Incense

Track Listings

1. Nag Champa

2. Opium

3. Patchouli

4. White Sage

5. Amber

6. Golden Honeysuckle

7. Frankincense

8. Clove

9. Lavender Dream

10. Musk

11. Jasmine

12. Rose

Incense,Deepfried,Deepfried,Deepfried is a four person symphony, producing a range of genres from triphop to ambient using homemade software, live sampling, looping, and drum-mixing.

Incense

Tracks:

Incense & Peppermints
Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow
Birds In My Tree
Sit With The Guru
Tomorrow
Barefoot In Baltimore
Good Morning Starshine
Bird Man Of Alkatrash
Strawberries Mean Love
Starting Out The Day

Customer Reviews:

The right song at the right time.......2007-04-02

If you asked me what song epitomizes the sixties, I'd answer "Incense and Peppermints".

I remember having the original album my mom bought me. I was about 15/16 at the time. My impression of the song was that it was slick and trendy-sounding and that these guys were cashing in quick on it. Like a "Time" magazine cover article set to music. Rumor had it that the lead singer on "Incense and Peppermints" was hanging around the studio in SF. The band persuaded him to sing it and he was never heard from again. In fact, no one apparently even knew his name. Perfect publicity.

The best of the late 60's.......2006-12-29

This is a compilation, but the original Incense and Peppermints album was really revolutinary for the time. I will date myself now, but I remember hearing this song on the radio in our car and was mesmerized by it. It was the first Lp I had ever bought. I actually wore out the groves on the Lp and came across another a few years ago. To this day, almost 40 years after I first heard the Strawberry Alarm Clock, I still like Incense and Peppermints as well as their other songs. Their style ranges from acid rock to jazz. The musicians are all very talented and the band works as a team as opposed to many of the bands of the era. Their recordings are really high quality and certainly not over processed like a lot of today's music is. SAC was in an era where 60's music was in transition from the early Beatles and old time R&R sound to a more acid rock sound. Lyrics like 'tune in, turn on, turn your eyes around.. look at yourself' were typical of SAC's lyrical style as well as the thinking of the times. It was an odd time. On one side, we had Woodstock, mini-skirts, muscle cars and fun fun fun, But, on the dark side, there were civil rights problems and the Viet Nam war. This transitional period was a kind of awakening for the country and for music. Although not as popular as names like the Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Steppenwolf, the Strawberry Alarm Clock still had a huge following. My only regret is that I didn't get a chance to see them (or the Doors!) when they came to the city where I lived during the late 60's. This album is a nice compilation of SAC's hits. The songs are as fresh and original sounding as they were almost 40 years ago.

Psychedelic Plus.......2006-11-29

This compilation album of Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks is no doubt rooted in the psychedelic sixties. The band is most known for `Incense and Peppermint,' but this album shows that there was much more to the band. Strawberry Alarm Clock's talent lies in composition. The album showcases several distinct styles that they blend with psychedelic rock. The song `Starting out the Day' is a good example of this. The song starts out with blaring horns and percussion that reminds me of early Herb Albert and the upbeat tempo and production could be a Tom Jones production. Another good song is `Barefoot in Baltimore.' Again, this song is less psychedelic and more inclusive of other genres of the era (a little Burt Bacharach maybe). Because I cite other artists does not mean that SAC was impersonating, rather they were able to incorporated many different styles into their music. If you like the psychedelic, jam rock of the late sixties, you will appreciate the music, to all others it may seem cliché and dated.

IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR.......2006-07-19

Ok, so its not great, but it was a very good year for all the
hippy trippy lyrics and paisley shirts and the commercial alternative was so much better. Still, its a fun album and needs to be put down, man!!!

riot67 is clueless........2005-12-18

yes these songs do sound a bit dated, but guess what? they're from the 60's...wow, imagine it sounding like the 60's. it's not all hippy stuff and even if it is its still better than hip hop and todays pop crap. oh, and 80's new wave is a lot better than hip hop and modern pop as well. cheers.

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Visions of Heaven

Manufacturer: Delos Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Beyond Chant: Mysteries Of The Renaissance

ASIN: B000000717
Release Date: 1997-07-22

Tracks:

Invitation To Prayer
Jesu Rex admirabilis
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (From Cantata No. 147)
Sanctus (From Requiem, Op. 9)
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Chorale Prelude, Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele, Op. 122, No. 5
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Gradual - Os justi (The Mouth Of The Righteous)
O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen (Blessed Are Ye Faithful Souls)
He Shall Feed His Flock (From Messiah)
Justorum Animae
Let My Prayer Come Up As The Incense

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A Composition that Missed the Mark
I generally admire Tan Dun, but this project was a misstep
Dark depths and bright voices, a shock, a whimsy
A Music Collage
Mind Opening

Bitter Love

Manufacturer: Sony
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Water Passion After St Matthew

ASIN: B00000JWBU
Release Date: 1999-08-17

Tracks:

Against Time Of Desire
I Once Dreamed
Moist With Sweat
NChiCa
Gentle Showers
How Sweet This Incense!
It Is A Ghost!
Your Solemn Vow
Can It Be True
This Is My Fear
To Come
At Peony Pavilion
Stir My Belt Ornaments
Secrecy Departing

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When he was a youth in his native China, Tan Dun spent a period as a fiddle player for a Beijing opera troupe. His intimate familiarity with the great Chinese epic opera The Peony Pavilion from the 16th century (produced during the 1999 Lincoln Center Festival) is evident in his own work of the same name, for which Peter Sellars collaborated as stage director. Bitter Love is a self-contained fusion of music and poetry that draws from Tan's larger opera score. The traditional love story of The Peony Pavilion--which bears some striking similarities to the Orpheus myth--comes through in floating, dreamlike fragments that reflect Chinese poet Tang Xianzu's lucid imagery like a smoky moon against water. As in his earlier and fascinatingly experimental opera Marco Polo, the New York-based Tan creates an eclectic collage of styles that mix East and West, old and new, as well as classical purity and pop energy, all with audacious imagination. This is, after all, a composer who has written music for water and stones, and he exhibits an almost childlike delight in the sensuous appeal of sounds here, in the overlay of traditional Chinese instruments such as pipa with synth beats, cross rhythms, and a panoply of percussion. Soprano Ying Huang gives Tan's fluttering threads of melody a silver sheen. However tempting it might be to label Tan's project as "crossover," it displays a depth and artistic integrity not usually associated with the term. --Thomas May

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A Composition that Missed the Mark.......2007-06-15

'East meets West' appears to be the hallmark for this work of avante garde Chinese composer Tan Dun.
Well, I love Chinese music, been listening to large volumes of Chinese operatic recordings and performances for more than 40 years - from the southern Cantonese to the north-western Qin and Yu operas, and even more the Eastern Kun operas and Huang Mei lyrics.
What is being achieved in this album? I would hesitate to call it East meeting West.
Fine, it is original. Fine again, that Miss Huang Ying is a lyrical soprano with a good voice and sound technique.
But please do not mistook the work as having any lineage with the Chinese operatic tradition: it has virtually none of such.
The choice of singer alone reveals that there is no regard to the authentic Chinese operatic tradition: a Western lyrical soprano is UNABLE to bring out the style and sonics in Chinese traditional-styled melodies. For such performer, go for the celebrated Chinese soprano Miss Wu Bixia instead, the pioneer of fusion of Chinese and Western vocal styles.
Very much unlike the more recent work of Tan "The First Emperor", this album endeavours to present music that is off the beaten track. However, the result is that it is off track. The stuff here, I dare say, accounts for more than half of the adverse criticism of that opera, a much more valid work in all respects but for these 'grey area' elements.
Chinese operatic arias are much more than wailing and whining. Musical lines are more melodious, harmonics much clearer.
The blurred effects here are not authentic Chinese style.
I envy those who are able to enjoy this album.

I generally admire Tan Dun, but this project was a misstep.......2006-03-28

BITTER LOVE is a selection of songs from Chinese contemporary composer Tan Dun's 1998 version of the classic Chinese opera "Peony Pavilion". Soprano Ying Huang has the spotlight, with the New York Virtuoso Singers and the NChiCa-Orchestra performing and the composer himself conducting. The staging of the opera, produced by Peter Sellars, was toured around the world, but no video recording was made. These fourteen songs are all we have, but make a conveniently concise single-disc presentation.

Tan Dun's updating is drastic, maintaining the text (in English translation by Cyril Birch) but with totally new music. The traditional music of "Peony Pavilion", of which "Hang the Curtain Down" might be the most well-known, is nowhere to be heard here even in brief quotation. Instrumentation consists of pipa (a Chinese flute), percussion, several midi instruments, electronic sampler, and water gong. The rhythms, the scat singing, and the electronics make this work quite outside both the Western and Chinse traditions, and lovers of chillout projects such as Thievery Corporation may find this CD to their liking. Ying Huang's singing, however, displays the mannerisms of Beijing opera, so the work is a real fusion of styles.

Were this the only work by Dun, it might seem fresh and admirable, but it compares poorly to some of his recent works like THE MAP and the WATER PASSION. Some novel ideas, such as the mix of Chinese and Western instrumentation and the use of water for sound are present, but all in all the musical material here is very limited and repetitive. Perhaps it would be another matter entirely if I were watching a live performance where the orchestra is meant to accompany action onstage, but on its own the music isn't rich enough. Furthermore, Sony's packing of the material, with very unhelpful liner notes, makes it look as if Tan Dun's talent is being used to advance some mission of world music crossover gimmickry. I regrettably cannot recommend this like I can other works by Tan Dun, who is generally one of the most interesting living composers.

Dark depths and bright voices, a shock, a whimsy.......2004-05-24

This piece of music either creeps up on you out of nowhere - like a tarantula imitating a meteor streaking out of outerspace - or it "conveys" itself to you like a waiter extending to you a glass of dark wine - or a film that seeks to shock you with an unexpected silence and a pagan cry. You must be the judge. But if you are faint hearted - quick to flee sexuality in all of its forms - you should go nowhere near this piece. And and if you are bold and brazen and hot for simplistic outrages you should probably bury your head in the sand. This work is for mature listeners only. By "mature" I mean a listener who is willing to cast to the side - as if she or he is flinging to the wind cherry blossoms in autumn - all grotesque fundamentalisms of ANY KIND. The music begins with a luminous voice slowly moving out of darkness. The voice wanders around in the dark over a deep abyss but I do not sense that the abyss is strong enough to terrify that wondrous voice. And the full piece, as it develops, may be best called "The Complicated Tales Of Incandescent Bliss". This piece of music is hideously subversive. I say that with a tongue in my cheek and a fart in my belly. The mere "subversive" is hideously dull. For a century now we have lived with a million, billion artists who wished - desperately wishing to canonize their egos - to "subvert" things. "Bitter Love" is horribly subversive. It is horribly subversive because it does not aim to be "subversive". Its power comes from a source that is not easily described. I am not a witch, but I would like to pretend that I am a witch gazing with my dark-gold eyes into a blasphemously kitsch crystal ball. I would say, gazing into profound fires, that I see a century of struggling, sick, twisted artists striving to catch up to "Bitter Love". It is dark without that pretentious quality that defines the run-of-the-mill Goth. It is bright without protestatiing itself before the blasphemously sentimetality of movies like "The Sound of Music". It plays havoc with our senses without toadying up to the most stupid features of the avant-guard. "Bitter Love" will shock you even while it consoles you.

A Music Collage.......2003-12-01

A soprano; a tenor; a monk; a baritone chorus; an infant; unconventional Chinese orchestration mixed with bits and pieces of Peking Opera; folk tunes; lots of percussions, these are the sounds with which the story of Peony Pavilion is musically revealed. Rather than an opera, it is a musical dream or a conception. Chinese traditional culture is always a rich resource for musicians (especially Chinese musicians) to tap into, and Tan Dun is one of those who know exactly where to get his inspirations. The work is a collage of various individual and seemingly disparate elements of West and East, ritual and sensual, ancient and modern, only that Tan displays them with a sense of assimilation at times, and antithesis at others. As always, Tan's unique music perspectives, distinctively modern though they are, are fulfilled by returning to the original purity and simplicity of the basics and down-to-earth folk music elements.

Ying Huang's pure soprano displays the poetry of the music beautifully. With sensuous approach, her singing is well attuned to the music's aura of longing and exotic beauty. The fabulous baritone chorus from The New York Virtuoso Singers gives a touch of the western opera and provides an indispensable layer to the otherwise rather thin orchestration.

But the music is not for everyone, nor for everyday. Despite its depth and range, it could be a strange land for the ears not tuned to its novelties and diversities, and as for that matter, one may wonder how much of the profound emotions Tan meant to deliver has actually reached the audience at general level.

Mind Opening.......2002-04-24

If you're unfamiliar with Chinese Opera this album may be shocking. But, once you take the time to listen this is a beautiful experience. Tan Dun's blend of eastern and western musical traditions is brilliant. Ying Haung's voice is clear with tones "razor sharp."

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Symphony No. 6, 'Pastorale', Scene By The Brook - Carol Rosenberger
Sleeping Beauty, Panorama - Carol Rosenberger
Clarinet Concerto, K. 622: Allegro - Carol Rosenberger
The Carmen Ballet, Second Intermezzo - Carol Rosenberger
Intermezzo From String Quintet, Op. 77: Notturno - Carol Rosenberger
Symphony No. 40: Andante - Carol Rosenberger
Lyric Suite, Op. 54: Nocturne - Carol Rosenberger
Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Major: Un poco adagio - Carol Rosenberger
Bagatelle, Op. 30 No. 1 - Carol Rosenberger
Traditional Scottish: Wild Mountain Thyme - Carol Rosenberger
Symphony No. 3: Andante tranquillo - Carol Rosenberger
Cello Concerto In D Major: Adagio - Carol Rosenberger

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Arabesque No.1
Mazurka Op.17, No.4 In A Minor
Au lac de Wllenstadt ( By The Lake At Wallenstadt )
Bruyeres ( Heather )
Berceuse ( Cradle Song ) , Op.57
Nocturne No.8 In D Flat, Op.84
Sancta Dorothea
Pavane pour une Infante defunte
Romance In F Sharp, Op.28, No.2
Sonata In A , Hob. XVI:12: Andante
French Suite No.5 In G: Sarabande
Le tombeau de Couperin: Menuet
Kinderszenen: Traumerei
The Lake At Evening, Op.5, No.1
Consolation III In D Flat

Tracks:

Invitation to Prayer
Jesus, Wonderful King
Cantata No. 147: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Requiem, Op. 9: Sanctus
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness
Adagio, Op. 11: Agnus Dei
Stabat Mater, Op. 58: Of Your Wounded Son
Prelude In E flat
Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake
Rejoice, Rejoice
Suite in D: Air On The G String
Requiem, Op. 9: Kyrie
The Month Of The Righteous
Blessed Are Ye Faithful Souls
He Shall Feed His Flock
The Souls Of The Righteous
Let My Prayer Come Up As The Incense

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Cafe Lounge: Rose Hip Tea
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Incense
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Incense, Fluorescent Lights & Testimonies

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Incense, Fluorescent Lights & Testimonies

Manufacturer: World Movement Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000CS1N42

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15 Tracks

As Incense: Symphonic Expressions of Faith

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As Incense: Symphonic Expressions of Faith

Manufacturer: Integrity -- Word --
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ASIN: B00004VW4G
Release Date: 2000-07-18

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Let Our Praise To You Be In Incense
Highest Place
Healing To The Nations
Blessed Be The Lord God Almighty
For His Name Is Exalted
How Lovely Are Thy Dwelling Places
Jesus Name Above All Names
Medley: The Spirit Of The Lord/Father Make Us One/Therefore The Redeemed Of The Lord/This Is The...
Keep On Praying
The Lord Reigns

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Better Than You Might Think
Nadine............That's It.

Smell of Incense
The Southwest F.O.B.
Manufacturer: Sundazed Music Inc.
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Ain't It Hard! Sunset Strip '60s Sounds: Garage & Psych from Viva Records

ASIN: B00000DAMG
Release Date: 1998-11-17

Tracks:

Smell Of Incense
Tomorrow
Rock 'N' Roll Woman
Downtown Woman/Nadine
All One Big Game
On My Mind
Bells Of Baytown
And Another Thing
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Independent Me
Green Skies
As I Look At You
Beggar Man
Feelin' Groovy
Dynamite
I Want Your Love
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Nadine (Single Mix)
Tomorrow (Alternate Mix)
And Another Thing (Edited Version)

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Reissue of psych/ pop album, featuring the minor hit single 'Smell Of Incense'. The band included Dan Seals & John Coley. This Sundazed release contains the entire rare 1968 album, single-only cuts, and unheard alternate versions...plus a 16-page booklet jammed with notes, unseen photos, original poster repros and more!

Customer Reviews:

Better Than You Might Think.......2003-07-03

I'm listening to this right now, and it's been in my changer for about a week---mixing it up with the likes of Woody Shaw, Keith Jarrett, Enrico Rava, and The Fallen Angels. It holds up well in such company, and even makes one sit and take notice! Great covers of "Rock 'N' Roll Woman" and "Feelin' Groovy"---and a "Nadine" that will knock your socks off. Very pretty ballad "And Another Thing" combines Beatlesque vocal harmony with Paul Simon acoustic guitar thing. Astute musicianship throughout---and some suprising jazzy touches. Sorta like Circus Maximus here and there. A little on the pop side of the lyte sike dial---but a champ in that division. Delightful!

Nadine............That's It........2001-07-19

Southwest F.O.B. was Dan Seals and John Colleys' music catapult to semi-stardom. This album contains all their released tracks, and as Sundazed usually does, features unreleased photos and songs. What I had a problem with was the lack of any ear grabbin or even finger snapping music. "Smell of Incense" might have been a good enough single then, but now, it sounds a lot like rehashed wanna-be psychedelia. The vocals are not to the forefront enough for such a talented vocal combo being present. To make matters worse, "Downtown Woman" is not remastered in stereo like it's medley counterpart, "Nadine", the only song on this album that stands alone. If only the whole album were composed of remixes it mightv'e got a higher rating. Get their seventies stuff.

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No mystery here
He loves to play almost as much as I enjoy listening!

Incense, Herbs & Oils
G.E. Smith & the Saturday Night Live Band
Manufacturer: Green Mirror
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Release Date: 1998-10-13

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Dusty Streets Of Cairo
Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor
Tonight We Shake
The CooCoo
The Chopper
Heroin
For The Feint Of Heart
Down The Dirt Road
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No mystery here.......2005-02-07

Up to this point I was becoming a fan of G.E. Smith. He was like a train wreck on SNL, weird and maybe a little scary, but you couldn't turn away. Then I read that G.E. had backed up Bob Dylan, a guy who could command the attention of any backup guitarist, and I thought, hey, I've discovered someone here. So, intrigued, I bought his album, Incense, Herbs & Oils. I was pumped up when the CD arrived, and ready to fall in love with this thing. I don't know what I was expecting, but ....this wasn't it. Incense, Herbs & Oils is pretty awful stuff. It sounds, well, amateurish. G.E. sings, but he doesn't have a great singing voice. I think he is best in his role as a talented backup guitarist, but not the lead guy. Of course, it's different strokes for different folks, but for me, the mystery is over. There's a reason you've never heard any of this CD on the radio. It just aint real good. I am real disappointed. Darn!

He loves to play almost as much as I enjoy listening!.......1998-09-27

Saw him play live last night at a nightclub and realize that he is not only exceptionally talented but that he honestly enjoys playing. NBC really screwed up when they didn't renew him after 10 years w/ Saturday Night Live. He combines traditional blues playing w/ red-hot licks. Excellent work!!