Roger Glover - Butterfly Ball and the Wizard's Convention

©1974/1976 Purple Records

this compilation ©1989 The Connoisseur Collection

320kbps CD rip - 192Mb incl. coverart.

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Deep Purple have always been known for their contributions to the hard rock genre. Despite this heavy reputation, the individual members have all worked outside the rock field from time to time on solo material or sessions, exploring different and often seemingly unlikely musical avenues. This compact disc brings two such projects together for the first time.

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THE BUTTERFLY BALL, masterminded by Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover shortly after he had left the band, forms the first half of the set and features appearances from many well known rock musicians like Ronnie James Dio (RIP), Eddie Hardin, Ray Fenwick, Tony Ashton, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes.

Glover also turns up on THE WIZARD'S CONVENTION, which forms the rest of this package. Eddie Hardin brought Glover together with the then current Deep Purple members Jon Lord, Glenn Hughes, David Coverdale and numerous other guests. Side by side this material forms a fascinating side line to the Deep Purple story.

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Track 17, Little Chalk Blue, is a bonustrack. Previously released as a 7'' vinyl single only. Four numbers have been omitted from The Wizard's Convention album to enable to fit two albums onto one compact disc at a budget price.

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The Butterfly Ball: 1 Dawn 1:18 / 2 Get Ready 2:07 (Vocals: Glenn Hughes) / 3 Saffron Dormouse And Lizzy Bee 1:24 (Vocals: Barry St. John , Helen Chappelle) / 4 Harlequin Hare 1:26 (Vocals: Neil Lancaster) / 5 Old Blind Mole 1:13 (Vocals: John Goodison) / 6 Magician Moth 1:34 / 7 No Solution 3:16 (Vocals: Mickey Lee Soule) / 8 Behind The Smile 1:59 (Vocals: David Coverdale) / 9 Fly Away 2:22 (Vocals: Liza Strike) / 10 Aranea 1:37 (Vocals: Judi Kuhl) / 11 Sitting In A Dream 3:40 (Vocals: Ronnie James Dio) / 12 Waiting 3:06 (Vocals: Jimmy Helms) / 13 Sir Maximus Mouse 2:40 (Vocals: Eddie Hardin) / 14 Dreams Of Sir Bedivere 4:41 / 15 Together Again 1:36 (Vocals: Tony Ashton) / 16 Watch Out For The Bat 1:41 (Vocals: John Gustafson) / 17 Little Chalk Blue 3:48 (Vocals: John Lawton) / 18 The Feast 1:46 / 19 Love Is All 3:17 (Vocals: Ronnie James Dio) / 20 Homeward 4:17(Vocals: Ronnie James Dio)

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Wizard's Convention: 21 Loose Ends 4:13 (Vocals: Jimmy Helms) / 22 Money To Burn 3:50 (Vocals: David Coverdale) / 23a Until Tomorrow I / 23b Until Tomorrow II / 23c Until Tomorrow III (Vocals: Glenn Hughes) / 23d Until Tomorrow IV  / 24 Light Of My Life 3:41 (Vocals: Eddie Hardin , Glenn Hughes) / 25 She's A Woman 6:40 (Vocals: Jimmy Helms) / 26a Swanks & Swells I (Vocals: Tony Ashton) / 26b Swanks & Swells II 4:38

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1250 Albums for the time being

Just to overcome some downtime. I checked the links in my previous bulk post, deleted the dead links and added a few hundred. Be quick, once dead stays dead.

Another lot of albums

TAR - What the heck?

Why TAR?
Due to a systemcrash and a complete windows failure I was forced to install a new operatingsystem. I have done so but my WinAce, wich was so loyal for over 10 years, won't work the way I wanted anymore. So I've been searching for a replacement for .ace to archive files. I found Peazip and I'll be posting in .tar files from now on. Tar is an universal used, non-compressing, archive system.

There is no use to compress mp3 files because mp3 is already a sort of compression of its own so you don’t get much smaller files. In Tar the files are not being compressed at all but they are bundled for easy web-transportation.

As there is no compression the .tar files can be renamed .mp3 and they can be played with your mp3 player as an album in one go. Sometimes, if tracks are mixed into eachother, it sounds even more like a CD cause there are no stops between the tracks.
Another advantage is that Tar files will stay alive much longer than the popular Zip, 7z or Rar files. That was the main reason to use .ace files.

I understand that not everybody knows how to open .tar files. Peazip, 7Zip, WinAce, WinRar, IZarc, Alzip, Bitzipper, Squeez, ExtractNow and ZipX all have the abillity to extract .tar files. Still there can be someone out there who isn't able to extract them...

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WINDOWS 95 – WINDOWS 7

LINUX

info: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip-free-archiver.html

download: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/index.html

You can use PeaZip on all Windows version and on Linux (PeaZip is a desktop neutral application) with the same features and look and feel; moreover, for both platforms, PeaZip is also available as standalone, portable application not needing installation.

PeaZip is freeware, free of charge for any personal and corporate use, and is also free as in freedom since it's Open Source (LGPLv3). PeaZip contains exclusively Open Source components released under OSI approved licenses.

PeaZip is an open source file and archive manager: cross platform, available as portable and installable software for 32 and 64 bit Windows (9x, 2k, XP, Vista, 7) and Linux (PeaZip is a desktop neutral application).

Full support

7z, FreeArc's arc/wrc, sfx (7z and arc), bz2, gz, paq/lpaq, pea, quad/balz, split, tar, upx, zip

Read (browse, extract, test) 118 file extensions

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LINUX

In the Linux, a .TAR file is the equivalent of a .ZIP file in Windows. It is an archived file containing multiple files and are meant primarily for ease of transport and storage. Many applications that you download will be available in .TAR archives. Luckily, just as it is as simple as a few clicks to extract a .ZIP file in Windows, it is equally as easy to extract a .TAR archive in Linux.

Step 1: Use your mouse and right-click on the .TAR file. This will bring up a menu of options from which you can choose.

Step 2: Click on "Open Archive Manager." This is the default option when working with .TAR files in Linux. Clicking on it opens the archive manager, which is the program that can read and extracts these files.

Step 3: Highlight the files from the archive that you want to extract. You can choose to extract all of them or just individual ones.

Step 4: Right click on the highlighted files and select the "Extract Here" option. This will extract it the to the same directory the archive is in.

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MAC

Springy 1.6.1

http://mac.majorgeeks.com/files/details/springy.html;

A simple to use, yet powerful archiving and compression utility for Mac OS X. Springy integrates seamlessly with the Finder and includes some very useful features. All archiving tasks can be done via Drag and Drop, system Services Menu or through Springy’s Finder contextual menu.

- Open and browse the contents of an archive or disk image without extracting any file from it.

- Quickly extract all files or only files of choice from an archive or disk image.

- Quickly extract the whole archive or disk image by double-clicking its file in a Finder.

- Modify the contents of an existing archive or disk image: add, overwrite, delete and rename files in an archive or disk image.

- Full Drag & Drop support for archiving and extracting from and into Finder.

- More info: http://www.springyarchiver.com/

System requirements: http://www.springyarchiver.com/download/Springy.dmg

George Michael - The Complete Outtakes, Duets & Collaboration

©2008 Musicology.ipbfree.com

Vinyl/CD rip VBR 192-320 Kb/s

CD I (1984 - 1989)

00:55:06

01 . 1984 - Careless Whisper - Wham! Feat. George Michael - 05:05

02 . 1984 - Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid (Feat. George Michael) - 03:53

03 . 1984 - Turn To Gold - David Austin (Feat. George Michael) - 03:42

04 . 1985 - The Last Kiss - David Cassidy (Feat. George Michael) - 04:37

05 . 1985 - Nikita - Elton John (background vocals by George Michael) - 05:42

06 . 1985 - Wrap Her Up - Elton John & George Michael - 06:20

07 . 1986 - A Different Corner - Wham Feat. George Michael - 04:03

08 . 1987 - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) - Aretha Franklin & George Michael - 04:00

09 . 1987 - Learn To Say No - Jody Watley & George Michael - 03:37

10 . 1987 - Jive Talkin' - George Michael & Boogie Box High - 04:40

11 . 1987 - Love's In Need Of Love Today - George Michael - 04:45

12 . 1989 - Heaven Help Me - Deon Estus (Feat. George Michael) - 04:42

CD II (1990 - 1992)

01:01:11

01 . 1990 - Red Dress - Andrew Ridgeley (background vocals by George Michael) - 04:09

02 . 1991 - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - George Michael & Elton John - 05:51

03 . 1991 - I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - George Michael - 07:01

04 . 1991 - If You Where My Woman - George Michael - 04:05

05 . 1991 - Fantasy - George Michael - 05:01

06 . 1991 - Ain't No Stopping Us Now - George Michael - 04:34

07 . 1991 - Tonight - George Michael - 05:56

08 . 1992 - Too Funky - George Michael - 05:28

09 . 1992 - Do You Really Want To Know? - George Michael - 04:48

10 . 1992 - Happy - George Michael - 04:05

11 . 1992 - Crazyman Dance - George Michael - 05:52

12 . 1992 - Thank You - George Michael - 04:21

CD III (1993 - 1997)

01:10:20

01 . 1993 - Somebody To Love - George Michael & Queen - 05:16

02 . 1993 - Killer - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone - George Michael - 11:20

03 . 1993 - These Are The Days Of Our Lives - George Michael With Lisa Stansfield & Queen - 04:42

04 . 1993 - Calling You - George Michael - 05:13

05 . 1995 - I'm Your Man '95 - George Michael & Lisa Moorish - 07:00

06 . 1995 - You Spin Me Round - Infamy (Feat. George Michael) - 03:49

07 . 1996 - You Know That I Want To - George Michael - 04:32

08 . 1996 - Safe - George Michael - 04:25

09 . 1997 - I Can't Make You Love Me - George Michael - 05:21

10 . 1997 - Desafinado - George Michael & Astrud Gilberto - 03:20

11 . 1997 - Waltz Away Dreaming - George Michael & Toby Bourke - 04:41

12 . 1997 - Everything She Wants (Unplugged) - George Michael - 04:56

13 . 1997 - Chameleon (Shed Your Skin) - Trigger (Feat. George Michael) - 05:45

CD IV (1998 - 2008)

01:07:49

01 . 1998 - Outside - George Michael - 04:45

02 . 1998 - As - George Michael & Mary J. Blige - 04:44

03 . 1998 - A Moment With You - George Michael - 05:41

04 . 2000 - If I Told You That - Whitney Houston & George Michael - 04:33

05 . 2002 - The Long And Winding Road - George Michael - 04:18

06 . 2003 - The Grave - George Michael - 03:32

07 . 2004 - Edith & Kingpin - George Michael - 03:40

08 . 2004 - For The Love Of You - George Michael - 03:21

09 . 2005 - Blame It On The Sun - Ray Charles & George Michael - 04:45

10 . 2006 - How Do You Keep The Music Playing? - Tony Bennett & George Michael - 05:23

11 . 2006 - An Easier Affair - George Michael - 04:39

12 . 2006 - Heal The Pain - George Michael & Paul Mccartney - 04:44

13 . 2006 - This Is Not Real Love - George Michael & Mutya - 04:57

14 . 2006 - Understand - George Michael - 05:56

15 . 2008 - Feeling Good - George Michael - 02:51

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Various Artists - Listen to these new albums.

For all the Klaatu, Kayak, Barclay James Harvest fans out there. I found a beautiful album for you.

Chris - A Glimpse Inside. Chris is Christiaan Bruin, a Dutch multi talented musician.

Just to listen, no download.

Blackmore's Night is a British-American traditional folk rock band formed in 1997, consisting mainly of Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night.

On 27 June 2008, they released "Secret Voyage". Some traditional folk music like the 14th century “Locked Within the Crystal Ball" and some originals. They also performed a cover of the Rainbow song “Rainbow Eyes” and an Elvis Presley cover "Can't Help Falling in Love".

Carbon Leaf is a quintet from Richmond, Virginia, known for their alt-country, Celtic, and folk-infused indie rock.

Nothing Rhymes with Woman is the seventh studio album by the Virginia band Carbon Leaf and their last album on the Vanguard Records label.

Circa is Yes or no, they sound like Yes but no it isn't Yes. It's Billy Sherwood (Yes from Yes), Tony Kay (Yes, also from Yes), Jimmy Haun (Proud for his contribution to the Yes album "Union") and Jay Schellen (Played on albums of Billy Sherwood and Chris Squire). Circa is Yes diluted. Still nice.

Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson 24K Golddisk lossless

©1971 RCA Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Lossless Wave files

Nilsson Schmilsson is the seventh album by Harry Nilsson. Commercially, this was Nilsson's strongest work, producing three of his better known songs and achieving acclaimed chart success.

The reason for posting this 24K gold disk is it's superieur sound quality compared to the widely available standard disks. That is also the reason to post it lossless (a one time event, won't happen again).

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1. Gotta Get Up (2:23) / 2. Driving Along (2:03) / 3. Early In The Morning / 4. The Moonbeam Song (3:19) / 5. Down (3:24) / 6. Without You (3:15) / 7. Coconut (3:48) / 8. Let The Good Times Roll (2:42) / 9. Jump Into The Fire (6:53) / 10. I'll Never Leave You (4:16)

One file 263 Mb

David Garrick - A Boy Named David

©1976 Pye Records / 1990 Castle Communications Plc.

RR 4091-WZ

'A boy called David' made the top 10 in Germany and sold in massive quantities throughout Europe, firmly establishing him as a major new international star. Two hitsingles were drawn; his third single "Lady Jane,"  with an arrangement by Alan Tew that reached number 20 and his fourth single, "Dear Mrs. Applebee," wich made it to number 22 on the U.K. charts and topped the sales listings in Germany and Holland. 

So Much Love / I'm Looking Straight At You / A Groovy Kind Of Love / Dear Mrs Applebee / Liza Brown / You Don't Know / Dandy / I've Been Lovin' You Too Long / Lady Jane / Ain't Gonna Lie / When The World Was Our Own / Master John / It's Just Not That Easy / The Man Who Took The Valise Of The Floor At Grand Central Station At Noon / You're What I'm Living For / Mr. Moving Man / You Can't Hide A Broken Heart / Don't Go Out In The Rain / Theme For A Wishing Heart.

Woolly Wolstenholme - Black Box Recovered

©1980/1981/2004 Eclectic Discs
320 Kbps CD-rip

2004 digitally remastered release of what would have been the second album from the mellotron & keyboard genius of Barclay James Harvest, the followup to 1980's 'Maestoso'. Features 18 tracks including nine bonus tracks.

Tracks Listing: 1. Deceivers All (6:02) / 2. Has To Be A Reason (4:35) / 3. Down The Line (2:35) / 4. All Get Burned (3:25) / 5. Too Much, Too Loud, Too Late (6:10) / 6. Even The Night (3:20) / 7. The Will To Fly (4:12) / 8. Sunday Bells (4:40) / 9. Open (3:38) / 10. Why Remain (1:53) / 11. Sail Away (Demo) (3:54) / 12. A Prospect Of Whitby (Demo) (2:59) / 13. Patriots (Demo) (5:57) / 14. Quiet Islands (Demo) (5:02) / 15. American Excess (Live) (6:10) / 16. Lives On The Line (Live) (2:52) / 17. Deceivers All (Live) (6:13) / 18. Bootham Park Elegy (3:36)
Preview at AMAZON

Barclay James Harvest - After The Day

©2008 Polydor Ltd.
320 Kbps CD-rip

The BBC Recordings 1974 - 1976

Set of all previously unreleased recordings from the BBC archives. Disc One features an "In Concert" program recorded at the Golders Green Hippodrome in London on 19th June, 1974, including "She Said", which was not broadcast at the time. The second CD comprises session recordings made for John Peel's and Bob Harris's Radio One programs, two tracks recorded live for the Old Grey Whistle Test and four songs recorded in concert at the Liverpool Empire on 14th October, 1976.

Disc 1 - BBC Radio 1 "In Concert"

1. Summer Soldier

2. Medicine Man

3. Crazy City

4. After The Day

5. Negative Earth

6. She Said

7. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster

8. Paper Wings

9. For No One

Disc 2

1. For No One BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session

2. Paper Wings BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session

3. The Great 1974 Mining Disaster (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)

4. Crazy City (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)

5. Negative Earth (BBC Radio 1 Bob Harris Show Session)

6. Sweet Jesus (BBC TV 'Old Grey Whistle Test' Live Studio Session)

7. Hymn For The Children (BBC TV 'Old Grey Whistle Test' Live Studio Session)

8. Crazy City (BBC "Rock Around the World" Series)

9. Polk Street Rag (BBC "Rock Around the World" Series)

10. Rock 'n Roll Star (BBC "Rock Around the World" Series)

11. Suicide (BBC "Rock Around the World" Series)

the Monkees - Kirshner's Revenge

©2010 Unofficial Releases

320 Kbps CD-rip
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This is a collection of rare material from The Monkees. Some alternate mixes, some half ready, some instrumentals, some alternate vocals, something else. If you like karaoke and you like the monkees then this is your chance to sing along with the original backing tracks.
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Tracklist is too long to type it all.
Click the picture to get a good look at it, instead.

Paul McCartney - Live in Quebec 2008

©2008 Indigo TV capture

This is a 160 minutes long concert from Paul. He plays hits from Wings, Beatles, George Harrison (Something) and John Lennon (Give Peace A chance).

00 Intro / 01 Jet / 02 Drive My Car / 03 Only Mama Knows / 04 All My Loving / 05 Flaming Pie / 06 Got t Get You Into My Life / 07 Let Me Roll It / 08 C Moon / 09 My Love / 10 Let 'Em In / 11 Fine Line / 12 The Long And Winding Road / 13 Dance Tonight / 14 Blackbird / 15 Calico Skies / 16 I'll Follow The Sun / 17 Michelle / 18 Mrs. Vanderbilt / 19 Eleanor Rigby / 20 Something / 21 A Day In The Life-Give Peace A Chance / 22 Good Day Sunshine / 23 Too Many People-She Came In Through The Bathroom Window / 24 Penny Lane / 25 Band On The Run / 26 Birthday / 27 Back In The USSR / 28 I've Got A Feeling / 29 Live And Let Die / 30 Let It be / 31 Hey Jude / 32 Lady Madonna / 33 Get Back / 34 I Saw Her Standing There / 35 Yesterday / 36 Sgt. Pepper-The End

Terry Draper - The Furzall Family

©2000 Bullseye

Buy or download CD from Terry Draper

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This is the very hard to find limited edition release of childrens songs from Terry Draper and Maureen Leeson were the voices of The Furzalls recordings. Terry Draper plays all the instruments. The CD was originally packaged with the Furzall dolls.

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The small story of "The Furzal Family" was written by Dana Brown and is printed in the booklet. Scans of the booklet are included.
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1. The Furzall Story / 2. We're The Furzalls / 3. The Figgle / 4. Goodnight Sleepy Heads / 5. A Song For Christmas  

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David bedford - The Odyssey

©1976 Virgin CDOVD 444

320 Kbps CD-rip

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Bedford began recording solo work in the early 70's at the same time working with the likes of Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt,John Lord, Mike Oldfield and Roy Harper. His composing skills came to the fore after Tubular Bells was released and he was the key motivator behind The Orchestral Tubular Bells played by The London Philharmonic Orchestra. David Bedford also recorded with Mike Oldfield on the, highly underrated, Collaboration project.
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Bedford continued recording well into the 90's although saw a huge drop off in popularity after the Odyssey project in 1976. Odyssey from 1976 marks David Bedford providing one of his strongest album releases.
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David gets some help on this album from his friends Mike Oldfield (guitar 4,6) and Andy Summers (guitar 9). The Queen's College Choir provided the angellike vocals on 'the Sirens'.
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Penelope's Shroud I 01:37 / King Aeolus 04:44 / Penelope's Shroud II 01:20 / The Phaeacian Games 03:59 / Penelope's Shroud III 01:03 / The Sirens 10:17 / Scylla And Charybdis 07:59 / Penelope's Shroud IV 00:48 / Circe's Island 07:44 / Penelope's Shroud Completed 00:31 / The Battle In The Hall 07:55 
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Dee Long and the Short Notice - Long Live And Prosper

©2005 Bullseye BLR-CD-4106

320 Kbps CD-rip

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Recorded live in March 2005 with the Short Notice Band. Includes material from his solo releases, three Klaatu songs and a Beatles cover tune.
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Dee Long (vocals, guitar); Ken Wannamaker (keyboards, backing vocals); Frank Watt (drums); Maureen Leeson (percussion, backing vocals) Jaimie Vernon (guitar, backing vocals), Jim Hoeck (Bass).

Tracklist: 1. Meaning Of Life / 2. Mad Magazine / 3. Outside / 4. You Are / 5. Chromosome Syndrome / 6. Collecting Icons / 7. Older / 8. Everybody Took A Holiday / 9. Blue Jay Way / 10. Good To Be Back / 11. Little Neutrino / 12. Good To Be Back (Videoclip) / 13. Chromosome Syndrome (Videoclip)
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Jack Lancaster - Wild Connections

©1979 Acrobat 660.038

320Kbps Vinyl rip

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Jack Lancaster was a member of Aviator and Bloodwyn Pig but will be better known as a session musician and has produced, written and arranged recording sessions with artists including Gary Moore, Phil Collins, Rod Argent and Anthony Phillips. Jack Lancaster released Wild Connections in  1979. He collaborated with Rick van der Linden, a dutch keyboardplayer who had worldwide succes with his band Ekseption.

The album wich has been reissued several times as "Wild Connections" since 1987 was in fact another album from Lancaster originally called "Skinningrove Bay". 

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With the exception of drums and choir, this album is completely synthesised on Lyricon and Yamaha GX1. The lyricon is an electronic wind instrument capable of the fullest range of expression. The sounds available on the Lyricon are practically infinite. GX1 is a tri-manual synthesiser with bass pedals; "Yamaha's Monster!" Stevie Wonder called it "The Dream Machine".

A1 Early Morning Jones / A2 Your Home / A3 African Violet / A4 Fortuna

B1 Wild Connections / B2 Claudia / B3 Aural Exciter / B4 Nyala
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