Accidental [Import]

Product Description
Blending Smooth , Mainstream Rock Grooves with Moody Pop Vocals and the Subtle Intensity of Alt/Rock Guitars, Dan Rothery Presents a Timeless Sound at Once Both Modern and Reminiscent of Unforgettable Melodies. Sometimes Empowering, Occasionally Sad, and Often Thematic, Dan's Composition and Vocal Impression Defy Genre Classification and Offer Superb Crossover Potential, and Yet Remain Accessible to Mainstream Pop/Rock.

Accidental,Dan Rothery,Universal,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: A Timely Performance Outstanding; a soon to be classic Uninspired tedium Holocaust Cantata: A Five Star Work of Art An excerpt from my liner notes...

Holocaust Cantata Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Composers of the Holocaust: Ghetto Songs & Instrumental Works MUSIC FROM THE HOLOCAUST Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps (Oxford Historical Monographs) Forbidden Music: Music from Theresienstadt ASIN: B000031VRF Release Date: 1999-11-23

Tracks:

1. The Prisoner Rises
2. Singing Saved My Life
3. Song Of The Polish Prisoners
4. The Execution Of The Twelve
5. In Buchenwald
6. A State Of Seperation
7. The Train
8. Singing From Birth To Death
9. The Striped Ones
10. There's No Life Like Life At Auschwitz
11. Tempo di Tango
12. Letter To Mom
13. Song Of Days Now Gone
14. Passacaille For Cello And Piano
15. Even When God Is Silent
16. A Child's Journey: An Accidental Meeting
17. A Child's Journey: I Once Had A Friend
18. A Child's Journey: There Are No Stars In The Sky
19. Is Not A Flower A Mystery?
20. We Remember Them

Album Description

The Holocaust Cantata uses the words and music of actual concentration camp inmates to create a wholly original and powerful work. Using material found within the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Donald McCullough's Holocaust Cantata traverses one of the bleakest episodes in human history. Yet the piece also evokes a sense of music's life-affirming power, even in the face of absolute despair, to express what words alone cannot.

McCullough discovered the material within the vast Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum's archives. Kulisiewicz himself had performed as a kind of camp troubador during his own incarceration at Sachsenhausen, and, after the war, spent several years interviewing fellow survivors about music in the camps, gathering together the scattered remnants of this music.

As McCullough painstakingly sifted through this material-much of which was uncatalogued-the arresting melodies and compelling testimonies that make up the Holocaust Cantata gradually began to emerge. "I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, explaining his decision to set the choral texts and spoken testimonies in English, and his hope is that the piece may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." The Washington Post, reviewing the world premiere in March 1998, called it "an experience that should linger long in the audience's memory and should be regularly revived."

Customer Reviews:

A Timely Performance.......2001-11-18

In August of 2001, the choral group I sing with began practicing this work for performance on Veteran's Day Nov 11. We rehearse on Tuesday nights. As we all know on Tuesday Sept 11 the world change forever. Of course rehearsal was cancelled. When we returned the next Tuesday - a piece that we all thought was so powerful became more so. The first song contains the words "the fires burning, the iron furnace..". The paralells to what happened were evident. As one of the reviewers noted " so this can never happen again", well it has, only much faster, in one single day. Hate caused both events. People need to hear this CD and really listen to the words of the songs and the narration, and maybe we can prevent this from happening again and again. A MUST HEAR FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. The music and lyics came from the hearts and the lives of the prisoners.This is a beautiful tribute to them.

Outstanding; a soon to be classic.......2000-05-04

Beautifully written and performed! This recording and an encore live performance of this inspiring work were downright demanded by audiences after the premiere. I rate it a "strong buy."

Uninspired tedium.......2000-04-28

McCullough has appropriated other people's material, "choralized" it, and appears to be attempting to capitalize on a wave of political correctness to buy himself a Grammy nomination. There are a few nice tunes scattered throughout this tedious piece, but overall the interpretation is lifeless, unimaginative, and uninspired, almost clinical. Here's hoping that victims of the Shoah can find a more suitable expression of their music than McCullough has tried to give them. They deserve better than this.

Holocaust Cantata: A Five Star Work of Art.......2000-01-07

For me, the Holocaust Cantata is one of those artistic representations of that cataclysmic period that evokes an even stronger picture of the horrors of the Holocaust then do many pictures in newspapers and museum exhibits. I think this is because the Cantata is poetry-it's message sounds a spare and powerful truth. I am grateful to Mr. McCullough for his vision and energy in bringing about the Holocaust Cantata.

An excerpt from my liner notes..........1999-11-25

I was present at the March 1998 Kennedy Center premiere of this extraordinary work, and subsequently wrote the liner notes for the CD. Because of the unusual nature of this recording-which I think captures the haunting beauty of this work-I believe that others would be interested in reading an excerpt from my notes on the music. Please note that I am posting this material with the permission of the composer, Donald McCullough:

Notes on the Music

It is well-known that during the Holocaust inmates wrote music while incarcerated in concentration camps. Much of it has since been recorded. At Theresienstadt, for instance-the infamous "Paradise Ghetto"-the Nazis organized an orchestra made up of young musicians who had studied under such luminaries as Leos Janacek and Arnold Schoenberg. Most of these musicians, among them such promising students as Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann, perished during the Holocaust, leaving behind but a few pieces, composed under duress and co-opted by the Nazis for their own propaganda purposes. What might they have eventually accomplished had they survived? Such classical music-beautiful as it is-was the product of formally trained musicians. What about the music of the common man-music embraced by the whole community and passed secretly by aural transmission-music that carried with it powerful words revealing different aspects of camp life, or expressing the inmates' innermost feelings, of mourning, or resistance, or patriotism? Was there other Holocaust music, akin to the spirituals that sprang from slavery in America, that spoke with the same startling immediacy to express the agony of the victims of the Nazi regime?...

McCullough's [quest to answer this question] began with a call to Bret Werb, musicologist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, who revealed the existence of the Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum archives. Kulisiewicz had traveled about Europe during the postwar period collecting and preserving what he could of the music that had emerged from the Holocaust concentration camps, but little was known about the music itself.

McCullough's first task, then, was to immerse himself in the collection, playing through the hundreds of tunes. He was encouraged to find that they contained some compelling melodies, and for the first time he began to wonder whether a choral cantata-perhaps reflecting the role of music in the camps or evoking the daily lives of these people-might emerge from the material. But he still had no idea what lay within the accompanying text.

At some point, someone had added a rough, English-language index to the collection, but the materials themselves were mostly in Polish. Marcin Zmudzki, a young Pole, was engaged to sift through the mountain of texts. McCullough told the translator that he was interested in anything that had to do with camp life, especially as it related to music. As he recalls, "It was my good fortune that not only was Marcin an excellent translator, but also he had a sense for poetry and thus grasped, very quickly, the type of material I was seeking."

In addition to music, Kulisiewicz also collected interviews, articles, and letters that had anything to do with camp life. With this wealth of material, McCullough decided to place between each musical arrangement readings that also spoke of life in the camps. After considering and rejecting literally hundreds of documents, he finally decided that he had what he needed from the archives. But in a sense, the real work was just beginning. "Because I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, "I thought it should be sung in English. But before I could arrange a single note of it, I needed to have singable translations. Here I employed the talents of lyricist Denny Clark, who at first worked with Marcin, getting a word by word translation. Knowing which words appear on which notes is important in keeping the overall impact of the song." A trained singer himself, Clark was able to make transliterations to ensure that the best vowels for singing fell on the proper notes, all while remaining faithful to the original text. It was an immensely complicated task....

A few words about the structure of the Cantata. As you listen you should not look for a plot, as such. Because each song and reading represents a different person, a different place, and a different time in the Holocaust experience, you should be wary about viewing the entire piece as a streaming narrative. Nonetheless, certain common truths will begin to emerge, and no doubt others will come to you with each successive hearing. Among these is the certainty that these are nakedly honest responses to the most unthinkable of acts. Sometimes the responses are jarring; who could find humor amid such horror? And yet humor-albeit dark in nature-undoubtedly exists within this work. Nevertheless the inmates' responses never sink to the level of triteness. For them, music functioned as something much more than just a light in the darkness; its very existence was a form of spiritual resistance in an environment where such resistance risked instant extermination.

McCullough's hope is that this work may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." In the end, for me, the work flows inexorably back to its source: it is the voice of humanity, crying out to be heard.

Average customer rating: Tranquil beauty...4.5 stars Great music, but $15 is too much for 26 minutes soundtrack to your transcendence

An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death Eluvium Manufacturer: Temporary Residence ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tripper Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement of the Decline Under the Pipal Tree The Ballasted Orchestra ASIN: B0001ZMX7W Release Date: 2004-05-04

Tracks:

1. An Accidental Memory
2. Genius And The Thieves
3. Perfect Neglect In A Field Of Statues
4. Nepenthe
5. In A Sense
6. The Well-Meaning Professor
7. An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death

Customer Reviews:

Tranquil beauty...4.5 stars.......2007-05-23

An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death is a bit different for Matthew Cooper AKA Eluvium: it is very piano-driven and different that the droning soundscapes of Lambent Material or Talk Amongst the Trees. However, it is still an excellent release that is worth checking out if you are fan of ambient or piano music. The album starts off beautifully and flows smoothly until the final two tracks, where it leaves such a strong impression that will make you want to listen to it all over again. Sometimes it is a wee bit repetitive, but when it is good, it is more than good - it takes you to another world.

It is not a perfect album, but it is worth the 5-star rating I am barely giving it.

Great music, but $15 is too much for 26 minutes.......2006-01-30

I really enjoyed the piano solos on this CD. There is a thoughtful tone and peaceful ambience to the pieces that is perfect for listening, contemplation, or background music, but the music completely avoids any stench of "new age." Beautiful piano pieces.

My only criticism of Cooper's performance is his (mis)use of pedals. He must keep his foot planted on the pedals too long or something because there is often an echoey hum in the music that sometimes muddles the beauty of sound.

Although I really like this CD and can see myself listening to it for a long time to come, I have to knock the rating down because to sell a 26 minute CD at $15 is highway robbery.

soundtrack to your transcendence.......2004-05-11

This album is nothing short of awe inpiring bliss. Upon opening the plastic and peeling the seal off, the magic starts. The artwork is stark and beautiful. Very Tim Burton-esque. The listening experience is breathtaking. It is a half hour of the most beautiful piano peices ever composed. This album will be the soundtrack for many experiences in my life. Experience this masterpiece.

Average customer rating: Three & A Half Is What I Was Hopin' For This is some good old school death metal!

Deceased Accidental Suicide Manufacturer: Gci/Do Not Use ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Eroded Thoughts The Dead Shall Inherit ASIN: B000008COL Release Date: 1992-10-30

Tracks:

1. Misery Hunt
2. Life I Hate
3. Morbid Indulgence
4. Flesh Parede
5. Unknown
6. Method of Murder
7. Agony of Rebirth
8. Homicidal Entrails
9. My Dangling Corpse
10. To Eat the Heart

Customer Reviews:

Three & A Half Is What I Was Hopin' For.......2007-01-22

A solid slice of the genre at the time. Some nice samples and soundbites interspersed with the music. Really like the slow intros and how the song builds. No doubt of the talent of these guys-they can keep up a good pace. Very melodic at times, and at others fast and tight. Good flow throughout. They were young when they recorded this, but still seem sure of their direction. Vocalist has range and doesn't hold back. Guitars up front and accomplished. Only complaint is the very simplistic drumming. If you like downtuned and sludgy death madness, this may appeal. Lots of bands did this better though, but the price is worth it. What you'd expect from Grind Core label, no offense to Dead Youth. For fans of Broken Hope & Baphomet. Track 5 really showcases all the musicians talent in full-form. Catchy and haunting.

This is some good old school death metal!.......2003-12-15

The thing I like about this album and group, is that the sound of the album is in the vaine of the classic old school death metal groups like Obituary, Morgoth etc. The album was released the year of 1992. The vocalist Ed Jackson has great range with his vocals. There are alot of great guitar riffs also. Accidental Suicide only released one album that I know of and it is "Deceased." This album isn't for everyone, but I still highly recommend this album. Give it a try if you like death metal. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. STAY BRUTAL!!!

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Accidental Renovation Caldwell Manufacturer: Indianola Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Ignite and Rebuild The Sun Rises and the Sun Sets and Still Our Time ASIN: B0009A1B9K Release Date: 2005-07-12

Tracks:

1. Behind the Wheel
2. Two Months Till Take Off
3. Accidental Renovation
4. Last in First Out
5. Intermission
6. Miles That End
7. Walls Between Us
8. Deadline
9. If Eyes Could Remember

Average customer rating: Tuck into this Disappointed but not Deterred PLAT DU JOUR IS HARD TO SWALLOW!!! Energetic and Conceptual

Plat du Jour Matthew Herbert Manufacturer: Accidental ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Scale Bodily Functions Around the House Secondhand Sounds: Herbert Remixes Ruby Blue ASIN: B00080CPM8 Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. The Truncated Life Of A Modern Industrialized Chicken
2. These Branded Waters
3. Pigs In Sh*t
4. An Empire Of Coffee
5. Celebrity
6. Hidden Sugars
7. An Apple A Day
8. Fatter, Smiller, Faster, Slower
9. The Final Meal Of Stacey Lawton
10. The Nine Seeds Of Navdanya
11. Waste Land
12. Nigella, George, Tony, And Me

Album Description

Plat du Jour is Matthew Herbert's first new album since 2003's acclaimed and hugely successful Goodbye Swingtime. Featuring contributions from Dani Siciliano, master chef Heston Blumenthal (recreating Stacey Lawton's final meal on Death Row) world coffee authority Antony Wild and long time Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood, 30,000 broiler chickens, 3255 people eating apples and a recreation of the lunch shared by Tony Blair and George Bush run over by a Chieftain tank.

Moving back to his more electronic style, the music of Plat Du Jour is at once playful and ominous. With a staggering attention to detail Plat Du Jour promises to be a genre defining moment in modern electronic music.

Customer Reviews:

Tuck into this.......2006-10-03

Plat de Jour is a concept album, the concept being the appallingly brutal way that much of what we eat is produced. It's the musical version of Jamie Oliver's School Dinners. Given that most of these songs are instrumentals, unless you are lucky enjoy to possess ears that are able to distinguish between, say, the sound of 30,000 broiler chickens in a barn and that of 24,000 minute old chicks in one room of a commercial hackery, you will have to rely on the sleeve notes to fully discern what is truly Mr. Herbert's intention behind these great sounds. Who would have thought that the sound of bottled water would be so effervescent? To be fully appreciated, though, Matthew's concept had to be experienced live. I was lucky enough to see Plat de Jour being performed twice, and what fantastic performances they were. Apart from Matthew's loops, most of the sounds were produced by musicians playing various types of food and packaging. And Matthew certainly had the right idea in sitting down during the concert to tuck into a meal. In case you had failed to grasp Matthew's concept, the point was emphasised by some really very amusing video footage, Matthew driving in a tank over a recreation of the meal that Nigella Lawson cooked for Tony Blair and George Bush being a highlight. The best tunes here are the truncated life of a modern industrial chicken, these branded waters, sugar, celebrity, an apple a day and the nine seeds of navdanya. I'd order it

Disappointed but not Deterred.......2006-02-03

I'm not especially enjoying Plat Du Jour. After Bodily Functions and Goodbye Swingtime, I really feel disappointment when hearing the direction Matthew has gone in with this LP. Most of it feels like background electronica I might hear while viewing a musical documentary like a collage of scenes spliced together in an art film or something by Nils Peter Molvaer.

After hearing Roisin Murphy's new album I though for sure that Herbert's next LP would be revolutionary, something that set the stage for a new genre that fully mixed electronic music with the syncopation and sound of 20's & 30's ragtime/swing. Unfortunately (in his own work) Herbert no longer seems to be championing the sound that made his production immediately recognizeable.

It's every artist's right to evolve, even if it's not in the direction some of their fans hope for. For those of you who identify with the sound I alluded to above (and who loved Roisin's "Ruby Blue") there are a couple artists that i think exude qualities that make up the Herbert sound. Unfortunately they are listed only on Amazon's French site, but you can still have a listen (and have them imported): One of my favorites is an artist called Nôze. Their album "Craft Sounds and Voices" is awesome: www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00081TXTK/

For those of you that love smoother vocals in the forefront, try French singer Camille's album "le fil" she uses organic samples of her own voice throughout the CD with electronic and folk influences. www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007DAYBA/.

PLAT DU JOUR IS HARD TO SWALLOW!!!.......2005-11-10

I'll be the first one to say that I am the ultimate Matthew Herbert fan--admiring his uncanny ability to manipulate everyday sounds into beautiful and sometimes funky musical arrangements. I mean, the man took household sounds (dishes clanging and alarm clocks ringing) and bodily functions (baby girgles, flatulence and God knows what else) and created the impressive and enigmatic "Around the House" and "Bodily Functions". He also, from my understanding, took a notebook being banged on a microphone and created a song on Roisin Murphy's "Ruby Blue". But Plat Du Jour--I don't know--is a bit hard to swallow...First, I understand the concept...and it may actually be a good one--I do acquiese that a lot of stuff that we as consumers buy are bad for us and are highly overrated (Starbucks coffee does come to mind)...Only it's overdone throughout the entire release and not done in an easily accessible manner, one in which your average Slimfast, Coca-Cola or Dasani bottled water drinker would understand. C'mon, Herbert--where are the catchy basslines...the instruments...the hypnotic vocals (except, of course from Dani Siciliano on the egregiously sarcastic "Celebrity"--"Go, Beyonce--Go, Beyonce!!")? It sounds like everything here is done with some pedestrian, and in most cases, ridiculous sounds--i.e. farm animals...people biting apples...water bottles...coffee beans...sugar...etc. Plat Du Jour is supposed to address commercialism and the overuse and abuse of certain consumer products. Unfortunately, unless you read the liner notes, you aren't immediately aware of that. Perhaps segues or more vocals would have made this release more of a public service, unfortunately I'm left terribly unsatisfied and unconvinced that some products are bad for you based on this material. I will remain a loyal fan of Mr. Matthew Herbert with the hopes that in the future he releases something a little more "digestible!"

Energetic and Conceptual.......2005-09-27

I admire Matthew Herbert. The man has a distinct style and, with this album especially, gets the listener involved. You really shouldn't listen to this without reading the liner notes for each track. When you read the liner notes while each song plays, you understand the whole idea behind this album. I can sum up the main idea in one word: Consumerism. I think Matthew's intention was to educate people on issues of consumerism. Issues such as teen dieting, food treatment and production, the environment, our screwed up government (i'm using too nice words), and celebrities endorsing products that make people fat. But you would probably never know that he wanted to bring these issues to your attention if you never read the liner notes. So read them! By reading the notes you'll also learn all the crazy things he used to make sounds: chicken coops, empty cans of Slimfast diet drinks, frying sausages, underground sewer sounds, a knife scraping toast, and I could go on and on and on. Again, most of these sounds you wouldn't even realize he used unless you read the notes. You would realize that the music here is energetic, playful, and unusual.

There is alot of statistics that deal with food and drink (i.e. there are 10 teaspoons of sugar in a can of coca cola) which made me think twice about what I eat, but then a few minutes go by and I go to the freezer for some ice cream. I know that soda is bad, and fried chicken is not exactly a healthy choice, but I consider myself to be health conscious and I see nothing wrong with moderation. But seriously, Herbert gets into more than just what's healthy and not healthy. He digs deeper and is much more cultured and politically minded than I'll ever be.

There's only ONE track with vocals (by vocals I mean, Dani, a female vocalist singing in the "Celebrity" track), so if you are wanting vocals you may be disappointed. If you are one who must have vocals I would highly recommend an album that M.H. produced: Roisen Murphy's "Ruby Blue." That one is more addicting than a tub of Ben & Jerry's.

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Accidental Spy Peter Kam Manufacturer: Japanese Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Soundtracks | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005QYU1 Release Date: 2002-01-08

Tracks:

1. On the Road
2. Robbery
3. Danger in the Hospital
4. Game Begins
5. Bath House
6. Market and White Clothes
7. Fishing Village, Sword Fight and The Piper
8. Worst Day of My Life
9. Destiny's Choice and In God's Hand
10. Showdown
11. Oil Tank 1
12. Oil Tank 2
13. Bridge

Tracks:

1. On the Road [Music Video]
2. Making of the "The Accidental Spy"

Album Description

Japanese version of 2001 release includes limited bonus disc (VCD) featuring 4 music videos and The Making Of 'The Accidental Spy'. Slimline double jewel case housed in a slipcase.

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Virtu: See Level Various Artists Manufacturer: Accidental ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002849K2 Release Date: 2004-07-12

Tracks:

1. Burn Out - The Cinematic Orchestra
2. Gift of Freedom - Charles Webster
3. Angels - Norah Jones, Wax Poetic
4. Come as You Are - Dani Siciliano
5. You Decide - Arto Lindsay
6. M.I.A. - Recloose
7. This Journey In - Rebirth
8. Symphony [Exclusive Track]
9. Roads Must Roll - Boom Bip
10. Smoke & Mirrors - Rjd2
11. Green Grass of Tunnel - M
12. Consequence - The Notwist

Tracks:

1. Skidoos - Akufen
2. Caught Up - Metro Area
3. That Night [Wahoo Remix] - Jazzanova
4. Love Not Love - Kevin Yost
5. Beautiful Day (A Song for V) - Stereo People
6. Lovelee Dae [20: 20 Vision Main Mix] - Blaze
7. Scattered Dreams - Chris Brann
8. 24 Hours [Exclusive Track]
9. Here Is [Adult Contemporary Mix] - Jay Salino
10. New Day [Club Vocal Mix] - Andy Caine,
11. Tessio - Luomo
12. Grid Two - Elegia

Album Details

First in Accidental's New Virtu Compilation Series featuring the Best in Contemporary Music in Distinctive Artist-designed Packaging. Three Editions of Virtu Will Be Released Annually in July, October and February, Each Edition Including Two Compilations featuring Outstanding Music from Artists Worldwide: New Music, the Occasional Classic, Pre-releases and Exclusives (Herbert Provides the Exclusive for the First Edition - his Track '24 Hrs' is Only Available on this Compilation). CD One is an Eclectic Slow Mix featuring the Cinematic Orchestra, Rjd2, Arto Lindsay and the Notwist. CD Two is a Deep Song Driven House Mix featuring Jazzanova, Metro Area, Akufen, Round Two and Herbert. Special Packaging Will Be the Hallmark of Each Edition, with the Emphasis on Creating a Collectable Series of Compilations that Stand Out Artistically, in all Senses of the World.

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Accidental Fred Frith Manufacturer: Fred Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000668LK Release Date: 2002-06-04

Tracks:

1. The Tangled Bank
2. Hit And Run
3. Gatto Nero
4. Old Geometry
5. Their Blood Is Black And Yellow
6. In A Heartbeat
7. Fooled Again
8. Accidental
9. Absinthe Memories (For Phil Minton)
10. Incoming
11. Almighty Home At Last

Average customer rating: New Sound != Bad Sound The Best Song on the Album Was Written in 2000.

Accidental Gentlemen Piebald Manufacturer: Side One Dummy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: We are the Only Friends We Have If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds... Barely Legal/All Ages Remains Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? ASIN: B000LP6KKI Release Date: 2007-01-23

Tracks:

1. Opener
2. A Friend Of Mine
3. Don't Tell Me Nothing
4. There's Always Something Better To Do
5. Strangers
6. Oh, The Congestion
7. Shark Attack
8. On And On
9. Getting Mugged And Loving It
10. Life On The Farm
11. Nature Wins
12. Roll On
13. Untitled

Album Description

Eschewing modern technology for the familiar sound of analog tape, Piebald's newest collection reflects the band's characteristic duality of being gentlemen at heart, but a bit sloppy by nature. Their fifth studio album contains twelve songs with driving, crunchy guitars that hark back to the band's punk rock roots. Topics range from nature versus man to street violence to a consumer-driven society. Mixed and produced by Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Two Gallants).

Customer Reviews:

New Sound != Bad Sound.......2007-03-08

I've followed this band since I was a kid. They started out as a screemo/hardcore band back in the 90's and they've grown a lot since then as musicians. This album reflects the latest stage in their evolution of the Piebald sound. Sure, none of the tracks here resemble anything along the lines of "Grace Kelly With Wings"--but trust me thats a good thing. They seem to be going for a more classic rock sound these days. For instance, this album features an awesome Kinks cover, "Strangers." I'd recommend this album for that track alone. However, "Roll On" is my fav track of this album-- a sort of "biking anthem." Check it out.

The Best Song on the Album Was Written in 2000........2007-02-09

I have been a Piebald fan from the first time I listened to "If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curtains For Us All." Since then I have bought all of their albums and gone to every show near Baltimore aka Mobtown. So it is hard to write a bad review for these guys, but the album lacks the fun and wittiness of their previous albums. I can compare listening to this album with reading a text book, "War and Peace," or "Ulysses," you just have to trudge on through it and hope to get to the end. The best song on the album is We Can't Read Poetry which was recorded in 2000 and still rocks. Taking yourself too seriously, can seriously suck. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Average customer rating: Edgy ,but beautiful No time like the Present

Accidental Nostalgia Gloria Deluxe Manufacturer: Gloria Deluxe Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Alas Alack Gloria Deluxe Devotionals (Songs for Shunkin) Hooker My Neighbor Totoro ASIN: B0008D5L5I Release Date: 2005-01-05

Tracks:

1. Outrun Your Demons
2. Mystery without the Murder
3. I'll Be Gone
4. If I Let It (Go By)
5. Change Your Mind
6. Swarm of Bees
7. If You're Going through Hell Keep Going
8. Refrain's the Same
9. Cover Me with Your Darkness
10. Sweet Pretty Lies
11. Map of Oblivion
12. Peel Away the Layers
13. Accidental Nostalgia
14. Nothing But the Passing of Time

Product Description

This is an album of songs from 'Accidental Nostalgia (an operetta about the pros and cons of amnesia)' which was written and composed by Cynthia Hopkins, designed by Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg, directed by DJ Mendel, and choreographed by Jordana Che Toback. It is performed live by Hopkins, Findlay, Sugg and the band Gloria Deluxe, and has been presented by St. Ann's Warhouse, On the Boards, and the Walker Art Center, with more presentations to come. The creation of this piece was supported by AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island; NEST rehearsal space in DUMBO, Brooklyn; the Whitney at Altria; MASS MoCA; the Perishable Theater in Providence, RI; and St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY; and funded in part by generous grants from the LEF Foundation of New England and a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Award. It was also supported by artistic and financial donations from numerous individuals. Please go to http://www.gloriadeluxe.com for more information.

Customer Reviews:

Edgy ,but beautiful.......2007-05-07

Saw the production on which this album is based and decided I had to have the music. Since then, I have passed it around to many friends who really enjoy it on its own merits. Makes me want to try more Gloria Deluxe.

No time like the Present.......2005-07-14

Ms. Deluxe strikes again in this wistful meditation on what it is like to be a human being, among other Glorious topics. It goes without saying that you should buy this album for yourself and all your progeny, no matter what age. Many things in theory go without saying and so, in theory, I will not say them. But really, if you never said anything at all that went without saying then you wouldn't have much left to say, would you? So much of our chattering is just that - filling the air with blah blah blah and so forth and so on in some vain attempt to actually connect to another human being. As if. Oh well. Life is short and my fuse is even shorter so don't get me started. Just kidding. Anyway, I feel like I've gotten off the track a little, but that's my whole point - life is too short to stay on the track all the time. You'll get to the end of the track soon enough. So while you have a chance, why don't you wander off the track from time to time and look around? And that's exactly what Gloria and I mean when we say "Accidental Nostalgia." We mean that there is no time like the present. And there is no present like time.

Rock Music:

1. All Mixed Up [CD-single] [Import]
2. Almost There: a Collection of Greatest Original No.2 Hits [Import]
3. Another Day [EP] [Import]
4. Axia [Import]
5. Bad/Dangerous [Import]
6. Beauregard [Import]
7. Best Alternative [Import]
8. Best of [Import]
9. Burning Organ [Import]
10. By Way of Love [Import]

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