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01 October 2024
Stevie Wonder - Additional Singles & Rarities- Additional Singles & Rarities (2019) @320
Diana Krall - 2004 - The Girl In The Other Room
Diana Krall - 2004 - The Girl In The Other Room @320
With her latest album [written in 2004], The Girl in the Other Room, jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall covers new ground: it is not a jazz album. She works for the first time together with her husband Elvis Costello with whom, also for the first time, she has written six of the twelve songs. The result is Diana Krall’s most personal album so far.
The couple wrote half of the songs on the album. Does Costello’s personality overshadow Krall’s in these originals? No, not at all. The Canadian jazz pianist and singer covers new ground, becomes a composer and songwriter, and enlarges her repertoire to blues and other types of popular music, while preserving her unique style. Working with Elvis Costello has broadened her horizon and made her more daring musically. (Cosmopolis)
Dr John - 2016 - Best of the Night Tripper
Dr John - 2016 - Best of the Night Tripper @320
Unlike the dozens (literally) of rip-off compilations of very early material that was never meant for release, this Music Club set, The Best of Dr. John: The Night Tripper, is a very solid representation of the musician's early years as a solo artist. It is culled from his Atlantic and Atco sides off his first seven records, issued between 1968-1974: Gris-Gris, Babylon, Remedies, The Sun, Moon & Herbs, Dr. John's Gumbo, Right Place, Wrong Time, and Desitively Bonnaroo. It includes many obvious choices: "I Walk On Gilded Splinters," "Right Place, Wrong Time," "Mama Roux," "Such a Night," and "What Goes Around Comes Around," but also his sometimes radical (for the time, anyway) reinterpretations of NOLA anthems, from Professor Longhair's "Tipitina" and James Crawford's "Iko Iko" to Bob Shad's "Junko Partner" and Earl Gaines' "Big Chief." About the only thing that's really missing here is "Angola Anthem," from Remedies, though its exclusion appears to be because of the tune's extreme length. For a budget label, Music Club has excellent sound quality (compare to the Rhino double-disc), making this a very solid introduction to Dr. John's official early catalog. (AllMusic)
The Armoury Show - The Singles Collection (2011) @320
The Armoury Show were a Scottish new wave band.
Active between 1983 - 1988 they released one album and six singles. Comprised of two ex-Magazine members (John McGeoch on guitar and John Doyle on drums) and two ex-members of Skids (Russell Webb on bass) and Richard Jobson on vocals). In 1986 John McGeoch departed to join Public Image Limited and John Doyle went on to play with ex-Buzzcock, Pete Shelley. They were replaced by David Lockwood on guitar and Ray Weston on drums , respectively and the new line up recorded two singles "Love in Anger" and "New York City" that were to be included on their second album that was never released because they disbanded in 1988. The songs written for this second album, emerged in the solo album of Richard Jobson, "Badman" in 1988.
2001 - Keep On Moving The Best Of Angélique Kidjo
2001 - Keep On Moving The Best Of Angélique Kidjo @320
Angélique Kidjo's greatest-hits CD is a broad introduction to the popular African world music artist, whose styles include Zairean rhumba, reggae, jazz, funk, zouk, and makossa, and zilin vocals. Designed to condense her career down to one disc, Keep on Moving: The Best of Angelique Kidjo is a record for new fans. The disc contains 17 songs from her five full-length albums from the 1990s and one previously unavailable track. More than any other Kidjo release, Keep on Moving showcases the burgeoning relationship between modern African music and American soul. As energetic and upbeat as some of the tracks on this album are, Angélique Kidjo is equally represented here by ballads like "Fifa." While all 18 tracks are good, this collection has a somewhat schizophrenic feel. The decade-long evolution from African-infused rock to more R&B and pop songs seems jarring in the span of 74 minutes. Afro-pop dance songs like "Agolo," "Babalao," and "Aye" seem almost out of place next to some of the set's bluesy and spare numbers. The track order is not chronological either, and a longtime fan will tell when a track from 1991 gives way to one from 1998. Since Kidjo's albums are not singles-oriented, Keep on Moving lacks the unified mood of her best albums.
Often a "Greatest Hits" or a "Best Of" compilation collects all the good material an artist has to offer and becomes a band's only essential release. (Famous examples include the Spin Doctors' Just Go Ahead Now or Duran Duran's Decade.) Keep on Moving might be the first Kidjo CD for some people, but it only scratches the surface of her rich catalog. Keep on Moving is a very good sampler of her career, but doesn't contain all of Kidjo's best songs. This disc should serve as an invitation to discover the rest of her music. This Best Of has only one song from her debut. Parakou, three from Oremi, four each from Logozo and Aye, and five from Fifa. What is included, however, is exciting. Of interest to new fans will be Kidjo's pop collaborations: "Naima" with rocker Carlos Santana and "Open Your Eyes" with hip-hop star Kelly Price. Other standout songs include "Malika," her creative take on Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," and a cover of George Gershwin's "Summertime."
Use this as a beginning point, but keep in mind that their are other great hits not included here, including her Cassandra Wilson duet "Never Know," "Easy as Life" from Elton John's Aida, and "Ife," which is only available on Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Keep on Moving might be the best introduction to the wonderful world of Angélique Kidjo but Oremi is still her best record. (MyMusic)
Tim Buckley - Starsailor-The Anthology - 1966-1974 (2011)
Tim Buckley - Starsailor-The Anthology - 1966-1974 (2011) @320
Tim Buckley’s work was remarkable for its reach and range, with numerous stylistic shifts, including folk, sex-funk and a sort of vocal avant-garde jazz, during his eight year recording career, from his December 1966 debut to ‘Look At The Fool’, released in November 1974, seven months before his death from an accidental heroin overdose, aged 28.
As for his voice it was a dazzlingly flexible instrument, capable of octave leaps and the sort of daring normally expected of the free jazz giants. This best of charts this fearless artist’s progress from teen folkie to starsailing voyager at the forefront of the radically unusual. (Amazon)
30 September 2024
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Welcome to this new site, Vibes, where a team of five and will share with you, our favourite music, from many genres and decades. We hope to share the musical vibes with you all.
We are a team of five music lovers with very broad tastes in music. We plan to share music with you in 320 and maybe the odd Flac file, but it will mostly be 320. Each post will say what bitrate the share is in. So if it's in 256 or 192 then it will be clearly marked on each post.
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