Duality [CD-single] [Import]

Duality [CD-single] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Duality

2. Don't Get Close

3. Disasterpiece

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Taken from the 2004 album 'Vol. 3 - The Subliminal Verses'. Three non-LP tracks, 'Duality' (edit), 'Don't Get Close' (B-side), 'Disasterpiece' (taken from live DVD), & 'Duality' (Video). Polygram.

Tracks:

Fear
Fallen Angels
Tell Me - Michael Raphael
Take Me Away
I Lost Everything Today
Only One
Superman
Love
Say You Will
Got Me Going
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Far Enough
Undertaken
Taken
Swimming Upstream

Customer Reviews:

Takes a few listens..........2007-06-13

Ra is a very interesting band to watch grow. Their first release (From One) was an excellent debut that showed off their potential. Its an album that can immediately be digested and have you loving them in no time. With "Duality" the band is still lyrically strong, if not stronger. However, instrumental-wise, the band has fallen into a very generic hole that they need to climb themselves out of. Not to say the instrumental on this album is awful, no, not by any means. It just doesn't stand out nearly as much as their debut album had. I've had this album since the first week it came out. There are a few tracks that you can immediately get into, mostly on the first half, but the rest will fall away from your first listen. Over time though you will grow to appreciate the rest of this album, I did at least.

8/10

Still Strong.......2007-06-10

This album is excellent, It could do without "Every little thing she does is magic" It sucks, really bad. That song does not sound like the Ra I know. Also, "I lost everything today" SUCKS. HORRIBLE vibe for a Ra album, why? WHY???

Anyway, the complaints out of the way this album is excellent for the most part. Fallen Angels, Tell Me, Love, SUPERMAN SAY YOU WILL UNDERTAKEN TAKEN everything is just awesome. I do notice however that the group shied a little bit away from the defining Egyptian roots that made them who they are. Hopefully, Black Sun will patch that gap.

Sky II.......2007-03-12

I picked up both From One and Duality at the same time and I have to say that the band has matured with the release of this cd. Not a bad song on this cd. This has more of a melodic flare, but still rocks out. Another cd that stays in the player for a long time.

Excellent second release for a great band.......2007-01-05

I've been into Ra since they came out with From One a few years ago - since I first heard "Do You Call My Name" on the radio, I was hooked. That CDs probably towards the top of my list just in terms of how much I listened to it.

That being said, I haven't had Duality for long. I actually only knew it was out after I saw them perform at Locobazooka last summer. It was pretty much the next CD I bought, and it does not fail to deliver.

Like on their first CD, Ra continues to play interesting, unique music, backed up by Sahaj's amazing vocals. A friend of mine once said "you know a band is great when they have their own sound - when you can hear them and instantly recognize them, even if you don't know them well." I've always believed this, and for Ra, it's certainly true. They have a very distinctive, unique sound, and that is something which is becoming increasingly hard to find in the music industry these days.

Put simply, Duality is incredible. It starts off with a semi-odd track of a man talking which segues into "Fallen Angels," a hard hitting song that sets the tone for the rest of the album. This CD stays strong towards the middle and end, and doesn't get boring. Especially interesting on this CD (to those of use that remember this song) is Ra's cover of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic." It's well done, and puts a smile on my face every time I listen to this album.

Overall, this is a great CD that doesn't fail to disappoint. For those of you that haven't heard Ra, this is great for fans of Pulse Ultra, Chevelle, Memento, and old Incubus.

Soak It In.......2006-12-12

I was a huge fan of Ra's first album 'From One' - it stood apart from anything else in the hard rock genre due largely to the strong songwriting and memorable melodies. Ra is truly an original band in that sense. 'Duality' didn't grab me as quickly though it shares the same strengths as their previous effort - strong songs, big vocals, excellent musicianship, pop sensibility. The songs are a bit deeper here, and after about the fourth listen I started to pick up the Sting/Police vibe that was hinted at on the first album. It adds a slightly different - and more mature - color to 'Duality' and I've grown to enjoy it even more than 'From One.'

A must have for fans of 'From One', Sting, the Police, King's X, or just solid melody ridden hard rock.

Average customer rating:

Fantastic
Yes it is that good
Hauntingly beautiful, soothingly mystical, fulfillingly Eastern sound
No!... Not Disappointment!!
Lisa Gerrard at her finest

Duality
Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
Manufacturer: 4ad / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000062VG
Release Date: 1998-04-14

Tracks:

Shadow Magnet
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Forest Veil
The Comforter
The Unfolding
Pilgrimage Of Lost Children
The Human Game
The Circulation Of Shadows
Sacrifice
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Amazon.com

Duality is at once sacred and playful. It is both dark and light, organic and refined, masculine and feminine. Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard partners with Pieter Bourke, formerly of Aussie band Eden, to create this compositional dance of partnership that is classical, ancient, and thoroughly modern. Gerrard's voice is multitracked at times, conjuring a cathedral choir and the droning chants of monks. Drums and synth snake from desert to brilliant stormy sky to shaking earth and the bodies that inhabit those spaces. There are lush multiple layers of strings, bagpipe drone, and, quite literally, the laughter of children. The vocals sans "real" words and multicultural instrumentation will be familiar to Dead Can Dance listeners. Yet there is something more exclusive, more womblike about the music of Bourke and Gerrard; rather than two distinct bodies making music, like mother and in utero child sharing blood and breath, they are mutually dependent. --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic.......2007-01-08

This music is a great CD for anyone who is a diehard fan of Dead Can Dance. The songs have a very diverse number of styles. There are a few fast songs and the song "The Human Game" sounds like it could be a soundtrack from a movie.

Yes it is that good.......2006-09-30

I came across some fairly brutal reviews for this album. Ah well, every man to his own. This work is impossibly subtle, daydream for a second and you miss a mindblowing transisition. If you think I'm joking try finding the twenty-something transistions my midi program detected on track 2. The theme is middle easternish which is the perfect atmosphere for Gerrard's impossible voice. What I like most about this album, and the reason I am writing this review is becasue of the way each track ends. No seriously, even if you don't like the track in question, you have to admit.... I mean I haven't seen such stunning fade offs since Tony Gonzalez's "Unrecorded"
Highly recommended for electronica, ambience lovers and aphex twin fanatics.

Hauntingly beautiful, soothingly mystical, fulfillingly Eastern sound.......2006-01-15

I was never a fan of 'Dead can Dance' only because I'd never heard them. But a friend of mine saw that I liked Caroline Lavelle and said: "I think you'll like this album." Let me just say, I've never put this album away and had to replace it twice (once was worn and broken, once a boyfriend stole my copy.) I think I have yet to find someone I know who will listen to it and it doesn't move them somewhat.

This album is incredibly atmospheric. It's one of those beautiful and lovely CDs that you can put on at night in the summer with the windows open and light lots of candles -- actually it's what we did and just had a bottle of wine talking with this in the background thoroughly enjoying the music of Duality.

It is a combination of Eastern, tribal and classical music in my opinion. Specific songs in particular to really revel in would be: Shadow Magnet, Forest Veil, the Human Game, and the Unfolding is very VERY moving if you listen at a louder volume.

I adore this album and have yet to find another like it. For those of you who are Dead Can Dance fans, I don't know what to tell you but I like her solo work. For those out there who are Loreena, Enya or Caroline Lavelle fans, check out Lisa Gerrard and enjoy. This music is good for atmosphere, meditation and something different. Highly recommended.

No!... Not Disappointment!!.......2005-12-15

I must say that after being a fan of Dead Can Dance for years now, and hearing that Lisa was out making music for movies, and sharing her beautiful talents with the world I was looking forward to buying one of her solo albums.

But I'm so disappointed! Maybe two or three songs on the whole cd compel me to emotions that evoke sadness or happiness. The rest are just "blah".

I know that it is not the same band, I know that she is a talented woman, I am just not impressed with the level of creativity on this album.

If you are looking for a moving album, something that is full of life... this is not the one.

Lisa Gerrard at her finest.......2005-05-28

No, this is not `Dead can dance', this is Lisa Gerrard at her finest. There is still the essence of `Dead can dance' in this album (the Middle Eastern influenced sound), yet Lisa puts a more classical spin on the songs. The first few tracks on the album sound very much like `Dead can Dance'; they have a lot of drums, flutes, and very tribal sounding. `Unfolding' and `Sacrifice' stand out as my favorite two songs. Lisa has a wonderful talent for layering her own voice in a way that just sounds haunting a breathtaking. `Human Game' is the only track that doesn't really fit with the album though; however, I still think it's a great song. This song almost sounds like it was intended to be used for a sound track for James Bond or something LOL. Overall, the album is just amazing and great to listen to if you want relaxing, dreamy music.

Star Trek - The Next Generation: Music From The Original Television Soundtrack, Volumes One, Two And Three

Average customer rating:

GREAT COLLECTION
If you want a good price for good CDs, buy this....

Star Trek - The Next Generation: Music From The Original Television Soundtrack, Volumes One, Two And Three

Manufacturer: Gnp Crescendo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1993-04-19

Tracks:

Star Trek: The Next Generation-Main Title - Dennis McCarthy
Stardate - Dennis McCarthy
Troi Senses - Dennis McCarthy
Picard's Plan/First Chase - Dennis McCarthy
Detaching/Separation - Dennis McCarthy
Shaken/Court Time/There Goes Da Judge - Dennis McCarthy
USS Hood/On Manual - Dennis McCarthy
End Credit - Dennis McCarthy
Personal Log/Admiral/Old Lovers - Dennis McCarthy
Caverns - Dennis McCarthy
Splashing/The Woods/Memories - Dennis McCarthy
Scanned/Big Guns/Unknown - Dennis McCarthy
Revealed/Reaching Out - Dennis McCarthy
Departure - Dennis McCarthy
Main Title-Version #2 (Alternate M.T.) - Dennis McCarthy

Tracks:

Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title - Ron Jones
New Providence - Ron Jones
Hansen's Message - Ron Jones
Borg Engaged - Ron Jones
First Attack - Ron Jones
Borg Take Picard - Ron Jones
Death Is Irrevelant - Ron Jones
Away Team Ready - Ron Jones
On The Borg Ship - Ron Jones
Nodes - Ron Jones
Captain Borg - Ron Jones
Energy Weapon Fails - Ron Jones
Humanity Taken - Ron Jones
Contact Lost - Ron Jones
Cemetery Of Dead Ships - Ron Jones
Intervention - Ron Jones
The Link - Ron Jones
Sleep Command - Ron Jones
Destruct Mode/Picard Is Back - Ron Jones
Picard's Nightmare - Ron Jones
Star Trek: The Next Generation-End Credit - Ron Jones

Tracks:

Star Trek: The Next Generation-Main Title - Dennis McCarthy
Yesterday's Enterprise: Duality/Enterprise C - Dennis McCarthy
Yesterday's Enterprise: Averted/Richard/Gulnan/Back To Battle/Cmdr. Garrett - Dennis McCarthy
Yesterday's Enterprise: First Kiss/Not To Be/Empty Death/Reporting For Duty - Dennis McCarthy
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Unification I & II: Sarek - Dennis McCarthy
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Unification I & II: Victims Of Holography - Dennis McCarthy
Unification I & II: Sacrificed/Mind Meld - Dennis McCarthy
Hollow Pursuits: Barclay Mitty - Dennis McCarthy
Hollow Pursuits: Tissue Samples/Sad Sack/Staff Confab/Hololust - Dennis McCarthy
Hollow Pursuits: Lady Gates/Swordplay - Dennis McCarthy
Hollow Pursuits: Madame Trol/Blissful/Out Of Control/Warp Nine - Dennis McCarthy
Hollow Pursuits: Warposity - Dennis McCarthy
Hollow Pursuits: Plan 9 - Dennis McCarthy
Star Trek: The Next Generation-End Credit - Dennis McCarthy

Customer Reviews:

GREAT COLLECTION.......2004-03-29

You want great Star Trek music look no further! This CD has the best music from TNG

If you want a good price for good CDs, buy this...........2000-06-18

If you love TNG and want all of the best of the soundtracks, then buy this! It'll save you money, and the TNG soundtracks are some of the best. The magic of this series can come alive, and it has a ton of music from all episodes, including mixed in versions that are really "cool".

Average customer rating:

Best classic Die Form album
Fantastic album
The Tears Of Eros
Always In The Top Ten
Well, I'm just not quite sure what to think

Duality
Die Form
Manufacturer: Metropolis Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1998-03-24

Tracks:

Invisible World
The Hidden Cage
Lonely Heart
Love Is Cold I
Rain Of Blood
Anode Current
Leda's Secret
Transvisions
The Shape
Duality
The Missing Beauty
La Jeune Fille Es La Mort
Love Is Cold II

Customer Reviews:

Best classic Die Form album.......2006-06-01

This is my favorite album purely for the mood at which the songs put me in. It is very dark and emotional, not something the average person could handle. Die Form is a very different kind of band, its mixed goth with dance beat, but overall very serious and meaningful music. I love serious music like Tool and Loreena Mckennitt (two totally different bands) and I love Die Form too.. go figure. The other Die Form album I recommend is Inhuman. I just ordered Exhuman so I don't know if that is good yet but if it is like Inhman then it will be.

Fantastic album.......2004-04-22

This was the first Die Form album I ever listened to years ago. I still think it's their best. From their huge hit The Hidden Cage to The Shape and Love is Cold, it's an original work of art that takes the listener through many moods and rhythms. There is no other band like them. They are amazing.

The Tears Of Eros.......2003-06-29

Philippe Fichot is definately no slave to convention.
He masterfully weaves his voice( often sounding like Hal of 2001)in contrast with Elaine P's operatic voice over an electronic tapestry.
Mutsumi Oku also sings some songs on this CD.Her voice is very ghostly.
The photographs, are eloquent.(Man Ray meets Octave Mirbeau and Bataille)

Always In The Top Ten.......2002-10-21

One of the Best off Metropolis, full of emotions, chills, and just about every bodily feeling imaginable. Die Form is that good. I host a Industrial Radio show at my college station, and among Apoptygma Berzerk, and Faith & the Muse, Die Form always breaks the top ten. If you are new to Die Form, start here!!!!!

Well, I'm just not quite sure what to think.......2002-06-08

This album started out for me just perfectly. It was sad and dark and I immediately took to it and added it to my list for great melancholic music. But as the CD progressed the music just got a little too mechanical and silly for me. It conjures up images of people who have too much dark sexual obsession having bizarre rites in their upstairs attics. I guess if you're into that kind of thing then this is GREAT! But I couldn't take it seriously.

Average customer rating:

Duality
Sugar & Silk
Manufacturer: Passion Jazz
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000646N1
Release Date: 2002-07-08

Tracks:

Duality
Everybody Be Cool
Real Love
Electri-City!
Green Room
Love Will Follow
A.T.S. ( Another True Story)
Oyster
Don't Give Up
L'austin's Pace

Album Details

Smooth Jazz: Their Musical Influences Stem from 70's Jazz Funk. Former Nightcrawlers Lead Singer John Reed Provides Vocals on a Stunning Version of "Love Will Follow", with Another Excellent Vocal Track "Don't Give Up" featuring Jane Hamilton.

Average customer rating:

Just an amazing cd!
Listen start to end, with lights out

Duality
In the Nursery
Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008GT6
Release Date: 1992-07-21

Tracks:

Belle Epoque
Always
Red Harvest
Duality
Corruption
Thorns
Pulse
Valediction
Universe
Engraver
Mecciano
Always (Strive to Be the Best) [*]
Desiderata [*]

Amazon.com

Truly risk-taking popular music is hard to find, often buried beneath a mound of play-it-safe "alternative" rock or formulaic electronica. The risk inherent in doing something truly unique is in being tagged "pretentious," an insult almost worse than being called just plain "bad." England's In the Nursery walk a very fine line between the worlds of pop and classical music, making themselves broad targets for archers poised with the "pretentious" arrow. But what ITN almost always do, album after album, is succeed in creating glorious beauty--music so cinematic and lush as to almost spoil your taste for anything else. Duality, originally released in 1992 and remastered with two bonus mixes for this 1999 reissue, is a perfect example of the soundtrack-like work at which twin brothers Klive and Nigel Humberstone excel. Much like its predecessor, 1991's Sense, Duality takes the listener through a self-contained world of swelling (but never cloying) strings, melancholic piano, crisp snare, and rumbling timpani, accented here and there by the ethereal French vocals of Dolores Marguerite C. Duality's brilliant contribution to the ITN catalog was the introduction of classic British poetry to the mix. The Humberstones sample liberally from an old Richard Burton spoken-word album and throw his richly textured voice atop their larger-than-life musical tapestries; it's a perfect fit (check out "Corruption," on which Burton reads John Donne's sonnet "A Feaver" to spine-chilling effect) and a tactic they would use more fully on their magnum opus, 1994's Anatomy of a Poet. Duality's other highlights include "Belle Epoque," the disc's uplifting opener, and the title track, a darkly powerful symphony that builds in emotion and drama to a spectacular climax. ITN provide the music; you provide the imaginary film. --Steve Landau

Customer Reviews:

Just an amazing cd!.......2007-03-02

This is one of the most amazing cd's I have ever owned, can't even classify it into any one group, a genre for everyone and it's just something you need to relax with and flow with..

my personal opinion is lay down or relax in a good spot, and listen to it from beggining to end, it's amazing the effect you have when your done listening to it, almost puts you in a deep meditative state and just makes you feel good and refreshed when your done listening to it..

I highly recommend this album to anyone who likes, Dead Can Dance,Enigma, Sarah Mclaughlin, & Loreena Mckennitt...

It's pretty damn awesome!

Listen start to end, with lights out.......2000-05-25

This is my No. 1 disc of the 1990s -- a title I don't give lightly, and a title that "Duality" has kept almost from the moment I picked it up in its original 1992 release.

In a darkened room, perhaps with headphones on, the opening synth-horn fanfare, angelic vocals, and heavy percussion of "Belle Epoque" immediately seize the soul and begin your journey into the depths of your mind where, as "Always" notes, "the universe is unfolding as it should."

As In the Nursery's soundtrack plays out, it triggers the greatest hits of your own personal soundtrack, over the typewriter and solemn recitations of "Red Harvest," over the symphonic urgency of "A Valediction" and to the final seconds of "Mecciano" where everything stops and "makes you end where you begun."

Alternately serene and intense, but always intricately structured, compelling and multilayered, the music exudes an incredible level of sophistication that transcends the "Industrial" section into which it usually gets lumped. The electronic instrumentation is flawlessly crisp; the multifaceted percussion knows when to be bold and when to be tame; the spoken-word recitals are just enough to trigger emotional responses without demanding specific vision.

"Duality" is not background music. These are timeless compositions that demand your full attention. In return, you'll get a musical reward the likes of which I have never experienced from any other piece of contemporary music.

Even eight years later, "Duality" can still make me ecstatic and make me cry, all within about the same 45 minutes.

Tracks:

Belle Epoque
Always
Red Harvest
Duality
Corruption
Thorns
Pulse
A Valediction
Universe
The Engraver
Mecciano
Always(Strive To Be)
Desiderata

Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

Just an amazing cd!.......2007-03-02

Listen start to end, with lights out.......2000-05-25

This is my No. 1 disc of the 1990s -- a title I don't give lightly, and a title that "Duality" has kept almost from the moment I picked it up in its original 1992 release.

Even eight years later, "Duality" can still make me ecstatic and make me cry, all within about the same 45 minutes.

Tracks:

Gay's Flight
Seryozha's Lament
Deacon Blues
The Compression
Mr. Snike
River
All I Really Want To Do
The New Duality
Shipbuilding
Darkman
Truth

Customer Reviews:

What a talent.......2002-12-31

Great compositions, superbly executed. From smooth jazz to uptempo straight ahead jazz. Highly recommended.

extremely melodic, great listening.......1999-10-16

This CD offers a fascinatingly blended Duality in musical content, identity and even form: some funkier "modern" but smooth jazz selections are presented, some more "classic" jazz cuts are brilliantly executed, and all proclaim the versatile, well-trained and FRESH melodic guitar skills of emerging young star Julian Coryell, son of Larry Coryell.