Talking to Myself

Track Listings

1. Tune Me In

2. Starry Night

3. Talking to Myself

4. Love is a Word

5. Girl Thing

6. Great Wall of Happiness

7. Whales

8. As Far As I Can Tell

9. Difficult Day

10. Denver

11. Find Out Why

12. On the Balcony

13. Dust in the Light

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Joanne Stato grew up in New Jersey, and has lived in Maine, Colorado, Virginia, and now Baltimore, Maryland, where she is a member of the Baltimore Songwriters Association. Her witty and evocative songs chronicle her life experiences: a would-be musician working construction in "Denver;" a weak wristed woman living alone pondering a two-timing lover in "A Difficult Day," and a young romantic member of a just-being-born Colorado band in "Starry Night." Other selections include a Baltimore inner-city arts project that brings the neighborhood together in "Great Wall of Happiness," and the pitfalls of sharing a house with a group of young skateboarders in "Dust in the Light."

Album Description
Joanne Stato sings her original contemporary acoustic tunes in her clear, expressive voice spanning a lovely soprano down to a gritty alto. The songs are in turn sardonic, romantic, reflective, emotional, and poignant. Stato accompanies herself on piano. The project was produced, engineered, and mixed by John Seay, a prolific Baltimore songwriter in his own right (#4, #8, and #11 were written by Seay).

Talking to Myself, Music, Joanne Stato, If Laura Nyro and Mose Allison had a daughter together, her performance might resemble Stato's lovely soprano with attitudinous interludes of gritty alto; in turn sardonic, romantic, reflective, emotional, and poignant.

Preisner: 10 Easy Pieces for Piano
Average customer rating:

Simple and beautiful

I keep coming back to this one - what a great surprise!

Preisner: 10 Dull Pieces for Piano

I can't stop playing this CD -

'Simply beautiful'

Preisner: 10 Easy Pieces for Piano

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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Requiem For My Friend - Preisner / Rewakowicz, Kasprzyk, Sinfonia Varsovia, et al

Preisner's Music

Preisner: Kieslowski Krzysztof

Bleu: Bande Originale Du Film

Double Life of Veronika

ASIN: B00004LCAP
Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

A Good Morning Melody
Meditation
To See More
Talking to Myself
The Art of Flying
About Passing
Farewell
A Tune a Day
Greetings from Pamalican
A Good Night Melody

Customer Reviews:

Simple and beautiful.......2002-01-11

The ten pieces on this CD are simple - and most of their beauty results from this simplicity. They have the lyrical, dreamlike tone we know and love in the music of Zbigniew Preisner. And it's always a nice dream expressed by these melodies - some are outright happy tunes ('To See More' and 'The Art Of Flying') or even funny ('A Tune A Day').
Lesdzek Mozdzer gives them a jazz-like touch in his improvisations, which prevents the music from turning into too sweat candy, but also lets the themes appear the more clear and fresh in their simple beauty (warning! some are earcatchers).
This is music you need no guide for, no knowledge of technique, history of music and biography of the artist, as it speaks for itself.
People who expect hard intellectual tasks, headaches when listening first, and proud membership in an exclusive circle of distinct experts when they got used to ('understood') a certain, 'difficult style' will not like this CD.
After all it's not pure jazz or demanding contemporary music, but something as difficult as simple, yet intelligent, music you can just listen to and enjoy.

I keep coming back to this one - what a great surprise!.......2001-10-20

I am a fan of all kinds of music - from hard/alternative rock (my last two CDs purchased were Staind and Nickelback) to house/trance and other kinds of club music, to country, to classical. I have to say that when I come home at the end of the day and settle under my down comforter with a book and a cup of tea, this has been the background music of choice almost every day since I picked up this CD a few months ago. This is some wonderful piano music, composed and performed with tenderness. It is sweet and melancholy and a refreshing 45 minutes of simplicity in this complicated world.

I must also state that saw "Blue" and "Red" a few years ago but don't remember the music he wrote for those movies especially moving me. I'll have to give them another look/listen now.

Preisner: 10 Dull Pieces for Piano.......2000-10-16

Preisner is a composer whose name is likely unknown to most, but whose music, at least for foreign film buffs, may be fairly well known. A Polish composer acclaimed primarily for his film work, he composed the music to the Three Colors films: Three Colors Blue, Three Colors Red, and Three Colors White and also the music to the Double Life of Veronique. His works in this area are well recognized and he has won several significant awards. The pieces on this EMI Classics disc, however, are not accompanied by fine acting, by beautiful cinematography, by vivid character depictions or intricate plot twists. Nor do they utilize the movie composer's standard bag of tricks-huge orchestras and choirs with every possible tone color available. No, the Ten Easy Pieces for piano stand alone, their only ornamentation short descriptive titles, such as Farewell, or Meditation, intended to orient the listener's mind in the right direction.

And herein lies the problem. Preisner may be a fine film composer, but he needs the visual and theatrical elements of film as well as a larger sound world to create meaningful music. This stuff is pleasant enough the first time around, for a while; but a concentrated listening to the entire disc had me hoping desperately for even a single moment of true emotion or drama. It never came--the closest Preisner got was to sound for a few minutes like bad Rachmaninoff. This music is as filling as whipped cream, and just as nutritious. I found it quite telling that one of the pieces is titled, A Tune a Day--about which Preisner says "I am already grasping things. Just walking, just speaking, just thinking, just playing. I just know that I know nothing." When any artist admits they are cranking out a work a day, and they know nothing, alarm bells should ring!

This is music to put on, then leave the room or perhaps fall asleep.

Although these pieces are not written for film, Preisner has taken his day job too much to heart. This disc reveals the dilemma of a film composer-essentially he is an employee hired to write background music, not art music. The two should not be confused--this is the musical equivalent of wall-paper: it may be nice, but you really aren't supposed to pay attention to it! Preisner's melodies are all very simple and banal, they are extremely limited in range, register and dynamic expression. And although a jazz influence gives some of the pieces some rhythmic interest, they all have the simpliest of forms- primarily repetition with very little development.

I don't mean to say there is nothing of worth on the disc, and those of you who delight in New Age Music may enjoy the Ten Easy Pieces. The piano performance of Leszsek Mozdzer, is excellent; and the liner notes attribute some improvisation to him. In the one piece where the amount of improvisation is clear, Talking to Myself, it is obvious that the improvisations are the most interesting of the music. Again, this is symptomatic of a film composer's work--so often they simply write either the melody or perhaps a lead sheet with some sketched-in harmonies and leave it to their assistants to work out the details.

EMI's marketing department provided a short write-up of the disc in which they claim Preisner's music is like "Erik Satie meets Keith Jarrett meets Gorecki" I've heard those composers, and let me tell you sir, Preisner is no Satie, Jarrett, or Gorecki.

This is a disc I won't be listening to again--maybe I'll give it to my wife's beauty salon to play during aromatherapy.

I can't stop playing this CD -.......2000-09-27

Wonderful work. I think Mr. Preisner really understands the piano, and has created a set of pieces that are exciting, modern, and emotionally charged. These songs have a feeling of freshness that is so lacking in today's music. The performance is equally exciting. Above all, they are, as the title suggests, easy pieces. One can really hear what's happening musically, and that is something that I, as a music lover and amateur musician, really appreciate. My 6 year old daughter, a talented beginning piano student, loves this CD as well, so I say - encore!

'Simply beautiful'.......2000-06-12

Like most who've fallen in love with Preisner's work, I first became familiar with the very powerful, awe-inspiring music from Kieslowski films. 10 Easy Pieces is very different, but only inasmuch as it lacks the instrument combinations and complexity of his earlier work. As the title suggests, this was completely intentional by the composer, who perhaps just wanted to take a break or just do something different for a change after 'A Requiem for a Friend.' While the 'Preisner's Music' compilation may be better for someone generally interested in a range of Preisner's work, 10 Easy Pieces nonetheless captures his genius in its simplicity, and is a must for any fan.

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Talking to Myself
Patricia Conroy
Manufacturer: Angeline Canada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000M344XY
Release Date: 2007-02-05

Tracks:

Ray of Sun
Everything You Do
End of the Day
Talking to Myself
I Know
Wild Card
Everyday Ordinary Life
When
Here's the Deal
'Til I Hear It from You
Save Your Breath

Album Details

Montreal Native Patricia Conroy Has Proven Herself as One of Canada's Top Female Country Performers.

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Talking to Myself
Liu Xing
Manufacturer: Hugo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005S24D
Release Date: 2001-10-30

Tracks:

Nothing To Do
Folk Song
Talking To Myself
Come Round
Fantastic Dreams
Hitting Snags
Carefree And Joyous
Follow My Heart
Impromptu
Take It Easy
Moonlight
Long Time Ahead
Linger On
Absent-Minded

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Talking to Myself
Cousteau
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000067FRM
Release Date: 2002-06-04

Tracks:

Talking To Myself (Mixed By Ger McDonnell At Wessex Studios)
Short Sighted Beautiful And Shy (Mixed By DRM At Studios Wha
Last Secret Of The Sea (Mixed By Ger McDonnell At Wessex Stu

Album Description

Taken from the 2002 album, Sirena. 3 tracks 'Talking To Myself', 'Short Sighted, Beautiful and Shy' & 'Last Secret Of The Sea'.

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Quirky and Beautifully Chaotic
Talking to everybody ...
Talking To Myself

Talking to Myself

Manufacturer: Stato Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006LI74
Release Date: 2002-08-29

Tracks:

Tune Me In
Starry Night
Talking to Myself
Love is a Word
Girl Thing
Great Wall of Happiness
Whales
As Far As I Can Tell
Difficult Day
Denver
Find Out Why
On the Balcony
Dust in the Light

Album Description

Joanne Stato sings her original contemporary acoustic tunes in her clear, expressive voice spanning a lovely soprano down to a gritty alto. The songs are in turn sardonic, romantic, reflective, emotional, and poignant. Stato accompanies herself on piano. The project was produced, engineered, and mixed by John Seay, a prolific Baltimore songwriter in his own right (#4, #8, and #11 were written by Seay).

Customer Reviews:

Quirky and Beautifully Chaotic.......2006-08-20

"There's something that I can't explain to you..."

Joanne Stato has loveable appeal and her satirical lyrics are perfect for moments when you know you shouldn't be bratty, but you just feel like being silly to avoid thinking about the inevitable twists and turns of existence.

She is mysterious all while being playful and her "talking to myself" track made me laugh out loud with its quirky pacing and silly lyrics that she repeats as if a record is skipping.

"Love is a Word" gets pretty sentimental and is comforting. Some of her songs are more like stories and others have the feeling of running through fields of flowers with abandon. More fun than most country songs, the music at times feels beautifully chaotic.

If you are in the right mood, in the right moment and in the
right place, this is very enjoyable.

"reading a book..."

~The Rebecca Review

Talking to everybody ..........2002-10-14

These songs are little novels, each with a story to tell and so many emotions to convey. Melodic, reflective and full of joy, this music is a delight.

Talking To Myself.......2002-09-19

Joanne Stato's album, "Talking To Myself", is extremely personalized and filled with emotion. Her music is from the heart, expressive and truthful. A must for music afficionados who enjoy the artistry of music-making.

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Talking to Myself

Manufacturer: Patrick Gibson
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA6MGY
Release Date: 2004-09-07

Average customer rating:

early Mavis music

Talking to Myself
Mavis Fan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0000563LU

Customer Reviews:

early Mavis music.......2001-03-20

this is mavis' 2nd individual album. it is one of her best ones. the first time i heard the song "tear" was the first time i ever heard of mavis. it was so great that i bought the album just for that one song. she later won an award for "tear" in that released year.

another good song in the album is the title track, "talking to myself", music and lyrics written by mavis herself. It's one of those songs you want to listen to when you are feeling down. that way you know you're not the only one who can feel so sad.

And of course, the popular & cute song, "your sweetness". it has a touch of vintage/vinyl mixed with modern pop. and all the other songs in this album is worth a listen... particularly track 10. mavis' fans cannot live without this album!!!

Music Album:

Music Album

1. Tune Me In
2. Starry Night
3. Talking to Myself
4. Love is a Word
5. Girl Thing
6. Great Wall of Happiness
7. Whales
8. As Far As I Can Tell
9. Difficult Day
10. Denver
11. Find Out Why
12. On the Balcony
13. Dust in the Light