Left or Right

Product Description
From the heart of Grand Central comes Dual Control’s debut album ‘Left Or Right’. The duo combine 12 years DJing experience on the ‘street soul’ scene in Manchester and Grand Central’s very own engineer who cut his teeth working on Grand Aim’s Cold Water Music, Rae & Christian’s Sleepwalking and Riton’s Beats Du Jour.

Dual Control’s sound is big bass lines, scratching by DJ Styles, layered horns and hard beats. Influenced by friend and mentor Steve Christian, Dual Control combine the complex layering of sounds, with the painstaking sampling of single notes. Instead of sampling a complete bass line and looping it, they sample single bass notes, rearrange them, and then loop them. The same laborious technique is used for the other sounds, resulting in a mature production style.

Check ‘Burn It Out’ with its dark and bassy ragga beats, while ‘Stoned Mason’ and ‘Optical’ is straight-up Hip Hop. ‘Stoned Mason’ features Peter Parker from Fingathing on cuts and scratches; Spikey T (Bomb The Bass, Rae & Christian) appears on ‘Burn It Out’ while drummer/producer Dubble D (20:20 Vision) and Loretta (Bugz in the Attic) guest on ‘Spring Again’.

Delicate and intricate with dark street soul. Left Or Right is a beautiful album on many levels.

Left or Right,Dual Control,Grand Central [Stu],Dance,Dance Music,Pop

Average customer rating: Buy it for the songs A Laughably Cheap Way to Experience Satie

The Music Of Satie: Orchestra, Piano, Voice Manufacturer: Vox (Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Satie | Satie, Erik | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Satie: Orchestral Works Satie: Piano Works A Mammal's Notebook: Collected Writings of Erik Satie (Atlas Arkhive , No 5) Satie: Piano Music Homage to Satie ASIN: B000001K4B Release Date: 1994-08-22

Tracks:

1. Je te veux
2. Tendrement
3. La diva de
4. La statue de bronze
5. Dapheneo
6. Le chapelier
7. Trois poemes d'amour
8. Elegie
9. Danseuse
10. Chanson
11. Adieu
12. Air du rat
13. Spleen
14. La grenouille Americaine
15. Air du poete
16. Chanson du chat
17. Choral Hypocrite
18. Fugue a tatons
19. Fantaisie musculaire
20. Pastorale
21. Choral
22. Fugue
23. Choral
24. Fugue Litanique
25. Autre choral
26. Fugue de papier
27. Maniere de commencement
28. Prolongation du meme
29. Lentement
30. En leve
31. Brutal
32. En plus
33. Redite
34. Entr'acte cinematographiquie from the ballet

Tracks:

1. Parade
2. De l'enfance de Pantagruel
3. Marche de Cocagne
4. Jeunesse de Gargantua
5. Piege de Meduse
6. Allez un peu
7. Sombre
8. Un pen vif
9. Les Pantines dansent
10. Grande ritournelle
11. Marche Franco-lunaire
12. Valse des mysterieux baiser dans l'oel
13. Cancan grand mondian
14. Socrate: Part I
15. Socrate: Part II
16. Socrate: Part III

Customer Reviews:

Buy it for the songs.......2005-07-20

For my money, this disc is worth its weight in gold for the magnificent performances of the songs by Elaine Bonazzi and Frank Glazer. Bonazzi's voice is a rich mezzo and her French is impeccable. Furthermore, she invests the songs with just the right amount of wry sophistication. Her personality really brings these little jewels to life. Frank Glazer is the knowing accompanist. You won't be disappointed!!

A Laughably Cheap Way to Experience Satie.......2003-01-08

If you ever wanted to expose yourself to the music of Erik Satie but were not sure where to start, this is your disc. If you are turned off by all of the Satie albums marketed as "the world's most relaxing music" this is also your disc. If you've always thought of Satie as a hack of meagre talent who hid his lack of ability under a facade of cool surrealistic irony, this is your disc. For just over ten dollars, this disc shows Satie in all of his range, from pop cabaret song composer, to artist of exquisite sensibility. At this price, you should lap this one right up.

Most of these recordings are reissues of earlier Vox material from the 70's. I have most of the originals in either tape or LP form, but cannot review absolutely everything on the CD, due to holes in my collection. But what I do know from this series is terrific. The vocal music covers most of Satie's most important music in this form. Je Te Veux and Tendrement are both cabaret pieces, and as such they are revealing of Satie's melodic gifts, gifts not readily apparent in his other work. Both are luxurious 19th century salon pieces in the best sense of the word, well crafted and graceful for the voice. Some of the later songs, including the brilliantly surreal Luditions are exactly what you would expect Satie to write, quirky and yet with something deeper underneath.

The duo piano music is largely unknown to me, with the exception of the Three Morceaux in the Form of a Pair. This piece is very similar to other Satie solo piano works, charming, and seemingly lightweight, but with some disquieting undertones hidden under a childlike exterior.

However the real reason to get this CD is for the orchestral and dramatic works. Parade is a classic of it's kind, the first ballet about nothing to be produced. Concieved by Cocteau, with set and costume design by Picasso and choreography by Massine (i think)the work was a success du scandale in Paris. Musically, Satie's orchestrations are clever and very well balanced and his music is somewhere between minimally brilliant and banal. The banality is an essential part of the work however, so I don't mean this as a criticism.

Relache may have been Satie's most revolutionary work. It is the antithesis of the omnipresent Gymnopodies. This is almost a harsh work, though not in the sense of harsh dissonance. It is devised around a very limited series of ideas and repeats those ideas in subtly varied ways throughout it's length. As such, the work predates minimalism by about 50 years. Satie was often sited by Cage as a major influence. It's easy to believe that this is the work that was most influential on him.

I do know the other works on this album as well, but the real masterpiece is Satie's Socrate. Socrate reveals a side of Satie that is not usually evident, his serious and very spiritual side. Socrate is a "dramatic" scene for orchestra and voice, setting three sections of the dialogues of Plato. Satie is completely serious in these works, composing a flowing, austere vocal line that sets the Socratic dialogues in relief in all their stark beauty. Rather than manipulate the emotion, Satie aims for an almost antique atmosphere, with subtly moving instrumental lines and modal melodies. The work is less dramatic than hypnotic and as such Socrates' death at the end of the third scene is deeply moving. Until I had heard this work (recommended to me by my composition teacher in college) I had no idea that Satie could be such a powerful composer. Socrate is years ahead of it's time, exerting a powerful influence on Cage (who's Cheap Imitation I is an aleatoric reworking of the material of this piece), Lamonte Young, Glass and latterly Arvo Part. This work alone is worth the price of the CD. Add to that the chance to hear excellent renditions of Relache and Parade and the CD is self-recommending. Anyone interested in the roots of modern music would do well to own this CD.

Average customer rating: Probably the Finest 4-Handed Satie...

Satie and the Four-Handed Piano Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Sarabande | Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Satie | Satie, Erik | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Rogi, Pascal | ( R ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music ASIN: B00004DTQS Release Date: 2000-03-14

Tracks:

1. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: Maniere de commencement
2. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: Prolongation du meme
3. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: I Lentement
4. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: II Enleve
5. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: III Brutal
6. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: En plus
7. Trois Morceaux En Forme De Poire: Redite
8. PARADE: Prelude du rideau rouge
9. PARADE: Prestidigitateur chinois
10. PARADE: Petite fille americaine
11. PARADE: Rag-time du paquebot
12. PARADE: Acrobates
13. PARADE: Supreme effort et chute des managers
14. PARADE: Suite au Prelude du rideau rouge
15. Troisieme Sarabande
16. La Belle Excentrique: I Marche franco-lunaire
17. La Belle Excentrique: Grande Ritournelle
18. La Belle Excentrique: II Valse du 'mysterieux baiser dans l'oeil'
19. La Belle Excentrique: Grande ritournelle
20. La Belle Excentrique: III Cancan grand-mondain
21. Apercus desagreables: Pastorale
22. Apercus desagreables: Choral
23. Apercus desagreables: Fugue
24. Six Pieces de la periode: Desespoir agreable, No. 1
25. Six Pieces de la periode: Songe-Creux, No. 6
26. En Habit De Cheval: Choral
27. En Habit De Cheval: Fugue litanique
28. En Habit De Cheval: Autre choral
29. En Habit De Cheval: Fugue de papier
30. Trois Petites Pieces montees: I De l'enfance de Pantagruel (Reverie)
31. Trois Petites Pieces montees: II Marche de Cocagne (Demarche)
32. Trois Petites Pieces montees: III Jeux de Gargantua (Coin de Polka)
33. Choses vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes): Choral hypocrite
34. Choses vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes): Fugue a tatons
35. Choses vues a droite et a gauche (sans lunettes): Fantaisie musculaire

Amazon.com

The headline news is that the performers get Satie right here. Many Satie recordings are too lush, losing the astringent edge that keeps his loveliness from turning to sentimentality. Rogé, the main performer, has the right idea. He plays with beautiful tone and phrasing, but adds just enough edge to his sound that the music never turns mushy. The program includes all Satie's music for piano four hands, including the famous "Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear" (Satie's ironic reply to Debussy's suggestion that he pay more attention to form), along with a few solos. A four-hand version of the ballet Parade, without the gunshots and sirens of the orchestral version, might seem useless, but it comes off very well. Juillet joins Rogé for the rarely heard "Things Seen to the Right and Left (Without Eyeglasses)," also capturing the appropriate irony. This well-recorded disc is a winner. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Probably the Finest 4-Handed Satie..........2007-07-16

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For those who want to go indepth in their search for the elusive Satie, his music for piano duet must not be overlooked. And for 4-handed Satie, this is probably the finest realizations we're likely to hear.

Pascal Rogé is a very fine pianist; yet I feel he's slightly overlooked, when he should be actively sought out--espeically with the French literature. Seek: After the Rain...The Soft Sounds of Erik Satie ; and Satie: 3 Gymnopédies and Other Piano Works . (Although Erik Satie: Piano Works ; Satie: Gymnopédies No1-3; Petite ouverture à danser ; and Satie: Piano Music; Mélodies [includes DVD] are really good.)

Much of Satie's 4-handed piano music bears the quiet dignity of his "popular" Gymnopédes, Gnossiennes, and Nocturnes. Some of it is a little more tempestuous--i.e., the Parade. Doubleplus bonus, this disc contains Satie's only little works for violin and piano.

For those really interested in Satie, four recent discs are absolutely essential: Vexations ; Erik Satie: Musique de la Rose-Croix; Pages Mystiques; Uspud [Import] ; Socrate and Melodies .

This disc seems to be out of print, so recommend it be obtained from a 3rd party vendor quickly.
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Average customer rating:

Soukyuu No Fafner: Right Or Left Japanimation Manufacturer: King ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Soundtracks | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000E0VR1C Release Date: 2006-03-20

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You Can Sing on the Left or Bark on the Right Dirk Hamilton Manufacturer: Akarma Italy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Alias I Meet Me at the Crux Russian Roulette The Relative Health of Your Horse Outside Alias I ASIN: B00095MKQI Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

1. Sweet Forever
2. Waterfall
3. Little Big-Time Man
4. She Don't Squash Bugs
5. I Got to Feelin'
6. Sweet and Cold
7. Wasn't That One Night Good
8. Grow a Rose
9. When She Kiss Ya' Like She Love (Ya' Know She Do)
10. Ridin' on a Whale
11. Joker to a Shaky Hand [*]
12. Pavlova Shoes [*]

Album Details

Originally Released in 1976, this Work is Full of Memorable Songs Like, "The Sweet Forever", with Its Folk Jazz Arrangements, the Vibrant "Sweet and Cold" and the Intimate and Dusky "Wasn't that One Night Good". These Songs Speak Loud and Strong Even Today and it is Not a Coincidence that Hamilton Usually Plays them Back to Back During his Live Show. Musicians of the Caliber of Larry Carlton, Dean Parks, Elliott Randall, Jeff Porcaro, Chuck Rainey, Chris Hillman also Appear Here. Dirk Has also Given Us Two Bonus Tracks Recorded in the Early 70s, which Are Very Close to the Belfast Soul Sound and Early Van Morrison, One of his First Idols.

Average customer rating: Odd Assortment of Material

Les Inspirations Insolites D'erik Satie Erik Satie , Pierre Dervaux , Louis Auriacombe , Aldo Ciccolini , Mady Mesplé , Andrea Guiot , Andrée Esposito , Danielle Millet , Gaston Lataize , Pierre Bertin , Hubert Deschamps , Joseph-Marie Falcucci , Marie Laurence , Yan-Pascal Tortelier , Orchstre des Concerts Lamoureux Orchestre de Paris , and Orchstre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Satie | Satie, Erik | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000002S0J Release Date: 1992-04-30

Tracks:

1. Les Aventures De Mercure, 1 tableau: Ov-La Nuit-Danse de tedresse-Signes du Zodiaque... - Orch de Paris/Pierre Dervaux
2. Les Aventures De Mercure, 2 tableau: Danse des graces-Fuite de Mercure-Colere de Cerbere - Orch de Paris/Pierre Dervaux
3. Les Aventures De Mercure, 3 tableau: Polka des lettres-Nouvelle danse-Le chaos-Finale - Orch de Paris/Pierre Dervaux
4. Socrate, 1 partie: Portrait de Socrate (Le Banquet) - Danielle Millet
5. Socrate, 2 parte: Bords de I'llissus - Andrea Guiot
6. Socrate, 3 partie: Mort de Socrate - Mady Mesple
7. Messe Des Pauvres (Oeuvre posthume): Kyrie eleison - Chor Rene Duclos/Gaston Litaize
8. Messe Des Pauvres (Oeuvre posthume): Dixit Dominie - Chor Rene Duclos/Gaston Litaize
9. Messe Des Pauvres (Oeuvre posthume): Priere des Orgues - Chor Rene Duclos/Gaston Litaize
10. Messe Des Pauvres (Oeuvre posthume): Commune qui mundi nefas - Chor Rene Duclos/Gaston Litaize
11. Messe Des Pauvres (Oeuvre posthume): Chant Ecclesiastique - Chor Rene Duclos/Gaston Litaize
12. Messe Des Pauvres (Oeuvre posthume): Priere pour les voyageurs et les marins en danger de mort... - Chor Rene Duclos/Gaston Litaize
13. Messe Des Pauvres (Oeuvre posthume): Priere pour le salut de son ame - Chor Rene Duclos/Gaston Litaize

Tracks:

1. Gymnopedie No.1 - Orch Societe Cons Conservatoire/Louis Auricombe
2. Gymnopedie No.3 - Orch Societe Cons Conservatoire/Louis Auricombe
3. Genevieve De Brabant - Mady Mesple/Jean-Christopher Benoit/Pierre Bertin
4. Les Pantins Dansent - Orch Cons Lamoureux/Aldo Ciccolini
5. Le Piege De Meduse - Pierre Bertin/Hubert Deschamps/Joseph-Marie Falcucci/Marie Laurence
6. Choses Vues A Droite Et A Gauche - Yann-Pascal Tortelier/Aldo Ciccolini

Customer Reviews:

Odd Assortment of Material.......2007-05-30

One of the dangers of spelunking through the more remote corners of musical genres and composers is that in spite of the best intelligence, sometimes the urge to explore something totally new turns up a dud. Now, I'm not saying Erik Satie is a poor or inconsequential or weak composer. It's just that this particular album does nothing to warm me to his music or encourage me to listen to it again. It's an odd collection of very different types of material, none of which quite matches my picture of Satie as a musical innovator. There are things which sound like conventional stage music and other pieces which sound like liturgical movements, and still others which are spoken word (French). This album won't turn me off Satie, but it will make me much more careful in selecting the next album of his works.

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Left or Right Dual Control Manufacturer: Grand Central ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001CVBB4 Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

1. Left or Right
2. No Way to Stop
3. You Never
4. Global Peace
5. Burn it Out feat. Spikey T
6. Sunrise
7. You Want This
8. Stoned Mason
9. Optical
10. Do You Remember?
11. Conscience
12. Spring Again feat Loletta & Wardy

Album Description

From the heart of Grand Central comes Dual Control's debut album `Left Or Right'. The duo combine 12 years DJing experience on the `street soul' scene in Manchester and Grand Central's very own engineer who cut his teeth working on Grand Aim's Cold Water Music, Rae & Christian's Sleepwalking and Riton's Beats Du Jour.

Dual Control's sound is big bass lines, scratching by DJ Styles, layered horns and hard beats. Influenced by friend and mentor Steve Christian, Dual Control combine the complex layering of sounds, with the painstaking sampling of single notes. Instead of sampling a complete bass line and looping it, they sample single bass notes, rearrange them, and then loop them. The same laborious technique is used for the other sounds, resulting in a mature production style.

Check `Burn It Out' with its dark and bassy ragga beats, while `Stoned Mason' and `Optical' is straight-up Hip Hop. `Stoned Mason' features Peter Parker from Fingathing on cuts and scratches; Spikey T (Bomb The Bass, Rae & Christian) appears on `Burn It Out' while drummer/producer Dubble D (20:20 Vision) and Loretta (Bugz in the Attic) guest on `Spring Again'.

Delicate and intricate with dark street soul. Left Or Right is a beautiful album on many levels.

Average customer rating:

High Self Esteem Manufacturer: Frank Garfield/Cheryl Beshada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA73UI Release Date: 2003-09-30

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Get Right or Be Left ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000EDATC2

Product Description

Full length audio cd.

Average customer rating: I love it

The Tracy G Group Tracy G Manufacturer: SGT Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000AHOQY Release Date: 2003-07-01

Tracks:

1. Godhelpus
2. Marching Rebel
3. Electronic Leash
4. Black Rain
5. Pritika
6. Jurassic Shuffle
7. The Labor Of Love
8. A Blue December
9. The Plethora
10. Latin Moon
11. And The Problem Is?
12. The Blend
13. Prelude To The Attack
14. Attack Of The Killer Mudshark

Album Description

If you're into heavy guitar riffing, dark, thick tones... guitar solos from way down deep... instrumental type music that is unpredictable with real edge... this is the one for you... a Jeff Beck meets Sabbath meets something very scary with a heavy rock and blues vibe.

Customer Reviews:

I love it.......2005-04-18

This album has some very dark tones.It is a good instrumental album.I think if you like satriani and via you will like this.

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