Sculpture & Broken Sound [Import]

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Copiled Exclusively for Japan, this Release Contains Beat Variations Pulled from Jd Vadim's Own Label Jazz Fudge.

Sculpture & Broken Sound,DJ Vadim,Msi

Compounds + Elements: An Introduction to All Saints Records

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Great Compulation at a Bargin Price
Great Representation
A True Bargain
Cheap, Good...
Essential ambient music, past and present.

Compounds + Elements: An Introduction to All Saints Records
Various Artists
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77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno

ASIN: B000CQJZ4Y
Release Date: 2006-02-21

Tracks:

ANDY PARTRIDGE & HAROLD BUDD Ceramic Avenue
MARCONI UNION Sleepless
BRIAN ENO & JAH WOBBLE Like Organza
BRIAN ENO Triennale
DJIVAN GASPARYAN 7th December 1988
BRIAN ENO Blissed
HAROLD BUDD Widows Charm
BRIAN ENO Neroli
HAROLD BUDD The White Arcades
ROGER ENO Winter Music
DJIVAN GASPARYAN Brother Hunter
JON HASSELL Out Of Adedara
VACABOU Russia In White
BRIAN ENO Fractal Zoom
BRIAN ENO & JOHN CALE Cordoba
ROGER ENO Fleeting Smile
JOHN CALE Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
HAROLD BUDD Marion Brown

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ALL SAINTS RECORDS WAS ESTABLISHED BY BRIAN ENO IN 1991 AND FOCUSES ON A CONSISTENCY OF APPROACH RATHER THAN ANY SPECIFIC GENRE. FROM BRIAN ENO, HAROLD BUDD AND JOHN CALE TO NEW ARTISTS VACABOU AND MARCONI UNION, WHILE SONICALLY DIVERSE, THEY ALL APPROACH THEIR MUSIC FROM A NEW AND ORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE. THIS IS WHAT MARKS THEM AS ALL SAINTS ARTISTS.

COMPOUNDS AND ELEMENTS IS AN 18-TRACK INTRODUCTION TO ALL SAINTS RECORDS, FEATURING A SELECTION OF WORKS COVERING THE LABEL'S RELEASES TO DATE AND ITS UNPARALLELED ROSTER OF ARTISTS.

Customer Reviews:

Great Compulation at a Bargin Price.......2007-01-16

Just added this to an order for fun, I enjoy ultra modern music, but not new age, what a miss nomer. I have researched and purchased additional music because of the selects on this CD.

Great Representation.......2007-01-10

"Compounds" is a great representation of this label's acts. I especially liked the John Cale numbers,and of course Eno's contribution. Particularly interesting was Vacabou.All in all,a very good collection and a good buy.

A True Bargain.......2006-08-18

I bought "Distance" by Marconi Union and had this CD as part of the package. I couldn't believe that it was only $2.99, and after listening to it, I still don't believe that it was going for that price. This is an excellent array of talent on a sampler CD, worth many times the price, and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to find out what All Saints records is all about.

Cheap, Good..........2006-06-21

Some of the highlights on this compilation are the Eno tracks from The Drop, Nerve Net, and The Shutov Assembly. The non-Eno tracks are consistently good as well, particularly Budd's track from The White Arcades. For a sampler, the album has a really good sequence to it. It has a sort of This Mortal Coil effect on you, where every track is unique but it adds up to a consistent whole. Aural Wallpaper indeed.

Essential ambient music, past and present........2006-06-04

This is a fascinating guide to ambient music, past and future. All the major innovators of the genre are present, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell and John Cale demonstrate their own unique talents over an array of classic tracks drawn from the All Saints Records back catalogue. However, this is only part of the story, after an extended period of silence All Saints have recently begun releasing albums by new acts and Compounds showcases tracks by two of their recent discoveries including the highly acclaimed, Marconi Union, who contribute their dazzling track, Sleepless to the album, and effectively map out their vision of future directions for this music, while demonstrating just why they are being seen as important new voices on the European electrionic music scene. Alongside this Spanish duo Vacabou add their beguiling brand of trip-hop to the mix and we are left with the sense that ambient music is alive, well and flourishing in safe hands.

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Some Kind of Fantastic
Pretty good...but repetitive.
Very Atmospheric (feels like being somewhere both beautiful and dark)
Beyond good
Some Kind of Strange -- Inspiration divine!

Some Kind of Strange
Collide
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Chasing the Ghost
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ASIN: B000090PEX
Release Date: 2003-04-22

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Crushed
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Modify
Somewhere
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Inside
Mutation
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Shimmer
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So Long

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Sensual, powerful, exotic, and alluring ...

The orchestrated layers of sound and emotion unravel an expressive journey, exploring one's place within themselves and the universe. Meaningful lyrics and hypnotic vocals combine with an aural sculpture to form a unique listening experience. "Some Kind of Strange" is seductively captivating on many levels from the primal to the sublime. Collide creates a distinctive harmony and clashing of sounds.

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Some Kind of Fantastic.......2007-07-20

Some Kind of Strange was an excellent album. It has a goth/vampire mood music feel to it and that is exactly what I got it for. It is a good album and I plan to get others by this group.

Pretty good...but repetitive........2007-04-18

Let me start off by saying that Collide is a truly amazing band. Their release "Chasing the Ghost" was beyond anything I've ever heard before. I've had it for about a year now, and still I can listen to the whole album in one session without getting the slightest bit bored with it. I would definitely suggest "Chasing the Ghost" for those of you who are new to Collide.

Now for this album: It wasn't horrible. "Crushed" is very a catchy song with an atmosphere of subtle vengefulness to it. "Euphoria" is also another amazing song that has a nice sultry and down-tempo, shoe-gazing type of feel to it sided with an electronic edge. The song seems very mellow at first, but around the third repeat of the chorus it picks up a bit and really climaxes, leaving you completely hypnotized with the song's ending.
The rest of the album isn't bad either and has its high and low points like any other album. After the first two songs, the rest of its tracks pretty much maintain one constant tempo, which is undoubtedly part of Collide's magic, but can get a bit monotonous after awhile. I guess the listener's own preferences would play a part in whether or not they can tolerate some slight monotony. I must say though, the down tempo feel really creates a carthartic atmosphere.
There are some other good songs to this album too, such as "Tempted" and "Slither Thing" which takes on a different and almost unexpected feel...and a few other, also.

Overall this album was pretty good...not Collide's best....but certainly not horrible. I'd only suggest it to those who have already been exposed to Collide, however. Chasing the Ghost would have to be the suggested album for those just discovering this band.

Very Atmospheric (feels like being somewhere both beautiful and dark).......2007-04-13

Some Kind of Strange is a mesmerizing. Collide are very successful at creating atmospheric music that is slow and beautiful. Music of this kind can often get repetitive and cause the listener to lose interest. Collide avoids this pitfall. This album is captivating.

Some of my personal favorites include:

"Euphoria", "Somewhere", "Slither Thing", "Complicated"

Also, "Vortex" (A double disc Collide remix album) is definitely worth checking out. It is probably one of the most interesting remix albums I have ever heard.

Beyond good.......2007-04-13

I visited a friend of mine i hadn't seen since october, and she immediatly began raving about some CD's i had given her. I realized then that I myself had been listening to Collide since beginning of october and have not stopped since i got "chasing the ghost"

The music of collide is sensual and energetic and is just beyond anything that music today has to offer. The maturity of sound and lyrics is in scope with stuff from Nine Inch Nails.

Recently i began buying other albums by this phenomenal group and Some Kind of Strange has captivated me. Euphoria is one of the best songs on the album but its not the only thing it has to offer.

Describing the sound and energy isn't enough, it can only be experianced.

-CoucH

Some Kind of Strange -- Inspiration divine!.......2007-04-13

To those familiar with the band it's no surprise to find the haunting vibes within each and every song. This Cd absolutely has to be one of the most inspiring of all the Cd's I own. In fact, one of the songs on the Cd actually sparked an inspiration..an idea for a novel actually. It's not completed at this time, but I remember hearing the song and the story instantly coming to life..as if the lyrics had been written with the main character in mind. There is simply so much personality in Collide's music, and Some Kind of Strange is a mover---meaning, you simply can't just listen to the cd without feeling.. something.

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While the music is not flawless, I'm thrilled Part is going somewhere new and strange
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Incredibly Moving
a somber lament for a world of suffering
Arvo Part is a singular force in modern symphonic music

Lamentate
Arvo Part , Andrey Boreyko , Hilliard Ensemble , SWR Radio-sinfonieorchester Stuttgart , and Aleksei Lubimov
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Release Date: 2005-08-30

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The brief opening piece for chorus on this new release, "Da Pacem Domine," is based on a 9th century Gregorian work and has the usual, familiar--and very beautiful--Pärt-ian characteristics: a soft, endless stream of easy tritones and harmonies that make this plea for peace immensely moving. The major work, Lamentate, is scored for large orchestra and solo piano--a very unusual combination for Pärt. Even his fans will be surprised. In ten brief sections, it begins with a quiet drum roll, immediately followed by horn calls. There are forte explosions for full orchestra and piano, with heavy percussion. At times the only thing we hear is a hushed piano part with strings supporting very quietly. The effect is dark yet alluring. It ends peacefully. This is another stunning CD of Pärt's music for his fans--old and new. --Robert Levine

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While the music is not flawless, I'm thrilled Part is going somewhere new and strange.......2007-06-02

This 2005 ECM disc is the latest in the label's long survey of Arvo Part and pairs two pieces from the Estonian composer. Like the earlier Orient & Occident disc, this one shows Part trying to set off in a bold new direction while at the same time preserving those elements of his personal musical language that have gained him such a wide following.

Part wrote "Lamentate" for piano and orchestra (2003) after encountering Anish Kapoor's installation "Marsyas" in the Tate Gallery in London. "Marsyas" is a remarkable work, and I urge the reader to search for photographs of it. When viewing it, Part felt acutely reminded of his own mortality and confronted with the problem of how to make something of his life in the face of death. The title of the resulting concerto of sorts refers to this, Part calls the piece a "lamentation for the living".

"Lamentate" is written for a massive orchestra, but these great forces make an appearance only in the first two movements. Appropriately titled "Minacciando" and "Spietato", these roll out thundering percussion and unusually "dissonant" harmonies for a Part work. Once the piano enters, the ensemble drops to strings and spare percussion, and the language returns to the crystalline tones and minor feeling of Part's typically writing. Programmatically the work is intriguing. Fans of contemporary music already know plenty of concertos where the soloist represents the noble individual against the oppression of the mob--Carter's for piano, Lutoslawski's for cello, and a number by Schnittke are typically examples. Part himself has written such a concerto before in "Credo" for piano and orchestra of 1968. Here, however, I get the feeling that the piano is not alone in his struggle--Part simply choose to concentrate on its line--and the strings represent myriad other souls hoeing their own hard rows, their line's not coming into contact with the piano's but just as poignant.

The piece features much elegant orchestration and a fine sense of drama, but my sole reservation is the length. Some of the material in the second half could have been trimmed with no loss of effect. Nonetheless, I enjoyed "Lamentate", and think that the SWR Stuttgart Orchestra conducted by Andrei Boreyko and pianist Alexi Lubimov give a commendable performance.

The disc is rounded out by the 6-minute "Da pacem Domine" for choir a capella (2004). I've generally found Part's brief choral works unexciting, and this is no exception. However, the work does feature some subtly troubled undercurrents that confirm that conflict is back in Part's music and that the stormy lines of the concerto are no fluke. The Hilliard Ensemble are, of course, Part's hand-picked vocal ensemble, so I dare not critique their performance.

As the pieces here show the beginnings of some yet-unperfected new period, I'm not sure that this disc would be a good introduction to Part. The old Tabula Rasa disc also on ECM is the typical recommendation. Nonetheless, fans of Part should pick up LAMENTATE somewhere along the way, and it will doubtlessly leave you in suspense of where the composer is going next.

BUY NOW!!!.......2007-04-18

This music is far too spiritually moving to pass up. From the unaccompanied choir to the chromatic climax of the orchestra, this album is a shining example of why Mr. Part is at the top of my list of modern composers.

Incredibly Moving.......2006-11-11

Arvo Part's Lamentate is an incredibly moving work. I sat and listened to it in complete and utter awe. Arvo Part's use of color and texture throughout the orchestra is absolutely superb. The piece ranges from the somber to the highest expression of despair. There is so much emotion behind this work that I cannot even comprehend. Part's idea of a lament for the living, not the dead is a very interesting statement. Part mourns for the world that is full of suffering. This piece is absolutely amazing and the performance on this recording is phenominal. I cannot even describe in words the effect this piece had on me. I was incredibly moved.

The choral work that starts the disc is also a great example of Part's colorful harmonies. While the soprano voice is not incredibly desirable to listen to, the piece is just so pretty that it doesn't even really matter. This recording is so good. Great music by a great composer. I would recommend grabbing a few of Part's other works while you're at it.

a somber lament for a world of suffering.......2006-02-05

"Lamentate" reminds us that Arvo Part, the Estonian composer known as a "holy minimalist," was a modernist before he was a postmodernist. The 37-minute work opens with a bang, a great rumble from percussion and a minor-key fanfare from the horns, before subsiding into more typical Partian meditations. Dissonant menace periodically returns, however, marking this as Part's most Shostakovich-like composition. Alexie Lubimov plays the ethereal, searching piano part in a piano concerto that is not a piano concerto. The SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra is directed by Andrey Boreyko, and sounds superb across the dynamic spectrum.

I had the opportunity to visit the Tate Modern on the Thames in June of 2004. The Engine Room of the former power generating station is an awesome space, and that is where Part saw the sculpture that inspired "Lamentate" in 2002 (thus the Tate in Lamentate). The premiere performance was in that space, at the foot of the sculpture "Marsyas" in February 2003 -- there is a photo of the event in the booklet. To me, this is a fascinating juxtaposition. Part's music since the mid-1970s represents a conscious rejection of the modernist avant-garde and an assertion of Orthodox religious content along with a pre/postmodern fusion of chant and other early forms with a stripped-down (minimalist) tonality. So here is Part at one of the temples of artistic modernity, drawing inspiration for his work. Adding to the fascination is my own trajectory from a heroic to a more tragic view of life, and a recognition of the primacy of the spiritual dimension.

With that I leave you to your own reflections. This is a major work from one of the major composers of our time. Thanks to ECM for championing Arvo Part and to its art department for another fine package for the sublime.

Arvo Part is a singular force in modern symphonic music.......2006-01-30

Ever Since the Arvo Part ECM recording Tabula Rasa in 1984, the composer's profound philosophy of composition has been felt throughout the world of symphonic music.

Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD

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Excellent but uncomplete
Ohm... Ohm... Ohm...
This and...
The Standard Reference for Electronic Music

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Bye Bye Butterfly - Pauline Oliveros
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He Destroyed Her Image - Charles Dodge
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OHM+ : the early gurus of electronic music

Special Edition 3CD + DVD

Leaps in technology: oscillators, generators, vacuum tubes, amplifiers, transistors, magnetic tape, integrated circuits, and the microchip— inspired new instruments: the telharmonium, theremin, ondes martenot, electronic sackbut, clavivox, electronium, moog synthesizer, and computers— and artists everywhere hungry for new modes of expression.

This collection is a humble but bold attempt to give form to the wonderful, multi-directional, inevitable birth of electronic music.

"Many of the ideas in this collection have now been so completely assimilated into popular listening that it may sometimes be hard to remember how surprising it all was on first outing. Some of it still sounds pretty exotic. These CDs are important as part of the story of how we got to where we are now-the cultural conversation so far-and as a still fruitful repertoire of future possibilities." —from the Foreword by Brian Eno

Three CDs—42 original music tracks from 1948-1980 112 Page Book—extensive artist interviews, commentaries, and archival photographs Special Edition DVD—over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent but uncomplete.......2006-11-12

Althought most of the music here is an excellent collection of electronic music history, this 3 CDs lack of the important contribution given by the RAI phonology studios of Milan, Italy in the 50s
(which was bigger than Koln's WDR studios) with Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono.
This is a big mistake. Milans studios were the biggest of europe and produced many important electroacoustic pieces.
If the collection aim to describe faithfully electronic music history, it should include this artists too.

Ohm... Ohm... Ohm..........2006-04-01

Back in 2000, Ellipsis Arts released OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music, a fantastic and essential three CD set tracing the evolution of "electronica" from Messiaen, Cage, and Xenakis to Schulze, Eno, and Hassell. This set was recently reissued (as OHM+) along with a bonus DVD (which is thankfully now available separately for those of us who already have the CDs.) You can read plenty of excellent reviews of the original 3CD set on Amazon (and elsewhere), so I'm going to focus on the new DVD in this review.

The OHM+ DVD is jam-packed with over two hours of archival and more recent footage that runs the gamut from engrossing to mildly interesting to unwatchably dull.

If seemingly endless "talking head" interviews with Milton Babbitt and Bebe Barron are your idea of video entertainment, you've come to the right place. An interview with John Cage digitally altered beyond all recognition? Check. Swirling psychadelic colored dyes right out of a Saucerful of Secrets-era Pink Floyd concert? No problem.

There are some tastier goodies to be found on this DVD, however...

The segments with Clara Rockmore and Leon Theremin have an appealingly amateurish home movie quality to them. It's also a real treat to see the 1978 footage of underappreciated minimalist guru David Borden and Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company "on the road" hauling around their truckload of big old analog synthesizer equipment. Laurie Spiegel is fun to watch as she tinkers with a big grey metal box called a "Concerto Generator" with an extremely serious expression on her face. And Alvin Lucier's "Music for Solo Performer," where he hooks up wires to his head and produces sounds using his brainwaves and two tympani, simply must be seen to be believed.

The Pixar-ish computer animation accompanying Paul Lansky's "The Dust Bunny" is sort of cute, but it goes on for about 10 minutes too long. Surely most of the OHM target audience already has the DVD of Steve Reich's Three Tales, but it's nice that they included the best part - the ominous yet goofy "Dolly" segment. Many have also probably seen Hans Fjellestad's documentary Moog before, but the six minute excerpt provided here is really about all you need.

It's too bad there isn't a more interesting John Cage segment, and regrettable that there aren't any Stockhausen videos (those would certainly be a riot!)

Overall, though, while the OHM+ DVD is not as consistently engaging as the CD set of the same name, it is a worthy companion to it. And if you don't have either of them yet, the complete OHM+ 3-CD & DVD "special edition" box set is a no-brainer.

This and..........2006-01-06

An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol.1 will probably have you set.

The Standard Reference for Electronic Music.......2005-11-03

This package is mind boggling. The DVD includes over 2 hours of rare footage too. If you want to know about the roots of electronic music, look no further.

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

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To call it music may be a bit limiting.
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Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) - Brian Eno

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Opening with Clara Rockmore's reworking of Tchaikovsky with the theremin, and finishing with one of Brian Eno's ambient soundscapes, OHM artfully succeeds in its goal of giving a representative (as opposed to the impossible, comprehensive) overview of the first several decades of electronic music. Over 3 discs, 42 compositions, and 96 pages of notes and photos, OHM clearly illustrates the producers' and contributing writers' point that early electronic music is much of the foundation of contemporary music. Herein lies the connective tissue bridging musique concrète, 20th-century classical, electronic experimentation, and the theoretical avant-garde to psychedelia, ambient, dub, techno, electro, and synthpop and the globalization of sound. The groundbreaking uses of loops, sampling, drones, remixes, and cut-and-paste technology are put fully into context. The diversity of music included makes any sort of summation impossible, but that is also the point: electronic music is not really a genre, but an open field of endless possibility. From John Cage's famous "William's Mix" of tape snippets to Karkheinz Stockhausen's electronic orchestral compositions, from David Tudor and Holger Czukay's experiments in unrelated blendings of audio elements to David Behrman's supremely peaceful duet between computers and musicians, the aural renegades on OHM tread where none (save a few of their contemporaries) had gone before. The liner notes convey the incredible amount of hard work and experimentation it took to stitch together many of these pieces in the predigital era. Putting aside the inevitable quibbles about what's missing (much of it due to legal and/or logistical issues), a more complete collection of musical eggheads, eccentrics, and visionaries is hard to imagine. --Carl Hanni

Customer Reviews:

excellent but uncomplete.......2006-11-12

To call it music may be a bit limiting. .......2006-10-24

Some of the tracks on here are "music". That is that they contain all the bits we're trained to experience as music -- melody, etc. Some are not, and the composers would be the first people to tell you that. A lot of these works are reactions to ingrained rules, so they're bound to be jarring.

A more successful way to approach such a broad and varied collection of audio experimentation is to think of it as curated sound. This isn't something to wash the dishes to, or to seduce someone to (although if you did manage to seduce someone with the recordings on this anthology, HOLD ON TO THAT PERSON, because they've got to be a keeper). These are unique sound textures that deserve a close, probably solitary listen, and I think if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be a very rewarding listen.

My main complaint is sequencing: each dicrete piece follows it's own internal logic, so there are more than a couple rough gear changes. However, since each piece is so different, and the collection is so varied, I'm not sure that you could totally escape that.

A worthwhile collection.......2006-01-11

The OHM collection contains some of those ground breaking electronic compositions that have shaped today's styles, from the early electronic instruments of Theremin and Martenot, through Pierre Schaeffer's Music Concrete tape music and the electronic music of Stockhausen and Subotnick, to the mainframe computer output of Risset and Chowning.

It is unfair to mark this collection down due to the production quality and 'musicality' of its contents, to do so would be to staggeringly miss the point of the development of electronic music through the 20th Century. What this collection shows is the ideas behind those at the cutting edge of the genre before many could even conceive of such output. That said it is hard going at points, as experimental music can be.

Highlights for me are no doubt Olivier Messiaen's 'Oraison' on CD 1, David Tudor's 'Rainforest Version 1' on CD 2 and on CD 3 David Behrman's 'On the Other Ocean' and Maryanne Amacher's 'Living sound Patent Pending'.

OhMyGodHowDreadful.......2005-08-15

Ok, this collection is supposed to be early works and, thus not expected to be very sophisticated or polished. But the OHM collection sounds like the first attempt of a spastic cat turned-loose on a Moog keyboard. When it is not boreing, this collection of random and dissonant sounds (I can't call it music) is without any redeeming qualities to make it worth while. Don't get me wrong, I am a long-time fan of Wendy (nie Walter) Carlos and some other real pioneers of electronic music. However, I find that the Ohm collection has no similar qualities and is a major disappointment.

Kid Stockhausen.......2003-01-17

This is required listening for anybody interested in the history of electronic music. Although implicitly aiming for the techno music audience, this audio history is overwhelmingly focused on the classical avant-garde of electro-acoustic composers. The closest you'll get to pop electronica is the Brian Eno track at the end of the third disc. No Kraftwerk, no Moroder, etc. Instead "OHM" manages to point to the continuities between, say, John Cage and artists currently working at the experimental edges of electronica (so-called IDM). It seems to be saying, "You think Kid 606 is visionary? Well check out this Stockhausen track from '59!"

Admittedly, some of the songs are much more interesting to think about than they are to listen to. Some of the early pieces that were made through thosuands of hours of pains-taking tape-splicing could be made today in an afternoon with a digital audio editor and a few effects plug-ins.

Tracks:

Bach: Toccata In D Minor
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8: First Movement
Previn: Glass Sculpture
Previn: Executive Party
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5: Third Movement
Albinoni: Adagio
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Waltz
Previn: Executive Party Dance
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5: Fourth Movement

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Director Norman Jewison's original 1975 Rollerball was an odd mix; half action thriller (about a future blood sport that crossbred the most violent aspects of roller derby and hockey), half futurist cautionary tale (about the dangers of all-encroaching corporate power and the decadent elite who wield it). In retrospect, it was all too prescient on both counts. It also marked one of the last major Hollywood forays of conductor-composer Andre Prévin, who conducted the film's pastiche of Bach (the ominous if clichéd Toccata and Fugue in D Minor served as the game's theme), Albinoni (the Adagio is the film's main theme), Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich. The soundtrack was produced in the wake of Kubrick's epochal uses of classical music in scoring his near-future epics 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, and the inspiration and intent here is obvious. Previn added three brief cues of his own (the evocative, modernist "Glass Sculpture" and the kitschy funk-exotica of "Executive Party" and "Executive Party Dance"). With the London Symphony under his baton, the veteran Previn produces an effective version of the Adagio and wrings appropriate drama from the Russian works as well. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Executive Party.......2004-10-07

I bought this album for the psychedelic lounge "Executive Party" and "Executive Party Dance" tracks. Everything else is classical soundtrack fodder. Two cool tracks does not a cool album make.

It's almost worth having in your collection just for the sake of being odd (a classical album with spiked-gauntlet roller derby warriors in the liner notes?), if that's your thing. Just don't expect to listen to it.

If somebody knows of albums that capture the sound of the two tracks I mentioned above... THAT album would be golden.

Great Album.......2004-05-06

Previn scored a superb psychedelic funk track in "Executive Party Dance". Sparse, with great wah guitar and analogue synth, pick up this album for that track alone!!!

Preston's Tocata IS the Tocata!.......2002-06-28

I've loved Rollerball since I was 10 years old. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and a 70's Sci-Fi classic - truly underrated! I have the DVD and I watch it regularly and it grips me everytime. The Jewison commentary is awesome!

I managed to get a vinyl copy of the album a couple years ago. It was badly scratched, but I did not care.

Why I like the album is one simple reason - Preston's rendition of Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor. In my opinion, it IS the Tocata. No other version by any other artist compares. It was worth the whole album just for that.

It also teaches me that there is good in every situation. Although the re-make of the movie was not received well, without the re-make, I don't know if this CD would ever have been re-released.

Finally!!!.......2002-05-26

After hoping what seemed to be a pointless hope the soundtrack for the mid-70's masterful movie of the same name has reappeared out of nowhere. So Norman Jewison and others finally realized that movie soundtracks like this are hardly released anymore owing an exceptional quality to the enormous use of classical masterpieces on here? Once one knows the movie one relives the accompanying scenes upon playback. Bach's Tocatta in D minor played at nearly perfect pace( the piece is often sped up by organists the world over leaving out the reverberating omniscience of the chords), one imagines the clean silent rollerbal track before speed, blood, and power have been ridden over it. The soundtrack is worth it for this track alone. Several of Shostakovich's works, some more beautiful than others, as well as two seveties party-funk pieces composed by Andre Previn showing that the composer's talents were not only limited to the classical convervatorium of music, but that he also had a keen ear for the contemporary. One can imagine the decadent drugged out rollerballers and their girlfriends mingling with the executives in tuxedos with no-back dresses. The soundtrack is at once a homage to the tragedies of violence and power and their existential effects. The choice of music carries the sheer might of the game scenes as well the quiet reflections that pervade James Caan's character throughout the film.

Finally!!!.......2002-05-26

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So "Out There" You Have To Get Behind It
Not for all tastes (or pockets) but ineffable, enchanting, and profoundly aesthetic.
GREAT TRUMPET PLAYER, GOOD ALBUM

ER
Nils Petter Molvær
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
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ASIN: B000BBRZUG
Release Date: 2005-10-24

Tracks:

Hover
Softer
Water
Only These Things Count
Sober
Darker
Feeder
Dancer

Customer Reviews:

So "Out There" You Have To Get Behind It.......2007-07-16

Nils Petter Molvaer is a Norwegian trumpet player and composer who drives the concept of "trumpet music" into new territory. His use of hip-hop rhythms, turntables, tape effects and elaborate productions is extremely up-to-the-minute. His tone on trumpet is occasionally reminiscent of Miles Davis, occasionally of Jon Hassel. In fact, if Miles were still alive today there's a good chance he'd dig Molvaer immensely -- he expands the repertoire of the trumpet and challenges listeners to "get with it." Very Miles.

Not for all tastes (or pockets) but ineffable, enchanting, and profoundly aesthetic........2006-12-06

Upon reading the titles of the tracks on "ER," I was prepared for a Windham Hill sampler of programmatic "nature-music" pieces. But Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer's muse, it soon becomes evident, is more closely related to the genius presiding over "In a Silent Way," "Bitches Brew" and similar projects by some of Miles Davis' '70s progeny. It's New Age music with a beat, but with nuanced textures mixed so deliberately and motifs insinuated so subtly that the inattentive listener is likely to miss altogether the gossamer fabric of these fragile yet frequently appealing, inviting constructions.

Molvaer's trumpet is too much in the background for this music to be mistaken for a Miles Davis session. Instead, the horn becomes another vibrant freqency floating in the sonic ether, whether producing muted plaintive sounds without the mute or suggesting a momentary chill when Molvaer blows through his mouthpiece sans horn. Even the multiple tracking of the instrument along with the layering of bird calls and human voices does little to disturb the Noh-like stillness of "Water," following "Softer" like diaphanous gauze yielding to the glimpse of a golden carp suspended in a moon-lit pool.

"Only These Things Count" is verbalized, sung moreover in English, thus threatening to rupture the listener's connection with the safe and magical harbor of the musical Zen garden. But soon the churning textures of the accompaniment lead to another quiet, intimate moment during which Molvaer's breathy trumpet supplies incandescent incantations over a single sustained pitch, a note evoking a wordless plainsong resonating with the dynamic energy field of consciousness itself.

The next piece, "Darker," momentarily establishes an almost funky groove, perhaps Molvaer's turn to run the voodoo down, but again he moves skyward, as "Feeder" offers the most extended, extreme trumpet solo on the CD--loud in dynamics or high in register only relative to its previous unobtrusive presence. The role of the trumpet as an "individual" voice is an open-ended question in music of such exacting scale and ecological balance.

"Dancer," the final piece--or, more precisely, movement of a continuous work (there are no silences between the compositions)--is descriptive of the acoustic properties of the piece itself, which emphasizes the rhythms of primitive percussion. But in its metaphoric invoking of dance, it's also an interpretive, revelatory key to Molvaer's paradoxical and poetic, even mystical, compositions that blur the lines between soloist and accompaniment, text and context, confounding any attempts at easy categorization of this music.

The listener's epiphany is that "ER" is, above all, a delicate but vital and indivisible organism, recalling if not demonstrating the understanding implicit in the poet W.B. Yeats' famous question about the relationship between the artist and his creation: "How can you know the dancer from the dance?"

GREAT TRUMPET PLAYER, GOOD ALBUM.......2005-11-08

Nils Petter Molvaer has made some good music over the years. His trumpetplaying is very moody and he can set an atmosphere that not a lot of people can. The beats and electronics he uses are unique. The beats and sounds he uses create a lot of space in wich he can let a solo come to full advantage. The particular Molvaer-sound is only to be heard in the group of musicians Molvaer works with (the guitarist Eivind Aarset for instance; try his album Electronique Noir!).
I own three albums of Molvaer: Khmer, NP3 and ER. The first one (Khmer, 5 stars easily) is without a doubt the best. Most songs take their time to develop, but there always is a lot going on. Within the songs the tempo or volume build up. The beats are not the only things that count. And that maybe is Molvaer's trap: he manages to make his beats sound better and better, but they become so important that the rest of the music gets less attention.
NP3 had bigger beats than Khmer, but the album as a whole is a bit flat. But it's the most accessible and if possible happy one.
ER is down. Way down. And I like that. The album starts of really good. The first song is a killer! The second one is very sad. The intro's the songs lead to good beats that have a good dark atmosphere. But just like NP3 I miss the evolution of the songs beyond the beat. When Molvaer could pull that off again he could make a 6 star album.
There's one thing about the album I almost forgot to mention: there are voices on two of the songs of the album. The voice of Sidsel Endresen is a treat. She doesn't sound like a jazzsinger, and I/m glad about that. It wouldn't fitt. The singing is like a beat up Sally Oldfield or holds somewhere in the middle of Portishead and Clannad. Very tastefull!

When you don't own a Molvaer-album and you've got nothing against fantastic electronic beats, soundscapes and trumpet you must get yourself a Molvaer-album. This album for me is a five star album untill song number six. It's good enough, especialy the way the beats are recorded is good, but I believe Khmer has more to offer.

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Score Another Bullseye for Rumon Gamba
The whole of Vaughan Williams' Scott film score at last

Film Music of Vaughan Williams 1
Vaughan Williams , BBC Philharmonic , and Gumba
Manufacturer: Chandos
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006JK96
Release Date: 2002-10-08

Tracks:

Scott Of The Antarctic: Main Titles
Scott Of The Antarctic: Prologue
Scott Of The Antarctic: Doom
Scott Of The Antarctic: Sculpture Scene
Scott Of The Antarctic: Ship's Departure
Scott Of The Antarctic: Ice Floes
Scott Of The Antarctic: Penguin Dance
Scott Of The Antarctic: Aurora
Scott Of The Antarctic: Pony March
Scott Of The Antarctic: Blizzard
Scott Of The Antarctic: Distant Glacier
Scott Of The Antarctic: Climbing The Glacier
Scott Of The Antarctic: Scott On The Glacier
Scott Of The Antarctic: Snow Plain
Scott Of The Antarctic: The Return
Scott Of The Antarctic: Descending The Glacier
Scott Of The Antarctic: The Deaths Of Evans And Oates
Scott Of The Antarctic: End Titles
Coastal Command Suite: Prelude
Coastal Command Suite: The Hebrides
Coastal Command Suite: U-Boat Alert
Coastal Command Suite: Taking-Off At Night
Coastal Command Suite: The Hudsons Take-Off From Iceland
Coastal Command Suite: Dawn Patrol (Quiet Determination)
Coastal Command Suite: Battle Of The Beauforts
Coastal Command Suite: Finale
The People's Land

Customer Reviews:

Score Another Bullseye for Rumon Gamba.......2004-02-25

What a fabulous recording!

The world premiere recording of Vaughan Williams' famed score for "Scott of the Antarctic", at some 41 minutes, would be a full plate, in and of itself. However, it only constitutes a bit over half of this remarkable CD.

We are not only given the privelege of hearing, for the first time, Vaughan Williams complete score for "Scott", we are treated to his music for "Costal Command" and a score called "The People's Land", of which I was totally ignorant.

All are brilliantly realized, performed and recorded.

Those wonderful people at Chandos have performed a great service to the music world in general and to the legacy of this great composer in particular.

And the wonderful conductor, Rumon Gamba, simply MUST be singled out for, once again, providing us with music making of the most superior kind. This conductor, ladies and gentlemen, is a star on the rise.

One final note: we are intrigued by the title of this CD, "The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. 'VOLUME 1'".

Since this CD was released well over 1 1/2 years ago, I hope another, featuring the music of Vaughan Williams as conducted by Rumon Gamba, is on the horizon.

The whole of Vaughan Williams' Scott film score at last.......2002-12-04

Since 2001, there have been a number of recordings of `unknown' Vaughan Williams - the original version of A London Symphony the Norfolk Rhapsody No 2 (both from Chandos) and a 2 CD set of his early chamber works (Hyperion). On this CD we have the complete film music to Scott of the Antarctic, with ten `new' movements in addition to the eight usually presented, giving about 25 minutes of extra music. And if that was not enough, Chandos have recorded the music to `The People's Land', a film about the National Trust! This is a British organisation dedicated to preserving historic buildings and areas of outstanding beauty.! But documentary film music is not always routine stuff - Britten's `Night Mail' is a wonderful example of what can be done.

Vaughan Williams, always a man willing to help others, looked for ways to assist the war effort in any way he could (he was in his late 60s), and gave up the field adjoining his garden to allotments for the local people (keeping a plot for himself) and assisting with refugees. But in terms of his own special talents, film music seemed something he might do, and as one might expect from this very adaptable man, he did it very well, continuing after the war with Scott of the Antarctic.

The film makers used less than half of RVW's music for the film, `Scott of the Antarctic' and here it is restored to a score lasting over forty minutes. Commissioned in 1947, it is wonderful stuff, brilliantly descriptive of the icy landscape, penguins and horses in his use of new sonorities. It is intriguing to see how the composer took the music of Ice Floes and the various Glacier movements and built them into the massive Landscape movement of the Sinfonia Antartica of a few years later. Music that is wonderfully evocative in the film is build symphonically into one of the most shattering movements in all music. All in all, this is a wonderful film score - surely one of the best ever written. There is also quite a lot of music which is not found in the symphony at all.

`Coastal Command' (1942) was written for a documentary about the flying-boats which patrolled off Iceland and the North Sea looking for German shipping. `The Hebrides' is a short, beautiful and evocative piece and Dawn Patrol (Quiet Determination) begins lyrically, becoming more agitated.

The People's Land is a lovely piece built from the composer's beloved folksongs together with material to illustrate particular visual aspects of the film.

Tracks:

Ice Queen
Skin Deep
Let Me Down Easy
No Mercy
North Winds Blowing
Uptown
Punch & Judy
Under the Name of Spain
Laughing
Souls
Mad Hatter

Album Description

Import remastered reissue of 1984 album that's out-of-print domestically. 19 tracks including eight bonus tracks, 'Here & There', 'In One Door', 'Head On The Line', 'Achilles Heel', 'Hot Club' (Riot Mix), 'Place De Victoires', 'Vladimir & The Beast' & 'Vladimir Goes To Havana'.

Customer Reviews:

I guess I am the best reviewer of this album since..........2005-12-29

...since I've listened to it when it was released in 1984. The best Stranglers album ever? maybe, at lest the one with the best songs. There are some low points, too, I really hate Mad Hatter, No Mercy and Spain. The best ones, no doubt are Let Me Down Easy, Laughing and Souls. The first two are A major while Souls is in D minor. Their atmosphere is intense in sophistication, balance, rhythm and a 100 percent brilliant harmony. I don't think this is a pop album, besides, I could say it stimulates some sort of childhood sensibility. I recommend to slow down a bit a half-tone these 3 tunes (also including Skin Deep) to understand and taste them better. North Winds is also an excellent tune, the darkest of the album. Ice Queen is an excellent intro. Uptown and Punch and Judy go hand in hand. I don't say this album is perfect, but I gave it 5 stars since it's one of my best favorites of all time.

Want the facts?.......2005-12-26

There are those who strongly prefer the Stranglers' early stuff and do not like Aural Sculpture or Dreamtime. Please include me amongst those who do not like the early stuff [which dominates "The Very Best of" CD] and much prefer this album and Dreamtime.

Should get 10 stars........2005-10-06

This last great album by the Stranglers is a MASTERPIECE! "Aural Sculpture" is an apt title. Anyone in a review who says something like 'I like this or that track' simply has not listened to it enough or is hung up on the aggressive "punk style" of their earlier work. Let me stress something here for those of you thinking of buying this... EVERY SONG ON THIS CD IS FREAKING GREAT. It doesn't hit you the first few times you listen because it's more complex and sophisticated than most. Even the band thought it was one of their best... "Oh the bliss, oh the pleasure caressing your ears. How can you have survived until this historic moment?".

Go listen to their earlier music!.......2005-03-01

SKA Kitson has it right. I'd never heard of these guys until Aural Sculpture, so I thought they were pretty good (hey, this was the 80's!). I loved "Skin Deep" and a couple of the other cuts on this album. Then my husband introduced me to their earlier work! Wow! I couldn't believe it was the same band. If you hear their punk-era music and then put this CD on, you will be dismayed to hear how weak they became. Don't bother with this CD - go buy "Rattus Norvegicus" and enjoy the real Stranglers.

Hard to believe this is 20+ years old.......2005-02-13

Guess I date myself when I say I'd listen to this CD all the time way back when.

The Strangler's poppier future was coming nicely into play with the release of Feline and was pretty much cemented into place with Aural Sculpture. Early Stranglers purists will scream sellout, I'd call it evolution. If the Stranglers were trying to capitalize on the 80s sound, they did it masterfully.

Wonderful pop tunes lurk all over. "Ice Queen" has a gloriously repetitive warbling that stays with you. Things don't skip a beat with the silky smooth "Skin Deep" and catchy "Let Me Down Easy", "No Mercy" and "Under the Name of Spain". Each and every track is a gem really in its own right, Hugh Cornwell's calm vocals add sparkle. A favorite CD of mine for those laid back moods.

Love them or hate them for their direction change and seemingly endless collection of greatest hits CDs, it's impossible to discount the charms of Aural Sculpture.

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Electric British Blues at its finest
Great Guitar Work, Great Blues Album
Dave Edmunds, The "Unknown" Guitar Hero
Searing blues guitar from Edmunds
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Love Sculpture
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
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ASIN: B00000IBHN
Release Date: 1999-02-12

Tracks:

Stumble
3 O'Clock Blues
I Believe To My Soul
So Unkind
Summertime
On The Road Again
Don't Answer The Door
Wang Dang Doodle
Come Back Baby
Shake Your Hips
Blues Helping

Album Description

Digitally remastered reissue of the 1968 debut album by this blues/ prog outfit Dave Edmunds played with prior to his solo career. 11 tracks. Also featuring the original cover art. 1999 release.

Album Details

Remastered Digipack Reissue.

Customer Reviews:

Electric British Blues at its finest.......2006-07-13

While I know why so many of you rated this 5 stars, I feel like you're a bit too attached to 60's music which makes you nostalgic for this record. I agree with the fact that Dave Edmunds is one of the underated guitar players of the era. I also agree that technically he is a fine player. However, I have to disagree with the characterizations that this is one of the best blues albums of all time. When you stack it up to the Chess sessions, it pales. Sure, compared to Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend and Alvin Lee, Edmunds failed to garner much popularity (for some unkown reason), but I'm afraid he's not on the same page with BB King or Muddy Waters.

That said, though, this is a nice collection of frenetic electric guitar blues. It is mostly cover material with that nice 60's psychedelic edge. Its a good collection of blues rock with some spectacular pyrotechnics, as well as choice licks. If its lacking, its in that polished soulful phrasing that the blues greats have in buckets. The tune selection shows he's done his homework on the blues classics - Freddy King's "The Stumble" (which if for no other reason you have to hand it to him for attempting when Peter Green does a wonderful job of with the original Fleetwood Mac), a couple of Ray Charles staples and Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips" all standout. It all sort of sounds dated now, though, doesn't it?

A very hip collection indeed. Well worth investigation if you're a blues rock fan.

Great Guitar Work, Great Blues Album.......2006-02-18

This is one of the first blues albums I heard, and I've been a fan ever since. Dave Edmunds guitar work is amazing. Many people have no idea that this guy can play. Though mostly covers, they really smoke, with Dave's guitar virtuosity. Ray Charles, Canned Heat and the others they cover must be proud. I've never met anyone who's heard this album and didn't like it. Well worth the money if you're a blues fan.

Dave Edmunds, The "Unknown" Guitar Hero.......2001-10-29

It's surprising to me (and probably everyone familiar with his work) that Dave Edmunds wasn't put on a pedestal and hailed as not only the best guitar phenom to come out of England in the 60's, but the best guitar phenom to come out of the 60's, PERIOD! When you listen to this CD, you're immediately struck over the head from the get-go with Edmunds' fast, fluid blues-rock leads on "The Stumble", and you wonder, "who IS this guy??" At the risk of committing sacrilege, not even the guitar heroes of the day back then (Beck, Clapton, Page, and dare I say, even Hendrix) played with as much passion, skill and bravado as Edmunds; and yet, if you ask every current guitarist who Dave Edmunds is, you get blank stares and hear things like "Who's Dave Edmunds?" or "I've never heard of him"!

Once Edmunds' fiery leads on "The Stumble" have commanded your attention, then he and Love Sculpture run through other blues/soul standards such as B.B. King's "3 O'Clock Blues", Ray Charles' "I Believe To My Soul" (which has a wonderfully loud, searing guitar solo), and my favorite track, George Gershwin's "Summertime" (which was covered again in 1970 by the group "Brainbox", which featured guitarist Jan Akkerman and vocalist Kaz Lux). The sound of this remastered version is wonderful, and when you listen to it for either the first time (or even for the first time in a long time), you will hear the true genius of this overlooked guitar hero--England's best-kept secret returns!

Searing blues guitar from Edmunds.......2001-07-06

Spine-tingling stuff. The solo Dave rips off on Ray Charles' "I Believe to My Soul" is among the finest in blues-rock recordings. Amazing that Edmunds never really ever attempted a followup to this blues masterpiece. I guess perfection needs no encore.

Blues Helping.......2000-08-15

I own an 8-track of this Album, It's been "repaired" twice (8-Trackers know what I mean). I dubbed it over onto a Cassette, a few years ago to avoid complete "loss" of my only copy of this album. Another disadvantage of 8-Tracks -Vs- LP's is there is NO place for any info what so ever, concerning the Band Members/Artist. Another tragic Loss, similar to the LP Record Jacket Art Form. Until I did a search on the Internet, I had no Clue, who the band members were at all. I am Hoping to be able to Find/Purchase the CD and enjoy this Album for many years to come. If you Find it - Buy it, you won't regret it!

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