One of Sweden's legacy melodic rock acts House of Shakira are ready to deliver the best serving of Sour Grapes you ve ever been fed. Keeping the momentum going since lead singer Andreas Novak joined the band, Sour Grapes is the band's third since Andreas' 2012 debut. And as like the last album, the band has taken things to the next level, with more harmonies, more chorus hooks and more layers of everything….including for the very first time keyboards! Says frontman Andreas Novak: "A witty bio-update would be nice…just really can't figure out what…it's the same line-up…Feel free to improvise on that one, Andrew - it doesn't even have to be true, just as long as it's good"…

This is a soundtrack record; I highly recommend the film, which is not so much a biopic as a musical portrait of one of Brazil’s national treasures. On this record, as in the film, Paulinho performs alongside old friends and new as well as a few solo pieces. A purist to the core, he works through some classic samba and a little bit of choro with guests like Zeca Pagodinho, Cristina Buarque, and Elton Medeiros (with whom he started his career).

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Donal Runnicles
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 220 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Telarc # SACD-60575 | Country/Year: US 2001
Genre: Classical | Style: Early 20th Century / Medieaval

…The breadth, depth, and height of the sound stage presented by the multi-channel "surround" mix delivers an enormous portion of the experience of a live performance of a splendid orchestra, with splendid soloists in a splendid hall. You really are "surrounded" by the ambient signature of the Atlanta concert hall. Orff's percussive writing, as well as the innovative writing for winds and the large chorus is wonderfully captured with huge impact. I can ask for nothing more!

The 3rd album by the German heavy metal hopefuls GLORYFUL and the next chapter in the legend of Sedna and the story of Captain McGuerkin and his crew. GLORYFUL prove on "End Of The Night" that they’re full of potential, that their rightful place is in the heavy and power metal scene, and that they can fill the void left behind by bands like the soon-to-be retired Manowar or Sabaton, who are becoming more and more commercial these days.

Providing a foretaste of his album "Music Is My Home", Raphaël Imbert has now released "Prologue", a 10'' collector "gatefold" vinyl. Alongside emblematic musicians (Big Ron Hunter, Alabama Slim etc.) and young up-coming French stars (first and foremost Anne Paceo), the saxophonist takes on the role of a top-notch ethno-musicologist, escorting us along the roads of the American "Deep South". With an unparalleled knowledge of groove, he comes within touching distance of the roots of blues, jazz and soul.

George Frideric Handel - Belshazzar [HWV 61] (3xCD)
Kölner Kammerchor / Collegium Cartusianum / Peter Neumann
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 1,06 GB | MP3 CBR 320: 404 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 332 1079-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2001
Genre: Classical | Hoster: Style: Baroque, Oratorio

From bar one, I felt an assurance and naturalness about the rhythms, a clarity and tonal richness in the orchestral and vocal texture, a stylishness of phrasing and embellishment, and a sheer zest and power of dramatic presentation that add up to a totally convincing and gripping whole. […] Neumann and his team have excelled themselves, and so has Handel, and anyone who thinks 18th-century music wanting in musico-dramatic force is urged to acquire this magnificent set without delay.