Perfect Colors [Import]

Product Description
After Getting a First Film Soundtrack Out of their Systems (They Provided the Music to Roman Coppola's Film 'cq' Last Year), Mellow have Taken Time in Piecing Together their Grand Statement. The Result of Two Years of Intense Nurturing in their Paris Basement Studio 'perfect Colours' is an Opus; An Adventure; A Day Glo Dreamwalk; A Mad Tapestry Woven from Pastoral Psychedelia, Electronic Jazz- Punk, Old Film Scores, 80s Pop, Tubas, Clavichords and String Sections in Excelsis. 'perfect Colours' is the Album Mellow have Been Threatening to Make Since They Came to the World's Attention in 2001 as Purveyors of Retro Tinged Futuristic Soundscapes with Meshed Electronics and Horns, Lounge and Psychedelia.

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Average customer rating: Absolutely Stunning

Perfect Colors Mellow Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Another Mellow Spring CQ ASIN: B0000YJ070 Release Date: 2004-02-23

Tracks:

1. Perfect Colors
2. Fantastic
3. Love Ain't the Answer
4. Goodbye
5. Drifting Out of Sight
6. It Was Raining
7. Where Flowers Don't Grow
8. Between the Lines
9. Going Downtown
10. Out of Reach
11. In the Meantime
12. Drifting Out of Sight /A Place for Meditation [Orchestral Version]

Album Details

After Getting a First Film Soundtrack Out of their Systems (They Provided the Music to Roman Coppola's Film 'cq' Last Year), Mellow have Taken Time in Piecing Together their Grand Statement. The Result of Two Years of Intense Nurturing in their Paris Basement Studio 'perfect Colours' is an Opus; An Adventure; A Day Glo Dreamwalk; A Mad Tapestry Woven from Pastoral Psychedelia, Electronic Jazz- Punk, Old Film Scores, 80s Pop, Tubas, Clavichords and String Sections in Excelsis. 'perfect Colours' is the Album Mellow have Been Threatening to Make Since They Came to the World's Attention in 2001 as Purveyors of Retro Tinged Futuristic Soundscapes with Meshed Electronics and Horns, Lounge and Psychedelia.

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely Stunning.......2004-08-03

Emerging soon after Air and being a Parisian synth band hasn't been easy for Mellow. Greatly underappreciated, their stateside debut, "Another Mellow Spring" was either cast off as an Air wannabe, or simply ignored altogether. Ditto their excellent soundtrack for Roman Coppala's motion picture "CQ" (although the French band making a soundtrack for a Coppala probably didn't help matters much either...). Now, with "Perfect Colours" available only on import, it seems Mellow faces yet more obstacles in the road to respect(I almost certainly never would have heard of the release if it hadn't been for the BBC's "Blue Room"), and it's a damn shame. "Perfect Colours" is simply stunning, and should put to rest the "compAIRisons" to that other French band completely. More thoughtful, competent and well executed than their debut, the album should be on every "best of" list for the year. Period. "Drifting Out of Sight" is an absolute gorgeous masterpiece of high-psychedelica that could move me to tears. A must have.

Average customer rating: Saucy, Melodic, Old-Fashioned American Wind Quintet Music

Vintage America: A Musical Meritage Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by MacDowell | MacDowell, Edward | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sousa | Sousa, John Philip | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Still | Still, William Grant | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002NY8LM Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

1. Dance Antique
2. Fireside Tales
3. Divertimento
4. Prairie Miniature
5. Miniatures
6. Folk Suite
7. Two Rags
8. Sea Sketches
9. Stars & Stripes

Album Description

America began forging its own cultural identity in the 19th Century with music reflecting a vast array of cultures coming together. By the time the first music conservatory opened in 1865, European classical music had begun to be mingled with music influenced by Native American themes, African-American styles of ragtime and spirituals, Latin American and rural American folk music, and the traditional military band. With Vintage America, Calico Winds showcases these American musical roots. Known for exploring the full palette of tone colors available to the wind quintet, Calico Winds plays "in perfect balance with each other, each [member] contributing lovely tone quality and flawless intonation…" (The Times Herald, Olean, NY) It is with these attributes that Calico Winds brings to life America's rich musical legacy.

Customer Reviews:

Saucy, Melodic, Old-Fashioned American Wind Quintet Music.......2004-09-13

[Disclaimer: I'm a pushover for wind quintet music. There is something about the uneasy combination of timbres that unfailingly engages my interest and admiration.]

I found myself having trouble getting beyond the first band on this delightful release from Albany Records featuring the playing of a Los Angeles-based wind quintet calling themselves 'Calico Winds.' I kept pushing the repeat button to hear it one more time. It's that rhythmically invigorating and melodic. The music presented here is almost all by Americans, some from among those first conservatory-trained American composers of the 19th-century: William Mason, his nephew Daniel Gregory Mason, and Edward MacDowell. The more recent composers tend to write in conservative style so that the most recent work, 'Sea Sketches' by the only non-American, Briton David B. Chadwick, could be mistaken for something by an early twentieth-century writer. Some of the pieces are skillful transcriptions for quintet: Mason's 'Dance Antique,' that infectious first band I'd mentioned; MacDowell's 'Fireside Tales,' William Grant Still's folk-song based 'Miniatures' and 'Folk Suite,' Scott Joplin's 'Two Rags' ('The Cascades' and 'Maple Leaf Rag'), and the rousing closer, Sousa's 'The Stars and Stripes Forever.' Indeed, the only works originally written for wind quintet are Daniel Gregory Mason's 'Divertimento,' Arthur Farwell's brief and delightful 'Prairie Miniature,' and Chadwick's 'Sea Sketches.' That latter, by the way, has a catchy setting of 'The Sailors' Hornpipe,' another piece I couldn't get enough of.

Calico Winds consists of five women: Eileen Holt Helwig, flute and piccolo; Rong-Huey Liu, oboe and English horn; Rachel Berry, horn; Kathryn Nevin, clarinet; and Theresa Treuenfels, bassoon. I'd never heard of this expert and musicianly group before, although I gather they have made at least one prior recording on the humorously named 'Occasionally Sober' label and containing music from Bach to Zappa. I expect we'll be hearing from them again, if we're lucky.

This is not profound music. This is joyful music. It's worth hearing, and more important, worth coming to love. A real keeper, this.

TT=62:00

Scott Morrison

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Imported Manufacturer: Moods Colors and Dreams Ent. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAH5L0 Release Date: 2004-11-02

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Perfect Colors Mellow Manufacturer: Jvc Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00013YT3A Release Date: 2004-02-02

Tracks:

1. Perfect Colors
2. Fantastic
3. Love Ain't the Answer
4. Goodbye
5. Drifting out of Sight
6. It Was Raining
7. Where Flowers Don't Grow
8. Between the Lines
9. Going Downtown
10. Out of Reach
11. In the Meantime
12. Drifting out of Sight
13. So Much Fun
14. In the Meantime [Flairs Remix]

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

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Perfect Colors Mellow ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00013UKWE Release Date: 2004-01-27

Tracks:

1. Perfect Colors
2. Fantastic
3. Love Ain't the Answer
4. Goodbye
5. Drifting Out of Sight
6. It Was Raining
7. Where Flowers Don't Grow
8. Between the Lines
9. Going Downtown
10. Out of Reach
11. In the Meantime
12. Drifting Out of Sight /A Place for Meditation [Orchestral Version]

Album Description

French edition of the electro-pop act's eagerly anticipated sophomore album features 12 tracks including the 10+ minute 'Drifting Out of Sight' that is followed by 7 minutes slated as A Place For Meditation. Includes a bonus DVD (PAL/Region 2) featuring f

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Perfect Colors Mellow ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000254DL0 Release Date: 2004-01-27

Album Description

French edition of the electro-pop act's eagerly anticipated sophomore album features 12 tracks including the 10+ minute 'Drifting Out of Sight' that is followed by 7 minutes slated as A Place For Meditation. Includes a bonus DVD (PAL/Region 2) featuring five video tracks, 'Another Mellow Winter' (video directed by Roman Coppola), 'Paris Sous La Neige', 'Shinda Shima', 'Take Me Higher', & 'Take My Higher' (video directed by Roman Coppola & Johannes Gamble). Digipak. Atmospheriques. 2004.

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