Pele

About the Artist
In the 1970's, Roland Cazimero was instrumental in the resurgence of Hawaiian music and culture. That resurgence began a career that almost thirty years later is stronger than ever. Musician and composer...his work in these areas is well-known throughout the world.

His incomparable talent on guitar and string bass are unsurpassed, and are utilized when he performs solo on guitar or with his brother, Robert as The Brothers Cazimero. Recording has played an important part of Roland's career, and he has collectively (as The Brothers Cazimero) and individually released over thirty albums over the past two decades. The success of these recording projects can easily be measured by the fact that they all remain on the market. Fans of Roland and The Brothers Cazimero boast of a complete collection of CDs and tapes. Not only do residents of Hawai'i find that this music has magical qualities, but visitors to these islands will take home multiple copies to use for relaxation as they get back in everyday routines, give to friends and relatives and as living souvenirs of their vacation to this island paradise.

National television credits include the Today show, PM Magazine, Good Morning America, Real People, Jim Nabors Special from Hawai'i, the Miss America Pageant and the Dolly Parton TV special from Hawai'i.

A prolific composer, many of Roland's compositions (such as "Proud To Be", "I'a Stew", "Destiny" and "A Christmas Wish") have become classics and been performed by numerous musicians.

Hawai'i's popularity as a vacation destination has brought Hawaiian music beyond her shores and the popularity of this ethnic brand of music has allowed Roland to perform in locales such as Carnegie Hall in New York City, the World Expo in Brisbane, Australia, Hong Kong, Tokyo; and annually in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle to sell out crowds.

The many talents of Roland Cazimero have established him as a benchmark in Hawaiian music and culture.

Band members are...

Roland Cazimero-6 string steel guitar; 6 string gut, 12 string electric Ovation; 12 string Ovation Adamas; upright bass; electric bass, percussion, lead vocals, background vocals

Jon de Mello-synthesizer, clavinet, piano, percussion, background vocals

Halau Na Kamalei-Kilu background
Na Pualei O Likolehua-Kilu background
Leina'ala Kalame Heine-chanting and narration
Robert Cazimero-chanting
Wayne Chang-narration

Product Description
The story which Roland Cazimero unravels in this album tells of Pele's arrival in the islands, and of the subsequent events which befell her. It ranks with, and shares many of the elements and dimensions of, the classic stories of Greece and of many other civilizations. There are some parallels here with Homer's Odyssey and Milton's Paradise Lost-as if to substantiate the universality of the human condition.

Tracks:

Beauty Queen/Horses
Blood Roses
Father Lucifer
Professional Widow
Mr Zebra
Marianne
Caught A Lite Sneeze
Muhammad My Friend
Hey Jupiter
Way Down
Little Amsterdam
Talula
Not The Red Baron
Agent Orange
Doughnut Song
In The Springtime Of His Voodoo
Putting The Damage On
Twinkle

Amazon.com

Boys for Pele, the title of Tori Amos's epic third album, is as awkward and confusing as the music inside. Though it sounds like a recruitment slogan for Little League soccer, the name actually refers to the lost temples of feminine divinity. Pele, you see, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess; the boys, well, they're the sacrifices that quell the rumbling lady's rage. Attempting to regain fires stolen long ago, Pele rewrites the crucifixion to star a girl Jesus and in doing so conjures a forgotten matriarchal mythology. While Amos's characters--Jupiter, Muhammad, Lucifer--are male by name, the aural landscape into which they're thrown is as symbolically and expressionistically female as Georgia O'Keeffe's skull-and-roses paintings. Pele is a complex and formless--and often impenetrable--work of gothic-pop chamber music, both beautiful and ghostly in its nearly complete reliance on Amos's rolling Bosendorfer grand piano, chilling harpsichord (which she bangs like a courtly punk rocker), and acrobatic voice (as earthy as Joni Mitchell's and as otherworldly as Bjork's). Unfortunately, she takes us only halfway: her songs engage and challenge us to understand, but the imagery offers few clues to help us crack their frustrating opacity. Pele ends up as much a pretentious and self-indulgent trip as it is a synthesis of talent, imagination, and skewed vision. Still, there's reason to celebrate that an album as formalistically and thematically alien to pop audiences as Pele would win such quick success upon its original release. --Roni Sarig

Customer Reviews:

I see that star.......2007-08-01

Despite the personal nature of Amos' former release, this one is perhaps the most raw in terms of relationships and her treatment of herself. I love the new areas of sound she chose to explore on this CD. Definitely a keeper.

Notes on the Second Greatest Album of All Time.......2007-05-09

What can one say about "Boys for Pele" that hasn't been said before?

This is one CD that I have been through so many times - first on cassette in 1996, then on CD in 1998. After I lost that I remember burning it off a friends' copy and that was stolen. Then I downloaded the entire thing, burnt a copy of it. Somehow that got lost. I bought a used copy from a CD Warehouse in Florida in 2002 and I have no idea where that went. Today, I have it on my Ipod, so theres nothing left to lose.

This is most definitely one of my Top 10 Desert Island discs. It has a little bit of everything, but at the same time isn't really 'commercial' in the true sense of the word (though if you remember rightly, this did debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart back in '96, which is pretty darned good!).

The magic of this album lies in its deep lyrics, and very, very depressing instrumentation. It is a 'hard' album to get into, in that sense, but well worth the investment. I couldn't get into much of it upon first listen, except for 'Father Lucifer', which I thought was very timely and inspirational (apart from a killer tune). I also remember thinking when I first heard it, how similar it seemed to Fiona Apples' "Tidal" CD which came out around the same year. Both albums are similar in their instrumentation in some way, but this is much darker and more meaningful than Fiona's equally stellar debut.

Standout tracks are many. I particularly like replaying "In The Springtime of his Voodoo". In the beginning, I had a love-hate relationship with this CD. In many ways, this disc has the most 'personality' of all Amos' albums because it seems to be a living, breathing thing all of its' own (buy it and you'll know what I'm talking about). It always leaves me feeling as if there is a lot about it that I have not yet understood, and the multiple-meaning lyrics and subject matter will probably never be fully dissected or understood.

However, if you're into music as a passion and as something that life is built upon, then this disc is surely an indispensable part of your life. Personally, I rate this higher than The Beatles "White Album" and all those typical CDs you find littering Top 100 Best Album Ever lists. What is incomprehensible in this day and age is how few people still know of this album, and what an achievement it is.

Special mention must be made of the track "Caught a Lite Sneeze" - now this is one track I loved instantly and still finds repeat plays on my Ipod. Another favorite is 'Talula', and the underrated 'Muhammad my Friend'. Tori touches upon political, spiritual and socio-economic issues here, and in her standard fashion has some scathing things to say about all of these. However, the cohesive theme here is very much the Phoenix rising from the flames, which if you think about it, is something any human being can relate to in any stage of his life - which is exactly what makes this record so pertinent.

"Boys for Pele" also standardly receives praise from students of the piano - Tori has rarely sounded so adept at the instrument, and the multi-layered instrumentation that permeates this entire recording is definitely a high point. Coming as it did after the much shorter (yet coherent) "Under The Pink", this was the album that consolidated Tori Amos as a creative musical and lyrical genius. I recommend that you get it now, and discover (or rediscover) one of the most underrated treasures in the world of music.

A side note - Listening to this after listening to Toris' 2007 album "American Doll Posse" is somewhat overwhelming. The CD stands the test of time beautifully and is vintage Amos in the best way possible. It made me realize how much fire Tori had back in 1996 and how she kept pushing the envelope back then - her recent effort appears more tepid then, but I guess that only serves to highlight the beauty of this album.

Get this album if you're into songwriting and dark, haunting melodies. You'll realize how many singer-songwriters are posers, and how much talent Tori Amos brought to the genre.

Five Stars. An unmissable Album.

"Wit, fire, grace...".......2007-04-27

What does one mean when one says 'pretentious'? Perhaps some hear wickedness in music and recoil, take offense, cower back and scream - Pretentious! Contrary to some opinions there is no self-adulation to be found in a minute of this; I assure you of that... after all music since Wagner, from Schonberg to Staind, is for the most part precisely the sickness that Tori Amos heals. It is simply a lie, a call out to the most pathological senses in a human being; undeserving egotism, love of pity, a loss of sense in any sense of the word at all.

Tori Amos is not a being to be reasonably figured out, nor to be marveled at unfoundedly. Rather there is an understanding one worthy of her comes to with her work, and one must pay dearly for it! She shows no humility, because she does not need to; her most petty insecurities are transfigured within her to among the loftiest sentiments speakable. Especially this album is a departure from reality, so it seems - but more deeply it is a return to reality, a divine gust tearing through the art of lying, through Wall Street's modern life and times, through the parasitic decandence of a political ideal, through anything at all which stands because it convinces itself to do so. The power whose magic is powerlessness, the great contradiction of spirituality; these are embodied in an album so aptly steeped in myth.

She is not a master of arrangement, nor is she a fantastic pianist, but none of that matters at all (said by a worshipper of Beethoven and no other, may I add). And still she has the nerve to interject the wistful smile of Father Lucifer with a fugue, to violently, volcanically force together her most sinister howls and her most impassioned dedication to melody into the same song (Professional Widow) and follow this with a joke (Mr. Zebra), as though it flew by her completely unnoticed, as though we are meant to make nothing of it. Her voice is unparalleled in the history of music - this is certain - one must return to a piece written in the 11th century (Hildegard von Bingen's "Slice for St. Ursula") to find even an attempt to impart to immortality such transcendent mysticism through a voice alone. And no singer I have ever heard takes that opportunity. Never, having heard Vivaldi arias of unimaginable difficulty, having heard the ineffable flood of the songs of Schubert or the ethereal rivers of Sigur Ros, could I even conceive of any other voice that even approaches the realms of hers. The closest comparison I can think of, is to imagine a synergy of a true Flamenco singer (in Flamenco one sings as though one is possessed and drowning in heavenly fire) and a conjured mezzo-soprano from past centuries who moved every audience who heard her sing to crumble and weep on cue, with each caress of a note. In her world carrying a tune is a formality one respects when one feels like doing so; the inner spirits in her voice fly far above concord and discord, it is sheer transcendence of everything.

It is very easy to be confused by Boys for Pele, with its range from dangerous introversion to insatiable lust. It does not settle on a single mood for more than a few minutes; at times it finds itself disturbingly wicked, longing, comical, vulnerable, mystical, furious... but to be obfuscated by this is to be ignorant to the meanings of the album and of her art in general. And the one constant flow of it - its uncompromising honesty and genuninity - casts it off from mundane mortal shores and sails it into a world perhaps best described by Friedrich Nietzsche...

"light feet, wit, fire, grace; the dance of the stars; the great logic; the exuberant spirituality; the southern shivers of light; the smooth sea - perfection.-"

Her lowest brings one of her highest.......2007-01-17

Boys for Pele as many have said might not be the first one you want start out with if you are budding Tori Amos fan (or Ears With Feet), simply for the fact that some of these songs get down right ugly. But Tori has an amazing talent for showing beauty in ugliness, and in my opinion it has never been more apparant here. These are my favorites from Pele:

Blood Roses: I think the whole album contains the best lyrics from Tori, but this song in particular speaks a lot to me (you've cut out the flute from the throat of the loon at least when you cry now he can't even hear you) and as its first spot in this album, the harpischord is quite violent in its debut which fits painfully well with the song.

Father Lucifer: This is where the album first reaches a sense of happiness (even though it is only preparing for the darkness of Professional Widow) and a moment of elation is captured when Tori sings "Nothins' gonna stop me from flo-o-oating"

Marianne: The theme itself is wonderful as Tori pays tribute to a death of a loving young woman she knew in school who was thought to have commited suicide. The music is sweeping and sad and takes you away to what feels to be a completely different time.

Doughnut Song: What Pele means to me is a struggle to let somebody go that you've been dependant on for so long, and in the end to make peace with it. With Doughnut I feel that struggle the most, and that bittersweet poignancy of doing what you sometimes have to do.

[...]

Music from the soul.......2007-01-09

This album has been my friend for many years. I have gone through many copies, thank goodness for the I-Pod. Tori taps into emotions that are often felt, but not always expressed. From raw sexuality to bitter emotional pain she takes you on a trip rarely experienced with just one album. I wouldn't be able to survive with out it.

Jason McCarley
Salt Lake City, Utah

In Person at El Matador/Pele/Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things

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Retro Brazil
Great Brazilian Jazz / Great Collectible
save your money
three unrelated albums
Soundtrack for the Swinging Sixties

In Person at El Matador/Pele/Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things
Sergio Mendes
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Best of Sergio Mendes & Brasil '65
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ASIN: B00005MKC8
Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

Reza
O Morro
Samba Do Astronauta
Tem Do De Mim
Jodel
Samba De Jose
Noa Noa
Black Orpheus Medley: Manha De Carnaval/Batuque De Orfeu/Samba De Orfeu/A Felicidade
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Big City
Main Theme: My World Is A Ball - Latin Soul
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The Sadness Of Goodbye
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My Favorite Things
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The Sailboat
Parade
I Say A Little Prayer
Comin' Home Baby
The Good Word
The Sea Is My Soul
So What's New

Album Description

This Collectables release features 3 classic LP's 'In Person At El Matador', 'Pele' and Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things' on 2 CD's, all completely remastered. These 3 original Atlantic jazz recordings include collaborations with famed producer and keyboardist Dave Grusin, sax player and flutist Tom Scott, and legendary sax player Gerry Muligan. Highlights include a live version of the 'Black Orpheus Medley', 'I Say a Little Prayer,' and music that accompanied the documentary 'Pele'.

Customer Reviews:

Retro Brazil.......2005-10-03

These tunes take you to a different time and place yet still feel contemporary. If you are interested in the sounds of Brazil, Sergio Mendes definitely provides plenty of material. So sit down or stand with the beautiful people, make some caparinias, enjoy the conversation, and let Sergio Mendes take you away.

Oh yes, have someone else start the barbeque!

Great Brazilian Jazz / Great Collectible.......2005-09-08

I have to totally disagree with the previous reviewer; this 3CD compilation is an absolute knock out for those who really know.
1) First of all, these three CDs separately have been Out Of Print for ages and are almost impossible to get; but here you have them at a fantastic affordable price.
2) Second, for those who really know Sergio Mendes' work and have a collection of his, this compilation is a true treasure; and...
3)Third, Sergio's Music around that time was already in high demand, and here you have collaborations with people like Wanda Sah, Oscar Castro-Neves, Gerry Mulligan, Laudir de Oliveira, Dave Grusin, Tom Scott, John Pisano, Joao Donato, Moacir Santos, Dom Um Romao and Pele among many more.
Only for educated ears and educated and serious collectors, period.

save your money.......2005-08-20

This album is junk. One or two good tunes, the rest junk. Save your money!

three unrelated albums.......2002-07-31

Except for Sergio's presence, these three albums have little in common. Most enjoyable for me is the live performance by Brasil '65, which is just plain, honest music. The Pele soundtrack is, well, a soundtrack and full of Hollywood mush. By the time we get to "My Favorite Things," Sergio's spare piano is lost in a soup of arrangement styles that were popular in the '60s. Listen to it as a '60s setpiece. Once in awhile Sergio comes up for air and it's bliss, but this has not aged well and wasn't worth much when it was new 35 years ago, IMHO. Buy "Beat of Brazil" and "Swinger from Rio" to hear the real Sergio.

Soundtrack for the Swinging Sixties.......2001-09-23

This 3-LP compilation is a must-have for fans of Mendes, as well as those who love music with a Latin flair. Disc One consists of, as the title suggests, a live performance at San Francisco's El Matador club and the soundtrack to a film about fellow Brazilian the legendary soccer great Pele. Both exhibit Mendes masterful piano playing and superb vocals from the members of Brasil '65, '66, '67, respectively. These long out-of-print releases are a welcome addition to any music-lovers' collection.

But, it is disc two, "Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things" that is the real find. Featuring Mendes's trademark arrangements, the disc soars, as it is an instrumental journey into the sultry music that typified the decade. Highlights are "My Favorite Things, " "I Say a Little Prayer," the Dionne Warwick hit, "Comin' Home Baby," and "Boa Palavra (The Good Word)."

Tracks:

Reconvexo
Tenha Calma (Be Cool)
Confesso (I Confess)
Junho (June)
Morena (Dark-Skinned Girl)
Salve As Folhas (Hail/Saves The Leaves)
Memoria Da Pele (Memory Of The Skin)
A Mais Bonita (The Prettiest)
Guerra No Mar (War Of The Sea)
Vinganca (Vengance)
Paiol Do Ouro (Storeroom Of Gold-Vignette)

Customer Reviews:

Bethania remembers.......2002-07-15

1989 caught Maria Bethania going back to her Bahian roots.This is quite noticeable in this wonderful disc.She opens the album with a great rendition of her brother's RECONVEXO which gets personal when she talks about their mom Dona Cano and leaves you clapping along.An amazing duet with Sandra de Sa,"SALVE AS FOLHAS",and "GUERRA NO MAR" lead you along a path tinged by references to candomble and environmentalism.Then there's the ballads,Bethania's forte.Djavan's TENHA CALMA finds Bethania begging her lover to stay.Later,in Lupicinio Rodrigues'VINGANCA she is happy to see her exlover suffer.MORENA and Chico Buarque's A MAIS BONITA are my favorite ballads.The latter relates as a woman makes herself up (in the middle of crying)so she can look pretty for her man.I recommend it because it shows her voice at her best with typical Bahian orchestration in the background and gathers songs by the best Brazilian songwriters of the late 80's.

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Dance and sing!
Pele Juju - Pele Juju delivers uplifting music

Pele Juju
Pele Juju
Manufacturer: Pele
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Dance and sing!.......2004-11-05

For anyone who enjoys a GREAT world beat band, this is a CD to have in your collection. These gals are a very talented group of musicians - a tight-playing band - lead by Dana's strong vocals. You will hear some excellent African drumming, some steel pan and other wonderful instruments mixed in, and PLENTY of great dancing rhythms. There is no way you can listen to these songs sitting down. And don't miss the positive messages in the lyrics. Very uplifting!

Pele Juju - Pele Juju delivers uplifting music.......2000-06-19

Heard this CD at an afternoon party - really noticeably uplifting, great rhythms, immediate "I gotta have it" response (which is unusual for me because I don't buy a lot of music, although some). Amazingly consistent unobtrusively fun music, inspired movement, but not obnoxious or pretentious, not in a self-conscious way like some. And consistent - from the first cut I noticed through the end, and then put it on again - not a lapse in the high energy, high frequency output. Really enjoyed. Am determined to find it and get it and play it often!

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Hi'iaka I Ka Poli O Pele

Manufacturer: Mountain Apple Company
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000OONSR4
Release Date: 2007-04-24

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A waltz lovers delight:

Wiener Musik

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A waltz lovers delight:.......2007-02-11

If you love to listen to Viennese waltz music, you'll find this 12 disc set a wonderful experience. Highly recommended.

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Oodles of Noodles, and worth the ride...
Oodles of Noodles, and worth the ride...
Ultimately listenable

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Customer Reviews:

Oodles of Noodles, and worth the ride..........2001-05-30

At first listen I found myself fading in and out, sometimes thinking "this is a great riff" other times moving the needle around. This is some instrumental post-rock noodly stuff. For fans of American Don. Pele is a band that has room to grow, a mixture of math and melody, they have everything it takes to make a masterpiece, just fail to convey it. Great production, technical ability (I saw them play in Columbia MO, each had a whole bag of tricks... sounded dead-on to their record), and texture make me anxiously await their next venture. I think the best thing to do would be wait for a sunny day, put the CD into your walkman, and walk downtown while listening to this - - you'll feel good. I wouldn't relegate them to background music by any means; they are like a bulbous flower that has yet to bloom. Long live Pele.

Oodles of Noodles, and worth the ride..........2001-05-30

Ultimately listenable.......2001-01-13

Like most people, I had never heard of Pele before Polyvinyl came out with this CD, but also like most people [well, those I let borrow the CD], I became immediately magnetized to it. It's an extremely fluid album of instrumentals; each track has such energy and beauty, with tinges of both emo and math rock. There's no real need for words -- energy and emotion abound, and you can feel it, regardless. Gorgeous and inspired.

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The Legend of Pele: Sounds of Arthur Lyman

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Hawaiian Fire Goddess Does A Slow Burn
ANOTHER ARTHUR LYMAN GREATEST
awesome late 50's ambient lounge
Technically compromised

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Magic Island
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Tropical
76 Trombones

Customer Reviews:

Hawaiian Fire Goddess Does A Slow Burn .......2006-01-27

Originally released in 1957, 'The Legend of Pele' was recorded at the Henry J. Kaiser aluminum dome on the grounds of the Hawaiian Village Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. This early concept album by the Arthur Lyman Group is pure 50's through and through.

Arthur Lyman's attempt to conjure up a sound worthy of expressing the firey and playful nature of the Volcano Goddess makes for a highly original and fascinating project. It begins well and ends quite nicely with very Hawaiian based melodies, however there are some weak spots interspersed throughout the album/CD. Some of the tracks sound more like an evening in a smokey beatnik cafe back on the mainland rather than a night among the gently swaying palm trees of the big island. But I guess that was the prevailing 'big sound' style in the late fifties so it's to be expected. In my opinion Lyman wandered too far from his main theme for this recording and it's this lapse in focus that suggests he didn't quite succeed in achieving what he had hoped for. Successful or not, it's just a little too 'Old School' for my tastes.

Overall enjoyable listening, but essentially ambient background music perfectly suited for adding a little atmosphere to a summers evening pool party for the older crowd.

ANOTHER ARTHUR LYMAN GREATEST.......2005-07-13

They're all the greatest. All Arthur Lyman are equally dynamic, adventurous, well-done, mysterious and "great islands exotic". A must-have in any mix whether relaxation, dinner, contemplation or party.

awesome late 50's ambient lounge.......2004-12-27

recorded on an Ampex three track live in the Kaiser Aluminum Dome at Waikiki, this album is part of Lyman's series riffing on the legend and mythology of the Hawaiian pantheon. I actually believe he sort of meant it. I also believe that he had no idea he had recorded the sonic ancestor to Lifeforms by Future Sound of London, and many other ambient/techno/exotica slabs.

Unlike the previous reviewer, I find the sound on my original copy of the vinyl to be OUTSTANDING! it is well worth the effort to seek out the original ...have fun.

Technically compromised.......2002-06-11

This CD seems to have been mastered from a mono source, with what sounds like a mild electronic amibiance added. I have some tracks from this album on a "Best of... " Lyman CD in real stereo, so I don't know what happened here. Also, the track listings on both the back cover and inside the booklet...are inaccurate, with tracks out of order and at least one item listed, but not actually on the CD.

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Symphony 9 / Symphony 3

Haven't We Met?

Takes You Higher [Import]

The Talking Animals

Todas As Estacoes [Import]

Trey Anastasio

Surf's Up!

The Ultimate Puccini Collection

The Many Faces of Oliver Hart

The Definitive Collection

Sonora Brillante

Innermission

Rites of Summer