Geometry [Import]

Geometry [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Leftfield. Long Awaited New Album from Jega, One of the UK'S Leading Leftfield Artists Along with the Like of Aphex/Squarepusher/Paradinas/Vibert. Metallic Atmospheres and Off-kilter Electro Drums.

Tracks:

Since K Got Over Me
(I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine
My Own Face Inside the Trees
K
E.M.P.T.Y.
When I Came Home from the Party
Geometry of Lawns
Spirit
Impossible
Step into the Light
Losing Haringey
Six of Spades

Album Description

London's purveyors of lush melodies and gorgeous, hazy pop are back with twelve new tracks of dreamy folk, shimmering psych guitars, and string arrangements. This is the band's third album to date, following 2003's "Violet Hour" and 2001's singles comp, "Suburban Light". "Aggressively, gratuitously lovely, modernizing the chambery charms of Love's 'Forever Changes', The Zombies, and Galaxie 500" - Spin.

Customer Reviews:

Contains some incredibly gorgeous music.......2007-05-20

The only reason I don't give this five stars is that the second half of the disc is merely so-so. The first half is exquisite, containing some amazingly beautiful songs. "Since K Got Over Me" is wistful, sad, and gorgeous, with somber, reflective lyrics about how the singer's loss of orientation because his lover was able to survive the loss of his love:

It's just this emptiness
I can't chase it away
And when the evening paints the streets
When the evening paints the streets
It's like walking on a trampoline

"My Own Face Among the Trees" is equally lovely, with delicate bridges provided by organ. "K" is about, well, the mysterious "K" once again. "E.M.P.T.Y" is another jangly but slow pop gem. But after that this album tends to coast a bit. It never gets actually bad, but it does get a bit monotonous, and I usually find myself after "Spirit" or "Impossible" restarting the album. So I find myself an avid fan of about half this album.

The Clientele is a band that has an enormous amount of talent but still hasn't quite consistently recorded music that is on the same level of excellence. This as true of the other two Clientele albums I know--SUBURBAN LIGHT and GOD SAVE THE CLIENTELE--as this one. All three albums contain some amazing moments, songs so good that you begin to suspect that they might be capable of true greatness, but then the brilliant cuts are succeeded by songs that are simply not on the same level of excellence. Nonetheless, I do really recommend both this album and the band to those wanting to explore some new music. They remind me, oddly enough, of Nick Drake crossed with Galaxie 500. Or perhaps a better comparison would be the great eighties pop band Felt. Some might want to call this shoe gazer music, but I find the melodies a little too irresistible for that. Like I say, this is a very good band; if they were a little more consistent they would be a great one.

Monotonous.......2006-10-30

This band came to my attention with the song "(I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine" as featured at the beginning of "The Lake House." I found the song to be lovely and haunting and I couldn't get it out of my head the night after my wife and I rented the movie. So I hunted down a sample of the album (on another website) to see what the rest of their material sounded like. At first, I found the music enchanting and ethereal. But, by the time I finished listening to the rest of the relatively short samples, I felt a strong desire to hear something else. All of the songs bear the same tempo and textures. Furthermore, the guitarist appears to never turn the tremolo effect on his amp off. This is the type of audio effect where a little goes a long way, so I'm going to skip this one, thanks! I still like "Make You Mine," so I bought the soundtrack instead.

SWEET HAZY POP.......2006-04-04

Love this CD, sounds like a sleepy beetles. I didn't know what to expect for sure when I bought it, but am very glad I did. If you like low-key very melodic pop, you'll love this. It will lull you into a state of bliss.

Great!.......2006-01-16

I've been a fan of the Clientele since first hearing their Fading Summer EP in a record store 5 years ago. This new album is excellent. The Clientele have the same foggy coastline sound, but appear to have had a bigger budget for this album. The writing is lovely and the playing is wonderful.

I also recommend "Kaleidoscope World" by the Chills for fans of the Clientele.

Don't know the other albums.......2006-01-10

but I really like this album. bought it after briefly listening to it at a store, but didn't 'get it' until i put it on and just sat on my bed in this whitewashed room and relaxed. the lyrics are obviosuly quite literate and delivered with a poetic rather than melodic charm. the music though singleminded remains efficiently evocative of a warm, reflective mood. they don't sound like anything from the sixties as i seem to have read a few times, but more like a mellower version of smiths, echo and the bunnymen, felt guitar rock or if anything yo la tengo's 'and then nothing...' album. though their overall aesthetic could easily be misinterpreted to be sixties-ish, i think it has more to do with their ability to keep their music consistent and endearing

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6 STARS !!!!
haunting, mesmerizing, frightening...
Two greats for less than the price of one
Ancient.
simply in awe

Numena/Geometry
Robert Rich
Manufacturer: Hearts of Space
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000X7V
Release Date: 1997-05-20

Tracks:

The Other Side Of Twilight
Moss Dance
Numen
The Walled Garden

Tracks:

Primes, Part 1
Primes, Part 2
Interlocking Circles
Geometry Of The Skies
Nesting Grounds
Geomancy
Amrita (Water of Life)
Logos

Amazon.com essential recording

This double-CD reissue of two early Rich albums make good companion pieces. One can hear the seeds being lain for the organic Rainforest two earlier in 1987's Numena. It was also the first album in which he explored the tuning system of just intonation, which is based upon whole numbered ratios between frequencies. The album opens with "The Other Side of Twilight," a beautiful epic track balancing animated sequencer lines and sustained, slow motion keyboards in an aural ballet where each takes turns dominating the mix. Meanwhile "Moss Dance" takes an earthier approach with its intense interplay of mallet kalimba, flute, and synth washes. This four-song album shows that even in his early days, Rich had already begun solidifying his personal sound and style. Recorded over one year later, Geometry was inspired by the mathematical relationships between the notes in just intonation. There are three main types of compositions here--droning atmospheres, percolating ethnoambient works, and electronic pieces intertwining layers of sequenced melodies and rhythms in mind-boggling ways. Rather than set his sequencers on stun with rigid rhythms on these latter cuts, he mixes ever-changing programmed polyrhythms with live keyboard playing in beguiling ways, steadfastly proving that electronic musicians can be far more than pedestrian knob-twiddlers. As a twosome, Numena and Geometry represent a sort of yin and yang amongst the Rich oeuvre, and paired together they are truly revelatory. --Bryan Reesman

Product Description

Disc 1: Numena:
1. The Other Side Of Twlight
2. Moss Dance
3. Numen
4. The Walled Garden

Disc 2: Geometry:
1. Primes, Part 1
2. Primes, Part 2
3. Interlocking Circles
4. Geometry Of The Skies
5. Nesting Ground
6. Geomancy
7. Amrita (Water Of Life)
8. Logos

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

6 STARS !!!!.......2007-03-19

Numena/Geometry is a combo CD that graces my CD collection.
One of the music works that remain hidden from common sight and lies in the clouds of sublimeness and adamancy..

I feel lucky, I had located and bought this CD. It is hypnotic,melodic, harmonic and beautiful, the sure vehicle for an inoccent mind trip in the undiscovered regions of the soul.

Do you want to create a DreamScape? Buy this.

A masterpiece of the electronic, ambient, new age, avant-garde genre.

Highly Recommended!!!!!

haunting, mesmerizing, frightening..........2004-07-14

I love these two albums. Robert Rich weaves an incredible tapestry of sound and sequences on numera + geometry. Layers and layers of interwoven rhythms combined with organic solos make this a far more complex and fascinating record than most other new age/sequence-heavy artists. I like the way he lays down multi-layered sequences and then puts an organ or electric piano solo over it. and the records more the ambient stuff, the droning sounds, swells and fuzz... can be downright chilling. Rich pulls off some real mood here, a lot of it is downright creepy and frightening. Rich's later records, although good in their own right, never really captured the haunting intensity of numera + geometry.

Two greats for less than the price of one.......2003-05-25

Both albums are prime examples of ambient space music. Numena slowly transitions you from chord to chord and makes for sweet listening. Enjoy the sonority - wander the corridors of a sonic mirror maze - focus into the deepest details, or let yourself drift off to sleep.

I return again and again to Geometry, which offers a distinctly more textured journey. If you enjoy sequenced music (early Tangerine Dream, for example) this CD is an essential. If you're not sure, give it a try. There's no tunes to whistle and no, you can't dance to it (though you could improvise with aerobics). What Geometry provides is a sonic framework for thought, contemplation, relaxation and on to dreams. Really!

If wonderful listening isn't enough - here's a practical application: Do you have a desk job in one of those "fabric-covered boxes" of Dilbert and company? Want to concentrate on your work and shut out the chatter in the next cube? - a ... CD player, good ...headphones that cover your ears and either disc of this ...CD will pay for itself a zillion times. Set the player on 'repeat' and tune out thine neighbor's speaker phone for good.

Ancient........2002-05-03

you would be hearing the future in the past.

simply in awe.......2001-11-04

I hesitated to buy this for a long time. I was exposed to Rich's heady brew of ambient by work such as Seven Veils and, his collaboration with Steve Roach, Soma. I was concerned that the early material would sound too dated in comparison. But after tracking through awesome works like Troubled Resting Place and Propogation, I figured why not. And I am so thankful I did.

And yes it does sound slightly dated sonicly speaking. But all that becomes meaningless when confronted with the sheer scope and creativity embedded in these tracks. As someone has said already, Numena is the warmer on the two with Geometry specializing in the classically beautiful symmetry that its name intimates. This said both albums mix organic instrumentation like occarinas and flutes into a concoction that is far than go nowhere new age - there is dramatic tension here, there is enigmatic texture here,there is cathartic resolution here.

The two discs are bound splendidly. As perfect compliments to one another, this set will be in heavy rotation. Especially when I need to work at the computer or simply trance out in the dark before falling sleep. I can't think of a better place to enter into Robert Rich's soundworlds. I could live in this music. And I plan to.

Liquid Geometry
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Wild/Ethereal/New Age

Liquid Geometry
John Consemulder
Manufacturer: Gemini Sun Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000QEILIS
Release Date: 2007-06-26

Tracks:

The Beginning (The World Is Sound)
Heaven (Give Me a Sign)
Euphoria
Shine From the Song
EthnoSphere
Nomads
Believe!
Hymn (For Ishaja)

Customer Reviews:

Wild/Ethereal/New Age.......2007-07-24

This is awesome and totally different than anything this little polish girl has ever heard before. It is real new age-ie. I got it as part of a package on Sacred Geometry, but the CD is sold separately, too (obviously).

It is written and produced by John Consemulder, a neuropsychologist and musician (now there's a combo). According to a booklet I have, "His interest in the relationship between sound, light, and geometry is reflected in his music, which works with the healing qualitites of frequency." My book also says he is author of a number of articles on topics such as parapsychology and psycho-neuroimmunology. He is often invited to lecture on alternative healing modalities and the science of frequency and vibration. He has more than 50 international releases. His current focus is on integrating electronic and acoustic instruments to craft an original kind of spiritual music that synthesizes the rituals of the past with elements of the future. (all that stuff is in my little book that came with my set.)

Why did I give you so much bio? Well, I think that bio stuff describes the music. I mean, it is different! It makes you feel like you're watching a very futuristic Star Trek-type movie and floating around in space. It's got a very wild vibration to it. If you are involved in metaphysical energy, I think you'll love it.

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Good, not great
Indeed it is.
Wonderful!
This really is the Best of Babylon 5!

Best of Babylon 5

Manufacturer: Sonic Images
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005NVYJ
Release Date: 2001-09-11

Tracks:

Main Title 2nd Season
The Geometry Of Shadows III
Sheridan & Father
Mobilization
The Big Battle
The Signal
Awakening
Countdown
Main Title 3rd Season
Into The Abyss
Begin To Attack The Shadows
Emergency Treatment
The Geometry Of Shadows II
The Geometry Of Shadows I
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Main Title 5th Season
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Customer Reviews:

Good, not great.......2007-01-07

There are some gems on this CD. Most of the music is nondescript when you listen to it; it is much more suited to being the background music of a TV show, of course. In other words, it's not like regular music you get on a regular commercial band's CD. In my opinion, the best songs are the Main Titles, in particular the 5th season.

Indeed it is........2007-01-05

With his compositions Franke shows how much he understands the B5 universe
of JMS. A true epic.

Wonderful!.......2001-11-05

This is a wonderful sound track. Chirstopher Franke catches the mood of the series with his music and it sounds even better when you listen to a recording, away from the episodes. Buy this.

This really is the Best of Babylon 5!.......2001-11-04

Thank you to Christopher Franke and Sonic Images for The Best of Babylon 5! Although I have most of these tracks on other B5 CD's, I really enjoyed this one because of the consistently great music. I would rank this one as excellent, along with my other two favorites, Babylon 5 Volume 2, "Messages from Earth" and the episodic CD, "Sleeping in Light." Two tracks deserve special mention: Track 2 is (I believe) a reworking of music from the album Babylon 5 Volume 1. With the "Battle of the Line" music in the background, Chris Franke adds new ideas to enhance the musical experience. The other notable track is the last one, Track 18 "Bonus Theme." This is a fabulous new track, which I understand was written for the (unfortunately never released) Babylon 5 CD-Rom game. This is six minutes of great music, that cannot be mistaken for anything other than "Babylon 5-style" music. It's a thrilling piece, which alone makes me glad I bought the CD. Let's hope we get the same quality offering with the "Legend of the Rangers" movie soundtrack, which I hope will be released next year.

Secret Geometry; Music For Piano And Electronic Tape

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Secret Geometry; Music For Piano And Electronic Tape

Manufacturer: Composers Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005TXM
Release Date: 1996-02-20

Tracks:

Synchronisms No. 6
Fantasy
Secret Geometry: I Variations
Secret Geometry: II Nocturne
Secret Geometry: III Toccata
Reflections
Towards 'The Midnight Sun'

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First Track NOT Original
fascinating
Soundtrack for a different level of existence
thank you ryan_hupp
Greatest Electronic Album Ever

Geometry
Jega
Manufacturer: Matador Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004YR4S
Release Date: 2000-10-17

Tracks:

Alternating Bit
Syntax Tree
Recursion
Geometry
Rigid Body Dynamics
Doric
Breakpoint Envelope
Inertia
Binary Space
Static
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Customer Reviews:

First Track NOT Original.......2005-01-18

The first track: Alternating Bit, it COMPLETELY taken from a track from the movie TRON, composed by Wendy Carlos. Jegas nuances are weak and effortlessly arranged, emulated synthesizers. If you want to hear a true masterpiece look up the TRON Movie soundtrack. Wendy Carlos is a true pioneer of deep and moody MOOG synth sounds (she still own all her 1970's MOOG synths), and the TRON Soundtrack shows it.

fascinating.......2004-11-11

I really like this album, though some tracks I can do without. It opens strong with alternating bit, and track 4, Geometry, is an amazing piece of art. The first time I heard it, I was deeply touched because it had an emotional quality lacking in almost every other piece of e-music. I would suggest downloading these two tracks before spending a lot of money on an album, because they are the two brightest spots. Jega really is amazing, and it's to bad he isn't puting out music today...

Soundtrack for a different level of existence.......2004-05-03

I first purchased this album in the summer of 2002. When I first listened to it, I was quite captivated. The recursion track was by far my favorite. I felt I was in a digitally controlled machine Utopia in the middle of a desolate desert parched by a sun of infinite brillancy. I also like syntax tree, it is like taking a joy ride in a digital electronic circuit following data into registers.

thank you ryan_hupp.......2004-04-03

Thank you Ryan_Hupp for pointing out my mistake concerning Jega's label, I did not know that! I was aware of Boards of Canada's deal through Matador, but not Jega's. I still think Jega's "Geometry" is quite weak but I'm glad I was corrected for giving faulty information. I had heard great things about "Geometry", but after giving it a listen I was sorely disappointed. Jega definitely knows what he's doing, but the production and sound quality is below-par. Anyway, just try to give it a listen before you buy it. Some of the comparisons made in these reviews are a little over the top.

Greatest Electronic Album Ever.......2004-03-16

People are as constantly saying "blah blah this isnt as good as aphex" or that this other person might do something better. But people have really lost the scope of what electronic music is about. Electronic music is about using your tools to create whatever insane weird thing you could ever possibly think of. I would say that Jega's Skills are definately on par with that of Aphex Twin's and Squarepusher's but he has a much different approach to his music. This album totally fits the label of being "freeform" electronica. There is very little of anything like it before and little like it since including his first album spectrum. Jega singlehandly takes the definition of music and turns it on his head. Unlike his previous album spectrum this album is straight up Dark and Moody. You arent going to hear any lighter tracks like "bikini ski boat". Using combinations of non-percussive sounds and synths, He seems to warp the very fabric of pitch/time by creating surrealistic effects to his music. Sounds will slow down and then speed up to sync perfectly to the tempo, entire parts of songs repeat and skip with insane precision, and he fills up his sounds with rich effects for a mix that sounds plain "phat". I dont really think there is an electronic album that is as pure and well made as this album. I am a huge fan of other electronic greats on warp and planet mu, But this album has a sound above all others that appeals to everything I love in music and it holds a special place inside.

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Jarre strikes again!
Must have for Jean Michel Jarre fans
A CD to have in your Jarre collection
What was I thinking?
Sigh. Just. Not. Original. Jarre.

Geometry of Love
Jean Michel Jarre
Manufacturer: Wea/Warner
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000AKQG8
Release Date: 2003-09-15

Tracks:

Pleasure Principle
Geometry of Love, Pt. 1
Soul Intrusion
Electric Flesh
Skin Paradox
Velvet Road
Near Djaina
Geometry of Love, Pt. 2

Album Description

Subtitled - Project By Jarre For VIP Room. Sound design by Jean-Michel Jarre for one of the trendiest clubs in Paris. Digipak. Warner. 2003.

Album Details

Named after the Famous Paris Club of Jean Roch, the Vip Room. This 2003 Release is all Original Jarre Compositions with a Lounge Atmosphere.

Customer Reviews:

Jarre strikes again!.......2006-11-07

Jarre neither experienced an "erosion" nor did he drift from his "roots". He's an artist, and artists evolve. He uses music and sounds like a painter uses color and shading. If the artist painted the same bridge fifty times, using different colors each time, you'de get pissed. This album was a commissioned work for a nightclub/lounge, so yeah, it is lounge music. And I'd put it on for dinner company. You can even put it on while meditating, relaxing, reading, whatever. But it most definately has Jarre style, sound, and trademark all over it. His melodies change, his compositions change, but his style is - well - still there. It's very much Jarre. If you want Oxygene, then go buy that album. In the mean time this is some darn good chilling out music.

Must have for Jean Michel Jarre fans.......2006-04-14

As most JMJ fans know, he has being experimenting with new sounds and slightly got into this new age of lounge music.

I've been reading other reviews and there are two general opinions about this album and his latest works, such as Oxygene 7-13, Metamorphosis and Aero. Some fans think this is an evolution of his music, another phase of his mind; others think he has lost his musical personality.

Well, I think we probably got used to the sound of his previous albums, a "hardcore" Jarre. (Don't take me wrong, those albums are my favorites). All these new sounds are less extravagant but still have his colorful touch. A desperate attempt to gain the attention of new generations? Who knows, maybe we are the ones who have not evolved along with him.

Lets not forget that "Geometry of Love" it's just a project for a trendy club in Paris. It doesn't sounds like the Jarre we all know though. That's the reason why I only gave 3 stars to this album.

I am true hardcore Jarre fan, and I might follow him through any path he decides to walk.

A CD to have in your Jarre collection.......2005-08-26

New music is very good. Have listened to it quite a few times. Some of his old electronic instruments can be heard in the background on some tracks.

No Jarre fan should be without this CD

What was I thinking?.......2005-04-12

I bought this CD along with Aero, which to my mind is better. Although I had listened to both before buying, I guess I must have still been high on Aero. A week after I bought it, I played it and still think that Equinox 3, in both incarnations, is more romantic and sensual than this offering. Basically I found it boring.

I'm sorry Jean-Michel, if this is where you're going I dont want to go.

Sigh. Just. Not. Original. Jarre........2005-03-28

A quick sidebar here: Does anyone else notice the striking similarity between Jarre's "Near Djaina" and Brian Eno's "Among Fields of Crystal" from his "Ambient 2" album? Not only do both possess the same basic harmonic progressions and mood, but both are also using precisely the same shimmering piano effect. Hmmmmmm!

Overall this is quite listenable, but it's the kind of stuff that Supreme Beings of Leisure or William Orbit would do better. It's a bit ham-handed, as is most of his stuff from the last 15 years or so.

But where did Jarre go?? His "Equinoxe" is still unquestionably the pinnacle of the style, but I fear that he has strayed far, far, far off course. Like Klaus Schulze, he was on fire when he began, but he has produced little of any consequence since.

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John Woods Duke: Lieder
James Taylor , Donald Sulzen , and John Woods Duke
Manufacturer: Orfeo
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A Generous Packet of Art Songs by American Composer John Duke
just spring review... great CD

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Release Date: 2002-01-01

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Just-Spring
Acquainted With the Night
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Album Description

John Duke (1899-1984) is one of the acknowledged masters of the American art song. This release of twenty-three of his finest songs will afford lovers of vocal music the opportunity to discover Duke's little-known corpus. Comparison with the musical language of other notable American art song composers (Griffes, Loeffler, or Ives, for instance) reveals an unusually consistent and personal style throughout most of Duke's career, the composer venturing only slightly afield of a conventional tonal practice derived mostly from European music of the nineteenth century. Musical influences on his language, in fact, are almost entirely European; most of his songs have an accompanimental texture unmistakably his, continuing, in a way, the tradition of the German Lied, using poems in English.

Duke often claimed, both in his writings and in conversation with colleagues, to have developed his art song style somewhat self-consciously after having studied in great detail the historical, poetical, and musical contexts of three previous genres exhibiting a marriage of music and poetry: the Elizabethan song, the nineteenth-century Lied and the French mélodie of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His choice of poetry avoids almost completely the abstract in favor of the tried and true themes of love and mortality, themes that most composers have found the most suitable for musical treatment. Duke's music is taken very seriously by those who know his work intimately. After all, about how many American composers could it be said that all 265 songs have a natural feel for the voice, an elegantly matched pianistic accompaniment, a recognizable and personal style, and a musical language that never resorts to false syntax? It is easy to see why American singers love to sing his songs.

Customer Reviews:

A Generous Packet of Art Songs by American Composer John Duke.......2006-01-27

Though his name may not be a household word among American composers, to singers the lieder of John Woods Duke are a staple of the recital repertoire. A composer well respected in his lifetime (1899 - 1984), his 265 catalogued songs are the epitome of the marriage of text and music. His musical style never veered from melodic but his integration of poetry with his expressive understanding of the voice places him in the same category with Ives, Griffes, Rorem, Barber, Heggie et al.

This fine recital by soprano Lauralyn Kolb, a former student of the highly regarded Howard Swan of Occidental College and a sought after oratorio soloist and recitalist, with pianist Tina Toglia is a study in musical intelligence. Kolb's soprano voice is beautifully focused and her communication of the texts ranging from ee cummings, Emily Dickinson, Elinor Wylie, Sarah Teasdale, Robert Frost, Richard Nickson, Mark Van Doren to James Joyce is pristine and warmly sensitive. Her collaboration with Toglia demonstrates the way musicians should approach the art song. There are many excellent songs in this collection that could be singled out, but the pleasure of the recital is that the variety selected by the artists is very satisfying for a survey of works by a relatively unknown (to the public) composer. Recommended. Grady Harp, January 06

just spring review... great CD.......2005-08-20

fast shipment, everything recieved as promised. good seller to buy from. thank you.

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Monotonous
Dreamy, floating, beautiful.

Strange Geometry
The Clientele
Manufacturer: Pointy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A17H4G
Release Date: 2005-09-12

Tracks:

Since K Got Over Me
(I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine
My Own Face Inside the Trees
K
E.M.P.T.Y.
When I Came Home from the Party
Geometry of Lawns
Spirit
Impossible
Step into the Light
Losing Haringey
Six of Spades

Album Description

Recorded with producer Brian O'Shaughnessy at Bark Studios, Walthamstow, Strage Geometry features12 new tracks of dreamy folk-pop, shimmering psych guitars and string arrangements by Louis Philippe and is their third album to date following 2003's Violet Hour. Pointy. 2005.

Album Details

12 Tracks of Dreamy Folk-pop, Shimmering Psych Guitars and String Arragements.

Customer Reviews:

Monotonous.......2006-10-28

Dreamy, floating, beautiful........2005-10-22

I feel lucky to have discovered The Clientele, purely by chance, earlier this year. They manage to create the most fantastic, dreamy atmospheres, the lyrics are so hauntingly beautiful..
This album is wonderful, and I've played it on repeat since I bought it.. My favorites are "K" and "Since K got over me".
Looking forward to Sunday, I'm going to see them live!

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