Nicholas McGegan, members of the Arcadian Academy and two accomplished singers make further inroads to Alessandro Scarlatti’s chamber cantatas with a fourth volume. This has been a very enjoyable series so far, and has featured a variety of different vocal ranges. Vol. 4 contains three cantatas for two sopranos and a serenata, whose form is usually more extended than a cantata, allows for anything up to six singers and is often in two parts. Their textual content, like almost all Italian chamber cantatas, is pastoral and peopled with allegorical figures. Tirsis, Clori, Fillida and Cupid seem never far away, sighing, weeping, yearning or cursing one another’s apparent infidelities. These were forms at which Scarlatti excelled and there are, consequently, few musical disappointments.

The 2012 box set The Beginning contains the two studio albums from Richie Blackmore's Night – Shadow of the Moon and Under a Violet Moon – and it also has DVDs recorded on the supporting tours for the albums. The Shadow of the Moon DVD has highlights from the 1997-1998 tour and the Under a Violet Moon DVD from 2000, and while both are certainly of interest to the hardcore, the less dedicated may be tempted by the set as a whole…

"Surgical Steel", the new full-length album from reactivated British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS, will be released on September 16 in the U.K., September 13 in the rest of Europe and September 17 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records. The effort was produced by Colin Richardson (FEAR FACTORY, MACHINE HEAD, NAPALM DEATH, SLIPKNOT, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE) and mixed by Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, ACCEPT, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY).Joining guitarist Bill Steer and bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker in CARCASS' current incarnation are new drummer Dan Wilding (ABORTED, TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED) and guitarist Ben Ash (PIG IRON, DESOLATION, LIQUEFIED SKELETON).

Near perfect quality Pro-shot Broadcast recording of Red Hot Chili Peppers, recorded live at the Rock IM Pott, at Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on July, 7th, 2012…

UK deluxe two disc (CD + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) pressing includes bonus DVD. 2012 album from the British Rock veteran and former leader of The Jam and They Style Council. Enjoying a constant critical high and a never ending creative peak, Paul Weller continues to push the boundaries with Sonik Kicks. The album is the follow up to the Mercury Prize Award nominated Wake Up The Nation and is Paul's 11th solo album. Once again, it's his best yet. Sonik Kicks features 14 brand new tracks and includes special guest appearances from both Noel Gallagher and Graham Coxon. With Sonik Kicks Paul Weller once again shakes up his palate and stirs his influences anew. He mixes pop art punch with soulful communication; jazzy explorations into Psychedelia and dub with razor-sharp melodies and abstract soundscapes with clear-eyed forest-folk.

Djivan Gasparyan - Armenian Duduk
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 321 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: АБГ-Сервис # ABG-030 | Country/Year: Russia 2003
Genre: Folk, World | Style: Armenian Folk, Duduk

…Gasparyan has toured the world several times with a small ensemble playing Armenian folk music. He has collaborated with many artists, such as Hossein Alizadeh, Sting, Erkan Ogur, Michael Brook, Peter Gabriel, Brian May, Lionel Richie, Derek Sherinian, Ludovico Einaudi, Boris Grebenshchikov, David Sylvian, Hans Zimmer and Andreas Vollenweider…

The hunters of the shadows have returned. NECRONOMICON conjure epic images of forbidden sights and dark madness with their fourth full-length "Rise of the Elder Ones". The Canadians fuse the relentless onslaught of DEICIDE and SUFFOCATION with the massive dramatic sense of BEHEMOTH and DIMMU BORGIR, while adding a sinister and heavy melodic approach associated with the Stockholm school of death metal into their own crushing sound.

During the past month, the three RAGE musicians Victor Smolski (guitar), Peavy Wagner (vocals and bass) and André Hilgers (drums) worked at full stretch to finish their opulent orchestral project that can be considered a continuation of 1996’s "Lingua Mortis" album – back then a true piece of pioneering work.The entire album was composed by Victor Smolski who cooperated with two orchestras from Spain and Russia, enlarging the number of this mammoth project’s participants to more than 100. Together with long-term co-producer Charlie Bauerfeind (BLIND GUARDIAN, HAMMERFALL among others), Victor Smolski produced and mixed the record in “Twilight Hall Studio” Krefeld, Germany. The final mastering is to be done within the next days.»LMO« follows an exciting concept on the burning of witches in Gelnhausen in 1599, written by vocalist Peavy Wagner and based on a true story. Apart from the three RAGE musicians, two female vocalists belong to LINGUA MORTIS ORCHESTRA’s regular cast: Jeannette Marchewka and soprano singer Dana Harnge. Guest vocals were contributed by Henning Basse (ex-METALLIUM), among others.

Seal - Hits (Deluxe Edition) 2009
MP3 320 kbps | Tracks: 18+16 | 02:35:73 | 357 mb
Genre: R&B, Soul, Pop

The multiplatinum selling, Grammy winning, critically acclaimed Seal brings together his best on Hits. Spanning his nearly 20 years on record, from 1990′s Seal to 2008′s Soul, Hits offers all of his major pop hits and all seven of his Top 20 Adult Contemporary charters plus two new recordings, led by the soulful single ‘I Am Your Man.’