Diabolos [Import]

1. Misty

2. Farewell

3. Noesus

4. Ash

5. Metamorphoze

6. Dispar

7. Future

8. Black Stone

9. Storm

10. Road

Diabolos,Gackt,Crown Japan,Int'l & World Music,Pop,World Music

Average customer rating:

Super terrific fun make it you bet mister!

Gotta have it!

Diabolos

Diabolos
Gackt
Manufacturer: Crown Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A1EC8U
Release Date: 2005-10-03

Tracks:

Misty
Farewell
Noesus
Ash
Metamorphoze
Dispar
Future
Black Stone
Storm
Road

Customer Reviews:

Super terrific fun make it you bet mister!.......2007-04-20

A number 1 rockin' mighty. Have super fun time and it make mostly. Upon playment of cd you become awesomely great winner of most fortune. Happen now to you, it come at you with blazing speed of fury! Go now it do it goodly!

Gotta have it!.......2005-10-26

I juz bought this CD from HMV yesterday, got all wet from the pouring rain for it but it was really worth it.
At first i was pretty disappointed when i listened to it but after the 2nd time i listened to it really carefully and realised it was a pretty well put together album! the first track has gackt playing a lovely lilting tune on the piano, and the marriage btw violin and piano is sth all should hear.
the rest of the tracks flow into one another pretty well =) and best of all, gackt's voice is still deep, rich and very sexy! this album is quite different from my favourite Moon album though, the melodies are all heavier but not lacking in its richness. it's just a little different and more instances of some voice effects and heavy guitar.
But very worth buying and keeping it like a piece of jewel on your CD shelf!
O yes, the cd itself is of very good quality, but maybe the art in the lyrics book isn't very appealing bcos u don't get to see much of gackt since his face is quite distorted by red eyes and his hair in his face.

Diabolos.......2005-10-02

The newest album from Gackt. Many people have commented on the fact it isn't as varied as albums such as MARS, however, it wasn't meant to be. This is Gackt's rock album.

It's very nicely put together. Opening with a haunting piano/violin duet the moving smoothly into the rock.

Gackt has truly tried new things on this album. He's found new effects to add into the music and uses them to his advantage. His voice has matured much since his Malice Mizer or early solo works. After experimenting in Seventh Night and Love Letter he has now reclaimed his voice in a beautiful way.

The art in the lyric booklet is also amazingly beautiful and haunting. It helps you link together the story that Gackt tells with his album

I gicve this CD an A and I know it won't leave my CD player for quite awhile.

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Diabolos

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BYRAUS
Release Date: 2005-11-01

Ay Amor! Spanish 17th Century Songs And Theatre Music / Newberry Consort

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From the review in Gramophone

Ay Amor! Spanish 17th Century Songs And Theatre Music / Newberry Consort
Andrea Falconiero , Bartolome de Selva y Salaverde , The Newberry Consort , Judith Malafronte , Marion Verbruggen , David Douglass , Mary Springfels , Kevin Mason , Stephen Stubbs , and Andrew Lawrence-King
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00000I43N
Release Date: 1999-02-09

Tracks:

Hidalgo: Nobel en tinacria naciste
Falconiero: Sinfonia quarta a tre
Hidalgo: A todos miro
Falconiero: Tiple a tre - Rinen y pelean entre Berzebillo con Satanasillo, y Caruf, y Pantul
Falconiero: Bayle de los dichos diabolos
Hidalgo: Credito es de mi decoro
Hidalgo: Fantasia detta la Portia
Salaverde: Canzon prima a due
Hidalgo: En los floridos paramos
Hidalgo: Ay amor, ay ausencia
Hidalgo: Ay, que si, ay, que no
Salaverde: Canzon terza (soprano solo)
Salaverde: Canzon prima (soprano solo)
Hidalgo: De los cenos del diciembre
Hidalgo: Como ha de saber Belilla
Falconiero: L'Eroica a tre e Ciaconna
Salaverde: Canzon ottava (soprano and bass)
Hidalgo: De las luces que en el mar
Hidalgo: La noche tenebrosa
Hidalgo: Trompicabalas amor

Customer Reviews:

From the review in Gramophone.......2006-12-18

"Seventeenth-century Spanish music is far less well represented on disc than the great cathedral polyphonic repertory of the sixteenth: the general perception is that the history of Spanish music stops after Victoria and starts up again only in that much later renaissance with Manuel de Falla. This new release from The Newberry Consort focuses on one of the best of the composers who came in between: Juan Hidalgo (1614-85). It is only in recent years that serious research on seventeenth-century Spanish theatre music has been undertaken, a leading light in the field being the American musicologist Louise Stein who has clearly also been involved in this project. It is indeed a well thought out recording, both in terms of the varied selection of pieces---Hidalgo's tonos or songs and other theatre pieces alternating with consort works by Falconiero and Bartolome de Selma y Salaverde---and in musical presentation. The Newberry Consort's line-up of violin, gamba and theorbo is here supplemented by recorder (Marion Verbruggen) and two of the best continuo-players around, Stephen Stubbs on guitar and Andrew Lawrence-King on harp. This makes for assorted colourful combinations in the accompaniments to the vocal items as well as in the purely instrumental pieces. The playing is first-rate all round: fresh, vital and imaginative, the instruments being chosen to match the mood of the pieces as in the case of the two bass viols that accompany Hidalgo's mournful 'La noche tenebrosa,' or the rhythmically strummed guitar in the songs in more popular vein, as in 'Noble en Tinacria naciste, a jacara.'

"The singer, Judith Malafronte, also brings a strong sense of characterization to bear on the wide range of Hidalgo's vocal style, from the charmingly disarming 'Como ha de saber Belilla?' and 'Ay, que si, ay, que no!, to the imperious and dramatically effective recitative from Hidalgo's only full-length opera 'Celos aun del aire matan' (1660). With a libretto by the great Golden Age playwright Calderon de la Barca, this is high quality stuff, strikingly reminiscent of the later Monteverdi operas though Hidalgo often tends to the more facile and immediately appealing lyricism of Cavalli. This is particularly marked in 'La noche tenebrosa' from the Second Act of the zarzuela of 1672, 'Los celos hacen estrellas,' with its haunting little refrain that so expressively and unexpectedly turns in on itself. Laments, dramatic recitatives, dance-like songs---Hidalgo characterized each with insight, proving himself a highly talented composer of theatre music whose works, were they in English or Italian, would already be better known. Judith Malafronte's Spanish diction is always clear, and she varies her approach and vocal timbre to suit each piece. Just occasionally she lets rip on an ornament and momentarily seems to lose control, but she sings stylishly and with admirable conviction. All in all, this is a very enjoyable recording, scrupulously prepared and imaginatively executed: it serves very well as an appetizer for the works of Juan Hidalgo, a noble name and one to remember."