Iron Ghost

1. The Road

2. Juggernaut

3. What To Say

4. Before

5. Windmill

6. Iron Ghost

7. John

8. Tommy Angel's Widow

Editorial Reviews

Fan Mail after the Listening Party
"I listened to your CD all weekend. All the songs are excellent. The ones that have stuck in my mind the most are: the haunting refrain of "John", the swingin' mystery of "Tommy Angel's Widow", and the intensity of that "Journal Entry" song (Windmill). You are a master!"

Product Description
Iron Ghost contains several Rock/Pop styles including rock, industrial, metal, acoustic guitar, and swing. All songs were written, performed, recorded and engineered by Robert Ellis. The CD was mastered by The Kitchen.

Iron Ghost

Iron Ghost,Red

Average customer rating:

Mostly Railroad Music

Manufacturer: Crystal Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Three Calliope Pieces: The Saint Lawrence Tubular Bridge Mazurka Polka
Three Calliope Pieces: Stravinsky On The Delta Queen
Three Calliope Pieces: Honky -Tonks (City of Gold)
Junction
The Rise And Fall Of The Steam Railroad
Ghost Train
Six Railroad Preludes: A Great Little Train Of Wales
Six Railroad Preludes: Tiddles Of Paddington
Six Railroad Preludes: Spiral Tunnel Boogie
Six Railroad Preludes: In Memorium--Jumbo
Six Railroad Preludes: Thoreau's Train
Six Railroad Preludes: Amtrak
The Iron Horses Of Delson
Schoenberg VS. Gershwin
Dorion Crossing
Two Railoramas: Dvorak At 155th Street
Two Railoramas: Hindemith Rides The Merchants Limited
The Nomadic Five
Turbo

Average customer rating:

A Diverse Musician with Extraordiary Energy and Talent
Variety is Key to Listening Pleasure

Iron Ghost

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004SUCR
Release Date: 1999-11-12

Tracks:

The Road
Juggernaut
What To Say
Before
Windmill
Iron Ghost
John
Tommy Angel's Widow

Album Description

Iron Ghost contains several Rock/Pop styles including rock, industrial, metal, acoustic guitar, and swing. All songs were written, performed, recorded and engineered by Robert Ellis. The CD was mastered by The Kitchen.

Customer Reviews:

A Diverse Musician with Extraordiary Energy and Talent.......2001-09-18

I've listened to the album often since it's release almost two years ago, and I discover new things with each listening. His style defies categorization. His influences are broad, spanning cultures and generations. An echo of The Doors can be heard in "The Road" and Metallica's in "Juggernaut" and "Windmill"; the title song "Iron Ghost" reminds one of Trent Reznor's Industrial style. Red's voice itself is extremely versatile, bearing slight traces of John Lennon's and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust phase. However, heard even more than all of these is a uniqueness that runs throughout the whole album. Red has a style all his own, drawn in part from the inspiration of other artists, and moreso from within his incredibly creative soul. I cannot wait for his next album. He's going to go places, I guarantee you.

Variety is Key to Listening Pleasure.......2000-06-08

This album is EXCELLENT. Every song is different; it's hard to name a single genre for the CD. Listen to the entire CD, in one sitting, if possible. You'll hear Red's influences, which are varied in themselves--the Doors, David Bowie, Metallica. But Red has a sound all his own, especially in the way he creates a wall of sound that really draws you in. It seems like the song "John" has many more instruments than it really does. Red's voice also creates an amazing atmosphere, especially when there's a bit of an echo. His voice has a high, emotional quality that makes the hair on my back stand on end. If you get a chance to see him live, do---he wears a red silk shirt that's to die for.

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Typical of Cambridge Singers--A good thing
Beautifully Lyrical Folk Melodies a la Rutter
The Lark touches my own heart!
Rolicking English folk music

The Lark in the Clear Air

Manufacturer: Collegium
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000031HX
Release Date: 1993-09-13

Tracks:

I know where I'm going
She moved through the fair
The lark in the clear air
Down by the sally gardens
Dashing away with the smoothing iron
The spring time of the year
The sprig of thyme
The bold grenadier
The British Grenadiers
The dark eyed sailor
The keel row
The girl I left behind me
Just as the tide was flowing
The cuckoo
O waly, waly
She's like the swallow
The lover's ghost
Willow song
The willow tree
Wassail song
The miller of Dee
O can ye sew cushions
Afton water
Golden slumbers

Amazon.com

A whole disc of choral arrangements of folk tunes could be too much--except in this case, the choir is the excellent Cambridge Singers, and the well-chosen arrangements cover a variety of composers and styles. Among the arrangers are Rutter, Vaughan Williams, and Daryl Runswick; the repertoire includes a hauntingly gorgeous "She moved through the fair" and 23 other selections. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

Typical of Cambridge Singers--A good thing.......2005-06-14

This is very typical of John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. Superbly performed, meaning not too forceful or too delicate. Diction and tone excellent. The folk song is not necessairly as entertaining or enjoyable as some of their other repertoire, nor is it as meaningful, but it still a powerful listening experience. The money for this recording will be well spent. The arrangements, well chosen, showcase beautiful, evocative choral singing. Vaughan Williams' arrangements are best, and he is well known for his arrangements of folk songs. Rutter's are good, but his harmonies are too often predictable or saccharine.

Best are: Dashing away with the smoothing iron (5), The Dark Eyed Sailor (10), The Girl I Left Behind Me (12), Just as the tide was flowing (13), O waly, waly (15)

Beautifully Lyrical Folk Melodies a la Rutter.......2000-09-28

This is a collection of Irish, Scottish, and English folk songs beautifully caressed by The Cambridge Singers under the masterful direction of John Rutter. He seems to possess an uncanny ability to create a uniquely lush and lyrical sound with a choir.

In listening to these songs, I find that they have the capacity to simultaneously evoke feelings of melancholy and joy, and, ultimately leave me to conclude that I have been visited by sheer beauty.

The Lark touches my own heart!.......2000-04-27

In this review I am going to be exceptionally candid! This CD is a wonderfully arranged and performed set of traditional songs that will be treasured by any lover of this delicate yet vigorous music. I was a child of post war England in a poor suburb of South East England and our music teacher used to make us sing these songs which came from The National Song Book and from the folk song collectors, notably Vaughan Williams who put so much of this national flavor into his two collections, 'The English Hymnal' and 'Songs of Praise'. Before our generation the BBC had set up a radio programme called 'Listen with Mother' which we followed the established tradition of listening to them in those years of austerity (its funny you know, but we did not seem to get bored like they do today) on November evenings when the pea souper fogs swirled around the blue mercury lamps as the coal glowed orange in the grate. This music transported us to May mornings, harvesting, landscapes peopled with grenadiers, young love sick swains tip toeing in forbidden rooms at night etc. from these bleak afternoons and gave us the promise of the return of the season when we will be able to walk the Downs under blue skies once more. They also made us think that we were part of a continuum of being young, loving, having children and growing old and dying on this misty offshore island as hundred of generations had done before us. This self-consciousness of these characteristics that made us English and in their understated passion they revealed to us the promises of adulthood together with its victories, disillusionments and inevitable tragedies. Alas, the powers that dictate the conventional wisdom today have consigned these songs to the trash basket of history in the name of multiculturalism and globalism. The songs are not sung today as they appear too ethnocentric in a pluralistic society for our contemporary captains of society. This is a shame for those of us with no real English blood could still participate and enjoy these lovely songs that summon up the freshness of a spring morning or the pangs of a spurned lover in a few lines of beautifully stated verse. These are universal feelings that just happened to be in an English setting, which was where we were! The arrangements here are sublime, particularly 'She moved through the Fair' which always moves me to tears. The subject 'What are the English?' is a current topic for the UK is still settling down after Devolution and finding its own identity. They could do worse than playing 'The Lark in the Clear Air' to answer this question tout court. Please buy, but be warned: this stuff can be dangerously upsetting in its waves of nostalgia. It is like meeting a long lost (and forgotten) friend. That is an (almost lost) part of yourself.

Rolicking English folk music.......1999-06-13

Beautifully sung under Rutter's usual masterful directions. Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron and the Dark Eyed Sailor were my favorites.

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