Cloud Room [CD-single] [Import]

Cloud Room [CD-single] [Import]

Track Listings

1. The Cloud Room

2. Shadow Blues

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Two-track single taken from the critically acclaimed Seattle-based singer/songwriter's 2004 album 'Carbon Glacier' features the title track b/w 'Shadow Blues'. Bella Union.

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The Cloud Room
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Return Of The Thin White Duke

Not bad, not great

A Few Words

A step above The Killers, a step below Arcade Fire

Finally Another Group To Get Excited About

The Cloud Room
The Cloud Room
Manufacturer: Gigantic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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Howl Howl Gaff Gaff

Set Yourself on Fire

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Nice and Nicely Done

ASIN: B0007ZSHBW
Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

Hey Now Now
Waterfall
Blackout!
Devoured in Peace
Sunlight Song
Beautiful Mess
The Hunger
O My Love
Blue Jean
Sunlight Reprise
We Sleep in the Ocean

Album Description

The swagger of Gainsbourg, the pulse and melancholy of New Order, a voice that sounds like Peter Murphy trying to sing like David Bowie, The Cloud Room is a young Brooklyn based band striving to write songs that will go toe to toe with your record collection, toe to toe with your heart and toe to toe with your hips.

Customer Reviews:

Return Of The Thin White Duke.......2006-09-22

I saw this group open for Muse in New York and I never heard of them before but was knocked off my chair. They had a terrific combination of my favorite NY groups like The Strokes, Clap Your Hands and say Yeah and Interpol and there frontman sounded reminiscent of the man sitting right across from me in the balcony. Yep. David Bowie himself was there watching The Cloud Room! I picked up the CD and have not stopped humming it; to the chagrin of my girlfriend. I consider it revenge for the months she hummed "Time Is Running Out".

Not bad, not great.......2006-04-09

After the first few songs the cd does lose spirit and like another review said toward the end you really feel the filler factor. Had a chance to see them with Film School at the Mercury in NY but after I got the CD I passed.

A Few Words.......2006-02-19

This is what Bloc Party would sound like if they were good.

A step above The Killers, a step below Arcade Fire.......2006-01-27

I learned about this band through a friend at work. Found them incredibly interesting at first, when I heard a demo of "Sunlight Song". The track came across as relatively dark, slightly reminding of the neo-psychodelic and shoegazing sounds of the early nineties. But the rest of the album turned out to be more along the lines of the neo-punk pop sound that became so popular during 2004 and 2005. It wore out after a while, the good thing being that it's just over 30 minutes long, so you almost don't notice it. Overall it's pretty good, largely due to the singer's voice, which is surrounded by a mysterious halo of sorts. Their music lies a step above The Killers and Franz Ferdinand, but a step below The Arcade Fire. I give the album 4 stars as a whole.

Finally Another Group To Get Excited About.......2005-09-28

Something that the other reviewers haven't touched on is the best part of this cd. The emotional punch. This is the first cd to come close to the emotional high that had everyone falling in love with Arcade Fire. On the whole The Coud Room's cd isn't as good, but 5 or 6 songs are. I find the dancey ones to be limp, so many bands do that so much better. Hopefully they'll dump that side for their next cd, but finally another group to get excited about!

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Lieder, Songs, Aria, Duets

Manufacturer: Guild
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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Spirituals Masterpiece
A winner from start to finish
Wonderful
I give this recording my highest recommendation!
I give this recording my highest recommendation!

Spirituals

Manufacturer: Northern Lights
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus)

ASIN: B00000165I
Release Date: 1999-05-01

Tracks:

Deep River
Po' Mo'ner Got A Home At Las'
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
My Lord, What A Mornin'
Ain't Got Time To Die
Plenty Good Room
Feet Of Jesus
Bright Morning Stars
Before The Marvel Of This Night
Amazing Grace
Lullaby For Joe Robin, Op. 13
Anthem For The Homeless, Op. 18
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Honono

Customer Reviews:

Spirituals Masterpiece.......2007-01-22

This is a northern European choir doing southern negro spirituals. Sounds odd but it is one of the best that I have heard. The best single is "Ain't Got Time To Die".

A winner from start to finish.......2000-11-22

A cyberfriend from the N. Y. Times Classical Music Forum, an American ex-patriot living in Sweden, knowing my liking for the music of Paul Winter, particularly his sax/organ duets with Paul Halley, recommended this Anders Paulsson album. His reasoning was straightforward: This unique and totally fresh album includes three such duets: Lullaby for Joe Rubin, Anthem for the Homeless, and Toccata in D, all written by Paulsson.They are brilliant, and brilliantly performed, in a style that is quite unlike the "Cathedral blues" style of Winter and Halley, now celebrating the 20th year of their collaboration.

Paulsson is an instrumentalist on this horn the likes of which I don't believe I've ever heard. I consider myself a "student" of Paulsson's instrument, thanks to Winter, and am therefore familiar with other European soprano saxophonists such as Jan Garbarek and John Harle. But I was totally unprepared for Paulsson's technique, which is, in a word, staggering. While I continue to prefer Paul Winter's way with phrasing and improvisation, and, most particularly, embrochure and tone quality, I cheerfully concede that Anders Paulsson may well be the most proficient technician of this often-misplayed instrument. (Think "Kenny G" to get my point.) Pride of place in these three duets clearly goes to Toccata in D, Paulsson's Op. 20, a tour de force for him and Andrew Canning on organ.

But the album title is about singing, and singing of some well-known and not-so-well-known spirituals is the main focus of the album. And the singing is simply drop-dead gorgeous, by the St. Jacob's Chamber Choir of Stockholm. Led for more than fifteen years by Gary Graden, another American ex-patriot, their voices, and their clear English diction, might well have come from a gospel choir in these United States. The opening track, Deep River, is worth the cost of the album by itself.

Approximately in the middle of the album is a cantata in seven parts entitled Feet of Jesus, based on texts by Langston Hughes, the great African-American "blues poet" of the Harlem Renaissance. Written by Judith Cloud, a composer from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, this cantata is the centerpiece and the true highlight of the album, notwithstanding all the good points already mentioned about both the spirituals and Paulsson's own compositions and duets. Very moving; beautifully done.

In preparing this review, I of course had the opportunity to read Professor Cloud's comments about her composition and its inspiration, written elsewhere on this album page. It's a small world indeed when one reads that a large part of her inspiration came from a performance by Anders Paulsson that she had earlier heard in the marvelous acoustic space of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, where Paul Winter is the principal artist in residence.

I thank my American friend living in Sweden for bringing this terrific album to my attention. Otherwise, I might well have missed it completely. Here's hoping that my thoughts on it will work the same wonders on you that the music has on me.

Bob Zeidler

Wonderful.......1999-09-01

This is no easy listening or spectacular commercial gospel. But this music is so warm and heartfelt it really touches you deep inside. Astonishing work by one of the best choirs in the world.

I give this recording my highest recommendation!.......1999-05-26

Gary Graden's Kammarkör proves, again, the power of music to soothe the spirit and inspire the soul. "Spiritual" not just as it evokes the rich repertoire of African-American song, this recording moves the spirit in contemporary ways from Anders Paulsson's plaintive soprano sax to John Williams's (baritone) urgent rendition of "Before the Marvel of the Night" and the concluding South African "Honono." Williams joins Marymal Holmes (soprano) in an exquisitely beautiful rendition of "Bright Morning Stars" also arranged by Paulsson. Judith Cloud's "Feet of Jesus" is, from warm saxophone introduction to dramatic close, an elegant addition to American spiritual music. Cloud sets the Langston Hughes poem perfectly. Her spirited "Shout" and "Fire" complement a loving "Gather up in the arms of your pity the sick, the depraved, the desperate, the tired...." reaching the innermost recesses of the spirit and pulling from it something redeeming of humankind. The recording techniques are first-rate. To those who expect not only professional technique, but also heartfelt music, put this CD in your player and you'll never take it out!

I give this recording my highest recommendation!.......1999-05-26

Gary Graden's Kammarkör proves, again, the power of music to soothe the spirit and inspire the soul. "Spiritual" not just as it evokes the rich repertoire of African-American song, this recording moves the spirit in contemporary ways from Anders Paulsson's plaintive soprano sax to John Williams's (baritone) urgent rendition of "Before the Marvel of the Night" and the concluding South African "Honono." Williams joins Marymal Holmes (soprano) in an exquisitely beautiful rendition of "Bright Morning Starts" also arranged by Paulsson. Judith Cloud's "Feet of Jesus" is, from warm saxophone introduction to dramatic close, an elegant addition to American spiritual music. Cloud sets the Langston Hughes poem perfectly. Her spirited "Shout" and "Fire" complement a loving "Gather up in the arms of your pity the sick, the depraved, the desperate, the tired...." reaching the innermost recesses of the spirit and pulling from it something redeeming of humankind. The recording techniques are first-rate. To those who expect not only professional technique, but also heartfelt music, put this CD in your player and you'll never take it out!

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Summer Moods

Manufacturer: Ondine
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Wedding Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

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Release Date: 1997-08-19

Tracks:

Sunday
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Cloud Room

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000O599IK
Release Date: 2005-04-19

Album Description

New CD from Cloud Room that features the songs 'We Sleep In The Ocean', 'Devoured In Peace', & 'Blue Jean'. Gigantic. 2005.

Zara Dolukhanova: Romances (Lieder) Songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Medtner

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Zara Dolukhanova: Romances (Lieder) Songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Medtner

Manufacturer: Russian Disc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000001LPA
Release Date: 1994-08-23

Tracks:

Ser, Op.63 No.6 - Zara Dolukhanova
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Both Painfully And Sweetly, Op.6 No.3 - Zara Dolukhanova
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Look, Yonder Cloud, Op.27 No.2 - Zara Dolukhanova
Take My Heart Away - Zara Dolukhanova
Tell Me What In The Shade Of The Branches, Op.57 No.1 - Zara Dolukhanova
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Does The Day Reign? Op.47 No.6 - Zara Dolukhanova
The Muse, Op.34 No.1 - Zara Dolukhanova/Nina Svetlanova
They Asked - Zara Dolukhanova/Nina Svetlanova
Morning, Op.4 No.2 - Zara Dolukhanova/Nina Svetlanova
The Waterlilly, Op.8 No.1 - Zara Dolukhanova/Nina Svetlanova
Oh, Do Not Grieve, Op.14 No.8 - Zara Dolukhanova/Nina Svetlanova
These Summer Nights, Op.14 No.5 - Zara Dolukhanova/Nina Svetlanova
Romance - Zara Dolukhanova/Nina Svetlanova
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Vox of my dreams

Cloud Room
Laura Veirs
Manufacturer: Bella Union
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0001DCWFW
Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

The Cloud Room
Shadow Blues

Album Description

Two-track single taken from the critically acclaimed Seattle-based singer/songwriter's 2004 album 'Carbon Glacier' features the title track b/w 'Shadow Blues'. Bella Union.

Album Details

Two Track Single Taken from the Seattle Based Singer's Third Critcally Acclaimed Album "Carbon Glaciers".

Customer Reviews:

Vox of my dreams.......2004-06-05

I never buy singles, let alone Imports, but I can't stop listening to this woman. I have a copy for work and one for home, and they're the real thing. So determined am I that Laura affords to keep writing and singing that I refuse to burn a single edition, not for daughter, lover or pals. They get out and buy their own and help Ms Veirs get every cent that's coming to her.

So where have I heard that voice before? I've gone thru my entire collection, played her down the phone to pals, researched Amazon for any memory jogger. Zilch. I can only conclude that Veirs' voice has been echoing siren-like in me over the years and is finally made flesh.

God, what a cheesy remark. Exactly the sort of soppy reviewer rubbish that causes me to click on and vow never to go near the artiste in question.

Ignore my over-purpled prose. Lend the lady an ear - you'll be chuffed you did. Try "Troubled by Fire"'s track 7, "Tiger Tattoos", and swoon to the vox veirsienne, swoon, too, to Bill Frisell's accompaniment; or his electric guitar work on tracks 9 and 11.

But don't fall into the trap of listening to #2 on the same album - "Bedroom Eyes". You'll play it again, and again, and then the whole album several times, and then you'll roam the streets for a store clued-up enough to stock her 2 other, full length albums.

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