Take Five: The Best Of Cool Saxophone of Paul Desmond (Paul Emil Breitenfeld) is the story of a jazz artist who transcended genres to establish one of the most immediately recognizable sounds in all of music. Desmond is simply delightful, he’s so lyrical and his lines are so imaginative.

10 years in the making, Fjieri's debut album Endless represents the satisfying conclusion to a meticulously executed labour of love.The band, led by Stefano Panunzi and Nicola Lori, are joined by an impressive cast of guest musicians, including Mick Karn, Tim Bowness, Andrea Chimenti, Peter Chilvers, Nicola Alesini and Porcupine Tree members, Gavin Harrison and Richard Barbieri.Co-produced by Barbieri, the album artfully combines Ambient and Progressive Rock influences to create a sophisticated sound that incorporates delicate atmospherics, rich melodies, looping rhythms and hard-hitting riffs.Recalling aspects of Rain Tree Crow, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Eno, King Crimson and No-Man, Endless is a powerful debut statement from an Italian band in the ascendant.

Second album from this German space rock band gets its first release on CD and given the deluxe treatment courtesy of Sireena Records. While it doesn't hit the heights of The World Will End On Friday its still quite a good album. Definite nods to Nektar, Yes, and most definitely Grobschnitt through out with keyboards quite prominent and tasty guitar leads the order of the day. Comes with two live bonus tracks recorded at a recent band reunion.

Absent from the studio for nearly six years, Germany's Stormhammer makes their return with a new line up and album, Echoes of a Lost Paradise. New band members include a new vocalist Jürgen Dachl (ex-Diabolos Dust), guitarist Bernd Intveen (ex-van Langen, ex-The Roxx) and drummer Chris Widmann (ex-Emergency Gate). Echoes of a Lost Paradise is essentially a return to form for Stormhammer, solid, but expected, power metal from these metal veterans.

Aerosmith's Greatest Hits remains one of the most popular and enduring best-of collections by any rock band, selling nearly ten million copies in the U.S. alone since its release.

David Munyon - Pretty Blue
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC (tracks): 389 MB | Artwork: 70 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Stockfisch Records # SFR 357.6072.2 | Country/Year: Germany 2011
Genre: Folk, Acoustic | Style: Singer/Songwriter

"…It is an irrefutable fact that within the American singer-songwriter tradition he is on par with such luminaries as Bob Dylan and Townes van Zandt, a fact which far too few music-lovers have discovered for themselves. Brian Wilson quotes Munyon as being "probably one of the best songwriters ever!" Enough said."

Guillaume de Machaut - The Hilliard Ensemble - Motets
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Label/Cat#: ECM New Series # 1823 | Country/Year: Germany 2004
Genre: Classical | Style: Medieval, Sacred, Vocal

"…Countertenors David James and David Gould shape Machaut's almost Faulknerian top-voice syntax into affecting emotional statements, and even listeners new to medieval music will become ensnared in the poet's quest for the slightest glance of regard from his unattainable Lady. (…) Still, it's been a while since a major disc of Machaut motets was released (this disc contains 18 pieces, a few of them sacred), and if the Hilliard Ensemble doesn't close the book on this music, they nevertheless interpret it beautifully for our times." ~allmusicguide