Enter the Earth

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With Enter the Earth, what Burning Sky do best is to bring together elements of both traditional native instruments and sound with contemporary folk, forming a hybrid that is always interesting, often good, and at times sublime. The core quartet is formed by Michael Bannister on drums, Kelvin Bizahaloni on flute, Aaron White on flute and acoustic guitars, and John Katz on guitars as well. The music is emboldened by use of rattles, bodrhan, didgeridoo, mandolin, and various percussive instruments. The record's finest moments are those in which the band locks onto the difficult balance of restraint and abandon, as on the rousing sacred revelry of "Circle Dance." In this piece Darryl Iccard's guest appearance on bass guitar provides a firm foothold for the hypnotic ringing repetition of interlocking guitar lines, gliding flute, and drums accented by bells. "Celebration Song" is an uplifting booty shaker, and the exceptional "Tribal Stomp" is a funky fingerpicked Indian blues. --Paige La Grone

From the Label
Since ancient times, tribal people throughout the world wove their creation stories around their spiritual emergence from within Mother Earth. They gave thanks to the powers of the four directions through special ceremonies and dances. Throughout their history, there were many great migrations of the clans and tribes to their specific sacred places where they came together to celebrate.

Then, after many, many years Mother Earth would go through a time of cataclysmic cleansing and purification. She would renew herself.

The Native American people of this continent have always known (contrary to the claims of modern anthropologists) that they were created and emerged from this Turtle Island.

Now the time has come when Mother Earth will cleanse herself once more of all the destruction that man has made. Listen carefully to the voices in the wind. They speak to us of what is to come. They tell us it is the time to enter the earth once again.

The music on this album was made for and is dedicated to our Mother Earth and all who walk upon her and are nurtured by her bounty. We thank you Mother Earth, may we all walk in beauty and make the world a better place. Ah Yááheh....

Enter the Earth,Burning Sky,Rykodisc,Contemporary Instrumental,Ethnic Fusion,Int'l & World Music,Native American,New Age,Pop,Techno-Tribal,World Music

Average customer rating: best of native world beat music Wonderfully varied cuts but classic and classy Burning Sky!

Enter the Earth Burning Sky Manufacturer: Rykodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Native American | North America | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Blood of the Land Spirits in the Wind Creation A Simple Man Burning Sky: Music for Native American Flute/Guitar/Percussion ASIN: B00000GV5G Release Date: 1999-01-12

Tracks:

1. One From The Darkness
2. Celebration Song
3. Spirit Within
4. Watchers Of The Canyon
5. Night Sky Dreamtime
6. Across The Big Water Of The West (The Polynesians Came)
7. Call Of The Thunder Beings
8. Journey To The Four Directions
9. Across The Big Water To The East (The Celts Came)
10. Red Earth Walkabout
11. Shash Yaazh
12. Warrior's Dance
13. Tree People Speak
14. Tribal Stomp
15. Awaken The People (Healing Song)
16. Circle Dance
17. Crystal Fire Child (Enter The Earth)

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With Enter the Earth, what Burning Sky do best is to bring together elements of both traditional native instruments and sound with contemporary folk, forming a hybrid that is always interesting, often good, and at times sublime. The core quartet is formed by Michael Bannister on drums, Kelvin Bizahaloni on flute, Aaron White on flute and acoustic guitars, and John Katz on guitars as well. The music is emboldened by use of rattles, bodrhan, didgeridoo, mandolin, and various percussive instruments. The record's finest moments are those in which the band locks onto the difficult balance of restraint and abandon, as on the rousing sacred revelry of "Circle Dance." In this piece Darryl Iccard's guest appearance on bass guitar provides a firm foothold for the hypnotic ringing repetition of interlocking guitar lines, gliding flute, and drums accented by bells. "Celebration Song" is an uplifting booty shaker, and the exceptional "Tribal Stomp" is a funky fingerpicked Indian blues. --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews:

best of native world beat music.......2000-02-21

incredible album of sounds from one of america's best original bands. a real variety of natural music with a native american/world beat style. like no one else i've heard!

Wonderfully varied cuts but classic and classy Burning Sky!.......1999-09-26

I have all the Burning Sky CDs and while I enjoy all of them, this is by far their best work. The music is sometimes almost "Southern Scratch", then the next cut has a decided Gaelic feel, Warrior's Dance is just that -- a real smorgasbord, every one a winner -- go buy it.

Average customer rating: THE HAPPIEST MUSICAL THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN . . . . .

Olympus on My Mind - The American Cast Recording Manufacturer: Jay Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast) The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Original Broadway Cast) Tarzan - The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast) Grey Gardens - A New Musical (2006 Original Broadway Cast) High Fidelity (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00005Y8ZT Release Date: 1996-11-19

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Welcome To Greece
3. Heaven On Earth
4. The Gods On Tap
5. Surprise!
6. Love - What A Concept
7. Wait 'Til It Dawns
8. Enter The Husband
9. I Know My Wife
10. It Was Me
11. Back So Soon
12. Wonderful
13. At Liberty In Thebes
14. It Must Have Been Jove
15. Jupiter Slept Here
16. Something Of Yourself
17. Olympus Is a Lonely Town
18. A Star Is Born
19. Mine Eyes Have Seen
20. Heaven On Earth

Customer Reviews:

THE HAPPIEST MUSICAL THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN . . . . . .......2006-08-14

This one is a hoot!

Don't ask me to explain the plot of OLYMPUS ON MY MIND, for as some character in some show once said, "It defies description." Barry Harman (book and lyrics for ROMANCE, ROMANCE) received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Direction of a Musical and for Outstanding Book, "suggested" by Heinrich von Kleist's play of 1807, "Amphitryon," which may or may not have been "suggested" by Moliere's earlier version of the Greek myth. (The plot is as complicated and as convoluted as the previous sentence.) At any rate, Jupiter lusts after the beautiful mortal Alcmene and poses as her husband, Amphitryon, in order to seduce her. Mistaken identities abound and double-entendres fly freely, aided and abetted by Harman's witty and literate lyrics and Grant Sturiale's ". . . bubbly score, which suggests Rodgers and Hart with a pop-rock undertow." (Stephen Holden, in his review of the 1986 Original Off-Broadway Production) When Amphityron arrives home from the war, not knowing that Jupiter has just spent the night with his wife, Alcmene sings "Back So Soon?" and then proceeds to tell him in great detail how "Wonderful" he was last night, rather like poetry, ". . . especially the fourth and the seventeenth time." The slave, Sosia, having been barred from his own house and bed by Hercules, in the guise of Sosia, declares to his master,""It Was Me." And Delores only needs the mention of a constellation to break into "A Star Is Born" big production number. "Big" being relative, considering the size of the cast. Great fun.

(Holden) "From its firecracker-like opening number, 'Welcome to Greece,' in which a smirking Greek chorus of three men - 'Tom, Dick and Horace' - and a doll-faced, out-of-step chorus girl, 'Delores,' arrive to set the scene, the new musical OLYMPUS ON MY MIND percolates with an old-fashioned sense of naughty musical-comedy fun. Delores's ineptitude, it turns out, is part of the merriment. Periodically throughout the evening, she models the wares of the show's fictional producer, Murray the Furrier, whose name glows in lights at the rear of the stage." Opening night saw the marvelous Ron Raines (LEADING MEN DON'T DANCE) in the dual roles of Jupiter & Amphitryon, Emily Zacharias as Alcmene, Jason Graae as Hercules, Peggy Hewett as Charis, Lewis J. Stadlen as Sosia, and Faith Prince as Delores. By the time the recording was made in October, 1987, the equally marvelous Martin Vidnovic (Tony Nominee, 1981, BRIGADOON; 1984 Drama Desk Award Winner for BABY) was Jupiter/Amphitryon; Susan Powell, his wife; Nancy Johnson, Charis; Frank Kopyc, Sosia; and Joyce De Witt ("Three's Company"), Delores. Only Jason Graae remains from the opening night cast.

David Abers of the Bristol Riverside Theatre calls OLYMPUS ON MY MIND "the happiest musical this side of heaven," and he may well be right. Hal Serra's wonderful "stringless" orchestrations and the small cast of 10 make the show an excellent choice for community theaters and small colleges. I can't imagine anyone, except for the very prudish, not having a great time on OLYMPUS.

Highly recommended.

Average customer rating: True Beauty Zimmerman is wonderful, she captures the beauty of the music

Earth Chants: Madrigal Singers Of Sbhs Manufacturer: Sheffield Lab ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lassus | Lassus, Orlando di(Lasso) | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | 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 | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chansons | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms and Prokofiev Matter of Time ASIN: B0000009ER Release Date: 1994-10-15

Tracks:

1. Cantate Domino
2. My Heart is Offered Still to You
3. Modern Music
4. Two Songs: Die Nachtigall/Lerchengesang
5. Earth Chants: Song of the Skyloom/The Great Sea/Remeber, the Sacredness of Things
6. Now I Walk in Beauty
7. E La Don Don
8. Five Folk Songs: I'd Enter Your Garden/The Fiddler/How Sad Flow the Streams/At Night/...
9. She's Like the Swallow
10. Green Grow the Rushes
11. Keep Your Lamps!

Customer Reviews:

True Beauty.......2000-01-30

I have had the pleasure of hearing one of Ms. Zimmerman's choirs perform. She is a wonderful conductor and teacher. This is proven in the way her choir sings. Earth Chants is a wonderful record and I would recommend it to anyone, whether you like choiral music or not. They SBHS Madrigals have near, if not perfect intonation and their songs have so much emotion. I have had the pleasure of singing the Brahms and Cantante Domino, both of which are very beautiful, as well as difficult to sing. If you like this album, check out Canticle, Zimmerman's newest group, or the Lompoc High School Madrigals (this is hard to find, you can call the school for more info). Both are very talented groups.

Zimmerman is wonderful, she captures the beauty of the music.......1999-02-02

SBHS Madz are truely wonderful in this record. They have great dicipline and perfect intonation. I would recomend this to anyone who enjoys choral music.

Average customer rating: A Pretty Darn Good Lohengrin

Wagner: Lohengrin Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000025UN Release Date: 1990-05-17

Customer Reviews:

A Pretty Darn Good Lohengrin.......2005-04-14

I got this Lohengrin from the local library, and I tried to get a taste of what I was in for by looking it up here on Amazon.com. But to my dismay there were no reviews. And later, to even greater dismay on my part, I found that there is no reason for such a lack of reviews! For this is a solid Lohengrin. While Peter Hofmann is not the most vocally resplendent Lohengrin (he isn't a Konya or a Domingo), he turns is a good performance, and Karen Armstrong is a passionate Elsa who plays the part admirably. The rest of the cast is strong on the whole. But the real splendors of this set spring from the pit - Woldemar Nelsson (of whom I had never heard until I discovered this recording) leads the Beyreuth Festival orchestra in a burning account. They are a truly Wagnerian orchestra (it would be a shame if they weren't), and Nelsson brings out all the Master's colors. The energy of a live performance just pours out. Never have I heard the preludes and prominent sections played with such an intense timbre. It's amazing to hear.

Therefore, though this set doesn't match Kempe, Solti, or Leinsdorf overall, it is a strong alternate set that should not be ignored.

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