Dark Sarah is a new music project by Finnish metal band Amberian Dawn's former vocalist Heidi Parviainen. She is a professional classical singer and experienced performer. During the years with Amberian Dawn, she released four studio albums and did several European tours. After parting ways with Amberian Dawn in late 2012, she started to build up her solo career. Dark Sarah became the name of her project, along the first lyrics she wrote on the album. The debut album called "Behind the Black Veil" leads you through the psychological adventure of Sarah, who is hovering between her two personalities. Dark Sarah's music combines metal, film music and theatrical elements…

Packaged as a double-disc set but priced as a single disc, Live: Entertainment or Death features performances of many of Mötley Crüe's best-known songs, covering (almost) their entire career both in terms of song selections and concert dates…

Other Voices is the fourth album by the British singer Paul Young. Released in June 1990, the album peaked at #4 on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for UK sales in excess of 100,000 copies. The album contained four UK singles, "Softly Whispering I Love You" (UK #21), "Heaven Can Wait" (UK #71), "Calling You" (UK #57), and a cover of the The Chi-Lites' hit "Oh Girl" (UK #25, U.S. #8).

Recorded in the spring of 1978 at Yes bassist Chris Squire's home studio, K-Scope featured three founding members of the Split Enz/Crowded House: Eddie Rayner (keys), Tim Finn (lead vocal) and brother Neil Finn (backing vocal). Manzanera also enlists percussion heavyweight Simon Phillips, good buddies John Wetton and Bill MacCormick (both bassists and vocalists), and saxophonist Mel Collins, among several others. The band strong arms the solid pop/rock structures and approaches the instrumentals with the same verve. The literally "coolest" tune in the set is also Manzanera's personal favorite, the breezy "Gone Flying."

Finally after so many years it is really going to happen. Magna Carta have recorded the long awaited album, "The Fields of Eden". And what better time to release it than on the actual date of the signing of the Magna Carta 800 years later. June 15th. Fields of Eden has already been classed as a masterpiece and by many has surpassed the band's legendary Lord of the Ages which went Gold after its release back in 1973…

Cal Tjader - Soul Bird-Whiffenpoof
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 204 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Verve # 549 111-2 | Country/Year: Europe 2005, 1966
Genre: Jazz | Style: Post-Bop, Afro-Cuban, Latin Jazz

"…But overall, these performances are more cool jazz than soul-jazz. Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (which Verve reissued on CD in 2002) isn't among Tjader's essential albums, but it's an enjoyable demonstration of the vibist's ability to be a bit more commercial than usual and still maintain his bop-based integrity." ~allmusicguide

Ludwig van Beethoven - Leonore (Version 1806, aka 'Fidelio')
Pamela Coburn / Kölner Rundfunkchor / Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn / Marc Soustrot
2xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 537 MB | Full Artwork: 153 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 337 0826-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1998
Genre: Classical | Style: Classical Period, Opera

"The work we cherish as Fidelio was Beethoven’s final rewrite, after an eight-year gap, of an opera he’d first composed in 1805 and revised the following year. The two first attempts, collectively known as Leonore, are hugely instructive glimpses into Beethoven’s workshop. The 1806 version has generally been ignored in favour of occasional performances of the 1805 score, as notably recorded in 1997 by John Eliot Gardiner. This premiere recording of the 1806 version is therefore of exceptional interest…" ~classical-music.com

Fusion and electric avant-garde jazz are two different things. Fusion–as envisioned by Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, and others back in the '70s – combined jazz with rock and funk in a way that didn't emphasize outside playing, whereas electric avant-garde jazz (as in Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and James Blood Ulmer) savors the dissonant pleasures of the outside. But there are times when the two merge, and that is what happens on guitarist Trey Gunn and drummer Marco Minnemann's Modulator.

Mirror Mirror is the 11th and last album by British pop band 10cc. It was released in 1995 and did not chart in the UK or US. Again featuring just two of 10cc's core band members, Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart, the album included performances by Paul McCartney on two tracks, Andrew Gold on two tracks and Rick Fenn on one track. The Japanese version has 15 tracks, including all five new tracks, and the "Rework of Art Mix" version of "I'm Not in Love".