Labek's new release "What A Woman Knows" is filled with poignant titles. She chose songs for her third CD that feature lyrics most women can relate to. Cover titles like Sting's "Fragile," Doc Pomus' and Dr. John's "A World I Never Made," and originals that include "Life Is A Gift," "Trouble Blues," and "Love Provides" are interpreted from a particularly feminine point of view. The musical excellence of award-winning musicians on three different sessions (Latin, Blues and Acoustic) provide the listener a unique variety to savor. Arrangements by Jack Perricone enhance Labek's interpretations that are rich both in wisdom and musicality…

An independent Billboard-ranked musician and NAACP Image Award-nominated jazz keyboardist and pianist, Marcus Johnson is also the CEO and Founder of FLO Brands, LLC and more recently FLO Wine, LLC. He has combined an eminently successful musical career with his love of wine by marrying the two in a unique endeavor. Over the last decade, Marcus Johnson has released 15 successful studio albums. On Pandora, Marcus receives 5.1 million spins per year with 2,000 new stations added each month, and his music receives a 74% “thumbs ups” rating verses an average of 56%. Johnson is the owner of a music label, Three Keys Music, and has emerged as one of the young lions of the “DIY” music world. His unique self-taught style of piano play has earned him distinction among his peers, praise from the media and accolades across the music industry. Marcus is on the cutting edge of ‘Euro Jazz’…

Filmed just a year before his untimely death from cancer, this 1992 concert from Montreux finds the great Albert Collins still at the top of his game. With his trademark Fender Telecaster and distinctive finger picking style well to the fore "The Iceman" delivers a set that runs from his early million selling single "Frosty" right up to songs from his final studio album "Iceman".

Yes had fallen out of critical favor with Tales from Topographic Oceans, a two-record set of four songs that reviewers found indulgent. But they had not fallen out of the Top Ten, and so they had little incentive to curb their musical ambitiousness…

Anonymous 4 - Four Centuries of Chant
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 335 MB | Full Artwork: 175 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi # HMX 2907546 | Country/Year: Europe 2009
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Style: Medieval, Vocal

"…The most striking aspect of the chant singing here is the ability of four voices to sound as one. This results in a loveliness of tone that sets them apart from even the finest choirs and a warmly blended sound that distinguishes them from solo singers…" ~Fanfare

Welcome to the World of Blood Gods. DEBAUCHERY has always been something unique. Some people missed the point. They can fuck off. For all other Metal Heads there`s the new album FUCK HUMANITY. Death Metal in your face. As always recorded by Dennis Ward (Krokus, Unisonic), with a cover-artwork by Fantasy legend Adrian Smith. 10 songs full of violence and bloodshed, in addition one ballad and one intro track.

Anonymous 4 - La Bele Marie: Songs to the Virgin from 13th-Century France
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 260 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi # HMU 907312 | Country/Year: Europe 2002
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Style: Medieval, Vocal

"…Perhaps, if you listen very carefully, you’ll notice a few more shades of color have been added to these singers’ usual bright, primary hues. And, if the past is any guide, no one who listens to these four women sing will be listening casually–the voices are just too compelling and the music too beautiful to do otherwise…" ~classicstoday.com

Tya (Martin Scherl) is a German keyboardist and programmer with an affinity for the music of aboriginal Australia and access to samples of singers like the Bulgarian Voices, Sarband, and Trinovox. Tya will win you over with his melodies, subdued but funky beats, and complex sonic textures. What makes this music so attractive is Tya's two-pronged strategy of bringing the beats right up to the front, and finding good singers to sample and using the samples well. Notice, for example, the combination of African and European voices on ‘Coming Home’ and the dubwise treatment he applies to the gorgeous choral singers on ‘Mama’.

Early-music pioneers Charivari Agréable perform an engaging collection of overtures from Italian Baroque Opera, best described by Kah-Ming Ng as being “lucidly crafted for the purpose of turning heads”. In a decadent era when the antics of theatre-goers were often as intriguing as the performances taking place on stage, these works were composed with the express intention of thrilling, beguiling and engaging an often hard-to-impress audience.

Very relaxing and nice. Could do with a little more ocean sounds. I like the ones that also include sounds of gulls. I would have rated it higher except the musical theme does not change throughout and I find the sameness makes it a little monotonous, despite the beauty of the composition.