| 1. Follow |
| 2. Desert of Darkness |
| 3. This Game Called Life |
| 4. Pain |
| 5. Piece of Mind |
| 6. Mission 'arry |
| 7. Fairly Conceited |
| 8. Burden of Love |
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Five piece progressive rock band based near the Maryland/Pennsylvania border. The core group has been together for almost 5 years and our current lead vocalist, Juan Mackey, has been with the band since Jan. 2001. The band has over 100 years combined stage experience. All 5 members sing and we can acommodate venues of up to 5000 people using our own gear. We have a professional expansive light show and state of the art stage and pa gear.
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Desert of Darkness is a combination of hard charging rock and intense ballads. Strong vocals and guitar driven songs with the latest digital enhancements characterize all the tracks on this album.
Desert of Darkness,Intensive Care Unit,The Intensive Care Unit,A combination of hard driving rock, passionate ballads, and inspired vocals.,Rock/Pop
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Hammer the Studio That Dripped Blood
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ASIN: B000063IUP Release Date: 2002-04-09 |
Tracks:
- Main Theme/Inside Castle Darcula/Lure Of The Vampire Women/Dracula's Rage/The Kiss Of The Living Dead (Dracula)
- Funeral In Carpethia/Finale: Confrontation & Climax/The Fall Of Dracula (Dracula Prince Of Darkness)
- Love Theme (The Scars Of Dracula)
- Finale/Dracula And The Crucifix (Dracula Has Risen From The Grave)
- The Blood Of Dracula (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
- Romance: The Young Lovers/Shadow Of The Tomb (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
- Ride To The Ruined Church/Romance At Dusk (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
- Dracula Triumphant/Pursuit/Death Of Lucy (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
- The Victory Of Love (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
- Christina (Frankenstein Created Woman)
- The Power Of Evil (The Devil Rides Out)
- Invocation To The Devil/Dance Frenzy (The Devil Rides Out)
- Awakening And Absolution (The Devil Rides Out)
- Vampire Rhapsody (Kiss Of The Vampire)
Tracks:
- Cosmic Sequence/Tumak Meets Luana/In The Domain Of The Shell People/Eruption Of The Volcano (One Million Years B.C.) - Mario Nascimbene
- Main Theme/Storm Over The Sea (When Dinasours Ruled The Earth) - Mario Nascimbene
- Life Of The Tribe/Finale (Creatures The World Forgot) - Mario Nascimbene
- The Tomb/The Desert (The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb) - Carlo Martelli
- Ayesha - She Who Must Be Obeyed (She)
- Bedouin Attack & Desert Quest (She)
- In The Kingdom Of She - Processional/The Cruelty Of She (She)
- The Eternal Flame And The Destruction Of She (She)
- Main Title (The Abominable Snowman) - Humphrey Searle
- Defeat Of The Aliens/Finale (Quatermass II)
- Main Titles/Anna's Theme - Christopher Gunning
- Prologue (Vampire Circus) - David Whitaker
- Main Themes (The Vampire Hunter) - Jamed Bernard
- Pastorale/The Werewolf At Bay/Aptheosis (Curse Of The Werewolf) - Benjamin Frankel
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful music........2007-01-10
5 stars for performance, 4 stars due to omissions.......2006-08-29
Simple reason.
The producers at Silva, for wahtever reason, decided to cut down their SHE suites and Hands of the Ripper suites.
On the previous Hammer releases, "Draculas - Classic Horror Films", released in 1993, recorded in 1989, they had seven additional minutes of "Hands of the Ripper" that could have been included on this set.
Additionally, The Devil Rides Out: Film Music of James Bernard, released in 1997, recorded in 1995 and 1996 had about a minute more of additional music from SHE, PLUS about seven minutes worth of suites from Quatermass and X: The Unknown.
Both discs in this new re-issue round out at around 68 minutes, so there was room for some of these omissions.
Silva Screen gets big kudos for a reissuing these recordeings in the remastered HDCD format, but I don't understand these omissions. In fact, one of the tracks included, "Vampire Hunter" isn't even from a Hammer film, and its the only recording on this collection not on previous Silva CD's.
Again, 5 stars for the performances, the 1989 performances with Neil Richardson and the Philharmonia are fantastic. (Dracula, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Hands of the Ripper, Vampire Circus.)
Additionally, The Westminster Philharmonic under the baton of Kenneth Alwyn do an excellent job as usual (Kiss of the Vampire, Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, She, THe Abominable Snowman, Quatermass II and Curse of the Werewolf.) Finally, the City of Prague Philharmonic, who get a bad rap more often than they deserve round out hte album and IMHO, deliver the goods, under the trusty batons of Paul Bateman (Scars of Dracula, Frankenstein Created Woman, additionally, Bateman also plays the piano solo on Kiss of the Vampire.) and Nic Raine (The Devil Rides Out, One Million Years BC, When Dinosuars Ruled the Earth, Creatures The World Forgot, The Vampire Hunter)
I'd give it 4.5 stars if I could.
Much thanks to producers David Wishart, Eric Tomlinson and James Fitzpatrick and recording engineers Mike Ross-Trevor, John Luard Timperley and Jan Holzner for contributing to these fine historical film music recordings.
"Hammer & Silva...raises the hair on the back of your neck".......2002-04-09
outstanding scores from James Bernard on Disc One ~ "DRACULA" (1958)..."KISS OF
THE VAMPIRE" (1964)..."DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS"
(1966)..."FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN" (1967)..."THE DEVIL RIDES OUT"
(1968)..."DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE" (1968)..."THE SCARS OF
DRACULA" (1970)..."TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA" (1970)...even though the
blood doesn't flow as easily in "KISS OF THE VAMPIRE", the score from Bernard is
seductive, sensual to say the least for "creatures of the night", masked ball scene blends
atmospheric trance-masquerade themes, intoxicating main title is hauntingly mesmerizing with
"VAMPIRE RHAPSODY", just listen to the piano solo from our character in the film Carl
Ravna (Barry Warren), son of Dr. Ravna (Noel Willman) along with daughter Sabena Ravna
(Jacqueline Wallis), a cult of vampires in early 20th century Bavarian, praying on a young
honeymoon couple...Bernard's rhapsody captures the listeners heart and BLOOD!
Let's look at Disc Two with the other Hammer themes and their composers ~ "THE
ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN" (1957-Humphrey Searle)..."QUATERMASS II"
(1957-James Bernard)..."CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF" (1960-Benjamin
Frankel)..."CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB" (1964-Carlo Martelli)..."SHE"
(1965-James Bernard)..."ONE MILLION YEARS B.C." (1966-Mario
Nascimbene)..."WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH" (1969-Mario
Nascimbene)..."HANDS OF THE RIPPER" (1971-Christopher Gunning)..."VAMPIRE
CIRCUS" (1971-David Whitaker)..."VAMPIRE HUNTER" (2000-James
Bernard)...difficult as it may be, there is a stand out ~ "THE CURSE OF THE
WEREWOLF", fine direction from Terence Fisher (director) with an outstanding cast Oliver
Reed (Leon-the Werewolf), Clifford Evans (Alfredo), Yvonne Romain (Servant Girl) and
Catherine Feller (Christina), Hammer's departure from the old stereotype of the beast is
refreshing, Reed's performance as the tormented sole, from man to wolf is touching, the score
by Ben Frankel is tense building at it's best, to say the least, setting the tone and mood for the
transformation with counterpoints is stimulating, inclusive orchestration development for what
lies ahead during a full moon.
Without a doubt the highlight pick hands down is "SHE", composer James Bernard gives of
himself without question, the SUITE takes the orchestra into lilting melodic exercises with
percussion chiming in, the harmonies are hypnotic blends of textured fabric, listen as The
Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Alwyn display stirring strings and
a solo harp run the scales in "THE ETERNAL FLAME AND THE DESTRUCTION OF
SHE", hold-fast arrangement has haunting echoes of Bernard's constant theme, with a final
beat from a drum in the percussion section.
Must make mention the cast of players that made this possible ~ The Philharmonia Orchestra,
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, The Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra ~ and
their various conductors Kenneth Alwyn, Paul Bateman, Nic Raine and Neil
Richardson...supported by the illustrious staff from Silva Screen Records LTD ~ Reynold da
Silva (executive producer), David Stoner (associate producer), Gareth Williams (Dolby
Surround/HDCD Mastering) and of course James Fitzpatrick (compilation producer), who
has the knack of developing quality in every Silva Screen release...similar to "A History Of
Horror:From Nosferatu To The Sixth Sense" (SSD-1111/2CD Set), guaranteed to raise the
hair on the back of your neck!
Total Time: Disc One 68:01 on 14 Tracks & Disc Two 68:46 on 14 Tracks ~ Silva Screen
Records SSD-357 ~ (2002)
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The Inexplicable Falling
Manufacturer: Mudita Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock
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ASIN: B000089SC2 Release Date: 2002-05-10 |
Tracks:
- Erendira (Above the Orange Trees)
- Asleep on the Bedroom Floor (Above the Orange Trees)
- The Wasting of Words (Above the Orange Trees)
- For a Ride (Above the Orange Trees)
- What About Dana (Above the Orange Trees)
- I Am Nowhere (Above the Orange Trees)
- Carpenter (Christian Kiefer)
- Oyster (Christian Kiefer)
- Radium (Christian Kiefer)
- Timbuktu (Christian Kiefer)
- The Curtain Hits the Cast (Christian Kiefer)
- Original (Christian Kiefer)
- With Fishes (Christian Kiefer)
- Sorry My Love (Christian Kiefer)
Album Description
Christian Kiefer and Jeff Pitcher first met in 1999 at a café in Sacramento. The two musicians understood immediately that they shared the same spirit and the same simple goal: to create great art. This concept blurs the seemingly unassailable boundaries between musical genres, focusing instead on the art of music, of songwriting, of sound itself.Pitcher and Kiefer began discussing various possible collaborations soon after they met. Kiefer performed on Pitcher's 2001 release A Terrible Beauty, playing mandolin on "And Still Breathing," and Pitcher played guitar on the closing track of Kiefer's 2003 release Medicine Show, "Dream On Sweet Life."
Nonetheless, both artists hoped for a more collaborative work. Talk began of a split EP, with each artist covering a song from the other artist's songbook. But it quickly became apparent that the project would require a full-length CD. Each artist simply had too much material to contribute for a short project.
Each artist recorded separately, Above the Orange Trees in Alameda, California, and Christian Kiefer in his mountain studio in Colfax, California. When each artist was finished, CDs were swapped and for the first time they were able to hear the other's work, including the mutual covers.
Upon listening to The Inexplicable Falling, one is immediately struck by narrative arc that seems to run through the entire CD. Above the Orange Trees' half essentially is about the painful dissolution of a relationship, with the lush, joyful sounds of the first few tracks slowly stumbling into a silent, eerie piano song with haunting, whispered vocals.
Kiefer's half unintentionally picks up that same narrative by recasting the 16th century broadside folk ballad, "The House Carpenter." Kiefer's narrative describes a simple house carpenter who is led away to his eventual doom at the hands of a former lover. Inadvertently (and unintentionally), the listener is allowed a glimpse into the other side of Above the Orange Trees' story.
From Above the Orange Trees' joyful opening cut (Christian Kiefer-penned "Erendira") to the final, emotive anger of Christian Kiefer's album closer (written by Above the Orange Trees' frontman Jeff Pitcher), The Inexplicable Falling takes the listener on a journey, from lush joy to emotive, quiet sadness. It is a journey not to be missed.
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Ruslan and Ludmila: Fantasia on Mikhail Glinka's opera and Alexander Pushkin's poem
Manufacturer: Russian Compact Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Glinka
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ASIN: B000004AS3 Release Date: 1995-12-12 |
Tracks:
- Overture - excerpt
- Introduction. Bayan's Song 'Affairs of days that passed away'
- Ludmila's cavatina 'I am sad, my dear father!'
- Chorus 'Glory to out bright Prince!'
- Finn's scene and ballade
- Scene of Ruslan and the Head. The Head's Tale
- Scene in Naina's castle. Persian chorus 'The darkness of night is falling to the field'
- Ludmila's scene and aria 'Oh, my poor fate'
- Chorus 'The unexpected new-comer will die!'
- Scene from the picture 4 - Ruslan, Gorislava, Ratmir, Finn
- Finale of the opera - Ruslan, Ludmila, Svetozar, Farlaf, Ratmir, Gorislava
- Epilogue. Bayan's song 'There to a desert country'
- Overture - excerpt
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Desert of Darkness
The Intensive Care Unit Manufacturer: The Intensive Care Unit ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000066SUP Release Date: 2002-04-25 |
Tracks:
- Follow
- Desert of Darkness
- This Game Called Life
- Pain
- Piece of Mind
- Mission 'arry
- Fairly Conceited
- Burden of Love
Album Description
Desert of Darkness is a combination of hard charging rock and intense ballads. Strong vocals and guitar driven songs with the latest digital enhancements characterize all the tracks on this album.Customer Reviews:
unknown.......2003-02-12
A whole new dimension of Rock and Roll.......2002-06-04
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- Dog Days Are Over [Import]
- Dog of Two Head [Import]
- Early On [Import]
- Especially For You [Import]
- Feel Well + 16 (Bonus DVD) [Import]
- Ferris Wheel
- Frankie Miller's High Life [Import]
- From the Archives 2
- Garage Mahal [Import]
- Gift [Import]
