Mixed Messages

About the Artist
Unified Tribe began in 1982, when Magic (the founder of the group), Starr, Harmony and Kal-El left New York for California in pursuit of their musical career. Falcon joined the group in 1983, Merrily and Meriah in 1991, Zen and Seth in 1997, Liberty, Kara and Hammer in 1999, and most recently Larry Seyer and DLS in 2002. All of the members come from varying musical backgrounds and bring their own distinctive influences to the group. This creates an extremely eclectic sound that has evolved over the years from it’s predominately Jazz and R&B roots toward a cross market Pop genre. The 15 musicians that are Unified Tribe, vary in age and ethnicity, and their philosophy reflects the harmony that is found within diversity. Throughout the 90’s Unified Tribe’s production company, Magic Muzik Productions, Inc. recorded, produced, performed and wrote for recording artists like The Whispers, Russ Freeman & The Rippingtons, Phil Perry and many others, from their Southern California based Magic Muzik Studios. As the 90’s came to a close the emotional and artistic need arose for Unified Tribe to record their own music. The group withdrew to the cozy mountain town of Woodland Park, CO where they began recording their debut album "Listen To This" and independently released the regionally acclaimed maxi single "Swept Away". Unified Tribe later relocated to Austin, TX where they completed and independently released "Listen To This " on their record label IAM (Independent Artists Movement) in the spring of 2001. This full length CD includes 20 tracks and combines the orchestrations of Burt Bacharach with the funk of Parliment. The result is a rich mixture of Pop, R&B, and Jazz that features powerful vocal harmonies, stunning instrumentation and uplifting rhythms. Portions of the proceeds from "Listen To This" are being donated to charitable causes. "Unified Tribe has a striking live show that is as diverse as it’s performers. They are eclectic sound that you can see. They move about the stage as a flow of electricity that captivates and entertains all in their presence, performing original material both off their debut album and some never before captured in recording."

Product Description
"Mixed Messages", Unified Tribe's follow up album to "Listen To This" contains fifteen amazing songs. It is a collaboration by the entire tribe that culminates their experiences and influences into a single project that is highly reminiscent of the bands New York roots. The record is predominated by darker chord structures and the more intense R&B, Jazz and Funk sounds that are at the core of the groups style and creative drive. This highly diverse record displays a wide spectrum of emotional and musical settings from song to song. It was this unlikely blend that spawned the albums name, "Mixed Messages". There is certainly something for everyone on this album and many of the songs seem to effortlessly bridge the gaps between genres and generations.

Mixed Messages,Unified Tribe,Independent Artist Movement,Unified Tribe brings a fresh mixture of R&B, Urban, Pop and jazz with a production quality that cannot be beat. Featuring powerful vocal harmonies, some cool rap, fat tracks, and uplifting rhythms, Mixed Messages has it all.

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Average customer rating: A great purchase for new fans modern music powerful showcase of the last century Best Single Collection of Modern Music

Pierre Boulez ~ Schoenberg · Berio · Carter · Kurtág · Xenakis Arnold Schoenberg , Luciano Berio , Elliott Carter , Gyorgy Kurtag , Sir Harrison Birtwistle , Gerard Grisey , Iannis Xenakis , Hugues Dufourt , Brian Ferneyhough , Pierre Boulez , Ward Swingle , Regis Pasquier , Phyllis Bryn-Julson , Adrienne Csengery , Istvan Matuz , and The Swingle Singers Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Octets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Septets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Berio, Luciano | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Carter | Carter, Elliott | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schoenberg | Schoenberg, Arnold | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: Schoenberg: Piano Concerto Feldman: String Quartet (1979) ASIN: B000005EDU Release Date: 1995-06-06

Tracks:

1. Pelleas Und Melisande - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Introduction - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3. Theme - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Variation I - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. Variation II - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Variation III - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Variation IV - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Variation V - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Variation VI - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Variation VII - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11. Variation VIII - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12. Variation IX - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
13. Finale - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Tracks:

1. I - Regis Pasquier
2. II - O King - Regis Pasquier
3. III - In ruhig fliessender Bewegung - Regis Pasquier
4. IV - Regis Pasquier
5. V - Regis Pasquier
6. Eindruke - Orchestre National De France

Tracks:

1. Concerto Pour Hautbois - Pierre Boulez
2. Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux - Pierre Boulez
3. Anaphora - Pierre Boulez
4. Argument - Pierre Boulez
5. Sandpiper - Pierre Boulez
6. Insomnia - Pierre Boulez
7. View Of The Capitol From The Library Of Congress - Pierre Boulez
8. O Breath - Pierre Boulez
9. Penthode - Pierre Boulez

Tracks:

1. Messages De Feu Demoiselle R. V. Troussova - Adrienne Csengery
2. For 16 Voices And 3 Instrumental Groups - Pierre Boulez
3. Modulations - Pierre Boulez

Tracks:

1. Jalons - Pierre Boulez
2. Antiphysis - Istvan Matuz
3. Version I - Pierre Boulez
4. Version II - Pierre Boulez

Amazon.com essential recording

Collecting five CDs for about the price of three, this set of Boulez recordings is without parallel among the conductor's new-music releases. Imagine getting Boulez's celebrated single CD of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia and Eindrücke and his equally impressive single CD of Arnold Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande and Variations for Orchestra, bundled with four pivotal Elliott Carter works, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's electrifying ...AGM..., Gérard Grisey's Modulations, Iannis Xenakis's Jalons, Hugues Dufourt's Antiphysis, and Brian Ferneyhough's Funerailles, and you have an idea how far this set stretches.

There are the uproarious moments of Berio's clattery free-for-all approach easily juxtaposed against Schoenberg's more measured Variations, as it illuminates the crossroads of serialism and standard classical methodologies. The most astonishing moments come in the Kurtag songs, themselves echoing Pierrot Lunaire, and the Birtwistle work, which crosses extended vocal patterns with exclamatory orchestral interruptions to great effect. For anyone interested in Boulez's conductorly contributions to the postserial world, this is a surefire collection that opens the window on the great one's magic with difficult, thorny music. It also serves as a fascinating primer on the expansion of new music's techniques, especially when you consider the Elliott Carter works, all of them post-1975 and each uniquely expanding the American canon immeasurably, or the Grisey, Dufourt, and Ferneyhough works, as each of these composers came of age in the post-World War II era. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

A great purchase for new fans modern music.......2001-04-02

I just started getting into modern music a few years ago and this set was one of the best purchases I have made so far. It introduced me to several of my now favorite composers, as well as starting me off with a top-notch recording of their work. The $10 per CD price is very good for contemporary music (which usually runs closer to $20 for a CD). The music covers several composers in much greater depth than your average sampler, and every CD in the set would make a great individual purchase. In addition to the content, the recording quality and performance on each track is uniformly flawless. If you are new to avant-garde music, think of this set as an introductory greatest hits compilation that will remain a treasured purchase no matter how big your collection gets. If you're an experienced contemporary music collector you probably bought this CD as soon as you saw the names on it and the price.

powerful showcase of the last century.......2000-04-10

I concur this is the only place to find these masterworks, not all but the Carter pieces,Penthode I know of no other recording. This is a marvelously opaque like work, somewhat dry, Carter's penchant utilization of a rhythmic cell passed around the rather dry sounding ensemble. Especially exciting here is Antiphysis by Hughes Dufourt,a French composer philosopher who is quite outspoken on carrying the torch of European post serial modernity. This work is a veiled flute concerto,largely in two seamless movements where the soloist is simply part of the forever trmoili textures the first half of the work, blizzards of flute tones are conveyed,large doses of fluttertonguing,fast filigreed moments. At times the chamber ensemble seems to engulf powerfully the soloist knocking it out of commission and at times Dufourt with incredible surges of timbre. This is a surface piece of incredible power, long stridently sustained chords, like the internal tension of a suspension bridge, You are waiting for something to snap, it doesn't. The percussion moments in this work as well create great waves and impeccably controlled thunderous roars to stop on a dime. You would never know this piece is actually a miniature flute concerto. The flute lines tossed into all registers with colourful again fluttertonguing, wisps and long scale-like lines. Dufourt is not a prolific composer.So this is a rare treat.

Boulez's residencies with The Chicago Symphony over the past ten years has produced a few profound gems from the Post Romantic world,one not entirely his, and Schoenberg's tone poem 'Pelleus und Melisande' in one of them.This is an early post Wagnerian score double the legth of his equally successful 'Transfigured Night'.Unless you know the motives Herr Schoenberg had utilized from the original Maeterlinck play,the work engulfs one as one colossol tone poem/commentary on the wanderings and below the surface anxieties of the union of this pair of lovers,who never quite get it.Schoenberg as Debussy had visions of the darkest moments of the Maeterlinck with rounded timbral orchestrations. Boulez holds a taut reins here and controls this arduously long work with great vision. It's dark colours and thick textures are all balanced properly. You never sense the works length,it moves,lumbers into its moments quite well and when it hunkers down finally on an old fashion minor chord it is arresting.Chicago plays this music as no other,music written for them, with there overdosed,overexposed repertoire of post Romantics from the Solti Years. They put this expereince to its test in the 'Orchestral Variations' also of Schoenberg, a much later work from his brief year spent in Berlin in 1930, a time when he had full confidence in his visions for the dodecaphonic language. Boulez also enjoys this work with a full spectrum of shapes to lend direction from chamber like moments of some of the variations to discreet solos and duets emanating from the orchestral forces to full bodied statements. This is quite an achievement for this newly found language. But you can see Schoenberg moving into these untenable,new regions. For the isolated sense of expressionist colour seems to have been forsakened here,abandoned for a larger homogeneous one. If you know his 'Five Pieces for Orchestra',you sense an entire universe of difference.As if Wagner now has returned to haunt him. The Ensemble Intercontemporain bring a real sense of immediacy to the Ferneyhough, 'Funerailles',a score scaled down to 2 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Cellos, Doublebass and Harp.It's in the same gestural habitation of the Dufourt, large textural plains,regions of tremoli,punctuated freely.You may not recognize Ferneyhough here this is an early work with large gestures,not the finely attenuated approach to structuring and shaping timbres as you might find for instance in his 'Etudes Trancendental' or the string quartets. Without the Harp here to punctuate the one-dimensional string timbre produced here this work would indeed have been tedious and bland. The right amount of penetrating timbre is here to give the work the thornyness it deserves.If you are a Xenakis fan then his Jalons (steps) here is for you. This is music about the density and timbre transformations. Almost like standing in front of an industrial contraption waiting for it to turn off or break down or heat up.Blast furnace like timbres and strident whistles are here.

Best Single Collection of Modern Music.......1998-12-21

Listen--this set is actually a great buy, though it may seem like too much of an investment. But for your 45 bucks you get five discs (only $9 per disc), and it has to be one of the best collections of modern music ever, played by Boulez' spectacular group, Ensemble InterContemporain. Look at what you get: Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra (his most beautiful serialist composition); Berio's Sinfonia (a contemporary classic); Carter's Oboe Concerto, Mirror on Which to Dwell, and Penthode (for Carter fans, the disc is a must, since it's currently the only place you can get the concerto and Penthode, both essential Carter); Kurtag's Troussova (searing), Birtwistle's AGM (powerful, mysterious), Ferneyhough's Funerailles (electric), and Xenakis's Jalons (one of his best). For one purchase, you'll find yourself right in the thick of modern music.

Average customer rating: badass (should be 4 1/2 stars though) A Breakthrough Album!!!

Mixed Messages DJ Signify Manufacturer: Four Ways to Rock ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Techno-House | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004NKFN Release Date: 2000-03-21

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Customer Reviews:

badass (should be 4 1/2 stars though).......2003-04-11

really good. this guy is of the 1200 hobos and he puts together one of the best mixes I've heard. if you like this and are into a trade for some similar stuff (I also have his other mix "signifyin breaks") email me puff3j@hotmail. I'll send you my list and we can exchange cds

A Breakthrough Album!!!.......2000-09-06

"Mixed Messages" is a masterpiece. DJ Signify (of 1200 Hobos fame) deftly blends in beats and music that you would never expect. The most important thing is that there is SUBSTANCE to this album, not a bunch of wicked scratching with dope beats. The music is entrancing, and the scratching complements its, while not overtaking it. The album for the new millenium. BUY THIS ALBUM...YOU WON'T REGRET IT!!!

Average customer rating: I Wish My Friends Would Listen! Excellent female harmonies with beautiful piano and fiddle. Women with a sense of humor! Excellent musicians!

Mixed Messages Rude Girls Manufacturer: Flying Fish Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Contemporary Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000000MOI Release Date: 1992-09-29

Tracks:

1. Safety First
2. Run The Riggin'
3. Dimming Of The Day
4. We Don't Need The Men
5. Three's A Crowd
6. Dark Eyed Molly
7. Crossing The Border
8. Rufus And Beverly
9. Rag On Blues
10. I Can See Your Aura
11. Go Somewhere And Hide
12. She Lays It On The Line

Customer Reviews:

I Wish My Friends Would Listen!.......2002-12-28

I wish my friends would listen to their advice, particularly in "Safety First" -- "But you should always use a rubber/you'd better listen to your mother..." (and I am talking about 30+ year old women here). The songs are haunting and humorous by turns, the harmonies are exquisite, whenever I play this tape (I am just now delighted to find it on CD) I am always asked "Where can I buy this?" (OK sometimes I'm asked, "I thought you were married! Are you a lesbian?" And I just smile.) My husband likes this album too!

Excellent female harmonies with beautiful piano and fiddle........1999-04-29

The Rude Girls live up to their name with songs like the Rag On Blues, but it is the hauntingly beautiful harmonies in songs like the Girl in the Red Velvet Dress that will keep you playing this CD over and over. I only wish they would release more CD's.

Women with a sense of humor! Excellent musicians!.......1998-11-16

I bought this tape on impulse shortly after its release. I just loved the name "Rude Girls." And they are: they make fun of female troubles, New Age sensitivities, and relationships in general. On the other hand, their ballads are beautiful and traditional, their harmonies tight, and their playing excellent. It's one of my all time favorites, and when I play it for friends, they usually want a copy!

Average customer rating: DEEP

Mixed Messages Robbie Hardkiss Manufacturer: Hardkiss ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Weekend Hardkiss Presents Hawke: Namaquadisco Through Rose Tinted Glasses Crucial Introspection, Pts. 1-2 EP Heatstroke ASIN: B000000IDB Release Date: 1996-03-19

Tracks:

1. Come Together - Sundiata
2. Groove Lock - Slam
3. Pseudo Jazz Reprise - Elements Of Life
4. Be What You Wannabe - Certain Ratio
5. Jondi & Speshs Fatty Phat Jam - Jondi & Spesh
6. Drums Are Dangerous - The Drum Club
7. Electric Mistress - Too Funk
8. Stolen Documents - Future Sounds Of London
9. Business Card - Walker
10. Feelin Kinda High - Cajmere
11. No Music - The Innocent
12. X Track - Percy X
13. Indian Vocal Interlude - She
14. One Word - Love Lee

Customer Reviews:

DEEP.......1998-09-08

This one will uplift your soul for sure. Hardkiss is amazing, at one point all I could do was smile!! ENJOY!

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Black Matter Moon Criket Manufacturer: Alter-Natives Entertainment ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAF7A6 Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Hey
3. Do We Care?
4. Hood
5. Sit It Down
6. High If Ya Fly
7. Dear God
8. What They Want
9. Test the Water
10. Listen Up
11. Conversation
12. Pimp Stat
13. Get Like Me
14. I Can't Call It
15. Control
16. Undivided

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Patch of Sunshine Mixed Messages Manufacturer: Mixed Messages ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAF1YS Release Date: 2002-04-16

Tracks:

1. Patch of Sunshine
2. St. Johns Bridge Blues
3. Friend for Life
4. Early Morning Memories
5. Arrow
6. Could Have Been Your Lover
7. Promise You the Moon
8. To See You Cry
9. Troubled Mind
10. Would've Chosen You
11. St. Petersburg
12. Death of a Dimestore
13. Directions

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Mixed Messages Curt Erickson Manufacturer: Curt Erickson ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA3FEQ Release Date: 2004-01-06

Tracks:

1. She's the Kind of Girl
2. Can't Get Enough
3. Deliver My Love
4. Dreamland
5. Comin' Back for You
6. Let the Time Roll By
7. Everlasting Love
8. So Hard to Find
9. Now That You're Gone
10. I've Got Love
11. Love of the Family

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Mixed Messages Billy Hinsche ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000G8PH5E Release Date: 2006-04-11

Tracks:

1. Music Is Freedom
2. Don't Know Why
3. Good Things Are Comin' My Way
4. Automan
5. Call in the Light
6. Valentine Song
7. Juliette
8. FBI Wipeout
9. Beautiful Girl
10. Good Memory, Bad Feeling
11. Me & My Pillow
12. Let It Rain
13. My Lucky Day
14. Don't Fall Too Deeply
15. Let's Build a World
16. I Believed She Loved Me
17. Carlata Said
18. I Do
19. Ride That Wave
20. I Wonder
21. I Exist
22. One in a Million
23. With This Heart
24. Merima

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Mixed Messages Red Hill Manufacturer: Wagon Wheel (Burnsid ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000950W8 Release Date: 2003-05-06

Tracks:

1. Mobius Trip
2. Liss
3. Maleeka's Scheme
4. Empty Vie
5. Post Impressions
6. Sans Harmonica
7. D.L.A.
8. Squeezer Floyd
9. Mixed Messages

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Mixed Messages Andrew Bayuk ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RQC532

Product Description

1 Mixed Messages 2 Too Good To Be True 3 Smokescreen 4 Bullshit 5 I've Seen 6 One of Those Days 7 Back In Time 8 Shine On 9 Losing Time 10 Footprints in the Snow 11 Weighing of the Heart

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