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The Complete Budokan 1978
Bob Dylan
Rock - Released November 17, 2023 | Columbia - Legacy
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The Complete Budokan 1978 captures some of Dylan's very first concert appearances in Japan and is an essential release for diehards, while an intriguing curio for the casual listener. Complete Budokan encompasses all of the material originally issued as a double LP in 1978, plus three dozen additional tracks. This lovingly remastered album, sourced from the original 24-channel multi-track analog tapes, sounds far crisper than the original release (especially the vocals). Released to coincide with the 45th anniversary of the original eight-show run at the infamous Budokan auditorium, we hear the entirety of two shows from February 28 and March 1, 1978. Bob Dylan is at a fascinating crossroads in his career here, and in fine voice. The album finds our hero in between the traveling circus that was the mid 1970s Rolling Thunder tour, and one year before his conversion to Christianity. Dylan shows us what a traditional American great he is, with a near-orchestral band and dramatically reworked takes on classic songs. Some of these arrangements are wonky, especially to modern ears. But they're always intriguingly put together, and intricately executed takes—the highlight being a knockdown, muscular "The Man in Me." It's clear from the start that this is not your grandpa's Dylan. Stirring leads on saxophone, mandolin, and fiddle deliver the vocal melodies to "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." "Shelter from the Storm" is given a halting, reggae-ish tempo, a positively E Street-worthy sax solo, and the delightful touches one would expect from the Dead. Other tunes stray closer to a Vegas revue. "I Threw It All Away" is transformed into a full-blown showtune, as the backing vocals take center stage. One wonders if a line of chorus dancers were onstage for this or the lilting, tango-esque take on "Love Minus Zero." There is occasional flute, notably on "Mr. Tambourine Man," which we weren't sure about at first, but by the third listen we were absolutely digging it, even as it takes the tune straight to Margaritaville. © Mike McGonigal/Qobuz
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Mirror To The Sky
Yes
Pop/Rock - Released May 19, 2023 | InsideOutMusic
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Two years after The Quest, Yes have released a new album. Fifty-five years after their birth, it certainly shows that the British band are still going strong – although none of the original members remain, the last of them, Chris Squire, having died of leukaemia in 2015. Carried by the voice of fifty-year-old Jon Davison, Mirror to the Sky ticks most of the boxes of this cult progressive rock band’s hallmark sound, starting with instrumental virtuosity. This is apparent in the All Connected track (and in particular during its long intro), in which veteran Steve Howe’s guitars seem to be rooted in time. In addition to the great progressive rock moments that make up this track and Mirror to the Sky, the album also features a few “wiser” passages, such as the ballad Circles of Time and the very classic rock song Living Out Their Dream. As for the lyrics, they remain faithful to the ecological concerns the group have maintained since their debut. Let's first quote the opening track, the very compelling Cut From The Stars. Its lyrics were inspired by Jon Davison's visit to the Dark Sky Park at the Joshua Tree National Park in California. This type of park aims to eradicate light pollution. Light is also one of the red threads of Luminosity, another new work by Yes. Finally, it is important to note that the album is dedicated to Alan White, the band's drummer from 1972, who sadly passed away in 2022. ©Nicolas Magenham/Qobuz
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Original Score)
Daniel Pemberton
Film Soundtracks - Released June 2, 2023 | Sony Classical
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Automatic For The People (25th Anniversary Edition)
R.E.M.
Alternative & Indie - Released October 5, 1992 | Craft Recordings
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There’s a ‘before and after’ Out Of Time in the life of R.E.M. This ‘before’ for Michael Stipe’s band is mainly found on university campuses where the group gained a cult following in the ‘80s… How then did R.E.M. manage to sell 12 million copies of Out Of Time to the world? The answer is that this record was both sublime and austere. An uncompromising album, like the chamber rock such as Nirvana and the Pixies that you’d blast out without caring about pissing off the neighbours in that year of 1992… Always virtuosic, Peter Buck goes from the mandolin to the acoustic guitar with great ease, John Paul Johns from Led Zeppelin sublimely arranges refined chords and Michael Stipe shines with his melancholic and tortured prose with the candor of a man with self-assured belief. Cinemascope ballads prevail, peaking with Everybody Hurts. It must be said, Automatic For The People is not the most easy-flowing album by R.E.M. but it is one of the most beautiful. Released in 2017, this 25th anniversary edition also offers, alongside the remastered album, a live recording from the 40 Watt Club in Athens on the 19th November 1992 with some cover versions like Funtime by Iggy Pop and Love Is All Around by The Troggs. © MD/Qobuz
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Standards, Vol. 1
Keith Jarrett
Jazz - Released September 1, 1983 | ECM
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In January of 1983, Keith Jarrett returned to the trio format and his collaboration with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette resulted in three albums. The first release finds the trio digging into five standards with "God Bless the Child" being dragged out (although not unmercifully) for 15 minutes. The performances, which usually do not swing in a conventional sense, do have a momentum of their own. Jarrett is generous in allocating solo space to Peacock and it is obvious that the three musicians were listening very closely to each other.© Scott Yanow /TiVo
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Sob Rock
John Mayer
Pop - Released July 16, 2021 | Columbia
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John Mayer sang on his 2001 debut Room for Squares, released when he was 22, about his "quarter-life crisis." Now he's 43 and his latest, Sob Rock, is right on time for the mid-life one. There's a whole lot of taking stock on songs like the what-if ballad "Shouldn't Matter But It Does," which finds him thinking of a former love: "It could've been always, it could've been me/ We could've been busy naming baby number three." The incredibly catchy "New Light" (produced by Kanye West collaborator No ID, it's all upbeat yacht rock and blue-eyed soul), actually feels like a throwback to the lonely-boy longings of Mayer’s debut, only now he's "pushing 40 in the friend zone." Meanwhile, "I Guess I Just Feel Like" is pure existentialism: "I guess I just feel like nobody's honest, nobody's true ... I guess I just feel like I'm the same way too," he sings along with slow-burn blues guitar. Mayer has said that pandemic stress pushed him to reach for the "security-blanket" '80s soft rock of his childhood, and the record is at once FM-radio familiar but not a punchline. Credit producer Don Was, who knows from delicious processed cheese, having steered Glenn Frey, Michael McDonald and Paul Young, among others. On the terrific "Last Train Home," Mayer enlists a seen-it-all veteran in the form of Toto percussionist Lenny Castro, but also brings in contemporary country-pop heroine Maren Morris to stand up to the sizzle tone of his PRS Silver Sky guitar. "Til the Right One Comes" bounces like a Christine McVie cut, and the delightful "Wild Blue" never lets you forget that he's a touring guitarist with the Grateful Dead. Mayer's warm rasp—always walking the line of sultry and sad—shines on "Shot in the Dark" and the gently pulsing "Carry Me Away." His offbeat sense of humor, which was entertainingly on display during his lockdown Instagram TV series, doesn't usually make its way into songs. But one of the catchiest on Sob Rock is also one of the most confounding: The music is smooth as silk, the delivery sounds sincere, yet there's Mayer singing Yoda-like lyrics for "Why You No Love Me": "Why you no even care?..." © Shelly Ridenour/Qobuz
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Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011 - 2021)
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Alternative & Indie - Released June 11, 2021 | Sour Mash Records Ltd
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Home
Voces8
Classical - Released April 14, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
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We’d been waiting for it for a long time, too long in fact: after having brilliantly and repeatedly interpreted the works of the American composer Eric Whitacre, the Voces8 chamber choir have now devoted an entire recording to him. This has now been accomplished with Home, which illustrates Whitacre’s musical portrait and the entire evolution of his language. Here, the selection brings together works from his youth (even his very first composition, Go, Lovely Rose), to other pieces finalised just a few months before the recording. With its harrowing light and overwhelming theme, The Sacred Veil, as a central piece, probably stands out as one of the greatest vocal works of our time - here, Eric Whitacre delivers the story about the death of his friend's wife in heart-wrenching deferential modesty. As always, it's hard to find anything wrong with a Voces8 release: the timbre is unique and it reaffirms the humble strength of the collective beyond the dissonance of individualistic voices. The purity of the breaths, the melismas’ caresses, the sound recording’s closeness; it all plunges us into a soothing bath of humanity. While the Voces8 early work is exquisite, they become almost unsurpassable in the contemporary repertoire, and leave an invaluable gift for future generations. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
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The Singles
Phil Collins
Rock - Released October 14, 2016 | Rhino
Phil Collins certainly has enough hits to fill out a double-disc compilation -- in the U.K. he had 25 Top 40 singles and he reached the Billboard Top 40 21 times in the U.S., with many of them overlapping -- but the 2016 set The Singles doesn't march through these hits in chronological order. Opening with "Easy Lover," his 1985 duet with Earth, Wind & Fire's Philip Bailey, this 33-track compilation happily hopscotches through the years. Such non-chronological sequencing does mean certain hits are saved for the greatest emotional impact -- naturally, "Take Me Home" closes out the proceedings -- but it also focuses attention on songs that weren't blockbusters, whether it's such meditative turn-of-the-'90s adult contemporary hits as "That's Just the Way It Is" or the brooding early single "Thru These Walls." Ultimately, this forced perspective is why The Singles is something more than just a collection of big hits: it helps illustrate that Collins' solo catalog ran deeper than "In the Air Tonight," "You Can't Hurry Love," "Sussudio," "One More Night," "Against All Odds," and "Another Day in Paradise."© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald
Vocal Jazz - Released January 1, 1956 | Verve Reissues
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Ella Fitzgerald had the ability to personalize some of the most recognizable material from the foremost songwriters in American popular music history. In this instance, the combination of Cole Porter's words and Fitzgerald's interpretation of them created one of the most sought after sessions in vocal history -- embraced by jazz and pop fans alike, transcending boundaries often associated with those genres. Originally released in 1956 on the Verve label, such standards as "Night and Day," "I Love Paris," "What Is This Thing Called Love," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "You're the Top," and "Love for Sale" secured one of Ella Fitzgerald's crowning moments. The success of these early Porter (and previous Gershwin) sessions brought about numerous interpretations of other songbooks throughout the next several years including those of Rodgers and Hart, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, and Irving Berlin.© Al Campbell /TiVo
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Typhoons
Royal Blood
Rock - Released April 30, 2021 | Warner Records
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The third album from Royal Blood, Typhoons, unites the rock core of previous releases with new elements, including a dance-rock turn, and even hints of disco on some tracks. The Independent praised the album, comparing Royal Blood to Daft Punk! Oblivion is a fine example of this new direction, with a spartan, synthetic rhythm that manages to be both oppressive and danceable at the same time. This feeling permeates the 11 tracks that make up the album. Limbo is a relentless dancefloor beast, with a feverish disco bent. But it's on Boilermaker that producer Josh Homme really makes his presence felt. On this track we find all the ingredients responsible for the searing flavour of Homme's Queens of the Stone Age. Typhoons is a record that is just bursting with pleasure. This might reflect the glee that Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher feel in wrong-footing everyone who had pigeonholed them into a particular style. After a spin on the disco ball, the duo finish with a rather subdued All We Have Is Now, a piano ballad which urges us to follow the band in truly appreciating the present before it runs through our fingers. The present moment is, after all, for better or worse, all that we have left when the typhoons have passed us by. © Yan Céh/Qobuz
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
Alternative & Indie - Released January 13, 2017 | Warner Records
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Bachelor, No. 2 (Or, The Last Remains of the Dodo)
Aimee Mann
Pop - Released May 2, 2000 | Super Ego Records
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The Studio Albums 1972-1979 (6 CD)
Eagles
Pop - Released April 30, 2013 | Rhino - Elektra
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Handel: Messiah
London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released October 9, 2007 | LSO Live
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Kiln House
Fleetwood Mac
Rock - Released September 18, 1970 | Rhino - Warner Records
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Live From London
Gary Moore
Blues - Released January 31, 2020 | Provogue
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In 2009, just over a year before his untimely death, the late, great Irish bluesman played an intimate set at London's Islington Academy which has since gone down in legend among his fans. Recorded for posterity, it appeared in January 2020. Featuring Moore at the top of his game, it includes some of his best-loved tunes including "Since I Met You Baby," "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know," "Walking by Myself," and the classic "Parisienne Walkways."© John D. Buchanan /TiVo
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Worrisome Heart
Melody Gardot
Vocal Jazz - Released January 1, 2006 | Decca (UMO)
Melody Gardot's debut recording, released in 2006, came two years after she suffered a near fatal automobile accident, the differently able Gardot triumphing in accomplishing what many others, including her, could only dream of. This project has her singing and playing guitar and a little piano, but more so presenting this project of all original material. Gardot has an interesting personal story, but even more intriguing music that straddles the line between lounge jazz, folk, and cowgirl songs. She's part sophisticated chanteuse, college sophomore, and down-home girl next door. Her innocence, sweetness, and light are very alluring, much like the persona of tragic songbirds Eva Cassidy and Nancy LaMott. Feel empathy for Gardot, but don't patronize her -- she's the real deal much more that many of her over-hyped peers. "Quiet Fire" is definitely her signature tune, as it speaks volumes of where her soul is at, in a jazz/blues mode, yearning for true love. The title track follows a similar tack, a slow, sweet, sentimental slinky blues that will melt your heart. A finger-snapping "Goodnite" leaves you wanting that night to continue, but also exudes a hope that permeates the entire recording. She might be a bit down on men during the nonplussed "All That I Need Is Love," but her subdued optimism glows cool. "Sweet Memory" might possibly parallel Feist or perhaps KT Tunstall in a rural country mode, while "Gone" is clearly folkish, and the slow "Some Lessons" expresses a contemporary Nashville precept. The laid-back music behind Gardot is basically acoustic, incorporating hip jazz instrumentation, especially the trumpet of Patrick Hughes and occasional organ, Wurlitzer, or Fender Rhodes from Joel Bryant, but with twists including violin, lap steel, and Dobro. The concise nature of this recording and these tunes perfectly reflects the realization that life is precious, every moment counts, and satisfaction is fleeting. Likely to be placed in the Norah Jones/Nellie McKay/Madeleine Peyroux pseudo jazz/pop sweepstakes, Gardot offers something decidedly more authentic and genuine. She's one-upped them all out of the gate.© Michael G. Nastos /TiVo
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Ella And Louis Again
Ella Fitzgerald
Vocal Jazz - Released February 25, 1957 | Verve Reissues
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Recorded in 1957, Ella & Louis Again re-teams Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong after the success of their first album and a popular series of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl the previous year. Stylistically, Fitzgerald and Armstrong had very different histories; he started out in Dixieland before branching out into classic jazz and swing, whereas Fitzgerald started out as a swing-oriented big-band vocalist before becoming an expert bebopper. But the two of them have no problem finding common ground on Ella & Louis Again, which is primarily a collection of vocal duets (with the backing of a solid rhythm section led by pianist Oscar Peterson). One could nitpick about the fact that Satchmo doesn't take more trumpet solos, but the artists have such a strong rapport as vocalists that the trumpet shortage is only a minor point. Seven selections find either Fitzgerald or Armstrong singing without the other, although they're together more often than not on this fine set.© Alex Henderson /TiVo
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Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37
Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir
Classical - Released November 24, 2023 | Fuga Libera
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