The names Larry Coryell and John Abercrombie are synonymous with Jazz fusion guitar for the past thirty odd years. With those two names on the masthead it is fair to assume that you're in store for phenomenal guitar playing. But the inclusion of Badi Assad, an unknown quantity for me, resulted in a performance of the likes I could not have anticipated. The guitar playing was superlative, with all three proving their virtuosity on many an occasion, but Assad was unlike any performer I have ever seen before. While her guitar playing is significant, her vocal gymnastics and percussion proficiency stole the spotlight from her more famous band mates.

Zhizn Vo Slavu (Жизнь во славу) is the first live CD by the Russian folk metal band Arkona. It was released on March 1 / March 16, 2006 through Sound Age Production.Live album recorded in Moscow on 23.10.2005. Tracks 12 to 14 are bonuses taken from the 2002 "Русь" demo.

This fantastic DVD captures one of the most auspicious operatic debuts of 2009, Jonas Kaufmann’s Lohengrin. We have here a record of that rarest of things: a night at the opera when everything worked. The singing is outstanding across the board, the excellent orchestral playing is guided by a conductor of vision and excitement and the production is insightful, stimulating and intelligent…

– Simon Thompson, MusicWeb International

Selig - Von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 450 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info | Genre: Rock
Label/Cat#: Vertigo Berlin # 0602527509303 | Country/Year: Germany 2010

File this one under "they don't make 'em like that anymore." Which is, of course, an exaggeration, but does say something about Selig and their stubbornly '90s brand of unadorned grown-up rock. They still start off with grunge 19 years after Nevermind – which alone is impressive enough – but add a healthy blues-rock influence in the Black Crowes vein to channel maturity, not angst. (…) as well as a fiendishly enjoyable way of dispelling the notion that the Germans ain't got no groove.

Zupfgeigenhansel - Alle die dies Lied gesungen
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 435 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Goya # 440 132-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1995
Genre: Genre: Folk & World | Style: German Folk, Political Song, Chanson

Zupfgeigenhansel was a German folk duo, one of the most successful groups to emerge on the German folk scene in the 1970s…