Windy [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Product Description
24 Bit/96 Khz Digitally Remastered Japanese Version. Part of the 'bossa Nova Forever' Series.

Windy,Astrud Gilberto,Universal,World Music

Average customer rating: The vinyl version is better Do some research! Missed oportunity! Two classic scores! Missing the Best

Patton/The Flight of the Phoenix Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wilder | Wilder, Alec | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Fantastic Voyage Batman Tora! Tora! Tora! Take a Hard Ride Rio Conchos ASIN: B0006SSQH0 Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

1. Main Title [From Patton]
2. Battle Ground [From Patton]
3. Cemetary [From Patton]
4. First Battle [From Patton]
5. Funeral [From Patton]
6. Hospital [From Patton]
7. Prayer [From Patton]
8. No Assignment [From Patton]
9. Entr'acte [From Patton]
10. Attack [From Patton]
11. German Advance [From Patton]
12. Eloquent Man [From Patton]
13. Pay-Off [From Patton]
14. Change in the Weather [From Patton]
15. Pensive Patton/End Titles [From Patton]
16. Airborne [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
17. Main Title [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
18. Windy/Heartbreak [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
19. Brave Sargent [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
20. Harris Leaves [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
21. Senza Fine [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
22. Gabriele's Death [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
23. Water [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
24. Let's Get Back to Work [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
25. Caravan [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
26. Naughty Boy [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
27. Model Planes [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
28. Difference [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
29. Propeller [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
30. That Big Pull [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
31. Rest Stop/The Ground Run [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
32. Going Up [From the Flight of the Phoenix]
33. Swimming Hole/Finale [From the Flight of the Phoenix]

Customer Reviews:

The vinyl version is better.......2006-02-19

This is the film version, and it is inferior to the original album release. Often times, soundtrack releases differed from their film versions because composers could tweak passages here and there and get a relaxex, dedicated recording, away from the harsh deadlines of film making. The result was often glorious, as was the case for Jerry Goldsmith's Patton.

Add the famous George C. Scott speeches as prologue and epilogue and you have a classic. But only on vinyl. The vinyl version has better audio quality and is a better performance. It is a shame we are stuck with this dubbed version, which ironically is available on the Patton DVD as well.

Do some research!.......2006-01-14

This is a great CD for collectors. This is the ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK to the film. These arrangements are the ones that were ACTUALLY USED in the film, NOT the ones that were on the album with the speeches. So, if you are looking for the opening and closing speeches, you won't find them here.
Why?
Because there are actually THREE different versions of the score for this FANTASTIC film.
There was another version conducted by Jerry Goldsmith in 1997.
And.... there was ANOTHER one that was recorded in 1970. THAT is the one with the speeches. As far as I know, it has NEVER been released on CD. Hopefully, at some point, someone will see fit to release that version. Personally, I feel those are the best arrangements of the music used in the film. Or, better yet, make a special edition using all 3 versions.
So, you should be HAPPY to have THIS version as well.
By the way, I believe this info is in the liner notes of this CD.

Missed oportunity!.......2006-01-06

While I can appreciate that this release is a very competent recreation of the musical content of the original vinyl, I too was totally dismayed at the absence of Patton's speeches(as delivered by George C Scott) which are virtually inseparable from the music for anyone who owned the original vinyl release.All of which subsequently leaves this release a rather hollow experience.

Two classic scores!.......2005-11-22

This cd includes Frank DeVol's score for the Robert Aldrich classic, "Flight of the Phoenix"; an exciting score for an equally exciting movie. Goldsmith's justifiably famous score for Patton features the original recordings, including the haunting "echoplexed" trumpets. Also, the previous reviewer's one-star rating is rather inexplicable considering this is FILM SCORE release. Why would soundbites from the film be included? Bizarre. All-in-all a great package and a limited edition (only 3,000 copies). Get yours while you can - you won't be disappointed!

Missing the Best .......2005-06-25

This album does not have Patton's opening speech or the closing "All Glory is Fleeting" speech. It misses the two most important segments of the original soundtrack.

Average customer rating: I love it! Great fun for young and old! This is an excellent source of kind, gentle, fun music! I feel that this music is top quality and suitable for child

Stories and Songs for Little Children Pete Seeger Manufacturer: High Windy Audio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Revival | Folk | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Folk Music | Children's Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes Little & Big: Animal Folk Songs American Folk, Game and Activity Songs for Children Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger Abiyoyo (And Other Songs and Stories) Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child ASIN: B000008RZN Release Date: 2000-02-09

Tracks:

1. Skip To My Lou
2. Foolish Frog
3. Raccoon's Got A Bushy Tail
4. Green Grass Grew All Around
5. Mister Rabbitt
6. Frog Went A-Courting
7. She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain
8. I Know An Old Lady
9. Abiyoyo

Customer Reviews:

I love it!.......2006-12-24

I had this as a cassette tape as a child. Pete Seeger's voice is one of the most comforting memories of my childhood. I still sing these songs to myself these days. They make fantastic lullabies and are also great for listening to in the car.
In short: it's simple, calming, and pleasant.

Great fun for young and old!.......1999-10-22

This is wonderful collection of folk songs! You probably haven't heard many of these in a long time. Of all of the tapes that we play in the car on our daily commute to school and work, this one is a favorite! I particularly like the one about the Foolish Frog. Many times I catch myself humming that tune. Pete Seeger is a great story teller and I a thrilled that my children enjoy listening to him as much as I do.

This is an excellent source of kind, gentle, fun music!.......1998-12-06

We have enjoyed Pete Seeger singing to us and our family for many years. This music is kind and gentle, like a loving old uncle. Its very simply. There aren't any dancing dinosaurs or froggy puppets, just a guy, his banjo and his great songs. You can enjoy the music, learn it, and make up your own verses. Just let it be a part of you and your children.

I feel that this music is top quality and suitable for child.......1998-11-11

This cd has music on it from another time, which helps teach children of different varieties of music and helps educate them about the past...I know that when I was a child I was alway asking my folks questions about when they were kids, and this cd will spur their imagination and curiosity. I highly recommend it for children of all ages as I myself have three children ages 6-9-10, I will not allow them to listen to most music today, but I will encourage them to listen to this cd and even sing along with them, it's great fun.

Average customer rating: Know what you are buying A superb addition to any music library collection A Convert! the master's life, with guitar, banjo, and harmonica

Legacy Doc Watson , and David Holt Manufacturer: High Windy Audio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Old-Time Country | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music Folk | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: Third Generation Blues Clarence Ashley And Doc Watson: The Original Folkways Recordings, 1960-1962 [2-CD Set] Trouble in Mind: Doc Watson Country Blues Collection Doc Watson on Stage (Featuring Merle Watson) Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues ASIN: B000065DTI Release Date: 2002-04-09

Tracks:

1. Cousin Sally Brown
2. "I played like the rest of the boys"
3. "Dad was a harmonica player"
4. "The king's treasure"
5. Deep River Blues
6. "Cat with ten lives"
7. Ruben's Train
8. "Learn to pick it good"
9. Georgie Buck
10. Darlin' Cory
11. "Doc's First Guitar"
12. When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
13. "Leaving Home"
14. Never No More Blues
15. "Wood Sheddin'"
16. Beaumont Rag
17. "Fingerstyle Guitar"
18. Freight Train

Tracks:

1. Sittin' on Top of the World
2. "Playin' in the street"
3. Down the Road
4. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
5. "The woman from wildcat"
6. "The legend of Tom Dooley"
7. Tom Dooley
8. "Hitting the road"
9. "Going Solo"
10. "Top of the heap"
11. The Tennessee Stud
12. "Building Bridges"
13. Ready for the Times to Get Better
14. "Living the blues"
15. "Blessed"
16. Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms

Tracks:

1. Whiskey Before Breakfast/ Ragtime Annie
2. Shady Grove
3. Whoop 'Em Up Cindy
4. Otto Wood
5. "Dad taught me to play harmonica"
6. Old Molly Hare
7. Home Sweet Home
8. Railroad Bill
9. Train That Carried My Girl From Town
10. Walk On
11. "Bantar vs. Gitjo"
12. Don't Get Weary
13. Black-Eyed Susie
14. The Telephone Girl
15. Stand By Me
16. Just to Ease My Worried Mind
17. Raincrow Bill/ Hambone Rhythm
18. I Got the Blues and I Can't Be Satisfied

Album Description

A revealing and entertaining portrait of a man who, for more than half a century, has been a force in the creation, interpretation and preservation of American roots music.

This collector's edition contains three CD's of newly recorded conversation and song, as well as a 72-page companion book filled with historical photos, stories and interviews from Doc Watson and his longtime friend and collaborator, David Holt. Together they pass on to you Doc's inspiring life story and generous musical legacy.

Customer Reviews:

Know what you are buying.......2006-11-23

This review is meant to point out that this 3 CD set is made up of a lot of spoken word interviews. Folks should know what they are buying since this set is fairly expensive. I love Doc Watson, he is a national treasure. I saw him live with David Holt awhile back, it was a very enjoyable evening, just as this set is if you are in the mood for the wondrous stories behind the man and his experiences. Think of it as a superb podcast, if you are going on a road trip and want stories and music, this is an excellent choice. But, if you are looking for just music, you might be frustrated. Most of the songs have talking as part of the cut, so if you tire of hearing the stories and just want music, you might be better served by Doc's many other great discs. I particularly like "Elementary Doctor Watson" and the two fer "Live & Pickin' / Doc And The Boys."

A superb addition to any music library collection.......2002-10-10

Legacy showcases the legendary life and work of Doc Watson in this three-disc collection featuring a concert CD with Grammy-Award Winter David Holt. Two the CDs of songs and conversation look back over Doc's 79 years in a informative and solidly entertaining presentation. The discs comprising this unique and highly recommended collection include Beginnings (18 songs ranging from Cousin Sally Brown and Deep River Blues, to Beaumont Rag and Freight Train); A Life In Music (16 selections ranging from Sittin' on Top of the World and Down the Road, to The Tennessee Stud, and Tom Dooley); and The Legacy Concert (18 cuts ranging from Shady Grove and Old Molly Hare, to Don't Get Weary and Stand By Me). Legacy would make a superb addition to any music library collection and is a "must" for the legions of Doc Watson fans everywhere.

A Convert!.......2002-07-30

Wow. How did I miss this guy for the past few decades?!?!? I love blues music, and traditional blues led me in a roundabout way to Doc Watson. Anyone who loves music with a FEELING should buy this album. He has one of the smoothest, most soulful guitar styles I've ever heard. He can play harp with the best of them and he plays a mean banjo as well! His stories about his life in music are priceless. This is easily one of the best CD collections I've purchased in a long, long time.

the master's life, with guitar, banjo, and harmonica.......2002-04-24

In recent months two Doc Watson CDs have documented this American master at the beginning of a career and, nearing 80, in career twilight. The first of these, preserving performances from the early 1960s, is At Gerdes Folk City (Sugar Hill). The second, recorded in the late 1990s, is this wonderfully conceived and brilliantly executed retrospective.

Having followed Watson's work since 1967, when I purchased Home Again! (Vanguard) -- still among my favorite of his recordings -- I am certainly familiar with his music, but Legacy tells me things about his life I didn't know, thanks to David Holt's friendly but probing questions. The first two discs intersperse conversation with music, to riveting effect. Watson candidly addresses everything from his blindness to his musical influences to his career highs and lows to his continuing grief over the death, in 1985, of his beloved son and musical partner Merle. Disc #3 is a live Watson/Holt concert, mostly songs and instrumentals but with some talking, including a history of the real Otto Wood, star of the North Carolina outlaw ballad Watson has sung for at least four decades.

Obviously comfortable in Holt's company and energized by his enthusiasm, Watson plays and sings at his best, which is very good indeed. An excellent accompanying booklet takes up where the interviews leave off, with lots of great photographs. No Doc Watson fan will want to be without this winning and worthy tribute to a hero of traditional Southern music.

Average customer rating: Great Hits from Sigmund Romberg

Great Hits from Sigmund Romberg Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Romberg, Sigmund | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Music of Sigmund Romberg Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Songs of Victor Herbert A Victor Herbert Showcase: The Greatest Hits of the Father of American Popular Song Deep in My Heart The Desert Song / The New Moon ASIN: B000000X26 Release Date: 1992-06-12

Tracks:

1. The Desert Song: It
2. Maytime: Waltz Medley
3. Girl Of The Golden West: Who Are We To Say?
4. The New Moon: Introduction - Stout Hearted Men - Lover Come Back To Me - Girl On The Prow - Try Her Out At Dances - Wanting You - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise - One Kiss - Finale
5. Nina Rosa: The Gaucho March
6. The Desert Song: Waltz
7. Viennese Nights: Introduction - I Bring You A Love Song - Here We Are - You Will Remember Vienna - Regimental March
8. Blossom Time: Song Of Love
9. My Maryland: Introduction - Dixie - Boys In Grey - Mother - Silver Moon - Your Land Is My Land
10. Bimbo: In Old Granada
11. The Desert Song: Introduction - Riff Song - One Flower In Your Garden - Waltz - The Foreign Legion - Romance - One Alone
12. Maytime: Farewell To Dreams
13. Nina Rosa: Your Smiles, Your Tears
14. The New Moon: Marienne
15. The New Moon: Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
16. Nina Rosa: My First Love, My Last Love
17. Viennese Nights: I Bring A Love Song
18. The Night Is Young: When I Grow Too Old To Dream
19. The Student Prince: Intorduction - Arrival Of The Prince - Serenade - Deep In My Heart, Dear - Drinking Song - Just We Two - Students' March Song

Customer Reviews:

Great Hits from Sigmund Romberg.......2007-01-04

Excellent audio product, especially considering its age and the state of technology.

Average customer rating: extreme static wow Not to be listened to while driving A vast and forbidding landscape of great beauty Drone on

Antarctica (The Bliss Out, Vol. 2) Windy & Carl Manufacturer: Darla Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Consciousness Dream House/Dedications to Flea Depths The Ballasted Orchestra Avec Laudenum ASIN: B000005EKO Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

1. Antarctica
2. Traveling
3. Sunrise

Customer Reviews:

extreme static.......2005-02-16

as a fan of godspeed you black emperor, and other experimental epic bands, i found windy and carl through a perusal of kranky's catalog. if i hadn't bought this with a free gift card, i would've rated it a one. i am personally a fan of music using loops (boards of canada, hip hop in general), but the extent to which w&c play out their simple loops exceeds that of which i can tolerate. i once played this cd with the fast-forward button on, and i realized that i could hear the entire song in the first thirty seconds. the rest of the twenty minutes (in the case of the first song) is simply restating the same basic loop without any tangible alterations. i do not reccommend buying this cd.

wow.......2003-04-10

Wow. Like, wow. I've been listening to this album almost every night when I go to bed for a year now, and I'm still not sick of it. The warm textures and lullaby melodies massage your brain into a state of utter contentment. It's like being snuggled into a soft blanket as a child, on Christmas Eve, with a kitten, on Valium.

Not to be listened to while driving.......2001-07-25

Classified as "space-rock," a term that even mystifies Windy & Carl themselves, this album does not rock. Windy & Carl are not about so much about "songs" as they are about gorgeous sonic textures. At first, the three tracks on this disc may sound like exercises in self-indulgence, but on more careful listening, the listener will discover the slight variations and the way the sound waves interact and play off one another. Sheer aural beauty.

A vast and forbidding landscape of great beauty.......2000-08-17

The 20-minute title track has to be Windy & Carl's masterwork, a triumph of minimalism. There's nothing to it but a looped scratch like a stuck record, a wavering bass drone, and several layers of guitar. Nearly formless and yet utterly hypnotic, it summons up the feeling of flying at great speed above endless icy terrain (or maybe I'm just reading too much into the title...) The other two tracks are lighter, venturing more into Frippertronics category a la Fripp & Eno's classic "Evening Star"...

Drone on.......1999-09-27

This is Windy & Carl's contribution to the DARLA BLISS OUT series, consisting of three non-separated tracks, the epic here being the 20-minute one-chord track "Antarctica"...the music moves slow but never fails to interest, but it's best played as something to put you down, other Windy & Carl releases aren't so severe in this ditch...

Average customer rating: the sound of love IGLOOMAG.com's Review by Mat Propek... Drifting meditations on life and death.

Dream House/Dedications to Flea Windy & Carl Manufacturer: Kranky ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Consciousness Antarctica (The Bliss Out, Vol. 2) Depths The Dead Texan When the Detail Lost Its Freedom ASIN: B000BU2D2W Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

1. Eternal Struggle
2. I Have Been Waiting to Hear Your Voice

Tracks:

1. Ode to a Dog
2. Sketch for Flea

Customer Reviews:

the sound of love.......2006-10-22

I saw Windy and Carl perform live in a small venue in front of a small audience several years ago in Pittsburgh, PA. All I thought about (when I was still able to think) was how big and beautiful their sound was, coming from two guitars and effects pedals. Soon I was off in some other place, their music trasnporting me somewhere "beyond".

"Dream House/Dedication to Flea" is a nicely priced double disc collection of four long songs displaying what the duo do best--dive deep into the listener's subconscious like some kind of worm to the core of an apple, burrying it's blue-hued tone washes into the deepest depths of your brain.

The first Disc, "Dream House" is a sort of musical dedication to a deceased loved one, but it's in no way sad or depressing, but rather uplifting, with the additional use of ambient synth tones, akin to Eno's best atmospheric work. "Dedication to Flea" has a more straightforward, even organic feel to the guitars, and a rhythmic pacing is more obvious on this disc, perhaps mimicking the walking of the very dog this cd was recorded for. It's the more interesting of the two as well, mainly for the use of their deceased pooch's panting, slurping, and walking sounds--a different kind of field recording.

This is sentimental music without being sappy. It's a refreshing breath of sincerity to, in a world dominated by ironic and fake music. The extensive liner notes, eloquently written by Windy, and the wonderful photography are a fine compliment to the music on this great, lengthy release. I've got lots of Windy and Carl cds and am never disappointed by any of their stuff. This album fosters the lost art of listening--deep listening. If you enjoy expansive, sprawling ambient music made with lots of love then don't hesitate to track this down and support the fine people who bring you these sounds.

IGLOOMAG.com's Review by Mat Propek..........2006-01-06

IGLOOMAG.com's Review by Mat Propek
(01.06.06) It has been five years since the evocative drone sounds of Windy & Carl have hung suspended at the outer edge of your hearing. Releasing their new material in a double CD set, Kranky offers two lengthy EPs that are connected by their themes of memory and loss as well as the eternal hum of captive drones which haunt their work. The Dream House circles about ideas of death, loss and dreams while Dedications to Flea (released last year in a limited run by Brainwashed.com) are memorial works to their recently passed dog, Flea. Both EPs offer the listener vast opportunities for psychic expansion as the drones and stretched tones resonate in your cranium.

The Dream House -- two tracks: the thirty-minute "The Eternal Struggle" and the twelve-minute "I Have Been Waiting to Hear Your Voice" -- contains sprawling affairs of limitless drones and slowing evolving guitar tones. The first six minutes of "The Eternal Struggle" alone barely exists as anything other than an amorphous chord. Eventually the guitar floats in as if it has been gently rocked back and forth by the tide for so long that it has lost all shape and edge, gliding up onto a blank shoreline like a flat sheen of oil. After eleven minutes the opening chord has drained away until it is just an echo in the background while the guitar is layering waves of sound, trailing harmonic overtones in its wake like the long fingers of ancient jellyfish. Built as an elegy to the losses we suffer in our lives, the lengthy introspection inspired by the piece lifts one's melancholy into a space of reconciliation and hopefulness. Buoyed by the endless waves of sound, you feel supported and raised up towards a luminous center. You feel like the struggle may not be futile or endless and that, in the end, we all see again those we love and have lost. "The Eternal Struggle" is a piece meant for letting go and realizing the echoes of our lives are always there.

The second part of The Dream House is the tribute to Windy's mother: "I Have Been Waiting To Hear Your Voice." While the pellucid tones color the background, an evocative melody is bent out of worn guitar strings. The melody chases a hint of counterpoint (flute-like in its resonance) like two fuzzy will o' wisps dancing across a field of blurred flowers. Resembling a filmscape left out of focus for stylistic reasons, this track pushes you to internal reflection where your memories are more vivid, more distinct and comforting than the empty reality. Like "The Eternal Struggle," we are blissed with memory which can be triggered by the barest hint of sound and, in which, waves of emotion are wordless and structureless. You just feel them swallow you up and keep you safe.

The second half is their tribute to Flea, their sweet dog who recently passed from old age. "Ode To A Dog" is filled with the hint of sound effects as if someone left the dog in the studio while they were recording these endlessly looping melodies and you can hear him snuffling around in the waste-bin and chewing on the cables. "Sketch For Flea" has a more overt reminder of the dog as it is filled with a field recording of a walk with the dog, listening to him breathe and pant and slobber as he trots along. The music which wafts in behind the dog noises seems almost superfluous to the recording of the favorite animal but, like "Ode To A Dog," there is always music in the air when you are with those you love, or even when you are dreaming about them.

Drifting meditations on life and death. .......2005-11-23

Windy And Carl are one of those groups that I've managed to keep tabs on, despite not managing to review many of their releases on this site. In fact, the last (and only) album that I reviewed by them was their Portal full length, which is more or less their debut (a re-release of their early work). In the years since that time, the duo have refined their sound ever so slightly with each release, and when I heard that they were going to be putting out a limited EP earlier this year dedicated to their dog, I thought it would be a good time to re-discover them.

That release was their Dedications To Flea EP, which was the inaugural release in the Brainwashed handmade series, and hearing it made me glad that I decided to give them another chance. For those that didn't manage to pick up a copy of the limited EP, the group has included it along with The Dream House for a stunning double-dose of music. What you get with the release in total is four tracks and nearly eighty minutes of music split between two discs. The Dream House opens with "The Eternal Struggle," which mixes fuzzy, sustained keyboard chords with low, delayed guitar notes that seem to trickle down into all the right places. Running over thirty minutes, the track is all about slow evolution, but it's absolutely hypnotic, and sparse chimes and closing drone that finish the piece sound like the aural equivalent of clouds parting and letting the last few rays of sun through on a cold winter day.

"I Have Been Waiting To Hear Your Voice" combines more sustained, droning chords with ebow guitar and the result is another subtle piece that shifts in slight ways to slide inside your consciousness and make you feel that despite all the bad things going on, life might just go on. The aforementioned Dedications To Flea is slightly different in source sounds, but no less stunning, as the group mingles field recordings of their departed dog Flea with sparse, but completely lush, layered guitar playing. "Ode To A Dog" is downright uplifting, as overlapping tones dance and mingle with one another while "Sketch For Flea" seems to take a slightly darker turn, as if the entire life of the dog has been compressed into the two long tracks with the happy moments leading into the sad decline of health at the end.

Considering the duo hasn't released a full-length album for almost five years, this long release (split into two beautiful pieces) from Windy And Carl sounds like they haven't skipped a beat. Coupled with beautiful sleeve photography and detailed, heartfelt liner notes written by Windy herself, The Dream House definitely feels like more than just another ambient/drone piece without any thought put into it. If you haven't heard the group before and are interested, this might just be one of the best places to start.

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Average customer rating: Classic early bluegrass by a little-known band

Windy Mountain Lonesome Pine Fiddlers Manufacturer: Bear Family ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000665C5 Release Date: 2002-04-29

Tracks:

1. Pain in My Heart
2. Lonesome, Sad and Blue
3. Don't Forget Me
4. Will I Meet Mother in Heaven
5. You Broke Your Promise
6. I'm Left All Alone
7. Nobody Cares (Not Even You)
8. Twenty One Years
9. My Brown Eyed Darling
10. You Left Me to Cry
11. That's Why You Left Me So Blue
12. I'll Never Make You Blue
13. Honky Tonk Blues
14. You're No Good
15. I'll Never Change My Mind
16. Dirty Dishes Blues
17. Lonesome Pine Breakdown [Instrumental]
18. Five String Drag
19. Don't Forget Me
20. Baby, You're Cheatin'
21. I'm Feeling for You (But I Can't Reach You)
22. Some Kinda Sorry
23. Windy Mountain
24. No Curb Service
25. New Set of Rules
26. There's Just One You

Customer Reviews:

Classic early bluegrass by a little-known band.......2002-06-09

One of the first string bands to switch over to Bill Monroe's new bluegrass style, the Fiddlers featured Curly Ray Cline and Ray Goins... Many of these early '50s recordings also feature vocals from Paul Williams (who has recently reeemerged for some top-notch bluegrass gospel sessions on Rounder...) Not as eerie or evocative as Bill Monroe or Flatt&Scruggs, but still pretty great.

Average customer rating:

Windy City Breakdown Jonathan Cain Band Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Where I Live Back to the Innocence Bare Bones For a Lifetime Piano with a View ASIN: B000CC3S3C Release Date: 2006-01-17

Tracks:

1. Windy City Breakdown
2. Lay Low Joe (Holiday on Ice)
3. Rock It Down
4. Moon Child
5. Rollercoaster Baby
6. Spinning My Wheels
7. Go Now!
8. Your Lady or Your Life

Album Description

Keyboard player Jonathan Cain may best be know as a member of The Babys, Journey & Bad English. But he actually started out with the album Windy City Breakdown under the moniker Jonathan Cain Band. It was originally issued in 1976 on the Bearsville label and is making its worldwide CD debut! Wounded Bird Records. 2005.

Average customer rating: the art of the drone Feel content. warm ambience is fuzzy and shimmering

Consciousness Windy & Carl Manufacturer: Kranky ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Antarctica (The Bliss Out, Vol. 2) Dream House/Dedications to Flea Depths Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum ASIN: B000058DX8 Release Date: 2001-03-19

Tracks:

1. The Sun
2. Balance (Trembling)
3. Elevation
4. The Llama's Dream
5. Consciousness
6. Resolution

Customer Reviews:

the art of the drone .......2006-10-24

Windy and Carl are a duo that have been doing their take on drone music since 1993 or so. Consciousness is by far their most unique and exceptional release. It starts out with "the sun," simple double noted guitar riffs repeated on the upper octaves of the guitar, done as if a kind of mantra. The sound of this track is shimmery and inviting. Shortly afterward the listener is plunged into the subliminal depths of the next two tracks. They are darker and intense sounding, highly atmospheric, in stark contrast to the opening track. "the llama's dream" serves as a gateway to the title track "consciousness," a masterpiece of layered bliss (with the hushed vocals of Windy serving as a bed of comfort). Finally we are brought back down home with the ending track, "resolution."
All in all this is one of my favorite albums in the genres of ambient and drone, and I have heard quite a few. All of the different sounds are put together on this album in a way that makes it very cohesive, in a way that is hard to explain. What I also love is that the duo find ways to use the guitar as a textural instrument in a unique fashion, using layering, little distortion, and multiple effects. The result makes this album a great night time listen. Recommended highly if you love introspective music.

Feel content........2005-08-26

Post-rock is a genre ridden with depressing, cold sound scapes (Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Sigur Ros) that although beautiful, are not for everyone. After purchasing "Lift Your Skinny Fists..." by GYBE!, I was looking up some new post-rock bands when I stumbled upon Windy and Carl.

The website I was on had some free downloads by many indie/obscure artists including the song "conciousness" off this album. The idea of the song seems almost boring: the same chord for 12 and a half minutes with only slight variations to the drone and some weird helicopter noise. I kept the song on my computer but didnt listen to it again until one day it came up on shuffle. I gave it a chance and found that it was one of the most simple yet most beautiful songs I had ever heard. I bought the album and realized that the song i knew was only the tip of the iceberg. The album as a whole completely blew my mind. It is the kind of beauty that you find when you look really closely at a simple everyday thing that you normally blow off or take for granted. One could say this music was boring and that it doesnt do anything interesting, but that would be just looking at the surface. You have to give it a chance, listen to what it truely is and emmerse yourself in the music, and then you find its amazing, simple beauty.

The difference between this and most other post-rock is that it makes you feel at ease and content with the world around you. I highly reccomend it to post-rock fans and anyone looking for a relaxing listen who's willing to try something new. Perfect for meditation, sleeping, and watching clouds.

warm ambience is fuzzy and shimmering.......2001-06-14

clocking in at under 40 minutes, this album is not composed of songs, but landscapes - pieces of structured noise from heavily treated guitars. at first you might think that it is just minute after minute of repetition, and you might be right, unless you listen further, deeper past the most clearly audible noise. carl hultgren relies on heavy reverb, delay and phaser effects on his guitar to produce the otherwordly chime on the opener, and layers sheets of distortion to create the wave effect on balance. the second half of the album finds windy weber whispering hushed and almost indecipherable vocals over a series of blurred tones. windy and carl have used the guitar and bass almost as ambient instruments, like a synthesiser - the heavily processed sounds are reminiscent of an earthier eno or fripp. labradford and stars of the lid are other collectives that employ the beauty of shimmering ambience in their work. i am a big fan of the constellation groups and sonic youth's experimental releases. this album mimics the warmth of godspeed's arpeggio's without the field tapes, drums and strings, and sonic youth's whirlwinds of sound without the abrasives and fractures. it is a beautiful journey, like a dream - like seeing the light at the end of that tunnel, if you believe in all that stuff.

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Reel & Rock David Holt Manufacturer: High Windy Audio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Old-Time Country | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004TGHA Release Date: 2000-02-09

Tracks:

1. Reel & Rock
2. Free Little Bird
3. Dixie Darlin'
4. Cuckoo
5. Texas Bound
6. Preacher and the Bear
7. I've Got You
8. Sail Away
9. Raincrow Bill Goes up Cripple Creek
10. Forked Deer
11. Meeting Is Over
12. Goodbye, Goodbye

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