Border Crossing [Import]

1. Running from Love

2. Blue Days, Black Nights

3. Message to Garcia

4. Little Bit of Poison

5. Wait Here for the Cops

6. Two Kinds of Love

7. Sister Angelina

8. Theresa Maria

9. Latin Lover

10. I Love My Wife Blues

11. What Would I Do Without Your Love

12. Barcelona

13. Old John

14. Love's Been Linked to the Blues [#][*]

15. Deeper Well [#][*]

Border Crossing,David Olney,Corazong,Contemporary Folk,Rock,Singer/Songwriter,Traditional Folk

Average customer rating: From Across The Pond... {4.5 Stars} Bad Ass!

Ominous Border Crossing Manufacturer: Recall ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music ASIN: B000EMGJYU Release Date: 2006-03-14

Tracks:

1. No Go Area
2. More To life
3. Searching For Mr. Manuva
4. Original Heads
5. Dance For Your Life
6. Taxi
7. Rankins Move
8. The Return
9. Flight Path
10. The Alias
11. Future Blues
12. Late Night Skit
13. Searching For Mr. Manuva (Mr Scruff Remix)

Album Description

"Ominous" different vocalists and MCs who each bring their unique flavor to Border Crossing. They include: Halifax born rapper Usmaan ("In Your Area"), Roots Manuva's dynamic MC Ricky Rankin ("Dance For Your Life" "Rankin's Move"), the dazzling female vocalist Alex Watson ("More to Life"), and finally and American rapper Rockwell, who takes us back to those late `80s days on "Original Heads."

The domestic release of "Ominous" also features Mr. Scruff's Remix of "Searching For Mr. Manuva."

Customer Reviews:

From Across The Pond... {4.5 Stars}.......2007-02-23

Border Crossing's striking debut, Ominous, is the kind of album that will definitely change your perception of what you think hip hop is. Heavily influenced by their varied musical upbringings, each member of the West London trio brings something different to the table. With help from fellow UK up and comers Usmaan, Ricky Rankin, Jehst, and Alex Watson, they fuse elements of the dancehall, R&B, jazz, dub, hip hop, and chill out genres to create a mellow, simmering, downtempo sound that stretches the boundaries of hip hop.

Bad Ass!.......2006-04-10

Border Crossing kicks some serious ass. Serious beats, rhymes, and instrumentation. Fans of Massive Attack, Tricky, etc...check it out.

Average customer rating: The reissue of Martland's second recording for Factory - an exciting disc

Crossing the Border Steve Martland Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Steve Martland: Babi Yar/Drill Patrol ASIN: B000003ELS Release Date: 1995-11-07

Tracks:

1. Crossing The Border
2. Principia
3. American Invention
4. Re-mix
5. Shoulder To Shoulder

Customer Reviews:

The reissue of Martland's second recording for Factory - an exciting disc.......2007-01-06

This is the reissue by Catalyst, a label from Bmg, of Factory 366, the second of this label's long-play CDs (there was at least a 12" CD as well) devoted to the music of Steve Martland. The first was Factory 266, with Babi Yar and Drill (see my review), released in 1989, which made a big splash then and established the composer's controversial reputation - not only because of his music but also because of his rock-star appearance on the disc's cover-art. This one was recorded in 1991 and released in July 1992. The notes give an extensive overview of the history of the cult and now defunct Manchester-based, mostly rock-devoted Factory label and its relation with Martland, but not much info on the works themselves, other than the basics about first performances: dates, venues and performers. There is also a rather comical blurb by Martland, by which we are made to understand that the man feels guilty of being a composer rather than having a "real" job - or rather, no job at all, as apparently everybody else from the working class in Great Britain. The reasons for his compositional stance are made clearer, I guess: bring the music to the masses, to assuage your guilt of not being part of them. Strange that composers should feel apologetic for what they are. Mathematicians never do, do they?

The pieces on the disc were composed between 1985 (American Invention) and 1991 (Crossing the Border). Crossing the Border is the longest piece on the disc (23:44), and Principia is the shortest (3:05). Martland must have a special fondness for the latter - a merry dance-like piece reminiscent of Steve Reich, based on the repetition of simple rhythmic and melodic cells - as he re-recorded it twice with his Steven Martland Band, once as part of the "Patrol" CD and then again on "Horses of Instructions" (Black Box" - see my reviews), which also contains a re-make of "Re-mix", a funny, demented takeoff of Marin Marais `Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont.

Among the three more lengthy and substantial compositions on this disc,"Crossing the Border" is written for string orchestra. Starting with a canon of rugged, slashing, fast-moving chords in the strings' high registers over a slowly moving and harmonically simple ground bass, it brings to mind the music for strings of Britten and Tippett (but without their subtlety and sound invention) as well is the kind of music written by the Goreckis, Part, Kanchelis and other neo simplistiks which seem to have swarmed the contemporary music scene in the last twenty years, but after 12:00 the piece builds up to a more typically Martlandesque pounding of chords reminiscent of (but not as rhythmically complex as) Stravinsky's Sacre. It ends with mysterious, hushed, vibrato-less dirge evocative of some medieval funeral music or Schubert's Death & the Maiden string quartet theme. The music is easy to listen to and agreeable to hear, maybe a little too much so for nourishment, but it does elicit a sense of mounting exhilaration.

"American Invention" is very typical of Martland, with its borrowings from rock & free-jazz, its pounding chords on complex, hocketing rhythms and its blend of classical and rock instruments (electric guitar and drums), recalling another master of cross-over, the German Heiner Goebbels. It produces thrilling energy and tension. And the same can be said of "Shoulder to Shoulder", in which echoes of Varèse (in its constant repetition of brassy rhythmic cells) and Stravinsky (whiffs of The soldier's Tale, the Concerto for piano and winds, the Ebony concerto for clarinet and jazz combo, as well as his later, serial pieces) can be heard.

This is good Martland disc - better, in my opinion, than the two subsequent ones: "Patrol" (Catalyst) and "Horses of Instruction" (Black Box). But if you have only one, go rather for the thrilling Babi Yar/Drill (Factory - reissued by Catalyst).

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Crossing the Border Manufacturer: Ground Swell ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items: Celtic Instrumentals ASIN: B0001FQ64S

Product Description

The second album by this group from Newfoundland continues the blend of neo-traditional pop and Celtic sounds with rock and a bit of soul and blues for an already unmistakable sound. Ian McKinnon's pipe work is outstanding and imbues the high energy rock with traditional sounds.

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Border Crossing David Olney Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00013PHF4 Release Date: 2004-02-23

Tracks:

1. Running from Love
2. Blue Days, Black Nights
3. Message to Garcia
4. Little Bit of Poison
5. Wait Here for the Cops
6. Two Kinds of Love
7. Sister Angelina
8. Theresa Maria
9. Latin Lover
10. I Love My Wife Blues
11. What Would I Do Without Your Love
12. Barcelona
13. Old John
14. Love's Been Linked to the Blues [#][*]
15. Deeper Well [#][*]

Average customer rating: Walking Stones is a pure delight Beautiful pieces

Walking Stones Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music | Ambient | Celtic | Environmental | General | International | Jazz | Meditation Music | Piano | World Dance General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Celtic | Europe | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Roof for the Rain Greenfire: A Celtic String Ensemble ASIN: B000001QBQ Release Date: 1997-09-23

Tracks:

1. Father Kelly's
2. Farrell O'Gara's
3. Richard Dwyer's
4. Clock Waltz
5. Princess Beatrice (Slow Air)
6. Loudons Bonnie Braes Strathspey
7. Princess Beatrice Hornpipe
8. The Queen's Polka
9. The Bornish Polka
10. Walking Stones
11. Caspian Lake
12. The Bee's Wing Hornpipe
13. Untitled Hornpipe
14. Dances Des Foins
15. Reel Beatrice
16. Pierre n as pas de culotte
17. Kevin Keegan's Waltz
18. Ian Robertson
19. The Border Crossing
20. The Panhandle
21. The Cuckoo's Nest
22. Tom Morrison's Hornpipe
23. The Home Ruler
24. The Green Gates
25. Tam Lin
26. The Silver Spire
27. The Rakes Of Kildare
28. The Mist Covered Mountain
29. Lad O'Bierne's
30. Carolan's Draught
31. Louis Waltz

Amazon.com

On this evocative disc of instrumental music, dulcimer player Ken Kolodner is assisted by guitarist Robin Bullock and fiddle player Laura Risk (of Cordelia's Dad). Walking Stones includes several traditional Irish and Scottish pieces as well as a number of original compositions. Subtitled A Celtic Sojourn, the album does indeed give a listener the feeling of going on a journey, mainly because of the otherworldliness of the material and the ethereal quality of the hammer dulcimer. From the dancing rhythms of "Father Kelly's," "The Bornish Polka," and "Reel Beatrice" to the gentle delicacy of "Clock Waltz," "Princess Beatrice," and the title track, this music is nothing short of beautiful. There are more than 30 pieces in all, most quite short; however, they are arranged on the CD to flow smoothly one to the next, so the briefness of the songs is never distracting. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

Walking Stones is a pure delight.......1999-12-09

Ken Kolodner is one of the modern masters of the hammered dulcimer, but this CD is much more than a great dulcimer recording -- it's a great *folk* recording. Along with the expressive fiddling of Laura Risk and the guitar and cittern wizardry of Robin Bullock, Kolodner presents old standards and modern compositions in arrangements that are inventive and expressive, going far beyond standard jam session fare, and giving the impression of a larger ensemble without benefit of overdubbing. It's hard to pick standout cuts, but my favorites are "Dances De Foins/Reel Beatrice/Pierre N'As Pas De Culotte," a firey set of Canadian reels, and "Ian Robertson," one of the loveliest slow airs to come around in a long time. This is one of those albums that bears up to repeated listening, and would be a fine addition to any folk music collection.

Beautiful pieces.......1999-11-02

A very nice CD. The tracks stick to Celtic conventions and are well executed.

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Equalibrium: Border Crossing (Percussion Music) Manufacturer: Equilibrium Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Daugherty, Michael | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rouse, Christopher | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer Percussion | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B00001P4TR Release Date: 1999-10-05

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Border Crossing Manufacturer: Throwback ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA3A5U Release Date: 2004-09-28

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Border Crossing Various Artists Manufacturer: Prime Distribution ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005RGJC Release Date: 2001-12-11

Tracks:

1. Compromise - Robin Porter
2. Nother Chain in the Link - Paul Mac
3. Just Across the Street - Arian Leviste, John Tejada
4. Quality Sequence - Casey Hogan
5. Omission - Kenneth Graham
6. No Habla Espanol - Dean Decosta
7. Bowel Moves
8. Moonlight in Vermont - AJ Scent
9. Plontek - Lucas Rodenbush
10. Passion Revisited
11. Fathernature - Mike Carr, Robin Porter

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Crossing the Border Jayne Olderman ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FTB1JA Release Date: 2006-02-14

Tracks:

1. Real Life
2. Crossing the Border
3. Just Right
4. Wish
5. Touch and Go
6. Toma lo Que Es Tuyo
7. Tonight
8. Counter Calysmic
9. There Is No City as Pretty as Savannah
10. Meant to Fly
11. Better Let It Go
12. Si Solo (If Only)

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Crossing the Border Scott Booth Manufacturer: Scott Booth ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAF9AE Release Date: 2005-09-06

Tracks:

1. Moving On
2. You and Me
3. Crossing the Border
4. Curse You
5. I've Got You
6. Watching Me
7. Grace
8. Faith in You
9. This Night
10. Screaming By
11. Your Deadly Lip
12. Forgetting
13. Tell Me Where
14. Each and Everyone
15. Not Small
16. You Cannot Say
17. World Has Changed

Music Album:

1. Both Sides - O'R Ddwy Ochr
2. Central Reservation Pt.1 [CD-single] [Import]
3. Classic Recordings Of Irish Traditional Fiddle Music
4. Come Before Winter
5. Cornbread Willie
6. Dawning of the Day
7. Decatur Decorum
8. Dore
9. Førde International Folk Music Festival
10. Five Seasons [Import]

Music Album