Island Paradise

Product Description
What is more perfect than an escape into the natural splendor of a remote Caribbean island? Warmed by the sun, soothed by the surf and serenaded by the exotic sounds of the tropical rainforest, it seems that you have found paradise. A subtle, sensitive musical score complements this tranquil sojourn.

Island Paradise,Hennie Bekker and Dan Gibson

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Average customer rating: CD Good stuff not dated.. Two awesome rock albums from a long-forgotten band. Great Grandma likes Lake too. Great musicianship, but WAY dated..

Lake/Paradise Island Lake Manufacturer: Renaissance ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Lake 2 Ouch! Lake - Greatest Hits Starcastle Fountains of Light ASIN: B000005NN6 Release Date: 1996-11-26

Tracks:

1. On The Run
2. Sorry To Say
3. Time Bomb
4. Chasing Colours
5. Do I Love You
6. Key To The Rhyme
7. Jesus Came Down
8. Between The Lines
9. Into The Night
10. Glad To Be Here
11. Crystal Eyes
12. Paradise Way
13. Hopeless Love
14. One Way Song
15. Hard Road
16. The Final Curtain

Album Description

Two-on-one is the U.S. CD debut for the German prog rock band's 1977 & 1979 Sony albums. 16 tracks total, including 'On The Run', 'Sorry To Say', 'Hopeless Love' and 'The FinalCurtain'. 1997 Renaissance Records release.

Customer Reviews:

CD.......2007-03-30

This is a fairly unknown band from the 70's. Rock and roll with a different sound than the usual bands from that era. Would highly recommend listening to it.

Good stuff not dated.........2007-02-20

I know nothing about the second paradise island album but i did own the vinyl versions of lake, and lake 2 and very much enjoyed them. The signatured self titled "Lake" was their best and it was solid rock-pop with some prog elements. The kansas comparison doesn't wash because kansas played much harder and was also a better prog band. That's why kansas was so great.

If we had to place an identity for this sound as far as comparing them to something many people would know it would be styx. The pre mr roboto styx anyway. The music is tight free flowing with nice vocal harmonies and solid musicianship. Lake was the album we would pull out when we wanted something different from our typical prog lineup. Something a little easier to listen to.

Lake never hit the big time because they were not able to manufacture any big top 40 hits in america. There is little controversial or ground breaking about the music and the lyrics are not dark and disturbing. That's why i like them. It's pop but not sell out crap and the music is just as fresh today.

And yes as others have said, this is a german band that has nothing to do with greg lake or ELP.. If you really like this check out star castle an illinois band that did very similar music.

Two awesome rock albums from a long-forgotten band........2007-01-09

I don't think that Lake received a lot of US airplay when they were in their heyday, but K-SHE 95 in St. Louis played them a fair amount, and they were in concert in St. Louis in '79 or '80, I think. Germany was the home of Lake, and they were fairly popular over there.

This CD combines Lake's first commercial release in the US (Lake) with "Paradise Lake", so you really get a double-barrel shot of some of the best music that Lake produced (if you were to get "Lake 2" as well as "Ouch", you'd nicely complete all of their best stuff).

For those who are new to Lake or not sure if they have heard them or not, Lake is not to be confused with Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Lake has a somewhat older Styx-like sound, combining progressive rock with bluesy classic rock. "Between The Lines" is an awesome prog-rock track, a long song with a classical instrumental interlude using guitars, keyboards and synthesizers.

If you were to get a first taste of Lake, this would be a very good pick. Some of their best music is on this double CD, and I can't think of a song I don't like out of all 16 tracks...and for a decent price!

Great Grandma likes Lake too........2006-09-04

I had the priviledge of raising eight kids in St. Louis from the late 60's to the early 80's. So, it stands to reason that I was exposed to a lot of 70's rock. I came to appreciate Santana, Elton, Kansas, The Little River Band, Jefferson Airplain/Starship, etc etc. It wasn't, however, until 2000 that I heard Lake. I was visiting my adult daughter in Charleston, and she was playing her version of nostalgia and Lake was included. WOW! I love the harmonies and especially the lyrics. Unlike a previous reviewer, my favorite is "Jesus Came Down". Not weak, but a timeless comentary on what's going on globally. Don't know if this group is still kickin', but if I ever get my act together and write a screenplay that's buzzing around in my head, Lake will be the music to underscroe the message. I'm old as dirt, but I know good music when I hear it (any genre). If anybody has the lyrics to "Jesus . . .", I'd sure like a copy. Haven't been able to track them down just yet. Love and Smiles.

Great musicianship, but WAY dated.........2006-04-02

1977 was a time in my life when just about all things were wonderful. I was (honorably!) released from the Army in April, and that set the tone for the rest of the year. I began my 15-year "career" in insurance, my girlfriend favored Kate Jackson (upon whom, I STILL have a crush!), and my band began its asendency toward being the top Atlanta "party" band. I'm babbling, yes, but all that, sort of, sets up the tone of my "take" on "Lake" (sorry...I apologize for the rhyme there): I distinctly remember driving to a gig, pleasantly stoned, in August, listening to one of Atlanta's nascent "FM-album rock" stations. Just as I pulled up to our drummer's house, that marvelous synthesizer-clavinet riff that intros "On The Run" began, and I was literally stultified for the three-plus minutes it played. The next day, after work and still nursing a vicious hangover from the evening before, I purchased "Lake." And, again, "On The Run" transfixed me. The rest of the album, though, was PURE LATE SEVENTIES: "wee-wee-diddly-diddly-lead" guitar, shrieking high pitched lead vocals, excessive synthesizers, and the drummer must've been using 2 bass drums, the single-stroke rolls being so...well, "excessive." Still, I bought the ticket and I took the ride - and I still can't believe how happy I was last year, when I discovered "Lake" was now avilable on CD. Buy this CD, folks, it's a very pleasant time-warp - and, NO, Kent, I am NOT going to sully this "review" with a gratuitous comparison to (blgh) "Kansas" - although I do grudgingly have to admit that "Lake" DID sound sort of like a...European version of "Kansas."

Average customer rating: Finally! More To The Story - And The Best Telling So Far

Jimmy Cliff - Better Days Are Coming: The A&M Years 1969-1971 Manufacturer: Hip-O Select ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BVZTB8

Product Description

In 1969, looking to expand the labels musical horizons, A&M co-founder Jerry Moss met with Chris Blackwell, whose Island Records roster included a plethora of cutting-edge acts including Traffic, Fairport Convention, Cat Stevens and Jimmy Cliff, amongst others. Through a licensing agreement with Island, A&M obtained Cliff. In 1970, Jimmy Cliff delivered reggae to America. It was the first time that a major label would test the airwaves and retail with an unproven foreign musical genre. Despite a top 25 single (the title track), the albums reception stateside was fairly cool, and Wonderful World, Beautiful People would be Cliffs only A&M release. These recordings were made between 1967 and 1971 for Island Records in the UK, the label to which Jimmy Cliff was signed. Our motivation is to illuminate how Jimmy Cliff and by extension, reggae was presented in the U.S. prior to the breakthrough of The Harder They Come by the one album A&M Records released and the three they chose not to. Ironically, if Jimmy Cliff had never written and recorded Many Rivers to Cross, which was on the Wonderful World, Beautiful People album, Cliff would never have come to star in The Harder They Come, which heralded reggaes breakthrough in America. And without Harder, Bob Marley might never have transformed from a regional star into an international artist, thus precluding Eric Claptons I Shot the Sheriff and the reggae-influenced rock of The Police (a staple of the A&M catalogue). Exquisitely packaged in an embossed book loaded with rare photos and extensive notes, the 46 recordings gathered here show an artist on the verge of conquering the world.

Customer Reviews:

Finally! More To The Story - And The Best Telling So Far.......2006-02-08

For as great as Jimmy Cliff was in the late '60s and early '70s, he wasn't well represented in the US. Beyond 'The Harder They Come' soundtrack and the 'Wonderful World, Beautiful People' album, it was daunting to track down Cliff's releases, most of which were coming from the UK.

While this box set doesn't completely fill the void, it does the best job of any out there.

It's a wonky collection, but if you read through the set producer's notes (there are 3 of them!), it starts to make sense. Here's the gist: Between 1969 and 1971 Island Records in the UK (Jimmy's label there) sent four albums' worth of songs to A&M Records in the US (Jimmy's label here). Only one of the four albums was released - 'Wonderful World, Beautiful People.'

This box set presents all that material in one place.

Disc One is 'Wonderful World, Beautiful People' appended with b-side "Waterfall."

Disc Two would probably have been (in old school record days) the 'Wild World' album. It opens with that hit from 1970 and follows it with a brace of Cliff's recordings for Island from 1967 onward - some released as singles (Aim & Ambition, I've Got A Feeling) and some not released at all (Honey Hush).

Disc Three is the 'Another Cycle' album. Issued as an album in the UK in '71, it's never been on CD anywhere. Here's your chance to pick it up (and is worth the price of the box itself - and is a must have for fans of the Muscle Shoals sound).

Disc Four gets a little convoluted, but the album is an early incarnation of the 'Struggling Man' album. Hip-O Select fleshed out the disc by adding the songs that later ended up on 'Struggling Man' proper, so this is a way to get a nice remaster of that album (albeit in a different song order).

But explanation or not, this is a phenomenal set of great music from a great artist at the zenith of his career. Pick up this and the 'Goodbye Yesterday' album, also from Hip-O Select, for more music from this period.

Average customer rating: Almost the Real Thing

Sounds of the Earth: Paradise Island Various Artists Manufacturer: Oreade Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Environmental | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Nature | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Environmental | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sounds of the Earth: Garden Sounds of the Earth: Dusk Sounds of the Earth: Thunderstorm Sounds of Earth: Rainforest Echoes of Nature: Ocean Waves ASIN: B00000JIPM Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

1. Sounds Of The Earth

Customer Reviews:

Almost the Real Thing.......2003-05-12

This cd is a nice addition to the Sounds of the Earth collection. The sounds of birds and water is relaxing and soothing. It kind of makes you feel like your at a private beach and you're lying down in the chair listening to the natural sounds around you. A small downside is that the sounds of the animals get a bit too loud. It sounds like they are right above your head and it sometimes breaks the solitude. But other than that, this is a fine cd.

Average customer rating: If you can handle the bad sound, give it a go! expensive

Live from Paradise Island Bahamas April 1969 Caterina Valente Manufacturer: Jazz Band ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000FDP6 Release Date: 1998-12-15

Tracks:

1. Before The Parade Passes By
2. All Of You
3. Let Go - Bossa Nova
4. Rondo Alla Turca
5. Mother Goosanova
6. One Note Samba
7. A Walk In The Black Forest
8. Italian Medley
9. One Of Those Songs
10. Danke Schon

Customer Reviews:

If you can handle the bad sound, give it a go!.......2003-09-16

I adore Caterina Valente, and I truly feel that she is one of the most gifted musicians of this century. Unfortunately, I was born too late to hear her in the 60s, so it's interesting to hear this archive. However, it sounds as if it was recorded with someone's portable 60s reel-to-reel, with a mic sitting somewhere next to a martini glass. Stereo? Forget it. Miss Valente's live performances are better documented on the Bear Family box sets--which are worth every penny.

expensive.......1999-07-08

oh i cannot believe your price...it is only 10.99 in UBL...

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Lake/Paradise Island Lake Manufacturer: Renaissance ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000QFAEP0 Release Date: 2007-07-17

Tracks:

1. On the Run
2. Sorry To Say
3. Time Bomb
4. Chasing Colours
5. Do I Love You
6. Key To the Rhyme
7. Jesus Came Down
8. Between the Lines
9. Into the Night
10. Glad To Be Here
11. Crystal Eyes
12. Paradise Way
13. Hopeless Love
14. One Way Song
15. Hard Road
16. The Final Curtain

Average customer rating: Involving and relaxing Its my all time favorite CD I love this CD and I haven't taken it out of my cd player The cd is superb and soul touching.

Island Breeze Miguel Romero Manufacturer: Alafia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cuba | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music General | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Latin Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Funk | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000G1YU Release Date: 1998-05-23

Tracks:

1. Obatala
2. Havana
3. Oshun
4. Lingering Love
5. Dharma
6. Citizen of the World
7. Zorro
8. Azul
9. Yin Yang
10. Siesta

Album Description

Island Breeze takes you on a journey to paradise with white sandy beaches with red orange sunsets setting on shimmering blue waters. Romero's music is like a fine Cubano cigar that is smooth, spicy and lingers in the air. Romero has a contemporary voice of his own that shines in this cd which contains all original material. His percussive style of piano playing is combined with melodies that stick. Along with piano Island Breeze is long on saxophone, batas, congas, flutes and other sounds of the Islands.

Customer Reviews:

Involving and relaxing.......1999-03-20

This has got to be one of the best of my CD collection. The music can either be very relaxing or involving, depending on the active attention you pay to it. It can be a great background mood highlighter, or else a swinging jazz experience. Whenever I listen to the CD, I always catch myself swaying to the great melodies. Great job, Romero!

Its my all time favorite CD.......1999-02-19

Just listen to this music! It always puts me in a mellow good mood. Very relaxing, soothing calming and delightful to listen to. Its my everyday background music - definitely the CD I listen to the most! Keep them coming!!!

I love this CD and I haven't taken it out of my cd player.......1999-02-04

This CD is relaxing, fun and takes me away. The feeling I get from it is happiness. I love the music. Every song is so different. I"m never bored.

The cd is superb and soul touching........1999-01-04

I foud the cd through other means and had to have it, so I ordered it direct from the artist. It touched me that hard. I just could not wait, because of it's soul touching melody. You must try it and you will enjoy it...

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You've Got Your Orders Vol. 2 Nathan Larson , Vaz , Brett Rosenberg , Phil Puleo , Paradise Island , Sonny Vincent , Steve MacKay , Immortal Lee County Killers , Eddie Angel , and Jesse Everett Hughes Manufacturer: Chrome Peeler Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000JPZ3IU

Product Description

TRACKLIST: NATHAN LARSON "Insane Asylum White" VAZ "Burn Down Baltimore" BRETT ROSENBERG "Retire To Stud" PHIL PULEO "Albino Rainbow" PARADISE ISLAND "Waltzing Wildly" SONNY VINCENT "Totally Fucked" STEVE MACKAY "You Could Smell The Nightmares On The Pillow" IMMORTAL LEE COUNTY KILLERS WITH REBECAH BOYNTON "Dropping Motherfuckers Like A-Bombs" EDDIE ANGEL "Space Monkey Vertigo" JESSE EVERRETT HUGHES "Loyal Smoking Gun" ELLIOTT SHARP "Barbed Wire Hotel" JIM COLEMAN "Syringe of Lugosi" STEPHEN BRODSKY "The Voice Electric" BLUES GOBLIN "Cesspool Dreams" BRANT BJORK "Cop Mustache" SIMEON COXE / SILVER APPLES "Empire of Ashes" BLACK LIPSTICK "Throw Some Money At It" BRENT EYESTONE "Buscemi Waits" JOHN EASDALE "Listening To A Cassette Tape of The End of The World" tHE SCHEME "Teenage Millionaire" AMPS FOR CHRIST "Molotov Cocktail Hour" R. HOAK "Song For The Upcoming Mushroom Cloud" NIKKI SUDDEN "Isle of Wight Blues"

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Relax Away Stress - Enjoy Quiet Meditation - Tropical Island Paradise ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009HL6PW

Average customer rating: Memories of the Islands Christmas in the Tropics

Steel Tropics Christmas Paradise Steel Tropics Manufacturer: Steel Tropics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Christmas in the Caribbean: Holiday Songs Performed on Steel Drums ASIN: B00006OANK Release Date: 2002-09-20

Tracks:

1. Winter Wonderland
2. O Christmas Tree
3. Jingle Bells
4. White Christmas
5. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
6. Jingle Bell Rock
7. The Christmas Song
8. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
9. Frosty The Snowman
10. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
11. Mele Kalikimaka
12. I'll Be Home For Christmas

Album Description

"STEEL TROPICS CHRISTMAS PARADISE" is an exciting mixture of Classic Christmas songs done on the Steel Drums, Marimba, Guitar, Flute, Percussion and other various instruments. Lots of people have said that is so refreshing to listen to these popular Yuletide tunes done in the different tropical styles heard here on this disc. It's a new twist on familiar Christmas melodies such as: Winter Wonderland, Jingle Bells, White Christmas and Frosty The Snowman to name just a few of the selections heard here. It's Christmas Caribbean Style. Check it out!

Customer Reviews:

Memories of the Islands.......2005-04-14

My husband and I heard this album in a shop in Carmel, CA and loved it so we, of course, ordered it through Amazon when we returned home. We play it even during non-holiday times. Very relaxing and fun music. Everyone who hears it wants to buy it too!

Christmas in the Tropics.......2002-11-09

After purchasing this groups previous CD of steel drum music I was very excited to hear that they were recording a Christmas album. It's a different kind of Christmas sound, instead of feeling like I should be sitting in front of the fire with hot chocolate, I feel like I should be sitting on the beach with a lemonade. It's a new sound that is refreshing and fun!

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Drew's Famous Welcome to Paradise Island Various Artists Manufacturer: Turn Up the Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001WJNZ0 Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. Smooth
2. Cheese Burger in Paradise
3. Drift Away
4. Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)
5. Build Me Up Buttercup
6. Boys of Summer
7. I Like to Move It
8. Two Tickets to Paradise
9. Quando, Quando, Quando
10. Island Ska
11. Rebirth of Stick (Cool Like Dat)
12. Rock You Like a Hurricane
13. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
14. Beyond the Coral

Meditation Music:

1. L' Essentiel
2. Live in Paris at Bataclan, 1973 [Live] [Import]
3. Love French Style
4. Love Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber
5. Lullaby for the Hearts of Space
6. Man In The Rain [CD-single]
7. Moonsongs
8. Music.Detected_ [Import]
9. Music for Paradise
10. Mystic Waters

Meditation Music

meditation music

Meditation Music

Tell It Black

Bruno Walter - Vol 3 - 1929-38 - Waltzes and Overtures by Johann Strauss (recorded 1929-1938)

Best of 1969-1971 [Import]

Music: Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 5

Creature From The Black Lagoon: A Symphony Of Film Music By Hans J. Salter (Film Score Anthology) [Soundtrack]

Buster Free [Explicit Lyrics]

Blue Wind [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Buzzle Bee [Import]

Aloha Hawaii

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"; Overtures

Black Sea

Classical Music of Thailand - Land of 10 [Import]

B-Side Companion

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection

Do Right Man