Beam [Import]

Product Description
This is Sydney's The Presets (Julian Hamilton & Kim Moyes) full-length debut. Entitled Beams, the album is a collection of 12 tracks stirring the whole spectrum of emotions, from dark disturbed disco to blissful, cinematic instrumentals, with some straight up brilliant pop songs in the middle. Theirs is a sound that mixes dark dance with a sweaty rock sensibility that has paved the way for The Presets becoming one of Australia's most promising bands. 12 tracks. Modular. 2005.

Beam,Presets,Modular Recordings,Dance,Electronic

Average customer rating: Haunting and Beautiful One for the Ages The Washington Post was right! Tasteful Folk Pop with Substance and Melodies Shines Finally a Cure

Winterpills Winterpills Manufacturer: Signature Sounds Recordingss ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Light Divides Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Separate Ways A Thousand Days The Crane Wife ASIN: B000BJ7DCI Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

1. A Benediction
2. Laughing
3. Cranky
4. Threshing Machine
5. Want The Want
6. Pills For Sara
7. Found weekend
8. Portrait
9. Letter To A Friend In Jail
10. Looking Down

Album Description

Winterpills bring you a tender, filigreed sound, a humming and a fragmentation of warmth and chill, a delicate suspension of belief. They are a band playing you songs of pretty losses and hollow hopefulness. They formed on a bare wood floor during a winter when mutual friends and potential enemies met to nurse wounds, drink, ignore the obvious, play other people's songs, and found they had their own. They now give them to you in all their friendly, angry, wimpy, moody fragility.

Customer Reviews:

Haunting and Beautiful.......2006-07-24

An amazing album that will haunt you with achingly beautiful melodies and intelligent lyrics. Reminiscent of both Elliot Smith and Radiohead, songs like "Pills for Sara" and "Threshing Machine" will stick with you. I had the good fortune to see this band at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and they were one of the highlights of the weekend.

One for the Ages.......2006-06-13

I was introduced to Winterpills by a friend in New Jersey, who raved about this CD. He was right. This is truly magnificent music. There is something quite classic in the blending of the vocals that is magical. Just listen to "Pills for Sara" "Laughing" and "Found Weekend" and your soul will be stirred. While others are comparing them to newer bands, I hear sixties Mamas and Papas and Its a Beautiful Day in there. The songs are timeless and expansive. If this came out in the sixties, it would be considered a classic today. Yes, it is that good. Do not hesitate in picking this one up. A+++

The Washington Post was right!.......2006-03-26

I bought this cd based solely on the Washington Post review. This is BEAUTIFUL music--perfect for a lazy sunday afternoon.

Tasteful Folk Pop with Substance and Melodies Shines.......2006-02-08

Folk pop can fall into certain traps: it can be cliched, too precious, or too derivative of other established bands, but the Winterpills are an original band with warm melodies who avoid these traps. Fans of Innocence Mission, Belle and Sebastian, and The Trash Can Sinatras will probably enjoy the Winterpills. If you like this type of melodic folk rock, may I suggest the Swedish band Ronderlin.

Finally a Cure.......2006-02-03

Is there a pill for the winter? Yes. It's this album.

Lush and jangly and warm, like the morning sun slipping in past the icycles on your roof. It envelopes you and warms you up. This album hugs you.

I found the Winterpills through a band called School for the Dead and their singer Henning Ohlenbusch. Ohlenbusch and the Winterpills' Philip Price were collaborators in a band called The Gay Potatoes which also featured Chris Collingwood of Fountains of Wayne. Did you follow that? I'm not sure even I did.

Price, like Ohlenbusch and Collingwood, has a talent for scribing beautiful, friendly, melodic, and moving pop hits. The Winterpills themselves, the band, arranges them into these delicate yet powerful expressions of emotion. You'll love it.

If you enjoy the music of Elliot Smith, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, The Sundays, Paul Simon, School for the Dead, Fountains of Wayne, and Suzanne Vega you will want this album for your very own.

Average customer rating: Signs of things to come New Wave Classic

Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam Bill Nelson Manufacturer: Ume Imports ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sound on Sound Drastic Plastic Futurama Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars Axe Victim ASIN: B000AQBAH6 Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

1. Banal
2. Living in My Limousine
3. Vertical Games
4. Disposible
5. False Alarms
6. Decline and Fall
7. White Sound
8. Life Runs out Like Sand
9. Kind of Loving
10. Do You Dream in Colour
11. U.H.F.
12. Youth of Nation on Fire
13. Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam
14. Mr. Magnetism Himself [*]
15. Living in My Limousine [Remix][*]
16. Birds of Tin [*]
17. Love in the Abstract [*]
18. Be My Dynamo [*]
19. Rooms with Brittle Views [*]
20. All My Wives Were Iron [*]

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of the Former Be-bop Deluxe Frontman's 1983 Solo Album Release that Originally Appeared in the USA on the Enigma Label.

Customer Reviews:

Signs of things to come.......2006-06-23

The sound has aged a bit and again there are some better versions of the songs aroun d on some singles from the 80's: the 12" version of living in my limousine for example. This album is less good overall than the Red Noise one. This is strange since it has better songs but the production is less good. Also his masterpiece the Love that swirls was to come after this one.

New Wave Classic.......2005-11-27

Bill Nelson, the guitar wizard who led the brilliant Be Bop Deluxe from glam rock to new wave in the Seventies, entered the 80s with this extraordinary debut solo album produced by legendary British producer John Leckie (XTC, Simple Minds, Lucy Show). After Nelson broke up Be Bop Deluxe in 1978, following their extraordinary techno swan song "Drastic Plastic" LP, he formed Red Noise, a New Wave five-piece that produced one album, "Sound on Sound," which would eventually function as the template for the first two or three XTC albums. "Quit Dreaming," which began life as the second Red Noise album, eventually transformed into Nelson's first full-blown post Be Bop Deluxe solo album, producing a couple of UK hit singles ("Banal," "Do You Dream In Colour?") and climbing to number 7 on the British charts. In its new remastered form, with a clutch of crucial bonus tracks, the record sounds as current as it did 25 years ago. "Living in my Limousine" predates Flock of Seagulls (whom Nelson would later produce), "A Kind of Loving" taps into early 80s ska, "Youth of Nation on Fire" and "Life Runs out Like Sand" boast an exotic Asian air, and ""Banal" has the marks of a classic piece of postmodern new wave. Buy it now, before it disappears from the market.

Average customer rating: Not identifiable as Weill The Eternal Road -at last! A Historical Work That Will Appeal To Many

Kurt Weill: Eternal Road (Highlights) [Milken Archive of American Jewish Music] Manufacturer: Milken Archive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | 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: Darius Milhaud: Service Sacre [Milken Archive of American Jewish Music] Toch-Cantata of the Bitter Herbs (Milken Archive American Jewish Music) Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Naomi & Ruth / Sacred Service for Sabbath Eve [Milken Archive of American Jewish Music] Thomas Beveridge: Yizkor Requiem Brubeck - The Gates of Justice (Milken Archive American Jewish Music) ASIN: B0000C508I Release Date: 2003-09-30

Tracks:

1. Abraham And Isaac
2. Jacob And The Angel
3. Jacob And Rachel
4. The Death Of Jacob
5. In Egypt/Miriam And Moses
6. Moses Receives The Commandments/Dance Around The Golden Calf
7. The Beam, Moses
8. Moses Addresses The People
9. Moses Gives The Commandments/The Death Of Moses
10. Naomi And Ruth
11. Ruth And Boaz
12. Isaiah And Jeremiah
13. The Streets Of Jerusalem
14. Jeremiah
15. Chananiah The False Prophet/The Mob Attacks Jeremiah
16. Transformation/Finale

Amazon.com

This is an extraordinary, unique work: part opera, part oratorio, part Broadway musical, part pageant. The German libretto by Franz Werfel (the original title actually means "The Road of Promise") was translated by Ludwig Lewisohn; the story combines Biblical and modern Jewish history, messianic faith, and national politics. Set in a contemporary synagogue where the Jews are hiding from a pogrom, its four acts are centered on specific Biblical themes, which the group discusses and re-enacts throughout the night; at the end, the destruction of the ancient Temple and the group's present-day deportation melt together, as a messianic voice promises deliverance in Zion. Conceived by the promoter and Zionist activist Meyer Weisgal to awaken the world to Hitler's persecution of the Jews by juxtaposing their historical and present travails, it was premiered in New York in 1937 to critical acclaim. But it closed after 153 performances, never to be revived. No wonder: described as "the most formidable project" ever undertaken by any "undaunted group" of Jewish artists, it required an unprecedented expenditure of personnel and material and, though heavily cut even before the premiere, ran for some six hours.

Weill's music is fascinating. Alternating between cantorial liturgy, classical fugues and showtunes, it displays every aspect of his background and multi-faceted style. Son of a German cantor, his earliest works, written at age 12 and 13, were setting of Hebrew texts, but later in life, his Jewish consciousness seems to have been political rather than religious. Of all the European emigrée-composers, he was perhaps the most successful: master of operatic as well as cabaret-style, the Broadway musical became his natural habitat.

This recording offers a selection of scenes featuring recitatives, arias, ensembles and choruses. The music ranges from simple to sophisticated, from mournful, cantorial lamentations to affecting love duets, hymns, marches with trumpets and drums, dances, celestial choruses, and genuine, lovely cabaret songs. The most substantial and moving excerpt is the Death of Moses, preceded by his presentation of the Commandments. The singing is never less than good, frequently excellent. The record makes one long to hear the music in its entirety. --Edith Eisler

Album Description

This world-premiere recording of scenes from Kurt Weill's rediscovered masterpiece The Eternal Road brings to life a major 20th-century work that was a sensation of the 1937 New York theatre season. Originally conceived as a biblical pageant, a profound music-drama, and a theatrical extravaganza, The Eternal Road combines the legends of timeless Jewish heroes and heroines with the all-too-familiar story of persecution in Europe. Set against a richly colored backdrop, Weill's masterful score embodies the passions and aspirations of many dramatic characters in search of their Jewish Destiny.

Customer Reviews:

Not identifiable as Weill.......2005-11-22

An interesting "unknown" piece, but the dissonance expected in a Weill piece (Three Penny Opera, Mahagonny) is striking by its absence. Part of the Milken Archive of music by American Jewish composers, the recording is well-performed, featuring highlights of the opera, under direction of Gerard Schwarz and soloists mostly not familiar to this listener.

The Eternal Road -at last!.......2004-11-18

Weill's The Eternal Road has basically languished for more than half a century. Several years ago a production was mounted by the Chemitz Opera in the original German, which played in Chemnitz, Brooklyn and Tel Aviv. Now excerpts from the work in its English form are finally available.
The Chemitz production clearly showed both the fascination that the work has and its extensive problems. Set in a synagogue during a Nazi program, the characters are identified by types (alienated Jew, Rabbi, Christian married to a Jew, etc.) and have no real personality. They are the raison d'etre for a telling of the biblical narrative. The rabbi acts as a the reader in the fashion of the Bach St. Matthew Passion. As the story unfolfs the characters act out the story on an upper stage. In general the work is episodic with little development. In this it is really a pagent not an opera or even an oratorio. The biggest difficulty is that the work in its present form is way to long. The music slides from one style to another and by the end of a performance the audience is generally numbed into submission. In short it doesn't work on stage.
Now with a highlight recording one can savour some of the best portions of this very uneven work. Repeated hearing may increase ones desire to hear the whole work, but clearly the best of it is here and is very moving and enjoyable. If you are looking for Three Penny Opera or Mahagony you will be be let down, but heard on its own it is quite remarkable.

A Historical Work That Will Appeal To Many.......2004-01-08

This is a recording that will probably be of interest to a varied audience. Opera lovers who appreciate Kurt Weill's music will probably enjoy the recording most. Opera lovers who collect recordings love the familiar, but always relish the less familiar music that is released from time to time. THE ETERNAL ROAD will certainly be a rare treat in any opera lover's collection, that when listened to from time to time, is certain to bring enjoyment. The excerpts included in this recording are powerful and represent a side of Weill that is not as familiar as many of his other stage works. While it was conceived as a stage work, the recording sounds more like a modern day oratorio, but listeners can easily see how the musical pieces could be staged. Since the music is somewhat large and spectacular, and much of Weill's music found as home on the Broadway stage, people who enjoy theatrical music will also appreciate the recording. The piece is important historically not only because it presents a less familiar side of Weill, but also its historical context. Weill began work in 1933 which coincided with the beginnings of Nazi persecution. It was an affirmation of faith in the midst of the Holocaust.

The work is composed of the stories of many of the great Biblical heroes and heroines of the Jewish faith. Included in this recording are scenes telling the story of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and the Angel, Jacob and Rachel, the death of Jacob (a very moving musical scene), Moses receiving the Ten Commandments (I believe to be one of the best scenes of the recording), Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz, and the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. The work ends with a very hopeful finale, but the ending is a bit closer to a Broadway musical's finale which does not fit the majesty of the other excerpts, but is an enjoyable musical moment none-the-less.

The recording was supported in part by the Milken Archive, an organization dedicated to presenting and preserving Jewish sacred and secular music. It has been released by the budget label Naxos, but the work is worth more than its modest price.

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The First Chapter Various Artists , Shotgun, Young Droop, Phantom , Triple Beam ,Chopah, Mr. Doctor , Hyrisk, Marvaless Jose Antonio , Bugzy, Yukmouth MC Eiht, Bubbler , and Spice 1 Black Rhino Manufacturer: Certifyed ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000089CRI Release Date: 2003-02-11

Tracks:

1. In California
2. End of Dayz [*] - Phantom, Shotgun, Young Droop
3. We Gutter - Ghetto Starz
4. Way 2 Saucy
5. No Mercy
6. Do You See? - Mr. Doctor,
7. Floss Mode - Papoose, , , Sean T
8. Addicted to the Game - Triple Beam
9. Ready for War
10. You Gone See - Jose Antonio, Hyrisk, Marvaless
11. Drama - Chopah, Phantom
12. Boss Ballin' - Yukmouth
13. What? - MC Eiht,
14. Grimey Bay - AP.9,
15. Just a Gansta - Baby Bubbler, Bugzy,
16. Bust Back - Black Rhino, , Spice 1
17. This Mobboy
18. Bang Mata [*]

Average customer rating: Ohshima composes a score worthy of the King. Not Ifukube... thank god!!! Instead an ORIGINAL soundtrack!! Rockin' Battle Theme! Others Good, Too

Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus: Original Motion Picture Score Manufacturer: Gnp Crescendo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack Godzilla x Mothra x MechaGodzilla: Tokyo SOS King Kong vs. Godzilla Godzilla Final Wars: Music from the Motion Picture Godzilla X Mecha-Godzilla ASIN: B00005KHEK Release Date: 2001-08-21

Tracks:

1. Fateful Confrontation
2. Main Title
3. To The G Countermeasure HQ
4. Operation Area
5. The G Annihilation Strategy Commences
6. The Ominous Gigantic Egg
7. Tragedy/The Revived Ancient Insect
8. Kiriko And The Little Boy
9. Griffon Sallies Forth
10. G-Proximity
11. The Street Becomes A Lake
12. Godzilla Vs. Griffon
13. Meganula - Great Plague
14. The Dimension Tide Maneuver
15. The Ferocious Lifeform
16. Painful Life's Work
17. Hyperflgith Dragon - Birth
18. The Ultimate Battle Appearance
19. Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus
20. Suicidal Counterattck
21. Earth's Greatest Deathmatch
22. Dimensions Tide's Limit
23. Kiriko's Decision
24. Blach Hole Cannon, Explosion
25. It's All Over
26. Ending Theme
27. The Fury Of Godzilla - Akira Ifukube
28. The Decision Of Godzilla - Akira Ifukube
29. Godzilla (2 roars)
30. Godzilla (footsteps)
31. Godzilla (heat beam)
32. Megaguirus (2 roars)
33. Megaguirus (wings humming)
34. Megaguirus (high frequency wave)

Customer Reviews:

Ohshima composes a score worthy of the King........2003-02-11

For some fans, Akira Ifukube's distinctive march will be the only theme for Godzilla (hence its inclusion here). Too bad, for Michiru Ohshima has created a theme in her score for Godzilla vs Megaguirus that compliments the King of the Monsters quite well, for it is every bit as driving and majestic as the Big G itself. The Meganula and Megaguirus themes are also a nice piece of composing, striking just the right balance between alien and creepy. Fans of fantasy film scores in general and Godzilla scores in particular will be doing themselves a big disservice if they skip this one. Highly recommended.

Not Ifukube... thank god!!! Instead an ORIGINAL soundtrack!!.......2001-12-22

Ifukube was the father of GODZILLA music, and while he wrote some great themes, as a whole he became lazy and recycled music ad-nausium. Most of his music for the last cycle of GODZILLA movies "borrowed" music that he wrote 30 years ago!! Now we have a great Godzilla soundtrack that is thrilling and beautifully orchestrated, without the endless re use of the same tired music. MICHIRU OSHIMA has followed her own sense of style, and produced a new and exciting sound. Bold, yet subtle. Able to deftly balance the human and monster action . Lush orchestrations with a mix of both western influences and Japaneese origins. A terrific change of pace in Godzilla music, and like HATORI's music for SPACE GODZILLA and GODZILLA 2000, a wonderful and refreshing change from the IFUKUBE themes. Yeah... I know that some people can't seem to see past the idea that someone else than Ifukube could write Godzilla music. But this should (but most likely won't) quiet them. If you are a fan of film music, or a Godzilla fan, this is a terrific CD.

Rockin' Battle Theme! Others Good, Too.......2001-09-06

This is a very good album, with moments reminiscent of John Willams and John Barry scores. There are many additional unique themes (for the Griffon fighter ship, the Meganula, and the Dimension Tide weapon), but the best is the really *rockin'* battle theme on tracks 18-21. The latest Godzilla theme (see "Fateful Confrontation") is good piece of music, but not entirely G-like. It starts off ominous and majestic, but suddenly adds a military flavor -- a good theme for a gladiator movie, but for Godzilla?. The Ifukube purists get two extra tracks, with the "Godzilla rising from the sea" trumpets but not the traditional Godzilla theme. There are also 6 short sound effects. All in all, I liked this album better than the Godzilla 2000 Millennium score and look forward to other scores by Michiru Ohshima.

Average customer rating: Jim Beam and the American Dream ROCKS!!!!

Jim Beam and the American Dream Upside Manufacturer: Tribunal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post Grunge | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000O75HZ2 Release Date: 2007-04-10

Tracks:

1. Does This Make Me Look Dead?
2. Campfire Vampires
3. Monday
4. Lights Out
5. Puppets
6. Anchor
7. Silence Says It All
8. Flatline
9. Watch It Fade
10. Hit the Ground
11. Daylight

Album Description

Four-piece Texas rock band, UPSIDE, has built rabid following across Midwest and Texas during the past three years through constant touring, commercial and college radio airplay, grassroots street teams, mad hacker skills and chaotic, whiskey-soaked rock shows. Their previous two DIY releases Scope Of History and High Heels And Hand Grenades released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, have sold in excess of 5,000 units. UPSIDE are now regularly headlining and supporting sold out shows at the region's top club level venues (300-1000 capacity) with plans to tour the entire country in 2007. Having supported such diverse acts like Velvet Revolver, He Is Legend, Glassjaw, Blue October and Bowling For Soup, UPSIDE's buzz, grows every day. Their eagerly and highly-anticipated new album, Jim Beam and the American Dream (produced by Danny Grady of INJECTED) is the first and only recording that falls under the rock genre UPSIDE humbly created for themselves: "Texas Party Metal." Jim Beam and the American Dream is chock full of undeniable hooks, foot stomping/head banging rhythms and riffs so massive you cannot help but heave your horns towards the sky in thanks to the almighty god of rock. And just in case you were wondering: UPSIDE hates bands that wear eye shadow and carry journals, reality television and women's basketball. They love whiskey, Texas, their Chevy van, and starting fights with Bright Eyes fans. Fear not, rock-n-roll is alive and well in the heart of Texas! Release will contain BONUS DVD featuring documentary about the band and a "making of" feature on the album process.

Customer Reviews:

Jim Beam and the American Dream ROCKS!!!!.......2007-04-30

So a couple years ago when I first started getting into local music Upside was one of the first bands I heard of & I eventually bought their albums "Scope and History" & "High Heels & Hand Grenades". I have to say though "Jim Beam and the American Dream" is by far the best thing Upside has done and you can really hear their growths as musicians in this album from their other records. When "Jim Beam and the American Dream" begins it explodes into the track "Does This Make Me Look Dead?" which, after it ends, transitions immediately into "Campfire Vampires". This album is pretty much non-stop intense rock all the way through ("Puppets" "Silence Says It All" & "Hit the Ground" to name a few) and then ends with the slightly softer sided song "Daylight". So if you like rock music & you want an album that A)basically sounds freaking awesome and B)is something that you won't get tired of hearing for a VERY long time, than this is one CD that should be in your collection.

Average customer rating: Truly Cosmic

Cosmic Beam Experience Francisco Manufacturer: Radioactive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0008E4I9M Release Date: 2006-03-31

Tracks:

1. Heal Yourself
2. Love Sweet Love
3. Cosmic Beam Experience/Hey Mister Sun

Album Description

UK pressing of this 5 track album. Radio Active. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

Truly Cosmic.......2005-12-06

This CD is worth the wait. The music is truly astounding and can be a test for any stereo system. "Heal Yourself" is excellent and sets you up for the rest of the album. "Love Sweet Love" is a statement for Francisco. He's actually a real nice guy too. The Cosmic Beam Experience Part 1 and 2 have instruments like guitar through an echoplex, drums, chimes, and his multitude of Cosmic Beams. It's all very carefully layered and builds into a very stimulating end.

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Slender Beams composer Dave Hollinden , and percussion Andrew Spencer Manufacturer: Gagliano Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD 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 ASIN: B00004T2OE Release Date: 2000-01-01

Tracks:

1. Slender Beams of Solid Rhythm
2. Of Wind and Water
3. Dusting the Connecting Link
4. Release

Average customer rating: In sections and beams

A Sectioned Beam Lansing-Dreiden Manufacturer: Kemado ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Alternative Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Incomplete Triangle The Dividing Island Passover Volta ASIN: B00068NWDI Release Date: 2004-11-16

Tracks:

1. I. Locks In Shadows
2. II. Spectrum Of Vapor
3. III. A Sectioned Beam
4. Bonus Track 1

Customer Reviews:

In sections and beams.......2005-01-15

In theory, it's a good idea -- mixing bits of metal, dreampop, space-rock and one driving guitar. But Lansing-Dreiden never lives up to its promise in "Sectioned Beam." It feels like a good experimental album that hasn't decided if it wants to be the Beach Boys or a quirky ambient-pop group.

It opens with "Locks in Shadows," an oddball mix of sunny-sounding pop and spacey sound effects and echoes. If it had stuck to that, this EP would have been a winner. But in "Spectrum of Vapor," they stray into a rambling ambient-pop sound, with lazy waves of sound overlaid with some violins and metallic sound effects.

The title track seems to be halfway between the two, with a rock-pop vibe over spacey vocals. Of all the songs, it works the best -- there's an eerie, entrancing sound to this song, despite the occasionally silly vocal woo-wooing. Finally there is a remix of the title track, which tries unsuccessfully to mix heavy percussion with airy, delicate melodies.

This offbeat musical collective sounds like a less sunny, more peculiar version of the Polyphonic Spree. Their sound is polished, yet they seem to need their sound pulled together and tightened before it can be truly entrancing. It has everything it needs to be great, yet it is only okay.

The driving guitar is surprisingly catchy, and is one of the best aspects of this EP. The percussion, slow string arrangements and sound waves are kept muted, giving a dreamlike air to the instrumentation. And the vocals are not muffled, but rather enhanced with eerie echoing sounds. The only drawback is that occasionally the words get hard to make out.

Lansing-Dreiden may become a great band, if they decide what they want to be. "Sectioned Beam" has a couple of excellent tracks, but it also has a pair of confused duds.

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A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad, Complete in verse and song Alan Bates , Anthony Rolfe Johnson , and Graham Johnson Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005S85Q Release Date: 2001-12-11

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1. Best of Disco
2. Black Mahogani 2
3. Blinded by the Lights [CD-single] [Import]
4. Brazilian Beats
5. Break N Bossa: Chapter 7 [Import]
6. But Then Again
7. Danger High Voltage (Mixes) [CD-single] [Import]
8. Death in Vegas
9. Deepest Blue [CD-single] [Import]
10. Different

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