Round-Wound

1. Sound Museum
2. Time of the Funk-Lords
3. 740XL
4. Herb-Skirt
5. Do That Thing
6. Soul Motiv
7. 'Bwow Winds!'
8. Fearsome Bat-Man
9. Drowning in Light
10. Anti-Twilight Arch
11. Wound 'Round
12. LT.TOP.HVY.BTM
13. Altairian Excavation Site
14. Motorcycle Boots
15. Rolling of the Stones
16. 2CT-7
17. Electric Reynolds
18. Overscan
19. Genetic Epidemic
20. Barsoom
See all 21 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Sound Museum
Time of the Funk-Lords
740XL
Herb-Skirt
Do That Thing
Soul Motiv
'Bwow Winds!'
Fearsome Bat-Man
Drowning in Light
Anti-Twilight Arch
Wound 'Round
LT.TOP.HVY.BTM
Altairian Excavation Site
Motorcycle Boots
Rolling of the Stones
2CT-7
Electric Reynolds
Overscan
Genetic Epidemic
Barsoom
Buzz Bombb

Customer Reviews:

If monotonous repetitious drone is your thing, this is YOUR cd!.......2006-05-06

This title represents my first disagreement with Jerry Kranitz of Aural Innovations - he's usually right on the money, but not here.
It is said that this album "flows seamlessly from one track to the next with a psychedelic feast for the ears..." - and this is mostly to my liking. I expect to hear an ebb and flow of highs and lows with unpredicatble changes of direction that keep my interest peaked...instead, what I got was an eighty minute dirge of sound that never varied AT ALL in pitch, tone, tempo, instrumentation or theme.
I'll break it down this way: The first eight minutes were almost interesting, but by six minutes, I'm wonder where the "shift" will come in since this is strictly incoherent rambling with no structure nor melody. The 2nd eight minutes was a duplicate of the first eight minutes and it's testing my patience.
Gee, the 3rd, 4th and 5th eight minute segments sound exactly like the first! I hate it, but I've commited to hearing so on we go...
As expected, the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th eight minute sections could still easily been the first eight minutes looped back in!

By the TENTH ITERATION OF THE FIRST EIGHT MINUTES, I'm ready to jab chopsticks thru my eardrums just to make it stop. Yeah, the tracks "flowed together seamleassly", but with a featureless monotony that can only loosely be referred to as "music". Eighty minutes of continuous sound without even the tiniest variation - I'll be listing mine here used REAL CHEAP like the other twentysomething people that found this unlistenable.

Suggestions: Don't waste your cash, but if you've heard this and you like it, try hanging out in a machine shop or a lumber mill for a few hours and this might start introducing you to the concept that: Even if you like a droning, senseless, meandering, A-tonal, nonrythmic collection of sound, it will be more interesting if SOMETHING variates from time to time.

I gave it two stars instead of one since this will drive the radio listening teeny bopper kiddies and republicans up the frickin wall - something I approve of full-heartedly.

Sorry Jerry, for the first time, I disagree - this is not music and can be duplicated with a chainsaw or washing machine...and maybe that's all we actually hear on Abunai! "Round Wound"

Ouch babe!

Their best album, but a horrible introduction.......2005-06-15

Just hold your horses! This album is incredible. From the organs to the decidedly psychedelic guitar work, there are few flaws. Wound Round runs for 79+ minutes, and flows from one track to the next, which is always a nice touch. There is no stand-out track, because every song is, well, very similar to the previous one. Nonetheless, this album is incredible.

Now, onto the second part of my title. This was the first album I heard from Abunai!, and I fell in love with it. In fact, I thought I had fallen in love with the band, but I was mistaken. After owning Wound Round for a while, I decided to buy an older album, which was Universal Mind Decoder. After listening, I soon realized that the two albums sounded like two completely different bands. Once I heard nearly all of their recordings, I concluded that Wound Round was the black sheep in the bunch. Abunai! was an AMAZING band, but Wound Round is not their definitive album/sound, even though it is an amazing album as well.

If you're looking for a great album, go ahead and buy this. If you're looking to get into a great band, try Universal Mind Decoder and other earlier works.

Abunai! - 'Round Wound' (Camera Obscura).......2005-01-06

I cannot believe that only one OTHER person had revieved this disc before I did.Another thing I find hard to buy is this ensemble is actually an American band,coming to you from Boston.'Round...' is the band's third effort as I believe they may've recently disbanded.Who knows?Maybe they'll reunite sometime in one form or another.CD comes packed like a set of guitar strings,so you'll need to get a new jewel box to protect this precious sound artifact.A total of 21 tracks with a running time of 79:24.I understand this disc is more krautrock like than their two earlier CD's,'Universal Mind Decoder'('97)and 'The Mystic River Sound'('99).Tunes that about nearly gave me a natural high were "Time Of The Funk-Lords",the airy "Herb-Skirt",the way out-of-this-galaxy fourteen-minute "Fearsome Bat-Man/Drowning In Light","Anti-Twilight Arch",the straight ahead "Rolling Of The Stones","Electric Reynolds" and the dramatic closer "Buzz Bombs".Whew!Better have some time on your hands when you check out this audio gem.Beside kraut,some MIGHT describe 'Round Wound' as part space rock,part dream neo psychedelic.Line up:Kris Thompson-vocals,synthesizer,organ&theremin,Joe Turner-drums,Brendan Quinn-guitar and Dan Parmenter-bass.Should appeal to fans of Spiritualized,SubArachnoid Space,Hawkwind,Flying Saucer Attack,Spacemen 3 and Amon Duul II.It just doesn't get any better.A MUST HAVE!!

Hardhitting super neokrautrock experience........2003-08-19

This album is all instrumental. It flows, soars. Brilliantly patched-together snippets from long jam sessions, it has a deja-vu quality to it. It has a funky rhythm section, drenching organs, and a jammy novelty quality to the guitars. Nothing groundbreaking or memorable on an intense artistic level occurs, but it is quite an experience to behold and very enjoyable to listen to. I would point it to Hendrix if I had to point it somewhere, which is probably why it is rather weak for spacerock. Give me Kinski's superb guitar textures and dynamics; give me Mogwai's ordered crescendos; sonic youth's expert nonconventionalism. This is ordinary spacerock that miraculously still puts out. (A modern pointer would be Subarachnoid Space). I would have loved to hear this group develop more cohesion but they have broken up. The moody portions are close but no cigar. But I wouldn't disregard this disk. Overall, it's great, it just moves too fast. It's like a spacerock palette.

When They Had Pedals, Vol. 1 - The Pleyel

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Foot-Notes
"If it SOUNDS Right, it IS Right"

When They Had Pedals, Vol. 1 - The Pleyel

Manufacturer: Lyrichord Discs Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Handel: Keyboard Music, Suites 3, 13, 11, 14, 15, & 8

ASIN: B00000DC24
Release Date: 1998-10-20

Tracks:

Three Gailards (Nos. 1, 2 & 3)
Partite 12 Sopra L'Aria di Ruggiero
Canzona Seconda
Partite 6 Sopra L'Aria Di Follia
Canzona Quarta
Four Correnti
Canzona Prima
Partite 11 Sopra L'Aria Di Monicha

Tracks:

a) O Ye Happy Dames
b) When Griping Griefs
c) Tres Partes In Una
a) Christe Qui Lux With A Meane
b) Christe Qui Lux
c) Eterne Rex Altissime
a) Gloria Tibi Trinitas iii
b) Gloria Tibi Trinitas iv
a) Pavan
b) A Fansye
a) Ex More Docti Mistico
b) O Ye Tender Babes
c) Natus Est Nobis
Galliard
The Perpetual Round
In Nomine
Ut Be My Fa Sol La
Fortune My Foe

Customer Reviews:

Foot-Notes.......2007-01-19

In our modern day of historical accuracy (such as it is) in harpsichord playing, we are taught to despise the instrument built with pedals to control the registers; yet in the very time period we venerate harpsichord makers were looking at alternatives to hand-stops to make register changes easier and more convenient for the player. This fine recording surely demonstrates that the presence of pedals does not have to spoil in any way the musicality of the playing, and more than looking at a Bach manuscript in good light makes it less remarkable than if peered at in dim candlelight. A terrific recording!

"If it SOUNDS Right, it IS Right".......2004-09-07

These works were recorded in the late 1950's on a 1907 striped zebra wood double manual Pleyel Harpsichord with six pedals, exactly like the one Wanda Landowska played(This Pleyel however, I believe, did not have a 16')The brilliant Paul Wolfe was himself a student of Wanda Landowska in Lakeville,CT,and had an illustrious recording career, which incudes, amongst others, The Complete Handel Suites.
What I love so much about this recording, as well as all of Mr. Wolfe's recordings, is that the music LIVES. Until hearing these recordings, I had only heard Frescoboldi and early English viriginalist music on "historical" instruments, and was bored to tears. But here, because of the MEDIUM and the creative, imaginitive and liberated artist playing them , this music sounds electrifying!
The early music movement has become a boring box of rules. If you can't defend the way your're playing something with historical data(treatises,accounts of composers and their contemporaries) then you're wrong and uninformed and undisciplined. Well that's a lot of crap and that's why early music is dying. Noone really cares if you're playing a harpsichord Bach would have played or playing Bach or Frescobaldi that thunders in a manner like Beethoven! All an audience really cares about is that you did something beautiful and moving with the music-something that this young writer feels that 99% of harpsichordists today DON'T DO. O yes, today's harpsichordists do a great job of playing out of time all over the place, playing Bach as though it's Couperin because, "Historically,The French infuence on the Germans was so acute," sitting on the downbeats,breaking the line constantly so they can "speak" the music rather than play it, as they put it. But there's very little moving,beautiful harpsichord playing going on.
I myself am a young(19 years old), studying harpsichordist and have had it with the dusty old early music movement and their treatises and their historical performance practice.I am out readying to buy myself a harpsichord complete with a 16' stop and pedals!
And a word on those kinds of instrumnets: It IS arrogant to be of the opinion,"O well we know better today than to play those kinds of instruments and in THAT manner." Do you really know better, those of you who say that, hm? If you knew better, then early music departments in colleges all over the world wouldn't be closing down. If you knew better, the harpsichord would still be readily known by most people. If you knew better, the harpsichord would still be thought of as a hot-fired,hot-blooded, romantic SOLO instrument, the way it was when Landowska was running the show and calling the shots.
But not anymore, thanks to you boring,dusty, musicological-"truth"-seekers. Nope, now the harpsichord is this NICE instrument, that NICE people play NICE music on. It's the instrument you sit in the back of the orchestra and strum! It is now a "proper" instrument.Landowska would spit upon such an idea and is probably rolling over in her grave, poor girl, to see the damage the purist twits running things now, have done.
I am so thankful then for recordings like Paul Wolfe's, who abides by something Landowska once told him in a lesson: "...If it SOUNDS right, then it IS right!" This is a recording this young listener is time and time again floored by, looks up to and aspires to! The Old School Shall Live Again! If you want to help it do so, you may email me at UUguy16@aol.com

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Popular Elizabethan Music

Manufacturer: Focus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000004A7E
Release Date: 1994-08-31

Enchanting Harmonist - A soiree with the Linleys of Bath (English Orpheus, Vol 21) /Invocation

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Learn to breath a sweeter sigh

Enchanting Harmonist - A soiree with the Linleys of Bath (English Orpheus, Vol 21) /Invocation
William Benson Earle , Henry Harington , William Herschel , William Jackson , Thomas (The Elder) Linley , Thomas (The Younger) Linley , Invocation , Julia Gooding , Charles Daniels , and Rufus Muller
Manufacturer: Hyperion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Thomas Linley: Music for The Tempest; Overture to The Duenna; 3 Cantatas

ASIN: B000002ZTU
Release Date: 1994-04-05

Customer Reviews:

Learn to breath a sweeter sigh.......2002-04-14

This collection of 18th century songs of Linley, Harrington, and Jackson gave me a wonderful conviction of the rich repetoire of music from the Georgian era. The elogies of Linely are so sweet and the poetry is the most artful I was read and heard sung. I'm sure Amor himself inspired these composers, since the texts are too eloquent to be compared or compeated. The only wrong thing about this album is that the recording volume is a tad too low and you might have to turn up your volume to really hear the voices. But this is such an elegant collection of songs for those who long to hear a sweeter song.

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