Ask Me No Questions

1. Ask Me No Questions

2. Love Song

3. Dance of Gumri

4. I Beg You, Mountains

5. Komitas Suite

6. Holy, Holy

7. Crane

8. Song of Gumri

9. Maidens of Karabagh

10. Swallow

11. Pagan Chant

Ask Me No Questions,Djivan Gasparyan,Traditional Crossrds,Armenia,Armenian,Armenian Folk,Int'l & World Music,Pop

Average customer rating: Troublante beauté folk

Ask Me No Questions Bridget Saint John Manufacturer: Cherry Red UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Songs for a Gentle Man Thank You For Colour Green The Good, the Bad & the Queen West ASIN: B000BP1EI6 Release Date: 2006-02-20

Tracks:

1. To 8 Without a Hitch
2. Autumn Lullaby
3. Curl Your Toes
4. Like Never Before
5. Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity
6. Barefeet and Hot Pavements
7. I Like to Be with You in the Sun (Song for the Laird of Connaught Hall)
8. Lizard-Long-Tongue Boy
9. Hello Again (Of Course)
10. Many Happy Returns
11. Broken Faith
12. Ask Me No Questions
13. Suzanne [*]
14. Road Was Lonely [*]

Album Details

Bridget St John was One of the First Acts Signed to John Peel's Legendary Dandelion Records. Cherry Red Are Re-releasing her First Three Albums with Several Bonus Tracks that Are Appearing on CD for the First Time. The CD Includes Detailed Sleeve Notes Written by Nigel Cross in Cooperation with St John.

Customer Reviews:

Troublante beauté folk.......2006-03-13

Avant de devenir un animateur vénéré des ondes anglaises pendant plus de trois décennies, et de se retrouver par la même occasion à la tête d'une faramineuse discothèque (quelque temps avant sa mort, drame national en Angleterre, il avouait posséder plus de 50 000 albums !), John Peel fut l'instigateur d'un pointu label, Dandelion, où il pouvait produire librement ses artistes favoris, loin de toute contrainte commerciale. Cherry Red vient de rééditer une partie du catalogue, offrant ainsi l'opportunité de redécouvrir le remarquable premier album, publié en 1969, de cette chanteuse anglaise (qu'on ne confondra pas avec la dinde boulimique quasi homonyme !), que l'ingrate fatalité propre à la folk-music condamnera à une destinée semblable à celles de Nick Drake et de Judee Sill, à la différence notable que Bridget St. John est encore en vie...
D'emblée, l'auditeur risque d'être déconcerté par la tonalité globalement austère de cet opus : sur la majeure partie des titres, le seul accompagnement musical est fourni par son jeu subtil et raffiné de guitariste, ce qui a le mérite de mettre en valeur la voix chaude et fragile de la belle intrigante - sur la mystérieuse pochette, un troublant mimétisme la fait ressembler à une Lou Doillon boudeuse ! - dont le chant immédiatement saisissant hésiterait entre la gravité majestueuse de Nico et le souffle feutré de Bobbie Gentry.
Ailleurs, quelques musiciens amis viennent prêter main forte : le troubadour John Martyn, le guitariste Ric Sanders, qui manie avec panache une guitare slide tourbillonnante sur Many Happy Returns, prodiguant un peu de couleur à ces fétus de chansons. Plus loin, sur la fastueuse chanson-titre qui clôt l'album, Bridget se balade, sereine, dans les jardins fleuris de sa fertile imagination, où viennent s'égarer des chants d'oiseaux rêveurs et des cloches lointaines, voisins des paysages chimériques envisagés par la musicienne Virginia Astley sur son chef-d'œuvre intemporel From Gardens Where We Feel Secure. En bonus-track, une intime relecture de Suzanne, le standard de l'oncle Léo, en dit long sur le talent et la profondeur de l'inspiration de cette obscure beauté folk...

Average customer rating: sweet sweet duduk Musical streams of smoke curling up out of a pipe Armenian heritage

Ask Me No Questions Djivan Gasparyan Manufacturer: Trad. Crossroads ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Armenia | Eastern Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: I Will Not Be Sad in This World The Art of the Armenian Duduk Moon Shines at Night Armenian Fantasies Heavenly Duduk ASIN: B0000031FU Release Date: 1994-09-13

Tracks:

1. Ask Me No Questions
2. Love Song
3. Dance Of Gumri
4. I Beg You, Mountains
5. Komitas Suite
6. Holy, Holy
7. The Crane
8. Song Of Gumri
9. Maidens Of Karabagh
10. The Swallow
11. Pagan Chant

Customer Reviews:

sweet sweet duduk.......2007-05-29

i really like this album a lot. i also have "moon shines at night" which is beautiful and a bit melancholy. as well as "apricots from eden", which is a little more up-beat with drumming. this is kind of somewhere in between. more of a solo album with some really soothing, sweet tunes. i like using it while working during my massage therapy sessions because it's very relaxing and uplifting. it always amazes me every time i hear the duduk how a unique and expressive instrument it really is. you can always benefit from adding another album to your collection regardless of the artist :)

Musical streams of smoke curling up out of a pipe.......2004-11-22

This is a lovely, serene, contemplative album. If you're unfamiliar with the duduk, at least for me, I'd describe it as having a hint of the biting tone that so many of the oboe-family instruments from Asia have, but crossed with that soft serenity of the species of Native American flute that R. Carlos Nakai plays. I love those oboe-family instruments that are all over Asia, but I know some people seem to feel they are too abrasively reedy. You won't feel that way about the duduk.

You're not going to dance or even tap your toes to this album. This disc is for sitting back and oozing into a couch or a bed and zoning-out. Just let it unfold around you in the dark as you think about whatever you need to think about.

Armenian heritage.......2001-04-24

Jivan Gasparyan is the most famous duduk player in the world. His music has been much loved and adored for many years in Armenia and recognized throughout the world. Jivan Gasparyan's music travels deep into the roots of Ancient Armenian folklore music. The Genocide of the 1915 and the earthquake of 1988 had a big impact on his repertoire with the release of "I will not be sad in this world" album in 1989. At the same time Gasparyan collaborates with Peter Gabriel and the result was the award-winning music to the famous "Last Temptation of Christ" movie. He also collaborated with artists such as Lionel Richie, Michael Brooks, "Kronos Quartet" and recorded a number of soundtracks for different movies like Atom Egoyan's "Calendar", "Storm and Sorrow".

His "Ask Me No Questions" album once again travels into the deep historical heritage of Armenia. His sad melodies endowed with a beautiful sound of duduk (sometimes without any other accompaniment) are deep, melancholic and touching. Gasparyan includes more folklore in "Song of Gyumri" and "Maidens of karabagh", at the same time his Komitas Suite is a tribute to Vardapet Komitas, the famous Armenian composer who went insane after seeing the atrocities of 1915 genocide carried out by the Ottoman empire...END

Average customer rating:

Ask Me No Questions Bridget Saint John Manufacturer: Disk Union ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Songs for a Gentle Man Thank You For Songs for a Gentle Man ASIN: B000BM3ZQ8 Release Date: 2005-12-19

Tracks:

1. To 8 Without a Hitch
2. Autumn Lullaby
3. Curl Your Toes
4. Like Never Before
5. Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity
6. Barefeet and Hot Pavements
7. I Like to Be with You in the Sun (Song for the Laird of Connaught Hall)
8. Lizard-Long-Tongue Boy
9. Hello Again (Of Course)
10. Many Happy Returns
11. Broken Faith
12. Ask Me No Questions
13. Suzanne [*]
14. Road Was Lonely [*]

Album Details

1969 Album by the British Folk-rock Singer/Songwriter, Originally Released on John Peel's Dandelion Label. Includes Two Bonus Tracks. Digitally Remastered.

Average customer rating: so sad

Ask Me No Questions / Songs for the Gentleman Bridget Saint John Manufacturer: See for Miles ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000011AT Release Date: 1995-04-25

Tracks:

1. To Be Without A Hitch
2. Autumn Lullaby
3. Curl Your Toes
4. Like Never Before
5. The Curious Crystals Of Unusual Purity
6. Barefeet And Hot Pavements
7. I Like To Be With You In The Sun (Song For The Laird Of Connaught Hall)
8. Lizard Long-Tongue Boy
9. Hello Again (Of Course)
10. Many Happy Returns
11. Broken Faith
12. Ask Me No Questions
13. A Day A Way
14. City Crazy
15. Back To Stay
16. Seagull Sunday
17. If You'd Been There
18. Song For The Laird Of Connaught Hall Part 2
19. Making Losing Better
20. The Lady And The Gentle Man
21. Downderry Daze
22. The Pebble And The Man
23. It Seems Very Strange

Customer Reviews:

so sad.......2003-11-12

I first discovered Bridget Saint John in Germany, through the reputation of John Peel and Dandelion, I listened to the LP and at once was stricken by "To B with a hitch". How can someone have such a sad voice, not monotonous as my wife says, just sad and reminding so much to what we french people love about England, this kind of bored and styled laziness ? There are beautiful melodies and the guitar playing is excellent and moody. She surely has written most of the songs on rainy days. Actually I fell in love with Bridget, where is she today ?
The second album is a gem too.

Average customer rating:

Ask Me No Questions and I'll Tell You the Truth Blue Hue ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000O6Y1TG

Product Description

1 No Waste of Time 2 Day Mood 3 Right Now 4 Another Game 5 Wish You Well 6 Listen Beneath 7 Go On Home 8 Keep That Smile 9 South Train

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