| 1. Hold on (To That Tiger) |
| 2. Baby Bye Bye |
| 3. My Baby She's Gone |
| 4. Marie |
| 5. That Gets It |
| 6. Times Done Gone |
| 7. Opelousas Waltz |
| 8. You Promised Me Love |
| 9. Tanya |
| 10. Tired in the Street |
Hold On!,Rockin' Dopsie & The Cajun Twisters,Gnp Crescendo,Cajun / Zydeco / New Orleans,Pop,Zydeco
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Hold On
Tyrone Wells Manufacturer: Republic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000LPR4IA Release Date: 2007-02-06 |
Tracks:
- What Are We Fighting For?
- Baby Don't You Change
- Sea Breeze
- Need
- She's Leaving
- Dream Like New York
- Falling
- Hold On
- Sugar So Sweet
- Jealous Man
- Looking At Her Face
- Until You Are Here
Customer Reviews:
good stuff.......2007-05-22
Hold On by Tyronne Wells.......2007-03-01
He's got soul..........2007-02-08
You gotta get this CD!!!!.......2007-02-07
FABULOUS RISING STAR!.......2007-02-07
Now, this cd is his first on a major label, but you can buy his prior cds and dvd at his shows.
Buy this cd and you will discover a great new artist who will blow your socks off with his incredible voice, songwriting, and passion. His music is a combination of soul, rock, pop, and folk. It is hard to classify, but he just simply sounds great. He is also one of the nicest human beings I have ever met. [...] Buy it, you won't be sorry.
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Monsoon Wedding (Score)
Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005UKLV Release Date: 2002-03-05 |
Tracks:
- Feels Like Rain
- Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa (Today My Heart Desires)
- Baraat
- Aaj Mausam Bada Beimann Hai (Today The Weather Plays Tricks On Me)
- Your Good Name
- delhi.com
- Fuse Box
- Mehndi/Madhorama Pencha
- Banished
- Good Indian Girls
- Fabric/Aaja Savariya (Come To Me, My Beloved)
- Allah Hoo
- Hold Me, I'm Falling
- Love And Marigolds
- Chunari Chunari
- Aaja Nachle (Come On Dance!)
- Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa (Zimpala Remix)
- Fuse Box (Alexkid's Dub Remix)
- Fuse Box (Julio Black Remix)
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Monsoon Wedding is Mychael Danna's second collaboration with film director Mira Nair, (Kama Sutra was the first), and he has again compiled a winning soundtrack. Danna explores a wide range of emotions, from solemn to celebratory, through different generations of Indian culture. The contemplative "Good Indian Girls" and "Hold Me, I'm Falling" feature Danna's trademark piano ambience over traditional Indian instrumentation, and the vivacious "Baraat" sounds like a Punjabi variation on Dixieland, while "Delhi.com" ventures into dreamy ethno-techno territory. Sukhwinder Singh's "Today My Heart Desires" serves up lively bhangra rock, and Laxmikant Pyarelal's "Today the Weather Plays Tricks on Me" (performed by Mohammed Rafi) swoons with strings and male vocals. In all, the soundtrack's pleasing variety of Eastern music mirrors the film's old and new worlds living within a singular culture. --Bryan ReesmanCustomer Reviews:
Monsoon Wedding Soundtrack is Terrific.......2007-05-18
Loved it!.......2007-03-24
I just saw the movie MONSOON WEDDING and I absolutely loved it! Of course, I just HAD to have the soundtrack, so I bought the Cd recently and loved it too! WOW!
The Cd will leave you in a happy mood... Wonderful up-beat songs, many are so danceable and hipnotic. I've been playing this Cd all week ...I just wish it were longer because I would love to have more Cds like this in my Cd collection.
Just as fabulous as the movie!.......2007-01-31
Love It, Love It, Love It.......2007-01-21
I'd recommend seeing the movie too. As well, I'd check out Danna's music for another Mira Nair movie, "Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love."
Culture-Happy-Dance-Reflect-Appreciate-Savor-Relax-Laugh.......2006-11-06
It is very Culture rich and soaked in Indian flavor. It's colorful and makes you happy with a laugh or two; as it seeks to portray the traditional music typical of a Punjabi wedding in Delhi, India.
You want to dance with most songs and sit quietly to reflect with others. I listed appreciate because we often don't sit back to appreciate the richness that other cultures provide. My 2 year old appreciates this music in her broken wanna be Hindi mimic.
She dances as does my 6 year old to this music. It's really a great CD but I would recommend seeing the movie first.
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Lost & Found
Griffin House Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002IQIHO Release Date: 2004-07-27 |
Tracks:
- Amsterdam
- Ah Me
- Tell Me A Lie
- Waste Another Day
- Waterfall
- Liberty Line
- The Way I Was Made
- Why Won't You Belive?
- Just A Dream
- Missed My Chance
- New Day
Customer Reviews:
Fantastically Wonderful Album.......2007-04-20
Soothing and funny..........2007-04-11
Would surely recommend it ...
Another album you can pick confidently.......2007-01-25
Well, I can say this album is really, really good. Along with Matt Nathanson and Amos Lee, those cds can play in my cd player forever on repeat and after a few hours I just start thinking "hey it's still the same cd in".
Yes it's that good and smooth. No track where you want to skip to the next, they're all good.
(yes I used the same review for Matt since both are in the same genre and as good)
A real gem.......2006-11-07
He is awesome.
He has his own style and plays for the music. His lyrics are powerful and moving... I got goosebumps on more than one occassion.
Buy it, listen to it, you'll love it.
Great CD, but kind of an acquired taste...........2006-04-20
Give it a listen (or two, maybe three) before you judge it.
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How Sweet the Sound: Spirituals & Traditional Gospel Music
Chanticleer Manufacturer: Teldec ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00029CZPW Release Date: 2004-09-14 |
Tracks:
- Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb
- Surely God Is Able
- Amazing Grace
- Medley: Soon One Mornin' - What You Goin' Do When The World's On Fire? - You Can't Hide - Run On For A Long Time
- Didn't It Rain
- Sit Down Servant - Plenty Good Room
- Keep Your Hand On The Plow (Hold On)
- My Soul Is A Witness
- There Is A Balm In Gilead
- Medley: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Poor Pilgrim Of Sorrow - Walk In Jerusalem
- Be Still And Know That I'm God
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Chanticleer's repertoire ranges through many centuries. On this recording, the group again proves its infinite versatility in a program of gospel music and spirituals. The singing is so authentic that one feels like a participant in a gospel meeting, swaying to the rhythm with the crowd. Contributing greatly to the impact is Chanticleer's guest, Yvette A. Funder. Possessor of a voice remarkable for its range, power, and flexibility, she brings to the music the empathy and authority of one born and raised in the tradition, whether leading call-and-response, engaging in improvisations that soar high above the chorus, crooning softly in meditation, or shouting in ecstasy. (She is also an active Bishop ministering to the poor and afflicted, and the founder of various social service agencies in California.) Several songs include soloists drawn from the chorus as well, most notably a tenor, a countertenor and a bass who provides a rhythmic ostinato. The program, designed for maximum variety of tempo, mood, character and texture, includes many favorite songs and spirituals, such as "Amazing Grace," "There is a Balm in Gilead," "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child." The arrangements by Joseph Jennings, Chanticleer's Music Director for 20 years, are admirably simple and very good; only a few are marred by awkward modulations or overly sophisticated, Hollywood-inspired effects. Most of them are for a cappella voices. Jennings also contributes a new original composition: "Be still and Know that I'm God." Repeating these words like an invocation, it builds a cumulative drama with increasingly wild, elaborate improvisations in call-and-response between soloist and chorus; supported by a prominent piano part that includes solos, chordal and running passages, it ends with a rousing climax. --Edith EislerCustomer Reviews:
Chanticleer, with Bp. Flunder: INDEED - How Very Sweet The Sound.......2006-02-10
The arrangements of new and old gospel standards have been set by counter-tenor Joseph Jennings - a leading Chanticleer member of long standing - intently drawing upon both the florid improvisations of the soloists and gospel groups climbing ever so dazzlingly into the fiery chariots that sacred texts say carried off the prophet; and yes, rooted as well in the impeccably crafted close harmonies and inwardly solid strength of gospel quartets and ensembles like Fisk University's Jubilee Singers and many other exemplars.
So, when you listen to this one you will be immediately surrounded by that amazing and great, gathering could of witnesses. The messages are familiar: Keep your hands on the plow. Surely God is able. There is a balm in Gilead.
Like the famous vocal work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, his Serenade to Music as written for a star-crossed group of well-known British soloists of the era; so this gospel outing brings the small male ensemble Chanticleer to the fore - both as a vocal group and as a fabulous collection of solo voices who are prodigiously gifted vocal stars in their own rights. Capping off Chanticleer as an embarrassment of riches is a guest turn by San Francisco's own Bishop Yvette Flunder. She is the real deal, too, as both an ordained minister whose leadership in black churches has blazed fireworks in celebration of melding religion with social justice, and a Jen-U-Wine good news singer who can preach and pray and moan with the best of them.
Only the superhumanly perfected intonation of their cappella group singing, as well as the superb blend and polish of the Chanticleer dozen, will remind a listener than this group is as famous for its Flemish medieval polyphony or its unerring Purcellian clarity, as any other ensemble of twelve voices now appearing before us.
So, forget all the categories and musicology boxes which would seal off gospel music from pre-Bach cathedral masters of polyphony. With this CD we can just revel in the mysteries of good music, regardless. Yeah, Josquin, I'm talking bout you - Sit down servant, there's plenty good room.
Five stars. Highly recommended.
Crystalline.......2005-04-08
Best Chanticleer CD Yet.......2005-02-01
How Angry the Sound?.......2005-01-02
I guess this as an attempt to make gospel music "hip." With songs like "Jesus Hits Like An Atomic Bomb" and "What You Gon' Do When the World's On Fire?" the lyrics are like walking a American urban street being threatened by strangers. Far from being uplifting, the songs are decidedly unfriendly. The feel of the music reminded more of the howling noises I suffered as a forced member of my parent's Kansas Methodist Church than the sweet, honest sounds of real gospel music. That intangible thing I get from listening to gospel music that is heartfelt and painfully honest, even if deluded, was nowhere to be heard in "How Sweet the Sound." Instead, the music is chant-like, monotonous, and cold.
I would not recommend this record to anyone outside of the Midwest. If you miss the sterile sounds of a Midwestern protestant church in full howl, this might be your cup of weak wine. If gospel music is what you're looking for, look elsewhere.
This CD is the bomb!.......2004-11-28
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Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Play the Beatles
Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004KH76 Release Date: 2000-03-07 |
Tracks:
- Eleanor Rigby
- And I Love Her
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-la-da
- Hey Jude
- With A Little Help From My Friends
- Yellow Submarine
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
- Penny Lane
- A Hard Day's Night
- The Fool On The Hill
- Yesterday
- Michelle
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
- And I Love Her
- A Hard Day's Night
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
Customer Reviews:
Could have been better.......2006-08-22
awesome music.......2006-03-10
AMAZING!.......2005-01-08
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops do the Beatles.......2005-01-01
It was inevitable that with over a hundred albums the Boston Pops would do the Fab Four. They were the first orchestra to perform the songs of the Beatles in 1964 when Fiedler returned from a trip to Liverpool ("I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the first one they ever did). These are not just these songs played by a classical orchestra but rather arrangements done for this purpose. You will notice that one of the standard ways of arranging these songs is to use the chorus as the introduction for the song (e.g., "Eleanor Rigby," "Hey Jude"). If you can guess from the drumming at the beginning of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" or "Yellow Submarine" what those songs are then you are way ahead of me, but that is the sense of fun that Fiedler brought to these songs by giving them the John Phillip Sousa treatment.
Sometimes it is such the simple elegance of doing the guitar parts with strings, as with "And I Love Her," or even the staccato strings of "Penny Lane," that makes the songs enjoyable. Then there are the mood chances invoked by turning "A Little Help From My Friends" into a work of minor chords. My assumption is that if you pick up this album you will know the songs, but not these arrangements, so you should just forget about looking at the play list and just listen to the music.
There are a quartet of bonus tracks on the album, featuring live versions of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "And I Love Her," and "A Hard Day's Night." These are not different versions of these songs, which is too bad because I thought it would be interesting to see if the Pops arrangers could come up with different classical ways of doing the same songs. The final track is actually Fiedler talking about how the Pops came to play the Beatles music, as a "novelty." I have not listened to this sort of music for a while, but it makes for nice background music and there are more albums out there. Remember "Saturday Night Fiedler"?
Some Moments - but doesn't live up to expectations.......2004-09-30
There are several things that disappoint me about this collection. For starters, there is only a total of two songs from the Beatles best three albums: "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has one song ("With a Little Help From My Friends"), The "White Album" has one song ("Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da"), while there is no songs from "Abbey Road". As mentioned above, I thought the Beatles' later material lent itself well to being played with an orchestra. These albums are really the cornerstone of this period, yet there is two songs between these three albums. I understand that Fiedler's "Play the Beatles" was put together in 1969, but I still expected much more of a presence from these albums. I think many of the tunes on these albums could have lent itself very easily to classical music. For example, songs such as "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "Day in the Life", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "Birthday", and "Helter Skelter" would have sounded wonderful being played under the classics. I don't know if the Fiedler and the Boston Pops ever did these songs, but if they did - they should have been included. If they were done, it would be nice to hear them on an updated version of this collection. Some of these tunes are available on other classics collection, but Fiedler's Orchestra was the best at playing this music, so I would have liked to have heard it here.
The other thing that disappoints me are some of the selections themselves. Most of the tunes do keep to the sound you would expect from the Beatles, but some do not sound as good as I would expect. "With a Little Help From My Friends" just doesn't sound much like the original tune. The song that I consider the signature song by the Beatles - "Hey Jude" is an extreme disappointment - it just doesn't capture the magic of the original song. Songs like "Michelle" and "And I Love Her" do keep to the Beatles sound, but they somehow miss the mark. Perhaps these two songs aren't the best songs to be done with a Classical Orchestra.
However, this collection is not all bad. There are some positive points that do shine. There are several songs which surprise me on how well they sounded being played in the classical sense. "Eleanor Rigby" is one of those. You can feel a lot of power and emotion with that song. Another song that surprises me how well it sounds being played as a classical piece is "Penny Lane". Fiedler is also able to demonstrate a lot of power by playing by playing "Penny Lane' as a classical piece. In "Yellow Submarine", Fiedler puts a military and marching band spin on the song. It gives the song a whole new dimension. As for my favorite piece on the collection - it has to be "Fool on the Hill". Somehow I almost like "Fool on the Hill" played as a classical piece better than how the Beatles do it. Other songs that sound good are a couple of the Beatles' earlier tunes - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "A Hard Day's Night"
It is worth noting that there are some live versions of these songs included with Fiedler's studio recordings. In particular there are live versions of "And I Love Her" and "A Hard Day's Night". There are also multiple versions of the same song included. You will hear three different recordings of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (one from 1964 and two from 1969 - you will hear a change in tempo). There are also two versions of "A Hard Day's Night" (the live 1965 version and a 1969 studio recording). Counting the live and studio versions - there are also two versions of "And I Love Her".
It is also worth noting that on the final song (the third version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"), there is a spoken introduction by Arthur Fiedler which is about 1 minute long in which Fiedler explains why he started playing Beatles music. The liner notes contain a one panel writeup by Peter Dellheim that discuss a little more background about the success Fiedler has had playing the Beatles.
Overall, this isn't a bad collection. I had higher expectations knowing how good a conductor Arthur Fiedler is as well as knowing how good many of the Beatles' songs would have sounded. This might appeal to the Beatles fan wanting to hear songs Classical, and possibly even vice versa - but if you want to go deeper with the Beatles being played classical, you may have to go elsewhere.
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Hold On, We're Strummin'
Sam Bush , and David Grisman Manufacturer: Acoustic Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000CA0SX Release Date: 2003-09-23 |
Tracks:
- Harford's Real
- Swamp Thing
- Intimo
- Jamgrass 741
- Sea Breeze
- Old Time Medley
- Weeping Mandolin Waltz
- Arachnid Stomp
- Crusher and Hoss
- The Old South
- Mando Space
- Ralph's Banjo Special
- 'Cept Old Bill
- Rhythm Twins
- Dan'l Boone
- Hold On, I'm Commin'
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You won't have to be a mandolin aficionado to get delightfully caught up in the complex rhythms, exotic melodies, and entrancing syncopations of this mandolin super-duo's first album-length collaboration. Yet only students of the instrument are apt to appreciate the extraordinary level of musicianship contained in this eminently listenable, all-instrumental collection. David Grisman is a former member of Earth Opera, founder of The David Grisman Quintet, and the late Jerry Garcia's occasional sidekick in the erstwhile bluegrass band, Old & In The Way. Sam Bush is a founding member of The New Grass Revival and has played mandolin on the records of everyone from Allison Krauss to Garth Brooks. Each, in his own right, is a master of the contemporary newgrass/new age mandolin. And on tracks like the droning, bluesy "Swamp Thing," the soaring "Intimo," and the doleful "Weeping Mandolin Waltz," they inspire each other to reach even deeper into their grab bags of hot mandolin licks. --Bob AllenAlbum Description
The long-awaited collaboration of acoustic music innovators David Grisman and Sam Bush is upon us with "Hold On, W'e're Strummin".Close friends since 1965 when Grisman put his Lloyd Loar mandolin in a teenaged Bush's hands, this most dynamic string duo has created an acoustic tour de force. This historic release features nine new Sam & David originals, showcasing the psychic interplay and stylistic fluidity that has permeated their stellar careers. Guest artists appearing include Doc Watson accompanist, Jack Lawrence, Enrique Coria and Jim Kerwin of the David Grisman Quintet and the legendary Hal Blaine on drums.
Customer Reviews:
Hold On, They're Strummin'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-08-02
Fantastic instrumental music, that's what!
Ay CARRAMBA!.......2004-08-19
SUPERLATIVE - WOW - SUBLIME - GREAT GOOGLIE MOOGLIE!.......2004-05-07
Great.......2004-03-17
Superb musicianship.......2004-02-27
So what's left to say about HOLD ON, WE'RE STRUMMIN'? When two of the mandolin virtuosi of generation get together to do a mandolin CD-featuring mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos, and a plethora of other vintage woodwork-where do we begin? The musicianship is superb, but we knew it would be. The production-arrangements, selections of instruments, the mix, the feel--is understated and precisely appropriate to the project, but we knew it would be. Even the physical package itself is colorful and entertaining and attractive, but then, we knew that, too-and Grisman does run Acoustic Disc.
About the only question is the material. When players at the level of Grisman and Bush decide to make art together, the material chosen, it seems to me, becomes one of the few real variables. I've picked up more than one CD with equal promise, listened to it once or twice, then put it on the shelf-just because the material doesn't cut it for me. I'm glad to say that's not the case here.
I always listen once before I read the notes, and as I did so, what struck me was the fact that I was not recognizing the tunes-or precious few of them. Of course I recognized the tunes in the old-time medley, and I had heard Grisman play "Daniel Boone" with Jake Henry last fall in Portland, but the others were new to me. Fact is, they were new to everybody: Twelve of the tunes on this 70-plus-minute CD are brand new, and 11 of those were co-authored by Bush and Grisman. It boggles the imagination to think of how the two must have got together and explored on another's creativity for-days, weeks, longer?-to develop this superb set.
And, in spite of the fact that the album was a "sure thing," I was still surprised by the quality. Maybe I was expecting something more overtly hot, something more along the lines of a "Can You Do This?" style of superpicker collage. If so, I underestimated these two and their sense of ensemble playing. The feel of the album reminded me a little of the material that John Hartford was doing with his studio productions in the `80s. This is not hot-jam music: it's tastefully textured string band music, much of it with carefully worked out harmonies, performed at moderate tempos. Oddly enough, I mentioned the Hartford comparison to Jake Henry, who had already bought his own copy before my review copy came, and he told me that the name of the first tune is "Hartford's Real." So maybe we're talking about influence as well as a common musical heritage.
That said, let me add right away that, yes, the Latin and world music influences that color so much of Grisman's recent DGQ work is here, and these players are clearly accustomed to playing for audiences that expect six- or eight- or ten-minute jam-outs instead of our three-minute bluegrass vehicles. Also, a bluegrass afficionado like myself was stretched a little by the jazz and pop chord structures. But,overall the music is not far out in any negative sense, and none of it is hot for the sake of heat. It's not bluegrass, but it is beautiful string band music that demonstrates both traditional and contemporary influences. If you can imagine the material that Norman Blake was putting together with the many versions of the Rising Fawn
String Ensemble (before he went the "singer of old songs" route), then make the harmonizations more complex and use a little more rhythmic variation, you have some of the vibe that this CD creates.
Here's an example of one of my favorite touches. "Sea Breeze" a tune I would call light jazz, ends with the musicians quoting "Sally Goodin'" variations. They run this cut almost seamlessly-completely without spin-up time-into. the next number, which begins with Dawg frailing the banjo and continues with a medley of old-time banjo and fiddle duets. This manner of taking an old-time musical heritage and pushing it further along a different line of development is typical of the sort of innovations these artists create.
So maybe it's a little late for a review of this album. But for those of you who didn't buy it on faith last fall, let this be your reminder to put it on your list. If you like mandolin music and string band music and don't mind the fact that it doesn't sound like southern Ohio bluegrass in 1969 (that's the tough one for me), it's time to hit the road to Cartwright's and spend your allowance. (Bill Jolliff, reviewer, Nwbluegrass Yahoogroup)
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Hold on Love
Azure Ray Manufacturer: Saddle Creek ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000D1FDZ Release Date: 2003-10-07 |
Tracks:
- Devil's Feet
- New Resolution
- We Are Mice
- Look to Me
- Drinks We Drank Last Night
- Across the Ocean
- If You Fall
- Sea of Doubts
- Dragonfly
- Nothing Like a Song
- These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue
- Hold on Love
- Across the Ocean [Multimedia Track]
- We Are Mice [Multimedia][Live]
Customer Reviews:
their best yet.......2006-02-15
They are mere mortals and they embrace, yet do not crush, that fact. Nor do they see
fit to make it an altar on which to sacrifice their inner children. The culmination
is that of ancient souls very much aware of their current journey through whimsical
youth. That and a profound sense that both the old and the new are keenly aware of
and watching the other with curious fascination. They articulate these things with
a magical ease that would make the best of deeply human sentiment driven poets to
snap all their crayons in half and take a sabbatical in hopes of losing all the lofty
veneer that weights them near to drowning in waters five syllables deep. They don't
get too specifically personal (no songs that tell us the names of everyone they know
and love and hate - a thing that is all too prevalent in music lately) and they don't
dole out huge clay tables of sage lesson. Instead they discuss experience in the
context of experience.
Secondly they both have multitudes of identity in their voices. Energetic and happy
children etched with young women in and out of love and overcast by clouds of the
weary who have been worn much by experience. They sing sing softly. To many a singer
that is a death card as the human voice usually sounds very different at various
volumes and we live in a culture that charms the the loud and often harsh. Yet they
thrive in the serene end of the pool and again it is magically transposed to the ear.
Their voices compliment one another on an order that is seldom experienced. Get to
love one and you'll melt to a euphoric puddle of goo when you hear them both together.
One of the hallmarks of Azure Ray has been an oft song that sort of drones along the
same base few chords and/or rythems. They not only pull it off such that one doesn't
feel they've been 'droned' but they go so far as to somehow keep it sounding fresh.
I suspect part of that has to do with their skill and talent as musicians equaling
that of every aspect previously mentioned. Their choice of harmonies and rythems are
such that they compliment this style. But not everything they do is like that. In
fact on this album they demonstrate a most impressive harmonically rich song 'We Are
Mice' that really tugs the listener in with it's dark delicious alternating dissonance
and consonance with verse must surely have been penned by someone with firsthand
knowledge of clinical depression:
'it's all in the eyes
the reckless way we dream to die
our past is our future
...
we'll touch hands on the street
smile and keep moving on towards the heat
...
it's our lot in life'
And again they depart in 'If You Fall' which is anything but a drone. It's major
chords progress in half steps with a joyful vivaciousness that will have you
bouncing up and down in your seat to tempo. The lyrics of this song fall in
thematically with the the whole 'Hold On Love' thread and have elements of
optimism, fascination, curiosity, and somewhat tame optimism:
'let's talk and we'll fill the air with imagery that lasts forever
...
if you fall will you get up
...
you drift too far will you swim towards the shore
and if you fell in love will you hold on to it
...
you speak so sweet with words so delicate
a glass i hope will never shatter'
And of as mentioned the weary and worn exemplified in 'Look To Me':
'i hold your hand as you slip from me
as i watch your breath i say to myself one day this will all end
...
but i know you're right as i begin to pack
without raising your eyes i hear you sigh oh you'll be back
because i look to you and you look to me
we're a real f****d up family'
This is Azure Ray's finest collection to date. I see they've both done solo
albums and in reading an interview with Orenda Fink I was left with the
impression that while things are still good they are feeling the need for
time away from one another. Not surprising at all but tragic if that should
turn into a permenant arrangement. I understand they've been touring apart,
one as Azure Ray and the other with collaborative efforts with other musicians
which fortifies my concern. While both are good as individuals it would be
a terrific loss to lose them as a team. I'm always amazed at what hits the
airwaves and music videos; at who is raking in sickening amounts of money
and who still tour as if on a serious budget. These two women are the real
deal. If you like what you've read give them a shot. If you like your shot
then spread the word and buy a copy for a friend or two. It's up to people
like you and I to force an obviously corrupt music industry's hand to play
a much higher caliber of music consistently. Your dollar is the vote that
counts.
Best Wishes, -frank-
aural medicine.......2006-01-19
Evocative -- A Slow Dance in a Ghost Town.......2004-12-30
Azure Ray.......2004-12-23
Enough said.
Great Video.......2004-06-10
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World, Hold On
Bob Sinclar , and Steve Edwards Manufacturer: Defected ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FDFFRK Release Date: 2006-07-04 |
Tracks:
- Radio Edit
- Club Edit
Album Details
Bob Sinclar Has Almost Become a Household Name, Thanks to a String of Increasingly Successful Dance Hits. Arguably Summers Biggest Anthem, Love Generation Finally Propelled the French Disco-tech Producer to the Very Heights of Dance Stardom. Next Single, World Hold on is a Funkified Affair on an Equally Love Infused Trip. The Club Mix is DJ and Clubber Friendly and Both Feature the Smooth Vocals of Steve Edwards Whose Dulcet Tones Can also Be Heard in Axwell's "Watch the Sunrise" and Cassius' "Sound of Violence".
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Hold on Hope
Guided by Voices Manufacturer: Tvt ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004S3A1 Release Date: 2000-03-07 |
Tracks:
- Underground Initiations
- Interest Position
- Fly into Ashes
- Tropical Robots
- Crick Uphill
- Idiot Princess
- Avalanche Aminos
- Do the Collapse
- Hold on Hope
Album Description
Limited edition, 9 track rarities EP from Lo-Fi, Indie Rock outfit. Includes their current single 'Hold On Hope' from their 1999 release 'Do the Collapse'. 2000 release. Slimline jewel case.Customer Reviews:
The Place to Start?.......2005-08-08
Better than the album.......2005-07-28
Luckily, programmable playlists allow us to rewrite history. Using "Do the Collapse," "Hold on Hope," and "Human Amusements at Hourly Rates," it's possible to create a worthy follow-up to "Mag Earwhig!" Here's my suggested tracklist:
1. Underground Initiations
2. Avalanche Aminos
3. Hold on Hope
4. Dragons Awake!
5. Surgical Focus (clean outro)
6. Things I Will Keep (clean intro)
7. Fly into Ashes
8. Mushroom Art
9. Tropical Robots
10. Wrecking Now
11. Picture Me Big Time
12. A Crick Uphill
13. Teenage FBI (demo version)
14. An Unmarketed Product
Among the best of the EPs, a must-have GbV album.......2005-05-29
"Tropical Robots" is amusingly light fare lyrically, and a short pleasant acoustic ride. "Underground Initiations" is a great track similar to GBV's material of the period just preceding this one. "Fly Into Ashes" and "A Crick Uphill" respresent what GbV might have become had they been willing to take their brand of indie rock into the realm of bands like Wilco who were exploring folkish instrumentation.
The title track "Hold on Hope" is the best of the ill-conceived and poorly-received album "Do the Collapse". The song is great, but the album deserves to be ignored by GbV fans, yet this EP is a release I would suggest owning.
Underground Initiations.......2005-04-09
It's a shame that of all the items in the vast GBV catalogue, this is about the only one without a cool, idiosyncratic title, so it'll go through life called The Hold On Hope EP. I guess the good news is that the titular song was thoughtfully placed last, so we can enjoy a terrific little sampler of GBV's skills, featuring Pollard's killer songwriting and the band rocking like mad.
Even in the condensed EP format, the breadth of Pollard's songcraft is incredible. And if this little gem proves one thing it's that whoever was responsible for choosing the tracklist on Do The Collapse must have had temporary insanity when they left these off. These outtakes and b-sides are to a song better than most of the official album.
Love that patented GBV blend of Who/Beatles/Big Star/Cheap Trick hard rockin' power-pop? Try "Underground Initiations" or Doug Gillard's "Avalanche Aminos" featuring his razor sharp leads. Love Pollard's inimitable British Invasion popcraft? You'll be humming "Fly Into Ashes" for days. Want grungy garage rock? There's a remake of "Reptilian Beauty Secrets" called "Idiot Princess." But the real ace in the hole is the incredible and completely unexpected "A Crick Uphill," truly one of a kind in Pollard's bottomless suitcase of songs. Starting out sounding like John Lennon singing a country song (!) it builds to a gospel-infused rockin' hoe-down that is truly unique in the GBV discography. Like the rest of this fine collection it deserves to be heard.
These songs could've redeemed Do The Collapse..........2001-01-03
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World Hold on-Children of the Sky
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ASIN: B000FIHJTM Release Date: 2006-05-16 |
Album Description
Second single pulled from French DJ/producer Bob Sinclair's third full length album, Western Dream. Features five different mixes and the video to World Hold On. Ministry Of Sound. 2006.Customer Reviews:
Indeed I like it..........2007-01-21
5 STAR or TOP Rated on my iPOD. This Song by Sinclar, "World, Hold On"
is there.
Various re-mixes are out there if you look for.
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