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1. Close Cover
2. Tourtour
3. Circular Breathing
4. Struggle for Pleasure
5. Gentleman of Leisure
6. Lir

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Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • luna lunacy legacy
  • Great first track, interesting covers
  • The perfect dose
  • nice
  • Beautiful.
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Luna
Manufacturer: Jet Set Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006L3IP
Release Date: 2002-10-08

Tracks:

  1. Astronaut
  2. Waiting on a Friend
  3. Teenage Lightning
  4. Drunken Whistler
  5. The Alibi
  6. New Haven Comet
  7. Neon Lights
  8. Lovedust (Video)
  9. 1995 (Video)

Album Description

Hot on the heels of Romantica and their sold-out national tour, Luna has let loose with a special mini-album. Featuring 7 tracks plus 2 exclusive videos, 'Lovedust' and '1995'. Digipak. Jetset Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars luna lunacy legacy.......2006-08-24

after watching the 'tell me do you miss me' dvd of luna's brilliant farewell closing, i was yearning for yet another fix. i found it with 'close cover before striking'. dreamy version of 'waiting on a friend' by the rolling stones, then songs 4 through 7 sends the listener into a dream-like catatonic state of audible bliss. this brief cd showcases in 7 songs the luna legacy that will be deeply missed.


4 out of 5 stars Great first track, interesting covers.......2004-08-31

Not up there with the band's mid-90's stuff, but some tracks come close. Overall, a very warm, comfortable sound inhabits this E.P. Have not popped it into my computer yet to look at the videos, but that's a nice bonus. Note to the person who was annoyed by "Neon Lights": it is a cover of a Kraftwerk song. That's why the lyrics are repetitive and simplistic (not necessarily a bad thing, but certainly not a typical Luna thing).

5 out of 5 stars The perfect dose.......2004-04-28

A fantastic ep. You'll be forever snared by it after a few listens. Track one hooks you in from the get go. A great record.

4 out of 5 stars nice.......2003-12-25

I was disappointed with Romantica but this ep is great and makes up for that rather lackluster longplayer. If you haven't heard Luna before, they've got a unique slightly trippy sound that can really hook you in.

4 out of 5 stars Beautiful........2003-09-11

This album is one track short of a masterpiece. My favorite Luna release so far...it's incredible. It opens with "Astronaut", my favorite Luna song ever. Every track is unique and perfectly done. I was so impressed by this album. The only dissapointment was the last song, Neon Lights. I found the vocals extremely irritating. But it's worth it...a great album.
The Belly of an Architect
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Some of the best minimalistic music ever written, not a great production though
  • Some of the best piano compositions
  • GREAT
  • A superb introduction to the minimalism of Branca & Mertens
  • Love the life
 The Belly of an Architect

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ASIN: B0000089CW
Release Date: 2006-06-19

Tracks:

  1. Augustus
  2. Birds for the Mind/The Victor Emanuel
  3. Aural Trick/Foro Italico
  4. Struggle for Pleasure/Stourley Kracklite
  5. 4 Mains/Etienne-Louis Boullee
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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Some of the best minimalistic music ever written, not a great production though.......2006-01-29

Wim Mertens is my favourite minimalist along with Philip Glass. This soundtrack has it all. Great themes - probably the most memorable themes of any other soundtrack and intense atmospheric playing. The production of this CD though is very 'minimal', more so than any CD you'll ever buy for $20. I can not think of any other CD of that price range lacking all the essentials. A pitty.... 5+ * for the music, 1 - * for the package.

5 out of 5 stars Some of the best piano compositions.......2001-11-16

I have not seen the Peter Greenways'film.. and maybe
I won't do that.. I am afraid to get dissapointed because
for me this CD reflects so much creativity and passion.
Three tracks are for me some of the best piano compositions ever:

1.Struggle for plaeasure
the piano, like Life,
begins slowly, softly,
marking the rhythm gently
then it becomes
sharp needles spining and falling from the sky
The wind instruments
are the vital fast breathing to survive Life

2. 4 mains

the piano marchs
the piano spins
the piano climbs
the piano falls

3. Close cover
If I have to choose the soundtrack for my life
it would be this piece

5 out of 5 stars GREAT.......2001-09-18

If you like nice orchestral music, often stirring emotions of love and heartbreak, but still uplifting, go buy this album. It's that easy. I first heard a song from Wim on a Cafe Del Mar album and had to buy his entire album. It was obviously worth it and I think you'll agree when you listen to it. So go buy it.

5 out of 5 stars A superb introduction to the minimalism of Branca & Mertens.......2001-06-24

This soundtrack for the Peter Greenaway film of the same name almost steals the film with it's careening, cyclical piano pieces perfectly matching architect Stourley Cracklite's world slowly collapsing amidst the Roman ruins of contemporary Rome. The soundtrack to the film is one of the few by Peter Greenaway that does not feature his usual partner in crime Michael Nyman. The soundtrack was initially developed by New York based minimalist composer Glenn Branca, but was largely rejected by Greenaway. An earlier release of this soundtrack did feature a few dramatic Brancian orchestral swells, but unfortunately this release (given the track listing) seems to have left these pieces off, which is a shame.

This release features the brilliant work of Belgian minimalist piano composer Wim Mertens, and is utterly stunning in it's emotional intensity, power and beauty, with cyclical piano motifs spinning the listener around in an intense but gorgeous emotional journey. Some of the work covered on this soundtrack can be found on Mertens' career highlight release 'Close Cover' (sadly out of print at the time of this writing). Those interested in work by Glenn Branca should also look to explore his early 80's orchestrated guitar recordings (some of which are not for the fainthearted), as well as 1992's sublime 'The World Upside Down'.

This is one of the best soundtrack recordings I have ever heard, and still sends chills through me almost ten years after seeing the film. It also represents an excellent introduction to the works of two very under-rated yet important modern composers.

5 out of 5 stars Love the life.......2001-01-12

I'm sorry for my english, I'm spanish. I only want to say that Wim Vertens changed my life. Please , why this person is not a famous compositor? I am not an old person that hate pop music. I'm 22 and a electronic music composer in Spain, I talk about Wim Vertens discography not only this cd. His music go inside my mind and the time stop, When I finish I don't know where I am, who I am, I only know that my life has one way, be happy. Five stars for this person that love the life.
Delicado
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • "early beginnings from the vaults ~ Percy Faith"
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  22. Touch of Your Hand
  23. Tia Juana
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Tracks:

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  4. Deep Purple
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  10. Solitude
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  12. Mosquitoes' Parade - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Chorus
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  24. Delicado
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5 out of 5 stars "early beginnings from the vaults ~ Percy Faith".......2005-02-15

Living Era presents "Delicado", fifty original mono recordings from 1944 to 1955 featuring Maestro Percy Faith who was churning out some of the best releases with top notch arrangements...each song had an upbeat and faraway tone to it...beautiful ballads from composers Harold Arlen, Waldir Azevedo, Irving Berlin, Nacio Herb Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Zez Confrey, Peter De Rose, Jimmy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Rafael Hernandez, Johnny Green, Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser, Cole Porter, Arthur Schwartz ...beautifully recorded representing Faith's limitless talent at crafting musical arrangements to fit an evolving music scene.

Now for the real treat...songs composed by Percy Faith with his unmistakable arranging "NOCHE CARIBE " (Caribbean Night), recorded in New York 1947..."DA DU", with Ray Charles Singers recorded 3/04/1952..."FIDDLE DERBY", recorded in New York 1951..."FLIGHT 33 1/3", after Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble-Bee, recorded New York 5/11/1950..."NERVOUS GAVOTTE", with Lou Stein on piano recorded New York 5/22/1951..."PERPETUAL NOTION", recorded New York 6/02/1949...Percy's arrangements comes from the heart and weaving a magic spell over the listener...compilation goodies on two compact discs for all the Faith Fans!

Sweeping and gliding strings, beautiful renditions of all time favorite Faith arrangements, such a statement of string counter melodies within the orchestration...many were favorites of my parents when they were dating...these songs represent some of the best arrangements in my Faith collection...when you put this collection on, you're in for a magic carpet ride sprinkled with the "Percy Faith Touch"...every arrangement has the signature of his pen and baton, two totally different tempos and rhythms surface within the boundaries of his genius...no doubt he was a master at his craft, they'll never be another like 'em, they only pass this way once...thank you Living Era for sharing these rare gems with the fans that encountered Maestro Percy Faith!

Total Time: 2-CD-Set ~ Living Era 278 ~ (6/29/2004)
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        Minimalistix
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                Wim Mertens
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