Babel

Track Listings
1. Judgement
2. Babel
3. Now Is the Time
4. Gimme Some Liquor
5. Aria
6. Mandarin and the Courtesan
7. Rain
8. Bronx Bull
9. Fiddler
10. Omni
11. More I See
12. Pharoah
13. Message
14. Lydia
15. Scheme of Things
16. Death of Ntela Njonjo
17. D*Votion
18. God Bless Your South Africa

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Babel

Babel
Babel
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Babel
Gustavo Santaolalla
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ASIN: B000IONJM4
Release Date: 2006-11-21

Tracks:

  1. Tazarine
  2. Tu Me Acostumbraste
  3. September-The Joker (ATFC's Aces High Remix)
  4. Deportation/Iguazu
  5. World Citizen-I Won't Be Disappointed/Looped Piano
  6. Cumbia Sobre El Rio
  7. Hiding It
  8. Masterpiece
  9. Desert Bus Ride
  10. Bibo No Aozora/Endless Flight/Babel
  11. Tribal
  12. Para Que Regreses
  13. Babel
  14. Amelia Desert Morning
  15. Jugo A La Vide
  16. Breathing Soul
  17. The Blinding Sun

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  1. Only Love Can Conquer Hate
  2. El Panchangon
  3. Two Worlds, One Heart
  4. The Phone Call
  5. Gekkoh
  6. The Catch
  7. Mujer Hermosa
  8. Into The Wild
  9. Look Inside
  10. The Master
  11. Oh My Juliet!
  12. Prayer
  13. El Besito Cachicurris
  14. Walking In Tokyo
  15. The Visitors
  16. Morning Pray
  17. Mi Adoracion
  18. The Skin Of The Earth
  19. Bibo No Aozora/04

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As its title suggests, Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu's film revolves around the transcultural difficulties of human communication. But the linguistic dysfunction that drives the film's characters towards causal connection and inevitable tragedy has paradoxically inspired just the opposite on this adventurous musical mélange of a soundtrack. The meditative, often hypnotic fretboard inventions of Iñárritu's previous soundtrack collaborator, Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla (a 2005 Oscar winner for Brokeback Mountain), serve as the restless soul of interlocking plots in the film, the final chapter of a fatalistic trilogy that also includes the Santaolalla-scored Amores Perros and 21 Grams.

But on this expanded, double-disc collection, the South American composer's culture-bending film cues (including mastery of indigenous Arab stringed instruments and incorporating field recordings of Moroccan tribal music) also serve as artistic axes, reflective anchor points for a pop collection that's as ambitious and far-ranging as the film itself. While the "music from and inspired by" tag often indicates cynical record company marketing schemes, here it's an invitation to transcultural musical adventure that links Santaolalla's North African musical conjuring with the contemporary styles of Japan (the atmospherics of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Susumu Yolota, Shinichi Osawa's sly Earth, Wind & Fire/Fatboy Slim mashup, the teen pop of Takashi Fujii's "Oh My Juliet") and Tijuana (a generous sampling of effusive Norteño that includes Los Incomparables, Daniel Luna, and Agua Caliente). --Jerry McCulley

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ASIN: B000031X11
Release Date: 1999-12-07

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3 out of 5 stars Stravinsky the Composer, not Stravinsky the Conductor.......2006-09-18

It is a pretty good collection, lots of music from Stravinsky's entire carreer, but one must keep in mind that Stravinsky was a brilliant composer, and not a commanding maestro. You will not necessarily be getting the best recordings of these works. For example, something like the Boulez/Cleveland Rite of Spring is far superior to those in this collection. He is a vastly better conductor, and is much more capable of making the orchestra perform Stravinsky's intentions than Stravinsky is. All in all, however, I am more than glad I own this set.

5 out of 5 stars Staggering! All the Stravinsky I'll ever need!.......2006-05-20

While I had heard some Stravinsky compositions prior to my purchase, this was the first (and only) Stravinsky material I have ever owned. As a young music enthusiast, the draw to me was to hear these pieces as Stravinsky conducted them and to get so many of them at such a great price, not to have the original jackets for the purpose of reminiscing. So, as someone who needed a good jump start into the works of Stravinsky (by Stravinsky), this set has proven totally invaluable. And while more information could have been packed onto these cds, I do appreciate how closely these discs have stuck to the original releases. I don't know about the portion of Petroushka which some reviewers claim is missing (as I don't know any other version), but I was totally blown away at hearing this version of Petroushka anyhow. In all, for whatever faults some sticklers may find here or there with this set, the value of this material collected in such a way (and at such a price) by far outweighs any possible faults.

5 out of 5 stars Magnificent!.......2006-03-02

A great collection. There is simply no substitute for hearing Stravinsky as the great composer wanted to have his music played. Here is so much and also so varied a collection. I have been enjoying this set a great deal. One of the 20th century's greatest composers conducting his own compositions.

3 out of 5 stars Where's my Petrushka?.......2003-08-01

The main reason I bought this box is because I was introduced to Stravinsky's Petrushka in the spring of 2003, and I loved it.
Along with Rite of Spring I think it's the most brilliant music Mr. Stravinsky ever wrote...so, I've been listening to the 34-minute long 1960 CSO recording of it at least once a day since I first heard it, naturally sort of memorizing it, but it didn't fit when I made this CD spin. The recording of Petrushka in this box is the VERY SAME RECORDING (1960) that I'd listened to, but it's cut to a suite! It's only 24 minutes long. You can tell it's obviously cut at certain points if you'r Bloom : Horti-Culture For The 21st Century (en anglais)

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Romance and Revolution
Christine Tobin
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ASIN: B0006GVKCA
Release Date: 2004-11-09

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  1. Horses
  2. God Only Knows
  3. Black and Blue
  4. He's Not Anyone
  5. Shelter from the Storm
  6. Go Down Easy
  7. Muse of Blues
  8. Young Woman's Blues
  9. Brandy and Scars
  10. Can't Help Lovin That Man
  11. My Boat's Ready
  12. Fragile Dance

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Christine's sixth critically acclaimed album. Christine Tobin's Romance & Revolution - was released in December 2004 and consists of seven of Christine's lyrically incisive trademark originals, including settings of poems by poets Paul Muldoon and Eva Salzman, as well as her own expressively unsentimental arrangements of material by Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, John Martyn and Bessie Smith. Babel. 2006
Arvo Pärt: Arbos
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ASIN: B0000260TR
Release Date: 2000-01-25

Tracks:

  1. Arbos
  2. An den Wassern zu Babel
  3. Pari Intervallo
  4. De Profundis
  5. Er sang vor langen Jahren
  6. Summa
  7. Arbos
  8. Stabat Mater

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This CD features some great performances by Pärt specialists of a variety of shorter works. The clamorous Arbos for brass makes a startling opening for those who expect abstracted reverence; the lament, An den Wassern, has a startling ending that builds in intensity and volume only to break off midphrase. The static Pari Intervallo for organ leads into De Profundis, with its sense of slow but unstoppable movement (every note the same length, every measure the same rhythm). Es Sang has an unexpectedly lilting tune for solo alto, punctuated by string exclamations; Summa is a straightforward Pärt-style setting of the Credo. Arbos is repeated (this is oddly satisfying), and the disc closes with a masterpiece, the unbearably sad Stabat Mater for three voices and three strings. --Matthew Westphal

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4 out of 5 stars After TABULA RASA, the next stop for fans of Part's "holy minimalism".......2007-06-22

This ECM disc is an important document of the work of Estonian composer Arvo Part, containing as it does a number of important early pieces from the composer's "tintinnabuli" phase. If the earlier TABULA RASA on the same label is the traditional entry point into this style, ARBOS is where one should head next. And as with all ECM discs, the performers are Part's hand-picked men, giving a definitive sheen to the recordings.

Those who have heard the TABULA RASA disc are familiar with "Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten" for bell and strings. That's a mensuration canon, where various instrumental parts play a descending scale in different speeds, but it is peaceful and contemplative. On this disc "Arbos" for 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, and percussion (1977) takes the same form, but with very different instrumentation, a faster tempo, and louder dynamics it obtains a very different sound. Those who think of Part only as a creator of calm moods will be surprised indeed by this piece which turns the basics of tintinnabuli writing towards a troubled, though fairly static, surface. The Staatsorchester Stuttgart conducted by Dennis Russell Davies gives a confident performance.

The other pieces here are performed by the Hilliard Ensemble. "Pari Intervallo" for organ (1976) does with that instrument what "Fur Alina" did with piano, display the sound of tinntinabuli in the simplest possible form. It's notable for being Part's calmest piece for organ; others are somewhat monsters.

The title of "An den Wassern zu Babel" for trombone and chamber orchestra (1986) refers to the well-known psalm, but instead of merely setting the text Part communicates the soul of the Israelites' lament though anguished vocalizations. The a capella "Summa" (1986), on the other hand, sets the Nicene Creed without any emotional edge whatsoever, letting the listener soberly listen to its theological truths, a good counter to, say, the Glagolitic Mass of Janacek.

"De Profundis" for male chorus, percussion & organ (1980) sets Psalm 130. While the chorus and percussion range everywhere through the seven-minute length of the piece, the organ maintains a slow ostinato much like in "Pari Intervallo".

Though Part usually sets Biblical or liturgical texts, "Es sang vor langen Jahren" for counter-tenor or alto with violin & viola (1984) is a setting of a poem by Clemens Brentano talking of a human lover and a nightingale. The music is fair Contribution à l'esthétique

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ringtone88.com is unusually dissonant for the composer, and bears the influence of Sibelus and the liturgical Stravinsky as well as Pärt's love of early music. Though dating from the same year, the organ elegy Pari Intervallo is a much simpler work, slowly rocking between consonances on its serene path.

The next three works all date from the early maturity of Pärt's minimalist style. The gently ritualistic De Profundis layers triadic harmonies in the upper voices over the organ and bass voice, Es sang von langen Jahren restricts development mostly to the alto range (alto singing with the accompaniment of violin and viola), and the four-voice Summa is perhaps one of the most characteristic examples of Pärt's tintinnabular harmonies and slow-moving minimalism.

After a second performance of Arbos, the disc closes with the main focus of the disc, the Stabat Mater for three voices and string trio. This work, written for the 50th anniversary of Alban Berg's death (like another late 20th century masterpiece, Alfred Schnittke's string trio), extends the procedures of the previous works over 25 minutes--adding passages of great dramatic intensity to contrast the more minimalist sections.

Though I am far from an uncritical admirer of Pärt's work, I think this disc is an excellent selection of his music. If ultimately I have returned to the Stabat Mater much more often than the shorter works which precede it, this is as much as tribute to its qualities as to any failings on the part of the other works on the disc.

5 out of 5 stars An icy wind of delicious sadness .......2004-08-17

Arvo Part creates a world where bleakness becomes almost an indulgence, and upon the first hearing of Stabat Mater you'll feel an icy wind of delicious sadness blow over your eager and expectant frown. The solo organ piece Pari Intervallo (which can also be found on the purely organ album Trivium), is a study in restrained and sterile beauty, meaning that the piece (and most of the tintinnabuli pieces) doesn't crash and bellow and forcefully announce its intent, but whispers it in cold hintings. As for myself, I will not hint: buy this album now.

4 out of 5 stars Some gems.......2002-02-10

All of this music was new to me before listening to this disc. I assume the performances are definitive, so the issue is, how attractive is the music itself? To me the winner on this CD is track 4, De Profundis, almost 7 minutes of austere beauty for organ, small choir and remarkably effective percussion (bell and gong). Track 6, the Summa (Credo) is nice, but the music seems to be content to create a somewhat mystical mood, and does not reflect the text (like many mass Credos do). The major work on the disc is track 8, the Stabat Mater, a very austere piece. It has not won me over yet.
Arbos
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  • Arbos
  • One CD; one Work
  • Hilliard and Kremer - superb!
  • Evocative, Spiritual (but somewhat minimal) music.
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ASIN: B0000031TT
Release Date: 1994-02-15

Tracks:

  1. Arbos
  2. An den Wassern zu Babel
  3. Pari Intervallo
  4. De Profundis
  5. Er sang vor langen Jahren
  6. Summa
  7. Arbos
  8. Stabat Mater

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This CD features some great performances by Pärt specialists of a variety of shorter works. The clamorous Arbos for brass makes a startling opening for those who expect abstracted reverence; the lament, An den Wassern, has a startling ending that builds in intensity and volume only to break off mid-phrase. The static Pari Intervallo for organ leads into De Profundis, with its sense of slow but unstoppable movement (every note the same length, every measure the same rhythm). Es Sang has an unexpectedly lilting tune for solo alto, puncutated by string exclamations; Summa is a straightforward Pärt-style setting of the Credo. Arbos is repeated (this is oddly satisfying), and the disc closes with a masterpiece, the unbearably sad Stabat Mater for three voices and three strings. -- Matthew Westphal

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5 out of 5 stars Arbos.......2001-02-12

I was introduced to this music by a Catholic girl; tragicaly romantic, teenage, and often desperate. This is music that can touch within you a place that only surfaces at the lowest points of your life. It has the effect of being uplifting, crushing, and sobering at various times and often times, all at once.

Arvo Part seems to have looked past the mind candy of Western culture and brutaly felt the numbing destruction that characterizes our times. Yet 'Arbos' does not mirror negativity for its own sake. For as much pain as these works communicate, there is also a rare peacefulness to them. A peace stripped of its naivety, tested and refined by its acknowledgement and subsequent struggles with this world's vicious nature.

5 out of 5 stars One CD; one Work.......2000-07-03

OK. So he didn't write these all to be one piece of music, but the thing that makes Arbos the sine qua non of Arvo Part's commercial recordings music is that, taken and a whole, it is a primer on his composotional craft.

The full expression of his technique is found in the Stabat Mater, which you'll have to go back 200+ years to Bach before finding an equal example of religious strum und drang subordinated (or elevated) to musical kunst.

The elements of this master stroke are laid bare, pedagogiaclly if not dramatically, in the short works before it.

The "Arbos", acting as sentry between the challenge and the contest, is a pure mensural canon (like the Cantus in Memory of Britten), a fundametal technique in the Stabat Mater.

And, contrary to the "amazon.com essential recording" review above, the De Profundis is not "every measure the same rhythm", but one melodic phrase unit per word (listen to it:

De pro-fun-dis cla-ma-vi ad te Do-mi-ne: Do-mi-ne ex-au-di vo-cem me-am.

1-3-3-1-1-3: 3-3-2-2.

First phrase up, next phrase down; first ascending from the tonic, then descending to the tonic). Simple. Brilliant.

Even simpler, Part's technique of melodic elements moving stepping along a scale while harmonic elements skip through a chord are presented in their purest expression in the Pari Intervallo.

And the other three pieces exercise similar expressions of these basic elements, all preparing the listener for the Stadat Mater.

Or, just sit back and let it all wash over you.

4 out of 5 stars Hilliard and Kremer - superb!.......1999-12-05

Some of the work on this CD is minimalist. That is, not much variation in the space of five or six minutes. However, the Hillaird Ensemble produce chorale music. So that's understandible.

Almost as important for me was the apearance of Gidon Kremer. Being a fan of his work, this collaboration between Hilliard, Kremer and the music of Arvo Part is an exciting listen.

Kremer does a fine job on two of the tracks. The final track on the album includes Kremer and is some 23:53 long - so it's not a minor work.

If I had to put forth one criticsm it's the inclusion of the title track "Arbos" which is annoyingly upbeat - if searching. It appears twice on the CD. It's not bad music, just not at all in keeping with the rest of the CD. It only lasts 2:25 so isn't too bad. But if you only heard that one track you would have no idea of what the rest of this musci sounds like.

Overall - a solid CD.

4 out of 5 stars Evocative, Spiritual (but somewhat minimal) music........1998-09-28

This CD is an unique combination of vocal and instrumental pieces. Minimalist musical elements as well as a superb performance by the Hilliard Ensemble, help to focus the listener on the importance of the text.

The music can be difficult to listen to, however, because it requires Encadrer avec naturel

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Release Date: 31 October, 2001
Publisher: Eyrolles
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Livres:

  1. Henri Gaudin : naissance d'une forme
  2. John Lee Hooker
  3. A l'assaut des océans
  4. La Bonne maison : Jardin de roses anciennes
  5. La Démographie en Méditerranée : Situation et projections
  6. La Grande anthologie de la chanson française
  7. La planète des singes : Le livre du film
  8. Le Cinéma
  9. Le Décor Intérieur dans l'architecture des demeures du XIIe au XXe siècle
  10. Le Goût du voyage : Histoire de la compagnie des wagons-lits

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ringtone88.com . The project was initiated and commissioned by the group's only American-born member, Nathaniel Shilkret, in response to a poll indicating that there was much public interest in the musical representation of the Bible. The result is a heady mixture of styles, further accentuated by the introduction of yet another participant, Patrick Russ, who was called in to reconstruct the orchestrations of three movements, the original material having been partially lost in a fire. To his great credit, his work melts indistinguishably into the style and quality of the music. The Suite's bookends are by two composers so diametrically opposed musically and personally that finding them collaborating on the same project is quite surprising. They are also the most famous and the only ones untouched by the influence of film music: Schoenberg, whose "Prelude" uses the 12-tone technique to set the mood of the primeval chaos, but ends in clear C major, and Stravinsky, who, determined to preserve the Bible's mystery, depicts the construction and destruction of the Tower of Babel in purely musical, highly contrapuntal terms, culminating in a return to chaos. The other composers, all active in Hollywood and surrounded by jazz and popular music, produce a kaleidoscope of soaring melodies, surging harmonies, and dynamic instrumental contrasts, colors and effects suitable to accompany a Biblical epic on screen. The music provides preludes, interludes, background and support for the narration, which, divided between two male and two female voices, weaves over, under and through it. The speaking, singing, and playing are excellent, but one of the female voices is seriously underbalanced. --Edith Eisler

Album Description

A MAJOR 20th-CENTURY WORK REDISCOVERED! The Genesis Suite depicts the earliest Bible stories, including the Creation, Adam and Eve, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel, narrated by distinguished actors accompanied by full orchestra and chorus. This unique collaboration of seven famous composers, most of them European exiles living in Hollywood during World War II, was performed only once, in 1945, before much of the music was lost in a fire. FULLY RESTORED from recently discovered original manuscripts, the Genesis Suite is now presented in its first modern recording.
New Age Babel
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    New Age Babel

    Manufacturer: Gruppo Futura
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B0008IUJN2

    Product Description

    TRACK LISTING: 1) Gong: Into The Floating Gig; 2) Luca Spagnoletti: Ching; 3) XII Alfonso: Breathing Scarcely; 4) Daniela Bombelli: Studio Preliminare; 5) Christian Gerard: Chorus 2; 6) Anekdoten: Longing; 7) Solar Lodge: El Hombre Invisible; 8) Anthony Phillips: Last Goodbyes; 9) Soft Machine: Little Miss B; 10) In The Labyrinth: Karakoram Pass; 11) The Moor: Mines Of Moria; 12) Steve Hillman: Dawning Light; 13) Enrico Olivieri: Anticoli; 14) Raffaello Regoli: Potiemkin.
    Babel Fish (+ Bonus Tracks)
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Sweet Scandinavian sounds
    • Talent Talent Talent
    Babel Fish (+ Bonus Tracks)
    Babel Fish
    Manufacturer: Atlan
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD
    ASIN: B00000JOOW
    Release Date: 1999-05-31

    Album Details

    Norway Based Foursome Huge Recently Touring with the Corrs, These Guys Already have a Worldwide Profile. Two Bonus Tracks.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Sweet Scandinavian sounds.......2004-09-18

    Although not released domestically, and therfore not cheap; well worth looking into. Fairly slow to mid-tempo pop/rock songs. Jan has a solid voice for these kind of tunes. 2nd half of the album is inferior to the first (although the 2 bonus tracks on Japanese version are winners). A more sophisticated sound than some of the "boy bands" going around, but not too dissimilar from some of them. If you like smooth, not bombastic pop, you'll like this.

    5 out of 5 stars Talent Talent Talent.......2000-04-20

    I'm sorry but I've actually only heard a few songs from this cd but WOW. I see pure talent. Even though these guys havn't got thier fair share of air time ,they do deserve it.The music and the vocals are excellent.
    The Biograph Girl: A New Musical
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      The Biograph Girl: A New Musical

      Manufacturer: Jay Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
      Broadway & VocalistsBroadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music
      ASIN: B00004YRAE
      Release Date: 2000-12-05

      Tracks:

      1. The Moving Picture Show
      2. Working In Flickers
      3. That's What I Get All Day/The Moment I Close My Eyes
      4. Diggin' Gold Dust
      5. Every Lady Needs A Master
      6. I Just Wanted To Make Him Laugh
      7. I Like To Be The Way I Am In My Own Front Parlour
      8. Beyond Babel
      9. A David Griffith Show
      10. More Than A Man
      11. The Industry
      12. Gentle Fade
      13. Nineteen Twenty Five
      14. The Biograph Girl
      15. One Of The Pioneers
      16. Put It In The Tissue Paper
      17. Finale

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      6. Crystal Ball Records 20th Anniversary, Vol. 1
      7. Crystal Waters
      8. Divas of Dance, Vol. 1
      9. Divas of Dance, Vol. 2
      10. Elements of Love: Ballads

      R&B Music

      r&b music

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