Reel Life

1. Bring Down the Moon

2. Waiting for a Star to Fall

3. Stormy Love

4. Is Anybody Out There in Love

5. Stay Forever

6. If You Run

7. One Street Dream

8. No Apologies

9. Restless Dreamer

10. Someone's Got to Send Out Love

Tracks:

Bring Down the Moon
Waiting for a Star to Fall
Stormy Love
Is Anybody Out There in Love
Stay Forever
If You Run
One Street Dream
No Apologies
Restless Dreamer
Someone's Got to Send Out Love

Customer Reviews:

80s flashback!.......2007-05-30

As reviewed on my blog ([..])

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
"Waiting for a star to fall"

Last week, a song came on the radio that brought back a lot of old memories from my high school days. You know, the Stone Age!

Anyway, it was by a one-hit-wonder husband/wife duo called "Boy Meets Girl."

You socks are no doubt familiar with the one hit: "Waiting for a Star to Fall."

But, there are some other pretty good songs on the self-titled album, too.

I used to play it over and over again in the cassette deck of my old 1979 Honda Civic as I scooted around the dirt and cotton fields of West Texas. So many times in fact, that the tape wore out and the lyrics became warped and I eventually had to trash it.

Fortunately, nowadays, folks like me who are still lost in the 80s can now get the soundtracks to their youth on CD!

Mine arrived today, and I've really been enjoying the good non-warped quality of the sound. And, something I almost forgot: I no longer have to sit thru a song I don't like. I can just hit the "skip" button on my CD-player. Back in the day, you either had to endure it or try to time your "fast forward" button just right, and that was next to impossible.

Anyway, if there's anything that's better than modern technology, it's an old song on the radio . . .

Come, Gentle Night: Music of Shakespeare's World

Average customer rating:

Ensemble Galilei's music is lilting, elegant and unexpected!
beautiful
Excellent!
It will bring about many gentle nights
Visualizing Beauty

Come, Gentle Night: Music of Shakespeare's World

Manufacturer: Telarc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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From The Isles To The Courts
Shakespeare Songs
The Renaissance Album (Windham Hill)
Music In The Great Hall: Instrumental Music From The Ancient Celtic Lands
Songs and Dances from Shakespeare

ASIN: B0000478S3
Release Date: 2000-01-25

Tracks:

Mister Issac's Maggot, Chestnut (Dove's Vagary)
Woodycock
Death's Second Self
Jack's Health, Vale Of Years, Jack's Health Reel
Come, Gentile Night
Departe, Departe, The Cobbler's Hornpipe, Third Act Tune
But Let Them Go, Ladies, Sight No More
In A Garden So Green, Childgrove
Fire, Burn, and Cauldron Bubble
The Asp
Rumble Thy Bellyful
Pastime With Good Company, O Lusty May
Irish Lament
Joy To THe Person Of My Love
The Winter's Tale Set: Love's Winter Light, Apples In Winter, Drive The Cold Winter Away, Jenny Pluck Pears
Lilli Burleo
The Scottich Play Set: Life Is But A Walking Shadow, Mill, Mill O', Pawky Adam Glen
Heart's Ease, Now That The Spring, Gathering Peascods
No Longer Mourn For Me

Customer Reviews:

Ensemble Galilei's music is lilting, elegant and unexpected!.......2002-11-29

With their soulful playing and artful, sometimes even ephemeral arrangements, the six women of Ensemble Galilei convey a rare depth of emotion. In the insert notes, gamba player Carolyn Ann Surrick describes their creative process: "[In making this recording, we engaged in]...a kind of work that is so focused and intense that years can go by in one afternoon... Extraordinary music-making requires trust... [We] live for the times when the only thing that exists right then is the music--when the instruments are speaking as if we don't exist, and they are having their own conversation." Thank you, Ensemble Galilei, for allowing the rest of us the privilege of coming along for the ride! It's simply delectable. This chamber ensemble, featuring fiddle, harp, gamba, oboe, pipes and percussion, can also be heard on their other Telarc release, "From the Isles to the Courts", and "The Mystic and the Muse: Celebrating 600 Years of Women in Music", on the Dorian label.

beautiful.......2001-01-22

Sheer beauty, as a lover of English music I found this to be one of the most beautiful of all Shakespearean albums. Such harmony, such subtlety, one wishes that the gentle night will never stop.

Excellent!.......2001-01-04

Ensemble Galilei provide some excellent arrangements of English renaissance compositions. I believe that John Playford (English Dancing Master) fans will be particularly satisfied with the renditions presented here. It is very unfortunate that E.G. did not provide more arrangements from such early music sources. Some of E.G.'s own compositions seem very weak and not in the renaissance spirit of the rest of the CD. Nonetheless, this CD is highly recommmended.

It will bring about many gentle nights.......2000-11-22

I found this album to be solid. Very sweet, but not afraid to use percussion which makes it livelier and more fun. I adore the quiet, peacefulness of the music and the flawless execution of these renaissance songs.

Visualizing Beauty.......2000-08-20

I recently had the good fortune to direct a performance of King Lear--the ENTIRE five acts, in a community theatre, non-profit setting. I used twenty-four fully committed non-actors, who for the love of the ideas, participated in this performance. The first and main challenge that I faced was, how do I go "behind" the words, and invoke the right emotions, etc., to give these actors the range and tools needed for an effective, powerful performance? Critical to this performance was the beauty and brilliance of this recording, which I used throughout the various scenes of the play. This helped the performers tremendously, creating the different tapestries in the mind of the Bard. In short, this work is real genius, that I was so happy that I stumbled across. I am now putting in our performance programs, along with our most heart-felt thanks to E.G., the name of the recording and I have copies from Telarc to sell at each performance!

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No!
It's not your fault you drive me mad...
A very nice compilation
The Best
Amazing band; decent album

Reel Life, Vol. 1: Music From Hollywood
Wild Colonials
Manufacturer: Chromatic Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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This Can't Be Life
Fruit of Life
The Things We Do
At the End of Paths Taken
Pretty Little Stranger

ASIN: B00004L8CR
Release Date: 2000-03-21

Tracks:

Mr. Wrong: It's Not Unusual
Unhook The Stars: This Misery
Inertia: Friend
Flirting With Disaster: Anything But Love - Dr. John & Angela McCluskey
Countdown: The Battle Won - Tryptich
Brokedown Palace: Brokedown Palace
Cabin By The Lake: Cure
Love's Deadly Triangle: Coy (New Mix)
I Shot A Man In Vegas: Route 15 4:30AM - Shark 'N The Smoke
Southie: If By Chance
Silent Hearts: I'm Leaving - Scott Roewe
First Love, Last Rites: Day Ditty - Shudder To Think
The Motorcycle Gang: Evil
Dead Man's Curve: Shadows (Edit) - Los Colonials Savage
The Last Supper: Victim (Instrumental)

Customer Reviews:

No!.......2004-03-18

Maybe it's my fault. Because of Angela McClusky's vocals on Telepopmusic Genetic World, I bought "This Can't Be Life", "Fruit of Life", and "Reel Life". I am sorry, they are not at all what I expected. You don't know until it's too late. If you insist, then take my advise and buy only one at a time.

It's not your fault you drive me mad..........2002-01-15

My first introduction to the Wild Colonials was when a group of my friends were watching the horrible movie "Cabin by the lake" and the song CURE kept being played and kept giving me chills...sadly the movie didn't give them credit at the end so I went on an endless search online to find this band, thankfull I did.
REEL LIFE is a great idea for an album that actually works very well as a concept album (in a sense) instead of just a mere compilation of movie songs. Some of the offerings are just breath-taking, especially "Brokedown Palace", "If By Chance" (Cyndi Lauper's harmony is beautiful!), and "Friend. The instrumental tracks hold their own as well. This cd is great for fans of the Cowboy Junkies or Over the Rhine to start but the Wild Colonials are definatly standing far from any comparison by producing cd's like this one. I'm looking forward to Vol.2 as well as anything else they throw my way!

A very nice compilation.......2000-10-08

Being a big fan of this band after hearing their first two cd's, I had some pretty high expectations. Fortunately, I was not disappointed as this cd is very entertaining and offers another fine example of how good this band really is. What is really interesting about this cd is how diverse these musicians are and Angela in particular. From the bluesy "Anything But Love" (where Angela's voice compliments Dr. John's perfectly) to "Brokedown Palace" which offers a touch of gospell flavor, to the folksy "If By Chance" there is alot to appreciate. The 5 instrumentals are really good and give the listener an opportunity to enjoy the talent of the other band members without McCluskey. The instrumental version of "Victim" in particular offers a different perspective on this great song. Overall, this cd is a big winner and it continues to amaze me how such an outstanding band can continue to be so unrecognized.

The Best.......2000-04-16

This is one of the best Albums of the Year! I like hearing the instrumentals and some of the gorgeuos new songs. I keep coming back to this album again and again. The band just keep getting better and better. Yes, I'm looking forward to their next album but, how can anyone complain about this fantastic disc?

Amazing band; decent album.......2000-03-17

I'm a little disappointed by the latest from the Wild Colonials. I discovered them when their second album came out, and I've been in love ever since. I've been hoping for a new album, and I was starting to think the band had broken up, so I was thrilled when Reel Life came out. A lot of this album is good, but there are enough duds (and reruns) to make me a little disappointed.

My first complaint is the inclusion of three songs from the first two albums. It seems to me that nearly everyone who would purchase a compilation like this is already a fan of the band. So why include songs we've heard before? Also, while the instrumental songs are nice, I'm not a huge fan of non-vocal music. As far as I'm concerned, Angela's voice is too wonderful to let go to waste! Finally, a couple of the remaining songs are a little annoying. The Dr. John duet is just plain awful, and "Cure", while nice, is too repetitive to bear repeated listening.

The rest of the album is good, though. And the CD was worth buying just for the AMAZING cover of "Brokedown Palace". It's one of the band's best songs to date, and probably one of the loveliest songs I've ever heard.

Tracks:

Gone With The Wind: Tara's Theme
Theme From A Summer Place
Doctor Zhivago: Main Title & Lara's Theme
El Cid: Love Theme
It's A Wonderful Life
Vertigo: Scene D'Amour
Ryan's Daughter: Rosy's Theme
Somewhere In Time: Main Theme
The Young And The Restless: Nadia's Theme
Play Misty For Me: Misty - Tony Lee
Casablanca: As Time Goes By
Love Story: Where Do I Begin?
Emma: Main Theme
Sense And Sensibility: Throw The Coins
Pride And Prejudice: Main Theme

Tracks:

A Man And A Woman: Un Homme Et Une Femme - Mary Carewe
Il Postino: Main Themes
Jean De Florette: Main Title
The Summer Of '42: The Summer Knows
Emanuelle
Last Tango In Paris
Romeo And Juliet: Love Theme
Cinema Paradiso: Love Theme
Braveheart: End Titles
Indecent Proposal: Main Theme
Ghost: Unchained Melody
Titanic: My Heart Will Go On
Edward Scissorhands: Main Title/Ice Dance
The English Patient: As Far As Florence
Finding Neverland: Impossible Opening

Customer Reviews:

"themes & cues savor the romantic that dwells in all of us".......2005-04-12

What a crowning achievement to bring "Reel Love: The Cinematic Romance Album", released by Silva America and featuring The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the Crouch End Festival Chorus ~ conductors are Kenneth Alwyn, Paul Bateman, James Fitzpatrick, Nic Raine and David Temple director of the chorus ~ one can only expect the highest quality of performances and quench the thirst of all "film-score-buffs".

Sit back and unleash the first disc with composers taking each film score cue in alphabeltical order:

"CASABLANCA (AS TIME GOES BY)" (Herman Hupfeld)
"DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (MAIN TITLE & LARA'S THEME)" (Maurice Jarre)
"EL CID (LOVE THEME)" (Miklos Rozsa)
"EMMA (MAIN THEME) (Rachel Portman)
"GONE WITH THE WIND (TARA'S THEME)" (Max Steiner)
"IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" (Dimitri Tiomkin)
"LOVE STORY (WHERE DO I BEGIN)" (Francis Lai)
"PLAY MISTY FOR ME (MISTY)" (Errol Garner)
"PRIDE & PREJUDICE (MAIN THEME)" (Carl Davis)
"RYAN'S DAUGHTER (ROSY'S THEME)" (Maurice Jarre)
"SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (THROW THE COINS)" (Patrick Doyle)
"SOMEWHERE IN TIME (MAIN THEME)" (John Barry)
"THEME FROM A SUMMER PLACE" (Max Steiner)
"VERTIGO (SCENE D'AMOUR)" (Bernard Herrmann)
"YOUNG & THE RESTLESS (NADIA'S THEME)" (Barry DeVorzon/Perry Botkin Jr)

Arrangements that soar and then simmer into pure meditation of grandeur ~ classic film music prevails, as orchestration comes to the surface with pure originality ~ one masterpiece after another is long last presented as it should have been, is cause for celebration ~ each cue is a distinctive gift for striking modernism, touching on the transition of the period in this planets history.

Second disc is waiting in the wings are the composers and selections also in alphabeltical order:

"A MAN AND A WOMAN (UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME)" (Francis Lai)
"BRAVEHEART (END TITLES)" (James Horner)
"CINEMA PARADISO (LOVE THEME)" (Ennio Morricone)
"EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (MAIN TITLE/ICE DANCE)" (Danny Elfman)
"EMMANUELLE" (Pierre Bachelet/Herve Roy)
"ENGLISH PATIENT (AS FAR AS FLORENCE)" (Gabriel Yared)
"FINDING NEVERLAND (IMPOSSIBLE OPENING)" (Jan A. P. Kaczmarek)
"GHOST (UNCHAINED MELODY)" (Alex North)
"IL POSTINO (MAIN THEME)" (Luis Bacalov)
"INDECENT PROPOSAL (MAIN THEME)" (John Barry)
"JEAN DE FLORETTE (MAIN TITLE)" (Jean Claude Petit)
"LAST TANGO IN PARIS" (Gato Barbier)
"ROMEO AND JULIET (LOVE THEME)" (Nino Rota)
"SUMMER OF '42 (THE SUMMER KNOWS)" (Michael Legrand)
"TITANIC (MY HEART WILL GO ON)" (James Horner)

Each composer has the passion and skill for exploring human emotions, coupled with a unique gift for striking exotic orchestral colors, make this with all it's splendor unforgettable ~ themes that ring with familiarity as each film comes to mind through music.
Silva America gives the collector a treasure of thirty film cues that any "film-score-buff" would die for ~ in the past James Fitzpatrick (producer), Reynold da Silva (executive producer), mastered by Rick Clark and David Stoner (release co-ordinator) have given us compilation with such expertise and this one is no exception ~ keep up the outstanding limited editions and deluxe package releases, with your signature tidbits for all film music fans that's in all of us...gotta love it!

Total Time: 2-CD-Set ~ Silva America 1177 ~ (4/12/2005)

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A Well-Orchestrated Journey Of Love And Emotions!

Reel Life
Boy Meets Girl
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Living In Oblivion : The 80's Greatest Hits, Vol. 5
'80s Pop Hits
St. Elmo's Fire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

ASIN: B000008DPU
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Bring Down the Moon
Waiting for a Star to Fall
Stormy Love
Is Anybody Out There in Love
Stay Forever
If You Run
One Street Dream
No Apologies
Restless Dreamer
Someone's Got to Send Out Love

Customer Reviews:

A Well-Orchestrated Journey Of Love And Emotions!.......2003-02-19

I bought this CD for their one commercial hit wonder "Waiting For A Star To Fall"...little did I know it would become a permanent gem, a definite standout constantly in heavy rotation! This is simply the ultimate 80's love album. I was hooked from the first few bars of the opener "Bring Down The Moon", which features one of the most powerful laments on love I have ever heard: "If love's not forever I need to discover the spirit of romance and magic in living from day to day...". This in a nutshell sums up the way I have always felt about love! The instrumentation is fabulous too....pure 80's keyboards, danceable beats as well as a ballad here and there. The magic continues throughout the whole album, as George and Shannon succesfully trade off vocal duties and their own takes on relationships and love in general. The vocoder solo alone on "If You Run" makes this album worth your money, and "No Apologies" is in my opinion the best breakup song ever recorded. Although there are no real surprises here, this is a well-arranged, nicely written, and superbly produced package for the late 80's lovesong fanatic. I am really surprised that none of the other songs hit as big as "Waiting For A Star To Fall" because they are all very listenable. The last song on the album ends somewhat unexpectedly, leaving the listener longing for more, kind of like love itself!

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If you can't see 'em live, get this CD (or tape)
Great CD

Reel Life
Trout Fishing In America
Manufacturer: Trout Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Closer to the Truth
Over the Limit
Family Music Party
inFINity
Who Are These People?

ASIN: B000003JXH
Release Date: 1996-07-16

Tracks:

The Number Of That Truck
Lightning
More Than Love
Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyeballs
Sleepytime Cartoon
Eleven Easy Steps
The Last Day Of Pompeii
Intro To Blue
Ode To Big Blue
Intro (Ezra's Corner)
Spider's Fence
Dixie Chicken
Murrell's
Thinking About You
Baby's Got The Car Keys

Customer Reviews:

If you can't see 'em live, get this CD (or tape).......2002-04-21

I heard the guys at Jazzfest (New Orleans) and met them shortly after, and then HAD to go see them at Tipitina's a few months later. They are sly, funny, and musically talented in a wide range of styles. They do stuff for grownups, stuff for kids, stuff for grownups AND kids -- well, you get the idea. Tipitina's is a famous old N.O. bar and music venue - they played "Baby's Got the Car Keys" there and the place rocked! This album is more adult-oriented in theme, but you can let your kids hear it for the beautiful music. And you can listen to "Family Music Party" without kids around, as I do -- no Barney-esque saccharine in there to make an adult gag.
PS - Passed through Shreveport, LA last month around lunch time - went to Murrell's just because I'd heard the song and didn't want fast-food. It deserved having this song written about it!

Great CD.......1998-09-17

This CD is a nice mix of older music & new releases from Trout Fishing in America. My favorite cuts are The Last Day of Pompeii, Baby's Got the Car Keys and The Number of that Truck. Trout is incredible in concert -- so much music for 2 guys -- but on this CD I wish they had skipped the speaking portions of the live performance (really a minor criticism). This is another solid performance from Trout Fishing in America.

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WOW this is another classic
ESHAM's first major mainstream rap album.
Bruce Wayne, Esham, tha Unholy, WHOEVER, this is TIGHT!!!!!!
ESHAM BRINGS DA WICKETSHXT!!!
Eshams best album ever!!!

Bruce Wayne: Gotham City 1987
Esham
Manufacturer: Reel Life Production
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Mail Dominance
Closed Casket
Judgement Day, Vol. 1
A.1. Yola

ASIN: B00000BKIB
Release Date: 1999-01-07

Tracks:

Comerica
You Still Ain't Sh*t To Me
7 Mile Rd.
Lowlafalana
Change Ya Mind
You And Me
Gimme Ya Love
Who Is Bruce Wayne?
1987
You Betta Ask Sombody
Where My B At
Fuck Da Fame
Seems Like Yesterday
Detective
Nervous
Gothom City

Customer Reviews:

WOW this is another classic.......2004-08-16

I heard a few negative reviews about this album before i got it, saying it was garbage, with maybe one or two good songs on it. Well that's absolute crap. This album is underrated, its not esham's best work, but its still classic, and still better than 99% of the garbage put out there. Best songs are Comerica, You Still Ain't sh*t To Me, 7 Mile Rd, You And Me, 1987, You Better Ask Somebody remix, Fxck Da Fame, Detective, Gothom City, and my favorite song here Nervous. Also there are 2 songs that feature the lovely Zelah Willaims, in which she solos both of them. Gimme Ya Love, and Seems Like Yesterday are there names. Seems Like Yesterday is another one of my favorites. The other songs on the albums are good too. If you ain't into esham's older music, then you'll probably like this. Will also appeal to mainstream fans, although i don't consider this a mainstream album, but it's not as underground or dark as his earlier albums. Anyway, this album is a classic, not eshams best, but still a classic, so get this now if u havent already!

ESHAM's first major mainstream rap album........1999-04-17

ESHAM doesnt really bring in the "wicket shxt" here but its a tight album. The best track on here has to be "Fxck Da Fame" thats just track with loads of meaning behind it, and some tight bass. This is a great album that again the REAL ESHAM fans should pick up.

Bruce Wayne, Esham, tha Unholy, WHOEVER, this is TIGHT!!!!!!.......1999-04-08

When this was first released SO MANY people were sayin' it was wack and he sold out, so I had my doubts when I first got it. Then I put it in and heard the first track and it was Esham at his finest. Not since "KKKill The Fetus" has an album done this to me. The last track "Gothem City" is one of the tightest songs EVER. It doesn't get more wicked than that. The only down part is the 2 track by Zelah Williams, but you forget about that quick when you hear tracks like "Nervous", " F*** Da Fame", and the remix of "You Betta Ask Somebody". A MUST HAVE for anyone who loves pure underground wicked sh**. If only "Mail Dominece" would have been this tight.

ESHAM BRINGS DA WICKETSHXT!!!.......1999-02-22

I am an ICP juggalo and had only heard Esham's shxt on ICP albums, but when I bought this album, it flipped my wig! Esham brings some wicked shxt, starting with the first track, "Comerica". If that doesn't get you off your a$$, nothing will!!! (It's time to make another million.....) "7 Mile Rd." is the next phat track, with a mad wicked beat and hardcore lyrics. A kind of soft, but equally phat track is "You And Me (and a bottle of Remy)". Bottom line is, if you are a juggalo, and want to know what real underground Detroit rap is all about, get this shxt, and bump this shxt!

Eshams best album ever!!!.......1999-02-20

This is it, this is the album you must have if you are an Esham fan. Listen to this CD a few times and you will never want to put it down. I would give this ablum 10 stars if I could. This album is a little softer then his previous ones, but the trademark Esham beats are still there. "Comerica" is the sweetest song I've ever heard from Esham. And the list of great songs goes on after that. This is a must buy no doubt. If you dont think so ask Whas, Jonez, and Gil.

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Still Life at Full Speed
Eric Blakely
Manufacturer: Folk Reel Prod.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00022352Q
Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

It's Okay To Be Blue
Still Life At Full Speed
Been A Long Road
Since I Found You
Another Friday Night At The Laundromat
I'll Be Yours
Something Into Nothing
Kensington
The Ballad Of Lester And Mary
I Don't Play The Blues
Hangin Tree
It's Time To Go
The Down Home Duck Hill Delta Mississippi Blues

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Crumb, Ustvolskaya? No: Cowell was there before. Piano music of stupendous imagination and invention, way ahead of its time
definintely not suitable for children, one song inparticular
.

Piano Music

Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001DM0
Release Date: 1994-02-01

Tracks:

The Tides Of Manaunaun
Exultation
Harp Of Life
Lilt Of The Reel
Advertisment (Third Encore To Dynamic Motion)
Antimony (Fourth Encore To Dynamic Motion)
Aeolian Harp And Sinister Resonance
Anger Dance
The Banshee
Fabric
What's This (First Encore To Dynamic Motion)
Amiable Conversation (Second Encore To Dynamic Motion)
Fairy Answer
Jig
Snows Of Fujiyama
Voice Of Lir
Dynamic Motion
The Trumpet Of Angus Og
Tiger
Henry Cowell's Comments

Amazon.com

Henry Cowell, a few years before his death in 1965, chose and recorded 20 of his own piano pieces, going from his first composition (1912), spreading out over 20 more years, and, more importantly, over the width, breadth, and depth of the piano itself. The pioneer in prepared piano techniques, Cowell's approach, at times, is really an attack--he strikes with elbows, climbs inside and plucks strings, uses his entire fist on the keys as a way of changing harmonic direction. Amidst this modern mayhem lands strong marching melodies and charging, bright clusters of chords. The piano, as a response, grumbles, rolls, and purrs, and even Cowell's gentle stroking of the keys can sound like thunder. His techniques were so groundbreaking and unidentifiable that even Bartok wrote to ask Cowell's permission in order to experiment with clusters himself. --Robin Edgerton

Album Description

Cowell (1897-1965) invented ways to play the piano that no one had ever considered. Taking the whole world of music as his inheritance, Cowell created music which covered a wider range of expression and technique than that of any other American composer. Reissue of Folkways 3349. "A revealing reissue...You'd be thoroughly pleased you asked him into your house."-Classical Pulse

Customer Reviews:

Crumb, Ustvolskaya? No: Cowell was there before. Piano music of stupendous imagination and invention, way ahead of its time.......2007-03-25

I had come across the music of Henry Cowell through various collections including some of his orchestral and chamber works (some of his Hymn and Fuguing Tunes and symphonies, recently his Violin and Piano Sonata), but these are mostly conservative pieces (by the 1940s, after four years of incarceration at the Saint Quentin State Prison on a "morals" charge - he was bisexual - Cowell had completely changed his compositional outlook, as the pastoral, "prairie"-style 1946 Violin and Piano Sonata bears witness). I had read in the textbooks about "Cowell the cutting edge experimenter and innovator" from the 10s to 30s, but this is my first encounter with his early piano music. I wish I hadn't waited so long.

It is simply stupendous.

Many of these pieces are based on fairly simple modal folk or folk-inspired melodies, most of the times of Irish origin (the disc also contains a Japanese "Snows of Fujiyama"). Sometimes, in the music's chorale-like writing, you could be hearing a Busoni Bach-transcription ("Harp of Life"), Mussorgky's "The Great Gates of Kiev" ("Voices of Lir") or Albeniz' Iberia ("The Trumpet of Angus Og"). But then what you get as "accompaniment" (I am not sure it is the proper word) is breathtaking: deep tone clusters sometimes reaching two-octaves, as in "The Tides of Manaunaun", "Harp of Life" and "Voice of Lir", sounding like the deep rumbling or moaning of some mythological Celt God. Likewise, the tone-clusters of "Snows of Fujiyama" conjure a mysterious sound-world where the voices of nature intermingle with evocations of oriental bells with their complex and non-tempered overtones (there is also some of that in "Antinomy", where at one point the right hand apparently arpeggiates the keys so to produce the sound of a strummed harp.)

At its most exuberantly pounding Cowell's writing sounds like the early piano music of George Antheil, as in the dazzling "Advertisement" - but that was written some years before Antheil's piano sonatas - "Antinomy", "Amiable Conversation", "Jig" - but there is more to Cowell than pounding.

It is music of incredible evocative power and poetic invention. Cowell's appetite for bringing the inside of the piano out (quite literally, some times) results in uniquely eerie sonorities. I had thought George Crumb had invented the various techniques of string strumming and of altering the tone quality of the piano strings being struck by the hammers by placing the fingers at various points directly on the strings, as with guitar or violin. Not so: it is all there in Cowell, as early as the late 10s (try "Aeolian Harp", "Fairy Answer", "Sinister Resonance" and the mesmerizing "Banshee", of which it is difficult to think that it has NOT been composed by Crumb in the early '70s). I had thought that obsessive and angrily violent cluster pounding was a trademark of Shostakovich's maverick protégée Galina Ustvolskaya - no, it is all there in Cowell's "Antinomy" from 1914 (revised in 1959), in his 1916 "Dynamic motion" and his "Tiger" (c. 1928).

Though apparently Cowell "backdated" some of his early compositions, in an attempt to make them seem even more precociously innovative than they already were, to think that a 19 year-old youth was capable of such unbridled invention as marks the 1916 "Dynamic Motion" simply defies the imagination. There is something deeply moving about the sad fate of the early American modernists. The early 20th century United States harbored a string of great innovators - to Cowell one can add Ornstein, Antheil, Ives, to name but a few - that should have been greeted and hailed as beacons of a new era. Instead, they had to fight against an unwelcoming musical environment which ultimately succeeded in stifling or silencing their unique creative personalities. They were, of course, "rediscovered" from the 50s onwards (though, judging from this disc, Cowell's piano music doesn't nearly get the exposure it deserves). They were ahead of their times.

After about 48 minutes of music, the disc is topped off my an invaluable 13-minutes of commentaries by Cowell himself on the compositions featured therein, delivered with his inimitable accent. There can be no end to the praise that Folkways deserves for recording the composer playing his own works in 1963 (and the Smithsonian for reissuing it on CD), about two and ½ years before his death. He plays with awe-inspiring virtuosity. The 1963 tapes haven't aged so well, with some tape hiss that I don't find obtrusive but also numerous dropouts that are more annoying. But this drawback is of no weight in comparison to the musical and historical importance of the this recording, which belong to any collection of 20th century music. Don't wait as long as I did!

definintely not suitable for children, one song inparticular.......2003-03-16

I bought this CD, and I ended up throwing it in the bin the very next day. I bought it and I'm a bit of a ghost freak and I saw the song "Banshee," I put the record in and skimmed over to listen to it. I couldn't move I was white with terror. Henry Cowell is a good composer and all, but his songs are petrifying. I went over to my friends house and told him about the CD. He told me to bring it over. As I put the CD in the player. My friends 5-year-old sister came in and Screech went the song and as if the song were a magical spell, Alakazam! The sister went screaming with terror crying all the way up the stairs and daren't come back down until it was established that I had left the house, which I did immediately. I don't think anyone should waste their money on this. It is an unsuitable collection of screech, screech, ooo, I hate that sound.

........2000-01-22

Put a kid in front of a piano and the first thing they do is slam their fists onto the keys, creating an awful racket. That's what Henry Cowell as a mature composer earlier this century; he named the technique "tone clusters" and subsequently got famous for it. But that's not all: he reached inside the piano, plucked and strummed the strings creating eerie and gorgeous siren-like and harp-like noises. He often twisted the instrument into sounding like a full gamelan orchestra. Cage, Stockhausen, Zappa, Cecil Taylor and others took Cowell's cue and brought these techniques to radical extremes later in the century. This disc, recorded in 1963 shortly before his death, features Cowell at the piano banging out 19 short selections. The disc finishes with a fascinating blow-by-blow commentary where he described each selection on the disc and how he came to compose these revolutionary works

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GREAT CD....BUT...
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