remasterings -- in contrast to the boomtown recklessness and corporate ineptitude that had characterized CD reissues in the mid-'80s, producers were now aware that there were gradations in the sound quality of digital masters and room for improvement in the technology. The late Joe Lopes engineered this set to last in the ears of the listener, and producer John Snyder oversaw what was, at the time, one of the finest and most comprehensive CD reissues ever accorded a big-band leader. The brass has bite and the horns and reeds have body, and the entire band is in sharp relief as they hadn't been heard since the early '40s and their last civilian concerts. It has since been supplanted, itself, by other, more recent remastered editions utilizing still better technology, including The Essential Glenn Miller (1995), Platinum Glenn Miller (2003), and The Centennial Collection (2004) -- reducing the noise in the masters even further, among other differences -- but holds up as perhaps the best authorized, large-scale survey of Miller's work other than the 13-disc complete set from BMG. These 60 songs represent a compromise between that set's completeness and the superficiality of 1988's Pure Gold, with its ten songs and minimal annotation.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:09:00 -0700 Quickspace - The Death of Quickspace download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/quickspace-the-death-of-quickspace-download-a http://vaqulava.posterous.com/quickspace-the-death-of-quickspace-download-a
Quickspace - The Death of Quickspace

Artist: Quickspace

Album: The Death of Quickspace

Release Date: March 21, 2000

Genre: Pop/Rock

Format: mp3 / FLAC

Taking a step back from the vast scope and experimentalism of their brilliant, sprawling album Precious Falling, Quickspace's Matador debut, The Death of Quickspace, hones in on the group's precarious, invigorating fusion of giddy noise bursts and moody, hypnotic lock grooves. Songs like "They Shoot Horse Don't They" and "The Lobbalong Song" feature their signature mix of rolling drums, bubbling keyboards, and twining, chiming melodies, but surprisingly thrashy guitars slash through "Munchers No Munchers," "Lob It," and "4," making this album the group's most raucous to date. Though the cascading,11-minute epic "Climbing a Hill" doesn't quite achieve the liftoff that most of Quickspace's extended pieces accomplish effortlessly, the band more than makes up for that with two of their finest pop confections, "Gloriana" and "A Rose." As sunny and winding as a country road in the summertime, both songs blend sweet harmonies, pastoral fiddles, slide guitars, and the otherworldy theremins that always hover around the periphery of Quickspace's songs. Though Precious Falling is a hard act to follow, much like their first album and early singles, The Death of Quickspace makes its sneaky way into the listener's affections, creeping up and offering something surprising when it's least expected.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:09:00 -0700 Snoop Dogg - Dogg Pound Mix download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/snoop-dogg-dogg-pound-mix-download-album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/snoop-dogg-dogg-pound-mix-download-album
Snoop Dogg - Dogg Pound Mix

Artist: Snoop Dogg

Album: Dogg Pound Mix

Release Date: February 7, 2005

Genre: Rap

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:57:00 -0700 Turtle Island String Quartet - Skylife download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/turtle-island-string-quartet-skylife-download http://vaqulava.posterous.com/turtle-island-string-quartet-skylife-download
Turtle Island String Quartet - Skylife

Artist: Turtle Island String Quartet

Album: Skylife

Release Date: October, 1990

Genre: Jazz

Format: mp3 / FLAC

The Turtle Island String Quartet's music spans many idioms, from the blues and bluegrass to country, classical and Indian music, with the improvisation and swing of jazz always being in the forefront. Their music, although obviously well-rehearsed, is quite spontaneous in spots and consistently takes chances. Each of the string players (violinists David Balakrishnan and Darol Anger, Katrina Wreede on viola and cellist Mark Summer) contributed compositions to this CD which also includes a rockish version of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" and Chick Corea's delightful "Senor Mouse." A stimulating session of surprising string music.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:57:00 -0700 The Only Ones - The Only Ones download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/the-only-ones-the-only-ones-download-album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/the-only-ones-the-only-ones-download-album
The Only Ones - The Only Ones

Artist: The Only Ones

Album: The Only Ones

Release Date: April, 1978

Genre: Pop/Rock

Format: mp3 / FLAC

The Only Ones were a band that became identified with the British punk scene largely because leader Peter Perrett had a funny voice and could write a great straightforward rock & roll song at a time when such virtues were possessed almost exclusively by the faster-and-louder brigade. This helps explain why The Only Ones' self-titled debut album is regarded as a classic of the first wave of U.K. punk despite the presence of the midtempo jazz-accented "Breaking Down"; the '50s pop moves of the opening cut, "The Whole of the Law"; "The Beast," which sounds like some sort of lethargic neo-boogie; and the graceful semi-acoustic semi-samba "No Peace for the Wicked." Of course, when The Only Ones felt like rocking out, they did it brilliantly, and along with the instant classic "Another Girl, Another Planet," this album includes the sinister but rollicking "City of Fun" and the feedback-drenched crunch of "The Immoral Story," which points to another factor that made The Only Ones heroes in their day -- their eclecticism was rooted in a genuine talent for embracing different sounds rather than the inability to pick a style and master it. Perrett and his bandmates -- John Perry on guitar, Alan Mair on bass, and Mike Kellie on drums -- sound like a tight and imaginative combo even when they're surrounded by keyboard and horn overdubs, and Perrett's tales of one guy's search for love and coherence in a fractured world are intelligent, witty, and deeply cutting at all times. If the creative ambition of The Only Ones sometimes comes at the price of a tight stylistic focus that would make these songs cohere better, every track is memorable in its own way, and these ten songs always have heart, soul, and honesty to spare -- and if that isn't always the benchmark of punk rock, it's at least in the neighborhood.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:48:00 -0700 Jeff Beck - Late 60s with Rod Stewart download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/jeff-beck-late-60s-with-rod-stewart-download http://vaqulava.posterous.com/jeff-beck-late-60s-with-rod-stewart-download
Jeff Beck - Late 60s with Rod Stewart

Artist: Jeff Beck

Album: Late 60s with Rod Stewart

Release Date: 1988

Genre: Pop/Rock

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:48:00 -0700 Black Uhuru / Culture / Don Carlos - Roots & Culture download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/black-uhuru-culture-don-carlos-roots-culture http://vaqulava.posterous.com/black-uhuru-culture-don-carlos-roots-culture
Black Uhuru / Culture / Don Carlos - Roots & Culture

Artist: Black Uhuru / Culture / Don Carlos

Album: Roots & Culture

Release Date: 1982

Genre: Reggae

Format: mp3 / FLAC

In the early '80s when "artist meets artist" clash albums were becoming a popular format for reggae releases, producer and label owner Henry "Junjo" Lawes released Roots & Culture on his Jah Guidance imprint. This Culture meets Don Carlos effort is simply a one side Culture, one side Don Carlos affair since the two acts never collaborate. What's even more important is that this edition of Culture does not feature leader Joseph Hill. Hill, the most identifiable member of the group, was at the time using the Culture name himself for a solo career, but here it refers to remaining members Kenneth Lloyd Dayes and Albert Walker. They do a fine job delivering laid-back, spiritual roots music like the opening "Tell Me Who Jah" and an even better job with the lighter, uplifting tunes like "Rub a Dub Train" and "Jah Tabernacle" which is delivered over the always pleasant "Three Blind Mice" riddim. The Don Carlos side features early versions of later hits like "Hog & Goat" and "Say You Will Be My Baby" -- better known as "Ride on Christine" -- along with the light dancehall vibe of "Rub a Dub Queen" which brings reminders of his massive hit "Laser Beam." Solid grooves and good tunes but without Hill and the Channel One versions of the Carlos hits, this fringe release is best suited for the reggae faithful, not the casual fan.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:44:00 -0700 Burning Airlines - Mission: Control! download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/burning-airlines-mission-control-download-alb http://vaqulava.posterous.com/burning-airlines-mission-control-download-alb
Burning Airlines - Mission: Control!

Artist: Burning Airlines

Album: Mission: Control!

Release Date: February 23, 1999

Genre: Pop/Rock

Format: mp3 / FLAC

After Jawbox's amicable split in 1997, frontman J. Robbins and guitarist Bill Barbot teamed up with ex-Government Issue drummer, Pete Moffett, to form Burning Airlines, with Barbot switching from guitar to bass duties. Mission: Control! the band's debut album, brilliantly channels Robbins' pop sensibilities through muscular hardcore riffs with insistent, rhythmic foundations. With its seamless, dynamic shifts, thick riffs and killer melody, "3 Sisters" epitomizes the transition away from Jawbox's clipped, angular post-punk and onto a much more open-ended playing field. Barbot's bass work is a big surprise; Jawbox bassist Kim Coletta always rattled off cool melodies, but Barbot has a sharper and more intuitive sense of placement. His rubber-band lines do the dirty work on the slick "Wheaton Calling," and tug on Robbins' riffs like a magnet in "Pacific 231." Jawbox's music had begun to incorporate a greater range of moods by its final album, and Burning Airlines finds Robbins' melodies highly effective in a variety of settings: insanely catchy punk-pop ("Pacific 231"), furious Nirvana-esque rock ("Sweet Deals on Surgery" and head-spinning opener, "Carnival") and arty dissonance ("I Sold Myself In," the intelligently weird "Crowned"). "Scissoring" is the album's standout cut, with its wicked harmonic riff, bad-ass bassline and thrashy second-half. With rarely a dull or unoriginal moment, Mission: Control! is a very promising start to life after Jawbox.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:44:00 -0700 Harry Belafonte - Legendary download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/harry-belafonte-legendary-download-album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/harry-belafonte-legendary-download-album
Harry Belafonte - Legendary

Artist: Harry Belafonte

Album: Legendary

Release Date: August 28, 2001

Genre: Vocal

Format: mp3 / FLAC

Legendary is a three-CD Harry Belafonte compilation assembled by David Rowe for the various international territories of BMG from Belafonte's RCA Victor recordings of the 1950s and '60s. It's an unassuming package, a double jewel box containing little more than the discs and a three-page booklet listing the song titles with an unsigned seven-paragraph appreciation. But the value of the collection lies in the contents, not the trappings. Rowe well deserves his credits for researching and compiling the album. With a generous choice of 50 tracks and a running time of over three hours, Legendary offers an excellent overview of the bulk of Belafonte's most successful recordings. As of 2001, RCA had not given Belafonte the honor of the kind of box set retrospective other artists of his stature (and many of considerably less) had been given. In the absence of such a consideration, Legendary may be the next best thing, albeit without the lavish annotations typical of box sets. In roughly chronological order, it takes the listener from Belafonte's early triumphs with such albums as Calypso and Belafonte, through his exciting live recordings on Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, and on to the varied albums devoted to such genres as gospel and blues during the '60s. Rowe identifies and includes Belafonte's best-known songs, such as the hits "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" and "Jamaica Farewell"; key album tracks; and occasional rarities in the form of material originally issued only on singles. (The only real hit that is missing is "Island in the Sun.") With the waning of the folk revival he helped lead and his own turn toward social work and away from music, Belafonte saw his status as a major musical star erode after the '60s. Legendary reminds listeners of the breadth of this prolific artist's work. There was a lot more to the story than calypso, and the album suggests the actual outlines of that story. It would be nice to have better packaging, but that no doubt would drive up the price of an album that is available at modest expense in most of the world.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:06:00 -0700 Brian Wilson - Reimagines Gershwin download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-download-alb http://vaqulava.posterous.com/brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-download-alb
Brian Wilson - Reimagines Gershwin

Artist: Brian Wilson

Album: Reimagines Gershwin

Release Date: August 24, 2010

Genre: Pop/Rock

Format: mp3 / FLAC

During his five decades of music-making, Brian Wilson has added countless songs to the canon of great American pop music, but he hasn't recorded many by other composers. Still, his affection for the work of George Gershwin is long, and quite evident from this tribute album. In it, Wilson presents 11 classics from Gershwin's pen, and received the blessing of the Gershwin estate to finish two incomplete songs, "The Like in I Love You" and "Nothing But Love." As usual, Wilson's musical instincts are impeccable, and with a full orchestra lending additional weight to these songs, it's easily the best production on a Brian Wilson record since 2004's SMiLE. (It doesn't hurt that the lyrics as well as the music are tried and true; most of Wilson's solo output, and much of the Beach Boys' after 1967, has suffered from trite or tone-deaf lyrics.) Wilson is also in fine voice for his age, finding the pathos in "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So" during a four-song medley, and even multi-tracking his vocals for the first time on the opener, a nearly a cappella version of "Rhapsody in Blue." "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" is done up, as an instrumental, in full Pet Sounds splendor (complete with bass harmonica), while "I Got Rhythm" is neatly transformed into an uptempo nugget to rank with "Surfin' U.S.A." or "Little Honda." Wilson's normal studio group is augmented here with an orchestra (the arrangements and orchestrations are by Wilson and Paul Von Mertens), and they stay in the background except when needed -- just one of the many fine touches to the entire production here. Granted, Wilson's bouncy take on "They Can't Take That Away from Me" is never going to compete with Ella Fitzgerald's (or even Julie London's), and "'S Wonderful" is nearly blanded out into easy listening oblivion, but nearly everything else here is loving, sincere, and worthy of hearing by fans of the Beach Boys or Broadway.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:06:00 -0700 Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein/Mahler II: Rückert Songs and the Middle Triology [Box Set] download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/leonard-bernstein-bernsteinmahler-ii-ruckert http://vaqulava.posterous.com/leonard-bernstein-bernsteinmahler-ii-ruckert
Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein/Mahler II: Rückert Songs and the Middle Triology [Box Set]

Artist: Leonard Bernstein

Album: Bernstein/Mahler II: Rückert Songs and the Middle Triology [Box Set]

Release Date:

Genre: Classical

Format: mp3 / FLAC

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:47:00 -0700 Avril Lavigne - Let Go download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/avril-lavigne-let-go-download-album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/avril-lavigne-let-go-download-album
Avril Lavigne - Let Go

Artist: Avril Lavigne

Album: Let Go

Release Date: June 4, 2002

Genre: Pop/Rock

Format: mp3 / FLAC

Talk about pressure -- being under 21 and having a record deal no longer qualifies as extraordinary. And as mass-produced teen pop makes its exit and a glut of young singer/songwriters enter, child prodigies no longer have built-in marketing appeal. So if newcomer, 17-year-old Avril Lavigne truly wants to be "Anything But Ordinary," as she sings on her debut album, Let Go, she'll have to dig deeper. Luckily for Lavigne, aside from youth, she does have talent. Her debut runs the gamut from driving rock numbers like "Losing Grip" -- where Lavigne shows off her vocal range, powering into the anger-fueled, explosive rock chorus -- to singer/songwriter pop tunes like "My World," where Lavigne fills listeners in on the past 17 years of her life. Lavigne handles a variety of styles deftly, but she still has some growing up to do lyrically. "Sk8er Boi" has a terrific power pop bounce, but shows her lyrical shortcomings: "He was a punk/She did ballet/What more can I say" -- a lot. The phrasing is awkward and sometimes silly: "It's funny when you think it's gonna work out/Till you chose weed over me you're so lame," she sings on "Too Much to Ask." Not surprisingly, the standout track is the first single, "Complicated," a gem of a pop/rock tune with a killer chorus. But listen carefully and you'll realize that "Complicated"'s sing-song melody borrows just enough from Pink's "Don't Let Me Get Me" to make it familiar and likeable. Nonetheless, the song is a knockout radio hit. Lavigne, a self-professed skater punk and labelmate of Pink, shares her "Take Me As I Am" credo as well. And that said, it's hard not to look at this record, executive produced by Arista label head Antonio "L.A." Reid, who is thanked by Lavigne for allowing "me to be myself," and feel cynical about the music industry's willingness to reproduce a hit over and over. Lavigne, however, is a capable songwriter with vocal chops, and at her age, one imagines, she is still finding her feet, borrowing from the music she's grown up listening to. The problem is Lavigne is still so young she's listening to the radio hits of the '90s and early 2000s: she's Pink when she's bucking authority, Alanis Morissette when she's angry, and Jewel when she's sensitive. Let Go shows promise, but the question is whether Lavigne and only Lavigne will shine through on her next effort.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:47:00 -0700 Joey Beltram - Form & Control download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/joey-beltram-form-control-download-album-52318 http://vaqulava.posterous.com/joey-beltram-form-control-download-album-52318
Joey Beltram - Form & Control

Artist: Joey Beltram

Album: Form & Control

Release Date: June 14, 2002

Genre: Electronic

Format: mp3 / FLAC

The title of Joey Beltram's fourth mix album takes on a special meaning after reading the inside statement of purpose: "The continuous mix heard here was recorded straight through and not edited in any way." Of course, it couldn't be any other way for a chance-taker like Beltram, a techno renegade and among the least likely to ever be associated with any Pro Tools-heavy mixes like the ones streaming out of Global Underground's hard drive. Burning through almost two dozen tracks in over an hour, Beltram stays on a course of hard techno, but offers up so much variety and so many change-ups that it sounds positively rangy. Midway through -- and beginning with his own remix of "A Gig in Cannes" by Conga Squad -- he briefly switches over to more of a high-energy disco sound, but ends with a few of his own harder productions and Jeff Mills' "Dynamic."

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:24:00 -0700 The Beatles - Introducing...The Beatles download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/the-beatles-introducingthe-beatles-download-a http://vaqulava.posterous.com/the-beatles-introducingthe-beatles-download-a
The Beatles - Introducing...The Beatles

Artist: The Beatles

Album: Introducing...The Beatles

Release Date: January 10, 1964

Genre: Pop/Rock

Format: mp3 / FLAC

The first Beatles album released in the U.S., Introducing...The Beatles is a slightly abridged version of Please Please Me, which had been released in the U.K. four months earlier. It includes two fewer tracks than its British counterpart, deleting "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why." Today, of course, there's no reason to prefer it to Please Please Me, which was released in the U.S. in 1987, but from 1963 to 1965, when Capitol Records belatedly released the material on The Early Beatles, this (plus some inferior Vee Jay repackagings) was the only American album containing some of the Beatles' initial recordings.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:24:00 -0700 Antonio Pappano / Nina Stemme / Plácido Domingo - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/antonio-pappano-nina-stemme-placido-domingo-w http://vaqulava.posterous.com/antonio-pappano-nina-stemme-placido-domingo-w
Antonio Pappano / Nina Stemme / Plácido Domingo - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Artist: Antonio Pappano / Nina Stemme / Plácido Domingo

Album: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Release Date: 2005

Genre: Classical

Format: mp3 / FLAC

Remember the Furtwängler Tristan, the Böhm Tristan, the Kleiber Tristan, or any of the other great Tristans of the past 50 years? If you do, the first thing you remember about them is who did the conducting. Does anyone remember the Suthaus Tristan or the Windgassen Tristan or the Kollo Tristan? No: as important as the singers are, they are not nearly as important as the conductor in Tristan und Isolde. Indeed, it could fairly be said that the great Furtwängler, Böhm, and Kleiber Tristans succeeded even though, in every case, the weakest member of the cast was the tenor.No such charge could be leveled against this Tristan because Plácido Domingo is, even in his sixties, the best Tristan of the past 50 years. He has the golden tone, the soulful sensitivity, the muscular strength, and, because this is a studio recording made over six weeks, the long-term stamina that Suthaus, Windgassen, and Kollo lacked. If what you're looking for in great Tristan is a great Tristan, look no further. Indeed, if what you're looking for is a great male cast, look no further. From Domingo through René Pape to Olaf Bär to Ian Bostridge, they are all easily as good as or better than their competition.But, if what you're looking for in a great Tristan is either a great Isolde or a great conductor, keep looking. Nina Stemme is a passionate Isolde but nowhere near in the same league as Domingo, making this a very lopsided Tristan. More importantly, Antonio Pappano is a decent conductor whose recordings of Italian operas were clean and efficient but little more, and his Tristan is at best merely an orchestral backdrop for Domingo and at worst dull and directionless. EMI's studio sound is clear and warm, but naturally favors the singers.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:02:00 -0700 Frank Black - SVN FNGRS download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/frank-black-svn-fngrs-download-album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/frank-black-svn-fngrs-download-album
Frank Black - SVN FNGRS

Artist: Frank Black

Album: SVN FNGRS

Release Date: April 1, 2008

Genre: Pop/Rock

Format: mp3 / FLAC

Just as Black Francis' Bluefinger was a musical portrait of Dutch painter, poet, and punk rocker Herman Brood, Frank Black stays in a conceptual frame of mind with the mini-album SVN FNGRS, which draws inspiration from the Irish mythological figure Cúchulainn, who has seven fingers on each of his hands. Title aside, the album's references to Cúchulainn aren't often apparent, but what comes through loud and clear is how charged these songs are. SVN FNGRS kicks off with "The Seus," an instant classic in Black's catalog. Burly guitars, a stuttering rhythm, and layers of Black's shouty vocals wrestle each other into a prickly, funky groove, updating the weirdness, smartness, and undeniable hooks of Frank Black songs like "Los Angeles" and "Ten Percenter." Black works his Stooges fetish harder than he has in years on "I Sent Away," a song with jabbing riffs that rocks harder than anything on Bluefinger did. Though the set only has seven songs (of course), it shows off Black's range, with softer and more vulnerable songs like the sweetly ambling pop of "Half Man" and "The Tale of Lonesome Fetter" providing the yin to some of the louder tracks' yang. Song for song, this is one of Black's strongest solo releases.

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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:02:00 -0700 Savath & Savalas - Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey download album http://vaqulava.posterous.com/savath-savalas-folk-songs-for-trains-trees-an http://vaqulava.posterous.com/savath-savalas-folk-songs-for-trains-trees-an
Savath & Savalas - Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey

Artist: Savath & Savalas

Album: Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey

Release Date: March 14, 2000

Genre: Electronic

Format: mp3 / FLAC

Scott Herren's Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey, recorded under the name Savath + Savalas, is a smooth and abstract connection between the genres of post-rock and intelligent dance music. Certainly, German bands such as To Rococo Rot, Kreidler, and Schneider TM work similar magic, but their omnipresent percussive backbeats keep them in a cleaner, more accessible vein than that of Savath + Savalas. It is because of Herren's dedication to abstraction that Folk Songs remains extremely unpredictable and succeeds without being entirely beat-driven. With Folk Songs, Herren weaves a complex tapestry of atonal guitar flecks and distorted electronic hums and buzzes. Herren even extrapolates some of the songs' central themes from digital sound-processor glitches. At times, Folk Songs becomes a suggestive criticism of modern recording gear (and other technologies), as the glitches begin to steal the focal point from any melodic tones. In doing so, Herren creates an organic mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation that travels a great distance -- and in many different directions. His wide arrangement of instruments leaves him plenty of room to experiment and he keeps things constantly moving forward. An adventurous debut record.

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