Plush

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While it fits comfortably into the overexposed genre known as "chill music," Plush stretches beyond the norm, mixing acoustic material with a wide variety of styles. Through a combination of jazz, light house, funk, and even watered-down two-step (Steve Austeen's "Like This" featuring Gillian O' Donovan), Plush uses a playlist of established and up-and-coming artists to tweak the chill formula just enough, making for a decent compilation. The always dependable Tomoyuki Tanaka (a.k.a. Fantastic Plastic Machine) contributes his "Todos Os Desejos" from 2001's Beautiful, all spiffed up here courtesy of King Britt's "Scuba" remix. Elsewhere, Hefner's sleepy remake of Prince's "Controversy" will please some with its clever choice of source material and infuriate those who appreciated the original's sharp, bouncy rhythms. Aquanote's "Come Around" (from The Pearl) blurs the line between Latin and lounge with a mournful trumpet melody. --Matthew Cooke

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Average customer rating: Blown Away! A nice surprise PLUSH-GUSHES!!!! Plush is real comfort pLUSH is lush

Plush Various Artists Manufacturer: Kriztal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: More Plush Chillounge Vintage Chill, Vol. 1: Spring Mesmerising Vintage Chill, Vol. 2: Summer ASIN: B00007G73W Release Date: 2003-01-21

Tracks:

1. Lately - Wondabraa
2. Like This - Steve Austeen/Gillian O'Donovan
3. Fingerprints - Alex Cortiz
4. Silent Surveyor - Hattler (De-Phazz remix)
5. Todos Os Desejos - Fantastic Plastic Machine (King Britt Scuba remix)
6. Apricot Morning - Quantic
7. Controversy - Hefner
8. Never The Same - Mum
9. Come Around - Aquanote
10. Bud - Cadien
11. In The Mood For Love - S-Tone Inc.
12. Sound Of The Samba - Victor Davies
13. Theia - Minus 8

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While it fits comfortably into the overexposed genre known as "chill music," Plush stretches beyond the norm, mixing acoustic material with a wide variety of styles. Through a combination of jazz, light house, funk, and even watered-down two-step (Steve Austeen's "Like This" featuring Gillian O' Donovan), Plush uses a playlist of established and up-and-coming artists to tweak the chill formula just enough, making for a decent compilation. The always dependable Tomoyuki Tanaka (a.k.a. Fantastic Plastic Machine) contributes his "Todos Os Desejos" from 2001's Beautiful, all spiffed up here courtesy of King Britt's "Scuba" remix. Elsewhere, Hefner's sleepy remake of Prince's "Controversy" will please some with its clever choice of source material and infuriate those who appreciated the original's sharp, bouncy rhythms. Aquanote's "Come Around" (from The Pearl) blurs the line between Latin and lounge with a mournful trumpet melody. --Matthew Cooke

Customer Reviews:

Blown Away!.......2004-05-21

Sitting in my favorite Thai resturant I was trying to have a conversation and order lunch with a friend....but I kept geting into the music that was playing bobbing my head just feeling it to the point where I told my friend to hold her thought..... I went to the bar and asked the hostess who was the music by, she said "PLUSH" and showed me the CD cover..... man the more I heard the more I wanted... I was blown away, I am a fan of chillout music not a BIG collector of CDs BUT "PLUSH" was a must have for me.... The hostess RECOMMENDED "HOTEL COSTAS 6" also, so I ordered HC6 based on her comments and the AMAZON reviews... it's all good.....even my friend who isn't a BIG music fan dug the heck out of it.. a classic to be.... I could have sat there all afternoon smooooootin & chilllllin GREAT stuff...
5*****+ PLUSH is Plush!

A nice surprise.......2003-10-24

A very intersting and smart product inside the world of the chillout collection.
It's not easy to define a proper identy in a large offer of chillout cd.
Plush it's a brillant cd, well made in all aspect (very nice cover inside and outside), and in particular with the music.
Each songs give almost the best of the single artists (for example : Wondabraa with Lately (parachute) or Alex Cortiz with Fingerprints, but also Todos os Dejos of Fantastic Plastic Machine and Apricot Morning of Quantic...
Good taste of the producer in every songs (i love Cadien with Bud)the athmosphera it's really sexy, funky, contemporary grooves....
I suggest for all the people that are in love with Costes series...here you will find a real top level alternative.

PLUSH-GUSHES!!!!.......2003-08-19

I originally wrote a looong @$$ review of this CD because it was so outstanding, but for some strange reason it, along with several other reviews I wrote, did not get posted--so, I will be very brief and to the point with this review...pLUSH is the bomb-diggety--if I may steal an old mid-90s r&b cliche! The CD itself goes beyond conventional chill-out and reaches a new level in the genre. Indeed, pLush gushes wonderfully with everything from 2-step (Steve Austeen w/Gillian O'Donovan) to groovy-ambient-funk (Wonderbraa, Alex Cortiz, Mum and Quantic) to acid jazz (Cadien and Hatler) to samba (S-Tone and Victor Davies) and everything in between. There's even a killer, albeit more laid-back, remake of Prince's "Controversy" by Hefner that actually (in my opinion) sounds better than the original...I always said it takes real skill and effrontery to redo anything by Prince! Other chill-out albums should take notes from pLUSH in trying to create something new in the very mundane world of chill-out/downtempo music...after listening to this set it's obvious that there's more to that style of music than drone beats and hallucinogenic singers...pLUSH has indeed set a new standard in chill-out--if you can even begin to categorize it in that format. Now, let's hope this review gets posted this time!!

Plush is real comfort.......2003-02-14

So you wanna have music on that provides some real audio comfort, music that has some very cool rhythms, music that is well-orchestrated and textured, well search no more for Plush delivers on all levels, it is a lovely mix of music in the so-called "downtempo" vein but it is really above and beyond just the latest kind of thing, instead it is a combination of some very sexy music that exemplifies the best in current trends in music! I found it to be wonderful for playtime and my lover agreed with some stunning sonic cues to me as the disc unwound the first time we had it on as we got it on! It is certainly a great disc for the romantically inclined although it is good enough to be just darn good without having to occupy anything specific by way of description since it rolls easily all the way from the very cool to the beautifully hot. I could wax on about my fave tracks but I actually love them all, it is a well put together set and has that magical sort of flow from track to track. You should try it on for love, don't even say a word to your sweetie, just put forward your best kiss and let the disc play, Plush indeed!

pLUSH is lush.......2003-02-02

The tracks are all over the stylistic map, but fit together perfectly logically. I've listened to my copy over ten times now from start to finish and I'm continuously surprised at the freshness of the music. And who is attached to that sexy leg on the cover art?

Average customer rating: MORE PLUSH Various Artists!!! really cool compilation

More Plush Various Artists Manufacturer: Kriztal Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Plush Chillounge Hotel Costes, Vol. 9 Rendezvous Lounge, Vol. 2 compiled by DJ Mark Gorbulew Fjord Fusioneer ASIN: B000GYHR9C Release Date: 2006-09-19

Tracks:

1. The Mating Game - Bitter:Sweet
2. Die Halbstarken (Ohm-Gs Evissa Garage Haven Mix) - Martin Bher
3. Sophiesticated Lady - Sven Van Hees
4. Mogul Modal - Ikon
5. Budapest Eskimos - The Lushlife Project
6. Poppy Noodles - Metro Garage
7. Starlight Serenade (Gabor Deutsch Mix) - Martin Bher
8. In The Midlife Zone - Shine
9. Jazz Mood No. 1 - Future Loop Foundation
10. 6 aus 49 - Becker
11. Slowly (Radio Edit) - Max Sedgley
12. Night Out - SLACKWAX
13. L.I.P.S.T.I.C.K. (The Shakes Summernight Remix) - Ralph Myerz
14. Naked (12 Boat Crew Remix) - Praful
15. Catalina Sunset (Fort Knox Five Rework) - Soulphonic Soundsystem

Album Description

more pLUSH picks up where pLUSH left off, leaving you wanting more. We bring it to you here with distinctive downtempo works alongside upbeat and straight-out party rockers but all the while maintaining that sexy and sophisticated groove you've come to expect from Kriztal. Now turn down the lights...

Customer Reviews:

MORE PLUSH Various Artists!!!.......2007-02-14

This CD Turned Out To Be A Really Really Good One. This Whole CD Is One Catchy Piece Of Work. So Many Compilations Have A Couple Of Good Songs And The Rest Suck!!! Not This One, GREAT From Start To Finish. My Favoites Are Budapest Eskimo And Catalina Sunset. You Have A Good Mix Of Slow And More Upbeat Tracks! You Can Lump It In With Smooth Jazz, New Age And I Suppose Even Pop. What Ever Your Tastes, Put This One In Your Collection.

really cool compilation.......2006-09-25

i have the first pLUSH and it was so good i didn't think that a follow up would do it justice, but i was happily surprised. this is filled with great catchy songs and not a single ounce of filler. so many of these chill cds have too many boring songs and maybe one or two good ones. not this one. i highly recommend it!!! the "slowly" song by max sedgley is the bomb.

Average customer rating: Hayes Delivers Masterwork DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

Fed Plush Manufacturer: P-Vine ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005ULEG Release Date: 2002-12-23

Tracks:

1. Whose Blues
2. I've Changed My #
3. Blown Away
4. So Blind
5. Greyhound Bus Station
6. No Education
7. Sound Of S.F.
8. Born Together
9. Unis
10. Whose Blues Anyway
11. What'll We Do
12. Having It All
13. Fed Intro
14. Fed
15. The Woods

Album Description

Fed is destined to be one of rock's great lost albums. Chiefly because Hayes spent so much money realizing his vision, no European or American label would foot the bill (available only as a Japanese import!). Fed is an ornamental folly whose budget is artistically necessary but financially unsustainable. It is doomed to be a legend spoken of more than actually heard. It's like a collection of Burt Bacharach or Jim Webb songs bent out of shape - intricate melodies wander off at tangents when you least expect them too. After Hours label. 2002.

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Hayes Delivers Masterwork.......2003-06-18

'Three-Quarters Blind Eyes +2' was released in 1994 by Drag City. Four years later the first full-length 'More You Becomes You' appeared, a haunted, shambolic recording. A session you might expect from the glimpse we see of Liam in the movie 'High Fidelity' (Liam at a piano in a neighborhood bar). The music on 'More You' occasionally soars, as on the disc's closer 'The Sailor', but unfortunately rates as a "great sunday morning record", nothing more.

The question is can the guy who rocked with such authority on 'Three-Quarters Blind Eyes, with the range and sweetness of a younger, less sober Alex Chilton deliver this time? Is the man who came on like a mutant Nilsson on 'Found a Little Baby', an astounding singer/arranger out of the gate, capable of living up to the promise of nearly a decade ago?

The answer music lovers is yes! 'Fed' is everything this particular music nerd hoped for in '94 and then some. From the opening pageant of 'Whose Blues' with its languid intro and salvo of horns to the sublime resignation of 'No Education', this record was not only worth the wait, but worth whatever you have to pay for it. Mr. Hayes spared no expense in bringing us his masterwork and so it goes that only an unknown patron, presumably Japanese, has had the interest or pockets deep enough to issue 'Fed'.

Initial listens might lead you to think you are listening to a Liam Hayes bliss-out (the fist few tracks) only to be shaken from your reverie by the soul-stab of'So Blind' and the single 'Greyhound Bus Staion' with its' giddy aimlessness. It has immediate appeal and with repeated listens becomes almost seamless. You also get some deeply odd cover and insert photography. Liam holding a goat amid a sea of canned goods, standing besides a manic, leaping clerk. The clerk is sporting a button which reads:ONLY LOVE BEATS MUTTON. And what of the woman's picture on the button on the man's lapel, on the cover?

Buy and be blown away!

DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!.......2003-01-23

I first heard Plush when he(they?) released the "Three Quarters Blind Eyes" EP. Immediately I loved that perfect slice of indie pop and had to search out this CD after reading an approving review in Uncut.

This album may not be immediate, but it surely grows on you.
"Fed" is an eclectic mix of Brian Wilson, Melody Nelson-era-Serge Gainsbourg, Bright Eyes,alternative country, Stax soul etc, yet it remains a highly personal and original record.
Even if "Fed" is heavily orchestrated at times, it has a warmth and an intimacy that shines through.

I can't stop playing this, and it's certainly a shame that it
remains unreleased in both the US and in Europe.However, "Fed" is worth the high price that this Japanese import has.

Buy, listen and love!

Average customer rating: Mix up the Martinis Sultry vocals Outstanding performer and artist Not quite my speed, but a very good CD all the same Can't hear it enough

Live At The Plush Room Jacqui Naylor Manufacturer: Ruby Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Cabaret | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Live East/West: Birdland/Yoshi's 2CD Set Jacqui Naylor Shelter The Color Five Brand New Morning ASIN: B00005LLY3 Release Date: 2001-04-01

Tracks:

1. Love me or leave
2. Ain't no sunshine
3. I got the sun in the morning
4. Blue skies
5. Estate
6. My baby just cares for me
7. Lazy afternoon
8. Time after time
9. Playng your game, baby
10. It could happen to you

Album Description

The Bay Area's sultry-cool jazz sensation, Jacqui Naylor, definately believes in stretching the concept of the jazz standard. Her new CD titled "Live At The Plush Room", captures the artist's eclectic musical tastes and uses her wide vocal range and retro-hip intimacy to connect tunes by Irving Berlin, Bill Withers, and Barry White.

Thirty percent of the artist's revenue from the CD will benefit Music in Schools Today(MUST), a nonprofit organization that serves the public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area by supporting student's diverse talents and creativity.

Customer Reviews:

Mix up the Martinis.......2004-05-02

On the liner notes to the CD, Ms. Naylor thanks the Plush Room for giving her the opportunity "..to show the world how much I love to sing." It's clear that she does, and enjoys every minute of it. Lots of Jazz standards we have all heard hundreds of times before, but she makes them well worth another listen. She is backed by an excellent band; there are several exquisite piano solos throughout the record. This is a well-recorded live CD; it puts you right in the middle of the proverbial smoky jazz club. If you are a straight-ahead Jazz fan, this is the CD for you. Mix up the martinis, sit back, and enjoy.

Sultry vocals.......2004-03-23

This is an enjoyable CD, Jacqui Naylor has a great sultry sound, not unlike the great Billie Holiday. The reason for the four stars is that the recording is very heavy in the bass. I find to enjoy this disk fully, I have to lower the bass way down. I imagine the issue is related to this being a live recording. I urge jazz fans to buy this disk and enjoy this young talent.

Outstanding performer and artist.......2003-12-20

I was fortunate enough to have caught Jacqui Naylor live just weeks ago. This album captures the almost indescribable, intimately magic touch that she obviously commands with audiences. I enthusiastically recommend this album, along with "Shelter", which shows off her range of compositional skills and a different, non-traditional jazz, (at times almost trip-hoppy/new rock) sound and fascinating reworkings of popular rock songs. She is a genuine artist who has earned all the accolades.

Not quite my speed, but a very good CD all the same.......2003-08-06

Jacqui has one of those voices you either love or hate. For some reason, I come down right in the middle.

I think this a very good CD overall. I might not go out and buy all her other CDs, but there was enough good stuff here that I'll listen to this one from time to time and still enjoy it!

Can't hear it enough.......2003-04-06

I love this record! Jacqui has that something that makes me feel better when I am feeling down...a certain honesty I think that comes through in her voice and her music. I heard there is a new recording soon to be out and can't wait to hear it. If "I Remember You", the single from it, is any indication of the vibe and the caliber of writing on that record...I'm there.

She has a lot of soul and sings like an angel with an edge! I really appreciate the chances she takes with her music and feel that while I know she is a jazz singer, she sings standards in a really hip and interesting way. Her voice sounds a bit like Billie Holiday in that soothing kind of way sometimes but mostly she just sounds like her...like she is telling a story and no matter what kind of story she is telling...a standard, a rock cover or an original...she means it!

I also like that she tries to do good things with her music like helping to keep music in the schools and getting involved with artists against AIDS. I think that is really admirable and probably not easy to do in the entertainment business.

One more pet peeve of mine...for a live recording this is actually done quite well. I am a big jazz fan and I have a lot of live recordings where I love the music but the recording drives me crazy so I really appreciate the care that was taken in selecting these live tracks and putting them together in a way that really flows.

I can't listen to this CD enough and can't wait to hear what's next from this exceptional artist!

Average customer rating: "Can you feel the funk?!"

Plush Plush Manufacturer: Bmg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005NNUW Release Date: 2001-09-26

Tracks:

1. Burnin' Love
2. We've Got The Love
3. Free And Easy
4. Coast To Coast
5. Gonna Get Ya
6. Livin For Your Love
7. Strangers Again
8. I Don't Know (Where Love Comes From)

Album Details

24bit digitally K2 remastered.

Customer Reviews:

"Can you feel the funk?!".......2003-10-05

With the hit "Free & Easy" and the killer stepper "Coast to Coast",Produced by "Rene Moore & Angela Winbush".
If you like the "moog" youlike them!!!

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George Clinton's Family Series, Vol. 3: Plush Funk George Clinton Manufacturer: Aem Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music Funk | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: "P" is the Funk George Clinton's Family Series Vol. 2 George Clinton's Family Series, Vol. 1 Family Series, Vol. 5 Testing Positive 4 The Funk Funk Or Walk ASIN: B00000DN41 Release Date: 1993-08-30

Tracks:

1. May Day (S.O.S.) - Funkadelic
2. Funkin for My Mama's Rent
3. Booty Body Ready for the Plush Funk
4. I Envy the Sunshine - Jessica Cleaves
5. Lickety Split - The Horny Horns
6. Common Law Wife - Flo
7. Super Spirit - Junie, Walter "Junie" Morrison
8. Love Don't Come Easy
9. I Can't Stand It - Andre Fox, Trey Lewd, Tracey Lewis
10. Monster Dance - Ron Ford
11. We're Just Funkers - Michael Hampton
12. Studio Memories [Interview] - George Clinton

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Leo Smit: 33 Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson Manufacturer: Bridge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000JIRG Release Date: 1999-07-20

Tracks:

1. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 1. I Was The Slightest..
2. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 2. Through Lane It Lay...
3. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 3. It Troubled Me As...
4. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 4. The Childs Faith Is New
5. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 5. Softened My Time's...
6. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 6. Papa Above!
7. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 7. We Talked As Girls Do
8. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 8. They Shut Me Up In...
9. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 9. I Cried At Pity--Not At
10. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 10. Let Us Play Yesterday
11. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 11. A Loss Of Something...
12. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 12. Good Morning...
13. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 13. Up Life's Hill With...
14. Cycle 1, Cholde Emilie, 14 Songs About Memories & Fantasies Of Childhood: 14. I'm Ceded--I've...
15. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 1. I Was A Phoebe--Nothing More
16. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 2. The Bird Her Punctual Music Brings
17. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 3. The Earth Has Many Keys
18. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 4. The Bobolink Is Gone
19. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 5. A Train Went Through A Burial Gate
20. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 6. I Cannot Dance Upon My Toes
21. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 7. Upon His Saddle Sprung A Bird
22. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 8. Better-Than Music!--For I--Who...
23. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 9. Bind Me--I Still Can Sing
24. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 10. Within My Garden, Rides A Bird
25. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 11. Heart, Not So Heavy As Mine
26. Cycle 2, The Celestial Thrush, 12 Songs About Music & Birds: 12. I Shall Keep Singing
27. Cycle 6, The White Diadem, 7 Songs About Poets & Poetry: 1. I Reckon--When I Count At All
28. Cycle 6, The White Diadem, 7 Songs About Poets & Poetry: 2. I Dwell In Possibility
29. Cycle 6, The White Diadem, 7 Songs About Poets & Poetry: 3. The Martyr Poets--Did Not Tell
30. Cycle 6, The White Diadem, 7 Songs About Poets & Poetry: 4. The Poets Light But Lamps
31. Cycle 6, The White Diadem, 7 Songs About Poets & Poetry: 5. I Would Not Paint--A Picture
32. Cycle 6, The White Diadem, 7 Songs About Poets & Poetry: 6. To Pile Like Thunder To Its Close
33. Cycle 6, The White Diadem, 7 Songs About Poets & Poetry: 7. Me--Come! My Dazzled Face

Album Description

Leo Smit has an impressive pedigree as an American composer and musician. A virtuoso pianist, he has worked closely with such legends as Stravinsky, Balanchine, Copland and Stokowski. He has set more that 75 of Emily Dickinson's poems to music, grouping the works into cycles about related subject matter. The disc contains the world premiere recordings of three of those cycles- Childe Emilie- Memories and Fantasies of Childhood, The Celestrial Thrush- Songs of Music and Bird, and The White Diadem- Songs About Poets and Poetry. Smit's songs display great sensitivity to Dickinson's very personal world, and reflect the poet's emotional range by adopting an extremely colorful palette. The songs frequently veer from the simple and tonal to more rhythmically complex and chromatic settings, always alert to word and mood.

Average customer rating: What the San Francisco Chronicle says......

Live at the Plush Room Mike Greensill Manufacturer: Pismo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0001DJJ62 Release Date: 2004-01-21

Tracks:

1. Ive Got Just About Everything (Dorough)
2. Love For Sale (Porter)
3. I Should Care (Weston/Cahn/Storhdal)
4. A Dry Guy (Greensill)
5. Stella By Starlight (Young/Washington)
6. Ill Never Stop Loving You (Brodzsky/Cahn)
7. It Aint Necessarily So (Gershwins)
8. Blues Noir (Greensill)
9. A Time For Love (Mandel/Webster)
10. Better Than Anything (Loughborough/Wheat)
11. Wonder Why/Be My Love (Brodzsky/Cahn)
12. I Thought About You (Van Heusen)
13. Girl Of My Dreams (Sunny Clapp)
14. Small Day Tomorrow (Landesman/Dorough)

Album Description

A program of Great American Songs, Jazz Songs and originals from the pen of Mike Greensill recorded live at the Plush Room in San Francisco. Featuring the legendary drummer Donald "Duck" Bailey and the swinging bass of John Wiitala with Mike Greensill on Piano and Vocals.

Customer Reviews:

What the San Francisco Chronicle says.............2004-02-17

Mike Greensill Trio: "Live at the Plush Room"

by Steven Winn
San Francisco Chronicle - Sunday Datebook, February 15, 2004

Among San Francisco's many musical blessings, count the sensitivity,
responsive wit and inventive bounty of jazz pianist Mike Greensill.
The accompanist-husband of local cabaret stalwart Wesla Whitfield,
Greensill is emerging as an estimable force in his own right, with
his Mike Greensill Trio (drummer Donald Bailey and bassist John
Wiitala). This "Live at the Plush Room" recording dresses up tunes by
Gershwin, Porter, Sunny Clapp and others with casual elegance.
Melodic variations, elastic rhythms, solo spinouts and sly harmonies
all serve the source. "Love for Sale" gets a slow, insouciant
vamp. "I'll Never Stop Loving You" floats by in a pillowy cloud. The
staccato pulse in "It Ain't Necessarily So" gives that Gershwin
standard a refreshing petulance. Greensill adds a few numbers of his
own, and also sings on several cuts -- in a cheery croak that knows
no imitators.

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Plush Stone Temple Pilots Manufacturer: Atlantic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | CD Singles | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Days of the Week Down Vasoline Sex Type Thing Interstate Love Song ASIN: B000057W1V Release Date: 1993-08-27

Tracks:

1. Plush [Edit]
2. Sin
3. Sex Type Thing [Swing Type Version]
4. Sex Type Thing [Live on the Word]

Average customer rating: Piano and Vox, Simple and Spacious Rough Demo of a Potential Masterpiece Rough Demo of a Potential Masterpiece The Romance of Demo as Finished Product PERFECT SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC

More You Becomes You Plush Manufacturer: Drag City ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000009T1X Release Date: 1998-09-08

Tracks:

1. Virginia
2. More You Becomes You
3. (I Didn't Know) I Was Asleep
4. The Party I
5. The Party II
6. Soaring And Boring
7. (See It In The) Early Morning
8. Instrumental
9. Save The People
10. The Sailor

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On Plush's debut album, Liam Hayes boldly embraces the abstract guise of a '60s singer-songwriter stuck in the late 1990s. Accompanied solely by his own piano playing, Hayes's vocal performances initially sound more like rough pop blueprints than a finished body of work. With repeated listenings, however, the man's innate gift for great melodies becomes apparent and his songs take on a vaguely familiar feel. While the influences of Burt Bacharach, the Beatles, and Badfinger are readily apparent, More You Becomes You is actually an extremely distinctive affair. In a vein similar to musicians like Harry Nilsson and Jimmy Webb, Hayes composes heavenly pop ballads and sings them with near-regal intensity. Romantic, delicate, and engaging, Hayes is an exceptional songwriter with an unusual vision. --Mitch Myers

Customer Reviews:

Piano and Vox, Simple and Spacious.......2006-02-23

I had been looking for a specific track from the movie "High Fidelity" for quite awhile. It was a song from a scene where Cusack is in a piano bar narrating and in the background is this pianist playing what I thought was a Harry Nilssen tune. Well, after years of searching, it turns out it was a track off of this album, track #6, "Soaring and Boring". Of course after searching and searching for that particular song I was initially into just that song. However,after a few listens all the way through I became really into the rest of the album with its minimalism and nice vocal and piano lines. It is a bit of a slower paced album, with its flaws due to the obvious one takes', but overall it's a good piece of work.

Rough Demo of a Potential Masterpiece.......2002-12-21

If I described Liam Hayes' vocals on 'More Becomes You' as a sleepy, occasionally out-of-tune male Laura Nyro, could I also persuade you that this is a good thing?

After the promise of the lushly orchestrated 'Found a Little Baby' single, this long-awaited album was initially a dissapointment due to its starkness, both in instrumentation - just piano and vocals with the occasional french horn & organ - and in Steve Albini's one-take production - which means Hayes doesn't always hit the notes.
Soon though, these minor points become part of the album's beauty and your eyes eventually adjust to a run-out groove that's wider than the actual tracks (The record lasts under half an hour). This is because of the songs. They are melodic gems which take you to places you've only previously reached with the help of Brian Wilson, Jimmy Webb and the aformentioned Nyro.

Alan McGee is quoted as saying that he "didn't understand the appeal" of Plush. This was probably on the same week that he signed Mishka.

Rough Demo of a Potential Masterpiece.......2002-12-21

If I described Liam Hayes' vocals on 'More Becomes You' as a sleepy, occasionally out-of-tune male Laura Nyro, could I also persuade you that this is a good thing?

After the promise of the lushly orchestrated 'Found a Little Baby' single, this long-awaited album was initially a dissapointment due to its starkness, both in instrumentation - just piano and vocals with the occasional french horn & organ - and in Steve Albini's one-take production - which means Hayes doesn't always hit the notes.
Soon though, these minor points become part of the album's beauty as your eyes slowly adjust to a run-out groove that's wider than the actual tracks (The record lasts under half an hour).
The songs are melodic gems which take you to places you only previously reached with the help of Brian Wilson, Jimmy Webb and the aformentioned Nyro.

Alan McGee once said he "didn't understand the appeal" of Plush. This was probably on the same week he signed Mishka.

The Romance of Demo as Finished Product.......2001-12-22

Singer Liam Hayes claims to have designed this recording very meticulously, even though it sounds like a half-finished demo, with most tracks not only being just singer and piano, but with vocals that trail off and collapse, song structures that are there and then not, mismatched song titles etc. The one standout track "Soaring and Boring", organizes the album's energies for 3 minutes, then they wander about on again, off again for the rest. That's the form. Make of it what you will.
The content is early 70's-style pop balladry a la Brian Wilson/Laura Nyro/Todd Rundgren (the less generous might say
Barry Manilow). This niche in the retro-by-numbers marketplace might seem utterly predictable until you realize that Hayes' sounds like none of the artists he could be grouped in with: Pernice Brothers, Palace, Ben Folds, Tori Amos, EBTG, the whole alt-country and lounge-core stables; then you understand the value of the niche. But Haye's punk-inspired raggedness of form is difficult to place in this context: Laura Nyro may have needed some valium, but this much???

PERFECT SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC.......2001-08-27

I first heard Plush on a CD sampler that came with MOJO Magazine. It was so beatiful that I bought the full CD. I was sure that no radio station would ever play it and this guy would never get the recognition he deserves. But then the coolest of cool actors, John Cusack, put him in the movie High Fidelity. He's playing piano and singing "Soaring and Boring" (I think) in a bar that Cusack's character is in. That's the long way around saying, I love this CD and I highly recommend it.

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