The world would be a nicer place if everyone were as grounded, optimistic, and spiritual as former Arrested Development singer-rapper Speech. Whether he's decrying the commodification of music ("Brought to You By . . ."), unnecessary agendas ("The Simple Love of Life"), relationship woes (the eerily Boyz II Men-styled "Livin' in the Real World"), or flaunting his individuality ("It's a Challenge for Me"), Speech uses his aptly titled soul-gospel-pop-infused Spiritual People to soapbox for the greater good. Unfortunately, the Georgia-based musician's points often come off more as self-help prescriptions than declarative statements. And with a few notable exceptions ("Brother Speech," "Y-O," and the thoroughly ill-advised "Jungle Man"), there's not much rap going on. Still, when Speech hits, he hits the mark; the ridiculously upbeat "Cruisin' in My Super Beetle" is a corker even if, like most of the songs here, it's weirdly toothless. --Kim Hughes
Spiritual People,Speech,Reincarnate Music,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop,Soul/R & B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues
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All Spirits Sing
Joanne Shenandoah Manufacturer: Music Little People ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000033ZY Release Date: 1997-05-27 |
Tracks:
- Friendship Song
- Rabbit Dance Song
- Everybody Else Can Sing
- Light Up The World
- I Am The River
- Tise Old Wurtle
- Roots And Wings
- Bear In Mind
- Three Sisters: Corn, Beans and Squash
- Sing Away Your Cares
- All Spirits Sing
- Tise Old Wurtle
- Narration
- Roots And Wings
- Narration
- Bear In Mind
- Narration
- Three Sisters: Corn, Beans and Squash
- Narration
- Sing Away Your Cares
- Narration
- All Spirits Sing
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful!.......2006-01-08
I recommend this cd.
My 4 year old loves this!.......2003-05-17
Love this CD!.......2001-03-05
Wonderful story & music - just wish she hadn't used "stupid".......2000-11-08
Sounds like a very successful children's recording.......1999-11-02
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Filth & Fire
Mary Gauthier Manufacturer: Signature Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000068QUC Release Date: 2002-07-09 |
Tracks:
- Walk Through Fire
- Long Way To Fall
- Sugar Cane
- Merry Go Round
- Good-Bye
- Camelot Motel
- After You're Gone
- The Ledge
- Christmas In Paradise
- For Rose
- The Sun Fades The Color Of Everything
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The misfit, prodigal lives that scrape and struggle through this Louisiana-born singer-songwriter's third album are all "looking for the grace from which they fell." They find it in unlikely images and places: a freeway phone booth, a stolen Christmas tree, a flaming field of sugar cane, a motel tryst, a sunset "the color of everything." Producer Gurf Morlix's signature sound--churning Hammond organ, bubbling vintage guitars, swampy grooves--isn't just well suited to Gauthier's vision--it toughens the moral grit and turns up the emotional heat. If Gauthier remains obsessed with the darker side of life, she also knows of the human truths hidden there. Like Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town or Lucinda Williams's Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Filth & Fire is an immediately convincing work of personal, poetic realism. --Roy KastenCustomer Reviews:
Phantom Review!.......2005-09-24
Women Can Be Outlaws Too.......2005-07-05
Great but demanding album.......2004-05-22
I wonder why she isn't as famous as the other gal coming from Louisiana (that is, Lucinda Williams).
The standout here is "Sugar Cane": a narrative about the environmental pollution caused by (guess what?) a sugar cane factory in the Mississippi Delta. Because of its social commentary, this song is steeped in the best tradition of folk music, but it's also a plain good country song with harmonica and fiddle providing a nice texture. After just one listening, you'll know the chorus by heart ("From Thibodaux to Raceland, there's fire in the fields...").
"Sugar Cane" also epitomizes the double nature of this album: committed, social-conscious lyrics, often verging on bleakness and hopelessness, wrapped up in upbeat layers of sounds supplied by harmonica, fiddle, lap steel, mandolin and slide guitar.
For instance, you'll love the mandolin that introduces the refrain in "Good-bye", even though the words are anything but joyful: "Born a bastard child in New Orleans to a woman I've never seen...". Or, in "Merry-go-round": "From the milky white of heroin as it bubbles and sooths, the dirty sheets you lie on with nothing left to lose". To complete this journey to hell, give also a listening to "Christmas in Paradise" and "Camelot Motel". I spare you the grim details here.
But beware, she's not striking a pose. She sounds honest even when she describes her homeless Christmas under a bridge with her vagabond companion (as in "Christmas in Paradise").
So, don't be intimidated by this album. There are also a couple of love songs; for instance, "After you're gone" is
pure vintage country, a nice duet with Gurf Morlix. Even though all players are top-notch, this guy deserves the
highest praise, because he plays most of the instruments and produces the album.
"Filth and Fire" ends in a calm tone. "The sun fades" is basically just her voice and an acoustic guitar. Her attitude is serene and makes me hope her next album will be a little bit brighter lyrically and the same musically.
One of The Best Albums I Have Ever Heard!!!!!!.......2003-07-03
Downright home spun fire and brimstone.......2003-06-14
The authentic life she portrays is refreshing in a neuvo biblical Revelations sort of way. Her accent isn't a put-on. She knows of stories of hard times and falls and fires. Her music is stripped down unpretentiousness. Old country pure and black.
She summons ghost of Neil Young (if he were dead...God forbid), Cowboy Junkies, Nancy Apple, Roseanne Cash, Robert Earle Keene,and many many more. The songs, though sometimes painful and dark, invite repeated listens. You will get the real deal and turn heads listening this with windows rolled down, a hound dawg panting in your ear, '67 chevy truck at a stop-light in a one-horse town.
Gauthier is darkness on the edge of town and harvest and oh so much in addition.
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Inner Peace for Busy People
Manufacturer: Spring Hill ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005MJZR Release Date: 2001-07-31 |
Tracks:
- Vaughan-Williams: The Lark Ascending
- Faure: Berceuse, Op. 116
- Vivaldi: Lute Concerto in D Major: Largo
- Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in C Major: Andante
- Albinoni: Concerto Op. 9, No. 6 in G Major For Two Oboes: Allegro
- Albinoni: Concerto Op. 7, No. 9 in G Major For Two Oboes: Allegro
- Albinoni: Concerto Op. 7, No. 1 in Da Major For Oboe: Allegro assai
- Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1: Romance/Larghetto
- Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor: Largo
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Here's a compilation for solace in a crazy world. Music, as the studies of Don G. Campbell (author of The Mozart Effect) have shown, not only soothes the savage breast, but can be used to enhance well-being and even intelligence. Campbell and Joan Borysenko have compiled the anthology found on Inner Peace for Busy People: Music to Relax and Renew (a companion to Borysenko's bestselling book, Inner Peace for Busy People). Inspirational examples include the soothing "Berceuse" of Fauré; moments of transcendent beauty from Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin; a sprightly concerto by Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni; and Vaughan-Williams's vision of pastoral serenity, The Lark Ascending. Inspirational comments accompany each track, but there is no mention anywhere of the performers or sources for these selections. --Sarah ChinCustomer Reviews:
Just so so.......2006-02-08
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Workers Rise: Labor in the Spotlight
Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005RKW2 Release Date: 2001-10-30 |
Tracks:
- Hold The Fort
- Bread And Roses
- Union Brothers, Union Sisters
- Visions Of Children
- Ode To Workers
- Go Down Moses
- O Freedom
- We Shall Overcome
- Ballad For Americans
- Workers Rise
- Doing The Reactionary
- Singe Me A Song Of Social Significance
- Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
- Harmony
- I Got Plenty A Nothin'
- Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
- Ol' Man River
- Something Inside So Strong
- Do You Hear The People Sing?
- Rockin' Solidarity
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Gala Miniatures
Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000062TC4 Release Date: 2002-03-26 |
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Spiritual People
Speech Manufacturer: Reincarnate Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006HCVC Release Date: 2002-09-10 |
Tracks:
- Brought To You By (Music & Life)
- Spiritual People
- The Simple Love Of Life
- A Traveler
- Crusin' In My Super Beetle
- It's A Challenge For Me
- Livin' In The Real World
- Brother Speech
- Jungle Man
- Y-O
- Ghetto Fabulous
- Burning Rage Inside
- Always In Love
- Late For My Own Funeral
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The world would be a nicer place if everyone were as grounded, optimistic, and spiritual as former Arrested Development singer-rapper Speech. Whether he's decrying the commodification of music ("Brought to You By . . ."), unnecessary agendas ("The Simple Love of Life"), relationship woes (the eerily Boyz II Men-styled "Livin' in the Real World"), or flaunting his individuality ("It's a Challenge for Me"), Speech uses his aptly titled soul-gospel-pop-infused Spiritual People to soapbox for the greater good. Unfortunately, the Georgia-based musician's points often come off more as self-help prescriptions than declarative statements. And with a few notable exceptions ("Brother Speech," "Y-O," and the thoroughly ill-advised "Jungle Man"), there's not much rap going on. Still, when Speech hits, he hits the mark; the ridiculously upbeat "Cruisin' in My Super Beetle" is a corker even if, like most of the songs here, it's weirdly toothless. --Kim HughesCustomer Reviews:
Excellent.......2003-01-23
Speech is still hungry..........2002-10-23
Smashmouth...?.......2002-10-10
a dissapointed fan
Unspiritual People.......2002-09-28
A fresh sound for a new world..........2002-09-15
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Spiritual People
Speech Manufacturer: Imusic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00008UVCS Release Date: 2005-05-09 |
Tracks:
- Brought to You By... (Music and Life)
- Spiritual People
- Simple Love of Life
- Traveler
- Cruisin' in My Super Beetle
- It's a Challenge for Me
- Livin' in the Real World
- Brother Speech
- Jungle Man
- Y-O
- Ghetto Fabulous
- Burning Rage Inside
- Always in Love
- Late for My Own Funeral
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One Heart
JD Martin Manufacturer: Slipstream Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005V5LV Release Date: 2001-12-01 |
Tracks:
- Invisible Hands
- Everywhere
- One Heart
- It May Not Be Today
- The Miracle Of Love
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- Love Is Waiting
- Only Heaven Knows
- A World Of Peace
- Keep On Walking
Album Description
I am an award winning songwriter and I've just released my first CD as an artist.....ONE HEART. In the twenty years I have been writing for other artists, the songs on this album have felt like "mine." They speak of my sense of connection with all of creation in a variety of voices. I hear them as spiritual songs, embracing people of many backgrounds and points of view. I am grateful that I'm able to release this album at this time in the world, when current events are calling each of us to bring forth our very best.Customer Reviews:
Music From the Heart, For the Heart.......2002-02-19
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Music In My Soul
Manufacturer: Sterling Heart Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00006JIMB Release Date: 2002-09-14 |
Tracks:
- Music In My Soul
- Well Being Abounds
- What Color Is Spirit?
- One Day at a Time
- Easier Road
- When I Was an Indian
- Our Song
- Heavenly Union
- Angels Are Dancing
- On The Other Side
- It's About Joy
- All There Is
- Unseen Blessings
Album Description
Singer-songwriter / music healer Sandi Kimmel devotes her second CD, MUSIC IN MY SOUL, to the healing power of music. Richly recorded and produced with a full range of instruments and harmonies, this "heart and soul music" is filled with uplifting universal messages. Sandi writes songs people sing, and they are quickly becoming the songs of the emerging spiritual movement, serving as touchstones in troubled times."People tell me these songs help them define what they believe in," says Sandi. "They come from the truth of my journey and what I've come to believe about the nature of the Universe and the power of love. These songs open the heart and touch a deep place of knowing inside."
Includes "What Color Is Spirit?" released last fall in response to 9/11. People of all ages, from toddlers to seniors, love Sandi's music.
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Cave of Brahma
Manufacturer: People, People ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005KC8I Release Date: 2001-04-01 |
Tracks:
- bore the righteous
- moon chant
- bhakti babies
- allah,allah
- free
- learning to fly
- any style
- om jai jyote
- momokaila
- coding scripture
- baile espiro
- earth song
- everlasting life
Tracks:
- caravan law
- sent to overstand
- almighty jah
- three free beings
- namah shivaya
- judge what
- show the circle
- children of the sun
- jah seh so
- more rats, more cats
- kingdom come
- sat brahmachari
- warriors of the rainbow
Album Description
People, People International Recordings- everything you imaginedChristian Music:
- Square One
- Staying Power
- Still in the Game
- Temptations Sing Smokey [Original recording remastered]
- That's the Way It Is: The Best of Mel & Kim [Import]
- The Best of Luther Vandross: The Best of Love
- The Best of Michael Jackson - Motown
- The Best of Roberta Flack [Import]
- The Collection
- The Essential Collection [Import]
Christian Music
Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2 [Import]
Alessandro Scarlatti: Concerti e Sinfonie per flauto
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Alive Behind the Green Door [Live]