New World Mosaic

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'You'll love the electro-acoustic wizardry of violinist Shaw'

Product Description
New Age and World instrumental music played by Martin Shaw and company, on a variety of acoustic and electric violins and other string instruments. All tracks are original compositions capturing the sounds and feelings of a variety of different cultures and epochs, linked together by the string family.

New World Mosaic

New World Mosaic,Martin Shaw,Gemsong

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Music from the Once Festival 1961-1966 Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1960s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1960-1969 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000C7PVT Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. Sonata - Robert Ashley
2. Groups For Piano - Robert Ashley
3. String Trio - Edith Perrow
4. Epigram And Evolution - Robert Ashley
5. Sinfonia For 12 Instruments And Magnetic Tape - Once Chamber Orchestra
6. In The Autum Mountains - Shirley Zaft
7. Two Pieces For Piano And Chamber Group - Bruce Wise
8. The Fourth Of July - Robert Ashley

Tracks:

1. Matrix For Clarinetist - John Morgan
2. Wedge - Once Chamber Orchestra
3. Meanwhile, A Twopiece - Robert Ashley
4. Sounds For Eleven - Once Chamber Orchestra
5. Gestures II - Robert Ashley
6. Bestiary I: Eingang - Once Chamber Orchestra
7. Details (2b) - Robert Ashley
8. Ballad - Philip Krumm

Tracks:

1. Large Size Mograph - Larry Leitch
2. Fives - David Maves
3. A Quarter Of Fourpiece - Hartt Chamber Players
4. Two Worlds - Bob James
5. Mosaic - Bob James
6. Pianopiece I - Donald Bohlen
7. Cassiopeia - Donald Bohlen
8. Pianopieces II - Donald Bohlen
9. A Portrait For Vanzetti - David Maves
10. Greys - Gordon Mumma

Tracks:

1. Music For Clocks - Philip Krumm
2. Diotima - Anne Aitchison
3. 7PTPC - Larry Leitch
4. Landscape Journey - John Morgan
5. Advance Of The Fungi - William Albright
6. In Memoriam...Crazy Horse - ONCE Festival Orchestra

Tracks:

1. Music For Three - Robert Ashley
2. Time On Time In Miracles - ONCE Chamber Players
3. Track - ONCE Chamber Ensemble
4. Apple Box Concerto - Pauline Oliveros
5. Quartet - William Albright

Album Description

Ann Arbor, Michigan, seems an unlikely site for the establishment of a major avant-garde festival that would shake the new-music community. Tucked away in America's heartland, the city is equally removed from the Eastern metropolises whose artists pride themselves on sensing the pulse of the times, and from the nonconformist West Coast. Yet during the 1960s Ann Arbor played host to one of the most extraordinary adventures in American music history: the annual ONCE Festival and its nexus of related activities.

The primary aim of ONCE's founders--Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, George Cacioppo, Roger Reynolds, and Donald Scavarda--was to create a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge music. To this end they were phenomenally successful. Performers and composers--whether little-known or renowned--embraced the endeavor, demanding almost nothing in return. Perhaps most important, however, ONCE acted as a creative stimulus for its organizers. Scavarda describes the adventure as an explosion of pent-up energy: "Suddenly we could write anything we wanted and have it heard." And they did. The ONCE composers--and many guest artists--wrote a host of new works, some experimental, others more traditional.

What united the ONCE composers was their exploration of sound, whether through the medium of extended techniques on traditional instruments, electronic (or electronically modified) timbres, or the intersection of musical sounds with those of the environment.

A major slice of ONCE's rich musical legacy--35 works constituting six hours of music--is presented here, almost all for the first time. These pieces are as diverse in style as they are compelling in expression. This landmark set, the most comprehensive document ever released of this legendary event, is an opportunity for anyone interested in contemporary music to hear history in the making. Included in the set is a 140-page booklet with a lengthy scholarly essay by musicologist and biographer Leta Miller and numerous rare photos of ONCE personages and performances.

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Classics Explained: Rite of Spring Stravinsky , Rahbari , and Brt Po Brussels Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony An Introduction to Ravel's "Boléro" and "Ma mère l'oye" Classics Explained: Brandenburg Concertos 4 & 5 Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak An Introduction to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 ASIN: B00007FPFN Release Date: 2003-07-15

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Heavy Light Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tuck and Roll: The Music of Steven Mackey String Theory Banana.Dump Truck Steven Mackey: Interior Design; Curtis Macomber, violin ASIN: B0002ILKHW Release Date: 2004-07-01

Tracks:

1. Heavy Light - Ritual
2. Heavy Light - First Crossing
3. Heavy Light - Psychedelic Sketch
4. Heavy Light - Voices
5. Heavy Light - Second Crossing
6. Heavy Light - Heavy Light
7. Micro-Concerto - I. Chords and Fangled Drumset
8. Micro-Concerto - II. Interlude #1, Vibes solo
9. Micro-Concerto - III. Clik, Clak, Clank
10. Micro-Concerto - IV. Interlude #2, Marimba and Cello
11. Micro-Concerto - V. Tune in Seven
12. Indigenous Instruments - I. Swinging, crisp, rhythmic
13. Indigenous Instruments - II. Floating, as if improvised
14. Indigenous Instruments - III. Mesmerizing, strange, dark, funky

Album Description

Steven Mackey (b. 1956) characterizes his music as "…weird but with a sense of humor, bright, colorful but slightly twisted … The material in my music—the tunes, chords, and textures—tend to explore fringe modes of consciousness rather than brand-name emotion or logical thought. Generally speaking, these fringe modes are alert and lucid as opposed to trance-like. Often it is the unlikely combination of otherwise simple elements that transcends and confounds familiar patterns…. It is an omnivorous music that represents free speech, liberal democracy with an adventurous spirit that unflinchingly embraces all of life's experiences. And it doesn't sound like anything else." Heavy Light (2001) started life as a collaborative venture with choreographer Donald Byrd and the ensemble MOSAIC. The music and dance grew up together as an exploration of a psychedelic aesthetic. To me that meant a music that was more about stream of consciousness than logical development, that was more evocative than dramatic, that would exist in a world where time, space and gravity were slightly warped. Heavy Light begins with a long section that is, at its core, a slowly building ritual percussion solo. The middle of the piece is made up of a series of miniatures including a pre-recorded tape of computer-processed voices separated by electric guitar drones. The final ten minutes is a guitar solo based on the drones and a raga-like melody. Micro-Concerto (1999) attempts to imagine particular ways to coax sound out of pieces of wood, metal and skin instead of simply hitting things. In addition to providing a virtuoso "vehicle" for the percussionist, Micro-Concerto also explores a variety of more complex roles that the individual can play in relation to the ensemble. Indigenous Instruments (1989 is vernacular music from a culture that doesn't actually exist. I fantasized about a culture and their uses for music, did thought experiments to invent the kind of instruments they might play, and wrote "folk melodies" idiomatic to those instruments. The exercise was silly but did in fact succeed in leading me to sounds and textures that I would never have thought of in my mode as a serious concert-music composer. My starting point was to re-tune or de-tune the ensemble; the cello has a radical microtonal scordatura, the violin's G string is tuned down an octave and a quarter tone, the flute is pulled out a quarter-tone flat, and one note of the piano is prepared. —Steven Mackey

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Sebastian Currier: Vocalissimus; Theo's Sketchbook; Whispers Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: On the Verge: Chamber Music of Sebastian Currier Quartetset, Quiet Time Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur/My Father Knew Charles Ives Louis Andriessen: Writing to Vermeer ASIN: B0000030K6 Release Date: 1997-07-01

Tracks:

1. Vocalissimus
2. Theo's Sketchbook Juvenilia
3. Theo's Sketchbook Youthful Works
4. Theo's Sketchbook Mature Works
5. Theo's Sketchbook The Last Year
6. Whispers

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Mosaic: The Music of Greece Nick Stoubis Manufacturer: Artist One-Stop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Greece | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music World Dance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001FGBTI Release Date: 2004-02-03

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Zeibekiko
3. Ispania
4. Sinefiasmeni Kyriaki
5. Ta Matoklada Sou Lampoun
6. Elpida
7. Epta
8. Taximi
9. Fragosyriani
10. Tabla
11. Meta Tis Dodeka
12. Ena Dromo Mazi

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New World Mosaic Martin Shaw Manufacturer: Gemsong ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | New Age General | New Age | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | New Age General | New Age | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000002NLL Release Date: 1994-08-01

Tracks:

1. Santiago
2. Dadoukah
3. Mantowaning
4. Shalamar
5. Sweet Marie
6. Isle of Man
7. The Four Sisters
8. Moroccan Roll
9. Garuda
10. Sonata
11. BeatBach
12. Mosaic

Album Description

New Age and World instrumental music played by Martin Shaw and company, on a variety of acoustic and electric violins and other string instruments. All tracks are original compositions capturing the sounds and feelings of a variety of different cultures and epochs, linked together by the string family.

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A gem of a recording.......2005-04-06

The songs cover a wide range of styles and they're all linked by Martin's amazing violin. The recording itself is of amazing sonic quality (in Q-Sound). A stellar performance and some incredible compositions and arrangements.

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6. Pop Satori [Import]
7. Pra Sempre e Mais Um Dia [Import]
8. Raca Negra [Import]
9. Raga Jog
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The Pop Side

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In Pieces

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La La [CD-single] [Explicit Lyrics]

Lágrimas Negras

Forbidden Games

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In Full Chill

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