The Days of Mars

Track Listings

1. Rise

2. Moons

3. Relevee

4. Black Spring

The Days of Mars,Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom,Astralwerks,Ambient,Electronic,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

The Days of Mars

Tracks:

Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Hermann - Suite From "Psycho": I. Prelude / II. The City / III. The Swamp / IV. The Murder / V. The Cellar / VI. Discovery
Wagner - Flying Dutchman Overture
Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition: Gnomus / Catacombs / Babi-Yar's Hut On Chicken's Legs
Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique: IV. March To The Scaffold / V. Dream Of The Witches Sabbath
Stravinsky - Firebird, IV. Infernal Dance Of The King Kashchei
Shostakovich - Cemetary (from The film "Five Days And Five Nights")
Holst - The Planets, Mars Bringer Of War

Tracks:

Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathrusta: I. Sehr Breit (Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey) / IX. The Song Of The Night Wanderer
Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Prokofiev - Romeo & Juliet, The Montagues and the Capulets
Xenakis - The Pleiades, First Movement
Vivaldi - Four Seasons, Summer, III, Presto, Tempo Impetuoso D'Estate
Bernstein - The Grifters
Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring: III. Mock Abduction / XIII. Sacrificial Dance
Shostakovich - Symphony No 5, IV. Allegro Non Troppo
Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice (From Fantasia)
Bernstein - Ghostbusters

Customer Reviews:

Great Classic Themes.......2006-09-11

This is an awesome collection of unsettling melodies from the masters, not just some horror movie themes (though it does have some Psyco). You will end up playing a round of "Where have I heard that score before?" because these melodies are very iconic.
The only complaint is that the track listing is somewhat occult. One has to use amazon.com's track listings and fill in the numbers.
Still, this is a great buy!!

Simply Wonderful!.......2006-05-18

I would like to begin my review of this wonderful CD by stating that I am not a "kid." (unless you consider a 14-year-old to still be a child) I am, however, too lazy too start a new Amazon.com account before typing about this great CD.

Now then... In my eyes, this CD recieved 5 stars because of (what else!) the music. The quality of the music to be more specific. The sound of it was great and the selection of the pieces was pure genius. My personal favorite would have to be a three-way tie between Bach's Toccata and Fugue, Dukas' Sorceror's Apprentice, and Stravinsky's The Right of Spring.

I will leave you tonight with one final thought... Is it just me, or are most of the pieces from "Fantasia"? At least 7 (!) of the pieces are from that age-old classic. I think it's funny that they are on a collection such as "The Most Frightening Music in the Universe". And could the cover art be any worse?!

All in all it is a great CD to add to any collection. (and cheap!) Thanks!

-Smith

Simply Wonderful!.......2006-05-18

Halloween!!!!!!.......2006-04-02

This Is Great i love Classical and halloween is my favorite holiday its great!! great collection

Average customer rating:

Aimless analogue noodling
mehr als krautrock
Like an updated "Tangerine Dream" for the IDM kiddies

The Days of Mars
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom
Manufacturer: Astralwerks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000AP2ZDA
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

Rise
Moons
Relevee
Black Spring

Customer Reviews:

Aimless analogue noodling.......2005-11-26

I'd previously heard Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom from their contribution to the triple-disc DFA Compilation #2 that came out last year. Their somewhat amorphous analogue synth track stuck out a bit from the more dance-oriented fair on the album, and I wondered if the track of theirs was sort of a one-off trip-out piece or something more akin to their usual output. As The Days Of Mars proves, the two (who met each other in the in the art world and have done everything from video, performance, theatre, and visual art) are interested in creating beat-less worlds of swirling sounds that call to mind work from everyone from Vangelis to Klaus Schültze to Tangerine Dream.

At four tracks and just over 50 minutes, the problem with The Days Of Mars is that it's just too formless and unfocused to be very interesting most of the time. "Rise" opens the release with a soft wash of sound and soon layers on some very basic arepeggios and some very slight modulation, but ends up sounding like a slightly watered-down copy of one of the aforementioned artists while "13 Moons" is even more noodling, seemingly more obsessed with the sounds of the instruments themselves than creating anything that grabs your attention.

"Relevée" is easily the most successful track on the entire album, as it takes a slightly more aggressive (relatively speaking, of course) stance and piles dense arpeggios on one another for something that sounds like the soundtrack to a futuristic chase film while "Black Spring" is another long-form workout that mixes slightly creepy chords with ringing arpeggios and sounds that give it an almost John Carpenter soundtrack lean. As a whole, The Days Of Mars is going to leave a majority of DFA fans scratching their heads. While their are some fairly interesting sounds on the release (I've simply got a weak spot for analogue synths, whether it be twiddling the knobs personally and losing track of time in doing so, or simply listening to them), I have to say that work like Phaedra and Rubycon by Tangerine Dream are still much more involving, interesting, and even hypnotic to me.

(from almost cool music reviews)

mehr als krautrock.......2005-10-26

Yeah, I have to say this album pretty much rules. The opening track is absolutely hypnotic and, like the previous reviewer suggested, the entire album is very 'warm' throughout. I feel compelled to add, though, that all these Edgar Froese/Manuel Goettsching comparisons I've been hearing only go so far...

Clearly any such comparison, particularly when it spans three decades, falls short at a certain point -- but at this very point, it is NOT that the ascendancy of the earlier groups comes into focus, thus overriding the novelty and quality of "Days of Mars"; rather, it is at this point that one realizes one is listening to truly original and exciting music, with a texture all its own that I can't help but admit is much more compelling than most of the Tangerine Dream/Ash Ra Tempel stuff out there (excepting of course "Atem," "Phaedra," "Schwingungen," and Klaus Schulze's "Moondawn", all of which are pretty much infallible, monumental eruptions from the heady soil of 'Das Land der Dichter und Denker').

No, Delia and Gavin aren't German, but when the only substantial liner note refers to the fact that they custom-built many of the instruments used in the recording, it's clear that they've poked up their fingers into some sort of Teutonic tradewind. What makes "Days of Mars" unique and, frankly, much more inviting that your average T. D. album, is that this duo has taken a much-worn, much-abused template, and reshaped it so as to cut out the dorkiness, pretension, and boredom that almost inevitably gravitate towards this genre. They have made an inviting, engaging, rewarding record. More than that even, there is a contemporaneity to this music that is subtle at first but becomes increasingly pronounced, to the point at which I can see clearly why it is on the DFA label. I almost hate to say it, but this record is more even on the whole than the LCD Soundsystem album, even if it's completely different music that I imagine suits far fewer tastes than James Murphy & gang.

So, that said, I'm a little disturbed at how many used copies of this album are available, but ultimately I'm not much surprised. If you're not one to set aside the time sit down and allow your mind to connect with the music; if you expect your pleasure nodes to be immediately fondled like a quick three-penny prostitute, perhaps unaware of more deeply-submerged, cosmically tuned-in centers of expansive, real, and genuinely emotional pleasure, this might be an initially rocky listen. But, on the brighter side, I'm increasingly of the belief that this album has both the gravity (of old) and the refreshing playfulness (that comes with the new) in such an intelligent and immediate combination, that it's just not right(however well-intentioned) to say that the proverbial torch has been passed... The torch has been reborn.

Like an updated "Tangerine Dream" for the IDM kiddies.......2005-10-09

A dreamy ambient journey, the last track is simply breathtaking if you love Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno and perhaps some of the IDM / electronic stuff out there like Boards of Canada and Plaid. However this is a very WARM sounding electronic group.

This Sceptred Isle: Music Inspired By the Events of the 20th Century

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I HAVE seen this CD and really like it.

This Sceptred Isle: Music Inspired By the Events of the 20th Century

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I HAVE seen this CD and really like it........2003-10-31

This is a two CD set on which, though several of the cuts are edited, more than half appear in their entirety. What a splendid set they make! I've always been a fan of the musical grandeur evinced in British Imperial music. This album, particularly the first disc, offers music from this genre in spades, both instrumental and choral works. Hubert Parry's "I Was Glad" shines out in dazzling brilliance. Listening to Walton's warhorse "Crown Imperial" and Elgar's "Coronation March" we can visualize the full ceremony of state. And listening to Coates' "Dam Busters March" brings to mind all the hope of a proud people fighting, down to its last collective drop of blood, a mortal threat being wrought by an invader's ruthless forces. I'm sure this sounds melodramatic, but after all, total emotion is what this music is all about. I might ask for a cut or two less of Coates or Walton, not because those recordings were not excellent, but because, instead, I'd have liked a cut from Bridge, Tippett, or even Rutter. But, excepting that slight objection, this CD duo does its job most excellently and well.

Sing It Now ROCK Hits Spring 2005 Karaoke CDG

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Sing It Now ROCK Hits Spring 2005 Karaoke CDG
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Sing It Now ROCK Hits Spring 2005

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13.Burning In The Sun-Blue Merle

14.Always-Blink 182

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Top Tunes Karaoke CD+G Rock Vol. 17 TT-264
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