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Carole King – Tapestry (1971) [Remaster 1999] [SACD / Epic – ES 86328]

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Title: Carole King – Tapestry (1971) [Remaster 1999]
Genre: Pop
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Carole King was famous as a writer of girl-group hits in the ’60s. In 1971, she became more famous. That’s the year Tapestry became one of the biggest-selling LPs of all time. It’s easy to hear why–the music is loose, earthy, L.A. session-pop. King is casual, intimate, and tough; she covers all the emotional ground of the post-liberated woman with ease. She brings adult nuance to “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” and comes up with hits (“It’s Too Late,” “I Feel the Earth Move”) whose white-soul realism and maturity put pop hits to shame.

Carole King brought the fledgling singer/songwriter phenomenon to the masses with Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in pop music history. A remarkably expressive and intimate record, it’s a work of consummate craftsmanship. Always a superior pop composer, King reaches even greater heights as a performer; new songs like the hits “It’s Too Late” and “I Feel the Earth Move” rank solidly with past glories, while songs like “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” take on added resonance when delivered in her own warm, compelling voice. With its reliance on pianos and gentle drumming, Tapestry is a light and airy work on its surface, occasionally skirting the boundaries of jazz, but it’s also an intensely emotional record, the songs confessional and direct; in its time it connected with listeners like few records before it, and it remains an illuminating experience decades later.

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Carole King – Tapestry (1971) [Reissue 2017] [SACD / Epic – SICP 10120]

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Title: Carole King – Tapestry (1971) [Reissue 2017]
Genre: Pop
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Carole King brought the fledgling singer/songwriter phenomenon to the masses with Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in pop music history. A remarkably expressive and intimate record, it’s a work of consummate craftsmanship. Always a superior pop composer, King reaches even greater heights as a performer; new songs like the hits “It’s Too Late” and “I Feel the Earth Move” rank solidly with past glories, while songs like “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” take on added resonance when delivered in her own warm, compelling voice. With its reliance on pianos and gentle drumming, Tapestry is a light and airy work on its surface, occasionally skirting the boundaries of jazz, but it’s also an intensely emotional record, the songs confessional and direct; in its time it connected with listeners like few records before it, and it remains an illuminating experience decades later.

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Carole King – Tapestry (1971) [MFSL 2013] [SACD / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDSACD 2117]

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Title: Carole King – Tapestry (1971) [MFSL 2013]
Genre: Pop
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Carole King brought the fledgling singer/songwriter phenomenon to the masses with Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in pop music history. A remarkably expressive and intimate record, it’s a work of consummate craftsmanship. Always a superior pop composer, King reaches even greater heights as a performer; new songs like the hits “It’s Too Late” and “I Feel the Earth Move” rank solidly with past glories, while songs like “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” take on added resonance when delivered in her own warm, compelling voice. With its reliance on pianos and gentle drumming, Tapestry is a light and airy work on its surface, occasionally skirting the boundaries of jazz, but it’s also an intensely emotional record, the songs confessional and direct; in its time it connected with listeners like few records before it, and it remains an illuminating experience decades later.

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Carole King – Music (1971) [MFSL 2011] [SACD / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDSACD 2068]

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Title: Carole King – Music (1971) [MFSL 2011]
Genre: Pop
Format: SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Music, official name Carole King: Music, is the third album by American singer-songwriter Carole King. The album was released in December 1971 and quickly rose to the top of the charts. It features songs such as “It’s Going to Take Some Time” (US No. 12 by The Carpenters), “Sweet Seasons,” a No. 9 hit for Carole King, and “Brother, Brother”. Carole King: Music experienced immediate success and was certified gold on December 9, 1971, days after release. It was certified platinum on July 17, 1995.

After years as one of the most prolific and successful songwriters in pop music, Carole King emerged in the ’70s with Tapestry, an album that catapulted her to the forefront of the singer/songwriter movement. While she had mined her back catalog for that album, she relied more heavily on songs written with new collaborator Toni Stern for Music. Coming out on the heels of the classic Tapestry, it’s hard not to feel like this album was a bit of a letdown. However, time has shown this album to be one of her finest. While these songs lyrically lack the simplistic beauty of Gerry Goffin-penned tunes, the melodies are very strong and Carole King adds some nice texture to her piano-based tunes with the tasteful percussion of Bobbye Hall. When King goes for grand statements, however, it doesn’t always work. Her call for peace and brotherhood works on songs like the opening track, “Brother, Brother,” but her voice is not strong enough and does not convey enough emotion to prevent uplifting tunes like “Carry Your Load” from sounding a bit hollow and preachy. But her songwriting is still in peak form, and there are many highlights including “It’s Gonna Take Some Time” (also made into a hit by the Carpenters) and “Song of Long Ago” (with backing vocals by James Taylor).

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Carol Kidd – Nice Work (1987) [Reissue 2004] [SACD / Linn Records – AKD 229]

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Title: Carol Kidd – Nice Work (1987) [Reissue 2004]
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Carol Kidd is one of Britain’s best loved jazz singers, and one of her most respected ambassadors in the field worldwide. She has received favourable comparisons with Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee and has had continued praise from modern and traditional performers. These 1987 recordings, are typical of her work, features a spectrum of standards from the Great American Songbook interpreted by a legendary UK singer.
The now-legendary Carol Kidd covers several American Songbook recordings from the likes of Gershwin, Rogers & Hart and Ellington & Strayhorn on Nice Work. On an album of such quality material, Kidd proves that she knows her way around a song, recording with both an ease and flair that never seems forced.

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Carol Kidd – Dreamsville (2008) [SACD / Linn Records – AKD 325]

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Title: Carol Kidd – Dreamsville (2008)
Genre: Jazz
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Dreamsville marks the long-awaited return of a UK jazz legend. Dreamsville showcases American Songbook favourites as well as previously unrecorded original songs. Carol Kidd is renowned for her impeccable phrasing and delivery along with an innate ability to breathe fresh life into jazz standards. Dreamsville places a great singer, at the top of her form, back where she belongs – in the upper echelons of world class vocal jazz.

Carol Kidd is well known for her impeccable phrasing and delivery and for her innate ability to breathe fresh life into jazz standards. A Linn Records artist since 1984, Kidd celebrates the 25 year relationship with a hand-picked selection of standards. After the studden death of her partner in 2003, Carol took a complete break from singing for a few years. However, she found therapy in writing the lyrics and penning two songs, co-written with guitarist Nigel Clark, which appear on the album – ‘Do You Believe’ and ‘There Goes My Heart’. The album also features a delightful new version of her signature song ‘When I Dream’. Carol Kidd’s first album in eight years also marks the 25th anniversary of her relationship with the Glasgow-based Linn Records. And what a partnership it has been – Kidd a faultless vocalist of impeccable stylistic credentials, and Linn a beacon of artist and audiophile quality for independent British labels. A tellingly bittersweet and plangent affair, “Dreamsville” is a long overdue return to the fray after the death of her partner in 2003 and subsequent trauma-induced loss of voice. Although now into her 60s, Kidd’s voice remains full of character and colour, an emotionally alert and expressive instrument she puts to perfectly-phrased, beautifully-pitched use with a crafted, lightly-worn elegance that continues to astound as it delights. Two songs are new and self-penned (with guitarist Nigel Clark): There Goes My Heart is a soft, lilting leave-taking, and Do You Believe a hymning lullaby to love and second chances. A heartfelt cover of Harold Arlen’s Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe is offered as a tribute to the late Humphrey Lyttelton and benefits from Paul Harrison’s softly measured piano accompaniment. Indeed the four-piece band assembled here – Mario Caribe on double bass and Alyn Cosker on drums ably partnering Clark and Harrison – prove to be a crack outfit who seize a fabulous opportunity in Cole Porter’s adrenalin-fuelled It’s Alright With Me to show off their virtuosic wares. Illustrating a more sensitive side, Stars Fell on Alabama glints and sparkles with a hushed loveliness that makes much of Kidd’s eloquent ability to hold and extend a note. Familiar standards How Deep is the Ocean?, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and Can’t We Be Friends? are set down with consummate and engaging ease while Kidd’s signature song, When I Dream, newly arranged by Nigel Clark and producer Graeme Duffin, brings things to a glowing, finely delivered conclusion.

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Can – Rite Time (1989) [2006 Remaster] [SACD / Spoon Records – SPOON SA 29]

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Title: Can – Rite Time (1989) [2006 Remaster]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

An unexpected reunion from Can (made even more unexpected by the presence of original singer Malcolm Mooney, who left the band in 1969), 1989’s Rite Time is in large part a return to form for the group, especially when one considers how weak Can’s last few ’70s albums were. Wisely, the quintet doesn’t try to replicate the sound they created over two decades before on albums like Monster Movie. Instead, Mooney and company make Rite Time a document of where they’re at musically at the time. In short, it’s funkier (“Give the Drummer Some”), funnier (“Hoolah Hoolah,” which takes that old schoolyard rhyme about how they don’t wear pants on the other side of France as the jumping-off point for its melody and lyrics), and more abstractly ambient (the elliptical closer “In the Distance Lies the Future”) than before. Rite Time doesn’t have the rubbery, polyrhythmic intensity of classic Can albums like Ege Bamyasi or Future Days, but it’s a solidly listenable album that, unlike the majority of reunion albums, doesn’t soil the memory of the band.

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Can – Delay 1968 (1981) [2006 Remaster] [SACD / Spoon Records – SPOONSA12]

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Title: Can – Delay 1968 (1981) [2006 Remaster]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Although recorded in the late ’60s, the material included on Can’s Delay…1968 did not appear commercially until 1981. A collection of cuts featuring early vocalist Malcolm Mooney, these seven songs are among the very first Can tunes ever recorded; while nowhere near as intricate or assured as the group’s later work, the visceral energy of tracks like the deranged “Uphill” and “Butterfly” is undeniable.

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Can – CAN (1979) [2006 Remaster] [SACD / Spoon Records – SPOONSA28]

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Title: Can – CAN (1979) [2006 Remaster]
Genre: Rock
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The final studio effort from the first decade run of Can signifies not only a changing of the guard for the progressive Krautrock icons, but a nod to the shifting tastes of the times. Losing the great bassist Holger Czukay as a bandmember who moved into the production/editing room had a telling effect, but his replacement Rosko Gee was more than adequate. Percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah and Gee (both coming off stints with Traffic) buoyed the band and modified Can’s sound as they collectively continued exploring amplified and processed experimentation. Electric guitarist Michael Karoli continued expanding his horizons and sound palette, Irmin Schmidt dug deeper into keyboard sounds running parallel to fellow countrymen from the bands Passport, Cluster, and Kraftwerk, while Jaki Liebezeit, simply put, remained one of the more consistent and steady rock drummers of the era. But disco beats, on the way out in 1979, remained a part of Can’s appeal, and a precursor for the acid jazz dance music to come. At their best, “All Gates Open” whips space blues harmonica, buried vocals, and Robert Fripp-inspired guitar into a clean and simple jam. The exotic influence of African music infused into the instrumental “Sunday Jam” suggests strains of the famous jazz standard “Caravan.” The purely electric “Sodom” resonates along the lines of Cluster welded to Jimi Hendrix-style inferences, while also plodding. A campy take of the can can “Ethnological Forger Series #99” parallels the Love Sculpture/Dave Edmunds adaptation of “Sabre Dance.” Of the more dance-oriented tracks, “A Spectacle” is relevant from a contemporary standpoint with Karoli’s spiky, choppy wah-wah sound, while “Safe” is completely spaced out. A scintillating attempt at R&B fusion, “Can Be” veers into epic big hair arena corpo-rock territory, held together by Karoli’s excellent playing. While Can emerged in ensuing years with different lineups and further sub-developments, this last vestige of the initial band holds firm in resolve, and is at the least an intriguing aside to their more potent earlier albums.

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Can – Saw Delight (1977) [2006 Remaster] [SACD / Spoon Records – SPOONSA27]

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Title: Can – Saw Delight (1977) [2006 Remaster]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Bearing bar none the worst title pun of any Can album — and with titles like Cannibalism, that’s saying something — 1977’s Saw Delight was the German progressive group’s farewell. Clearly, the core quartet had found themselves in a rut by the recording of this album, bringing in percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah and bassist Rosko Gee from a late-era lineup of Traffic to add a sort of Afro-Cuban jazz feel to their sound. What’s frustrating is that this idea could have worked brilliantly, but the execution is all wrong. Instead of the polyrhythmic fireworks expected from a drum duel between Baah and the African-influenced Jaki Liebezeit, Can’s senior drummer basically rolls over, keeping time with simple beats while the percussionist takes on the hard work. Similarly, Rosko Gee’s handling of the bass duties (which he performs superbly throughout, adding an almost Mingus-like rhythmic intensity to even the loosest songs) frees Holger Czukay to add electronics and sound effects to the proceedings, an opportunity he doesn’t make much of. On the up side, the opening “Don’t Say No” recalls the controlled fury of earlier tunes like “Moonshake,” and side two, consisting of Gee’s lengthy, jazz-based composition “Animal Waves” and the lovely instrumental “Fly by Night,” is largely excellent, but the two lengthy tracks that close side one are melodically and rhythmically pale in comparison, and there’s a tired, somewhat dispirited vibe to the whole album that makes it an unsatisfying send-off to Can’s career.

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