| 1. Man from the Anthill |
| 2. Daylight and Delight |
| 3. Megans Present |
| 4. Dusty |
| 5. Crapstone |
| 6. Kill2 |
| 7. Little Secret |
| 8. Ape Is Loose |
| 9. Phone Calls from You |
| 10. Stoned Night |
| 11. Screen Love, Space, And the Time Man |
| 12. I Was Everything You Wanted Until I Quit |
| 13. Tattletalent (Encore) |
Editorial Reviews
At only 17, Connor Kirby-Long, calling himself Khonner, is already crafting beautiful electro acoustic music. Imagine a blend of classic American folk music, '80s New Wave sentiment, all with the modern gloss and production techniques of electronica. For fans of the beautiful romantic excesses of the Smiths, David Sylvian or more recently Jim O'Rourke. 13 tracks. Speak N Spell. 2005.
Handwriting,Khonnor,Speak N Spell,Dance,Rock/Pop
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Handwriting on the Wall
The Sensational Nightingales Manufacturer: Malaco Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001KWC Release Date: 1996-08-13 |
Tracks:
- Handwriting On The Wall
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- When He Was On The Cross (I Was On His Mind)
- Somewhere Listening For My Name
- Pass Me Not
- We Are Our Father's Children
- Blessed Calvary
- At The Cross
- God Will Take Care Of You
- Wait On The Lord
- Lighthouse
- Center Of My Joy
- Last Mile Of The Way
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Handwriting
Khonnor Manufacturer: Type ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0006M4SQ4 Release Date: 2005-11-08 |
Tracks:
- Man from the Anthill
- Daylight and Delight
- Megans Present
- Dusty
- Crapstone
- Kill2
- Little Secret
- Ape Is Loose
- Phone Calls from You
- Stoned Night
- Screen Love, Space, And the Time Man
- I Was Everything You Wanted Until I Quit
- Tattletalent (Encore)
Customer Reviews:
HEART BREAKING ELECTRONICS COME GOOD........2007-06-06
First track 'man from the anthill' starts off with a pulsating static throb, as khonnor's 'lost boy' vocals scitter in time with the ever growing number of electronic sounds. The track ends in a sky scrapping feedback, that sounds like your cd is broken... but in a good way.
From there 'daylight and delight' erupts with the simple acoustic strumming, and is soon joined by a huge swelling horn section. Have no doubts this album is loud and very swoony.
Every track on this album is fragile, and tortured. As the Observer newspaper remarked... 'it is the sound of undiluted heartache.'
Imagine my bloody valentine (yes them again..) jamming with kid A era radiohead, and you're sort of there.
Uncomfortable, beautiful and heart felt. This is a lost classic.
And if track 6 'kill2' doesn't make your heart shatter, then you don't have one.
Great Debut!.......2007-03-10
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Her Handwriting
Trembling Blue Stars Manufacturer: Shinkansen ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000DES8F Release Date: 1999-10-29 |
Tracks:
- A Single Kiss
- For This One
- What Can I Say To Change Your Heart?
- Abba On The Jukebox
- The Far Too Simple Beauty
- Less Than Love
- Less Than Love (Reprise)
- Do People Ever?
- last Summertime's Obsession
- A London Story
- Saffron, Beautiful And Brown-Eyed
- Nobody But You
- Two Octobers
- To Keep Your Heart Whole
Customer Reviews:
Some GREAT pop rock songs!.......2005-12-30
Highlights include:
"A Single Kiss"
"For This One"
"Abba On The Jukebox"
"Last Summertime's Obsession"
"The Far Too Simple Beauty" (parts of)
"Do People Ever?" (parts of)
"A London Story" (parts of)
"Saffron, Beautiful & Brown-Eyed" (parts of)
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Handwriting
Rachel's Manufacturer: Quarter Stick ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000037NV Release Date: 1995-05-23 |
Tracks:
- Southbound To Marion
- M. Daguerre
- Saccharin
- Frida Kahlo
- Seratonin
- Full On Night
- Handwriting
Amazon.com
When this album was initially released in 1995, it was met with some skepticism; after all, the idea of an indie rocker (Rodan's Jason Noble) getting together with some classically trained pals (violist Christian Frederickson and pianist Rachel Grimes, another former rocker) and putting out an album of original classical compositions sounded like a bit of a stretch. It was--but not for the band. Recorded over the space of a few years with help from members of Shellac, the Cocktails, and various symphony orchestras, Handwriting is a remarkably cohesive, listenable, and interesting album--and if that sounds like anything short of a rave, it shouldn't. --Randy SilverCustomer Reviews:
SORRY I'M LATE.......2005-04-08
And perhaps that is the over-arching, organizing principle of this music. It's foolish to just say "somehow all this holds together." But, somehow all this holds together. In addition to the structural integrity, the writing and performing style favors understatement and restraint. These factors combine to provide a deep sense of coherence across a fairly broad range of compositional types. And don't let the word "restraint" imply that the music ever drags or dead-ends. Nor should it imply that the music is strictly minimalist, because it finds some rather nice flashes of expression, unerringly in the right place and always at the right time.
As for intimations of Penguin Cafe, well maybe. But probably not. Rachel's is clearly not in pursuit of the melodic, something at which Simon Jeffes excelled. There's a particularly well-developed sense of how things start and how things stop. And the music here is more inwardly directed, more concerned with the interaction of elements requiring somewhat longer development periods than PCO typically pursued. So, a better point of reference might be entry-level Gavin Bryars, because more often than not Rachel's comes down on the side of art music or good old "new music" than the more typically tuneful exhortations of ensembles that come bearing strings.
Creeping Moonlight.......2002-01-10
New Sound to "Classical".......2001-01-26
Southbound to Marion and Handwriting open and close the disc with a beautiful lyrical quality while M Daguerre has a strong jazz feel. Overall the album does not have a long play time with Full On Night, more of a wandering through noise than an actual "song", being quite lengthy.
In comparison to other Rachel's works, I can only compare it to Music for Egon Schiele and The Sea and The Bells. This one is less "classical" than Music for Egon Schiele, which I think is their best work I've heard. To me, Handwriting is on par with Sea and Bells, as it contains some odd samples and a few minutes of noise as opposed to music.
If you are looking for something different, try Rachel's. If you enjoy classical music, start with Music for Egon Schiele instead of Handwriting.
Handwriting.......2001-01-10
this happens to be in my CD player right now........1999-09-17
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Handwriting
Khonnor Manufacturer: Speak N Spell ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000AHJ88S Release Date: 2005-08-29 |
Tracks:
- Man from the Anthill
- Daylight and Delight
- Megans Present
- Dusty
- Crapstone
- Kill2
- Little Secret
- Ape Is Loose
- Phone Calls from You
- Stoned Night
- Screen Love, Space, And the Time Man
- I Was Everything You Wanted Until I Quit
- Tattletalent (Encore)
Album Description
At only 17, Connor Kirby-Long, calling himself Khonner, is already crafting beautiful electro acoustic music. Imagine a blend of classic American folk music, '80s New Wave sentiment, all with the modern gloss and production techniques of electronica. For fans of the beautiful romantic excesses of the Smiths, David Sylvian or more recently Jim O'Rourke. 13 tracks. Speak N Spell. 2005.Album Details
Khonnor, the 17-year-old Us-based Wonderboy Releases his Long-awaited Debut Album "Handwriting". Two Years in the Making, Khonnor Has Produced a Record which is Sure to Bring an Important New Voice to the Emerging "Indietronica" Movement.Customer Reviews:
jah blaze .......2006-01-20
this endless moment of life.......2005-12-06
Take our youthful lad Khonnor (Connor Kirby - Long) and his Handwriting CD, a remarkable achievement by any account for one of any age. You can easily find numerous faults and quibble the small points but none could doubt the talent. His knack for composition, diversity, and simplicity outshine any weakness due to naivety or lack of experience. He just flat out doesn't know better, but is willing to lay his guts on the line. Forget that some of the songs ride light on substance or content as he more than makes up for it in trail, risk, and experimentation. The fragmentation, electronic chatter, and background buzz are artist liberties. Lest we all be too old and forget, it's always the young ones who create the new sounds that structure the new underground scenes, ultimately affecting what we end up listening to as the `new cool'. Some of the more electronic material starts a tad grandiose in a cathedral sythn sort of way reminiscent of an early New Order when their song titles had nothing to do with the lyrics and we idolized them.
Locked in his bedroom with a funky mike, old computer, guitar, and Casio, this kid pulls off the equivalent of a modern day musical McGuiver meets Mozart. I find this music inventive, original, refreshing, eloquent, and flat out beautiful. Stuff that in what ever you smoke and toke it. These are some righteous sounds.
a solid full length debut.......2005-11-30
Part of what's so intriguing about releases by younger artists (like the other Connor, Patrick Wolf, and others) is that they aren't afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves. While it sometimes makes for either cringe-worthy lyrics or sonic experiments that just don't quite work, it often makes for a unique experience as well. Whereas established artists overthink things to death, sometimes younger ones simply let it roll and that exuberance carries some weight all by itself. Such is the case with Handwriting, a great little release that works in most places and is good enough in others to make you look over the mis-steps.
Drawing influences from Fennesz, David Sylvian, and even Jim O'Rourke, Handwriting is 13 tracks of fuzzed-out guitar-based electronic music that plays like it's filtered through colored glass. The opener of "Man From The Anthill" mixes beautiful washes with quiet vocals and twangs of guitars before the whole things is swallowed in a dense processed squall. "Daylight And Delight" lopes along with stuttering drums and more sheets of filtered guitars, sounding like a lost Flying Saucer Attack track while "Megan's Present" takes a more standard first half before exploding into a shimmering, beautiful second section that feels almost exuberant.
As mentioned above, the album gets a bit bogged-down in places, as on the *ahem* somewhat aptly titled "Crapstone," but completely redeems itself in plenty of others. "A Little Secret" pushes the noise boundaries a little more with squelched vocals and spluttering beats alongside gorgeous guitars and a nice piano melody while "The Stoned Night" again shows his great skill with layering warm textures. Handwriting is an excellent debut from an artist who is obviously quite talented. Here's hoping for more from him in the future.
(from almost cool music reviews)
Amazing!.......2005-09-12
Nobody puts Khonnor in a corner!.......2005-09-11
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HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005UP38 Release Date: 2001-07-24 |
Tracks:
- ALREADY BEEN TO THE WATER
- WAITING ON MY CHILD
- JESUS THE MAN I LONG TO KNOW
- OH, LORD
- HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
- WHEN IT RAIN
- TROUBLE IN MY WAY
- THINK OF HIS GOODNESS
Album Description
THIS IS A GOSPEL ALBUM FULL OF GREAT INSPIRATIONAL SONGS
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Her Handwriting
Trembling Blue Stars Manufacturer: Ltm / Boutique Nl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CZ0Q4I Release Date: 2005-12-27 |
Tracks:
- Single Kiss
- For This One
- What Can I Say to Change Your Heart?
- Abba on the Jukebox
- Far Too Simple Beauty
- Less Than Love
- Less Than Love (Reprise)
- Do People Ever?
- Last Summertime's Obsession
- London Story
- Saffron, Beautiful and Brown-Eyed
- Nobody But You
- Two Octobers
- To Keep Your Heart Whole
- Abba on the Jukebox [7" Version]
- She's Always There [7" B Side]
- Less Than Love [Early Version]
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Her Handwriting
Trembling Blue Stars Manufacturer: Flavo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000084NS Release Date: 1998-02-06 |
Tracks:
- A Single Kiss
- For This One
- What Can I Say To Change Your Heart
- Abba on the Jukebox
- The Far Too Simple Beauty
- Less Than Love
- Less Than Love (reprise)
- Do People Ever?
- Last Summertime's Obsession
- A London Story
- Saffron, Beautiful & Brown-Eyed
- Nobody But You
- Two Octobers
- T0 Keep Your Heart Whole
Customer Reviews:
A tear-duct overload..........2002-07-17
Worth the import price.......2001-08-22
Calling all hopeless romantics.......2001-04-16
Buy this........1999-06-11
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The Handwriting Is on the Wall
Ann Peebles Manufacturer: Hi Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000J7YC Release Date: 1999-06-22 |
Tracks:
- Old Man With Young Ideas
- Bip Bam Thank You Mam
- The Handwriting Is On The Wall
- I Didn't Take Your Man
- You've Got The Papers (I've Got The Man)
- Lookin' For A Lovin'
- You're More Than I Can Stand
- Livin' In, Lovin' Out
- If I Can't See You
- Let Your Love Light Shine
- If You Got The Time
- Heartaches
- Be For Me
- Mon Belle Amour
- I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love
Album Details
Remastered Reissue of 1979 Release. Repackaged with New Liner Notes.Customer Reviews:
Don't Fight The Feeling ! ! !.......2000-12-14
Just to correct things... contrary to the listing above (as of the time of this writing) there are 10 songs on the album (most about 3 or so minutes in length... you can tell the album was crafted for air play.) Tunes are : Old Man With Young Ideas, Bip Bm Thank You Mam, The Handwriting Is On The Wall, I Didn't Take Your Man, You've Got The Papers (I've Got the Man), Lookin' for a Lovin', Youre More Than I Can Stand, Livin In Lovin Out, If I Can't See Yo, Let Your Love Light Shine.
Great stuff... and you wonder where Macy G. got her groove...
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Her Handwriting
Trembling Blue Stars Manufacturer: Shinkansen Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E831 Release Date: 1997-12-09 |
Album Review:
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- Invitation to Dance: Cha Cha
- Italo Boot Hits
- Just a Ride Pt.1 [CD-single] [Import]
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