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Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters · Columbia
Format: Audio CD

Roger Waters, the creative power and songwriting force behind Pink Floyd, presents Is This The Life We Really Want ?, his first rock album in 25 years. The album is produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, U2, "From the Basement") , and includes 12 new Roger...
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I'm A Fire

David Nail · Mca Nashville
Format: Audio CD

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Pavans & Fantasies From the Age of Dowland

John Holloway · ECM New Series
Format: Audio CD

John Dowland s Lachrimae Pavans is considered one of the greatest works in the canon of English chamber music. Based upon his famous song Flow My Teares, the seven pavans Seaven Teares, as Dowland called them present an extraordinary exploration of the contrapuntal and harmonic possibilities...
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol.1

Soundtrack · Hollywood Records
Format: Audio CD

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 is the collection of songs featured in the film. Music plays a major role in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY as the 1970s songs featured in the film are part of the storyline in a unique way. Explaining how the songs come to play in the story, director...
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Arthur Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher

Marion Cotillard · Alpha
Format: Audio CD

Jeanne dArc au Bûcher, written by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger in 1938, is a fascinating oratorio. The text by Paul Claudel is constructed like a flashback, in which Joan looks back over her life just before she dies. The last moments of the martyrs life, illustrated by the evocative...
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How To Be A Human Being

Glass Animals · Harvest
Format: Audio CD

How To Be A Human Being is a scrapbook of the band's time spent on the road, gathering memories and perceptions of different types of people from all around the world.
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Dances

Benjamin Grosvenor · Decca
Format: Audio CD

I can only concur with other critics who hear in his tone and phrasing echoes of a golden age, and that he should count Alfred Cortot and Benno Moiseiwitsch among his idols comes as no surprise: there is the same spaciousness within rhythmic control and the same bell-like sound. --Roger...
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The Garden Spot Programs, 1950

Hank Williams Sr. · Omnivore Recordings, LLC
Format: Audio CD

Set the time machine for early morning on KSIB, Creston, Iowa. February, 1950.Hot on the heels of the collectable 10' vinyl Record Store Day EP Omnivore Recordings is proud to present The Garden Spot Programs, 1950, featuring 24 performances, unheard for 64 years, from the one and only...
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Smokey & Friends

Smokey Robinson · Verve
Format: Audio CD

Legendary Motown icon and Grammy® award-winning singer-songwriter, Smokey Robinson is set to release his highly anticipated duets album, Smokey & Friends this September 2014 on Verve Records. Produced by American Idol star and record producer Randy Jackson, Robinson will be joined...
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1; Glazunov: Violin Concerto

Nicola Benedetti

This has the look of a career-making recording from Scots violinist Nicola Benedetti, putting her up against difficult repertory that diverges from the crowd-pleasing fare that formed the basis of her career up to this album. It would have been hard to predict just how well she pulls off her task...
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The best of me original motion picture soundtrack

The Best Of Me · Capitol Nashville (Universal)
Format: Audio CD

EMI Nashville in conjunction with Relativity Music are set to release the soundtrack for the upcoming Nicholas Sparks penned film, The Best of Me. Confirmed artists to be on the soundtrack include Lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes, David Nail, Colbie Caillat, Kip Moore and the Eli Young Band....
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.5: The Gray Chapter

Slipknot · Roadrunner Records
Format: Audio CD

After 6 turbulent years, Slipknot returns with one of their heaviest and most intense body of work - .5:The Gray Chapter. Stretching from grief to anger and beyond, the album touches on the most difficult period of the bands career and serves as a tribute to a lost friend and bandmate....
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Lathe of Heaven

Mark Turner · ECM Records
Format: Audio CD

Saxophonist Mark Turner has steadily built a career as one of the lesser ballyhooed if no less talented jazz saxophonists of his generation. Indebted to such icons of musical intellectualism as Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, and Warne Marsh, Turner has a fluid, egoless style, grounded in motivic,...
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All The Songs Vol. 1

VeggieTales · BGI
Format: Audio CD

Features the first 50 songs published by VeggieTales Includes fan-favorites from DVDs that have sold over 40M units, including The Hairbrush Song, The New & Improved Bunny Song, Song of the Cebu, His Cheeseburger and many, many more 2-disc set value priced at $9.98 Includes production notes...
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