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About the Artist
Conrad Praetzel last two albums on Paleo Music were both named to The Absolute Sound Super CD List. BAND_MEMBERS: Conrad Praetzel: sound design, sampling, keyboards and percussion Sukhawat Ali Khan: vocals Robert Powell: guitars, dobro, pedal steel, electric sitar Solomon Feldthouse: oud, ney flute Sachiko Kanenobu: geisha vocals

Product Description
On Receive ethno-ambient composer Conrad Praetzel seduces his listeners with an exotic combination of Sufi mysticism and electro-organic rhythmic grooves. The album feature sufi vocalist, Sukhawat Ali Khan, son of the renowned Ustad Ali Khan of Pakistan and guitarist Robert Powell.

Receive,Conrad Praetzel,Paleo Music,Ambient,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Worldbeat

Average customer rating: Very Happy :-)

Awakening the Higher Self: Guided Meditations to the Angelic Realm Terra Sonora Manufacturer: Disc Makers ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Journey to the 5th Dimension Journey to the Crystal Palace: An Extra-Ordinary Guided Meditation The Golden Pool Of Abundance Guided Meditation Clairvoyance, Psychic & Spiritual Learning Guided Meditation CD Hypnosis Journey Through the Chakras: An Extra-ordinary Guided Meditation ASIN: B00018RRPM Release Date: 2003-03-03

Tracks:

1. Introduction by Terra Sonora
2. Meditation to Open to Your Angels and Guides
3. Meditation to Discover Your Life's Purposes
4. Daily Meditation to Connect with Your Angels

Customer Reviews:

Very Happy :-).......2007-06-08

This guided meditation is great. Everytime I listen I hear something new.

Average customer rating: Twinkie at her best

Praise Belongs to God/Ye Shall Receive Power Twinkie Clark-Terrell Manufacturer: Sounds of Gospel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Similar Items: You Brought the Sunshine Count It All Joy: He Gave Me Is My Living in Vain? Dr. Mattie Moss Clark Presents Corey Skinner's Collegiate Voices of Faith Masterpiece ASIN: B0007UDCUS Release Date: 2005-03-15

Tracks:

1. Praise the Lord
2. Fountain Full of Blood
3. Jesus I'll Never Forget
4. Hallelujah to the New Born King
5. Oh Taste and See
6. God You Get the Glory Out of My Life
7. Power
8. Fix Me, Jesus
9. His Yoke Is Easy
10. In Him There Is No Sorrow
11. Awake O Zion
12. My Soul Loves Jesus

Customer Reviews:

Twinkie at her best.......2005-12-15

This combination of her first two solo is a great CD. The debut "Praise Belongs To God" is more R&B influenced with a gospel overtone. The music is jazzy, bluesy & funky. The highlight of this album is "Fountain Filled WIth Blood". Twinkie pours her soul out. "Jesus I'll Never Forget" is upbeat and down right funky. However "Ye Shall REcieve Power" is better in my opinon. Twinkie wrote, produced & arranged the album. Accompanied with horns and strings. It's hard to describe the awesomenes of this CD but I will tell you this. "My Soul Loves Jesus" is a love song to the Lord. If you're a Clark Sisters/Twinkie Clark Fan, you wont' be mad you got this.


Be Blessed

Average customer rating: Just heavenly

Lay Aside All Earthly Cares: Orthodox Choral Works in English Manufacturer: Cappella Romana ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Fall of Constantinople When Augustus Reigned: Christmas Music from the Byzantine Tradition Metropolitan Museum of Art: Music of Byzantium Thirsting For God in a Land of Shallow Wells The Glory Of Byzantium ASIN: B000AXWHE4 Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. Bless the Lord, O my soul
2. O gladsome Light
3. Lord, now let Thy servant
4. Rejoice, Virgin Theotokos
5. Praise the Name of the Lord
6. The Great Doxology, No.1
7. Bless the Lord, O my soul
8. The Second Antiphon
9. Only begotten Son
10. Holy God, No.2
11. Alleluia, No.1
12. Cherubic Hymn (Special melody: The thief beheld)
13. A mercy of peace
14. It is truly meet
15. Our Father / One is holy / Praise the Lord, No.1
16. Praise the Lord from the heavens, No.2
17. I will receive the cup, No.2
18. Their proclamation has gone out, No.2
19. Rejoice in the Lord
20. Receive the Body of Christ, No.1,2,1
21. Blessed be the name of the Lord
22. Psalm
23. All of creation
24. Troparion for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
25. Let my prayer arise
26. Now the Powers of heaven
27. Taste and see
28. Thy bridal chamber
29. The wise thief, No.2
30. The wise thief, No.3
31. Let all mortal flesh
32. What shall we call you, Mary

Customer Reviews:

Just heavenly.......2007-01-30

An extraordinary, original collection of vocal music that defies categorization. An inspiring pleasure to own.

Average customer rating: Jazzy Smooth Vocals!!

Give Him Your Life We R Perswaded Manufacturer: We R Perswaded ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005RHEQ Release Date: 2001-10-06

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. All RIght
3. Happiness
4. Give Love
5. Give Me A Clean Heart
6. Waiting
7. Brand New Life
8. I'm Leaning - What A Fellowship
9. Our Psalm 23
10. Passing Through
11. Rock of Ages
12. Cleanse Me
13. Give Him Your Life
14. Thank You
15. Keep the Faith
16. Faith Remix
17. Spirit of the Living God

Album Description

The debut gospel CD by a versatile upcoming group. A cappella, latin flavor, carribean rhythms, hymns, jazz, Urban - it's all here. A MUST HAVE for your gospel collection.

Customer Reviews:

Jazzy Smooth Vocals!!.......2002-03-06

Well I must say that my boyz are doin their thang for the Lord! They have a distinct sound that's all their own! Move over Commissioned, Take 6, Men of Standard and make room for We R Perswaded! The group certainly deserves all the accolades because their flow is Jazzy Smooth! R&B, Jazz, urban/hip-hop, soul, carribean flavors...its all there! My favorite songs are "Give Me A Clean Heart", "Give Love", "Cleanse Me" and Keep the Faith". Do yourself a favor and pick up their CD today. You're gonna luv it!!

Average customer rating: Flying on the Viewless Wings of Poesy Playful Mera and the over-zealous pianist Excellent, if a bit of an oddity The travails of life melt away listening to "Nightingale." Haunting

Nightingale: Japanese Art Songs Manufacturer: Bis ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mother's Songs - Japanese Popular Songs Romance ASIN: B0000016PT Release Date: 2000-08-07

Tracks:

1. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Cherry Blossoms Lane
2. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Songs Of Aiyan - Noskai
3. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Songs Of Aiyan - Rabit-ear Irides
4. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Songs Of Aiyan - Song of Aiyan
5. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Songs Of Aiyan - Higanbana
6. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Songs Of Aiyan - Caprice
7. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Six Songs For Children - The Weasel
8. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Six Songs For Children - Gourds
9. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Six Songs For Children - Autumn Fields
10. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Six Songs For Children - Saury Fish
11. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Six Songs For Children - Karariko
12. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Six Songs For Children - The Snow Maiden
13. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Uguisu
14. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Japanese Flute - Ina
15. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Japanese Flute - Sailing Out
16. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Japanese Flute - Yanshichi Of Yabe
17. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Four Songs Of Dusk - Dusk Is A Huge Book...
18. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Four Songs Of Dusk - Who Turns The Light Off...
19. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Four Songs Of Dusk - In The Next Room With Nobody In...
20. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Four Songs Of Dusk - For The Night To Receive The Dead...
21. Nightingale - Japanese Art Songs: Cherry Blossoms Lane

Customer Reviews:

Flying on the Viewless Wings of Poesy.......2006-09-01

I was quite impressed with this CD. I'm not very knowledgeable about classical vocals, but the music on "Nightingale" reminded me somewhat of the songs written by Schubert with lyrics by Goethe I learned about back in Music Appreciation class in college. Most of the selections here are light-hearted and simple with a mild undertone of melancholy, though "The Snow Maiden" is somewhat darker in feel (rather like "The Erl King") and the "Four Songs of Dusk" are positively eerie. As for the vocalist himself, Yoshikazu Mera has an incredible voice, clearly a native endowment of talent that he has fine-tuned with practice and training into a precision instrument. I was struck by the way he not only just sings the words but evokes their mood with his singing, summoning them forth as it were, so that the listener not only hears but really feels the lyrics.

This album was interesting to me in other ways, too, besides its primary appeal as twentieth century classical music. It brought to my attention a whole genre of music in modern Japan, and most of the selections are key pieces in this tradition, giving this CD much value in terms of "music history" more generally and "Japanese cultural history" more specifically. Furthermore, the texts of the lyrics in these pieces are taken from key Japanese poets such as Kitahara Hakushu, Sato Haruo, Kato Shuichi, and Tanikawa Shuntaro, so there is much of interest here for anyone into Japanese literature as well.

Many thanks to my Amazon friend Nurit David for suggesting this fine CD.

Playful Mera and the over-zealous pianist.......2006-04-20

This CD has to be one of Mera's best. That said it's not particularly original and verges on being a shade dull in places. "How could this be possible"?, I hear you ask. The answer is simple. Whilst Mera's voice is pure and sweet; soars and sweeps with the grace and elegance one has come to expect from this world-class artist, Kikuko OGURA on the piano has a lot to learn. We have bought the disc because we want to listen to Mera, not some heavy-handed, over-zealous support act that is drowning out the main attraction. The piano is clumsly, heavy and not quite at the same level of excellence as Mera, that coupled with the sheer blandness of the playing gives the impression the composition was not considered nearly enough. The producer believing that shoddy production levels and poor balance would be compensated for Mera's angelic tones was WRONG. This CD finds Mera in a playful mood, but TWENTY-ONE TRACKS of clunky piano and Mera's vocals (however brilliant) is enough to test the patience of even the most ardent fan.

Excellent, if a bit of an oddity.......2002-05-13

These are true 'Art songs', Japanese Lieder, and I'm not sure that many Japanese would be familiar with these songs which are some distance from classical folk songs like Esashi oiwake. Mera's voice of course is exemplary, and credit to BIS for including the full Japanese sung texts (in Japanese script), along with accurate English translations.

The travails of life melt away listening to "Nightingale.".......1999-03-01

Yoshikazu Mera, the counter-tenor from Japan, is, perhaps, the finest classical voice I have ever heard. Now, I say "classical voice" as if I knew what I was talking about but here is what I mean: when it comes to a singer, male or female, interpreting the works of Strauss, Handel, Bach, etc., there is no finer counter-tenor in the world than Mera in my humble opinion. His command of his vocal cords is so precise and so hauntingly consistent that I have been spiritually transported to places I have never been before thanks to this man's incredible gift for nailing down notes with precision and grace. I wish the President of the United States would showcase this man's work at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts because then America could become familiar with the world-class counter-tenor we simply know as Yoshikazu Mera. He would, I believe, leave everyone who heard him in person bereft of words and filled, to the brim, with awe. I wish my words were as eloquent as his voice but they are not so you will just have to get a copy of this excellent CD and what I consider to be the companion piece, "Romance." Happy listening!!

Haunting.......1999-01-18

When I first heard Mera, I was taken aback by the quality of his voice. A sampler disc arrived with a Gramophone magazine and it took me some time to get around to listening to it, thinking that he was "just another counter-tenor". However, it became apparent very quickly that Yoshikazu Mera is not "just another counter-tenor". His voice floats, it soars. It is haunting, sometimes it seems to come from another world. I have also listened to his Baroque recordings, but this disc (as well as the recent "Romance") sets Mera apart from the other counter-tenors. The material on "Nightingale" is very evocative and Mera paints beautiful pictures with the shadings in his voice.

Average customer rating:

Music from Russian Monasteries & Churches Manufacturer: Capriccio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Orthodox Chants from Russia Bortnyansky: Sacred Concertos for Double Choir, Vol. 6 Russian Divine Liturgy ASIN: B000001WS3 Release Date: 1996-05-21

Tracks:

1. Intro: Our Father
2. Monastery Songs: Heavenly Powers Serve Now Invisibly With Us
3. Monastery Songs: Extract From The Akathistos For The Holiest Mother Of God
4. Monastery Songs: O Most Marvellous Miracle!
5. Monastery Songs: Let Us, O Lord, Keep This Evening Without Sin!
6. Monastery Songs: God Is With Us!
7. Monastery Songs: Bortnianski No.7: Cheruvikon
8. Christmas Hymns: All The Angels In Heaven Do Rejoice, And Every Man On Earth
9. Christmas Hymns: Extracts From The Canon Of Matins For Christmas Morning
10. Christmas Hymns: Stichire For The Feast Of The Nativity
11. Chor Conc: Hear, O Lord, My Voice, And Receive My Prayer!
12. Easter Hymn: Christ Has Risen From The Dead
13. Composers Of The 'Moscow School': Friendly Light Of Holy Splendour - Vladimir Makarov
14. Composers Of The 'Moscow School': Glory Be To God On High And Peace On Earth To All Men!
15. Composers Of The 'Moscow School': Save, O God, Thy People And Bless Thy Inheritance - Vladimir Surgenko
16. Old Religious Songs: How Glorious Is Our Lord In Zion!
17. Old Religious Songs: Heaven And Earth, Rejoice, For Christ Is Born!
18. Wish For Blessing: For Many Years!

Average customer rating: General recommendation Fantastic buy

Nystedt: Sacred Choral Music Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Immortal Nystedt [Hybrid SACD] Requiem Eternal Rest - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale Lauridsen: Northwest Journey Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, etc. / Salamunovich, Los Angeles Master Chorale ASIN: B00000JCFK Release Date: 1999-06-22

Tracks:

1. If You Receive My Words, Op.61 No.4
2. Thou, O Lord
3. Stabat Mater, Op.111
4. Miserere, Op.140
5. Die Gute Des Herrn, Op.125
6. Immortal Bach
7. O Crux, Op.79
8. Peace I Leave With You, Op.43 No.2

Customer Reviews:

General recommendation.......2003-11-13

Knut Nystedt was born in 1915, and is still alive and active in 2003 to my knowledge. He has been knighted by HM King Olav V of his native Norway for his contribution to music. He also has numerous other awards for his work, inclucing a Distinguished Service Citation from the Augsburg College in Minneapolis for his contributions to US musical life. He specialises in choral music and started "The Norwegian Soloists Choir", who have premiered a great many of his original compositions, but he has also composed orchestral music. His works are performed all over the world. He studied with Aaron Copeland, amongst others, and his style is unmistakably modern. His compositions vary in intensity from ppp to fff, use a modern tonal language and choral effects like hovering chords. He is usually excellent at the balancing act between creativity and unlistenability - most of the works I know are just very interesting.

It's a shame only this recoring of his choral music is available on Amamzon, because several others exist.

If you like choral music by Britten, Kodaly or Pärt, you should definitely give this a try!

Fantastic buy.......2001-10-26

This CD is worth the price. The music is hauntingly beautiful, the immortal Bach track makes your spine tingle in that familiar way (music-lovers will understand...). The singing is fantastic - overtones are present with the impecable intonation. All in all a good buy with hours of repeated listening provided.

Average customer rating: Beauty

Receive the Flame Non Manufacturer: Mute ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00003CK61 Release Date: 1999-12-06

Tracks:

1. Alpha
2. Spectre
3. Everlasting Fire
4. Solitude
5. Monism
6. Medici Mass
7. Sangraal
8. Omega

Customer Reviews:

Beauty.......2000-06-11

Haunting moments and assaults of sound to loudly relax into. Astonishing, damn beautiful noise.

Average customer rating: A stellar second CD

Ready to Receive Claudia Russell Manufacturer: Radio Rhythm ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Song Food ASIN: B000BP8YXE Release Date: 2005-12-13

Tracks:

1. Ready To Receive
2. Galesburg
3. Oh California
4. White Cross
5. Aurora
6. He Ain't Coming Back
7. Hang On
8. Just Like You
9. Lie To Me
10. Tonight I'll Be Stayin' Here With You
11. Bugs
12. Miss Fortune
13. Stars

Album Description

Ready to Receive is the second CD from Claudia Russell on Radio Rhythm Records. Russell's debut, Song Food, gained play on more than 150 radio stations across North America, Europe and Australia and earned her Best New Artist honors from WUMB-FM in Boston.

Ready To Receive weaves an eclectic tapestry of folk, pop, blues and country into a sound that is distinctively Russell's. Fans of Song Food will find the familiar Russell themes of love, longing and loss, with Russell's expressive vocals right out front and her signature guitar style and husband/partner Bruce Kaplan's mandolin playing right behind her.

Ready To Receive was produced by Russell and Kaplan. It features seven new original songs as well as six inventive interpretations of songs by writers Kyle Johnson, Lori B., Jeff Talmadge, Ted Waterhouse and Bob Dylan.

Rich Warren, host of nationally syndicated radio show, The Midnight Special, wrote in the Fall Issue of Sing Out:

"Singer-songwriter Claudia Russell is a vocalist in the old-fashioned sense. She can really sing. Not only does she have an impressive set of pipes, she interprets songs rather than merely conveying lyrics. She sounds involved with the songs. Ready to Receive is a professional work of strong musicality delivered by a voice superior to most in the crowded field of singer-songwriters."

Daniel Gewertz of the Boston Herald says:

"Sweet-voiced Claudia Russell is recognizably herself on her second independent release, "Ready To Receive," yet the antique, acoustic, elegant string-band approach of "Song Food" has been quite transformed. The new album is sleeker, more electric, less retro, and this time around there are a few modern edges to both the lyrics and the vocals.

There exists on "Ready To Receive" a sense of a life lived, a character explored, a modern west coast womanhood revealed.

The songs of "Ready To Receive" possess an unusually large range of styles and sounds, and even the Russell voice changes course a few times. But the beating heart of the album is constant."

Get Ready To Receive and get ready to hear one of the most distinctive voices on the contemporary folk scene.

Customer Reviews:

A stellar second CD.......2006-02-23

What do you do to follow up a debut CD that was near-perfect? One that brought critical acclaim and garnered you the New Artist of the Year award from Boston's prestigious folk-radio station WUMB? If you're Claudia Russell (and trusty sidekick Bruce Kaplan), you release an eclectically brilliant second CD, "Ready to Receive." While wonderfully complemented here by a cache of fabulous musicians, Russell and Kaplan are a formidable duo---Russell handles guitar (and the occasional omnichord), while being The Voice. And what a voice---sweet, sultry, able to master virtually any genre. And while Russell is a fabulous interpreter/arranger of traditionals and covers, she is also an outstanding songwriter. On "Ready to Receive, " she wrote or co-wrote seven of the 13 tracks. Kaplan is a terrific mandolinist, and a string guru in general, while also being the musical field general.

The eclecticism of the disc isn't restricted to the musical styles---it's also wonderfully varied thematically and by mood. The title track is a beautiful, lilting ode to being finally able to accept love. "Galesburg" evokes the desolation of a cold midwestern train station at night and the demise of a relationship. "Oh California" is a romp that details Russell's love/hate relationship with her state of California. "He Ain't Coming Back" is a gritty, bluesy, vivid picture of a hard-living woman whose husband has left her and their daughter to escape the dreary, mundane life at home. The centerpiece of the CD is Russell's raw, fearful paean to her late mother: "Just Like You" chronicles Russell's coming to grips with being the same age her mother was when she died from breast cancer, and honestly catalogues the range of emotions Russell manifests---it's a harmonica-driven wailer whose melodic urgency echoes the racing of the narrator's emotions.

Jeff Talmadge's "Lie to Me" is an irresistible tune that all-too-accurately describes the way we long to hear lies from an object of affection, in the face of the unpleasant truth. "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" is a compelling Newgrass-y take on Dylan's chestnut. The disc ends with three very different songs: "Bugs" is a moodily charming fantasia of an afternoon in the garden, and even manages to include "ocarina" in its narration. "Miss Fortune," authored by Lori B, is a thumping old-timey piece that could easily be a part of Leon Redbone's repertoire (perhaps in conjuction with the Dresden Dolls), and yet its arrangement can't disguise the darkness at its core. It's a bit of a musical oxymoron---the oompah bass and accordion want you to believe that it's a lark, but the lyrics are another story altogether. Russell's vocals are wonderful here---plaintive, emotive, and spot-on. The CD's coda is "Stars," an absolute gem that Russell co-wrote with Anny Celsi. The melody and tasteful arrangement allow The Voice to demonstrate all its tremble-inducing beauty---vocals that bring a smile to your face while also resonating with our innate sadness---much like the awesome, gelid beauty of a star in a midnight-blue sky. Russell and Kaplan are stars, and if there's any justice anywhere, the rest of a discerning music public will find that out.

Average customer rating: Excellent Conrad Praetzal - Receive interesting fusion of east and west

Receive Conrad Praetzel Manufacturer: Paleo Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Long Gone West Of My Native Land En Trance Golden State ASIN: B00000INSG Release Date: 1998-11-01

Tracks:

1. Devi
2. I Am What I Am
3. Tarana
4. Ropes and Ladders
5. Eternal Wife
6. Ferryman
7. Jogan
8. Elder Days
9. Fish That Walk On Land

Album Description

On Receive ethno-ambient composer Conrad Praetzel seduces his listeners with an exotic combination of Sufi mysticism and electro-organic rhythmic grooves. The album feature sufi vocalist, Sukhawat Ali Khan, son of the renowned Ustad Ali Khan of Pakistan and guitarist Robert Powell.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent .......2007-08-02

This CD is a great mix of Indian and groove, although there are a ton of CD's that do this combination, this is among the best. Great driving or late night or just reading a book type music. Very good musicionship on this CD. A 5-star CD

Conrad Praetzal - Receive.......1999-12-10

Conrad Praetzal - Receive (Paleo Music PAL4004-2) - 1998 Style = World Fusion

Having a particular liking for Asian music it was a great treat for me to hear this refreshing 'East/West blend of spirit and groove'.

While many world fusion albums feature cut up samples of field recordings, often used with little thought to the original singer or song, it is so good to hear a live vocalist feature on an album of this genre. Listening to Sukhawat Ali Kahn's Quawalli like singing, lifting his voice to passionate heights while becoming caught up in the energy of 'Devi' or 'Eternal Wife' - both of which hit your dancing feet - you soon realise what some other releases actually lack in emotion.

Comparisons to Nusfrat Ali Kahn's 'Musst Musst' or James Asher's 'Tigers of the Raj' can easily be made here as true fusion, no matter what the genres, works best when the mix of two styles or sounds brings out an unexpected third. Though the instruments are chopped around, from traditional to modern to a combination of the two, sometimes from verse to verse, sometimes from phrase to phrase, the eastern rhythms are constant. Add Conrad's blend of unusual sounds and Robert Powell's guitar work and you have dynamics and colour exciting the listener's interest from start to finish. In fact the more I listen to 'Receive' the more unusual textures I find; always the sign of a good album as far as I'm concerned.

Flowing smoothly, the pace is varied with styles from the subtle to funky. Particular up-tempo favourites include the instrumental 'Ropes and Ladders' that has the hips-a-swaying with its deep south slide guitar moving centre stage over a simmering backing. Or there's 'I Am What I Am' featuring Prophet Omega's radio sermon gliding over wah-wah rhythm guitar and a bass you feel more than hear, with rhythmically changing drums and percussion. A 'Somebody Help Me' (from 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts') for the nineties.

A special mention should also be made of the child-like innocence Sachiko Kanenobu's voice adds to the lighter sounding, chill-out groove of 'Elder Days'. Very mellow.

In all a worthy, highly recommended addition to any world fusion collection.

+++++++++++++

Copyright - Neil Leacy 1999

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interesting fusion of east and west.......1999-11-07

 

Conrad Praetzel- Receive ( Paleo Music PAL 4004-2)

After some initial hesitation, I got to quite like this record. This is yet another east meets west fusion record, one of many out there. Asiabeat from Malaya have done this sort of thing to death but I still get a kick from hearing other people having a go. Overall the mood is contemporary, almost new age world music. Soft synthesisers merge with bass lines, percussive rhythms with an almost African Arabic bent at times as well as Pakistani Qawali vocal techniques. The production on this is first rate, it sounds tight and clean. Praetzel, who I may add I am not familiar with (anyone out there have a web site on the guy, a search on the net proved fruitless ) plays keyboards, mandolins, and acoustic guitar. He also has a first rate line up of musicians to help him along including Sukhawat Ali Khan on vocals, Robert Powell on dobros and electric slide guitar, electric sitar, Solomon Feldthouse on ney flutes and oud and Sachiko Kanenobu on vocals. Short of Khan, I'm not familiar with anyone here including Conrad Praetzel, but it's all very entertaining at the end of the day. The music ambles along, it never seems to be in any hurry. One of the tracks uses a sample of a sermon and puts a beat on top of this. Mr Byrne and Eno of course did this years ago on My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, except it was an exorcism of sorts, but it's still interesting. with the sitars twanging away and a good rhythmic pace maintained. Most people who have heard this either at my home or on air have commented that it's a bit 'herbal'. Keep in mind this recording is all of four to six years old depending on the material, and it is earthy stuff. I've often commented on the fact that the value of this is that it can introduce people to a new hybrid of sound. This record is not going to set the world on fire, but a good record is a good record, and at the end of the day it stands up to repeated listening. Overall this is due to the calibre of musicians onboard this project.

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The Carnegie Hall Concert