Saturday, June 16, 2012

Vanessa Amorosi - The Power



Hi everyone I'm sorry but I seem to have uploaded this at the very small bit rate of 128kbps after yet another format I'd forgotten to change the settings on my cd ripper will have the usual 320kbps file up today sometime sorry for the inconvenience to anyone who has already downloaded it. OK I've installed the new file .


U R Mine/Absolutely Everybody/Shine/Have A Look/Pray For Love/Every Time I Close My Eyes/How Y' Livin'/The Power/I Wanna Be Your Everything/You Were Led On/Pray For Love (Club Mix)/The Power (Spiced Mix)/Absolutely Everybody (Latino Mix)



Vanessa Amorosi (born 8 August 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. Her combined album and single sales have reached over 2 million worldwide.



In 1999, Amorosi released her debut single "Have a Look" which became a Top 20 hit and went gold in Australia. This was followed by her successful second single "Absolutely Everybody", an anthemic dance song, reached the Top 10 and became the longest charting Australian single by an Australian female artist. It remained in the ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart for over six months after its release. "Absolutely Everybody" was released internationally and reached the Top 10 in many European countries including the UK and Germany where it received a gold certification. Amorosi performed at many large events such as the NRL Grand Final, the opening of the Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island and the new millennium on "New Year's Eve" at Darling Harbour.

Following the success of the first two singles Amorosi released two more singles in 2000 "Shine" and "The Power" became major Australian hits. Both were accredited gold by the ARIA Australian music industry. The rights to create a remixed version of "Shine" were purchased by the airline Ansett Australia, who used this version for a commercial. Vannessa Amorosi was one of many celebrities to appear in the commercial.

Amorosi performing in 2002Her album The Power reached number one on the Australian album charts. Amorosi received six ARIA nominations in the year 2000 awards and The Power was nominated for "Best Female Artist" and "Best Pop Release" in the ARIA Music Awards of 2001. Her largest audience came in September 2000 with performances at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at the Paralympic Games. At the opening ceremony of the aforementioned Olympics she sang the Olympic song titled "Heroes Live Forever". Amorosi won the APRA Award in 2001 for "Most Played Song" on Australian Radio with "Shine" and received international acclaim in Germany where she won "Best International Newcomer" at the 2001 VIVA Comet Awards. Later that year she also made a special appearance at the Goodwill Games Opening and Closing ceremonies in Brisbane. In 2001 she performed at the AFL Grand Final.

In August 2002 Amorosi traveled to Manchester where she was one of the stars of the Commonwealth Games Hand-Over Ceremony, performing her hit "Shine" and a new song written especially for the event, "I'll always be a Melbourne girl".

In February 2003, Amorosi performed her blues set for the first time at the Melbourne International Music and Blues Festival and traveled to Germany to perform her latest European single "True to Yourself" on Top of the Pops and the hugely successful long-running show Wetten, dass..? which screens throughout Europe.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Denis Tracey - No Man's Land






The Dark Eyed Sailor/The Coventry Carol/The South Wind,Rolling In The Rye-Grass,Drowsy Maggie/She Moved Through The Fair/No Man's Land/Lowlands/Lassie Wi A Yellow Coatie/Arthur McBride/The Wee Pot Stove/The Banks Of The Condamine/The Tenpenny Bit, The Lark In The Morning/Lizzie Lindsay/Chambers' Caskets









Denis Tracey brings an unusual vocal quality to his interpretation of some traditional and contemporary songs. His voice has a feathery soft sound with a touch of the wistful which can take the listener himself into the cemeteries of northern France (No Man's Land) to the outback (The Banks Of The Condamine) or a whaling Station in Antartica (Pot Bellied Stove).


He has included a selection of traditional Irish, Scotish and English folk tunes positioning them so that all his listeners can hear the legacy of those european songs in the latter music of Australian settlers. (Excerpt from Pop with Christine Hogan Sydney Morning Herald 21.05.1979)


This is another offering from the vinyl collection of RAM the 320kbps file is in the header while the Flac version is in 2 parts and can be found HERE and HERE.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Richard Clapton - Past Hits And Previews


Stepping Across The Line/Girls On The Avenue/Goodbye Tiger/Capricorn Dancer/ I Wanna Be A Survivor/When The Heats Off/Deep Water/Blue Bay Blues/Need A Visionary/Suit Yourself


Richard Clapton is undoubtedly one of our finest singer songwriters ever his music from the seventies has stood the test of time as this compilation will attest to. This greatest hits compilation only takes us up to 1978 and their was still a lot more to come as Richard is still recording and performing til this very day be sure to catch him on Saturday 18th of August 2012 at the State Theater in Sydney.


This album contaied two new tracks alongside his classics at that time - "Stepping Across The Line" & "When The Heat's Off" Hence the preview part of the album title and far as I know "When The Heat's Off" has never been issued on any other release (either Vinyl or CD).