Timbuktu

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The mission of Six Degrees Records is to prove that different cultures and musical styles do have some common ground. Malian singer Issa Bagayogo reaffirms this commonality on Timbuktu, finding the middle ground between traditional West African music--created with his six-stringed lute, acoustic guitars, and the djembé--and modern down-tempo electronic programming that wouldn't be out of place at the Buddha-Bar or any other hip club in Paris or New York. Amidst this gentle and hypnotic fusion, Bagayogo maintains the griot tradition of teaching and politics, singing about such issues as racial tolerance, regional pride amidst the globalization of culture, and drug abuse among Mali's youth. Bagayogo presents his ideas in an evenly modulated midrange voice with ethereal-sounding female backup singers who answer and reaffirm many of his lyrics with haunting effectiveness. All in all, this seductively laid-back album is another chapter in the ongoing tradition of great Malian music. --Tad Hendrickson

Product Description
Issa Bagayogo is at the forefront of African musical innovators, melding the sounds of electronic dance music with the roots music of his homela\ nd, Mali. Dub and dance beats are woven together with ancient melodies of the Sahara dese\ rt on Timbuktu.

Issa's virtuosity on the kamili n'goni (a six stringed hunter's lute) and acous\ tic guitar reflects his upbringing on the edge of the Sahara. The ingenious hybrid of tra\ ditional and Afro-electro sounds created by Issa and producer/engineer Yves Wernert is evide\ nce of a new direction for African music in the 21st century.

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Average customer rating: This is the blues Dream Team Cool music AFT at his best Fabulous Music Gorgeous, happy, relaxed music.

Talking Timbuktu Ali Farka Touré , and Ry Cooder Manufacturer: Hannibal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Africa | International | Styles | Music Mali | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Hannibal Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Contemporary Blues | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Africa | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Jazz | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music International | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: In the Heart of the Moon Savane Spiritchaser Ali Farka Toure Niafunke ASIN: B00000062H Release Date: 1994-03-29

Tracks:

1. Bonde
2. Soukora
3. Gomni
4. Sega
5. Amandrai
6. Lasidan
7. Keito
8. Banga
9. Ai Du
10. Diaraby

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Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, one of Mali's leading singer-guitarists, has a trance-like, bluesy style that, although deeply rooted in Malian tradition, bears astonishing similarity to that of John Lee Hooker or even Canned Heat. It's a mono-chordal vamp, with repetitive song lines cut with shards of blistering solo runs that shimmer like a desert mirage. Toure may be conversant with some blues artists, but it is unlikely that artists like Hooker or Robert Pete Williams ever heard these Malian roots, which makes the connection so uncanny. Ry Cooder, well versed in domestic and world guitar styles, is the perfect counterpoint in these extended songs/jams, his sinewy slide guitar intertwining with his partner's in a super world summit without barriers or borders. --Derek Rath

Customer Reviews:

This is the blues Dream Team.......2007-07-20

"Talking Timbuktu" is one of those CDs where you have an aha moment. Oh yes, you have heard this music before and yet, not quite. Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure play beautifully together and truly bring the Mali's music straight to us. This is an extremely listenable CD and well worth the price.

Cool music.......2007-05-13

This is really good music. A combination of blues, African, something I cannot put a description to. Each person has to experience this to see what it means to him (her).

AFT at his best.......2007-04-03

As usual, this is another spectacular disc, only made better by the addition of Ry Cooder.

Fabulous Music.......2007-03-26

This CD is just fabulous and everyone who hears it wants a copy. Very sophisticated yet original music,
soothing and exciting sound.

Gorgeous, happy, relaxed music........2007-03-25

This will make you want to dance. Standouts for me:


"Lasidan" - Gets in your head. It's possibly my favorite song on the album. Touré's voice resonates in the mind for days.

"Banga" - Ali Farka Touré is incredible here on the njarka. The combination of this beautiful instrument, the congo, and the calabash is breathtaking.

"Diaraby" - A fitting end. Lovely.

It's an all-around beautiful disc.


Side note: If you like this album, you should really check out Ali Farka Touré's son, Vieux Farka Touré.

Average customer rating: Lyric brilliance backed by strong music His Twenty Eighth Album Great! It's about reality Start somewhere else

Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner In Timbuktu Bruce Cockburn Manufacturer: Rykodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Charity of Night Nothing But a Burning Light Speechless Life Short Call Now You've Never Seen Everything ASIN: B00001IVLE Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. When You Give It Away
2. Mango
3. Last Night Of The World
4. Isn't That What Friends Are For?
5. Down To The Delta
6. The Embers Of Eden
7. Blueberry Hill
8. Let The Bad Air Out
9. Look How Far
10. Deep Lake
11. Use Me While You Can

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As well as any record he's ever made, this Bruce Cockburn release illustrates just what makes him so compelling and tough to corner. Opening with a well-greased John Lee Hooker groove, Cockburn slides from a dream in which he'd "been wearing O.J.'s gloves" and couldn't get them off, into the stranger, waking world of punks, cafes, tourists, and journalistic half-truths. From his ceaseless wanderings, Cockburn has absorbed Brazilian, African, and Eastern musical accents. More importantly, he has a traveler's vision, always in awe of far-flung mysteries. His guitar work remains a marvel of rhythmic complexity and technical precision (the bloated fuzz reading of "Blueberry Hill," however, is an exception). Spoken word trances; white-hot Metheny-esque instrumentals; Dylan-esque cryptographies of politics and sex; and metaphysical love lyrics (three of which feature harmony from Lucinda Williams)--there's an off-hand, unpretentious ambition to these songs, a visceral sense of spiritual and artistic fulfillment. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Lyric brilliance backed by strong music.......2006-05-15

A prolific producer of fine, lyric-driven music for nearly 30 years, Bruce Cockburn is consistently able to turn his life observations into striking and thoughtful songs. On "Breakfast in New Orleans" this alchemist's gift is applied to topics ranging from the ecological ("The Embers of Eden") to the philosophical ("When You Give It Away") to the personal ("Isn't That What Friends Are For?").

Cockburn's gritty singing style is most effective, often touching listeners as though sung only for them. And although some dislike the talking-style technique he uses with some songs, it fits well with that personal and poetic approach. While the musical styles vary - Cockburn's fine bluesy guitar instrumentals sit alongside a laid back re-make of "Blueberry Hill" and some African-tinged pieces - most will seek out this album for its lyric brilliance. The fact that the musical quality is so high is a bonus.

His Twenty Eighth Album.......2004-12-16

(62.36 minutes)

Now if you ask me, and a lot of aficionados of geographic oddities do now and again, the title of this album describes a feat that would be surprisingly difficult to pull off. Bruce claims that he actually did that one day, ate breakfast in New Orleans, and ate his dinner in Timbuktu, and I ain't about to suggest the man is fibbin' but that sure would be a logistical conundrum. What with the curvature of the earth and the sun advancing to the west, and the Coriolis Effect and the uncertain air connections between Louisiana and Mali... that one is a noggin' scratcher if there ever was one.

The odd title hides a very nice album, however, and the highlight is (in my humble and accurate opinion) the harmonization that Lucinda Williams offers on a couple of cuts. She is the perfect companion to the Cockburn style, and her voice is the yin to the Cockburn yang.

This album saw Cockburn put the electric guitars back in the rack, and reach for the acoustic guitars a little more frequently than he had done in the previous albums. That allowed for a little more of an airy feel to the work and a lightness that was not so present in the previous release. I kind of appreciate that because I was starting to miss the lightness of his early folksy days and wanted to hear some more of that acoustic picking he is known for. I hear he uses super glue on his finger tips so he can really get in there and pluck hard against the strings, and whatever the technique is - it works.

This album also features Cockburn covering someone else's tune - something that doesn't happen in the studio very often. I am still wondering why. Blueberry Hill is a great song, and his cover is a nice touch, but does it fit in this album? I ain't too sure. It is awfully hard to get Fats Domino out of my head when I hear Bruce sing it.

I recommend this album as a terrific place to start if you are not familiar with his latter work... or if you just want to listen to some good, toe tappin' tunes while you drive your truck to town. Me and Junior like this one a lot and listen to it whenever we go in to the feed store to pick up rat bait.

Great!.......2004-06-14

"Last Night of the World" and "Look How Far" are the best tracks. I have only seen Bruce live once, in Minneapolis over ten years ago...need to see him again and soon!

What a treasure of creativity and positive energy this man is...I would love him to produce one of my songs, like "Sister."

There are not many with the talent this man has. :)

Jeffrey McAndrew

It's about reality.......2003-11-27

Bruce rarely excites but never dissappoints. I've had this album for a while now but the power of Isn't That What Friends Are For has only now slammed me in the face and made me say: yeah,that's what friends are for. So simple, yet irresistable.
And everyone who hears Bruce's version of Blueberry Hill loves it. How best to describe this music? It's music to love.

Start somewhere else.......2003-03-06

Cockburn is a brilliant artist; this is one of his weaker albums. There are too many spoken word pieces. He has made them taut and effective in the past ("Charity of Night," "Birmingham Shadows") but here they are limp, wan, unfinished-seeming--piles of words not turned into lyrics, musical backing not made into song. Blunt, unpleasant images abound, from the newborn baby sliding out of the nurse's hands in the opening track, to the judge and the hookers in "Let the Bad Air Out." The decent image in the "Last Night of the World"--that all the singer would need is "champagne and you"--is wasted in another half-baked song and track. The down-tempo "Blueberry Hill" is just depressing. Cockburn fans have all bought this anyway, but if you are new to him start with a masterpiece: "The Charity of Night." Then get the raucous live follow-up, "You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance."

Average customer rating: Good collection but missing some key songs Definetely worth it. Great career retrospective with lots of previously unavailable/rare stuff on the second disc great "bonus" songs Great Robert Plant 2 CD Set

Sixty Six to Timbuktu Robert Plant Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mighty Rearranger Dreamland Pictures at Eleven Fate of Nations Manic Nirvana ASIN: B0000DIZQQ Release Date: 2003-11-04

Tracks:

1. Tie Dye On The Highway
2. Upside Down
3. Promised Land
4. Tall Cool One
5. Dirt In A Hole
6. Calling To You
7. 29 Palms
8. If I Were A Carpenter
9. Sea Of Love
10. Darkness, Darkness
11. Big Log
12. Ship Of Fools
13. I Believe
14. Little By Little
15. Heaven Knows
16. Song To The Siren

Tracks:

1. You'd Better Run
2. Our Song
3. Hey Joe
4. For What It's Worth
5. Operator
6. Road To The Sun
7. Philadelphia Baby
8. Red For Danger
9. Let's Have A Party
10. Hey Jayne
11. Louie, Louie
12. Naked If I Want To
13. 21 Years
14. If It's Really Got To Be This Way
15. Rude World
16. Little Hands
17. Life Begin Again
18. Let The Boogie Woogie Roll
19. Win My Train Fare Home (Live In Timbuktu)

Customer Reviews:

Good collection but missing some key songs.......2007-05-17

I realize people are insisting this is not a greatest hits, but how can you claim to have a cross-section of his work captured here when you don't include anything from one of his albums, "Pictures At Eleven"? Sure, maybe you miss a few of his popular tracks in order to get some of the B-side material, but let's get real here.

Definetely worth it........2007-01-25

Very good compilation and mastering of rare early songs and demos,and the best of Plant's solo career on a nice two disc package,though with a big omission in not including "In the Mood",one of his biggest radio hits and a fine 80's song to boot.

Great career retrospective with lots of previously unavailable/rare stuff on the second disc.......2007-01-04

With the reissue of his back catalog forthcoming (in March 2007 but also available now in the boxed set "Nine Lives"), it's tempting to see "Sixty Six to Timbuktu" as not that essential for fans of Plant. That would be wrong. This isn't a "greatest hits" compilation so much as a brief career retrospective of Plant's work before and after Led Zep. True, the first disc has many of his hits but its missing just as many in favor of more obscure stuff. Plant's clearly tried to assemble his best material (in his mind)in a single set.

The first set has many of the popular hits that Plant recorded after Led Zep disbanded. We get 15 songs that were either hits singles or received a lot of airplay when they were released. Fans that want an album sequence chronologically will probably be frustrated as Plant has placed these songs based on the feel and how they flow from one track to another (for example "Little by Little" from Plant's third solo album "Shaken 'n' Stirred" is the next to last track on the first disc).

The second disc is a joy to have. It features a pair of singles that Plant recorded with his first band Listen in 1965/6. These are followed by a pair of demos from Band of Joy where Plant first hooked up with fellow Led Zep alum Bonzo (John Bonham). It's petty clear he's on the album, too, as Bonham's bashing drums are as much an important part of the recording as Plant's vocals. "Hey Joe" recorded in 1967 as a demo (the same year that Hendrix released his definitive version) more than holds its own compared to Hendrix's version with slashing guitar but, more importantly, Bonham's powerful drums backing Plant's impassioned vocal. "Operator" is a pre-LZ collabortion with Alexis Korner that prefigures the blues performances that would dominate the first LZ album.

The rest of the CD is made up of one-off recordings that Plant did for various tributes albums and soundtracks. They're all fun and essential for fans. "Let's Have a Party" from the charity CD "The Last Temptation of Elvis", and "Hey Jayne" was a B-side for "I Believe" featuring Plant on vocals and sitar (!). Next up is a cover of the classic tune "Louie Louie" with Plant on lead guitar. "Naked If I Wanted To" is a cover of the classic Moby Grape song from that band's first album. "Little Hands" is also a cover of Skip Spence's song from the solo album "Oar" (Spence was a member of Moby Grape and also briefly a member of the Jefferson Airplane). "Philadelphia Baby" features Dave Edmunds playing lead guitar with the band that Plant assembled for "The Principle of Moments". This track was a song recorded in 1983 but finished in 1985 and appeared on the "Revenge of Porky's" soundtrack. "21 Years" is a collaboration that Plant did with guitarist Rainer Ptcak and "Rude World" is from Ptcak's album featuring Plant and Jimmy Page on guitar. "If It's Really Got To Be This Way" is from a tribute album to Arthur Alexander. "Let the Boogie Woogie Roll" comes from Plant's appearence on Jool's Holland's "More Friends" album while "Life Begins Again" dates from a collaboration with Afro Celt System. The album closes with a live performance of "Win My Train Fare Home" performed in of all place Timbuktu with the Strange Sensations Plant's latest backing band.

This is well worth picking up for fans of Plant with the second disc of previously unavaiable songs. I also forgot to mention that a previously unreleased track appears on the first disc as well. "Upside Down" is written by the same team that wrote Plant's hit "Heaven Knows". This is a nice companion piece to the remastered "Nine Lives" boxed set even if 15 of the 16 tracks on the first disc duplicate what appear on the remastered albums. Bravo Robert! A great career retrospective this will probably be best appreciated by fans who have listened to and collected Plant's work since his Led Zep days. He has a restless, experimental spirit as a musician/singer and it's very much in evidence here.

great "bonus" songs.......2006-11-28

First and foremost: who the heck said this was a "Greatest Hits Album"? the title isn't "The Very Best of Robert Plant" or maybe I'm just blind. For those of you whining cause his "greatest hits" aren't here, maybe you should read the liner notes where he says specifically that he DOESN'T want this album to be a "greatest hits" collection. He was reaching for more of a career retrospective, something to see how he's evolved over the years, not what's garnered attention. Anyway, even if you have all his studio albums, you must pick this one up, there's really only a few songs on here from his past solo albums, the rest are some great treasures that any Plant fan would love, sure they're not all like Zeppelin songs, but this isn't a Zeppelin album, sure they don't all sound like Plant's other studio songs, but we're not reviewing songs based on how similar they sound to past, present or future songs, but on how GOOD they are, something this album certainly is. Be sure to get your copy, Nine Lives should be filled with lot's of great bonus stuff as well.

Great Robert Plant 2 CD Set.......2006-11-10

I recommend Robert Plant Sixty Six to Timbuktu to any Robert Plant/Led Zep fan, because it has many great songs that Robert Plant has done throughout his solo career & it makes a great collection to the Led Zeppelin CD box sets as well!!!

Average customer rating: Even before I got to the wine. . . Issa Issa Rich Sounds A Great Work On Any Continent A sonorous wonder

Timbuktu Issa Bagayogo Manufacturer: Six Degrees ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Africa | International | Styles | Music Mali | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Six Degrees Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tassoumakan Sya Macire African Travels: A Six Degrees Collection Kaira ASIN: B00005Y1T8 Release Date: 2002-02-05

Tracks:

1. Sisi
2. Baro
3. Tounga
4. Nogo
5. Timbuktu
6. Dambalou
7. Toroya
8. Saye mogo bana
9. Banani
10. Gnele
11. Tamagnoko
12. Dama

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The mission of Six Degrees Records is to prove that different cultures and musical styles do have some common ground. Malian singer Issa Bagayogo reaffirms this commonality on Timbuktu, finding the middle ground between traditional West African music--created with his six-stringed lute, acoustic guitars, and the djembé--and modern down-tempo electronic programming that wouldn't be out of place at the Buddha-Bar or any other hip club in Paris or New York. Amidst this gentle and hypnotic fusion, Bagayogo maintains the griot tradition of teaching and politics, singing about such issues as racial tolerance, regional pride amidst the globalization of culture, and drug abuse among Mali's youth. Bagayogo presents his ideas in an evenly modulated midrange voice with ethereal-sounding female backup singers who answer and reaffirm many of his lyrics with haunting effectiveness. All in all, this seductively laid-back album is another chapter in the ongoing tradition of great Malian music. --Tad Hendrickson

Album Description

Issa Bagayogo is at the forefront of African musical innovators, melding the sounds of electronic dance music with the roots music of his homela\ nd, Mali. Dub and dance beats are woven together with ancient melodies of the Sahara dese\ rt on Timbuktu.

Issa's virtuosity on the kamili n'goni (a six stringed hunter's lute) and acous\ tic guitar reflects his upbringing on the edge of the Sahara. The ingenious hybrid of tra\ ditional and Afro-electro sounds created by Issa and producer/engineer Yves Wernert is evide\ nce of a new direction for African music in the 21st century.

Customer Reviews:

Even before I got to the wine. . ........2006-08-05

Yesterday I came home with six albums plucked from a 500Yen (about four dollars and change) bin and this was the first one I listened to. Three cuts into it I told myself that, even if none of the others panned out, the money would have been well spent. Fusion/techno/trans/synth lines/house/break - read the other reviews - I'm not sure what all of that adds up to, but Issa Bagayogo had me dancin' in the kitchen. Very groovy music.

Issa Issa.......2004-12-23

For the most part my musical tastes are all over the place, rooted in Hendrix, The grateful dead, Zep, Pat Metheny, Fela, the blues, jazz, funk, etc. Issa's Timbuktu and Toussomakan are delightful combinations of percussive, trans-type, hypnotic grooves that should proove to be wonderful additions to anyone's musical collection who has an open mind and is looking expand their horizons.

Rich Sounds.......2002-07-15

When I first heard Issa, it was at a performance at an outdoors amphitheater and was hooked ? I rushed out to get his latest CD. He combines traditional West African music with modern electronica into a most distinctive contemporary sound, which is easy to listen or/and to dance. I enjoyed this CD very much and would highly recommend it!

A Great Work On Any Continent.......2002-04-10

The musical sensability of this album stands up to the best creations out there. It's not only infectious, it is also masterfully composed.

A sonorous wonder.......2002-03-16

This album is simply beautiful. This is the first of its kind I've heard and I was blown away by the combination of suble, sophisticated arrangements and tight techno-like beats that would put most rap or techno albums to shame. The production is second-to-none and even though I don't understand a word, every song feels poignant and perfectly blended. This is an album with both rhythm and genuine musical quality. If you have ears, they will want to hear this.

Average customer rating: Solid Wassalou Groove

From Timbuktu to Gao Sali Sidibe Manufacturer: Shanachie ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Mali | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000008KCZ Release Date: 1994-02-01

Tracks:

1. Yacouba Sylla
2. N'Daya International
3. Muso Nyi
4. N'Dia
5. Sidikile
6. FMa Ban
7. MalidNyuman

Customer Reviews:

Solid Wassalou Groove.......2005-03-15

Sali Sidibe is a singer from the Wassalou region of Mali. (The region's most famous star is the incomparable Oumou Sangare.) Sali is a good singer, if not as great as Oumou, with a strong smoky contralto. On this album she is backed up by a typical Wassalou band consisting of one-string fiddle, kamel ngoni (hunter's lute), balafon, what sounds like a Western-style drum-set as well as djembes and calabash, and of course the essential female back-up singers. Occasionally we hear the sweet tones of the Peul flute, and on one track a male voice guest-stars, singing in a delightfully harsh desert style reminiscent of Mamar Kassey's vocalist Yacouba Moumouni.
The songs are solid in their bluesy groove, the one-string fiddle singing a harsh counterpoint to Sali's voice (it is truly amazing that so many sounds come out of one string, I am dissappointed that Shanachie does not tell us who the band consists of), the balafon and kamelngoni providing driving ostinatos.
This music is the boogie of Africa, a connection between the Niger river and the Mississippi, a link from the parched cow pastures of the Sahel to the small holdings of the Mississippi Hill Country. Sali could be Jessie Mae Hemphill's long-lost cousin (the flute player representing the great fife players like Otha Turner and Sid Hemphill), the unknown fiddle player a musical kin to every harmonica player from Sonny Terry to Little Walter.

Average customer rating:

Lika Barn Avvika Bast ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000TM02LG Release Date: 2007-08-07

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To Give Is to Get Sofi Hellborg (Ft. Tony Allen , and Timbuktu) Manufacturer: Ajabu ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000F7MJLG Release Date: 2007-05-15

Tracks:

1. Wouldn't That Be Fun
2. My Dream
3. To Give Is to Get
4. Har du H
5. If You Ever
6. Jungle in My Livingroom
7. Bring It on Through
8. Light
9. My Heart Is My Home
10. We Want No More War

Average customer rating: Excellent The definitive complete recording

Wright and Forrest's Kismet (First Complete Recording) Manufacturer: Jay Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000005BH1 Release Date: 1997-05-27

Tracks:

1. Kismet: Ov - The Philharmonia Orch/John Owen Edwards
2. Kismet: Sands Of Time - Bonaventura Bottone/Harry Nicoll/Gerard O'Beirne/Philip Griffiths/Edward Byles
3. Kismet: Rhymes Have I - Donald Maxwell/Stifyn Parri/Valerie Masterson
4. Kismet: Fate - Donald Maxwell/Simon Green
5. Kismet: Fate (Reprise) - Donald Maxwell
6. Kismet: Bazaar Of The Caravans - Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
7. Kismet: Not Since Nineveh - Judy Kaye/Richard Van Allan/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
8. Kismet: Not Since Nineveh Dance - The Philharmonia Orch/John Owen Edwards
9. Kismet: Stolen Oranges - The Philharmonia Orch/John Owen Edwards
10. Kismet: Baubles, Bangles And Beads - Valerie Masterson/Bonaventura Bottone/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy/David Rendall
11. Kismet: Paradise Garden - Valerie Masterson/Stifyn Parri/David Rendall
12. Kismet: Stranger In Paradise - Valerie Masterson/David Rendall
13. Kismet: He's In Love - Bonaventura Bottone/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
14. Kismet: Gesticulate - Richard Van Allan/Donald Maxwell/Judy Kaye/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
15. Kismet: Finale Act One - Donald Maxwell/Judy Kaye/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy

Tracks:

1. Kismet: Entr'acte - The Philharmonia Orch/John Owen Edwards
2. Kismet: Night Of My Nights - David Rendall/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
3. Kismet: Stranger In Paradise (Reprise) - Valerie Masterson
4. Kismet: Was I Wazir? - Richard Van Allan/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
5. Kismet: Rahadlakum - Judy Kaye/Donald Maxwell/Rosemary Ashe/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
6. Kismet: Rahadlakum Dance - Judy Kaye/Donald Maxwell/Rosemary Ashe/David Rendall
7. Kismet: And This Is My Beloved - David Rendall/Richard Van Allan/Donald Maxwell/Valerie Masterson
8. Kismet: The Olive Tree - Donald Maxwell
9. Kismet: Zubbediya - Rosemary Ashe/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
10. Kismet: Samaris' Dance - Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
11. Kismet: Finale Act Two - Donald Maxwell/David Rendall/Valerie Masterson/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
12. Kismet: Bored - Judy Kaye
13. Timbuktu!: In The Beginning Woman - Valerie Masterson
14. Timbuktu!: Golden Land, Golden Life - Bruce Hubbard/Simon Green
15. Timbuktu!: My Magic Lamp - Valerie Masterson
16. Timbuktu!: Power - Bruce Hubbard/Simon Green/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy
17. Timbuktu!: Golden Land, Golden Life - Edmund Barham/Bonaventura Bottone/Ambrosian Chor/John McCarthy

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2003-05-14

Kismet contains some of the best music in all of Broadway. Wright and Forrest adapt Borodin's glorious music perfectly, and I second the other reviewer's suggestion that this is the recording to have. Judy Kaye is a particular bonus. The Sony disc with Ramey/Swenson/Hadley is lovely (though Dom DeLuise doesn't belong on it, and mars a few numbers); this one surpasses it, and is more complete.

The definitive complete recording.......2000-10-23

Though the Sony OBC recording has never left the catalogue (for good reasons), and the studio recording in the early '90's with Samuel Ramey, Julia Migenes, Jerry Hadley and Ruth Ann Swenson is a more obviously starry show, this release (formerly TER, now JAY records) is both comprehensive and compellingly performed.

All the principals are superb (Valerie Masterson being at her absolute crystalline best as Marsinah, Judy Kaye a refreshing blast of Broadway legit divadom as Lalume, and all the gentlemen particularly solid), and, as ever in this series, John Owen Edwards' observation of original orchestrations, markings, appendix of cut or revised material, and overall theatrical approach make this THE "Kismet" for both devotees of the work, and newcomers. Highly recommended; if you can put on Disc One without wanting to continue on through the last bonus track from "Timbuktu", you have more will-power than I!

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Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu Bruce Cockburn Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000QTCY5E Release Date: 2007-07-10

Tracks:

1. When You Give It Away
2. Mango
3. Last Night Of the World
4. Isn't That What Friends Are For?
5. Down To the Delta
6. Embers Of Eden
7. Blueberry Hill
8. Let the Bad Air Out
9. Look How Far
10. Deep Lake
11. Use Me While You Can

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Art Pepper Quartet: Volume 1 Art Pepper with the Sonny Clark Trio Manufacturer: Timbuktu Creations ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001QH8 Release Date: 1997-07-01

Tracks:

1. Brown Gold
2. These Foolish Things
3. Tickle Toe
4. Tenderly
5. Strike Up The Band
6. Night And Day
7. S'Wonderful

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7. Wanita
8. Welsh Rare Beat
9. Wild Heart
10. World 2004

Rock Music

rock music

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