Dakar Sound - Volume 1

This is the first in a series of collections of tracks from the famous "Dakar Sound" series.

It brings you some interesting representatives of Dakar´s new urban music of the 1970s to 90s as well as a mingling of passionate and very enchanting songs of Senegal´s most talented traditional singers.

"Dakar Sound" is pleased to invite you to an evening of finest entertainment with the Horoya Band, Madiop Seck, Sekou Diabate, Etoile 3000, Number One, Baobab and many more.

Dakar Sound - Volume 1
(192 kbps, ca. 100 MB)

Blaze - 25 Years Later

This essential album is a journey thru the life of Lakim, a black activist in the streets of New York and we follow him thru his days - getting exposed to his emotions in songs from spiritual high on "YOU`RE SO SPECIAL" - maybe the best song to the angry and bitter "YOU`RE GONNA MISS MY LOVE" after his babymama told him to leave - he get`s ripped off by a 13 year old girl he is searching for their grandma and so on - motown didn`t like the concept of putting this spoken words interludes on the album , so it`s on the CD only ..respect to Blaze, this album still stands the test of time .

The New Jersey trio's '90 debut album for Maze. Blaze's roster featured vocalist Chris Herbert, keyboardist Josh Milan, and drummer Kevin Hedge, who came together in the '80s doing a good blend of gospel-tinged soul and East Coast dance. They got some attention from the single "So Special," and also the cuts "Get Up" and "Lover Man." They never really hit it big, but did have potential...

Tracklist:

1	Get Up	5:04
2	So Special	5:32
3	Miss My Love	5:20
4	You Don't Really Love Me	4:19
5	Anything For Your Lovin'	5:22
6	We All Must Live Together	6:43
7	I Wonder	5:59
8	Gonna Make It Work	6:45
9	All That I Should	8:24
10	Missing You	3:34
11	Lover Man	3:49
12	Love Is Forever	4:40
13	Broad & Market, NWK	2:13
14	The Hope Song	6:06

Blaze - 25 Years Later
(192 kbps, cover art included)    

           

Country Joe & The Fish - Together (1968)

"Together", Country Joe & the Fish's third album, was the group's most consistent, most democratic, and their best-selling record. Unlike their first two albums, which were dominated by Country Joe McDonald's voice and compositions, "Together" featured the rest of the band - guitarists Barry Melton and David Cohen, bassist Bruce Barthol, and drummer Chicken Hirsh - almost as prominently as McDonald.

That's usually a formula for disaster, but in this case it gave the album more variety and depth: McDonald tended to favor droning mantras like the album-closing "An Untitled Protest," which worked better when contrasted with the likes of Melton's catchy anti-New York diatribe, "The Streets of Your Town," and the group-written "Rock and Soul Music."

Songs like the latter cast the group as a soul revue, true, and they couldn't quite pull that off, but "Together" had the charming quality of unpredictability; you never knew what was coming next. Unfortunately, what came next in the band's career was a split. Barthol was out by September 1968, Cohen and Hirsh followed in January 1969. Thereafter, McDonald and Melton fronted various Fish aggregations, but it was never the same, even when this lineup regrouped for "Reunion" in 1977.                

Tracklist:

1. "Rock and Soul Music" (McDonald, Melton, Cohen, Barthol, Hirsh) – 6:51
2. "Susan" (Hirsh) - 3:28
3. "Mojo Navigator" (Denson, Melton, McDonald) - 2:23
4. "Bright Suburban Mr. & Mrs. Clean Machine" (Hirsh, Melton) - 2:19
5. "Good Guys/Bad Guys Cheer / The Streets of Your Town" (Melton) - 3:43
6. "The Fish Moan" - 0:27
7. "The Harlem Song" (McDonald) - 4:19
8. "Waltzing in the Moonlight" (Hirsh, Melton) - 2:13
9. "Away Bounce My Bubbles" (Hirsh) - 2:25
10. "Cetacean" (Barthol) - 3:38
11. "An Untitled Protest" (McDonald) - 2:45

Country Joe & The Fish - Together (1968)
(192 kbps, cover art included)