Rainforest [Import]

1. Weather Man - Jim Beloff, Herb Ohta

2. Lily - Herb Ohta

3. I Would Love to Make You Mine - Herb Ohta

4. Finer Things - Jim Beloff, Herb Ohta

5. When I'm Not Around - Herb Ohta,

6. Rainforest Waltz - Jim Beloff, Herb Ohta

7. Pua Lokelau - Herb Ohta,

8. French Cafe - Jim Beloff, Herb Ohta

9. There Is Someone New in My Life - Herb Ohta

10. Kamaaina Keiki - R. Alex Anderson, Herb Ohta

11. Those Eyes - Herb Ohta

12. Dancing in the Rain - Herb Ohta

13. Linger in Youth - Bob Alan, Herb Ohta

14. Lazy Day - Jim Beloff, Herb Ohta

15. Hawaii - Herb Ohta

Rainforest,Ohta-San,Globe Roots,Hawaii,World Music

Average customer rating: just rain Echoes of Nature: Rainforest CD Good CD Good Sound Quality The Perfect Relaxation CD!!!!

Echoes of Nature: Rainforest Various Artists Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Environmental | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Nature | New Age | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Environmental | New Age | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Environmental | New Age | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Echoes of Nature: Morning Songbirds Echoes of Nature: Jungle Talk Echoes of Nature: Ocean Waves Echoes of Nature: Thunderstorm Amazon Rain Forest ASIN: B000001V4Q Release Date: 1993-09-21

Tracks:

1. Tropical Rain
2. Jungle River Birdsong
3. Birdsong

Customer Reviews:

just rain.......2007-03-28

It is a rainforest. Don't buy if you are expecting anything more than rain. Threw it away.

Echoes of Nature: Rainforest CD.......2007-02-24

The only reason I rated this two stars was because my bird could care less about this CD. I originally was online with some bird websites. I have a cockatiel and she is so whiney (squawking - screaming) when you leave the room. One of the reviewers said this CD did the trick for his bird. Well I think I have a special needs bird :) The CD itself is soothing for me. However, it doesn't do anything to quiet my needy cockatiel.

Good CD.......2006-05-29

This is a good CD, but not the best one. I have got various rainforest CDs in the past. Some were terible and some were great. Most of the Echos of Nature CDs are pretty good. The only problem is that if you here 10 sceconds of each track, you pretty much heard the whole CD.

Good Sound Quality.......2005-11-08

You'd think that recording quality would not be an issue with these "background" CDs, but some are terrible. In contrast, this one was well-engineered.

The Perfect Relaxation CD!!!!.......2005-09-10

I bought several Rainforest CD's in an effort to get relaxing rain sounds. This is my favorite one because there are no SCREAMING birds/animals!!! This CD has three tracks...Tropical Rain, which is perfect to fall asleep to...sounds like rain hitting leaves, Jungle River...sounds more like a small water fountain...but still relaxing, and Birdsong...which is still relaxing because there are no screaming birds...which I found to be a very common theme in my other rainforest cds. There is no music with these tracks!!! Which I love because why would you want chessy music when you're trying to relax with the sounds of nature???!!!??? It's great to fall asleep to or just to relax to...Hope you enjoy it. :-)

Average customer rating: Pretty Good

Hitman: Codename 47 / Hitman 2 - Silent Assassin Jesper Kyd Manufacturer: La-La Land Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Anime & Video Game Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hitman: Contracts Hitman Blood Money Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack Fable Perfect Dark Zero ASIN: B000A2GP5W Release Date: 2005-08-30

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Main Title (Extended Version)
3. Hong Kong Themes
4. Jungle Exploration
5. Dark Jungle
6. Hotel Themes
7. Harbor Themes
8. Hospital Themes
9. Hotel Music (Early Demo)
10. Rainforest (Early Demo)
11. Atmosphere Demo
12. Main Title (Original Slow Version)

Tracks:

1. Hitman 2 Main Title
2. Waiting For Action
3. Action Begins
4. 47 Makes A Decision
5. The Penthouse
6. Japanese Mansion
7. Japanese Snow Castle
8. Streets Of India
9. Mission In India
10. 47 In St. Petersburg
11. Trouble In Russia
12. Desert Sun
13. Arabian Dance
14. The Setup
15. End Boss
16. Slow Ambience
17. Fast Ambience
18. H2 Exploration
19. H2 Action
20. Dreams Of Instanbul (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews:

Pretty Good.......2006-07-29

This was a very unique item. Fans of the series will enjoy it. At times some of the tracks seem out of place when out of the game, but that's more than made up for by the many powerful and classic tracks that these CD's have. The first CD is more techno-inspired while the second is more operatic. It's good music to do push-ups to or to drive to. Especially the first track of the first CD.

Average customer rating: Relaxing but vibrant Perfect for a meditative mood Some of the most relaxing, unique and beautiful music . . . This is an AWESOME album!!! A relaxing journey

Blues from the Rainforest: A Musical Suite Merl Saunders Manufacturer: Sumertone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Rock Jam Bands | Jam Bands | Rock | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Jambands | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Blue Incantation Fire Up Plus Keystone Encores, Vol. 1 Live at Keystone, Vol. 2 Well-Matched: The Best of Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia ASIN: B0000023LH Release Date: 1998-02-17

Tracks:

1. Blues From The Rain Forest
2. Sunrise Over Haleakala
3. Blue HIll Ocean Dance
4. Afro Pearl Blue
5. Dance Of The Fireflies
6. Sri Lanka

Amazon.com

This meditative record is a departure from the bluesier and funkier organ work for which Merl Saunders is best known. Experimenting with a number of synthesized sonic textures, Saunders establishes a peaceful mood that borders at times on New Age, but is anchored significantly by Jerry Garcia's guitar. Garcia again shows his ability to be comfortable in a variety of musical settings, and his playing here is inventive and interesting without ever disturbing the mellow atmosphere. Saunders calls it "environmental earth music" and the sounds are both inspired by and in honor of the rainforest. A lovely record that offers ample rewards even without undivided attention. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Relaxing but vibrant.......2005-08-15

Merl Saunders is a great musician worthy of every accolade given him. This work, in part a collaboration with long-time musical soul brother Jerry Garcia, is simply a beautiful, relaxing, musically adventurous album. It's what you'd expect from this type of CD concept from Saunders and Garcia, although you probably didn't think this was something they'd do.

All the other reviewers have pretty well hit the nail on the head, so I haven't much else to say except that whenever I have a massage session, it's one I like to play because the imagery in the music really aids the relaxation process in massage. The results for me have been fantastic.

Then again, I just like to listen to it while reading or anytime the mood hits. You'll always hear something that you hadn't heard before, too, which is why it's not something that I've grown tired of as time passes (I've had this CD almost 15 years).

Nothing less than 5 stars for this CD.

Perfect for a meditative mood.......2004-03-04

Wow, an instrumental synthesizer-driven album by the great blues/rock/soul daddy Merl Saunders! It's hard to know what to think until you've heard it. I used this CD as part of the "soundtrack" while helping a friend through labor. We did some guided imagery as a relaxation technique and this music was PERFECT accompaniment to our visions of floating down a river through a forest. I listen to this CD when I need to change a hectic or upsetting day into a gentle, calming but uplifting evening. I don't generally listen to "new age" music, but this is new-agey in the best possible sense because it paints vivid pictures and uses all sorts of interesting sounds, rather than being a bland drone of synthesizers as some new age can be. Jerry Garcia's melodic contributions to the first several tracks are really what makes the music so uplifting. His guitar weaves a melody in and around the gorgeous atmospherics behind, and it's not sleepy, it's quietly exuberant. Highly recommended!

Some of the most relaxing, unique and beautiful music . . ........2002-11-10

. . . ever. This music brilliantly conveys the rainforest atmosphere. The instrumentation is incredible, especially the exotic percussion. Most of the songs are long and adventurous while "Sunrise Over Haleakala" is a very pretty, very sweet number led by a piano and Jerry Garcia's plaintive guitar. Elsewhere, Jerry's presence is more prominent, such as on the anthemic opener "Blues from the Rainforest." He really makes my heart swell when his guitar takes flight.

"Afro Pearl Blue" is another gorgeous trip into the jungle with beautiful female harmonies. Garcia doesn't appear on the last two tracks, but they are no less worthy. The very last track takes a somewhat different direction with drones, chanting sounds and more of the excellent Indian percussion that's woven throughout the album.

BLUES FROM THE RAINFOREST is a collaboration that represents a true melting pot of different musical cultures. The result is greater and more perfect than many other such mergers are able to acheive. For me, this album has come in handy on many different occasions and has become a classic in my collection.

This is an AWESOME album!!!.......2001-02-08

Back on Earth Day 1990 me and some friends drove from LA to SF (not very enviromental of us, huh?) in order to see an Earth Day concert at Chrisy Fields in the Presidio. We were going because of Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman playing. (Actuially I was really going to see a Devo reunion!). It was a stormy SF day, clouds and rain breaking into sunshine and then back again. We stood in the wet through an all day musical adventure, many acts from Maria Muldar to Mary's Danish to the bad version of Starship and more. Bob and Rob's set got cut off by a storm midway into Throwin' Stones. Devo never played. But in the middle of it, Merl played. It was the first time I heard Blues for The Rainforest. It may have been the first time it was ever played live for an audience. It was so beautiful, with the actual wind and thunder and rain happening and supporting it all... I was so moved. I bought the CD that day. And the CD had Jerry on it!!! I have since bought about 10 copies, because I always want to share it with someone. I am a Massage Therapist and teacher, and I use it in my classes and my sessions all the time, it is so beautiful, peaceful, healing. It is a truly spiritual and groovin' album. And Jerry soars!!! Awesome!

A relaxing journey.......1999-01-11

Merl Saunders makes a keeper of an album with the help of Jerry Garcia and others. It calms the senses and takes you on a journey through Central America's rainforrests with relaxing chords and native instruments. Jerry's distinctive guitars compliments the music here as it does on other Saunders' works. I personally listen to this album at work, and my co-workers are constantly asking me what it is, or to borrow it. It is a keeper, one which you will listen to repeatedly.

Average customer rating: TIME OUT A pleasant album Ambling Along in a Rainforest My favorite city driving CD! Beautifully mixed wiht nature sounds! Lush and beautiful

Spirits of the Rainforest Diane & David Arkenstone Manufacturer: Neo Pacific ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: African Skies Echoes of Egypt The Healing Spirit Jewel in the Sun Aquaria: A Liquid Blue Trancescape ASIN: B0000CC85N Release Date: 2003-10-07

Tracks:

1. Emerald River
2. Night Flight
3. Forest Rain
4. Rhythm of the Forest
5. Eyes of the Jaguar
6. Morning in Paradise
7. Shimmering Pool
8. Golden Temple
9. Ancient Path

Customer Reviews:

TIME OUT.......2007-03-24

I heard one track from Spirits of the Rainforest on Media Player 11 and had to go see what it was, I immediately ordered from Amazon and I have been playing it in the car ever since (2 weeks ago). Beautiful haunting sounds of the rainforest and every single track has something special. I just love it.

A pleasant album.......2006-10-03

Spirits of the Rainforest, released in 2003, is the second installment in the Adventure Cargo series from Diane and David Arkenstone. The music is nicely combined with the sounds of nature--birds, for example. Nine tracks are provided; all segue into one another. I find the album's songwriting, musicianship, and sound quality to be pleasing. My favorite pieces are "Rhythm of the Forest" and "Eyes of the Jaguar." "Rhythm of the Forest" is a fun composition with delectable guitar work. "Eyes of the Jaguar" contains stately, pretty melodies. The CD is housed in a digipack, which includes interesting color illustrations; also, there is descriptive writing from Diane Arkenstone. I think that the album cover artwork is attractive, too. The disc is just over 56 minutes. Spirits of the Rainforest is a recommendable piece of work.

Ambling Along in a Rainforest.......2006-07-27

I very enjoy this one at times although watch out for the weather perhaps getting warmer and humid when you put it in. It always seems to coincide with such when I choose to play it. I'm ready for cooler cloud-rainforest selections after its synchronicities so far. (Ok, I typed this and the next time I played it, it was wonderfully cool in the heat of summer.) The bass(?) effect is denser- it isn't something easily played at low volume because it almost swells, obscuring the other aspects of sounds until turned up and balanced out enough, but the quality itself is excellent. (The bass effect isn't one that frays. It's a soft enough denseness, just fairly heavy I believe.) Overall, it is something I want to hear and it feels like a worthy natural immersion-- very real-sounding, excellent balance of animals. Good but makes me want that freer less clothed (ie maybe a less synthesized) though just as virtuous other needed for my harmony somewhere in between. There's a little conflict in that I'm not sure how to resolve. I think just listen to it when it feels right. It does feel like a world that's been "explored by moderns" a bit. I don't get the spirits part so far.
PS The cover has the most awful fake/stuffed parrot. It mars my awe it's so ugly and bad taxidermy-like. Why and how it was chosen and included I don't undertstand.?! I had to outline it a better look with a sharpie. (The other art/design is wonderful.)

My favorite city driving CD! Beautifully mixed wiht nature sounds!.......2005-06-25

I love this CD! It has been in my car CD player non-stop for the last few weeks. while driving around Portland, Oregon. It is up-beat but at the same time soothing. The sounds of flutes are mixed with sounds of water and my favorite, birdie sounds, yummy!

I've just discovered that there are at least a couple other Arkenston CD. I will be trying all of them!

Thank you for producing such a lovely CD!

Lush and beautiful.......2004-11-18

I've owned the "African Skies" disc of the Adventure Cargo collection by the Arkenstones for a few months now and absolutely love it, so naturally I had to buy this one. I have yet to be disappointed by any CD by either Arkenstone that I've purchased, and this one carried on the fine tradition of impressing me. This CD is a beautiful ambient experience with almost South American-sounding pipes and birdsong woven into the melodies. Although for some reason I still like the African Skies album a teeny bit better, this one is in no way inferior. All I can think of when I'm listening to it is a lush rainforest river environment, which I'm sure was exactly the artists' intent when creating this CD. All in all, a wonderful album! I will be purchasing the third Adventure Cargo CD (Echoes of Egypt) soon!

Average customer rating: Primitive voices

Bosavi: Rainforest Music From Papua New Guinea Various Artists Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Guinea | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Bargain Box Sets | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Smithsonian Folkways Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Voices Of The Rainforest: A Day In The Life Of The Kaluli People Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series) Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People Songs & Dances From Papua New Guinea: Healing, Feasting & Magical Ritual On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) ASIN: B000059RTY Release Date: 2001-03-27

Tracks:

1. My Father, My Heart - Kemuli String Band
2. Kemuli - Kemuli String Band
3. Oh No! - Kemuli String Band
4. What We Said - Kemuli String Band
5. My Mother - Kemuli String Band
6. Really Hungry! - Gasali Mates II String Band
7. Sadness - Lus Mangi Grin Neks String Band
8. BBK Brother - Difalasulu String Band
9. E-yo, E-yo - Tasi Kabulo: String Band
10. Long Ago - Gusuwa String Band
11. Father, Mother - BVDC String Band
12. Where Has My Mother Gone? - BVDC II String Band
13. Rosi, Rosi - BVDC II String Band
14. Blue Mountain - BVDC II String Band
15. Sorry, My Sister! You People Go! - BVDC III String Band
16. Air Niugini Plane - BBK String Band
17. One Time - BBK String Band
18. The Sun Is Setting - Gasali Mates String Band
19. My Sweetheart - Gasali Mates String Band

Tracks:

1. A Men's Work Group Clears A New Garden
2. Ulahi Sings While Scraping Sago Pith
3. Ulahi Sings While Making Sago
4. Fo:fo: And Miseme Sing At Their Sago Place
5. UIahi And Eyo:bo Sing With Afternoon Cicadas
6. Ulahi And Eyo:bo Sing At A Waterfall
7. Men's Vocal Quartet With Seed-pod Rattles
8. A Large Men's Collective Work Group Sing And Whoop
9. Gaima Plays The Bamboo Jew's Harp
10. Voices In The Forest: A Village Soundscape

Tracks:

1. Funerary Sung - Weeping Group
2. Funerary Sung - Weeping By Gania And Famu
3. Funerary Sung - Weeping By Hane
4. Seance Gisalo Song By Aiba With Weeping
5. Ceremonial Gisalo Performance By Halawa
6. Group Ceremonial Drumming, Ilib Kuwo:
7. Ceremonial Ko:luba Song - 1
8. Ceremonial Ko:luba Song - 2
9. Ceremonial Ko:luba Song - 3
10. Ceremonial Ko:luba Song - 4
11. Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 1
12. Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 2
13. Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 3
14. Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 4
15. Women's Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 1
16. Women's Ceremonial Iwo: Song - 2
17. Ceremonial Sabio Duet
18. Ceremonial Sabio Quartet

Amazon.com

This gorgeous, three-CD boxed set provides the unprecedented opportunity of experiencing pop music at ground zero. The Bosavi people of New Guinea's Southern Highlands were self-sufficient and undisturbed until the incursion of Christian missionaries in the early 1970s. The religious ceremonial songs prohibited by the evangelicals survive in Disc 3: Sounds and Songs of Ritual and Ceremony, collected by field recordist Steven Feld in the 1960s-'70s. Rich with responses to the bountiful natural world around them, the mostly vocal ritual songs include funerary weeping songs and gisalo seance songs. The accompanying 80-page booklet helps put this material in a cultural perspective. At the far extreme are the effervescent compositions by the first-generation string bands who can be heard inventing Bosavi pop music on Disc 1: Guitar Bands of the 1990s. Flush with an out-of-place, almost Appalachian flavor and buzzing with slightly discordant guitar harmonies, the performances are so full of enthusiasm and steely attention to newly emergent craft, it's hard to turn your back on their sheer joy. Disc 2: Sounds and Songs of Everyday Life straddles the religious and entertainment discs with distinctive male and female work songs, including "Men's Vocal Quartet with Seed-pod Rattles," which only needs a guitar arrangement to become the next local pop chartbuster. This disc closes with an intimate 25-minute soundscape of the aural environment of the Bosavi, ripe with bird and insect songs plus noises of villagers at work and play. --Bob Tarte

Customer Reviews:

Primitive voices.......2001-05-25

I've had this cd for a few days now and have listened to each disc three times so far. First I'll give you some general information about this boxed-set.

Disc 1 is made up of the new style of music that is currently gaining strength in Papua New Guinea... acoustic guitar bands (recorded in the 1990's). The guitar-band music has a mixture of influences, ranging from some of the traditional vocal elements of the region, the chorus unison of Christian missionary musics, and also some of the rhythmic blockiness of Western popular musics. This isn't the radio-ready electronic beats of a group like Deep Forest though. The guitar music ends up sounding like a sort of American folk music, with the lyrical and vocal elements of Papua New Guinea. One of the lead vocalists, Rebeka, has a really great voice.

Disc 2 is more traditional. It is all sounds and work-songs, recorded during everyday life. These recordings are all from the 1970s and '80s. There are songs sung by men as they move logs out of the forest, songs by women as they scrape sago (a food), etc... The songs are mainly small-group vocals, with the accompanying percussion being work-related. Like the sound of whatever tool it is that they use when they pound the sago. There are also songs that mimic the sounds of jungle creatures familiar to the people. Also thoroughout this set you will hear the sounds of jungle creatures and background chatter. If it happened while the person was singing, you hear it.

Disc 3 is the oldest, most primitive music on here. It is largely music that is extinct now, as it was music that accompanied ceremonies and rituals which are gone now. To Western ears, much of the music on disks 2 and 3 may sound "sloppy". These 2 disks contain what may be the singlemost primitive musical form(s) in my collection, and being that I have a fair amount of field-recordings of Indigenous musics from all over the world, that is saying something. Much of this music does not adhere to what we think of as "highly technically developed" idea's of meter, vocal unison, etc... Depending on what you want or expect from this set, this could be a good or bad thing. If you're willing to mentally let yourself travel way back in time to humans in their natural, primitive state, this music is rather fascinating. What really strikes me about some of the music on disks 2 and 3 (especially disk 3 from about track 5 onward) is that there must be a large amount of echo where these people live. With their voices and rattles they do uncanny musical interpretations of echoes and the Doppler Effect.

I definitly want you to think about this set thoroughly. It is most certainly not for everyone, but will indeed speak deeply to some of you. More than being like "an album", it is an aural documentray of Papua New Guinea and the changes it has undergone. No matter how it is received by anyone's personal tastes, it is a great document of a group of peoples and their disappearing traditional ways of life, song, and thought. It also comes with a thorough 72-page booklet.

Average customer rating: Genius in the forest

Mbuti Pygmies of Ituri Rainforest Various Artists Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Africa | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Africa | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Smithsonian Folkways Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Freedom Chants from the Roof of the World Voices Of The Rainforest: A Day In The Life Of The Kaluli People Sarangi: The Music of India Music of Upper & Lower Egypt Drums of Passion ASIN: B000001DK2 Release Date: 1992-07-13

Tracks:

1. In The Rainforest Approaching A Forest Camp
2. Elephant Hunting Song
3. Elephant-Hunt Song
4. Spear Song
5. Cries Of Beaters, Signalling And Shouting
6. Honey-Gathering Song
7. Animal Dance Song
8. Flute Duet
9. Flute Solo
10. Slit-Gong Signalling
11. Mbuti Dance In Bantu Village
12. Lukembi And Voice
13. Lukembi (Mbuti)
14. Bachelor Duet With Lukembi
15. Musical Bow
16. Musical Sticks
17. Nkumbi Initiation Song
18. First Song Of The Elima
19. Second Song Of The Elima
20. First Molimo Fire Dance Song
21. Second Molimo Fire Dance Song
22. Molimo Song With Argument
23. First Molimo Song For Great Occasion
24. Second Molimo Song For Great Occasion
25. Molimo Song 'Darkness Is Good'
26. Molimo Song Of Devotion To The Forest

Album Description

The music of the Mbuti is primarily focused around vocal music and this recording beautifully captures the extraordinary variety and tonal quality of the solo and choral traditions. The songs are primarily about the Mbuti's nomadic life and the forest, from which their lives and those of the animal kingdom are sustained. This compilation set a new standard for quality ethnic field recordings for all labels in ethnic music. These prized recordings have been remastered and resequenced to reflect Dr. Turnbull's original mode: the recording begins in the forest with music associated with hunting and gathering, then moves to the village for a Bantu initiation ritual and finally returns to the forest for the Mbuti rituals. This record documents the music discussed in the book The Forest People, read by many anthropology classes. A superbly annotated favorite among world music enthusiasts. "...from the moment Colin Turnbull lets the chatter and work rhythms of the encampment he's approaching engulf the jungle's ambient insect and bird music, I'm hooked." -- The Village Voice

Customer Reviews:

Genius in the forest.......2003-06-30

I've had this cd for 4 or 5 years and have always loved it, but just now as I was browsing this site I realized I never wrote a review for it.

This disc is fantastic. It collects the recordings from 2 previous LP's and is a collection of 1950's field-recordings from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire at the time these recordings were made).

This is largely vocal music. A feast of layered, rhythmic, cyclical vocal repetition. When trying to describe this music to a Westerner, I usually say that this must be the music that inspired Philip Glass' overall concept, except that Mbuti music is so much better, deeper, transportational and more emotional. He fails at what they have mastered. This music is probably coming out of the oldest rhythmic and harmonic tradition of any music I own. I lose myself in the rhythmic repetition of these voices. There are times when I listen to this cd where I feel like I have been zapped 10,000 years back in time. This is just purely spiritual music, and one of the most technically advanced ancient rainforest musics I've ever heard (at least so far). There's no Western influence to water it down or take away from its traditional power.

I rarely use the word "genius" to describe people, because I feel that word is thrown around like nothing, quite often. In the case of the Mbuti's though, I feel that genius fits perfectly. Probably 98% of their musical tradition is ensemble vocal music, yet in the couple instances where they do use instruments (often borrowed or stolen from outsiders, the liner-notes say), they are just as incredible. There are a few mbira (thumb piano) tracks on here that are beautiful. Some of the best mbira music I've ever heard. They also seem to be just as adept with musical sticks and musical bows. For a people who seem to not care about instruments one way or the other, they seem to master everything they touch, no matter how briefly.

This is an excellent cd. One of my favorites.

Average customer rating: Rainforest Magic relaxing and uplifting Magic blend of beautiful music Ease Your Tension !!!

Rainforest Magic Tony O'Connor Manufacturer: Studio Horizon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Whispering Sea Uluru Dreams & Discoveries Awakenings In Touch ASIN: B0000089WW Release Date: 1997-05-15

Tracks:

1. Memories
2. Silent Spirit
3. Place to Hide
4. Living Galleries
5. Mountain Forests
6. Summer Rain
7. One Spirit

Album Details

Australian Only Release.

Customer Reviews:

Rainforest Magic.......2005-01-27

This is very nice, relaxing music. It's great for drifting off to sleep to, or just listening when you need a break. I do yoga to it, and it's just perfect for that. I wouldn't call myself all that advanced at getting to `that place' in yoga, but this music helps transport me there.

Beautiful instrumentals interspersed with tropical rainforest sounds-especially bird calls and weather. It's pretty amazing stuff-there's just one track I find annoying, and that's Living Galleries, which seems to play at about twice the volume as the rest of the music for some reason.

O'Conner did well here-he succeeded in creating a musical illusion that transports you to a rainforest. And as the rainforests are steadily disappearing because of certain stupidities around and about, this is a much needed illusion.

All in all, you could probably use this music for anything, anywhere, when you want to calm down-you know, just breathe in, breathe out, and feel the earth. Rainforest Magic is almost like Celtic music in that it heals the soul.

relaxing and uplifting.......2003-05-17

I'm a massage therapist and have lots of CD's to relax during massage and this is one of my favorites. I had the cassette and finally, many years later found this CD on Amazon and am so excited to listen to my good friend Rainforest Magic again.

Magic blend of beautiful music.......1999-04-10

Tony has done it again. He blends piano,pan flute and those wonderful strings. This is a real treat.

Ease Your Tension !!!.......1998-09-04

I have several of O'Conner's CD's and enjoy every one. Rainforest Magic is my favorite. I wore out the first CD and bought another. I am a nature lover and his talent for inserting nature sounds within his music is so refeshing as well as relaxing.

Average customer rating:

Nature Recordings: Tropical Rainforest Nature Recordings Manufacturer: World Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Environmental | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Nature Recordings: Ocean Moods Nature Recordings: Dawn & Dusk by a Mountain Stream ASIN: B0000018EV Release Date: 1995-12-12

Tracks:

1. South American Rainforests
2. South Pacific Island Rainforests

Average customer rating: excellent but uncomplete To call it music may be a bit limiting. A worthwhile collection OhMyGodHowDreadful Kid Stockhausen

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Various Artists Manufacturer: Ellipsis Arts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Messiaen | Messiaen, Olivier | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Reich, Steve | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Riley, Terry | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Stockhausen, Karlheinz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Box Sets | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Box Sets | Stores | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol. 3: 1952-2004 Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music Profiler - Season 4 Roxy Music A Decade of Hits ASIN: B00004T0FZ Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

1. Valse Sentimentale - Clara Rockmore
2. Oraison - Ens D'Ondes De Montreal
3. Etude Aux Chemins De Fer - Pierre Schaeffer
4. Williams Mix - John Cage
5. Klangstudie II - Herbert Eimert/Robert Beyer
6. Low Speed - Otto Luening
7. Dripsody - Hugh Le Caine
8. Forbidden Planet: Main Title - Louis Barron/Bebe Barron
9. Elektronische Tanzste: Concertando Rubato - Oskar Sala
10. Poem Electronique - Edgard Varese
11. Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean) - Richard Maxfield
12. Apocalypse-Part 2 - Tod Dockstader
13. Kontakte - James Tenney/William Winant
14. Wireless Fant - Vladimir Ussachevsky
15. Philomel - Milton Babbitt
16. Spacecraft - MEV

Tracks:

1. Cindy Electronium - Raymond Scott
2. Pendulum Music - Sonic Youth
3. Bye Bye Butterfly - Pauline Oliveros
4. Projection Esemplastic For White Noise - Joji Yuasa
5. Silver Apples Of The Moon, Part 1 - Morton Subotnick
6. Rainforest Version 1 - David Tudor
7. Poppy Nogood - Terry Riley
8. Boat-Woman-Song - Holger Czukay
9. Music Promenade - Luc Ferrari
10. Vibrations Composees: Rosace 3 - Francois Bayle
11. Mutations - Jean-Claude Risset
12. Hibiki-Hana-Ma - Iannis Xenakis
13. Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals: Drift Study '31/69 c.... - La Monte Young

Tracks:

1. He Destroyed Her Image - Charles Dodge
2. Six Fants On A Poem By Thomas Campion: Her Song - Paul Lansky
3. Appalachian Grove - Laurie Spiegel
4. En Phase/Hors Phase - Bernard Parmegiani
5. On The Other Ocean - David Behrman
6. Stria - John Chowning
7. Living Sound, Patent Pending Music For Sound-Joined Rooms Series - Maryanne Amacher
8. Automatic Writing - Robert Ashley
9. Canti Illuminati - Alvin Curran
10. Music On A Long Thin Wire - Alvin Lucier
11. Melange - Klaus Schulze
12. Before And After Charm (La Notte) - Jon Hassell
13. Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) - Brian Eno

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Opening with Clara Rockmore's reworking of Tchaikovsky with the theremin, and finishing with one of Brian Eno's ambient soundscapes, OHM artfully succeeds in its goal of giving a representative (as opposed to the impossible, comprehensive) overview of the first several decades of electronic music. Over 3 discs, 42 compositions, and 96 pages of notes and photos, OHM clearly illustrates the producers' and contributing writers' point that early electronic music is much of the foundation of contemporary music. Herein lies the connective tissue bridging musique concrète, 20th-century classical, electronic experimentation, and the theoretical avant-garde to psychedelia, ambient, dub, techno, electro, and synthpop and the globalization of sound. The groundbreaking uses of loops, sampling, drones, remixes, and cut-and-paste technology are put fully into context. The diversity of music included makes any sort of summation impossible, but that is also the point: electronic music is not really a genre, but an open field of endless possibility. From John Cage's famous "William's Mix" of tape snippets to Karkheinz Stockhausen's electronic orchestral compositions, from David Tudor and Holger Czukay's experiments in unrelated blendings of audio elements to David Behrman's supremely peaceful duet between computers and musicians, the aural renegades on OHM tread where none (save a few of their contemporaries) had gone before. The liner notes convey the incredible amount of hard work and experimentation it took to stitch together many of these pieces in the predigital era. Putting aside the inevitable quibbles about what's missing (much of it due to legal and/or logistical issues), a more complete collection of musical eggheads, eccentrics, and visionaries is hard to imagine. --Carl Hanni

Customer Reviews:

excellent but uncomplete.......2006-11-12

Althought most of the music here is an excellent collection of electronic music history, this 3 CDs lack of the important contribution given by the RAI phonology studios of Milan, Italy in the 50s
(which was bigger than Koln's WDR studios) with Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono.
This is a big mistake. Milans studios were the biggest of europe and produced many important electroacoustic pieces.
If the collection aim to describe faithfully electronic music history, it should include this artists too.

To call it music may be a bit limiting. .......2006-10-24

Some of the tracks on here are "music". That is that they contain all the bits we're trained to experience as music -- melody, etc. Some are not, and the composers would be the first people to tell you that. A lot of these works are reactions to ingrained rules, so they're bound to be jarring.

A more successful way to approach such a broad and varied collection of audio experimentation is to think of it as curated sound. This isn't something to wash the dishes to, or to seduce someone to (although if you did manage to seduce someone with the recordings on this anthology, HOLD ON TO THAT PERSON, because they've got to be a keeper). These are unique sound textures that deserve a close, probably solitary listen, and I think if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be a very rewarding listen.

My main complaint is sequencing: each dicrete piece follows it's own internal logic, so there are more than a couple rough gear changes. However, since each piece is so different, and the collection is so varied, I'm not sure that you could totally escape that.

A worthwhile collection.......2006-01-11

The OHM collection contains some of those ground breaking electronic compositions that have shaped today's styles, from the early electronic instruments of Theremin and Martenot, through Pierre Schaeffer's Music Concrete tape music and the electronic music of Stockhausen and Subotnick, to the mainframe computer output of Risset and Chowning.

It is unfair to mark this collection down due to the production quality and 'musicality' of its contents, to do so would be to staggeringly miss the point of the development of electronic music through the 20th Century. What this collection shows is the ideas behind those at the cutting edge of the genre before many could even conceive of such output. That said it is hard going at points, as experimental music can be.

Highlights for me are no doubt Olivier Messiaen's 'Oraison' on CD 1, David Tudor's 'Rainforest Version 1' on CD 2 and on CD 3 David Behrman's 'On the Other Ocean' and Maryanne Amacher's 'Living sound Patent Pending'.

OhMyGodHowDreadful.......2005-08-15

Ok, this collection is supposed to be early works and, thus not expected to be very sophisticated or polished. But the OHM collection sounds like the first attempt of a spastic cat turned-loose on a Moog keyboard. When it is not boreing, this collection of random and dissonant sounds (I can't call it music) is without any redeeming qualities to make it worth while. Don't get me wrong, I am a long-time fan of Wendy (nie Walter) Carlos and some other real pioneers of electronic music. However, I find that the Ohm collection has no similar qualities and is a major disappointment.

Kid Stockhausen.......2003-01-17

This is required listening for anybody interested in the history of electronic music. Although implicitly aiming for the techno music audience, this audio history is overwhelmingly focused on the classical avant-garde of electro-acoustic composers. The closest you'll get to pop electronica is the Brian Eno track at the end of the third disc. No Kraftwerk, no Moroder, etc. Instead "OHM" manages to point to the continuities between, say, John Cage and artists currently working at the experimental edges of electronica (so-called IDM). It seems to be saying, "You think Kid 606 is visionary? Well check out this Stockhausen track from '59!"

Admittedly, some of the songs are much more interesting to think about than they are to listen to. Some of the early pieces that were made through thosuands of hours of pains-taking tape-splicing could be made today in an afternoon with a digital audio editor and a few effects plug-ins.

It is a beautiful package, containing a 90 page booklet of essays, quotations from the featured artists, and photographs. What all music should be: an education in daring.

Average customer rating: Exciting and wonderful Latin and South American music The Ultimate Rainforest Anthology Excellent. Relaxing and uplifting.

Flight of the Jaguar: A Rainforest Music Anthology Various Artists Manufacturer: World Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000018H6 Release Date: 1995-03-27

Tracks:

1. Flight of the Jaguar - Present Dreams
2. Rio Xingu - Scott Fitzgerald
3. Baile Del Sol - Scott Fitzgerald
4. Andes - Tony Lasley
5. Canciones de Llamas - Tony Lasley
6. Keepers of the Forest - Rafael Aragon
7. In Search of Eldorado - Rafael Aragon
8. In the Name of Progress - Scott Fitzgerald
9. El Macho - Tony Lasley
10. Flight of the Feathered Serpent - Gary Richard
11. Rainforest Crunch - Present Dreams
12. Amazonia - Gary Richard

Customer Reviews:

Exciting and wonderful Latin and South American music.......2000-12-12

When I heard the theme song "Flight of A Jaguar" with its exciting pulsing jungle beat, when I randomly selected the piece from a sampling music machine, I was immediately sold on getting this CD. It did not disappoint and I literally played the 50 minute CD again and again on my 4 hour drive from Washington DC back to New York although I had a whole collection of CDs with me to listen to. Some of the tracks are melodic Latin pieces and a few others like "Flight" and "Amazonia" have a pulsing South American jungle rhythms with a bit of African influence particularly with the drumming. Part of the proceeds from the album go towards trying to preserve the rainforests so making this purchase also helps that cause. But most of all the music is quite enjoyable and, for the most part, quite lively.

The Ultimate Rainforest Anthology.......1999-03-05

Not only has the compiler chosen the most attractive, rhythmically fascinating, and colorful selections, he/she has also seamlessly blended them together in succession with jungle and rainforest ambiance. The result i

Excellent. Relaxing and uplifting........1999-02-22

I am a preschool teacher and I love to listen with my students. The music is multicultural and with no vocals. It leaves it to the imagination to interpret the music.

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