Wings over Water

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The globe-trotting fusion sounds of multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus may be tough to describe, but they combine to make simply gorgeous music. Wings over Water, recorded in 1982, is certainly no exception. The six-part work features arrangements that sound impossibly complex ("Part 1" features five acoustic guitars and the ney, an Egyptian reed flute; "Part 3" is for two Spanish guitars and nine flowerpots), but they come off as soothing, gamelan-influenced folk music. More contemplative than Micus's The Garden of Mirrors, the compositions on Wings over Water unfold organically and slowly, with plenty of hypnotic passages and ethereal flute work. --Jason Verlinde

Wings over Water,Stephan Micus,Polygram Records,Ambient,Ethnic Fusion,Minimalism,Neo-Classical

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Average customer rating: BEAUTIFUL AND TRANSPORTING flowerpots and spanish guitar

Wings over Water Stephan Micus Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Listen to the Rain To the Evening Child ASIN: B00002611L Release Date: 2000-07-18

Tracks:

1. Wings Over Water, Part 1
2. Wings Over Water, Part 2
3. Wings Over Water, Part 3
4. Wings Over Water, Part 4
5. Wings Over Water, Part 5
6. Wings Over Water, Part 6

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The globe-trotting fusion sounds of multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus may be tough to describe, but they combine to make simply gorgeous music. Wings over Water, recorded in 1982, is certainly no exception. The six-part work features arrangements that sound impossibly complex ("Part 1" features five acoustic guitars and the ney, an Egyptian reed flute; "Part 3" is for two Spanish guitars and nine flowerpots), but they come off as soothing, gamelan-influenced folk music. More contemplative than Micus's The Garden of Mirrors, the compositions on Wings over Water unfold organically and slowly, with plenty of hypnotic passages and ethereal flute work. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

BEAUTIFUL AND TRANSPORTING.......2002-04-09

The music of Stephan Micus is music of the universal human spirit -- it usually winds up being classified as 'new age', but that does it (and the potential listener) a great disservice. This is truly music of all ages, of indeed any age.

Utilizing his usual array of instruments -- nay (Egypt), sarangi (India), zither (Bavaria), suling (Bali), acoustic guitars, his amazing language-less vocals, and flowerpots (yes, flowerpots) -- Micus weaves the magical spell his listeners have come to expect from him over the years. This album is quite simply one of his most arrestingly stunning -- the music is ethereal and moving, possessed of a delicate beauty touched upon only in the dreams of other musicians.

The recording is actually one piece of music in several distinct movements -- impressively conceived and performed, but without even a hint of pretention. His work is unique, being suited to concentrated listening, background or meditation -- but it is always alive and transporting. He has recorded and released 16 albums over the last 26 years -- and every one is a treasure.

flowerpots and spanish guitar.......1999-12-29

This is really a beautiful album. Micus plays all of the tracks by himself, on spanish guitar, zither, nay and flowerpots. The flowerpots are particularly interesting. They sound sort of like a marimba. The compositions are very interesting, and not at all sappy. I am sure micus cringes to see his music thrown in bins with world music and new age. It is not at all trite or commercialized. Some of the pieces include solo guitar, then some vibrant otherworldy rythmic flowerpot playing, back into solo guitar, generally quiet.

Average customer rating:

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Tracks:

1. Hear My Prayer [#] - Aled Jones,
2. Laudate Dominum [#] - Aled Jones,
3. Lord's Prayer [#]
4. Silent Worship [#]
5. Children's Home [#]
6. Panis Angelicus
7. Diolch Ch
8. Llansteffan
9. Y Fwyalchen Ddu Bigfelen
10. Sarah (Mi Glywaf Dyner Lais)
11. Caro Mio Ben
12. Ddwyfol Iesu (Pie Jesu)
13. Where'er You Walk
14. How Beautiful Are the Feet
15. Rhosyn Rhudd (Heiden Roslein)
16. Y Lili DDWR (Lotus Flower)
17. Little Road to Bethlehem
18. Ave Maria
19. Bridge Over Troubled Water [*]
20. Too Young to Know [*]

Average customer rating: BEAUTIFUL AND TRANSPORTING flowerpots and spanish guitar

Wings over Water Stephan Micus Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Listen to the Rain To the Evening Child ASIN: B00000321F Release Date: 1994-06-14

Tracks:

1. Wings Over Water, Part 1
2. Wings Over Water, Part 2
3. Wings Over Water, Part 3
4. Wings Over Water, Part 4
5. Wings Over Water, Part 5
6. Wings Over Water, Part 6

Amazon.com

The globe-trotting fusion sounds of multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus may be tough to describe, but they combine to make simply gorgeous music. Wings over Water, recorded in 1982, is certainly no exception. The six-part work features arrangements that sound impossibly complex ("Part 1" features five acoustic guitars and the ney, an Egyptian reed flute; "Part 3" is for two Spanish guitars and nine flowerpots), but they come off as soothing, gamelan-influenced folk music. More contemplative than Micus's The Garden of Mirrors, the compositions on Wings over Water unfold organically and slowly, with plenty of hypnotic passages and ethereal flute work. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

BEAUTIFUL AND TRANSPORTING.......2002-04-09

The music of Stephan Micus is music of the universal human spirit -- it usually winds up being classified as 'new age', but that does it (and the potential listener) a great disservice. This is truly music of all ages, of indeed any age.

Utilizing his usual array of instruments -- nay (Egypt), sarangi (India), zither (Bavaria), suling (Bali), acoustic guitars, his amazing language-less vocals, and flowerpots (yes, flowerpots) -- Micus weaves the magical spell his listeners have come to expect from him over the years. This album is quite simply one of his most arrestingly stunning -- the music is ethereal and moving, possessed of a delicate beauty touched upon only in the dreams of other musicians.

The recording is actually one piece of music in several distinct movements -- impressively conceived and performed, but without even a hint of pretention. His work is unique, being suited to concentrated listening, background or meditation -- but it is always alive and transporting. He has recorded and released 16 albums over the last 26 years -- and every one is a treasure.

flowerpots and spanish guitar.......1999-12-29

This is really a beautiful album. Micus plays all of the tracks by himself, on spanish guitar, zither, nay and flowerpots. The flowerpots are particularly interesting. They sound sort of like a marimba. The compositions are very interesting, and not at all sappy. I am sure micus cringes to see his music thrown in bins with world music and new age. It is not at all trite or commercialized. Some of the pieces include solo guitar, then some vibrant otherworldy rythmic flowerpot playing, back into solo guitar, generally quiet.

Average customer rating:

Get Used to It Wings over Water Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005LN16 Release Date: 2001-06-26

Tracks:

1. Get Used To It
2. If I Could Love
3. Waiting For The Light
4. Compelled To The Edge
5. Raining Inside
6. Big Metal Fence
7. It's Time
8. I Can Wait
9. Land Ho
10. Little Things
11. Right Here
12. Headed In The Right Direction
13. More Love

Average customer rating:

Live At Godfrey Daniels Kathy Moser Manufacturer: Wings Over Water ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9R98 Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Shopping Mall Redemption
3. Intro
4. If I Could Love
5. Intro
6. Get Used to It
7. Intro
8. Windows on the World
9. If Freedom's Gonna Ring

Average customer rating: Chicago Opera's Very Own Edith Mason

Opera in Chicago, Vol. 1 Manufacturer: Symposium ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Flotow | Flotow, Friedrich von | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Massenet | Massenet, Jules | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Debussy | Debussy, Claude | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001XW4 Release Date: 1994-10-24

Tracks:

1. Oh, For The Wings Of A Dove - Edith Mason
2. Martha: The Last Rose Of Summer - Edith Mason
3. Faust: Air Des Bijoux - Edith Mason
4. Madama Butterfly: Ancora Un Passo - Edith Mason
5. Madama Butterfly: Un Bel Di Vedremo - Edith Mason
6. Far Off I Hear A Lover's Flute - Edith Mason
7. O Dry Those Tears - Edith Mason
8. From The Land Of The Sky-Blue Water - Edith Mason
9. Kashmiri Song - Edith Mason
10. Dreamin' Time - Edith Mason
11. Ser - Edith Mason
12. Good-bye - Edith Mason
13. L'ombre Des Arbres - Mary Garden
14. Traviata: Ah! Fors'e Lui - Mary Garden
15. Le Jongleur De Notre-Dame: Liberte! - Mary Garden
16. Herodiade: Il Est Doux - Mary Garden
17. Louise: Depuis Le Jour - Mary Garden
18. Thais: L'amour Est Une Vertu Rare - Mary Garden
19. Resurrection: Dieu De Grace - Mary Garden
20. Louise: Depuis Le Jour - Mary Garden
21. Over The Steppe - Mary Garden
22. Carmen: En Vain Pour Eviter - Mary Garden
23. John Anderson, My Jo - Mary Garden

Customer Reviews:

Chicago Opera's Very Own Edith Mason.......2005-11-22

This CD represents one of only two CDs of Edith Mason, and may be out of print already. Mason was, with Rosa Ponselle, the finest American soprano of the twenties and thirties. Hers was a lighter more lyric voice than the tremendous dark voice of Ponselle. Here we can hear at least a few selections of a unique and wonderful soprano. Of especially note is her singing of Butterfly. Many people shake their heads in amazement when they hear her voice - she's that good. I am fortunate in having quite a few of Mason's original 78's and these dubbings are quite good. For a complete collection, including ridiculously rare unpublished takes, search for the Marston set. Anyone interested in American opera singers should hear Mason's art. Mason was terribly unrepresented on records, and was unlucky, too, in her choice of recording companies, Brunswick folding by the start of the depression. Sadly this bad luck carries over to this day.
The other selections of Mary Garden are not as interesting, though Garden is certainly a very well-schooled singer.

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