Los Bastardos Finlandeses - El Grandes Saloon (2009)Mp3 | 320 Kbps | 51 MB | Finland
Hard Rock
El Grandes Saloon is the third album from this Finnish motor rock band, as they like to call themselves. Its a combination of old school Motцrhead, AC/DC and a little bit of Thin Lizzy to spice it up. Usually with Finnish bands the problem is the singer, either they cant sing in english at all, or then they lack the balls required for this kind of music. With Bryn El Taff Bastardo on vocals you have none of that. While the first full lenght album had great riff based hard rock, and the second album expanded on that a bit, while still keeping true to their style. This third album in just as many years seems to indicate that the band is running out of steam. After the very first listen, there was pretty much nothing memorable in it, apart from the title tracks hillbilly violins and banjos.
Part: 2 : Illusion - enchanted
Illusion - Enchanted Caress
Covers included
Progressive Rock | MP3 192 kbps | 51 MB | 1979
"Illusion was sort of a sequel band to the original lineup of Renaissance. In 1977, the surviving original Renaissance members -- singer/songwriter/guitarist Jim McCarty, vocalist Jane Relf, keyboardist John Hawken, and bassist Louis Cennamo -- added lead guitarist John Knightsbridge and drummer Eddie MacNeil to form Illusion. The band recorded two excellent progressive rock albums, Out of the Mist and Illusion (now both on the CD The Island Recordings). Unfortunately, they ran headlong into the Punk and New Wave acts that were then sweeping through British rock, and they were let go by Island Records.Enchanted Caress consists of demos, produced by Jim McCarty, which were used to try and get a new record contract for the group. After hearing them, it easy to understand why they werent able to do so. While some progressive bands (like Yes and Renaissance) responded to New Wave pop by trying to adopt that sound, McCarty decided to try and give the group a sound that we would! call adult contemporary/MOR today.Illusion certainly recorded some attempts at commercial love songs on their two albums, but they were produced with the same full, rich arrangements (dominated by Hawkens lush keyboards)as the groups longer, more prog material. Here, we get three minute pop songs with bland playing and trite lyrics, like Getting into Love Again, You are the One and Nights in Paris. The fact that these are demos excuse, in part, the lack of any instrumental excitement (and rumor has it that Hawken may actually not be on these demos), but not totally. The obvious attempt at commercial songwriting precludes any instumental stretching. The biggest attraction for many people to Illusion was the beautiful alto vocals of Jane Relf, but even she cant elevate the mediocre material. The closest track here to the classic Illusion sound is The Man Who Loved the Trees, with a fairly intricate piano part and an emotional Jane Relf vocal.The other two most worthwhile tra! cks arent even Illusion tracks, strictly speaking. John Knight! sbridge turns in a hard rock arrangement of Richard Rodgers classic Slaughter on 10th Ave. that is interesting (even if it may be patterned after Mick Ronsons version). And the CD concludes with the last recording of Renaissance founder Keith Relf, who died before Illusion formed. All the Fallling Angels is a haunting ballad which sounds oddly like a track from David Bowies Space Oddity phase, and easily outclasses the rest of this material. "
