Anthony Phillips - Missing Links I-IV (5 CD, 2020/FLAC)

 Esoteric Recordings release of “MISSING LINKS I – IV”, a newly remastered 5 CD set clamshell boxed set comprising the four original “Missing Links” albums by celebrated composer and GENESIS founder member ANTHONY PHILLIPS. 

Aside from his work as a solo artist, Anthony has been a composer of music for television for many years, going back as far as 1976. In 1989 Anthony issued the first collection of this music, “Missing Links” in December 1989 as a limited-edition release. Its popularity led to a further three Missing Links releases which gathered not only soundtrack compositions, but other rare archive recordings made by Anthony Phillips over the years. Although the original four volumes of the series have been subsequently been issued on CD, they have been unavailable for some years. Anthony has worked with his archivist Jon Dann to prepare this new boxed set edition of this wonderful music, compiling a new additional CD 27 track CD of previously unreleased and rare archive material, “Extra Links” exclusive to this set. “MISSING LINKS I – IV” is sure to appeal to fans of Anthony’s work. This new boxed set edition features liner notes by Jon Dann and is a fine collection of music by one of Britain’s most imaginative and respected musicians.

 

Pink Floyd - The Wall (High Resolution Remasters) (4 CD, 2019/FLAC)

 

The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest and Columbia Records. It is a rock opera that explores Pink, a jaded rock star whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society forms a figurative wall. The album was a commercial success, topping the US charts for 15 weeks and reaching number three in the UK. It initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later received accolades as one of the greatest albums of all time and one of the band's finest works.

The Doors - Infinite SACD Box Set [6 CD, 2013/FLAC]

 

The Doors. Like you've never before experienced them. Six studio albums. Each a bonafide classic.Now you can feel, not just hear, every signature note and breath, and even sense the recording studio walls contributing to the music's physicality and soulfulness. Remastered from the original analog source tapes by Doug Sax and original Doors engineer Bruce Botnick, and meticulously produced on hybrid multichannel SACD: This is the definitive digital audiophile edition worthy of the band's Hall of Fame career.

VA – Kraut: Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979 Teil 1 [Der Norden] & Teil 2 [Die Mitte] (4 CD, 2020/FLAC)

 

With the release of the first of a total of four issues, Bear Family marks another milestone on the way to a comprehensive documentation of the history of popular music in Germany from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. With Kraut! Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979 Bear Family will release a double CD every three months in 2020 with a booklet of about 100 pages and biographies of each band, an exquisite selection of the exciting and influential bands of those days, some of which caused a sensation far beyond Germany. The four editions are regionally structured. All editions are compiled by Burghard Rausch and commented on in detail. The publisher of several books on ‘Rock in Germany’, radio author and presenter, drummer (Agitation Free, among others), vinyl collector and DeeJay with enormous expertise has already been in charge of the NDW series for Bear Family. 

 

VA - The Many Faces of The Cure (3 CD, 2016/FLAC)

 

 Without a doubt, The Cure is one of the most essential bands from the '80s with an iconic image that is on par with superstars of that time. Surging as part of the post punk and dark-rock movement, The Cure and especially their leader, Robert Smith, had the cunning ability to create -within their large catalog- multiple hit songs that have become absolute pop classics, without compromising their credibility. 

The Many Faces Of The Cure showcases the parallel paths of the band members, some of Robert Smith collaborations with other artists, the mostly unknown post-Cure projects by the band's drummer/keyboardist Lol Tolhurst and by bassist Simon Gallup and of course, their songs, both performed by the band itself and by a large number of artists who have respectfully created fantastic new versions.