Jean-Michel Jarre - Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music (2 CD, 2018/FLAC)

 Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music is a compilation album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on 14 September 2018 to commemorate Jarre's 50 years in the music business.

A total of forty-one tracks were chosen by Jarre himself for inclusion, among them two new songs ("Herbalizer" and "Coachella Opening"). Jarre remastered, and in some cases "retouched", the tracks himself. During the process, he decided that he had pursued four quite different styles of composition and therefore divided the project into four "universes" - "Soundscapes", "Themes", "Sequences" and "Explorations and Early Works". 

VA - 3rd Annual Delta Groove All-Star Blues Revue: Live At Ground Zero Vol. 1+2 [2009]

  

Recorded May 9th, 2008 at Ground Zero in Clarksdale, MS, the 3rd Annual Delta Groove All-Star Blues Revue features 7 artists from the Delta/Eclecto Groove roster including Los Fabulocos, The Insomniacs, Jackie Payne / Steve Edmonson Band, The Mannish Boys, Phillip Walker, Mike Zito and Jason Ricci & New Blood. Volume One in the series features crowd favorites plus many new songs available only on these recordings. Additional artists highlighted on this collection include Junior Watson, Johnny Dyer, Kirk 'Eli' Fletcher and Finis Tasby.

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2009/FLAC)

 

[1968] Child Is Father To The Man

[1969] Blood, Sweat & Tears

[1970] Blood, Sweat & Tears 3

[1971] Blood, Sweat & Tears 4

[1972] New Blood

VA - A Slight Disturbance in My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of 1966 (3 CD, 2020/FLAC)

Another lovingly curated rock & roll gem from Cherry Red's archival Grapefruit Records imprint, A Slight Disturbance in My Mind is an expansive three-disc set entirely devoted to the opening phases of Britain's budding psychedelic movement. By late 1965, the American underground, particularly San Francisco's LSD-inspired drug culture, had begun to infiltrate popular music. The Byrds and other West Coast groups began to adopt a more experimental attitude while in the U.K. bands like the Yardbirds and, more prominently, the Beatles forged their own new directions away from rock's more easily digestible conventions. The inventive flourishes on the latter's Rubber Soul LP set the table for a paradigm shift, and by April of the next year, they were at Abbey Road building the bones of their pioneering psychedelic opus, "Tomorrow Never Knows," which would later blow minds upon its August release.

Golden Gate Quartet - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1-6 (1996-1999/FLAC)

 

Pioneer Virginia gospel/pop quartet of the '30s and '40s. Calling their innovative approach to sacred hymns "jubilee" singing, the Golden Gate Quartet, propelled by Willie Johnson and William Langford, enjoyed massive acceptance far outside the church. Their smooth Mills Brothers-influenced harmonies made the Gates naturals for pop crossover success, and they began recording for Victor in 1937. National radio broadcasts and an appearance on John Hammond's 1938 "Spirituals to Swing" concert at Carnegie Hall made them coast-to-coast favorites. By 1941 the Gates were recording for Columbia minus Langford, and movie appearances were frequent: Star Spangled Rhythm, Hollywood Canteen, and Hit Parade of 1943, to name a few. Some experiments with R&B material didn't pan out during the late '40s, and Johnson defected to the Jubilaires in 1948. The group emigrated to France in 1959; led by veteran bass singer Orlando Wilson, the Golden Gate Quartet's vocal blend is as powerful as ever.