Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear)

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Maryanne Amacher's certain that several of these electronic compositions will trigger sound from within the listener's ears. Sounds unlikely at first, but her works indeed get under the skin before uncoiling inside the body. The more bright, popping moments jump around, surrounding the listener with a roomful of sound in radical disproportion to the source's range--and initially with consternating repetitions and extremity of tones. Compressed at times into stereotypically blippy emanations, Sound Characters presents an explicit overwhelming challenge, as if Amacher's daring the listener to hear her work, whether it's piercing with needles of high-pitched tone or dark pitch-free crushes. No sooner is Amacher finished issuing the challenge when she delves into a mix of subterranean rumbles and the rough thunders of a purple sky in late summer. She's got formidable talents in sound installations, which occur here in every guise, always issuing a sort of aural blanket, albeit one that breathes, over the listening space. --Andrew Bartlett

Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear),Maryanne Amacher,Tzadik,Dance Music,Electronic,Modern Composition,Pop,Popular Music,Sound Sculpture

Average customer rating: Beautiful & uplifting... Inspiring!

Code of the Goddess Laura Powers Manufacturer: Red Harp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Celtic Journey Trilogy: Legends of the Goddess III Beyond the Pale: Legends of the Goddess II Legends of the Goddess Point of Faith ASIN: B0002TFZD6 Release Date: 2004-08-15

Tracks:

1. Sweetest Song (There is a haven for you)
2. Rose Line Canon (Hidden in plain view)
3. Get Inside (Let the quest begin)
4. Shine Love (For Silas, who always knew pain)
5. Mystic and the Muse (The blade and the chalice)
6. Answer Me With Silence (Calling me home)
7. Opus Dei (For the greater good)
8. Goddess of the Sea Mist (You are protected on your journey)
9. A Heart in Winter (Sophie's song to grandpere)
10. Beyond the Pale (Venture into the unknown)
11. Winter of Dreams (Grandmere's song to grandpere)
12. Tir Na N(Rosslyn, grandmere, brother. I am home)
13. Dance Til the Rain Begins (At journey's end, love remains)

Album Description

The "Code of the Goddess" is an inspired musical exploration of the story from the best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code," by Dan Brown, featuring favorite works and new material from Laura Powers, creator of the Legends of the Goddess CD trilogy. A rich tapestry of elegantly layered arrangements interweaves beautiful melodies and mystical lyrics, creating songs that seem to spring from the souls of the characters we've come to know from the novel. This collection offers a perfect introduction to Laura's Celtic-infused music. It has become the soundtrack to my days, a musical companion on my own life journey. Celebrating feminine power and the beauty of the goddess tradition, Laura's earth-and-fire vocals blend with ethereal instrumentation, creating sensuous dreamscapes that transport you to another time, another place. I highly recommend it.

Candy Paull Author of The Art of Abundance, The Art of Encouragement, and 101 Ways to Give Your Soul a Lift.

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful & uplifting..........2006-03-20

"Code of the Goddess" takes the characters of the "Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown and breathes musical life into them. After enjoying the book so much the songs in this CD bring another element to the people and storyline of the book. No vague instrumentals and noodling here--These are songs that stand up on their own and to repeated listening. Opus Dei, The Mystic and the Muse, and the lovely "Heart in Winter" (Sophie's song is in both French and English--I recognize Pachabel's Canon in the song) are standouts. If there is no audio here I found sound clips on the artist's website. Well done--packaging is nice, too.

Inspiring!.......2005-03-11

I absolutely LOVE this CD. There isn't a single track that I don't love listening to ... at home, while working, in the car ... it's just one of those collections.

Average customer rating: buy this album brilliant creepy noise

Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) Maryanne Amacher Manufacturer: Tzadik ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: 1930 Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music ASIN: B00000I0FJ Release Date: 1999-02-16

Tracks:

1. Head Rythmn 1/Plaything 2
2. Tower
3. 'Synaptic Island' Excerpt/Vm3 'The Levi-Montalcini Variations
4. 'Synaptic Island' Excerpt/Tower Metals/Feed2/Music Orchestra 1
5. Dense Boogie 1
6. Chorale 1
7. 'A Step Into It, Imagining 1001 Years' Excerpt/Entering Ancient Ruins

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Maryanne Amacher's certain that several of these electronic compositions will trigger sound from within the listener's ears. Sounds unlikely at first, but her works indeed get under the skin before uncoiling inside the body. The more bright, popping moments jump around, surrounding the listener with a roomful of sound in radical disproportion to the source's range--and initially with consternating repetitions and extremity of tones. Compressed at times into stereotypically blippy emanations, Sound Characters presents an explicit overwhelming challenge, as if Amacher's daring the listener to hear her work, whether it's piercing with needles of high-pitched tone or dark pitch-free crushes. No sooner is Amacher finished issuing the challenge when she delves into a mix of subterranean rumbles and the rough thunders of a purple sky in late summer. She's got formidable talents in sound installations, which occur here in every guise, always issuing a sort of aural blanket, albeit one that breathes, over the listening space. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

buy this album.......2000-03-10

This album changed the way I look at music. I've been creating sound for most of my life, and this album puts me to shame. It does things with noise that hadn't occured to me were possible. buy this album. buy this album.

brilliant creepy noise.......1999-09-15

first off, do not listen to this album on headphones. it won't work that way. on a stereo, a number of tracks become not just three dimensional but feel like they're coming OUT your ears rather than IN them. as for the tracks that don't give this sensation, they're either creepy like a david lynch soundtrack or discordant like sonic youth feedback. if you're a fan of john zorn's weird stuff, then this is a must.

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Christian Comedy Featuring Olbilly Bob Manufacturer: Religitech Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9S9M Release Date: 2002-01-29

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Farmer's Daughter Le Ann Etheridge Manufacturer: Currituck Sound Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA8L3G Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. How to Get Over You
2. Riding Down West End
3. To New York from Nashville
4. Columbus
5. Vague Reminder of the Past
6. Thoughts While Flying
7. Reasons Why
8. Just the Two of Us
9. Giving Me the Needle
10. Abandon You to the Wind
11. Back When Ted Loved Sylvia
12. Welsh Goodbye

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The Wizard of Og-Adventures in Rhymeland Dinky Woo Woo Productions Manufacturer: Dinky Woo Woo Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9SY2 Release Date: 2002-01-29

Tracks:

1. Wizard of Og
2. At - Pat and Mat and That Silly Cat
3. At - Where It's at with Pat and Mat
4. Op - The Op Dance
5. Op -The Op Party
6. Ick -The Adventures of Mr. Cowabunga
7. Ick -Let's Make Some Sounds with Ick!
8. Ug -The Story of Ugly Ug
9. Ug -The Story of Ug-Fill in the Blanks
10. Ug - Ugly Ug's Song
11. Ug - Ugly Ug's Song-Music Only
12. Rock Blends - Vowels - Consonant/Vowel
13. Rock Blends - Vowels - Consonant/Vowel - Music Only
14. Funky Blends - Consonant/Vowel
15. Funky Blends - Consonant/Vowel - Music Only
16. Country Blends - Vowel/Consonant/Vowel
17. Country Blends - Vowel/Consonant/Vowel - Music Only
18. Wizard's Welcome

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No Fun Camp Jeff Humphrey Trio Manufacturer: Lotus Sound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA8HK8 Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

1. American Gristle
2. Flowers
3. Bottom Teeth
4. Furnace Boy
5. Breast Girl
6. Kitchen
7. Reptiles
8. Palooza
9. Ghost People
10. Perfect Hand
11. Black Weber
12. Black Weber's Sister
13. Alcohol
14. Smashing Bloke
15. (What's That Thing on Your) Lip
16. Longitude
17. Ride the Silver Planet
18. Nancy
19. Nancy (Demo)
20. War
21. Wig
22. Head Full of Girls
23. Leave Me Alone
24. Horn
25. Folklore
26. Folklore Pt. II
27. Folklore Pt. III
28. Hello Spider
29. Hollow Pad
30. Calming Magic of Wood Smoke

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Once Upon a Winter Day Manufacturer: Louise Barnes ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAA9CC Release Date: 2003-09-16

Tracks:

1. Plantagenet Power
2. Lady of Aquitaine
3. The Prince Who Would Be King
4. The Dark Prince
5. A Ride Through Sherwood Forest
6. A Lady Lost in Love
7. Hot Spiced Wine
8. The Flower of France
9. Once Upon A Winter Day

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Hellrides & Hollywood Waltzes Manufacturer: Goodmanrecords ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAAM6K Release Date: 2001-04-17

Tracks:

1. Lost Highway
2. Hellride
3. Talk with Me
4. Dark Horses
5. Central Florida
6. Hollywood Waltz
7. Love is the Test
8. I Got a Woman
9. Shadow of the Master
10. The Vapor

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Smile Again Miles Griffith Manufacturer: Griffith Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAJRNE Release Date: 2005-03-29

Tracks:

1. Arioso (Take Flight and Be Free)
2. Life in the City
3. I Mean You
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Domingo
6. Autumn in New York
7. What Is That Beautiful Sound?
8. Too High
9. Smile Again
10. We See
11. Something Special (In the Sky for Us)

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Dancing Ganesh Manfred Paul Weinberger Manufacturer: ATS Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BKFG30 Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

1. Dancing Ganesh
2. Creative Distance
3. Power Monk
4. K.T.T.
5. Laxmi Road
6. 9 for Blue
7. East - West
8. Nice Surprise
9. Organic Constallation

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