Rhythms of Life

1. Rhythms of Life

2. Razamataz

3. Tapaloka

4. Tangarro

5. Ras-Lila

6. It Takes Two Hearts

7. Beyond the Lakes

8. Whirlwind

9. Koto Yoyo

10. Somewhere in Time

11. Gift of Life

Rhythms of Life,Bruce BecVar,Higher Octave,Adult Alternative,Jazz Music,New Age / Meditation,Pop

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Average customer rating: Great Disc More great music from Ghana. 1979 field recordings from the Akan coastal areas of Ghana

Rhythms of Life, Songs of Wisdom: Akan Music From Ghana, West Africa Various Artists Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Africa | International | Styles | Music Ghana | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Africa | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Smithsonian Folkways Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Ghana: Rhythms of the People Classic Highlife Explorer: Ghana - High-Life & Other Music Ghana in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series) Explorer: Ghana - Ancient Ceremonies ASIN: B000001DLO Release Date: 1996-01-23

Tracks:

1. Akosua Tuntum - Assin Area
2. Ompeh - Efutu Area
3. Akosua Tuntum - Denkyira area
4. Talking Drum - Denkyira area
5. Dansuomu - Denkyira area
6. Fontomfrom
7. Mmensoun
8. Adzewa
9. Brass Band
10. Vocal Band
11. Apateampa
12. Osode
13. Moses

Album Description

This recording leaves the listener breathless and astounded by the musical richness of this small area of Africa. In these performances from remote areas of central Ghana, the collective musical genius of everyday farmers, fisher-folk, traders, and civil servants bursts forth. Their singing and chanting moves through a colorful palette of instruments including water drums, rectangular frame drums, side-blown horns, and brass bands. Clear, penetrating sounds of metal instruments offset by complex drumming patterns are framed by haunting vocals. Listeners are immersed in a kaleidoscope of sound. Thirteen tracks and 28 page booklet including extensive notes and photos. This is the only commercially available recording of Akan music.

Customer Reviews:

Great Disc.......2007-06-30

This is a great disc. I whole heartedly review with the former reviewer -- there is so much diversity to just the music of Ghana alone that there is no way to classify it all under one category. So you will need to stretch out and purchase a bunch of different discs with various different styles. This is a good one.

More great music from Ghana. .......2004-11-20

This is a disc completely worthy of your money and time. In case you have family, historical, and/or geographical reasons for wanting to know, the music on this disc is from Ghana's Central Region (not actually in the center of Ghana though, "Central Region" is the name of... for lack of a better term... a state in Ghana). The music is by (and from their areas of the Central Region) Assin, Efutu, Denkyira, and Fante peoples. All are Akan groups except the Efutu, "whose languages belong to the Guan cluster of the Kwa branch". Obviously I got this from the liner-notes, as I am no expert on all the many... and there are MANY... different languages and cultures of Ghana.

As for the music itself, I've had this disc for a couple weeks now and I'm loving it more with each listen. It is a very fine collection of recordings! I didn't get to the liner-notes until yesterday. It was interesting to find out that the Efutu are not Akan, since I had already noticed a distinct difference between the feel of their music and the other (although also differing) musics here. For those with some hip-hop interest, the Efutu track here makes me feel like they are playing some sort of ancient ancestor of a Timbaland beat. I like it alot. =)

There is alot for which to be thankful on this disc, and if you've ever stumbled upon my reviews for a few other cds from Ghana (the Master Drummers of Dagbon 1 & 2, and the Master Fiddlers of Dagbon), you'll be interested in knowing that this disc is completely different from those. Unfortunately, oftentimes things are lumped under the monolithic label of being "African music", but that is so broad as to be almost meaningless, considering the degree of musical diversity even in just one small country like Ghana. If you have the Masters discs I just mentioned, and you're worried about buying this one and feeling like it'd just be more of the same, don't worry. This is a whole other world.

The singing here has a much more organized feel than that on the Masters discs. Also, this disc always has larger groups of singers. It is more of a central feature of the music as well. Some lovely "chorus" vocals, sometimes in the form of interplay with the drumming. What you'll think of the brass band tracks (just a couple), I do not know. I like them, but I'm a weirdo. The first one strikes me almost as William Parker-ish orchestrations of his interpretation of the timbre of a bleating goat. I mean that in a good way. Also the percussion on that track is fantastic! I'm not sure how they are getting this tone, but it's like controlled, perfectly timed fireworks exploding in the distance.

Rather than rambling further, I will wrap this up by saying you probably didn't stumble on this cd by accident, so this sort of thing already interests you. Go ahead and pick this one up because I'm sure you're going to love it.

1979 field recordings from the Akan coastal areas of Ghana.......2004-03-09

Field recordings of Akan folk music from the Central and Western Regions of Ghana made by ethnomusicologist Roger Vetter in 1979. In this respect the disk is more narrowly homogeneous than some similar ones: only the Central and Western Regions are represented, although the bulk of the Akan population of Ghana lives in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions. And, obviously, if it is a disk of Akan music, it does not include music produced by other ethnic groups in Ghana.

What the disk lacks in geographical and ethnic diversity, it makes up in stylistic reach. The music in these recordings is played by non-professional and semi-professional players, and although most of the music is quite traditional (i.e. shows little European influence) some tracks include instruments that originated outside Africa such as the tuba or the electric guitar, and some of the repertoire including waltzes and gospel music show a Western influence transmogrified in the local milieu. In this regard the recordings are authentic: the variety of music produced for local performance and consumption in the Akan coastal regions of Ghana was (and remains) varied, reflecting a variety of cultural uses and influences. While most of the music on this disk was meant for dancing, one of the most interesting tracks is a talking drum piece in which the message is not only played but recited, allowing one to hear the translation from speech to drumming. The accompanying booklet documenting the cultural background, the players, their instruments, and the various musical styles is highly informative.

Average customer rating: A fine collection, well recorded, & a bargain, to boot! Perfect and otherworldly

Vaughan Williams: Poisoned Kiss Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Viola | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music London Philharmonic Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rachmaninov: Complete Operas (Aleko, The Miserly Knight, Francesca di Rimini) Sibelius: Complete String Quartets Vaughan Williams: The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains Vaughan Williams: Complete Concertos Vaughan Williams: Over hill, over dale ASIN: B00000IYN1 Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

1. Overture: The Poisoned Kiss
2. Two Hymn - Tune Preludes: Eventide
3. Two Hymn-Tune Preludes: Dominus Regeit me
4. The Running Set
5. Flos campi: I Lento (senza misura)
6. Flos campi: II Andante con moto
7. Flos campi: III Lento (senza misura) - Allegro moderato - Allargando
8. Flos campi: IV Moderato alla marcia
9. Flos campi: V Andante quasi lento
10. Flos campi: VI Moderato tranqillo
11. Suite For Viola And Orchestra: Group 1: Prelude
12. Suite For Viola And Orchestra: Group 1: Carol
13. Suite For Viola And Orchestra: Group 1: Christmas Dance
14. Suite For Viola And Orchestra: Group 2: Ballad
15. Suite For Viola And Orchestra: Group 2: Moto perpetuo
16. Suite For Viola And Orchestra: Group 3: Musette
17. Suite For Viola And Orchestra: Group 3: Polka mncholique
18. Suite For Viola And Orchestra: Group 3: Galop
19. Sea Songs

Tracks:

1. Overture: The Wasps
2. The House Of Life: 1 Love-Sight
3. The House Of Life: 2 Silent Noon
4. The House Of Life: 3 Heart's Heaven
5. Six Studies In English Folksong: 1 Adagio
6. Six Studies In English Folksong: 2 Andante sostenuto
7. Six Studies In English Folksong: 3 Larghetto
8. Six Studies In English Folksong: 4 Lento
9. Six Studies In English Folksong: 5 Andante tranquillo
10. Six Studies In English Folksong: 6 Allegro vivace
11. Romance
12. Linden Lea
13. Fantasia On Greensleeves
14. Serenade To Music

Customer Reviews:

A fine collection, well recorded, & a bargain, to boot!.......2005-10-08

This collection of pieces is a real treat for RVW fans. The recordings of Flos campi (surely one of RVW's most unusual and mystical works, somehow managing to capture the elusive emotional/spiritual environment of the Song of Solomon) and the Suite for Viola and Orchestra (rarely recorded, but a delectable mixing of folk-song, Bach, Bartok-like passages, and rich, resonant melodies redolent of autumn) would be enough in themselves. Couple them with the Six Studies in English Folksong for clarinet & piano (a rare piece of Vaughn Williams chamber music) and the ravishing instrumental version of Serenade to Music, and you have a truly admirable set. This is an assemblage of a number of earlier recordings: in this case, I think, the cream has been skimmed and put into one convenient two-disc collection. The recorded sound is good throughout, and the notes well-written and interesting - an excellent Chandos release.

Perfect and otherworldly.......2003-10-06

I am a rock musician but I must say that there is little other music on this green earth that is as gorgeous as that of Vaughan Williams. Some folk and country airs can touch the melancholy that VW can, some of Bach's or Ravel's pieces maybe. But when I hear music like Flos Campi 2nd and 6th movements, or the beautiful short pieces that comprise Six Studies in English Folk Song ... well, they leave me breathless. Parts of Flos Campi sounds like VW has distilled all the tinsel and magic, childlike wonder and true peace of something as hard to define as Christmas and made it into music. Serenade to Music in it's pure orchestral form still remains a glorius composition, even without the vocalists. My, when it hits that early theme in the latter part with full force and orchestra ... And the lovely Linden Lea and that wonderful Suite ... Almost too much. I sometimes program this and some of his major works, such as Tallis, Dives and Lazarus and The Lark Ascending (when I have some time to spare!): it's a big 'wow' factor. VW's music is unashamedly beautiful, capturing the sweetest folk elements and conjuring up the spirit of the wildest and most remote parts of Britain (in my head at least). This music is something else and I can't recommend it highly enough.

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Rhythms of Life Bogdan Bacanu , Momoko Kamiya , Kassadra Dimopoulou , John Thrower , Salzburg Solisten , Andreas Steiner , Oliver Madas , and Dieter Seiler Manufacturer: Classic Concert Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000H5TUQ8 Release Date: 2006-07-25

Average customer rating: Sacred Music

Gathering: The Sacred Breath Brooke Medicine Eagle Manufacturer: Gopher Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Last Ghost Dance: A Guide for Earth Mages Buffalo Woman Comes Singing (Religion and Spirituality) Visions Speaking Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours: A Classic Native American Creation Story as Retold by a Seneca Elder, Twylah Nitsch, and Her Granddaughter, Jamie Sams Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths Of Human Transformation (Religion and Spirituality) ASIN: B000254Y82 Release Date: 2004-02-01

Tracks:

1. Ya Ta Way
2. Walk In Beauty
3. Heart of the Universe
4. Kisaka
5. Vision Mountain
6. Mother, Mother Ocean
7. Ancestor Cave
8. Soaring Eagle
9. Whispering Your Name
10. Stones and Bones
11. Spirit That Moves
12. Grandfather Fire
13. Pilomaya

Album Description

Using all natural indigenous instruments, this musical experience includes vision quest, circle dance, and gathering songs that are brought to life with driving dance rhythms, soaring flutes, and beautiful, swirling choral harmonies.

Customer Reviews:

Sacred Music.......2004-12-09

I have this CD and I am ordering more for family and friends.
This CD will uplift and touch you in your heart center. I have never heard more beautiful and Soul touching songs before. Each song sung is precious. My favorite song is Pilomaya. Pilomaya is a special song of expressing gratitude in Lakota. I highly recommend this CD. It is great!

Average customer rating: Rhythms of Life, Bruce BecVar

Rhythms of Life Bruce BecVar Manufacturer: Higher Octave ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Arriba River Of Gold Time Dreams Magic of Healing Music: Pitta Forever Blue Sky ASIN: B000003YZK Release Date: 1992-05-07

Tracks:

1. Rhythms Of Life
2. Razamataz
3. Tapaloka
4. Tangarro
5. Ras-Lila
6. It Takes Two Hearts
7. Beyond The Lakes
8. Whirlwind
9. Koto Yoyo
10. Somewhere In Time
11. The Gift Of Life

Customer Reviews:

Rhythms of Life, Bruce BecVar.......2007-01-09

Great CD. Peaceful music, but enough jazzy stuff to make it interesting.

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Dance of the Seven Chakras Manufacturer: Dreamtime Studio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAFJ90 Release Date: 2003-06-17

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A Time For Love Jon Lucien Manufacturer: Sugar Apple ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002RQOE2 Release Date: 2004-08-14

Tracks:

1. A Time For Love
2. Angelina
3. I Believe In You
4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
5. The Way You Look Tonight
6. Lazy Afternoon
7. Memory (Cats)
8. Mi Bolero
9. Quieremucho
10. People
11. Speak Low
12. This Is All I Ask

Album Description

The launch of Jon's own Sugar Apple imprint in 2001 has made his music even better because he now has total creative and artistic control. A Time For Love is Jon's fourth release on Sugar Apple and yet another masterpiece. Musically Jon keeps his fans satisfied with the special blend of jazz, latin, and soul, a niche he has cared successfully for himself over the years. Except for one cut the songs are all cover versions, but there's no need to worry that you get the umpteenth version of songs you're tired of hearing because you have heard them too often. In fact, all songs get the Jon Lucien treatment that turns these songs into something special and makes you wonder if the songs haven't longed to be recorded this way all the time.

Average customer rating: Jazzy Smooth Vocals!!

Give Him Your Life We R Perswaded Manufacturer: We R Perswaded ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005RHEQ Release Date: 2001-10-06

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. All RIght
3. Happiness
4. Give Love
5. Give Me A Clean Heart
6. Waiting
7. Brand New Life
8. I'm Leaning - What A Fellowship
9. Our Psalm 23
10. Passing Through
11. Rock of Ages
12. Cleanse Me
13. Give Him Your Life
14. Thank You
15. Keep the Faith
16. Faith Remix
17. Spirit of the Living God

Album Description

The debut gospel CD by a versatile upcoming group. A cappella, latin flavor, carribean rhythms, hymns, jazz, Urban - it's all here. A MUST HAVE for your gospel collection.

Customer Reviews:

Jazzy Smooth Vocals!!.......2002-03-06

Well I must say that my boyz are doin their thang for the Lord! They have a distinct sound that's all their own! Move over Commissioned, Take 6, Men of Standard and make room for We R Perswaded! The group certainly deserves all the accolades because their flow is Jazzy Smooth! R&B, Jazz, urban/hip-hop, soul, carribean flavors...its all there! My favorite songs are "Give Me A Clean Heart", "Give Love", "Cleanse Me" and Keep the Faith". Do yourself a favor and pick up their CD today. You're gonna luv it!!

Average customer rating: Great Music!!!!

Trading Horror Stories Paul Lewis Manufacturer: Realize Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BGQWYQ Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

1. The Marker
2. Original Sin
3. Lost
4. Bittersweet
5. Teardrop
6. Sometimes
7. Grey
8. Breaking Glass
9. Hailey Rose
10. Last Resorts
11. Eyes of Blue
12. It Can Happen
13. Wastin' Time

Customer Reviews:

Great Music!!!!.......2006-04-29

Anybody interested in a hardworking and talented artist should pick up this album. It has a tremendous amount of energy and each track is excellent. Teardrop and Lost both feature great guitar work and Paul's vocal skills are second to none. Hailey Rose is another stand out track that tells a moving story.

In the days where true artists are considered to be Ashlee Simpson, it is refreshing to see a musician that composes and actually plays original music.

Paul Lewis Fan!!

Average customer rating: Downright good stuff A Reawakening "A fetching collection of riff-happy rockers..." Great new sound on Mudd's debut CD

Any Good Heaven Mudd Manufacturer: Major Label Interest ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006MX9JQ Release Date: 2004-11-22

Tracks:

1. Outside Looking In
2. In Another Lifetime (All Right Alone)
3. Coming Home
4. Feel So Real
5. Right By Your Side
6. Give It All Up for You
7. August
8. My Word
9. Did You Bring the Tickets?
10. Perfect Day
11. Hiding the Gray
12. One Fine Day

Album Description

12 melodic rock songs about love, loss and real life, driven home by smart guitars, punchy rhythms and laid-bare vocals. Written, performed and produced by guitarist/vocalist Jonathan Mudd with Seattle bassist Andrew Luthringer (Jessie Turner, Monica Pasqual/Blame Sally, Percy Howard), North Carolina guitarist Terry C. McInturff (Safehouse, Debra DeMilo), and mixed and mastered by Steve Gronback (Black Crowes, Rain Parade, The Connells, Cry of Love, Tommy Keene).

Customer Reviews:

Downright good stuff.......2005-02-16

Like the Replacements or the Connells? Then you'll like Mudd. (You Steely Dan fans will be impressed, too.) Lots of catchy guitars and melodies -- "In Another Lifetime" and "Hiding the Gray" will be in your head for days. And if you appreciate a cool instrumental, check out "Did You Bring the Tickets?"

A Reawakening.......2004-12-30

Cynicism is a way of life for a fifty-something with failing hearing. Somewhere, sometime, somebody has already done it all anyway.

Mudd gives the lie to all of that. Strings that are at once crisp and mellow, with vocals so honest, he could be singing to himself...but he doesn't mind if you listen in.

The surrounding musicians don't sound like structural support, but are integral to the message; the message that Mudd is more than worth paying attention to, he's a perceptive student of humanity, with a unique and enjoyable voice. It's a reason to get excited about music again.

"A fetching collection of riff-happy rockers...".......2004-12-09

The following review was reprinted from The Washington Post, Wednesday, December 8, 2004; Page C05

<<District denizen Jonathan Mudd once received the highest compliment a fringe-dwelling pop-rocker could ask for: praise from Marshall Crenshaw.

When Crenshaw received, unsolicited, a record by Mudd's new-wave-era outfit, the Shake, the skinny-tie hall-of-famer shot back a note saying, "I'm not sure who you are or why you sent me this record, but thanks. It's good."

If Crenshaw happens to find a copy of Mudd's latest CD, "Any Good Heaven," in his mailbox this holiday season, chances are he'll go for it, too: The album is a treat, a fetching collection of riff-happy rockers that never forgo the catchy parts.

Set opener "Outside Looking In" glides by on shimmery guitars and a fat, arena-ready chorus. The slinky "Feel So Real" detours into that '70s era via multitracked lead lines that practically quote Cheap Trick. And hook for hook, "Coming Home" is as strong as anything on the last Fountains of Wayne album -- "Stacy's Mom" excluded, of course.

Like the Fountains of late, Mudd can be a tougher sell lyrically, particularly when he waxes direct when just a suggestion would do. The subtitle of the otherwise ace "In Another Lifetime" is "All Right Alone," for instance, and although the Who-ish "Hiding the Gray" scores with a snarling, bell-bottomed outro, the tune would be better if Mudd rinsed out the forty-something angst.

For fans of smart guitars and tuneful melody-making, though, "Any Good Heaven" is a real find, one that -- as Crenshaw perhaps already knows -- could make a great pop-rock stocking stuffer.

-- Shannon Zimmerman>>

Great new sound on Mudd's debut CD.......2004-12-09

Jonathan Mudd has got a great sound on his debut CD. One will hear echoes of REM, the Pretenders, Marshall Crenshaw, but Mudd produces something entirely original. His guitar work is sweet and clean. His lyrics are at once thoughtful, insightful, and catchy. The musicians he pulled together blend seamlessly. No doubt "Perfect Day" (as well as "Outside Looking In" and several others) could make it as singles if they get a chance. Treat yourself to this CD.

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