Salvage

Track Listings

1. Kings

2. Places I'm glad I don't live

3. Fear

4. Mamma's House

5. Ball's Deep

6. Lemmings

7. Montana Matt

8. Blue Collar

9. I Hate Christmas

10. Cycles

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Lerker is hard, heavy, metalish, and punkish. Yet accessible. Fans of System Of A Down, QOTSA, and Faith No More will like.

Product Description
Lerker's new album, Salvage is hard, heavy, metalish, punkish, and sometimes political. Fans of System Of A Down, QOTSA, and Faith No More, will like.

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Live at the Freight and Salvage
Hot Buttered Rum String Band
Manufacturer: Hot Buttered Rum String Band
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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Bottom Half

ASIN: B000CAEC34
Release Date: 2005-11-29

Tracks:

Backrooms of My Mind
Elephant Hunting Song
Red-Haired Boy
String's Breath
Trial of John Walker Lindh
Norwegian Wood
Warm Up
Naked Blue
Red Clay Halo
Crest
Dolphin
I Saw the Light

Elgar: Falstaff; Cello Concerto; Romance for Bassoon; Smoking Cantata

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A very different and rewarding Elgar concerto

Elgar: Falstaff; Cello Concerto; Romance for Bassoon; Smoking Cantata

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Elgar the Music Maker

ASIN: B0001EMM3S
Release Date: 2004-04-27

Tracks:

The First Movement
The Second Movement
Falstaff And The Prince In The Boar's Head, Eastcheap, Jesting With The Landlady And Carrying Out A Robbery At Gadshill
Falstaff Falls Asleep
The First Interlude
Part 3
West Country
The Second Interlude
Part 4
Falstaff Hurries To London For The Pomp and Circumstance Of The Coronation, But The New King Brutally Rejects His Old Friend
Romance For Bassoon And Orchestra, Op. 62 - Halle
I. Adagio - Moderato - Heinrich Schiff
II. Lento - Allegro Molto - Heinrich Schiff
III. Adagio - Heinrich Schiff
IV. Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Heinrich Schiff
Smoking Cantata - Andrew Shore

Customer Reviews:

A very different and rewarding Elgar concerto.......2006-02-17

Here the German Heinrich Schiff is one of the few cellists to erase the memory of Jacqueline Du Pre in this work. He does it by not competing with her deeply soulful, big-boned tone; instead Schiff often soudns spiky and edgy, with fantastically fast skittering notes in the second movement. He finds a neurotic intensity in the Edwardian swell of the third movement. The finale is very alert and alive inside.

Schiff's avoidance of lushness helps this work, which so often sounds dated and rhetorical. He reveals what a masterpiece it is for modern ears. Mark Elder's accompaniment follows the cellist's strong expressive gestures, and the sonics are spectacular, which seems to be the norm for Halle recordings nowadays. The "filler" is actually longer than the concerto: the overlong tone poem, Falstaff, much beloved by Elgarians.

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Paul is Amazing
Fantastic folk singer and songwriter, dripping with blues

Songs for Devon Sproule
Paul Curreri
Manufacturer: City Salvage Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
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Upstate Songs
From Long Gones to Hawkmoth
Keep Your Silver Shined

ASIN: B00069IVWY
Release Date: 2003-05-06

Tracks:

Greenville
Letting Us Be
Night Jet Trails
If Your Work Is Shouting
Tomorrow We'll Wake Again
Come Near to Me
The Last Year of the Red Breast
Louise
Fishbowl
It's a Little Room (And I Need a Little Room)
Beneath a Crozet Trestle Bridge
Long Gone Again
Tomorrow Night

Product Description

13 songs.

Customer Reviews:

Paul is Amazing.......2005-10-05

I saw Paul Curreri and Devon Sproule (I believe they are married now) play in Charlottesville in one of the best live acoustic shows I've ever seen. If you can get your hands on his 'The Spirit of the Staircase' CD, it's also amazing. 'Let You Be' #2, on Songs for Devon Sproule is one of my favorite songs of all time. I highly recommend anything he puts out. I have so much respect for artists who still write and play their own songs and Paul has mastered that art.

Fantastic folk singer and songwriter, dripping with blues.......2005-02-02

Paul Curreri's 'Songs for Devon Sproule' is a hidden gem guaranteed to impress even the strictest critic's ears and rotate heavily in your playlists. Hailing from Virginia, Curreri is now touring and jiving with the great Kelly Joe Phelps. His fingerpicking focuses more on the voicing than the perfection, evoking a more 'live' and gutsy sound. Same goes for his voice. But don't let your guard down, as he'll hit a cool, raspy and mellow high note that'll make your heart swell from it's subtle yet amazing power. Devon Sproule is his wife, by the way, and a demonstration is available in the beautiful lyrics of "Letting Us Be". An addictively fun and upbeat track is "Night Jet Trails". Another of my favorites is "Beneath a Crozet Trestle Bridge". At time of this writing, this is the only Curreri CD available through Amazon, but his album 'From Long Gones to Hawkmoth' is another fantastic, five-star release, and he also has a new album late 2004/early 2005, which is due in the mail to me any day now......trust me, you won't regret this purchase.

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It's good, but not great.
another masterpiece
It has Kalimbas!!!

Salvage
Another Fine Day
Manufacturer: Climate Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004X0DJ
Release Date: 2000-08-22

Tracks:

Scarborough Fair
Twisted Standards
Cutting Branches
Lost In Space
Two Kalimbas And A Synth
Urban Fox
In 5
Irish In China
Malcolm's Loop

Amazon.com

Salvage lives up to its title in many ways, since it sounds like a hodgepodge of ideas, sketches, and influences that producer and composer Tom Green has salvaged into an album. The second effort from Green, Salvage dials into an African-techno sound pioneered most recently by Afro Celt Sound System. Using the African kalimba or thumb piano as the basis for many pieces, Green sets up hypnotic, slo-mo tribal grooves. His work with both the Orb and Baka Beyond emerges, as well as the seminal influence of Brian Eno and Harold Budd. He borrows their ambient atmospheres on "Lost in Space" and brings jazz piano stylings to a funky groove called "Twisted Standards." Green creates some curious juxtapositions, like inserting the familiar "Scarborough Faire" into a trance groove on the opening track and making a traditional Shona piece sound like the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Unfortunately, a lot of Salvage sounds like backgrounds looking for a theme, a pleasant assemblage of sonic bric-a-brac, with a destination that's diffuse. --John Diliberto

Customer Reviews:

It's good, but not great........2003-10-29

Okay okay... This album is quite a letdown, to be honest. It's got some great bits to it... Each song is beautiful, but they don't go anywhere...
The best track is easily Scarborough Fair or Malcom's Loop, but the problem is all the tracks on the CD sound exactly the same.
Lost in Space has some great pianowork, as does Urban Fox.
Twisted Standards and Cutting Branches are rich in rhythm but lack melody and both are too bright sounding.
Irish in China and In Five are both average and the whole album was well put together, it just needed some variation.
Salvage is a wonderful album, don't get me wrong, you should buy it if you're a fan of the sound pioneered by the Afro Celt Sound System, just pickup thier 1994 release first.. It's much better.

another masterpiece.......2001-08-16

This Is one of my favorite CD's of 2000 .. In fact Six degree's made most of my favorite CD's of 2000. I was shocked at how little people have heard of this album since its is so wonderful.

This album maintains a constant use of natural sounds making you almost forget that its electronic at all. Tom uses a wide variety of liuve instrument tation and carefull sampling to achieve this perfect blend. Along with his original organic electronic sounds, he creates something highy wonderful. I am constantly listening to this album the whole time I have it playing. This isn't wallapaper its something you feel compelled to focus on. Much like the subtle nature of Mile Davis' Kinda of blue, where even though everything is rather calm, you still pay full attention. I don't just reccomend this album, I belive its a must buy for any fan of world/electronic music.

It has Kalimbas!!!.......2000-08-31

OK. Imagine the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, still with the same sense of humor and musical talent, and then add kalimbas!! This is a great CD. It is not your ordinary music, as you can tell just by listening to the first tune, Scarborough Fair. This rendition is still true to the spirit of Simaon and Garfunkle (if you don't believe me play them, one after the other). Since the samples on the web are so short, go to the cut "two kalimbas and a synth" to get a feel for the inspired use of odd instrumental combinations on this CD. The Six Degrees label usually produces winners, and this is definitely one of them!! I highly recommend this CD.

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Collateral Salvage
Nocturnal Emissions
Manufacturer: Soleilmoon Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000HD1N1K
Release Date: 2003-07-28

Tracks:

Jesus' Twin Brother
Burn, Bush, Burn
Groovin' With Mr. Slow
Daisycutter
Puchobongo
Pulsar
Going To The Edge
I See You're With Eeyore
Bunker Buster
Resistance Is Fertile
Listen, Little Man
Running Water
As If Vietnam Never Happened
Sag Alu
Lah De La De Saki Ya

Product Description

For his 25th CD as Nocturnal Emissions, Nigel Ayers has created a work that balances noise and vocal samples against a wild array of loops and rhythm tracks. It's a tantalizingly spicy cocktail that sounds nothing like an out-of-control hip-hop dump truck being driven backwards through an octogenarian's barn dance. "Collateral Salvage" is beat-oriented toe-tappin' music constructed from hundreds of different samples of indie guitar-pop, interspersed with fragments of song and surreal speech. Strong bass lines run throughout, and the rhythms are a blend of funk and exotic eastern promise. Subtle tonalities, acoustic guitar flavors, swingin' saxophones, flutes and horns are piled high over tabla and soaring vintage analogue synthesizers. Mbiras mix with driftwood marimbas, wicky-wicky guitars and pitch-shifted sitars in a swirling belly-dance dub sock-hop. "Collateral Salvage" was inspired by the sounds of modern Morocco. Late at night, lying in a bath, listening to the output of three different nightclubs, each with their own blend of local music mixed with international pop hits, all in a constant struggle for dominance, with water running in and out of the ears. The resourcefulness of human endeavor in the Third World and its contrast with the luxuries and carefree wastefulness of the developed world provided the foundation for the album. This is the music of resistance against the constant war being waged by the powerful elite in rich nations against the poor. When Bush says "you're either with us or you're against us" Ayers replies "There is no separation. Social divides are socially constructed. A forgotten branch of the avant-garde once suggested that art can direct thought along new lines and enable us to generate more positive patterns of social behavior."

My England: A Collection of Timeless English Concertos

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My England: A Collection of Timeless English Concertos

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Brahms: Works for Solo Piano

ASIN: B0001JSS40
Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

1. Allegro Vigoroso/Allegro Lirico - Emma Johnson
2. Adagio - Emma Johnson
3. Rondo/Allegro Giocoso - Emma Johnson
1. Rondo Pastorale - Ruth Bolister
2. Minuet & Musette - Ruth Bolister
3. Finale (Scherzo) - Ruth Bolister
1. Moderato - Kate Hill
2. Adagio - Kate Hill
3. Allegro - Kate Hill
1. Allegro Molto - Jill Crowther
2. Adagio - Jill Crowther
3. Allegro Con Brio - Jill Crowther

Tracks:

1. Allegro - Emma Johnson
2. Andante Con Moto - Emma Johnson
3. Allegro Con Fuoco - Emma Johnson
1. Allegro Moderato - Emma Johnson
2. Andante Con Moto Quasi Ma Piu Tranquillo - Emma Johnson
3. Tempo 1/Allegro Moderato - Emma Johnson
Andante Sostenuto - Ian Scott
1. Moderato - Graham Salvage
2. Quasi Blues - Graham Salvage
3. Giocoso - Graham Salvage

Tracks:

1. Allegro Moderato - Ruth Bolster
2. Andante Con Moto - Ruth Bolster
3. Allegro Vivace - Ruth Bolster
1. Allegro Moderato - Jennifer Stinton
2. Lento - Jennifer Stinton
3. Alla Gavotta - Jennifer Stinton
4. Allegro Molto - Jennifer Stinton
1. Preludio (Allegro Deciso) - The Fibonacci Sequence
2. Andante Poco Doloroso - The Fibonacci Sequence
3. Allegro Molto Ritmico - The Fibonacci Sequence
4. Lento Sostenuto - The Fibonacci Sequence
1. Largo Sostenuto/Allegro Molto/Largo Sostenuto - John Turner
2. Scherzo (Presto E Precipitoso) - John Turner
3. Elegy (Adagio E Sostenuto) - John Turner

Tracks:

1. Allegro Assai - Christiane Edinger
2. Adagio (Calma) - Christiane Edinger
3. Allegro Con Brio - Christiane Edinger
Concerto For Saxophone And Orchestra 'On Hungerford Bridge' - John Harle
1. Allegro Risoluto - David Owen Norris
2. Presto - David Owen Norris
3. Andante - David Owen Norris
4. Allegro - David Owen Norris

Tracks:

1. Allegro Vivace - Emma Johnson
2. Lento - Emma Johnson
3. (The Pre-Goodman Rag) Allegro Non Troppo - Emma Johnson
1. Molto Moderato Ma Con Moto - Jill Crowther
2. Lento Molto - Jill Crowther
3. Allegro Molto E Scherzoso - Jill Crowther
1. Allegro Poco Moderato - James Watson
2. Lento Moderato - James Watson
3. Vivace - James Watson
1. Allegro Vivace - Graham Salvage
2. Grave E Molto Sostenuto - Graham Salvage
3. Con Spirito - Graham Salvage

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Understated, Overlooked, Beautiful

Midnight Salvage
Dana Robinson
Manufacturer: Alcazar
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000PWE
Release Date: 1997-10-07

Tracks:

Sadie
Goodbye Mary Jane
Shady Grove
Midnight Salvage
Redpoll
Stalk Your Calling
Wishing Pool
Heaven
Edge Of The Woods
Sweet Dream
Lazy June

Customer Reviews:

Understated, Overlooked, Beautiful.......2003-11-26

I've owned this CD for years, and every time I come across it in my collection and plunk it in the player it's like rediscovering a long lost friend. Dana's guitar playing is rythmic, polished, and understated. The songs are sort of "modern traditional"--they sound like they've withstood the test of time and are a part of our folklore, though they are all from Dana's creation. Dana gives these songs life with a wonderfully raspy voice that provides a kind of intimacy to the delivery. Over the years this has become one of my favorite CDs. I've never understood why Dana Robinson isn't more of a household word--this CD is an overlooked gem.

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Good music for an unlikely instrument

English Bassoon Concertos

Manufacturer: White Line
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005QITV
Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

Fogg: Concerto in D: Allegro vivace
Fogg: Concerto in D: Grave e molto sostenuto
Fogg: Concerto in D: Con spirito
Addison: Concertino: Andante-Allegretto
Addison: Concertino: Andante-Moderato
Addison: Concertino: Larghetto
Addison: Concertino: Moderato
Hope: Concertino: Moderato
Hope: Concertino: Quasi blues
Hope: Concertino: Giocoso
Butterworth: Summer Music, Op. 77: Allegretto, pastorale
Butterworth: Summer Music, Op. 77: Nocturne (Lento)
Butterworth: Summer Music, Op. 77: Vivace-quasi presto

Customer Reviews:

Good music for an unlikely instrument.......2002-05-01

Here's a disc that isn't likely to jump out at you and say "I need to be bought." Concerti for bassoon are rather rare, especially if you throw out Vivaldi's efforts in the genre. Mozart and Weber's early efforts are about all that bassonist have to work with. The lowest of the woodwinds just isn't the [] of soloists imaginable. (In fact, it's hard to think of a less [] regular instrument!!)

That all said, this disc makes a good case for a reappraisal of the bassoon's solo possibilities, particularly given the colorful and soulful playing of Graham Savage. Not everything here is profound, but all four concerti are quality music.

Pride of place goes to Eric Fogg's D Major concerto of 1931. This is incredibly beautiful which digs a lot deeper than one would expect. Fogg eschews the idea of the basson as either a grumpy curmudgeon or a silly clown. Instead, he lets the instrument sing, particularly in the lamenting slow movement. This is a piece all bassoonists should know.

The second best piece here is Peter Hope's Concertino, written in 2000. It opens mysteriously with a melody very reminiscent of the score from "Lord of the Rings." In fact, this piece is redolent in memorable themes, from the bluesy slow movement to the bouncy finale. Hope keeps threatening to veer into Holywood kitsch or popular music, but he never quite slips into banality. Instead, he produces a piece that is a lot of fun.

The Addison and Butterworth pieces are somewhat less engaging but are certainly listenable and pleasant. In fact, there isn't a single harsh sound on this disk even though everything is clearly of the 20th century.

Also missing is much of the Vaughan Williams pastorale school that one might expect to find in this type of music. This is a bonus because 75+ minutes of pastorale musings could make one run to turn off the player.

Instead, I found this a quite charming and attractive disc. If the bassoon intrigues you as a soloist, give this mid-priced disc a try. I think you'll find that the grumpy curmudgeon of the orchestra is a more engaging solist than you might think.

Upstate Songs
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This should be heard
Upstate Songs

Manufacturer: City Salvage
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Songs for Devon Sproule

Keep Your Silver Shined

ASIN: B000CAGHY6
Release Date: 2003-06-17

Tracks:

Plea for a Good Night's Rest
Come Comet or Dove
Farewell, Seasick Suffering!
Tristan and Isolde
Should Have Been Snow
You Aren't Really Here, It Isn't Really Light Out
White Kite at Georgetown Green
My Baby Just Cares for Me
Last Summer's Lifeguard
Country Sun

Customer Reviews:

This should be heard.......2006-08-10

I just bought this recently; I had heard Devon's husband Paul Curreri live a couple years ago, and was impressed enough to pick up his album "Songs for Devon Sproule." I eventually discovered that Devon Sproule was a singer/songwriter, too, through Jeffrey Foucault's website (Jeffrey's a favorite of mine). I finally got around to reading some glowing reviews of this album (who doesn't have glowing reviews of their album posted somewhere online?), and may have written it off, except that I saw that Rolling Stone listed this as one of the best albums of 2003. I figured it was worth a chance. What a surprise. It's one of those rare albums that wears lots of influences on its sleeve but still manages to sound unique and fresh and original. It has a very pure and innocent quality to it. The best comparison that comes to mind is Gillian Welch, but it's sweeter and prettier. Every song just works on it's own, and after a few cuts, the whole album takes on a glow -- I started to feel grateful to be hearing music that sounded so perfectly conceived and performed. It's not a great masterpiece (at least not yet), but there's a minor miracle in these songs that should be heard.