Amplified

Product Description
Introducing Amplified: a brand new series designed to showcase up and coming artists and producers! Conceptualized by some of the keen minds behind the world re-knowned Defected imprint, Amplified is dedicated to being a platform for labels to present their hottest unreleased tracks - giving them the opportunity to reach a much wider audience.

The seminal mix to launch this soon to be revered series is none other than the mighty DJ Chus! Not a newcomer to the game, DJ Chus is resident at Teatro Kapitol, one of the biggest clubs in his hometown of Madrid! He has had many releases over the past few years, most notably "That Feeling" on Defected that went on to sell 30,000+ copies worldwide. Having had releases on some of the most respected dance labels around: Moody, Fluential, Stereo, Tango and Red Melon to name a few…. This man knows his 'ting when it comes to the sweetest house sounds around!

This release is a journey and an education into all that is right with house music at the moment. One minute the chunky beats are rolling in a "3AM heads down" vibe and then the most haunting of female vocals sweep you away to another place! This album is a must for all house music lovers everywhere.

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Average customer rating: Wow Serious Music Listen loud and feel it One Of The Best Albums Of The 90's great album

Amplified Heart Everything But the Girl Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Walking Wounded Acoustic Like the Deserts Miss the Rain The Language of Life Temperamental ASIN: B000002IZ1 Release Date: 1994-07-19

Tracks:

1. Rollercoaster
2. Troubled Mind
3. I Don't Understand Anything
4. Walking To You
5. Get Me
6. Missing
7. Two Star
8. We Walk The Same Line
9. 25th December
10. Disenchanted

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Amplified Heart marked a number of changes in Everything but the Girl's career, the most obvious of which was their sudden popularity when a Todd Terry remix of "Missing" became a dance-floor hit. But before the album was even recorded, Ben Watt--who with Tracy Thorn is EBTG--was hospitalized for a life-threatening intestinal disorder (see his book, Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness, for a full account). His recovery invigorates Amplified Heart, making the love songs that much more passionate, the relationship songs that much more tender, and "25th December"--the one song in which Watt sings lead--that much more heartbreaking. Thorn's captivating vocals are the focus on the rest of the album, and she's as smooth as ever; combined with the focus that she and Watt share here, it makes for EBTG's best album. --Randy Silver

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Mired in an easy-listening rut since Baby, The Stars Shine Bright (1986), Everything But the Girl's return to self-production is a plus and might account for "Amplified Heart" being their most striking and listenable album in eons. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

Wow.......2007-03-07

I could easily say that this album is one of the best "genre" records I have ever heard. Instead, I will say that it's one of the few albums that I actually smile about when I think back to listening to it years ago. From Rollercoaster to the end of the album, I can relate different aspects of my life to the themes, making it a bittersweet score to a bittersweet journey. The vocals are haunting and painful to majestic and sweeping and the lyrics inspired some of my earlier poetry. Listen to 25th December or Get Me and think of how those words could fit into some past scenerio that you experienced. I love this album.

Serious Music.......2006-06-10

Strong singing, poignant lyrics, tuneful melodies and spare but colorful arrangements make this album a gently melancholy pleasure. Its nostalgia is deeply heartfelt, and the frustrations of love are depicted as starkly as the artists in their cover portrait. But We Walk The Same Line is an inspiring anthem for the commitment that brings a couple through life's hard times.

Listen loud and feel it.......2006-01-30

If you listen to Amplified Heart for the first time, you'll find that one song will strike very deeply, and resonate with you for days or weeks. It's the best song you've heard in a long time. You'll skip over songs to get to it. As it starts to wear off, you'll find that another song, probably one you were actually skipping, is perhaps the best song you've heard in a long time. This will continue until you realize that this is one of those albums where there's really not a bad moment. This turns out to be a great collection of very strong, simple songs.

The emotion runs deep and true through this album without getting overbearing. A lot of that has to do with the songs themselves, which are just simple and powerful. But it's even more to do with the spare but rich production. The vocals are pitch perfect, and the choice of instrumentation prevents any song from getting overdone. When not to play is often as important as when to play. This album is one where every note seems to have a place and a meaning. The overall mood is longing, but thoughtful, profound, and mature.

I started out on Rollercoaster, jumped to Get Me, then found We Walk the Same Line, drove around on Two Star for a couple weeks, realized I Don't Understand Anything and just started playing the whole thing. There are many essentials that I'll be returning to for a long time.

One Of The Best Albums Of The 90's.......2005-12-07

Like most people I only knew of Everything But The Girl because of the hit single "Missing." Having an extensive CD collection, this album ended up just sitting there for a long time. Recently I put the disc on and started listening to the album from the beginning all the way through. What a surprise! The tunes have very simple melodies and structures, but are very powerful. The mark of a great album is one that stirs your soul and Amplified Heart does that. Surprising is that even though "Missing" is a great song, the rest of the album is even better. The split vocal on "Walking To You" will evoke feeling of a past love and what might have been. "Get Me" and "Two Star" are just terrific. All the songs flow together to create an album with an atmosphere of lamentation, longing, and reflection. You won't be disappointed, the songs really grow on you the more you listen. This is definately one of the best undiscovered albums out there.

great album.......2005-10-10

Definitely recommend this album. Mellow and soulful sound with modern electronic backing. The fifth song is really great - I think it is titled "Walking to You" and it really evokes feelings of longing and love for past relationships that were good but may not have worked out.
Enjoy!

Average customer rating: read this before the review up top What's wrong with having a little fun? Terrible commercial album Abstract stick this funking shiiit in your ear

Amplified Q-Tip Manufacturer: Arista ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Experimental Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Love Movement Beats, Rhymes and Life People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm Midnight Marauders The Low End Theory ASIN: B00002R0K9 Release Date: 1999-11-30

Tracks:

1. Wait Up
2. Higher
3. Do It
4. Moving With U
5. Let's Ride
6. Things U Do
7. All In
8. Go Hard
9. Breathe And Stop
10. Vivrant Thing
11. N.T.
12. End Of Time

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Breaking up is hard to do but sometimes the aftermath can shine a light on the individuals and just what they brought to the mix. Over the course of five albums (three of which are certified hip-hop classics), Q-Tip, the dominant wordsmith and resident sex symbol of A Tribe Called Quest, was the guy with the goods. With his adenoidal tone and nimble way with a rhyme, he was the focus of much of the attention Tribe justifiably received. Yet left to his own devices, Tip falls short and Amplified is not the triumph fans might have expected. Part of the fault lies in the production, which with the exception of two great cuts (both produced by DJ Scratch), is provided by Tip and partner J.D., who also worked the last two (weak) Tribe CDs. Tip's new sound is typified by the revved up, sexy push and pull of his smash "Vivrant Thing." But that song's sound and subject matter--sex--is the main theme throughout this album. Adding to the dilemma is the fact that the advances sent to press were sequenced as if Amplified was one continuous track, which makes the sameness of many of the cuts even more obvious. True, Tip is playful and pointed, but the lyrics are remarkably linear for a guy who once dubbed himself "abstract" and the similarity of the drum patterns and tempo start to grow tiresome. Sadly, what should have been a breakthrough solo debut from a truly gifted artist only makes you yearn for the subtle jazzy touches and deadpan retorts former Tribe members Ali and Phife provided. --Amy Linden

Customer Reviews:

read this before the review up top.......2006-12-27

this album is great. and the girl that reviewed this album doesn't have a clue what she's talking about. the drums sound the same because all drums in every song at that time sounded the same. it was 2000 and it wasn't until timbo blew up that drums in hip hop changed. secondly. J.D is JayDee and he killed the last two (still classics) that tribe put out. he was also a part of tribe before those albums came out, he just didn't get the credit. this album was way ahead of it's time, now jaydee is a legend. this album is nuts

What's wrong with having a little fun?.......2006-12-18

After the tragic breakup of the greatest rap trio of all time, A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip released his first solo offering, "Amplified," in 1999. Fans expecting the abstract lyricism and social consciousness of a Tribe album will not find it here, so some I'm sure were disappointed. When I first heard "Amplified" I was surprised for sure because this sounds nothing like a Tribe album, but I grew to like it a lot. This album is full of upbeat, light, and happy songs that aren't very deep lyrically but are just basically fun songs. Tip's raps aren't exactly thought provoking, nor are they meant to be. Production comes mainly from Tip and Jay Dee, the duo known as The Ummah that produced the last two Tribe albums, "Beats, Rhymes, and Life" and "The Love Movement." The production uses horns and heavy instrumentals, but sounds very unlike ATCQ music. It's fast and consistently joyful sounding. As a huge ATCQ fan who has enjoyed all five of their albums, I also enjoyed "Amplified" even though it is a very different kind of release.

The album begins with "Wait Up," which uses nice keyboard and saxophone instrumentation for Tip to flow over. "Higher" has vibesy, soulful production and a good chorus. "Breathe and Stop" is a single, fast and simple sounding but very catchy. The electronic and experimental sounding "Moving With U" follows. I love "Let's Ride," it's a laidback, fun song about riding in cars and listening to music. Tip would never have made this kind of song with Phife and Shaheed, but I like hearing him do it by himself. "Things U Do" and "All In" follow, adding to the consistency of "Amplified." "Go Hard" is a funkier song aimed for the ladies. "Vivrant Thing" is one of the best, a song with good production and funny lyrics. Busta Rhymes collaborates on the piano-heavy "N.T." and rock band Korn make an unlikely appearance on "End of Time," which is a song I actually like a lot, it's really different from everything else on the album. A bonus track is also included, which lyrically is the best. It explains the rise and fall of A Tribe Called Quest, chronicling their career and breakup, with inside stuff a fan wouldn't have guessed.

I recommend "Amplified" mostly because it is an album of catchy, fun hip hop music even if lyrically it is not what a lot of fans expected. I think a lot of different kinds of music listeners will enjoy it, and Tribe fans such as myself will like it in a lot of ways too. Overall "Amplified" is an enjoyable album that I really like to listen to on a lot of occasions, and I definitely recommend it.

Terrible commercial album.......2006-12-15

I was very disappointed in Amplified album since i'm A Tribe Called Quest fan. QTip tried to go commercial and pop on this album and i think he let a lot of his fans down. Only songs i liked on the album is Higher, Breathe And Stop, Vivrant Thing(this was already on the Violator compilation so it shouldn't have been on Amplified album). End Of Time song with rock group Korn would've been better if Korn wasn't on the song. I liked the beat and the lyrics on End Of Time but QTip should've rapped more on the song and left Korn off the song. I also like the bonus hidden track Do It, Be It, See It. I'm so glad his 2nd solo unreleased album Kamaal The Abstract never came out because from the reviews i read about it, i read that he sang on all of the 9 songs on the album LOL. What's the deal with rappers singing now? LOL. QTip is a homo. He was wearing house slippers in Breathe And Stop video hahahahahahahahahaha.

Abstract.......2006-02-14

This is an album I bought when it first came out. I was a big tribe fan. I felt that Q-Tip had such a distinct sound and lyrically was one of the most underrated in the game. I felt that this album was slept on by many. I feel, in my opinion that this was one of few cd's that you can let start at the beginning and play all the way through. I was a little affraid for Tip at first but after hearing this, this was a great effort and something I would reccomend anyone to check out or buy.

stick this funking shiiit in your ear.......2006-01-10

and let it clear out all that nasty built up wax from all those whack jack arse slacks who recylcle tracks and fony lyrics and listen to some dope shiiit get with it or get lost!!!!!!

Average customer rating: One of a kind.

Amplified: A Decade of Reinventing the Cello Apocalyptica Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Hard Rock & Metal | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Apocalyptica Live Reflections Cult How Far ASIN: B000FIHFDC Release Date: 2006-06-05

Tracks:

1. Enter Sandman
2. Harmageddon
3. Nothing Else Matters
4. Refuse/Resist
5. Somewhere Around Nothing
6. Betrayal
7. Farewell
8. Master of Puppets
9. Hall of the Mountain King
10. One
11. Heat
12. Cohkka
13. Kaamos
14. Deathzone
15. Angel of Death

Tracks:

1. Repressed [#] - Apocalyptica, Max Cavalera, Matthew Tuck
2. Path, Vol. 2 - Apocalyptica, Sandra Nasic
3. Bittersweet - Apocalyptica, Ville Valo,
4. Hope, Vol. 2 - Apocalyptica,
5. En Vie - Apocalyptica,
6. Faraway, Vol. 2 - Apocalyptica, Linda Sundblad
7. Life Burns - Apocalyptica,
8. Seemann - Apocalyptica, Nina Hagen

Album Description

Two disc 2006 collection featuring the best moments from this classically based Finnish quartet's first decade, including a handful of tracks from their internationally successful Plays Metallica For Four Cellos. 23 tracks. Universal.

Album Details

2006 Anthology of the Radical Group of Cellists from Finland that Took a Cue from Rasputina and Play Rock N Roll. Not Just Any Rock N Roll....their Repetoire Comes Primarily from the Metallica Canon...as Well as from Other Bands that Influenced Or Are Similar to their Heroes. Includes Two Previously Unreleased Recordings of "Angel of Death" and "Repressed" (Which is the First Single Release from this Set).

Customer Reviews:

One of a kind........2006-09-11

Apocalyptica is three guys (used to be four) who play metal on cello. Best known for covering famous songs by renowned artists (they first startled the music scene in 1996 with "Plays Metallica by Four Cellos"), they also write some magnificent pieces of their own, frequently featuring the collaboration of other bands such as HIM. Talented musicians, they're all classically trained, but they put that skill to use in a unique way.

Their music is beautiful. On a piece like Metallica's "One," the strings dance through the intro in almost baroque fashion, only to plunge into a startling imitation of a guitar's grind, and then cut loose into the meat of the piece with a snarl you've probably never heard from a cello before. Maximizing the cello's rich tonal range from a deep bass growl to a soprano that soars into the upper atmosphere, the instruments lend power ballads a heart-rendingly beautiful sound, while they crash through the hard stuff with a vicious exuberance that'd make any metal band proud.

If you enjoy metal, if you admire the lyricism of a well-played string instrument, if you like discovering novel sounds, or if you're simply tired of hearing rehashes of the same old stuff over and over again, you owe it to yourself to check out Apocalyptica. This collection is an excellent place to start, with some of the highlights from all their albums up to this point. Dark, ferocious, beautiful, and ageless, every person I've played this album for has turned to me with a look of joyful surprise and asked where they could find a copy.

Average customer rating: Great Album.....dont believe the bad reviews Dodge the Snobs, THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM Alive! Funkified! not great, not bad

Alive & Amplified The Mooney Suzuki Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Electric Sweat If You Don't Already Have a Look 6Twenty Making the Rounds Save Rock 'n' Roll ASIN: B0002MPQTQ Release Date: 2004-08-24

Tracks:

1. Primitive Condition
2. Alive & Amplified
3. Legal High
4. New York
5. Shake That Bush Again
6. Sometimes Somethin
7. Loose 'N' Juicy
8. Hot Sugar
9. Messin' In The Dressin' Room
10. Naked Lady
11. Love Bus

Customer Reviews:

Great Album.....dont believe the bad reviews.......2007-03-24

this album is great, it gets you pumped up, especially alive and amplified

Dodge the Snobs, THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM.......2006-02-02

Firstly, if I hear another uninformed poseur talk about how this second album of theirs let them down, and oh, dear me, they changed their sound... After People Get Ready, then Electric Sweat, Live & Amplified is their third full length LP, and their fourth release if you include the Self Titled EP.

I don't care about the so-called change in their sound- I got into Suzuki with the, Your Love is a Gentle Whip, single. On that early release their garage sound was completely mechanical, and devoid of the blues/funk that they've evolved into today. They have changed/evolved with each album. Most good bands do.

This is a solid album. It would be a solid first album, and it is a solid third album. Their sound evolved and matured, and I hope it continues to. Yes, it was produced by the Matrix. Did that effect the sound. The producer always does. Primitive Condition, Alive & Amplified and Shake That Bush Again are all really great songs. I hope they made a few bucks licensing the title track to, appropriately enough, Suzuki for the Grand Vitara TV spot where the guy parachutes off the red-rock down to his SUV... You've heard it a dozen times, that's the song.

Alive!.......2005-08-07

A highly anticipated new release from New York garage rockers Mooney Suzuki thrills with peices like the funky, energetic title track, which boasts of drums reminiscent of "Sympathy For The Devil", vocals that sound like the twisted offspring of Ozzy Ozbourne and Jimi Hendrix, as well as with the opening track, "Primitive Condition", which starts with a guitar riff that could easilybe on an AC/DC album. Luckily the sophisticated yet poppy lyrics spare the need to compare the two.

Funkified!.......2005-05-26

I picked this up for free from the record store I work at, not really expecting much but hoping that it was good. And, I was pleasantly surprised! This album provides some damn good hip-shaking funk and deep sexy soul.

The first song is just naughty enough to make me smile, while the title track "Alive & Amplified" is a big energy romp through the highs of life.

I won't go into much detail after that, it's sort of something you need to experience for yourself.

not great, not bad.......2005-04-15

This is a good album, sure it could've been way better if it was recorded with the same production of Electric Sweat with the buzzing guitars and all, but this is not a bad album. Garage rock? nawwww, but good ol' rock n roll? h311s yes.

Average customer rating: On a level with Gavin Bryars' works.... A truly amazing ambient piece... shimmering, beautiful, timeless absolutely beautiful

The Passing Measures David Lang , Marty Ehrlich , Birmingham Contemporary Music Group , City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus , and Paul Herbert Manufacturer: Cantaloupe ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Child Elevated Classics World To Come Michael Gordon: Decasia ASIN: B00005B67B Release Date: 2001-04-10

Tracks:

1. The Passing Measures

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Hearing David Lang's The Passing Measures for the first time, you can't help but feel drawn into the composer's sound world. This CD consists of just one track: one hauntingly beautiful, 42-minute track. Reminiscent of the more soothing works by Morton Feldman, Brian Eno, and Gavin Bryars, Lang's piece is as ambient as they come; a single, extended chord ebbs and flows and resonates for nearly an hour. Performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, clarinetist Marty Ehrlich, and a women's choir all playing as softly as possible, the entire performance was later amplified, bringing to light the eerie nature of these musicians holding back. Sounding both atmospheric and electric, the simple formula for this orchestral piece works; just don't expect much in the way of drama. The CD begins with the musicians already in flight and it ends with a simple contemplative touchdown. An acquired taste, for sure, but utterly mesmerizing. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

On a level with Gavin Bryars' works...........2006-04-12

If you like the quiet moving beauty of Gavin Bryar's Sinking of the Titanic, then you will likely love this masterpiece.

I installed this CD in my car (which I use too much for work) and was instantly removed from the mundane. This is a quiet piece (the CD is one long hymn)but not so hushed that it doesn't counteract the sounds of motoring. A very rare find indeed.

A truly amazing ambient piece..........2005-06-29

This cd, to put simply, is well worth the price. There is an amazing atmosphere here. It reminds me very much of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, the Pulses sections, if you took out the percussive sounds of the instruments and left only the echo, the resonance. There is a very continuous, steady feel about the piece, yet i find certain moments bring certain moods, those of sheer brilliance and happiness, and those which remind me of the aftermath of a war or something of that sort. It is also a very dissonant, echoing, droning piece, marked by moments where certain voices in the orchestra make themselves gradually more present, and then fade back into the lush background. All the while, light percussion scrapes and rattles, very quietly, which adds surprisingly gentle texture to the song, as though the orchestra is the ocean waves and the percussion is the rattling of distant buoys or the light crash of water on the rocks.

This is a work of astounding beauty, and is ideal for a fan of any kind of music that is ambient, meditative, relaxing, etc. etc.

shimmering, beautiful, timeless.......2004-07-11

reminiscent of Morton Feldman but more lush, more "ear-candy" if you will. the composition seems like a single perfect moment stretched and extended and each time i play it i never want it to end.

absolutely beautiful.......2001-04-24

This is one of the most beautiful discs I've heard in a while -- continuing in the tradition of Brian Eno's live "Music for Airports" record (Lang is one of the co-founders of Bang on a Can), it's a slow, very slow, movement through orchestral shimmering magic. It's in the ambient tradition, but it'll sneak up on you and grab your attention when you're least expecting it -- though it will do so in its own slow, aching way... it's also beautifully recorded, i give it a huge recommendation.

Average customer rating: Close to perfect

Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 8; Makrokosmos Books I & II, Otherwordly Resonances Manufacturer: Bridge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by George Crumb | Crumb, George | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music 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 Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Complete Crumb Edition 9; Ancient Voices of Children, Madrigals Books I-IV, Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 5: Easter Dawning, Celestial Mechanics, A Haunted Landscape, Processional Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 6 - Echoes of Time and the River, Gnomic Variations, Four Nocturnes, Lux Aeterna Complete George Crumb Editon, Volume 7 - Unto the Hills, Black Angels Crumb: Zeitgeist, Music for a Summer Evening ASIN: B0002W18OI Release Date: 2004-09-28

Tracks:

1. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
2. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
3. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
4. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
5. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
6. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
7. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
8. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
9. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
10. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
11. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
12. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
13. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
14. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
15. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
16. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
17. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
18. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
19. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
20. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
21. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
22. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
23. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
24. Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 & 2
25. Otherwordly Resonances

Album Description

The latest volume in BRIDGE'S award-winning survey of George Crumb complete works presents a new recording of a major Crumb cycle and the premiere of a new composition for two pianos. Makrokosmos I and II have come to be regarded as landmark compositions in the piano repertoire, requiring the pianist to display a virtuoso's control of both the keyboard and the inside of the piano. In addition, the performer is asked to whistle, speak, and sing, while simultaneously playing some of the most dramatic and fantasy-filled piano music of the late twentieth century. Robert Shannon, a leading exponent of Crumb's music, gives the 67 minute cycle of 24 "zodiac" pieces a spectacular reading. The duo piano team, Quattro Mani, has also had a long association with Crumb's music, and can be heard playing Crumb's music on BRIDGE 9105, a disc that received `Best of Year' honors from Fanfare, and highest ratings from France's Repertoire, and the USA's ClassicsToday.com. ! In 2002, Crumb composed "Otherworldy Resonances", a 10 minute quasi-passacaglia for Quattro Mani. Based on a hypnotic four-note motif, this 10 minute composition marks Crumb's return to writing piano music after a hiatus of nearly 15 years. Both of these recordings, as with the rest of this series, were supervised by the composer.

Customer Reviews:

Close to perfect.......2007-05-29

The first book of Makrokosmos was my introduction to Crumb's music and despite hearing about half of his entire output now, it still remains my favorite. The title is closely related and pratcially ripped off from Bartok's Mikrokosmos, but they're nothing alike. Mikrokosmos is a set of progressive studies for children to learn piano. These are most certainly not exercises. They're much more like Debussy's Preludes -- 2 books of 12 brutally hard pieces that have short descriptions by the composer.

I once read a comment by Michael Walsh (music critic for Time Magazine) claiming that Makrokosmos is better if performed by a man. In general, I think he's right -- the shouting and speaking from the pianist in the various pieces just carry more gravitas with a deeper voice. I would also add the caveat that it should be an English-speaking pianist, too -- the recording of Bojan Gorisek on Audiophile Classics (if it's out there anymore) has its distractions thanks to Gorisek's heavy Slavic accent.

Since the recording here has an American man playing, and it's superb. It's not good because he's a man and he's American, but because the whole package is here. The recording quality and phrasing is excellent -- Mr. Shannon paces things perfectly so that you can hear and savor the resoanance that comes from inside the piano. The nutty piano techniques show their edge amazingly well -- for example, in the Phantom Gondolier movement, you can just imagine how hard Mr. Shannon scrapes his thimble-capped fingers on the strings inside the piano to produce the hair-raising sounds. Book 2, which I like less, also comes up a winner. It feels a little recycled after going through the 35 minutes of Book 1, but how often can one hear a coherent piece that demonstrates the effect of placing paper on strings of the piano?

My one gripe is that Mr. Shannon is not a strong vocalist. In some parts of both books, the score asks for "shouting" from the pianist, and he comes up quite short. In the Crucifixus movement of Book 1, his shout of "Christe!" is hardly the jolting climax from the depths of a deathly silence it's supposed to be. And this happens on several occasions. His whistling isn't bad, though.

Otherwordly Resonances seems quaint after getting through the string-plucking and knocking in Makrokosmos. It's pleasant enough, but it definitely takes second fiddle to the headliner on this CD. Which is a shame, because the performers of this work, Quattro Mani, do amazing things with the Makrokosmos III and IV on other Crumb CDs.

I wish Mr. Crumb would have made more comments about what techniques he actually used in his works. Without a score to look at (and they're HUGE, awkward, and expensive), how on earth is anyone supposed to know what we're listening to? The sounds generated from a prepared piano are just as interesting as learning how to prepare the piano in the first place.

I still think this CD is fabulous. It shows Elliott Carter's garbled messes from the same period have some worthy competition.

Average customer rating: Promise unfulfilled THE introduction to Xenakis Xenakis! Yeah Baby, That's What I'm Talking About! "N'Shima", "Metastaseis", and "Jonchaies" are highlights A strong disc that showcases Xenakis' remarkable style

Xenakis: Orchestral Works & Chamber Music Iannis Xenakis , Safir , Swf So Baden-Baden , and Rosbaud Manufacturer: Col Legno ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Xénakis: Pléïdes Luigi Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz, for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra & Magnetic Tape (1971-72) / ...sofferte onde serene... For Piano & Magnetic Tape (1976) / Contrapunto dialettico alla mente, for Magnetic Tape (1968) - Maurizio Pollini / Claudio Abbado Penderecki: Anaklasis; Threnody; etc. Varèse - The Complete Works / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra · Asko Ensemble · Chailly György Ligeti Edition 1: String Quartets and Duets - Arditti String Quartet ASIN: B00004SZVO Release Date: 2000-04-15

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Promise unfulfilled.......2007-06-05

The composer Xenakis brings most to mind is George Antheil. Both composers made a huge initial splash. But repeated listening to these pieces reveals that they are little more than empty effect. Although dates of the pieces here span two or three decades, all of the music is rooted firmly in the sixties. There are many composers who experimented with similar textures during this period. But for the best of breed, this kind of music became an important part--but only a part--of a larger toolkit. Without this experimentalism, we'd have never had Ligeti's "San Francisco Polyphony" or Lutoslawski's mighty "Third Symphony". But Xenakis appears to feel that the effect is the thing. There's not much in this music beyond theatricality.

This has often been considered to be groundbreaking music. But it's important to build something after breaking ground. Xenakis has left us an empty lot.

THE introduction to Xenakis.......2007-02-11

The Col legno label's "Orchestral works and chamber music" discs are usually overpriced and contain second-rate material. But on this collection of the music of Iannis Xenakis, we get several excellent pieces in historical performances, with surprising good sound quality.

Just for this recording of "Metastasis" alone the disc is worth for the price. This work, written for large orchestra between 1953 and 1954, was Xenakis' first mature effort. Of great proportions indeed, "Metastasis" has 61 instrumentalists playing 61 different parts. The opening is stunning, gradually each of the strings enters sustaining a single note, creating a massive wall of sound before some strings go astray via glissandi to other notes and pizzicato playing and the rest of the orchestra shows up. Closely related to the composer's design of the Couvent de la Tourette near Lyons, much of the dynamics of this first portion is based on the Fibonacci sequence, with nearly every decision in the work, from the structures of intervals to the length of dynamics and tones. The second section is more traditional, as the bulk of the orchestral forces remain silent with some strings playing a contrapuntal passage with drumrolls in the background and the occasional spotting of brass. This recording documents the world-premiere at the 1955 Donaueschinger Musiktage, where the SWF Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Rosbaud perform. While slightly lesser in sound-quality than the other two widely-available recordings, this one was considered to be the best by Xenakis, and even in 1950s mono sound it packs a tremendous punch.

Almost two decades passed between "Metastasis" and the next piece here. "Charisma" (1971) is written for clarinet, here Hans Deinzer, and cello, here the great Siegfried Palm. Unlike the wild energy typical of much of Xenakis' work, this duo consists of long-held sonorities and pregnant silences. Alone of the pieces here, it tends toward the forgettable, but some of the weird, noise-like sounds evoked unusual attacks on the instruments are quite interesting.

"N'Shima" (1975) is the only work here to include voices, and is also the smallest piece for ensemble. Two female voices, singing from a Hebrew text, are combined with two horns, two trombones, and a cello. The piece was rigorously constructed with the aid of a computer to create melodic patterns from probabilities, but the result, far from seeming inhuman or lifeless, is immensely elegant. Throughout each of the piece's six sections, a particular combination of instruments is explored, starting with voice and horns, the cello paired with breath sounds, and so forth. A strong effort, and this performance by Les Jeunes Solistes conducted by Rachid Safir, recorded at a 1991 festival in Metz, is admirably clear and confident.

In "Jonchaies" (1977) Xenakis returns to the massively large orchestra of "Metastasis", with 109 musicians, quadruple winds, six percussionists, and an extra-large string section. The piece is one of his late masterpieces, and it's got it all. The opening is for string alone, starting off with repetitive bowing reminiscent of the PSYCHO shower scene, then falling into some of Xenakis' most straightfowardly melodical writing. Gamelan-like sonorities appear in a long string continuum. Then, the piece launches into a series of rhythmic pulsations, with bouncy writing on drums and low strings similar to Per Norgard's much later piece "Terrains Vagues". The energy never lets up, even with most of the orchestra occasionally drops out to highlight one group. Gilbert Amy leads the Nouvel Orchesre Philharmonique in a splendid performance.

"Ata" (1987) similarly opens with a passage for string alone, but its main facet is not rhythm but texture. Overall it's one of the least "strange" pieces Xenakis wrote, resembling some of the work of Magnus Lindberg like "Fresco" or "Arena". I would have started the disc with "Metastasis" to show the fury that Xenakis is all about, but Col legno did well by putting this piece early to help new listeners gently acclimate to the composer's soundworld. This recording is from the premiere at the 1988 Donaueschinger Musiktage, with Michael Gielen leading the SWF Symphony.

"Ioolkos" (1996) was another piece premiered at Donaueschingen, and this recording is of that performance by the SWF Symphony Orchestra led by Kwame Ryan. In its numerous clusters and strong counterpoint, it looks back to "Metastasis", which appeared forty-one years earlier by the same orchestra at the same festival. However, it is much slower and a bit shorter, taking the gentle soundworld of "Ata" a bit further.

Xenakis was a notoriously inconsistent composer, and a few of his works are even well-nigh unlistenable. However, the material collected here is of a very high standard indeed. Unfortunately, the liner notes here, amounting to a single small paragraph on each work, are among the most unsubstantial I've ever seen. Fans of the composer would do best to seek out James Harley's excellent guide XENAKIS (Routledge, 2004) which covers the composer's entire oeuvre--don't worry, it doesn't assume that one can read music.

Xenakis! Yeah Baby, That's What I'm Talking About! .......2006-09-09

Initially I was hesitant in buying this CD. Primarily I wanted to hear the relatively famous "Metastaseis". This was it's premiere performance and recording under conductor Hans Rosbaud, it dates from 1955. I was suspicious that the sound wouldn't be great, how wrong was I to worry! The sound is unbelievable, better than many modern digital recordings in fact. The great strength of this piece is still well apparent even after the dilution of this type of musical idiom by other avant-garde composers not to mention the constant borrowings of Hollywood film musicians.

However fine "Metastaseis" is, there are plenty of other experimental works to be found here. For instance, track 2 called "N'Shima" (1975) has some truly wacked out vocal work, perfect background music for people who like to get drunk or high? Ha!

Another surprise was track 6, titled "Jonchaies" (1977). Is the opening an overt tongue-in-cheek jab at movie composer Bernard Herrmann? I know that Herrmann was certainly influenced by the avant-garde movements during the mid-century and incorporated it's ideas into his own film scores, Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" being one of them. So was Xenakis consciously trying to quote the score of "Psycho" so as to get back at Herrmann's continual lifting of ideas from avant-gardists like Xenakis himself in the first place? Can it all be just a coincidence? Who knows?

You'll have plenty of musical fun with this disc I assure you, the later featured Xenakis works are not as persuasive as Metastaseis but it's good to have such a well rounded 67 minute collage of his music on one CD. A definite buy.

"N'Shima", "Metastaseis", and "Jonchaies" are highlights.......2005-05-31

These works are amazing. They are hostile, forbidding, and occasionally terrifying visions of distant, extraterrestrial landscapes.

A strong disc that showcases Xenakis' remarkable style.......2003-12-18

The life of the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis is amongst the most interesting of all 20th century composers: injured and left for dead while fighting as a left-wing partisan against the Nazi occupation of Greece, escaping to France to avoid the death sentence pronounced upon him, teaching himself music and architecture, becoming a major name in both, and pioneering computer-aided composition. This disc in Col Legno's Collage series includes live performances of six works from the 1950s to the 1990s, allowing us to see that Xenakis' musical output is as interesting as his life itself.

The disc opens with the 1987 composition Ata, for large orchestra. This is a typical work in Xenakis' late style, with an overall tempo much slower than the surface activity might suggest and long sequences of atonal block chords overlaid with more dynamic material. The music is tense and energetic throughout, with vibrantly rhythmic, percussive passages keeping the music flowing. This is an excellent piece, superbly performed by the SWF Symphony under the predictably excellent Michael Gielen.

N'Shima, written in 1975, is for an unusual amplified ensemble: two mezzo-sopranos, two horns, two trombones and a cello. It has an intensely ritualistic feel to it, in part because much of the writing is in the same register. At times, this work reminded me of the 1970s music of Giacinto Scelsi, particularly in the incantatory nature of the vocal lines.

Next up is a recording with great historical significance, the 1955 Donaueschingen premiere of Xenakis' then-new Metastaseis. This work must have seemed quite outré to those expecting imitations of the pointillism of Boulez or Stockhausen at that time; with its wailing strings, siren-like brass, hushed percussion effects, glissandi and tone clusters this music now seems far more radical than, say, Le Marteau sans maitre. It is still disturbing listening even today--though it should be: Xenakis said it was in part drawn from his memories of watching crowds scatter under gunfire.

The next two works are less impressive. Ioolkos, written in 1996 and one of Xenakis' last works, might be considered an attempt to revisit the world of Metastaseis from a "late-Xenakis" vantage point. Its slow progress and rather curdled sounds do not appeal to me. Charisma, written in 1971, is a brief and rather fractured duet for cello and clarinet.

The disc closes as it began, with a hyper-energetic work for large orchestra. Jonchaies, written in 1977, is a bona-fide Xenakis classic, emerging from long string glissandi, travelling through more and more intensely rhythmic sections to a large climax before fading out in the sounds of piccolos and tiny bells. This is arguably the strongest work on the whole disc, but, unfortunately, this performance, with the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique under the French composer Gilbert Amy, has been superseded by a more recent recording on Timpani that has better orchestral playing and a generally higher level of tension (though there is one percussive passage that comes off better in this recording).

Overall, this recording is well-worth considering, particularly for those who have not heard Xenakis' music before. The recording of Ata should be considered as close to definitive as we're likely to get, and only Ioolkos and Charisma--the two shortest works on the disc--are weak. Xenakis' music may not be for everyone, but it has a potential audience much larger than many of the other avant-garde composers (and yes, you could mosh to Ata or to Jonchaies!)

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Complete Crumb Edition 9; Ancient Voices of Children, Madrigals Books I-IV, Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik George Crumb , Tony Arnold , Justin Murray , David Colson , and Emanuele Arciuli Manufacturer: Bridge Records, Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by George Crumb | Crumb, George | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 8; Makrokosmos Books I & II, Otherwordly Resonances Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 6 - Echoes of Time and the River, Gnomic Variations, Four Nocturnes, Lux Aeterna Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 5: Easter Dawning, Celestial Mechanics, A Haunted Landscape, Processional Complete George Crumb Editon, Volume 7 - Unto the Hills, Black Angels Crumb: Zeitgeist, Music for a Summer Evening ASIN: B000AA4L50 Release Date: 2005-07-20

Tracks:

1. Ancient Voices of Children - El nino busca su voz
2. Ancient Voices of Children - "Dances of the Ancient Earth"
3. Ancient Voices of Children - Me he perdido muchas veces por el mar
4. Ancient Voices of Children - De donde vienes, amor, mi nino?
5. Ancient Voices of Children - Todas las tardes en Granada, todas las tardes se muere un nino
6. Ancient Voices of Children - "Ghost Dance"
7. Ancient Voices of Children - Se ha llenado de luces mi corazon de seda
8. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Nocturnal Theme
9. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Charade
10. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Premonition
11. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Cobweb and Peaseblossom
12. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Incantation
13. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Golliwog Revisited
14. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Blues in the Night
15. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Cadenza with Tolling Bells
16. Eine Kline Mitternachtmusik - Midnight Transformation
17. Madrigals - Verte desnuda es recordar la tierra
18. Madrigals - No piensan en la lluvia, y se han dormido
19. Madrigals - Los muertos llevan alas de musgo
20. Madrigals - Bebe el agua tranquila de la cancion aneja
21. Madrigals - La muerte entra y sale de la taberna
22. Madrigals - Caballito negro Donde llevas tu jinete muerto
23. Madrigals - La noche canta desnuda sobre los puentes de marzo
24. Madrigals - Quiero dormir el sueno de las manzanas
25. Madrigals - Nana, nino, nana del caballo grande que no quiso el agua
26. Madrigals - Por que naci entres espejos
27. Madrigals - Tu cuerpo, con la sombra violeta de mis manos, era un arcangel de frio
28. Madrigals - La muerto me esta mirando desde las torres de Cordoba!

Product Description

Volume Nine of Bridge's Grammy Award-winning George Crumb Edition features new recordings of two of Crumb's Lorca-inspired classics, as well as the premiere recording of the composer's latest piano piece. Ancient Voices of Children is the composition that brought George Crumb his greatest fame in the 1970s. Scored for soprano, boy soprano and a wild assortment of instruments including mandolin, musical saw, and toy piano, Ancient Voices is a dramatic masterpiece that influenced an entire generation of composers with its use of quotation, extremes of color and dynamics, and one of the most stunningly virtuosic vocal parts in the twentieth century repertoire. As sung in this composer-supervised recording, the young soprano, Tony Arnold, breathes new life and beauty into this cycle which has been virtually owned by the work's dedicatee, the legendary Jan DeGaetani. Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik is George Crumb's latest work for solo piano- a twenty minute take on Thelonious Monk's famous tune ‘Round Midnight. Though the work opens and closes with literal statements of Monk's tune, from the outset, we know that the music is the inimitable work of George Crumb, with its strummed strings, percussive rumblings inside the piano, and typically Crumbian harmony. Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik includes a touching ‘blues' movement, and a theatrical ‘counting off' (in Italian) of the hours until Midnight. The work's dedicatee, the Italian piano virtuoso Emanuele Arciuli, is the performer in this premiere recording. George Crumb's four books of Madrigals comprise the longest work in his famed Lorca cycle. This new recording again features Tony Arnold in a spectacular realization of these seminal works by Crumb. From a field of nearly one hundred singers and instrumentalists at Holland's 2002 Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition, the American soprano Tony Arnold triumphed, becoming the first singer ever to win the competition's First Prize. Ms. Arnold has recently completed a 10 city tour with George Crumb and the George Crumb Ensemble. The soprano's sensational performances of Mr. Crumb's works has inspired Crumb to compose a new work for Ms. Arnold, which will be featured on an upcoming volume in this series. The previous volumes in Bridge's Crumb edition are: BRIDGE 9028 - Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death; Apparition, A Little Suite for Christmas, AD 1979 BRIDGE 9069 - Quest, Federico's Little Songs for Children, Night Music I BRIDGE 9095 - Star-Child, Three Early Songs, Mundus Canis BRIDGE 9105 - Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III), Zeitgeist BRIDGE 9113 - Easter Dawning, Celestial Mechanics, A Haunted Landscape, Processional, Easter Dawning BRIDGE 9127 - Lux Aeterna, Pastoral Drone, Four Nocturnes, Gnomic Variations, Echoes of Time and the River BRIDGE 9139 - Unto the Hills, Black Angels BRIDGE 9155 - Makrokosmos Vol. I-II, Otherworldly Resonances

Average customer rating: Classic Rock At Its BEST!! UTV Turns Up 24 Rock Classics On "Amplified" this cd rocks classic rock the best ever

Amplified Various Artists Manufacturer: Utv Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music | Dance Pop | Easy Listening | General | Oldies | Traditional Vocalists Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music British Invasion | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Compilations | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Arena Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004WF5C Release Date: 2000-08-08

Tracks:

1. All Day & All Of The Night - The Kinks
2. I Can't Explain - The Who
3. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group
4. Get Ready - Rare Earth
5. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
6. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane
7. American Woman - The Guess Who
8. Roundabout - Yes
9. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
10. Peace Train - Cat Stevens
11. Your Song - Elton John
12. American Pie - Don McLean

Tracks:

1. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
2. The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy
3. Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
4. Love Hurts - Nazareth
5. Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
6. Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band
7. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
8. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
9. Radar Love - Golden Earring
10. Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton
11. More Than A Feeling - Boston
12. Too Much Time On My Hands - Styx

Customer Reviews:

Classic Rock At Its BEST!!.......2005-04-19

I have collected a great number of CD's and vinyl's over the years and I have to say I have a very eclectic collection. But (...here's the "but"..) AMPLIFIED is the best investment I have ever made to add to my collection of classic rock. It just doesn't get any better than the original recordings of the Kinks, Spencer Davis Group, Jefferson Airplane with the fabulous Grace Slick!! "Love Hurts" by Nazereth and Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way" brought back soooooo many memories. Cat Stephens "Peace Train" always makes me shed a tear of joy. "American Woman" just rocks!!! Lenny Kravitz did a good job re-recording it, but no one will ever touch the original "Guess Who" recording. If these are the songs you love and wouldn't mind hearing them over and over and over (you could do much worse..), then you must by this 2 CD set. It truly represents some of the very best of classic rock. It's timeless. You won't regret it!

UTV Turns Up 24 Rock Classics On "Amplified".......2001-07-11

While not exactly "the definitive double CD of classic rock" advertised on its cover, UTV Records' "Amplified" is near-perfect background for the next baby boomer barbecue or road trip. Clearly remastered by Suha Gur (who worked on UTV's more focused, superior "Classic Years" Motown set) this CD unpretentiously gets to the riff-heavy rock dominating pop culture for most of 20 years.

Sequencing is haphazard; the Kinks-into-Who-into-Spencer Davis Group opening captures a taste of British Invasion before stumbling embarassingly into Rare Earth's lame "Get Ready." Disc One ends on too mellow a note with the Cat Stevens, Elton John and Don McLean tracks. (Elton could well have been represented with the more rocking "Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting.")

Similarly, two rousing anthems from Steppenwolf and Thin Lizzy start Disc Two, followed quickly followed by a southern rock suite including genre classics "Ramblin' Man" and "Free Bird." But Styx's "Too Much Time On My Hands," released in 1981, is lighter, faster and wittier than the set's other ponderous anthems, and thus is a poor set closer.

Some songs seem stale, hard if sweet donuts out of their original albums' context. Boston's gentle, jangly fadein on "More Than A Feeling" was and remains electrifying on their debut CD, but seems all too familiar as Track 11 on Disc 2. Yes' "Roundabout," unusual in compilations, still thrills but fits better as one piece in 1972's prog-rock classic "Fragile." This also explains why the Who's "Can't Explain" won over "My Generation," and why Eric Clapton, arguably classic rock's central solo figure, is represented only by the Cream track and not Derek & The Dominoes' "Layla."

But for once the lack of liner notes on "Amplified" is a positive. We needn't hear one more interpretation of "American Pie" or rehash of the Guess Who's "American Woman." The music speaks its outdated but reassuring language for itself. Despite obvious omissions (Atlantic's 4CD classic rock set is still available and fills many gaps), "Amplified" draws well from parent Universal's deep rock (Polygram/MCA) catalogue and peppers it with enough outside tracks for a satisfying, nostalgic and affordable rock sampler. Recommended for those too young or stoned to enjoy the music the first time, with essential tracks found on the artists' original sets.

this cd rocks.......2000-11-10

I usually wouldn't recommend a compilation cd, or even a greatest hit cd, and if you're a classic rock fan you probably have these songs already. If OTOH you're not that big of a classic rock fan and don't want to spend lotsa money on dozens of cd's or listen to crappy mp3 quality (even @ 320 kbps it doesn't sound quite the same) this cd is for you. All of these songs are great. Definitely worth the money

classic rock.......2000-10-18

amplified is a well put compilation of lassic rock.it has some well known songs like "born to be wild","american woman" and other great classics of the rock n roll era. other artists in this double cd are the kinks.the who,cream,spencer davis group,among others. this cd is well worth it and it's a good starting point for new classic rock fans.

the best ever.......2000-08-09

this is the best ever if u dont buy it ur a fool

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Voice Is the Original Instrument Manufacturer: Lovely Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by La Barbara | La Barbara, Joan | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000C7PV8 Release Date: 2003-09-30

Tracks:

1. Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation
2. Hear What I Feel
3. Circular Song
4. Des Accords pour Teeny
5. Les Oiseaux qui chantent dans ma t

Tracks:

1. Vocal Extensions
2. Twelvesong (Zwesang)
3. "q-/-uatre petites bs"
4. Cathing
5. Autumn Signal
6. October Music: Star Showers and Extraterrestrials

Album Description

Collection of early works and her first vocal compositions, originally released on LPs in the 1970s and early 1980s on her own Wizard Records. "One of my earliest pieces, `Hear What I Feel', was a self-exploratory, sensory-deprivation experimental work, designed to help me discover new sounds, delve into psychological aspects, as well as communicate with the audience on a pre-verbal level of awareness. After spending an hour in isolation with my eyes taped shut and not touching anything with my hands, I was led our into the performance space where my assistant had placed a variety of substances in six small glass dishes. As I touched the material, I tried to give an immediate vocal response to what I felt both emotionally and physically, without the benefit of visual information. I expected the shock of bringing a solitary state of mind into the heightened awareness of a performance situation to intensify my experience, and the poignancy of my `prepared' state to affect the audience. The sounds are presented here in their raw state; it is truly an experimental work with no intentional musical implications or designs. `Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation' explores the color spectrum of a single pitch. Circular Song was inspired by the circular breathing technique of horn players. `Des Accords pour Teeny', an exploration of multi-phonic technique or choral singing, was dedicated to Teeny Duchamp. In much of my early work I dealt with sound as a physical presence, sculpting it, building up layers in complex constructions, letting the flow of thought and the visualization of sonic gestures direct my studio art. Voice Is the Original Instrument was both a statement of purpose and a manifesto as, through various experiments and explorations, I tried to rediscover the basic function of the voice as the first means of expression as well as to release untapped sonic material. As I gave my classically trained voice its freedom, letting it direct me toward new places and ideas, I developed what was a unique vocabulary and used those sounds to score an orchestra of layered voices."

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5. Barfly [Import]
6. Barfly Vol.2 [Import]
7. Been Good [CD-single] [Import]
8. Bobby and Nihal Presents [Import]
9. Brace Yourself [EP] [CD-single]
10. Call on Me [CD-single]

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