African Sun

1. African Sun

2. Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro

3. Rolling

4. Memories Of You

5. Sathima

6. African Herbs

7. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen

8. Blues For B

9. Gwidza

10. Kamalie

African Sun,Abdullah Ibrahim,Camden [Stern's],Int'l & World Music,Jazz,Pop

Average customer rating: Probably the album to get

African Sun Abdullah Dollar Brand Ibrahim Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: African Magic Voice of Africa Water From an Ancient Well Duet African Piano ASIN: B000024ZK1 Release Date: 1999-07-15

Tracks:

1. African Sun
2. Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro
3. Rolling
4. Memories of You
5. Sathima
6. African Herbs
7. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
8. Blues for B
9. Gwidza
10. Kamalie

Customer Reviews:

Probably the album to get.......2004-07-24

Without exaggeration, I think African Sun should be listed as one of the essential jazz CDs collectors must own. I know many people prefer Ibrahim's more avant-garde period (roughly 1965-1970) while others prefer his recent, more contemplative explorations. Personally, I feel his recordings he made in South Africa in the 1970s are the best.

Also on this album are saxophonists Kippie Moeketsi, Basil Coetzee, and Barney Rachabane, along with bassist Sipho Gumede. All of the musicians already were or became some of the greatest figures in South African jazz. Of particular note are Basil Coetzee's solo on Nobody KNows the Trouble I've Seen for a gospel-tinged romp, or the hauntingly powerful solo by Kippie Moeketsi on Memories of You (possibly one of the most powerful pieces of recorded music EVER).

Ibrahim has moments of virtuosic shining, but often simply hangs out in the background, guiding these incredible ensembles (it's a collection of works over years) along some incredible music. You really can't do without this album.

Average customer rating: Musical Collage of African Experience

African Dream Shaman's Dream Manufacturer: Gemini Sun Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Dance: Dream: Dance Kerala Dream Tandava Shaman's Dream/Prana Tibetan Groove ASIN: B000ERU7JS Release Date: 2006-04-04

Tracks:

1. Rakandao
2. Morani Warrior
3. Mbira Kosamdela
4. Losambo
5. Je Je Vignin
6. Ker Kerane
7. Naomba Ukuwe Muzuri
8. Entomononi
9. African Dreams

Album Description

When Los Angeles' Shaman's Dream gets ready to perform—"live" or in the studio—its members call upon the powers of nature to bring healing and positive transformation to their music. Like the shamans who take us into the spirit world to enlist the help of guides, animals, and nature, these prolific musicians use the same sounds, chants, and rhythms to take listeners on a musical pilgrimage to the mystical, primal heart of Africa. Here they serve up a delicious ethno-jammin' blend of chant, fusion, and deep groove for bodycentered movement, dance, or serious trans-dimensional drifting.

The album features Donna DeLory, Dido Tshibangu, Marcel Adjibi, Abdou Mbaya, and Masai village men and women from the Serengeti plains.

Together with Micheline Berry, founder, producer and facilitator of Zen Dancing, and numerous other musicians, Craig Kohland is co-creator of The Shaman's Dream World Groove Ensemble, where the melodic ambience has merged with explosive world percussion to create a dynamic platform for dancing and ecstatic movement.

Jason Hann is an accomplished percussionist/drummer and producer who has been playing professionally since age 12. Music has taken him around the world, studying first hand in countries such as Ghana, Haiti, and Korea, both learning and performing folkloric and contemporary music of the land. A dynamic performer, Jason has also toured and recorded internationally within many different genres of music including Rock, R&B, Pop, Jazz, Latin, Latin-Jazz, Flamenco, African, Persian, Electronica, Techno, and World music.

Also available by Shaman's Dream: Kerala Dream

Customer Reviews:

Musical Collage of African Experience.......2006-08-30

"Sabar drums are special. They are the royal drums of Senegal and are unique to the Senegambia region." ~A Wolof teacher

Shaman's Dream invites you into the world of nature sounds, primal chants, exotic rhythms and soul healing beats. African Dream is a fusion of African music and electronica with warm appeal.

Rakandao - Hearing the Wolof language of Senegal for the first time was a beautiful experience. Abdou Mbaye sings a blessing to his brother from the heart. I find it difficult to sit still while listening to this track, there is something very spiritual and healing about the way African music makes your body move. This track and track eight seem to especially inspire the body to move in unique ways.

Morani Warrior - A song about the rights of passage Masi boys go through when they enter manhood. Children laugh in the distance as men sing and seem to be controlling their breath in an interesting way. Sabar Drums (beautiful tall drum) and Bells appear on this track along with a Doun Doun, a double-ended wood bass drum.

Mbira Kosamdela - A song from Zaire that includes the fascinating delicate sounds of the Mbira, a thumb piano made with 22-28 metal keys mounted on wood from the mubvamaropa tree.

Losambo - The sounds of the sea appear with the beats of the Doun Doun creating an oceanic escape with waves washing through vocals by Dido Tshibangu and Donna DeLory. Together their voices create a spiritually reverent mood that is soft and sensual like the movement of the ocean on a calm day.

Je Je Vignin is a lullaby by the women in Benin Togo. It has a comforting and catchy beat with undercurrents of being soothed into sleep. The Okonkolo Cha is the smallest of the bata drums and produces high pitch tones. This song also features the Pandiero which looks like a drum top with brass jinglers like a tambourine.

Ker Kerane is especially soothing and I really love Abdou Mbaye's voice as he sings: "In the morning or in darkness there is always light." Djembe appears on this track and is a drum shaped like a large goblet with a distinctive sound created from playing with bare hands.

Naomba Ukuwe Muzuri is a blessing for Good health in Swahili, a language of East Africa. This track is filled with beautiful nature sounds, whistles, seed pods, raffia, congas, bells, egg shakers, a glass bell and a variety of drums. It is a richly layered song that takes you completely away from reality and into a world where you are listening for each new sound as it approaches. Perhaps you feel a bit like a hunter, searching for sounds.

Entomononi (means birth) stands out as one of the most beautiful tracks on this CD with mystical environments and bells from hundreds of goats being herded across the Masi Mara. This is a chant sung by women in a Masi village on the Serengeti plains of Kenya and it has a joyful exuberance and playful bounce amidst a purity of vocals. Of all the music on this CD, this feels especially spiritual in beauty and seems to have a soul-cooling energy that frees you from everyday contemplation. As if celebrating the magnificence of a new birth, the song feels like it is awakening to the world.

African Dreams is a collage of sound clips recorded during a trip to Africa in 1996. The song draws on your imaginative powers as you see what you are hearing and at times wonder what you are hearing. Lightening crashes across the sky as birds cry, flying against a darkening sky. You are no longer at home, you are in Africa walking along a beach while the sky pours down in tears, you are riding a horse through the veld and you are swimming in a river. Africa calls to you from her heart, to walk barefoot on her sun-drenched soul. I found myself smiling when I heard the lions and so homesick when I heard the rain.

~The Rebecca Review
Lived in Africa for 12 years

Average customer rating: absolutely magnificent Carreras at his best! Wonderful!! Absoltuely Stunning!

Around the World Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ramirez, Ariel | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000059ZHY Release Date: 2001-10-02

Tracks:

1. Hymne a l'Amour
2. Paraules d'amor
3. Quando Sento che mi ami
4. Alfonsina y el mar
5. Kawa no nagare no yoni
6. Vurria
7. Kumbaya My Lord
8. Manha de Carnaval
9. Nosotros
10. A la luz de una luna azul
11. Hine e hine
12. Wind of Change
13. With Love
14. Volver
15. Island in the Sun
16. Sorrow of the Red Beans
17. Greensleeves
18. Senza Ritorno (Jezeli)

Customer Reviews:

absolutely magnificent.......2003-12-17

This CD is a collection of songs from all over the world! What I am going to say is that it even contains a Chinese song which is originated from one of the four famous ancient novels in China--Dream of the Red Mansion. Amazingly,Jose Carreras pronouces those Chinese characters very well.
It's an awesome CD for JC fans AROUND THE WORLD~~

Carreras at his best!.......2001-10-16

The golden voice still got its old magic. A marvellous collection of songs that suit that world-famous tenor voice like tailored up for it. José Carreras sings these popular classics with the velvet sound he is so famous for. I'm sure this album will win the maestro a lot of new fans!

Wonderful!!.......2001-10-09

This CD is wonderful. I think it's his best recording in several years. Carreras' facility with so many languages is remarkable and this album showcases that ability in every way. There's no opera, but a variety of pieces sung with the passion and nuances we've come to expect from him. All of it is in the voice range in which he still has the beautiful timbre and tone that have kept him so successful for so many years. When you listen to Wind of Change, one realizes that he probably could have been a "pop" star if he'd gone that direction instead of opera.

Absoltuely Stunning!.......2001-10-04

In Jose's so called "Autumn" of his carreer he has never failed to amaze me. Around The World features several different types of songs that convey Jose's fondness of the world in which we all live. This is evident in songs like "Wind Of Change" featuring a duet with Klaus Meine (from The Scorpions), "Kawa No Nagare No Yoni" from Japan, "Vurria" from Italy, & "Hine E Hine" from New Zealand. You are not going to hear Jose belt out high c's on this one. What you are going to hear is Jose sing, with his golden velvet voice, evergreens of love and passion. In my opinion Jose sounds every bit as fresh and in command with his voice as he did in the late 80's and early 90's. This is a must for all who love Jose and enjoy great singing from the soul.

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Sun Walker's Dream Keiya Manufacturer: Oreade Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000942JQ Release Date: 2003-11-04

Tracks:

1. Caravan To El Fayum
2. The Oasis
3. Meeting Zilah
4. Dream Within Dreams
5. New Energy
6. Flowers & Candles
7. Morning Concert
8. Zilah's Blessing
9. New Beginnings

Average customer rating: Rich and moving

The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Art Songs by African-American Composers Cecil Cohen , Undine Smith Moore , Robert Owens , Coleridge Taylor Perkinson , Florence B. Price , Howard Swanson , George Walker , John W. II Work , and David Korevaar Manufacturer: Msr Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Walker | Walker, George | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: You Can Tell the World: Songs by African-American Women Composers Dreamer: A Portrait of Langston Hughes From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music ASIN: B00000243D Release Date: 2000-01-25

Customer Reviews:

Rich and moving.......2001-02-18

Amaize's selection of art songs covers a wide range of poets, among them Sappho, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Robert Burns. Whatever he's singing, you know it comes from someplace very deep in his soul. A wonderful CD.

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Café Africa: Sun, Savannahs and Safaris Various Artists Manufacturer: Metro Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Africa | Compilations | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002SLXG0 Release Date: 2004-09-06

Tracks:

1. Silence - Pierre Akendengue
2. Lusala - Ray Lema
3. Ne Nam I/Manoir - Toure Kunda
4. Bankiero - Mory Kante
5. Sobindo - Djeli Moussa Diawara
6. Mama - Diogal
7. Bekoor - Youssou N'Dour
8. Borom Darou - Omar Pene & Super Diamono
9. Kombi - Djeli Fode Koyate
10. Fati Mata - Sam Mangwana
11. Dakar Streets - Manu Dibango
12. Hambayi Ede - Papa Wemba
13. Gasy Car - Rossy
14. Simentera - Ami Xintadu

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A Portrait Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Bolcom, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Busoni | Busoni, Ferruccio | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Carter | Carter, Elliott | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by George Crumb | Crumb, George | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ives, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Liszt | Liszt, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schoenberg | Schoenberg, Arnold | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Debussy | Debussy, Claude | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rachmaninov | Rachmaninov, Sergei | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ives, Charles | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Percussion | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004Y6RG Release Date: 2000-10-24

Tracks:

1. Italian Con, BWV 971: I. Allegro - Columbia Conc Orch/Howard Barlow
2. Pno Con No.20 in d, K 466: I. Allegro - Columbia Conc Orch/Howard Barlow
3. Pno Con No.20 in d, K 466: II. Romanze - Columbia Conc Orch/Howard Barlow
4. Pno Con No.20 in d, K 466: III. Allegro Assai - Columbia Conc Orch/Howard Barlow
5. Hungarian Rhap No.13 - New York Phil/Efrem Kurtz
6. Pno Con No.2 in c, Op.18: II. Adagio Sostenuto - New York Phil/Efrem Kurtz
7. Pno Son: I. Allegro Con Moto - Teresa Sterne
8. Pno Son: II. Adagietto - Teresa Sterne
9. Pno Son: III. Allegro Vivo - Teresa Sterne
10. Pno Son: IV. Allegro - Teresa Sterne

Tracks:

1. Ov To An English Opr, Hob 1A-3 - The Little Orch Of London/Leslie Jones
2. Nun Freut Euch, Lieben Christen - Paul Jacobs
3. Herzlich Thut Mich Verlangen - Paul Jacobs
4. Etude, Book II - Paul Jacobs
5. Five Pno Pieces, Op.23: II Sehr Rasch - Paul Jacobs
6. Ionisation - The New Jersey Perc Ens/Raymond DesRoches
7. The Ragtime Dance - Joshua Rifkin
8. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
9. Blondel Zu Marien, D 626 - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
10. Double Con: Intro - Paul Jacobs/Gilbert Kalish
11. Pno Son No.2, 'Concord, Mass': III. The Alcotts - Gilbert Kalish
12. Wait 'Till The Sun Shines, Nellie - Joan Morris/William Bolcom
13. Graceful Ghost - William Bolcom
14. Ancient Voices Of Children: III. De Donde Vienes, Amor, Mi Nino?/IV. Todas Las Tardes En Granada... - Jan DeGaetani/Michael Dash
15. Nyamamusango (Meat In The Forest) - Hakurotwi Mude/Cosmas Magaya/Ephat Mujuri
16. Vetar Vee - Vasilka Andonova/Kremena Stancheva
17. Ta Shto Mi E Miloj, Mamo - Nadezhda Georgieva Klicherova/Gena Ivanova Bodenova/Nadezhda Georgieva Paleastova
18. Ketjak Dance - Teresa Sterne
19. I Big You Goodnight - Edith Pinder/Geneva Pinder/Raymond Pinder/Joseph Spence
20. Oyun Havasi - Teresa Sterne
21. Ketawang Puspawarna - Teresa Sterne

Amazon.com

The life of Teresa Sterne is as noteworthy as the label she once presided over (Nonesuch). As a child prodigy, she successfully filled world-class auditoriums in the 1940s with audiences eager to hear her piano playing. Then, inexplicably, Sterne abandoned her concert career only to resurface as the leader behind Nonesuch Records in the late 1960s, turning the budget classical label into one of the more adventurous and consistently rewarding labels around (and generally keeping quiet about her earlier fame). Half of this double-CD tribute collects recordings of a teenage Sterne at the keyboard; the second disc is devoted to some of the finest recordings from her Nonesuch tenure (1965-1979)--both are engrossing.

Ignore the surface noise on Sterne's disc (no small task on the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20), and you'll hear a young pianist in fine form--she is expressive, and boasts crisp articulation and fine technique. She dances through Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 with riveting intensity; on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (with the New York Philharmonic), she shows a sensitive but no less virtuosic side. On the second disc, we get a virtual best-of for Nonesuch Records, including tracks by Joshua Rifkin, Paul Jacobs, and William Bolcom. Hard to imagine anyone doing it these days, but in one five-year period (1970-1975), Nonesuch released albums featuring the music of Stephen Foster, Edgar Varese, George Crumb, and a platter of Bulgarian folk tunes. They're all here. Now battling Lou Gehrig's disease, Sterne herself may be unable to celebrate this release, but for anyone who has treasured a release from Nonesuch's glory days, it's a moving tribute. --Jason Verlinde

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Diamond of a Day Robin Auld Manufacturer: Free Lunch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAL2DM Release Date: 2005-05-03

Tracks:

1. Beautiful Things
2. Kiss It Off
3. Slip Away
4. Solid Gold
5. Long Lost
6. You Came Back
7. All the Girls Cried
8. Colonel and Me
9. I Got Lucky
10. Court of Mary
11. Bobby Come Back
12. When U Were in Love
13. Weather

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Patti Boulaye's Sun Dance ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Africa | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0009A3PO4 Release Date: 2005-05-17

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{Limited Edition} Bob Marley and friends - Dreamland "CD & Bumper Sticker" [featuring: the Wailers / The Upsetters / Peter Tosh / Big Youth / Dave Barker & Bunny Livingston Zig Zag - The Upsetters, Arise Black Man - Peter Tosh Duppy Conqueror - Bob Marley & the Wailers , Dreamland - Big Youth, Memphis - Peter Tosh Dreamland - Bob Marley , Moving Version [DJ Version] - Big Youth, Brand New Second Hand - Bob Marley Keep on Movin' - Bob Marley & the Wailers , Fi Get a Beaten - Peter Tosh, Small Axe - Bob Marley & the Wailers Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying - Bob Marley , Downpresser - Bob Marley Battle Axe - The Upsetters , All in One Medley: (Bend Down Low/Nice Time/One Love/Simmer Down/It Hur - Bob Marley & the Wailers , and Maga Dog - Peter Tosh, What a Confusion - Dave Barker, Bunny Livingston Copasetic - The Upsetters ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000IZG6UU

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