District 6

About the Artist
How did a... slip of a girly girl from West London Canada, become the internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you? Our story begins in August of 2001. From several thousand feet above ground, with an idea. Call it divine inspiration, or a stroke of genius. Call it the result of reading too many army books while listening to too much Wumpscut. While on a plane en route from her native Ontario to New Jersey, a then-17-year-old Fallon Bowman was skimming through a Tom Clancy novel when she hit upon the term "Amphibious Assault," a military tactic wherein an attack on a land base is carried out by troops landed by naval ships. She casually pondered what an awesome name it would be for a band.

Fallon had just recently bowed out of her previous band, a relatively well-known female metal quartet (Kittie) from London Canada, in which she had been head axe-wielder and a sometimes vocalist" nothing like the EBM and industrial that had been haunting her Discman for the last several months. Although ideas for a possible future project were beginning to develop, Bowman was unsure whether or not she wanted to continue to pursue music. After all, she had already toured with Slipknot, co - headlined Ozzfest side stage with Soulfly, headlined Sno- Core with Disturbed, and received a Gold record for 500,000 units sold, for the debut album of her former band. All of this before age 17.

She dismissed the thought and went about her business. A few months later, Fallon decided she was over her hang-ups and ready to write again. She bought a sequencer and began tinkering with it in her basement, inquisitively exploring the genre that she had admired for so long but had never actively pursued. "I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do music, so for awhile I was afraid to create - for fear that I couldn’t create," Bowman explains.

It was November of 2001, and the political climate around the world was tumultuous at best. "I was getting heavy into politics, because there was a lot of stuff I was reading in the paper and saw on TV that made me angry and depressed. I felt that writing about it, would help exorcise the demons within me - and I had a lot". So songs just started to pour out of me and I would sit for hours, just piecing together whatever made my foot tap.’ The sound she had originally envisioned was something of a fusion between Ministry’s The Land of Rape and Honey’s weirdness, and KMFDM’s Adios’ ferocity. However when the writing began she also found herself listening to VNV Nation’s Empires, and a softer, more melody driven sound came about.

Over the months that followed, Fallon turned her basement into a retreat filled with drum machines and synths, where experimental rhythms would bounce off the walls at regular intervals. From this industrial bunker she meticulously crafted the songs that would become her debut album District 6. Her influences are obvious, but the sound is clearly her own pounding,thunderous beats and unpredictable synths that weave in and out with an almost mathematical precision.

Fallon’s low, throaty, unmistakable voice coils around complex melodies and soars over pulsating rhythms, pushing a modern sound further than one could think possible. Fueled by an unerring passion for conflict and politics, Bowman’s music is a thunderous cry for its listeners to stand up and challenge the world around them. Above all else, the theme of District 6 is revolution. Bowman has long been fascinated by the military and political causes, but the state of the world during the creative period for Amphibious Assault was nothing like anyone had ever seen before.

"As you know, with the election of President Bush, many things have transpired. With 9/11 and the imminent War on Iraq, l have certain feelings towards the actions and ideals of the man himself, and how democracy is slowly fusing into a corrupt and semi-fascist conglomerate. I am worried about the spread of globalization, and the resulting pain

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New Wave Nouvelle Vague Manufacturer: District 6 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music | New Wave | Post-Punk | Urban Folk General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Latenighttales: Nouvelle Vague Hey Eugene! The Reminder Bande a Part We Are the Night ASIN: B000PAAI8Y Release Date: 2007-06-05

Tracks:

1. Polyphonic Size - Mother's Little Helper
2. Jo Lemaire - Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais
3. Paul Haig - Running Away
4. Joy Division - Sister Ray
5. Nico - Heroes
6. Snake Finger - The Model
7. Honeymoon Killers - Route National 7
8. Devo - Satisfaction
9. Antena - The Boy From Ipanema
10. Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl

Tracks:

1. The Stranglers- Walk On By
2. Silicon Teens - You Really Got Me
3. Karel Fialka - People Are Strange
4. Devine & Statton - Bizarre Love Triangle
5. Duran Duran - Fame
6. Gary Numan - Broadway
7. Visage - In the Year 2525
8. OMD - Waiting For the Man
9. The Original Mirrors - Reflections
10. Flying Lizard - Move On Up

Album Description

2007 US 2-CD album set comprising a 24-track nspired collection of 80's New Wave bands performing classic pop covers compiled and mixed by Nouvelle Vague, including tracks by Devo, OMD, The Stranglers, Gary Numan, The Flying Lizards, Visage, Duran Duran, Nico, Joy Division and more. District Records.

Average customer rating: I expected a bit more He makes some of the most inspiring music on the underground scene today.

In the Mind of Nitin Sawhney Nitin Sawhney Manufacturer: District 6 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Namesake Philtre All Mixed Up Human Philtre ASIN: B000O5AY5W Release Date: 2007-04-24

Tracks:

1. Be Your Own - One Self
2. Brown Sugar - D'Angelo,
3. Biscuits - Fink
4. Fragile Wind - Jayanta Bose, Tina Grace, Nitin Sawhney
5. Teardrop - Massive Attack
6. Mustt Mustt [Massive Attack Remix] - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
7. Run - Air, Air
8. Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) - Bernard Herrmann, , London Philharmonic Orchestra
9. Memorias Perdias - Ojos de Brujo
10. Almoraima - Paco de Luc
11. I Am the Black Gold of the Sun [4Hero Remix] - Nuyorican Soul
12. Waltz for Koop - Koop, Cecilia Stalin,
13. Songbird [Zero Id Remix] - Nitin Sawhney

Customer Reviews:

I expected a bit more.......2007-07-26

I am a huge fan of Nitin Sawhney and the first to buy his albums with little disappointment. I should have read the tracks on this album, and realized that 50% of them are already out there on various compilations. I imagined something a bit more obscure. It's a great compilation for the un-seasoned Sawhney fan... Waiting for his next real album.

He makes some of the most inspiring music on the underground scene today........2007-05-02

From jazz, drum and bass and hip hop to flamenco and modern orchestral compositions, Nitin Sawhney is one of the pioneers of the Asian Underground music scene.
"In The Mind Of Nitin Sawhney" showcases the tracks that have influenced and inspired him, and includes original and exclusive material specially recorded by the artists themselves.
On this album we find Sawheny in filmic mode with Hermann's theme to Hitchcock's Psycho out to the sort of old-skool soul his last album Philtre delved into with D'Angelo's Brown Sugar and some territory as electronic experimentalist he has trod over and again in Massive Attack's "Teardrops".
Paco de Lucia's short flamenco guitar piece hints at the influences on Sawhney's own playing and some decent updated soul in the form of 4Hero's remix of Nuyorican Soul's "I Am The Blackgold of The Sun" shows he's still where it's at now.
There are pretty well known tracks including a Dylan, Air and Massive Attack as well as remixes of Sawhney's tunes and a couple of tracks from former collaborators Fink and Ojos de Brujo.
Too bad there aren't some more out there tracks but the ones included probably stand him better in the long run than proving he's at the cutting edge of what's happening right now.
There are some classics on here, no duds and a few decent hints as to where this giant of progressive music gets inspiration.
Compiled and mixed by Nitin himself, the album includes two tracks by the artist, one brand new & exclusive.
Each track is segued with pieces of original music by Nitin, creating a story and a cinematic landscape of incomparable beauty.

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New Wave Nouvelle Vague Manufacturer: District 6 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Latenighttales: Nouvelle Vague The Reminder Keren Ann Sound of Silver Volta ASIN: B000Q677FO Release Date: 2007-06-19

Tracks:

1. Polyphonic Size - Mothers Little Helper
2. Jo Lemaire - Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais
3. Paul Haig - Running Away
4. Joy Division - Sister Ray
5. Nico - Heroes
6. Snake Finger - The Model
7. Honeymoon Killers - Route National 7
8. Devo - Satisfaction
9. Antena - The Boy From Ipanema
10. Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl

Tracks:

1. The Stranglers- Walk On By
2. Silicon Teens - You Really Got Me
3. Karel Fialka - People Are Strange
4. Devine & Statton - Bizarre Love Triangle
5. Duran Duran - Fame
6. Gary Numan - Broadway
7. Visage - In the Year 2525
8. OMD - Waiting For the Man
9. The Original Mirrors - Reflections
10. Flying Lizards - Move On Up

Album Description

Nouvelle Vague presents New Wave features some of the great names of the 80's - Visage, OMD, The Stranglers, Joy Division, Gary Numan and Nico rendering their versions of classic tracks by The Rolling Stones, Bowie, The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, The Doors and others. Alongside these are more obscure bands - Belgium's Polyphonic Size, Antena from France, The Comateens from New York. Perhaps most representative of the spirit of the new wave movement as a whole and this album in particular is Belgium's Elton Motello deviant cover of Plastique Bertrand's international hit, Ça plane pour moi.

Average customer rating: Another Success The best organ CD since "The Digital Fox".

Organ Fireworks, Vol. 4 Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Toccatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Passacaglias | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Organ | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Organ Fireworks II Organ Fireworks, Vol. 6 Organ Fireworks, Vol. 7 Organ Fireworks V Organ Fireworks III ASIN: B000002ZRL Release Date: 1993-11-23

Tracks:

1. Trumpet Tune In A
2. Toccata di Concerto, Op. 59
3. Concert Variations On 'The Star Spangled Banner', Op. 23
4. 18 Pieces Nouvelles, Op. 90: Paraphrase: 'See The Conquering Hero Comes!'
5. Five Short Pieces: Paean, No. 5
6. Variations An A Theme Of Herbert Howells, Op. 87
7. 24 Pieces en style libre: Divertisssement, Op. 31 No. 11
8. Grand Offertoire In D
9. Passacaglia
10. Douze Pieces Nouvelles, Op. 7: Etude de Concert, No. 2
11. Symphony, No. 6 Op. 42: Allegro
12. L'Organiste Maderne, Book II: Sortie In E Flat

Customer Reviews:

Another Success.......2005-02-11

Continuing my organ reviews...this is number four of a long series by Christopher Herrick entitled ORGAN FIREWORKS (I think we are up to ten albums now). The series is notable for several reasons - the numerous offerings (famous and unknown), the breadth of organs played and the superb musicianship heard. Mr. Herricks is a performer of distinction, having recorded Bach's entire oeuvre in fourteen successive days!! He is equally at home in the Germanic and Gallic traditions though he seems to favor the former.

The French works would be vastly improved if heard on one of the fabulous Cavaille-Coll organs. In my opinion, the one at Rouen is the greatest instrument of its kind in the world for breadth of tonal range. How I would love to hear the Toccata di Concerto on one the famous organs! The Guilmant offered here is pithy, not worthy of the group. Louis Vierne's free-style composition had the right touch of virtuosity of both playing and registration demanded by many of his works.

My one complaint is that many of the tracks presented here are too abbreviated. They only whet the appetitite in what is seems is an appeal to the modern inability to concentrate longer than a few minutes without change. I would have preferred a better grouping of the FIREWORKS but they seems to have evolved just as the music for organs did.

The best organ CD since "The Digital Fox"........2004-01-19

Herrick at his best! The Aeolian-Skinner organ at St.Bartholomew's is the greatest and the finest instrument of NYC. The sound is astonishing! No doubt this is my favourite CD of this wonderful series together with "Organ Fireworks II" recorded at Royal Albert Hall, London. Buy it!

Average customer rating: Very good just don't expect Kittie Fantastic Wow BIG change....GOOD change Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Worth listening to.

District 6 Amphibious Assault Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Funeral for Yesterday Beautiful Tragedy ASIN: B00009R5VD Release Date: 2003-05-20

Tracks:

1. Post - Apocalyptic Burn
2. Search Light
3. District 6
4. There Was Lights (ARDA)
5. Defcon 3
6. In Your Room
7. Benedictine
8. The Friendly Neighbour
9. Synergy
10. Revelation

Customer Reviews:

Very good just don't expect Kittie.......2006-08-30

First things first... THIS IS NOT METAL THE ONLY THING THIS HAS TO DO WITH KITTIE IS THAT IT'S MAIN ARTIST USED TO PLAY GUITAR AND THEIR BASSIST PLAYS ON ONE TRACK!!!
Anyhow...If you like electronic music with some gothic influences upon it you will enjoy this album.
Couldnt name a favourite track but the album was in my stereo for 3 weeks on repeat, and my MP3 player since i bought the album a couple of months ago.
Fallon come on tour through Australia!!

Fantastic.......2006-02-20

I bought the album after listening to the song Search Light. There is not one song that I do not enjoy. The tracks are accesible but do not get stale. Industrial and Electronic fans will be impressed by this.

Wow BIG change....GOOD change.......2005-09-14

First of all I was (am) a fan of Kittie. When I found out Fallon left kittie I was dissapointed. But Then I found out she moved on. After searching the net I found Amphibious Assault. I browsed around the site and found the clips. I was floored. So I rushed out to the local music store and actualy found the cd on thier database. I had to have them order it straight from Canada, but I didn't care. After getting the cd I blaired it on my stereo and fell in love. The deep dark lyrics are soothing, and the personal feel of the music is astonishing. The music has a very rythmatic feel to it and has many different moods. Everything from hard in your face techno to dark soul touching cries. All in all the album is great, and well worth the mony spent.

Amazing! Amazing! Amazing!.......2005-02-24

I was (and still am) a huge fan of Amphibious Assault frontwoman, Fallon Bowmans previous band Kittie. When I heard that she would be doing a techno/industrial project, I was thrilled. I got the album when it first came out and I think it is amazing. I listen to it often and rank it as one of my favorite albums of its genre.
I was very impressed that Fallon Bowman did this all herself including the writing, producing, vocals, and all of the music (except the bass on track 1 which was performed by another former member of Kittie, Talena Atfield). Every track is worth listening to over and over again. My personal favorites would have to be "Searchlight", "In Your Room", "Synergy", and
"Post-Apocalyptic Burn". Its definitly a highly underappreciated album and deserves a lot more recognition then it has gotten. I hope her next album has higher sales... I know that I cant wait to get it. Amphibious Assault is amazing! Find out for yourself!

Worth listening to........2005-01-23

First let me say that I was never a fan of Kittie. I checked this CD out because about 2 months ago I was going through the liner notes and couldn't recall where I'd heard the name Fallon Bowman. A google search later I was on www.aassualt.com listening to samples, then hesitantly adding it to my cd's to purchase list. When order time came around I was considering skipping it, I just wasn't sure but I didn't and I'm happy.

While this CD isn't the most amazing I've heard, it is very refreshing to hear after years of listening to often very similiar industrial/ebm music. The vocals are very complimentary and probably one of my favorite elements of the album and lyrics were never bad.

Electronics (synth and drums) were occasionally too ebm/industrial, at other times pretty good, and at times great. There were a few times when music sounded familiar but I can't place it, but only a seven sample could I link to any other industrial song for sure and that doesn't matter.

I don't quite understand why I am nit picking, I actually am very happy with the album. I guess it is just something I do when I like something too compare how close it is to perfect. I really just wanted to post how much I like this album and happy that I bought it.

If I were to have a real complaint, it would be that it's over in 40 min, which is shorter than it takes me to get to work. The CD also had a giant scratch across it when I opened it but it was over the non-used portion of the disc. Also, are there printed lyrics for only 5 of the song? I don't care about lyrics, it just seemed a little odd but I could think of reasons.

All in all, the CD was great and I do intend on purchasing the new CD when it comes out.

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In the Mind of Jamie Cullum Jamie Cullum Manufacturer: District 6 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music | Ambient | Dance Pop | Disco | Drum & Bass | Electronica | Freestyle | Techno-House | Trance | Trip Hop ASIN: B000T9BOKC Release Date: 2007-08-28

Average customer rating: Superb Stravinsky Selections, excellently performed. Stravinsky Gems A Stravinskian treasure trove

Stravinsky: Les Noces and Other Choral Music Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gesualdo | Gesualdo, Carlo | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Stravinsky | Stravinsky, Igor | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Allen, Thomas | ( A ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Les Noces: Russian Village Wedding Songs Stravinsky:Symphony of Psalms/Mass/Canticum Sacrum Les Noces in Full Score Stravinsky: Les Noces; Mass; Cantata [Hybrid SACD] Smetana: Má Vlast ASIN: B000002ZNH Release Date: 1993-11-17

Tracks:

1. Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Now, Little Grey Duck
2. Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Good Day, My Fair One
3. Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Oh Mother, My Little Head Hurts
4. Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Oh, Come To Me (Lament)
5. Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Indoors, Outside
6. The Wedding: The Tresses
7. The Wedding: The Bridgegroom's House
8. The Wedding: The Departure Of The Bride
9. The Wedding: The Wedding Feast
10. Four Russian Peasant Songs: In Our Saviour's Parish In Chigisakh Beyoond The Yauza
11. Four Russian Peasant Songs: Ovesen
12. Four Russian Peasant Songs: The Pike
13. Four Russian Peasant Songs: Master Portly
14. Four Russian Peasant Songs: In Our Saviour's Parish In Chigisakh Beyond The Yauza
15. Four Russian Peasant Songs: Ovsen
16. Four Russian Peasant Songs: The Pike
17. Four Russian Peasant Songs: Master Portly
18. Our Father
19. Blessed Virgin
20. Symbol Of Faith
21. Tres sacrae cantiones: Da pacem Domine
22. Tres sacrae cantiones: Assumpta est Maria
23. Tres sacrae cantiones: Illunina nos
24. Tres sacrae cantiones: The Dove Descending Breaks The Air
25. Tres Sacrae: Introitus: T S Eliot IN Memoriam

Amazon.com

James Woods and the New London Chamber Chorus and Chamber Ensemble provide a performance of Stravinsky's Les Noces--considered by many to be the composer's finest work--that is careful and well balanced, even if it never reaches the Apollonian sublimity of Bardon Eötvös's recording. And it's wonderful to hear engaging renditions of lesser-known vocal music by the composer, including the Four Russian Peasant Songs and several Slavonic works. Stravinsky's arrangements of music by the infamous Renaissance composer Gesualdo and a modernist homage to T.S. Eliot round out this record. --Joshua Cody

Customer Reviews:

Superb Stravinsky Selections, excellently performed........2006-06-01

'Les Noces and other choral music' is centered around Igor Stravinsky's scoring of five Russian folk pieces done for weddings (the translation of 'Les Noces'). The selection is interesting for so many reasons, not the least of which is the similarity of this material to the great 'The Rites of Spring' as well as a really superior realization of the great Russian tradition in choral performances.

I have heard Stravinsky's 'Tres Sacrae Cantiones' done on other recordings and these are much better, and they fit in well with the other material on the disk.

This disk easily passes the single most important test of a CD. Not only do I enjoy listening to it at least once a year, I really look forward to it, much as I look forward to 'Rubber Soul' as I work my way through Beatles' recordings.

A truly superior recording and selection of choral material.

Stravinsky Gems.......2001-07-20

This disc is worth owning and listening to many times. I love Les Noces, but I remember how odd it sounded to me when I first heard it a couple of decades back. The first tracks on this disk are five Russian wedding songs. These provide a WONDERFUL education and context for Les Noces. Even if you are familiar with the piece, these are worth hearing for context.

The other pieces are also not commonly had outside the big collections of Stravinsky works. They are worth hearing and knowing.

These are very good performances done in interesting ways.

A Stravinskian treasure trove.......2000-09-24

This disc is one of two released by Hyperion in exploration of Stravinsky's choral music. It contains many gems, familiar and otherwise, and makes for a tremendously valuable addition to any collection.

An excellent ploy is the use of two experienced choirs for the recording: the New London Chamber Choir and the Voronezh District Chamber Choir, with James Wood and Oleg Shepel as respective conductors. Whilst some may find the latter choir a slightly odd-sounding group, their presence adds a wonderfully authentic flavour to the music, most of which dates from Stravinsky's early period - commonly described as his 'Russian' period. Indeed, they open the disc with Four Bridal Songs from the Voronezh District itself, complete with tambourines and dancing (although of course only the tambourines are evident in the recording). These are a superb appetiser for what follows.

The title work "Les Noces," also known as "Svadebka" or even just simply "The Wedding," is without a doubt one of Stravinsky's most celebrated works. As with the Russian Songs, it is a pity that in listening to it we cannot also enjoy the accompanying choreography, although Stravinsky called for a large array of percussion instruments in the score and these add an almost aural choreography to the work. The two featured choirs join forces for this together with four outstanding soloists (including John Potter) and four deft pianists, resulting in a colourful, gripping and explosive performance.

Stravinsky's "Four Russian Peasant Songs" for women's choir deserve to be better known, and here we get the opportunity to listen to both versions: one for unaccompanied voices, the other for voices and four horns. These show as well as anything that part of Stravinsky's mastery lay in his ability to evoke a chosen style whilst remaining completely true to his own: if you can programme your CD player to play these and the opening traditional songs in sequence, you will see for yourself just how successfully this music works.

Westminster Cathedral Choir have recorded Stravinsky's "Three Sacred Choruses" in Latin for Hyperion; on this disc you can hear the original Slavonic versions. They are entrusted to the Voronezh Choir under Oleg Shepel, and he does some rather surprising things to the music (for instance, it is sung at more flexible speeds and with a curious degree of vibrato and 'swoopy' phrasing than on other recordings I have heard). Still, it is good to have them in sequence, presented as Stravinsky might have heard them upon returning to his homeland after nearly a whole lifetime in exile. The New London Chamber Choir follows these with three sacred pieces of a different kind: these began life as unfinished motets by Carlo Gesualdo. Stravinsky was fascinated by them and elected to finish them, but in the process his own musical thumbprints were placed on the music and what we thus hear is a curiously compelling mixture of flavourful Italian polyphony and twentieth century idioms. It is not hard to imagine these being sung in worship.

The programme closes with two fruits of Stravinsky's final years - his serial period. "The Dove Descending" is an eerily beautiful setting of a well-known poem by T. S. Eliot (another figure greatly admired by the composer) and provides further demonstration that Stravinsky could still sound like himself whilst under the influence of Schoenberg's twelve-tone discipline. The "Introit in memory of T. S. Eliot" which closes the disc is a more obviously serial work, setting the opening text of the Requiem Mass for male voices and a small ensemble (viola, double bass, piano, harp and percussion). This is Stravinsky at his grittiest, yet the music - right down to the timbre of the instruments combined - expresses the mood of the text in a wonderfully sublime manner.

This disc is a worthwhile investment, whether you are a Stravinsky addict, a Stravinsky student or just plain curious. It presents an amazingly varied range of works, each one a gem in its own way, performed to a very high standard. Colourful, exciting, well-made: I recommend it.

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Love Cinema Volume 6 Love Cinema Volume 6 Manufacturer: Refugee Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAKT0O Release Date: 2005-05-17

Tracks:

1. Local 69
2. Angel Lust
3. Human Toilet
4. Slots and Their Maethers
5. Sunday Girl
6. Bathin' + Buddy
7. Aurora Snow
8. Andre
9. Clit Like a Penis
10. Bitch Anthem
11. Silver Bullet
12. Babby Daddy
13. I Kill Everything I Fuck

Average customer rating: An indispensable purchase for the Stokowski admirer Very Rare Stokowski A rare find, get this while you still can!

Stokowski & The Symphony of the Air: Shostakovich, Respighi, Khachaturian, Bloch, Frescobaldi, Palestrina, Gabrieli, & Cesti cello George Neikrug , Ernest Bloch , Antonio Cesti , Girolamo Frescobaldi , Giovanni Gabrieli , Aram Khachaturian , Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Ottorino Respighi , Dmitry Shostakovich , and Leopold Stokowski Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bloch | Bloch, Ernest | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gabrieli, Giovanni | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Khachaturian | Khachaturian, Aram | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Respighi | Respighi, Ottorino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Harp | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000025LLU Release Date: 1994-11-15

Customer Reviews:

An indispensable purchase for the Stokowski admirer .......2007-02-02

Let me join the two previous commentators and add on to their praise of this set, while also providing some additional information. It is an indispensable purchase for the Stokowski admirer. The two well-filled discs collect the contents of three and a half LPs recorded in 1958-9 and released by the apparently short-lived United Artists label: UAS 8001 had Respighi's Pines (surprisingly the Maestro's only studio recording of any Respighi, though a live Philadelphia concert of a year later had been available at one point on LP) and the transcriptions, UAS 8002 Khachaturian's sprawling second symphony, UAS 8004 the Shostakovitch compositions and UAS 8005 Bloch's Schelomo. Left out in the process are Paul Ben Haim's "From Israël" which served as a filler to Bloch and Beethoven's 7th symphony (Stokowski's second recording) which came on UAS 8003. The Symphony of the Air Orchestra is in fact the name assumed by Toscanini's reformed NBC Orchestra after it was disbanded by RCA, following the conductor's death.

As remastered, the sound is saturated in some of the louder passages, especially in Khachaturian's symphony and there is some tape hiss, but one can only agree with the note of warning contained in the booklet: "these analog recordings were chosen for re-release on Compact Disc because of their artistic and historical significance. Unfortunately, the original master tapes suffer from a degree of distortion and irregularity which could not be eliminated in the re-mastering process. However, the importance of making available these definitive recordings should outweigh any such technical shortcomings".

Khachaturian's 2nd symphony is a composition of vast and at times sprawling dimensions. Written in 1943, it is conceived as "a requiem of protest against war and violence" and has the bombast of Shostakovich's 7th and 8th symphonies, but also genuine dramatic sweep, in particular in its third movement, a funeral march starting with a melody of almost Spanish tinge - it could be music for Llorca's dirge for the fallen bull fighter - and soon mixed with the tune of the Dies Irae. I find it evocative of Shostakovich' 11th symphony. As mentioned, the sound is saturated in the louder passages and no match to the composer's own 1962 recording with the Vienna Philarmonic (Decca), but Stokowski, in his only recording of that piece (he also did the 3rd symphony and the "Masquerade"-Suite), conducts with plenty of color and panache. The same holds true of Shostakovich's brash first symphony, his second recording (the first was with Philadelphia in 1933, now on Pearl). His transcription of the composer's piano prelude Op. 34/14, here in the third of the Maestro's four studio recordings (there are also three live ones), makes it into a sombre, brooding and dramatic sister movement of the 11th symphony.

Stokowski had done the first recording ever of Bloch's Schelomo, in 1940, with Emanuel Feuermann (available on CD from various labels). A pupil of Feuerman and of the apparently exceptional pedagogue Demetrious Dounis, George Neikrug doesn't belong to the stellar names of the cello who have recorded the piece (which, besides Feuermann, include, in rough chronological order, Piatigorsky, Rose, Fournier, Starker, Rostropovich, Harrell, Ma), yet he is second to none. He performs with big tone and romantic fervor, and the orchestra under Stokowski plays with fire, a few uncertain entries and sometimes almost overbearing presence, some of the solo wind interventions sounding forte rather than the indicated piano. One can find on the web a fascinating interview of Neikrug, in which he remembers being with Feuermann in California, twenty years before, when the latter received the first pressings of his recording with Stokowski; he also hilariously recounts the circumstances of the 1959 rehearsals, how they began in chaos and how suddenly and unexpectedly everything coalesced into the genuine and unique "Stokowski sound".

The Stokowski transcriptions of pieces by four Italian Renaissance composers make them into full-blooded romantic pieces, evoking, especially in Cesti and Palestrina, Barber's adagio or even Albinoni's spurious adagio as it was customarily performed in the fifties and sixties. The effect is somewhat staid, but still deeply moving.

The 17 page (including photos) liner notes are an integral part of this set's value. They contain lengthy comments of each composition (including the transcriptions) by William C. Baxter (who seems to confuse this recording of Schelomo and Stokowski's earlier one with Feuermann) and a biography of Stokowski by Kay Baumgartner (with an account of the circumstances of the recordings at hand) whose value comes from the fact that it is not a mere one-sided panegyric.

Very Rare Stokowski.......2006-01-06

These recordings are truly rarities. The originals were made for the now defunct United Artists label. Some years ago the master tapes were purchased by Angel Records (USA) and languished in their vaults for many years. With pressure exerted by individuals and the Leopold Stokowski Society of America, this set was finally released. Many of these pieces were never recorded by the Maestro at any other time. In my opinion, the gem in the set is the Shostakovich Symphony # 1. At the time of its original release it was hailed as the best recorded performance ever of this piece. I have never found another I like better. It is superb. Stokowski also brings out the very best in all the other numbers as well. It is an outstanding testament to the man and to a great orchestra. These recordings may never be released again. Get this set now while you can.

A rare find, get this while you still can!.......2005-06-14

This generous 2 disc set(over 70min. each)is comprised of recordings made for the defunct United Artists Record Label from
1958-59. I presume these are some of the last recordings made by The Symphony of the Air(formerly Toscanini's NBC Symphony).
EMI has nicely remastered(only the bass lacking)the sound.
We are given a somewhat average "Pines" and a congested but cinematic Khachaturian Sym. #2 on disc 1. Stokowski's period piece orchestrations/transcriptions emphasis modern choirs of brass. On disc 2, He affectionately conducts Shostakovich's youthful Sym. #1. We are given a robust account of Bloch's "Schelomo" with the renowned George Neikrug as cello soloist.(I think overall sound quality is better on this second disc.) This set is a must for any collector of Stokowski interpretations and what a value for those wanting a varied orchestral program. The selections are excellently annotated and their are some rare photos along with a informative essay about the great meastro. At time of my review this may allready be out of print, so hurry!

Average customer rating: OLD SCHOOL ACID FUN!

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OLD SCHOOL ACID FUN!.......2007-02-13

A great mix of old school hard acid and techno from the early 90's. Maybe I am a little biased because allot of the people on this disc are friends, but these tracks always make me pine for the time when this was new. It seemed much more interesting in the music scene, much more crazy. No one wanted to be a celebrity, everyone wanted to be invisible and everyone was on hard drugs.

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