Pi (Symbol) [Soundtrack]

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The soundtrack to the cyberthriller Pi stands on its own as a fine compilation, and fans of the artists featured on this soundtrack will be delighted to hear solid offerings from the likes of Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, Spacetime Continuum, David Holmes, Orbital, and a mix of Roni Size's "Watching Windows" by Ed Rush and Optical. Those who have seen the film but are unfamiliar with the artists will be happily exposed to great music and should enjoy this incredibly cohesive, thematic piece. Even artists like Gus Gus and Banco De Gaia fit perfectly into this mix. The music is as complicatedly paranoid as the film's protagonist, Max Cohen, and as rhythmic and precise as the film's antagonist--the numeric system. Cohen's dialogue is interspersed through the soundtrack for a nice touch. --Aaron Tassano

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Average customer rating: Brilliant work by the main man from Pop Will Eat Itself, Mr. Clint Mansell Impressive!!!!!,,,(thoughts from an independent film director) eh...i thought it was going to be better than expected. The best IDM sampler soundtrack CD ever made. Stands the test of time: does musical justice to the movie

Pi (Symbol) Various Artists Manufacturer: Thrive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Requiem for a Dream (2000 Film) The Fountain Pi Great American Favorites Fight Club: Original Motion Picture Score ASIN: B000009MZW Release Date: 1998-07-21

Tracks:

1. Pi (Symbol)r2 - Clint Mansell
2. P.E.T.R.O.L. - Orbital
3. Kalpol Intro - Autechre
4. Bucephalus Bouncing Ball - Aphex Twin
5. Watching Windows - Roni Size
6. Angel - Massive Attack
7. We Got The Gun - Clint Mansell
8. No Man's Land - David Holmes
9. Anthem - Gus Gus
10. Drippy - Banco De Gaia
11. Third from the Sun - Psilonaut
12. A Low Frequency Inversion Field - Spacetime Continuum
13. 2Pi (Symbol)r - Clint Mansell

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The soundtrack to the cyberthriller Pi stands on its own as a fine compilation, and fans of the artists featured on this soundtrack will be delighted to hear solid offerings from the likes of Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, Spacetime Continuum, David Holmes, Orbital, and a mix of Roni Size's "Watching Windows" by Ed Rush and Optical. Those who have seen the film but are unfamiliar with the artists will be happily exposed to great music and should enjoy this incredibly cohesive, thematic piece. Even artists like Gus Gus and Banco De Gaia fit perfectly into this mix. The music is as complicatedly paranoid as the film's protagonist, Max Cohen, and as rhythmic and precise as the film's antagonist--the numeric system. Cohen's dialogue is interspersed through the soundtrack for a nice touch. --Aaron Tassano

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant work by the main man from Pop Will Eat Itself, Mr. Clint Mansell.......2006-12-16

An album that so thoroughly completes the movie, that listening to the album brings your right back to the tense, edgy, agitated, gripping story that is Pi. A great album on it's own, but far more powerful once the movie has been seen. In fact... I doubt the movie would have had such a striking impact without this soundtrack. Watch the movie, then do it with the sound off and you'll see what I mean. Enjoy!

Impressive!!!!!,,,(thoughts from an independent film director).......2006-06-04

The folks out here giving this soundtrack a 1 star should get christina anguilera and be happy with that less imaginative lifestyle.

eh...i thought it was going to be better than expected........2005-09-02

Well first off the CD did not come in a case (not even a CD sleeve) but thats the least of problems. The CD was not impressive as a whole. There was only 2 good songs on that CD, which sadly (I think) were the ones they kept playing on the movie I guess, because thats the reason I bought it. Anyways.......you win some, you lose some....I consider this one a loss.

The best IDM sampler soundtrack CD ever made........2005-08-29

The movie was a "low budget" production, but certainly not a "low budget appeal" film. I loved this dark surrealistic film. I love films when the main character is narrating throughout the film. Max Cohen is sharing the madness of the mental processing of information going on in his mind. Forcing his brain to come up with absolute answers involving numbers and patterns. And he suffers serious migraine headaches, as a result from it. So what do you get from a film which combines super intelligence with insanity? A soundtrack of IDM music.

All this music represents intelligence and madness. It may not impress alot of kids because it does have some softer, but yet nerving instrumental passages that build up to a more intense outcome. I think this movie and soundtrack is for older people to understand. Perhaps a "college nerd" may relate to the concept here. On this concept, perhaps those 30 years old or younger may appreciate the techno intelligence of the three "Hackers" soundtracks (artists like Prodigy, Leftfield, and Moby may be more what they could relate to.)

Dark ambient electronica. I guess that's what I would call this soundtrack of "Pi". This CD is a great introduction to the IDM artists available here.

Since I've seen this movie, and bought this (hard to find) CD, I've bought some other CD's from some artists here. I have become an "Autechre" fanatic. I have everything that they've possibly done. I've bought alot of Aphex Twin, and I have investigated other works from the other artists on this album soundtrack.

I think this soundtrack is out of print. I can't even find it "used" anywhere. When you can't find a CD "used" at a used CD store, you know it's got to be really good. People are holding on to it.

Using my own typical deductions, I have learned that, if you wanna see if a new album is any good, see how many copies of that particular album is available in the "used" bin at a used CD store. If there are many, you will know that it's proven to be undesirable. Each copy that you see in the "used" bin, is like seeing a negative review.

"Pi" is a classic! It may take a couple of listenings before you truly embrace the message behind this collection. Even I didn't take to it right away when I first heard it, but that was because I was totally unfamiliar with this kind of music. Now, I absolutely love it! It is, in fact, my favorite soundtrack CD. Only, "The City of Lost Children", "Cat People", Midnight Express", "A Clockwork Orange", "Escape From New York", and maybe "Phantasm", could be a close second, and third, etc. I love "horror" soundtracks. "Pi" is horror through intelligence. If it's dark and disturbing, I will embrace the darkness that it conjures.

Stands the test of time: does musical justice to the movie.......2004-12-28

Well over six years after its original release, the soundtrack of the movie "Pi" has stood the (initial) test of time. This in itself, considering the genre it lives in, is quite a feat. Most of tracks come from the world of beats, electronica, trance, ambient, drum-and-bass and the like, which -as we know- are extra-prone to becoming obsolete in no time. But perhaps the careful selection of the lineup of artists that delivered the music to the movie allows the album to continue to offer something now that electronica has somewhat passed its prime.

As for my favorite tracks, there's not one I dislike among the first six tracks. As for Clint Mansell's tracks (check out his soundtrack to "Requiem for a Dream" too -you'll enjoy it), which lie at the core of the movie's musical spirit, they connect the listener with the movie better than any other tracks. As a whole, the soundtrack is less than perfect (tracks by Roni Size, Aphex Twins and Autechre I can live without), but it does musical justice to a movie that has already become a cult indie film classic.

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Codebook Rudresh Mahanthappa Manufacturer: Pi Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Raw Materials Mother Tongue Cities and Desire Streaming Time and Time Again ASIN: B000H5TURC Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

1. Decider
2. Refresh
3. Enhanced Performance
4. Further and in Between
5. Play It Again Sam
6. Frontburner
7. D (Dee-Dee)
8. Wait It Through
9. My Sweetest

Album Description

"Mahanthappa and Iyer are emblematic of their generation of jazz musicians. They have found ways to tweak conventional forms to find their voices, rather than laying waste to the structures that preceded them." - WALL STREET JOURNAL

"Mother Tongue is a fine test of the comparisons between Mahanthappa and Steve Coleman. While Mahanthappa shares Coleman's ability to effortlessly stream unusually shaped phrases, their respective sounds are quite different." - DOWN BEAT

"Mahanthappa, the commanding presence at the helm, has a tone that is hard, biting, and emotionally alive. He plays with blinding speed but also draws upon the ardent legato cries associated with Indian double-reed instruments or Hindustani vocalists." - JAZZTIMES

Since the release of Mother Tongue in 2004, Rudresh Mahanthappa has moved to the forefront of the new generation of composers and alto players in jazz. The time in between has seen him take honors in the DownBeat Jazz Critics Poll, receive the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for excellence in composition, and receive a Rockefeller grant to compose music for his Dakshina Ensemble featuring Kadri Goplanath, amongst other things. The time has also allowed Mahanthappa to once again look to the outside world and draw from a system of order for his next project. The result is Pi Recordings' new release Code Book. Mahanthappa has composed the music on Code Book stemming from ideas and concepts related to cryptography. The varied systems provided the groundwork for him to approach the DNA of the compositions on this CD from fresh and previously unexplored angles. A well-known standard could be transformed into an entirely fresh piece, notes could be associated with words and ordered as such, and rhythms further coded and ordered. All of this is to say that another system of order has been applied to music, but has been done so with such care and thought that the result sounds in no way formulated. Instead, it is the work of a composers' hand deftly working within a system, but creating something entirely organic. This CD is a beautiful addition to Mahanthappa's growing catalog of releases and a mature statement from a voice that we now see scaling new heights.

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Blood Sutra Vijay Iyer Manufacturer: Pi Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Panoptic Modes Reimagining In What Language? Black Water Raw Materials ASIN: B0009BOKA6 Release Date: 2006-04-11

Tracks:

1. Proximity (Crossroads)
2. Brute Facts
3. Habeas Corpus
4. Ascent
5. When History Sleeps
6. Questions Of Agency
7. Kinship
8. Stigmatism
9. That Much Music
10. Imagined Nations
11. Because Of Guns (Hey Joe Redux)
12. Desiring

Album Description

"The cohesive group's ethos is at once reflective and kinetic...this is exciting and eminently listenable stuff, intuitive in bearing and dynamic in execution. An essential for adventurous listeners, [it] could also serve as an ideal introduction to Iyer's burgeoning oeuvre." - JAZZTIMES

"Raises Iyer's writing and playing to the next level... Blood Sutra finds him engaging in sharply diverse but well-balanced forms on each track - and coming up a winner every time...not simply a great jazz record, Blood Sutra is a statement of purpose from an artist whose youth stands in contrast to his irrefutable skill." - JAZZIZ

"Blood Sutra is a terrifically challenging record. But challenging music is often the most rewarding, and this suite of 12 perfectly interlocking songs follows through on that promise...Iyer's compositions are moving jazz in a new direction." - COLORADO SPRINGS INDEPENDENT

The Vijay Iyer Quartet's stunning follow-up to Panoptic Modes now re-released on Pi Recordings! The word "blood" conjures up a series of symbolically charged associations: health, kinship, identity, race, violence, liquidity and desire. "Sutra" is a Sanskrit term meaning "thread," and it is used to denote ancient sacred and scholarly texts on the healing arts, mathematics, yoga, Buddhist practice, love, and many other subjects. Thus, this album is the quartet's multi-threaded conversation on the densely clotted subject of blood, the fluid process of associative meaning and the flowing, pulsating collective meditation.

All 12 pieces are Iyer originals - with the exception of "Because of Guns (Hey Joe Redux)" - and feature the band's rhythmic hallmarks as well as the well-documented interplay between Iyer and Mahanthappa. This generation's version of Monk and Coltrane, Blood Sutra showcases what is now recognized as one of the most fruitful relationships in jazz today. Reimagining, released in 2005, was listed in JazzTimes' Top 10 of 2005, and continues the documentation of the duo's relationship.

Average customer rating: great tracks!! Some tracks are worth getting, others are not best band in Boston today

Post Rock Defends the Nation Bon Savants Manufacturer: e to the i pi music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Be He Me Carnavas Our Love to Admire Costello Music The Crane Wife ASIN: B000KB49M4 Release Date: 2006-11-07

Tracks:

1. What We Need
2. Why this Could Never Work Between Us
3. Between the Moon and the Ocean
4. Tip of Our Tongues
5. Post Rock Defends the Nation
6. Go to the Sun
7. Final Grade
8. Everyone
9. MassAv and Broadway
10. 91
11. I Am the Atom Bomb

Customer Reviews:

great tracks!!.......2007-05-13

an awesome cd for anyone who like TMBG, XTC, and the like
i love love love the Bon Savants

Some tracks are worth getting, others are not.......2007-01-02

I decided to pick up this CD after hearing "Between the Moon and the Ocean" on Sirius's "Left of Center" channel. The Bon Savants are a Boston band with a strong local following, and this CD was a while in development, as the band wanted to craft their commercial debut with as much care as they saw necessary.

While the liner notes don't indicate who exactly does what for each track, it seems that Thomas Moran does lead vocals on "Moon" as well as the album's other good songs. "Mass Av and Broadway", "I Am the Atom Bomb", and "Go to the Sun" all have strong melodies, feature Moran's smooth but appealing vocals, and will appeal to any indie-rock fan. Unfortunately, tracks featuring lead vocals by the other band members (presumably Kevin Haley and / or Dave Wessel) are less impressive, with thin, strained-sounding vocals lost in a sonic mix that can't quite decide what it wants to do. In this age of single-track mp3 downloads, I can't recommend purchasing the entire album, but the abovementioned songs are your best bet to experience the more attractive offerings of the Savants.

best band in Boston today.......2007-01-02

this is the record you will brag that you bought before your friends; it's Gish for people who like Pavement, Rogue Wave, The Talking Heads, Cassette, etc.
It's smart rock with style and intelligence.

Average customer rating: Opera for a new age yes Jazz and Poetry Collaberation New music for a new age (but definitely not New Age music!) A Brilliant Song Cycle

In What Language? Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd Manufacturer: Pi Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Still Life with Commentator Panoptic Modes Father Divine Reimagining Blood Sutra ASIN: B0000CG8FW Release Date: 2003-10-21

Tracks:

1. The Color Of My Circumference I
2. The Destiny Of The 19th Century
3. Security
4. Rentals
5. Security
6. DeGaulle
7. TLC
8. Three Lotto Stories
9. The Color Of My Circumference II
10. Iraqi Businessman
11. Taking Back The Airplane
12. The Color Of My Circumference III
13. Innana After Baghdad
14. In What Language
15. Asylum
16. The Color Of My Circumference IV
17. Plastic Bag

Album Description

Pi Recordings is proud to release In What Language?, the stunning collaboration between pianist-composer Vijay Iyer and polymath poet-performer Mike Ladd. Improvisational in nature and hybrid to the core, this groundbreaking project features an eleven-piece ensemble of musicians and speaking voices. The poems of In What Language? comprise a series of darkly lyrical monologues by people of color negotiating the hyper-globalized setting of a 21st-century international airport. It takes its title from the pre-9/11 experience of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who, transiting through JFK in spring 2001, was wrongly detained by INS officials. Panahi's description of this ordeal was widely circulated online. Sent back to Hong Kong in handcuffs, he wanted to explain his story to fellow passengers. "I'm not a thief! I'm not a murderer! I am just an Iranian, a filmmaker. But how could I tell this, in what language?"

Commissioned by the Asia Society, Iyer and Ladd worked intensely on the material for over a year, and debuted their "song cycle" in May 2003. With this project, they have inspired each other to reach far beyond what either has done previously. Taken together, their influences cover the entire spectrum of modern music. The mesmerizing sonic miniatures range from the ominous funk of "Security" and the luminous jazz orchestration of "Taking Back the Airplane" to the rugged electronic programming of "TLC" and the noble cello-and-piano hymn of "Plastic Bag." A bold first foray into non-instrumental music for Pi Recordings, this project features the creative sonic techniques of versatile engineer/co-producer Scotty Hard (a.k.a. Scott Harding), who has imbued the album with a genre-bending variety and flair.

Customer Reviews:

Opera for a new age.......2005-08-09

Inspired by a pre-9/11 incident in which Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was wrongly detained by INS officials at JFK airport in New York and eventually deported without cause, "In What Language" explores the myriad experiences of fellow "brown-skinned" travelers negotiating the new international playing field that is the contemporary airport.

Underground Hip-Hop / Spoken-Word artist Mike Ladd teams up with visionary Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer to deliver an iconic song cycle of lives in transit, with international airports as the staging area for these multiple perspective, first-person tales of arrival and departure.

With seven instrumentalists at his disposal, Iyer weaves an intricate combination of color and texture into Ladd's spoken word meditations. Numerous guest vocalists represent various perspectives found within these tales of transition, veering from the mournful to the angry. An Indian porn shop owner, a Yemini lottery booth attendant, an Iraqi businessman, a refugee from Sierra Leone and even the airport's Jamaican X-Ray machine operator among others contribute complex and multilayered elucidations of their situations. Each of these tales is bolstered by a rotating roster of musicians with accompaniments that vary from atmospheric to agitated. An iconoclastic blend of Hip-Hop breakbeats, ambient electronics, minimal but harmonically complex piano chord voicings, swinging upright bass vamps and kaleidoscopic Jazz improvisations from sax and trumpet all combine to reveal an organic, innovative new sound.

Not quite spoken word, Hip-Hop or Jazz, but an invigorating mix of all three, "In What Language" addresses our modern society in all its imperfection. Comparable to the work of Steve Reich on "Different Trains" and some of Laurie Anderson's more complex narrative pieces, Ladd and Iyer have created a modern Opera of sorts, one whose thematic concepts are painfully representative of the world we live in. Our world is not color-blind, and may never be, but at least there are artists who have the foresight to challenge the status quo. A fascinating release and definitely, in the immortal words of Duke Ellington ... "beyond category."

yes.......2005-06-17

yes yes yes..
this album is something really special.
I'm glad that arrogant fool wrote that clueless comment a couple comments before this. It's indicitive of the struggle two very talented , very aware , very genius and yes brown people have undergone to "validify" art. You dont owe him nothing or anyone anything. This art is real and solid. Keep keeping it REAL .
From a brother who was touched , moved and inspired by both album and perfromance

Jazz and Poetry Collaberation.......2004-12-06

This recording cannot be dismissed as a "rap" record. In fact, it is more in the tradition of jazz and poetry collaberations pioneered by Charles Mingus--his Scenes in the City, the Clown, Freedom, Don't Let It Happen Here, and Weary Blues. The heart of the recording is, however, not the words, but the music of Vijay Iyer, whose composition and playing here can only be described as brilliant. This record is proof that there are still innovators in jazz.

New music for a new age (but definitely not New Age music!).......2004-07-07

Some folks (or one person at least) have said some dumb things about this album, so I want to clear up a couple of things right off the bat: 1) If you hate spoken words (as opposed to sung words) in combination with music (which is like saying, "if you hate saxophones, categorically"), you might not like this disk, but to write this album off as "rap" or "hip-hop" is stunningly ignorant.
2) It has also been suggested that this album basically amounts to whining about inconsequentials in the face of the true horror of 9/11. By this logic, due to the enormity and injustice of 9/11, no one should point out or complain about any other injustices in the world, ever. Well, that's just dumb too.

So what do I think about this album? It's brilliant. And it works on so many levels. To start with, the music is like nothing else you've ever heard. Even though many of the tracks are in odd time signatures, it's music that makes you tap your foot if not just get up and move your body (which is true of most of the music Vijay Iyer writes). On this album even more his others, Vijay seems to delight in creating dense polyrhythmic patterns with just a few notes or just a couple chords, which lends itself very well to the sparse melodies and ambiant harmonics that create the base for the spoken word artists. But there's some serious blowing on this album as well, with fine solos from Vijay, Libertry Ellman and Rudresh Mahanthappa (not to mention killer drums from Trevor Holder that constantly dice up the odd time signatures and still sound seriously funky). And the album also works as an integration of "spoken word"/"rap" and "jazz", an accomplishment that many a fine artist have tried to do and failed miserably. Part of why it works so well is that many of the pieces are less like "rap" and more like recited poetry to music. It's not that the spoken parts don't have the rhytmic delivery of rap. It's more like the artists involved figured out that if you're going to mix "jazz" and "rap", it shouldn't sound like Chuck D is sitting in with MJQ (though
I suspect that that would be an interesting listen). Both forms are changed by they're mixing, and changed into something that is therefore no longer categorizable in either of the original forms. It's really beautiful.

Now as for the lyrics, which is another level on which this album works. The lyrics are not about ""people of color" having trouble at airports following 9/11" (which is dumb thing number three that was said about this album, for those of you counting at home). True, Mike Ladd addresses some of the more unfortunate, to put it mildly, effects of a John Ashcroft as enforcer-in-chief world. But the thematic material for this album is so much broader and more interesting than just that. The songs explore the new geography of a world where borders are being fortified and broken down simultaneously, and the international airport as a symbol for both human connections and economic disparity and discrimination.
It could and should be required reading/listening for introductory courses on "globalization". But this album is far from being some over-reaching "high-concept album"; it is smart, but it's also really cool to listen to and absorb as just really good music.

A Brilliant Song Cycle.......2004-04-19

This is a wonderful work of art. Duke Ellington said that much great music is "beyond category" and that is true of this release. It's a song cycle about travel, globalization, the treatment of people of color in zones of interaction such as airports, and the many scrambled cultures that make up the shrinking world we live in. It is artistically political and politically artistic, literate, layered and nuanced. It draws from many forms - jazz, hip-hop, beat(nik) poetry, classical influences. The musicians and vocalists are both women and men and come from multiple ethnic backgrounds, and this also informs the complex texture of the whole. Mike Ladd's trenchant lyrics could stand alone as well crafted poetry (they are included in a booklet), but the words are even better as recited by Ladd and others with the music. Vijay Iyer's excellent and often beautiful music provides a compelling context, ever-changing to meet what the lyrics are communicating and providing dramatic tension. The songs cover a vast emotional range and suggest how the world looks from many points of view. Iyer and Ladd say in the liner notes that it is their "attempt to make sense of the tumultuous world around us." Sense or not, they have grasped the essence of that world and somehow gotten it onto this disc through the magic of their words and music.

Average customer rating: punk jazz Been there spitual unity Spirits Rejoice. Primal free jazz classics for a new century

Spiritual Unity Marc Ribot Manufacturer: Pi Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos East/West A Yo I Killed Your God Requiem for What's His Name Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall ASIN: B0009298UW Release Date: 2005-05-03

Tracks:

1. Invocation
2. Spirits
3. Truth Is Marching In
4. Saints
5. Bells

Album Description

"From crusty garage rock to graceful classical, sculpted white noise to sultry Afro-Cuban grooviness, the New York native is a master of myriad musical forms and a slave to none…nowhere in Ribot's discography is this more evident than on Spiritual Unity, an extraordinary tribute to the late free-jazz pioneer Albert Ayler." - SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY

Customer Reviews:

punk jazz.......2006-04-08

I sort of edged into this sideways - as a 40 something ex-punk (wait, I'm still a punk, scratch that ex part) - and musician (guitar, drums) I've long been on the lookout for inspired noise. Earlier a reviewer notioned that Captain Beefheart can be heard in some of this work - and I agree wholeheartedly. It's just good solid fun giving up the usual pop-song form to enjoy the pure sounds of instruments that dance with each other - but perhaps also, dance apart from one another.

I don't care who is the world's greatest guitar player. No truely Punk rock inspired person ever will - because it has nothing to do with being able to create brilliant and inspiring music. If Johnny Ramone could write songs with two barr chord forms (and let's face it, he could have had his hand broken and set in either an A or E barr form, and the ramones would not have suffered much! In fact, ever see him play? His middle finger is UNDER the fret board for his A forms!) and still inspire a million people to pick up instruments and learn to play (instead of waiting around til they could do what Robert Frip does) He'd have to be called an inspiring guitarist, though obviously, technically his playing is more endurance based.
Ribot is sometimes said to be 3rd rate as a jazz musician, and I find the phrase meaningless and silly. After all, every time some guitar rag, full of advertising, lists the most influential guitarists of blah blah blah - the list is almost always the same group of tired classic rock and popular musicians that the kids vote for - there's very little new or interesting happening there. We've heard it!
Ribot is exciting, different, and very inspiring in his approach, tone, and even sleeve art and titles.
You must here Postizos off the Y los postizos cubanos album, to understand where I'm coming from. Lots of fun.

Been there.......2005-10-10

Yes, they are monsters when on stage. But beware, it could make a confusion - a friend of mine ran away from the club after 15 minutes of Ribot's & Ayler's controlled chaos. Wanderful, but not for everybodys ears. However, the recording is less disturbing, almost pleasant.

spitual unity.......2005-09-01

marc ribot is one of our most interesting guitars along with bill frisell. ribot has recognized albert ayler as the great jazz composer, improviser, and performer. ayler's compositions are the great dark ones of jazz. perhaps now ribot or frisell should tackle bix beiderbecke's work.

Spirits Rejoice........2005-07-06

Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity is a band put together to explore the music of Albert Ayler, both from a compositional and theoretical standpoint-- this recording, four Ayler pieces and one original by Ribot, are performed with the same sort of frenzied collective improvisation style of Ayler's bands. What's remarkable is that for a band that was relatively recently formed, this quartet (Ribot on guitar, bassist on several early Ayler sessions Henry Grimes, trumpeter Roy Campbell and drummer Chad Taylor) sounds as though they've been doing this for years.

Themes are generally briefly stated, after which frantic collective improvisation begins-- at each point, there is a solo voice, but everyone gets involved in the improvisation. Perhaps most impressive is Grimes, making only his second recording since returning to the music scene, who performs with a self-assured confidence, particularly arco. The album is full of powerful moments (all over), but for me, the best moment is the theme statement of "Truth is Marching In"-- Campbell plays the melody, Ribot counters and harmonies it and Grimes freely associates in arco below. Eventually, Taylor joins in and adds flourishes and emphasis to the points being made. The band switches to a second theme (about four and a half minutes in) before soloing, and you can hear the pure joy in their playing.

All in all, this is a great piece-- you get the impression (particularly from the included live recording, "Bells") that this band would be a monster live and that this is only a snapshot of what their potential is. Recommended.

Primal free jazz classics for a new century.......2005-05-18

One of the original giants of 1960's free jazz, saxophonist Albert Ayler's simple folk melodies and catchy march themes are easily the most instantly recognizable yet curiously the least covered or emulated. Guitarist Marc Ribot's "Spiritual Unity" is an attempt to bring Ayler's music into the future by re-imagining these primal works with an electro-acoustic quartet.

From Tom Waits and Elvis Costello to the Lounge Lizards and John Zorn, Ribot is the consummate Downtown scenester. Following his muse from the early "fake-jazz" of his own Rootless Cosmopolitans to exploring Afro-Cuban rhythms with his Los Cubanos Postizos, Ribot has always had an ear for the primal. Shrek was Ribot's early attempt to translate the energetic qualities of Ayler's passionate acoustic free jazz sensibilities to an electric guitar ensemble. With "Spiritual Unity" Ribot has assembled a quartet that not only mirrors Ayler's own classic quartet line-ups, but even features an original member.

With Henry Grimes, Ayler's original bassist, "Spiritual Unity" has a link to the past that provides a solid conceptual as well as sonic foundation. Despite Grimes' decades long hiatus from performing, he sounds utterly confident here and holds down the bottom end as readily as he uses his arco playing to invoke Ayler's frequent use of violins and cellos in his later music. Drummer Chad Taylor's approach to the intrinsic freedom found in these tunes is one of freely modulated pulse and embodies as much textural coloration as blazing forward momentum. Trumpeter Roy Campbell, a long time admirer of the late Don Cherry (one of Ayler's many horn partners) holds up the front line with splintery abstract glee one moment, somber lyricism the next. It is Ribot's own angular electric guitar improvisations that propel the album into the future however. Utilizing an edgy overdriven sound to conjure Ayler's own primal tenor shreik, Ribot bridges the gap between free jazz saxophone skronk and rock guitar wail.

The tunes themselves are mere melodic skeletons, sketched out head melodies designed for intensive improvisation. Subtly updating the old man's original formula, Ribot has managed to transmit Ayler's timeless folk tunes into the next century. Unconcerned with tricky time changes and complex multipart themes utilized by so many other Downtown improvisers, this session is one of unfettered free blowing. The only non-studio track, the closer "Bells," recorded live at Tonic, is a perfect example of the quartet's methodology. Riding a simple melody from barely audible pointillism to burn out collective improvisation and back again, these four conjure everything from plaintive sing song cadences to frenzied electric melt down.

"Spiritual Unity" not only breathes life into classic post-war free jazz tunes, but provides an easy entrance for those unfamiliar with the folksy delirium of Albert Ayler's oeuvre.

Average customer rating: a panoramic aural experience Three stone jazz geniuses get together . . .

Streaming Muhal Richard Abrams , George Lewis , and Roscoe Mitchell Manufacturer: Pi Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sound Grammar Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium New Monastery With Love - Charles Tolliver Big Band Beyond the Wall ASIN: B000I2J7PO Release Date: 2006-10-10

Tracks:

1. Scrape
2. Bound
3. Dramaturns
4. Soundhear
5. Streaming

Album Description

"George Lewis has been working the wavering line between jazz and contemporary classical thinking, and that potentially dangerous polystylistic attitude rings triumphant here ... his own voyage continues to be compelling, and, thankfully, impossible to pigeonhole." -- JAZZTIMES

"A brief glimpse into the rich world and mind of Muhal Richard Abrams." -- DOWN BEAT

"The master conceptualist of the AACM, [Roscoe Mitchell] has a firm empirical base even at his most outlandish; he always gives you a clear view of the formal problem he's trying to solve." -- NEW YORK TIMES

A recording by Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, or Roscoe Mitchell is occasion for notice and celebration. A recording by all three of them together is a historic musical moment. Abrams, founder of the AACM; Mitchell, founder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago; and Lewis, recipient of the MacArthur Grant's "Genius Award"--together on record for the first time as a trio! Enough has been written about these three men to fill volumes of jazz and creative music history books, but it is the musical documents that tell us the most. Here, we have five pieces recorded in Spring 2005 that explore elements of interest for all three composers: electronics, open playing, contemporary classical, jazz, and the use of space.

"Scrape" features each artist performing on his instrument of notoriety: piano, trombone, and sax. "Bound" is a duet between Mitchell and Lewis, with the latter working on his sampling and electronics gear. As the music segues into "Dramaturns," Abrams opens with a playful descending line beginning a duet between himself and Lewis. The final two tracks feature trio music that incorporates percussion and bird sounds, and all three men embrace the moment as the historic occasion that it was. Pi Recordings takes great pleasure in releasing this music. The label hopes that it is not the last time that they have the occasion to do so, and they are happy to say that there is enough here to satisfy.

Customer Reviews:

a panoramic aural experience.......2007-04-15

there are no themes here so there are no variations, and without themes there is nothing to improvise. cecil taylor has passed through this musical territory from time to time, and don pullen has skirted the borders, but this isn't avant garde or free jazz. there have been pioneers, mahler, harry partch and quite a few 19th century pianists/composers, so only (kind of) traditionally can streaming be considered experimental music. keith jarrett has visited the territory. settlers have been anthony braxton and anthony davis, check out his middle passage. that's about as close as i want to get with a description of abrams' streaming.

this is a highly sophisicated cd, an extraordinary achievement. and i like the terse statements, mostly on the art of improvisation, by the players george russell, roscoe mitchell and abrams for linear notes.

and i also like the cover painting by muhal richard abrams.

Three stone jazz geniuses get together . . ........2006-12-17

. . . and create previously unheard but strangely familiar music.

Don't get me wrong: This is music entirely beyond the scope of normality. Yet it resonates with our deepest longings in such homely, even accessible, fashion, despite its surface weirdness, that it should (and one is tempted to say absolutely ought to be) heard by the widest possible audience.

Each of these remarkable players has a formidable, if somewhat abstruse, resume. They've played together and been recorded on three or four different occasions. They've been part of, together or separately, some of the most evocative exploratory jazz.

That they've come together in the early third millennium to record music of this consequence is not only unexpected but entirely serendipitous.

Yes, it's admittedly sometimes difficult to integrate the welter of sounds into a coherent aural palette, yet it's always worth the effort, at least in my opinion. Take, for example, the sonic rarity of "Dramaturns" near the end of its remarkable 18-plus minute excursion: We have lunatic piano juxtaposed against ethereal laptop then morphed into odd trombone voicings (laptop and trombone courtesy of the inimitable George Lewis) resolving into unexpected coherence. What to make of this seemingly bizarre aural nonsense save musical genius of the first water?

And again, check out the piano-percussion-laptop musical collage of "Soundhear" (weird song titles merely enhancing the inherent aural oddness), sounding like Gismonti/Vasconcelos on steroids filtered through some arcane yet friendly postmod Scelsi/John Adams sound design.

Look.

The gauntlet's thrown down. It will be interesting to see which avant-jazz warrior(s) will rise to the challenge.

Average customer rating: symphony of a thousand (pianos) piano revelations. Dizzying experiments by a brilliant maverick Intriguing Ideas, Experiment upon Experiment Expand your thinking about music construction

Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano Manufacturer: Wergo Germany ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Tangos | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Nancarrow | Nancarrow, Conlon | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Canons | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Conlon Nancarrow : Lost Works, Last Works Nancarrow: Pieces Nos. 1 & 2; ¿Tango?; String Quartet No. 1 Ligeti: Mechanical Music Complete Webern Player Piano 1: Nancarrow Vol. 1 ASIN: B000031W5A Release Date: 2000-01-11

Tracks:

1. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3a
2. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3b
3. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3c
4. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3d
5. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3e
6. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 20
7. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 44
8. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 41a
9. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 41b
10. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 41c

Tracks:

1. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 4
2. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 5
3. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 6
4. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 14
5. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 22
6. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 26
7. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 31
8. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 35
9. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 32
10. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 37
11. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano Tango?
12. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 40a
13. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 40b

Tracks:

1. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 1
2. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 2a
3. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 2b
4. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 7
5. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 8
6. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 10
7. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 15
8. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 21
9. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 23
10. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 24
11. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 25
12. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 33
13. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 43
14. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 50

Tracks:

1. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 9
2. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 11
3. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 12
4. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 13
5. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 16
6. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 17
7. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 18
8. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 19
9. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 27
10. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 28
11. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 29
12. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 34
13. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 36
14. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 46
15. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 47

Tracks:

1. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 42
2. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 45a
3. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 45b
4. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 45c
5. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 48a
6. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 48b
7. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 48c
8. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 49a
9. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 49b
10. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 49c

Amazon.com

To speak of Conlon Nancarrow's music for player piano shouldn't be mistaken to suggest some still broader range of musical output of which the composer's piano rolls are but a subset. Quite the contrary: Nancarrow's meticulous scores--generally unplayable, at least by most primates--are the body of his life's work. This five-CD set contains dozens upon dozens of his studies, each a fairly self-contained exploration of tempo, pitch, rhythm, counterpoint--and the interaction between pairings of those core musical categories. Certainly, this is "difficult" music, hard on the ears, off-kilter in a manner that both demands attention and may repulse listeners unfamiliar with experimental composition. After initial exposure, this collection is the sort of thing that sits on the shelf for some time, before your imagination breaks its internal code. Once that code is broken, though, the vast life inherent in this "mechanical" music becomes almost intoxicating. On some of the quieter pieces, the piano's tone is similar to that of a harpsichord. On others, the palimpsest of ragtime is undeniable. Yes, some pieces seem overly chaotic, but spend some time with them and you'll see, in your mind's eye, dozens of hands working the keys. --Marc Weidenbaum

Customer Reviews:

symphony of a thousand (pianos).......2004-11-15

Imagine for a moment that you have entered a room full of slightly beat-up upright pianos. These pianos begin to come to life by sputtering out unusual, irregular melodies. The melodies don't fit together exactly, but somehow they seem right sounding together. Before you know it, there are so many pianos playing that you can't keep track of them all and they begin to accrue into an impossibly dense spray of sound. Even if you had a roomful of humans playing these pianos they wouldn't get the overwhelming, unswerving independence of each individual line in each piano. The pianos stop playing and you wonder what just happened....

Hopefully this description will give you some indication of what you're in for with these wonderful studies for player piano. Because Nancarrow was working with these mechanical instruments, he could combine complex ratios of rhythms against each other. Some are so subtle that no human could replicate them exactly. This is not to say that the music is dehumanized. It has a great deal of warmth and humor. What Nancarrow gains from the very mechanical nature of these instruments is part of the appeal.

These studies are as rugged and individual as the composer and, as mentioned earlier, Ligeti's Etudes would never have been possible without Nancarrow's wonderful music.

piano revelations........2004-02-22

This stuff influenced Ligeti's "Etudes" for solo piano. The music is mind-blowing.

Dizzying experiments by a brilliant maverick.......2004-01-09

A true compositional original, Conlon Nancarrow is best known for these mind-blowing pieces for player piano. Why this particular instrument? Because most of these short works are utterly unplayable by human beings, unless you are capable of say, depressing all 88 keys at the same time. While later in life Nancarrow also wrote a few small pieces for chamber ensembles, his work here is the core of his output and where his imagination truly took flight.

You may not be quite lucid after hearing something like Study No. 25, which has 1,028 notes in its final 12 seconds, or one of my favorites, the so-called "Canon X" (No. 21). It begins with two musical lines at opposite ends of the keyboard: the bass starts slowly and gradually accelerates, the treble begins in a super-fast blur of notes at the highest end and gradually descends, becoming ever-slower. In the middle of the piece, these two lines cross each other before they continue on their separate ways.

In study after study, Nancarrow explores complex relationships between meter and pitch, most of the time with absolutely astounding results. Some of these pieces are a bit more relaxed, with blues and jazz elements giving them an almost homespun quality. But soon the blizzard of notes returns, as the composer makes full use of the player piano's capabilities. You almost can't believe what you are hearing.

A word of caution: You probably don't want to program all five discs straight through. Well recorded as it is, the timbre of the instrument becomes wearing on the ear after awhile. Give your ears a break and to listen to something completely different, like Debussy, Copland -- or maybe Bob Dylan.

An essential collection for some -- I'm not sure whom! -- but something every listener should hear at least once.

Intriguing Ideas, Experiment upon Experiment.......2000-12-30

Conlon Nancarrow is one of those composers who could exist only in real life, as he would be too implausible for fiction. Nancarrow was a composer for player piano, who spent much of his life an expatriate in Mexico, composing music steeped in both early 20th C. jazz and "modernist" classical traditions, and yet music that is entirely individual.

For me, Nancarrow's work functions best when he illustrates the sheer possibility of the keyboard freed from the limitations of a human player or players. The player piano in Nancarrow's work is an acrobat, ready to twirl on wires from which human piano players are unable to dangle. I find least satisfying the experimental works which are centered less on the possibility of the player piano, and more on the synthesis of 30s jazz into a unique classical aesthetic. I freely confess to being a listener rather than a musician in my own right, and some of the experiments just don't keep me hooked.

Still, if you're longing for something quite different and of high quality, Nancarrow may be what you are seeking.

Expand your thinking about music construction.......2000-07-27

Re-open any closed ideas you had about musical structure, architecture, harmony, rhythm, melody -- and what brings pleasure to your brain. Listening to these pieces inspires whole new forms of composition.

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Chill With Bach Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Concerto Grossi | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Forms & Genres | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Organ | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Magnificats | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Passions | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Chill With Mozart Chill With Tchaikovsky Chill with Handel Chill With Vivaldi Chill with Chopin ASIN: B0000BX5KT Release Date: 2004-07-20

Tracks:

1. Aria - Chen Pi-Hsien
2. Largo Ma Non Troppo - Takako Nishizaki
3. Adagio - Enno Voorhurst
4. Adagio - Wolfgang Rubsam
5. Air - Karl Kaiser
6. Erbarme Dich' Mein Gott - Children's Choir Of The Hungarian Radio
7. Jesue, Joy Of Man's Desiring, BWV 147 - Bertalan Hock
8. Et Exultavit - Jeremy Summerly
9. Prelude No. 1 In C Major, BWV 846 - Jeno Jando
10. Ave Maria - Nora Shulman
11. Andante - Helmut Muller-Bruhl
12. Sheep My Safely Graze - Bertalan Hock
13. Sarabande - Cologne Chamber Orchestra
14. Siciliano - Hae-won Chang
15. Adagio Ma Non Troppo - Bob Van Asperen
16. Prelude - Alexander Rudin
17. Aria DC - Chen Pi-Hsien

Average customer rating:

Back in Time Odyssey Band Manufacturer: Pi Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sound Grammar Timeless: Live at the Velvet Lounge Political Blues Birthright Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions ASIN: B000BPK2C0 Release Date: 2005-11-29

Tracks:

1. Last One
2. Open Doors
3. Happy Time
4. Little Red House
5. Water Tree
6. Love Nest
7. Woman Coming
8. Channel One
9. Let's Get Married
10. Free For Three

Album Description

"Electric guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer ... is one of jazz's great progressives." -- Will Hermes, Entertainment Weekly "Back In Time is the new year's first A+, Ulmer's friskiest since the 1983 Columbia LP from which the trio derives its name." -- Francis Davis, Village Voice "Any written description of Odyssey the band is no longer valid by the time the ink dries. This group redefines itself every few moments." -- Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes

Since its original release in November 2005, James "Blood" Ulmer's Back In Time has received rave reviews. Down Beat critics voted Ulmer onto the Blues Artist of the Year chart, and the Village Voice listed the release in its Top 50 of the Year. Of the artists who have risen to prominence on jazz guitar, James "Blood" Ulmer is one of the most notable. From his first days as Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic guitarist in Prime Time, his path to guitar innovator was a fast one. In the ten-year period between 1973, when he began his formal relationship with Harmolodics and Ornette Coleman, and 1983, when he recorded one of the epochal albums of the 1980s (Odyssey), it can be argued that Ulmer's evolution was the logical outgrowth of Hendrix, and just as significant. The band on, including Charles Burnham and Warren Benbrow, has since become known as Odyssey and is recognized today as the quintessential Ulmer band. A return of this group after a seven-year hiatus is a cause for celebration, and a call to those who may have forgotten to take notice. A return as musically engaging and powerful as this one is a reminder of how startlingly original, innovative, and downright forceful James "Blood" Ulmer is as an artist.

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5. Rhythm & Stealth
6. Scorpio Rising
7. Shri Durga
8. Siddharta: Spirit of Buddha Bar (Slip)
9. Softcore Jukebox
10. Starry Eyed Surprise [CD-single] [Enhanced]

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