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Christophe POISSON produces an original electronic music, yet undoubtedly close to the works of HELDON. Published under the Gazul label, "Music Sky" (1997) is actually a posthumous album, released eleven years after the keyboardist's death. His family and his colleague Bertrand LOREAU have done their best, so that this piece of work could eventually see the light of day. In addition to the three parts of the original project (Recorded between 1984 and 1985), three more compositions were included, involving experiences that strenghthen the originality of his work. This unique music turns out to raise a lot of emotion, tension and discords. A special touch is also brought by some guest musicians, such as a guitarist and a saxophonist. You have to rediscover this !
I honestly would pay to see this band live no matter what came of an album. -Now? -oof.
When did the already accused "dad band" plummet into the background of a Tide commercial? Will I hear their sound bites on NPR? I am waiting for the newest TV drama to add "Hate it Here" to a young girl's emotional breakdown in her bedroom.
What happened to Charles Wright and Woody Guthrie's influence? Where is the competent composition [shown briefly in "On and On and On"]? I fear O'Rourke's dreamy sonic influence led to gravitational boredom. I expected so much more...
No one is forcing the hand to make tons of albums, here. It's a damn shame.
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Orinoco Flow
Carribean Blue - very ethereal
Book of Days
Celts
Anywhere Is
Only If
The Celts
Paint the Sky with Stars - not a good song. I mention it as illustrative of my above comment. This is a real downer. Don't listen to it if you are struggling with suicidal thoughts in your life. I'm not just making a bad joke with this comment; it is truly mournful.
Overall the first half is more enjoyable. Album could have 5 stars if it had maintained that pace, but the 2nd half is much more depressing rather than emotive
Here I am one month later and I really love this album. I found everything I want from a Wilco record in Sky Blue Sky. The roller coasters are there, its just not the same ride as before. Nor should it be. The hooks are there where you least expect them. The irritating moments of the first few listens (Shake it Off's tempo or Impossible Germany's verbiage) have long faded. Whats left is satisfying and heartfelt.
Let yourself get lost in it and you too can find exactly what you didn't know you were looking for.
Alternative fans will love it, as will fans of folk music. I think rock and country fans will enjoy it quite a bit as well. Metal only fans may want to look elsewhere.
Jeff Tweedy and his Wilco have managed to make the dullest record of their career with Sky Blue Sky. Its instrumentation is as bland as elevator music, and its lyrics are as infantile as a middle schooler's book of so-called "poems" (and good lord do I wish the preceding were hyperbole).
Since 1999's "Summerteeth," Tweedy has frustrated and befuddled old fans of Uncle Tupelo and his new band's first pair of stellar albums ("A.M." and "Being There") by striking off in new musical directions with every record. This consternation was always tempered, though, by the fact that the directions in which Tweedy took the band were interesting, particularly in the case of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," his first foray into his own brand of "progressive electronica," to suggest a category. But the one adjective that can't be used to describe "Sky Blue Sky" is 'interesting.' This album is interesting's absolute antithesis. Searching for days for the right descriptors for Tweedy's latest effort led this reviewer back to a small stable of terms: "directionless", "uninspired", "pointless", "inoffensive". It is the last of these I've settled on most comfortably. "Sky Blue Sky" is not a terrible album, it's just immensely disappointing. Its songs blend together in a bland soup of sound, Tweedy's vocals sound as though he's moments from slumber, and the instrumentation is derivative at best.
Gone are all the things that once made Wilco a fantastic band to listen to: the enthusiastic energy of "A.M." and "Summerteeth," the sublimity of "Being There" ("the first alt-country masterpiece," as I believe No Depression Magazine put it), the historicity and collaborative spirit of the "Mermaid Avenue" records, and the compelling sonic experimentation of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." With "Sky Blue Sky" Jeff Tweedy and his band achieve the acme of boredom, a greater musical sin than any other I can imagine.
Others have lamented that this record is too much a "regression" to the days of "A.M." and "Being There." If only this were true! Any sensible Wilco fan would regard a genuine return to 1994-98 stylings to be a triumph (who among us would be displeased with more work like "I Must Be High" or "Pick Up The Change" or "Sunken Treasure"?). Sadly, "Sky Blue Sky"--even in its best moments--is the palest imitation of such work. It's flat.
Go back and listen to A.M. instead. Or better yet, pick up Son Volt's new album, "The Search." *There* is an interesting record.
Anyone who has ever actually made a record within the last 10 years though knows how much less musicianship it takes to do 1,000 overdubs and then cut, paste, and edit like a madman in pro-tools to make it sound the way you want than to do it the way Wilco did on this record.
Most records today are of this cut and paste variety, with the producers and engineers often having as much or more to do with the record's final sound than the musicians themselves.
However, I still feel their is something magical about a band playing together in a room, and being able to pull it off 99% live and really capturing the moment, which to me is what rock 'n' roll is truly about. You can see and hear the amount of time and energy the band spent playing together and working out these arrangements...plus the fact that they all play together and don't try to play over each other...it's just a great band of talented, mature musicians. Something very hard to find these days.
To me this is like how the Beatles' "Let It Be" album would have turned out if they were all still working together as a cohesive unit - great rock songs with tons of feeling, played to perfection. Long Live Wilco!!!!
Farish branches out into Deep Forest-ish territory with third world chant/chorale samples on the opening "The Promise" (set off against his usual piano, snare/high-hat beats, and flowing keyboards).He incorporates these same elements in a few other spots on the album (e.g. the celebratory "Joy").
"Living Water" opens with breathy wood flute samples and also features the first noticeable appearance of acoustic guitar, deep in the mix but easily heard on headphones, and the beats have a more sensuous if not primal urgency, counterpointed by almost blues-jazz piano.
Some songs hone closer to the sound Farish perfected on Beautiful, such as "Home Again" and "Legacy", which is a trippy beat-laden "happy to be alive" kind of tune featuring excellent use of female chorals with piano, beats and lush synths, as well as some funky bass rhythms."Miles Away" is a slower tempo piece that would be ideal accompaniment for a brisk walk along a country lane.
The title track is a slow tempo song but dramatic affair which again uses orchestral strings to greater effect than simply applying a layer of wash of violins."Rejoice", the album closer, starts off sounding like Ray Lynch before veering over into Deep Forest tribal chants set against a percolating backbeat, lilting lively flute samples, and eventually Enigma-esque rhythms, all the while retaining the particular plucked string synth sound.
My favorite song from this CD would have to be the beautiful "Pacific Wind", which features stunning female vocals with a nice piano piece to back it up.
In conclusion, "From The Sky" amply displays Ryan's strong blend of reverbed piano, bubbly beats, expert layering of assorted keyboards and chill-out/electronica effects, as well as production that is flawless in every respect.I highly recommend this CD to all music lovers, trust me, you won't be disappointed with this CD, I know I wasn't........
It was, however, mp3.com that made this artist. He originally released his music on mp3.com, rapidly becoming one of the most downloaded artists on the site. His New Age music is inspiring, providing compositions that explore his melodies fully with a very upbeat and positive inclination.
This CD contains twelve tracks, with no times listed, and it runs about an hour. This is very professionally produced, with string arrangements by John Majkut.
Some highlights include "The Promise" which is reminiscent of Deep Forest, with drums, lovely piano composition, tribal voices and choir. This piece has a lovely upbeat rhythm and a delightful piano melody. A very good opening introduction to this CD.
Also "Home Again" which has a stand out beat, Again, bright, melodic and almost inspirational. "Walk With You" takes an almost Eastern turn, adding flute to accompany the piano with the return of the choir and tribal beat. A nice blending of rhythms and style.
It's easy to see why this CD is #3 on New Age Billboard Chart. The music is always upbeat, even when it takes a time out to contemplate. It is inspirational in feel, and the compositions are worth taking the time to appreciate. As in all New Age music, this CD can be a focal point, or a soundscape for your personal space. A must have for your New Age collection. mafoster
with more vocals than Beautiful. Ryan seems to be reaching for
something new with this release. In my opinion the best tracks
are the ones that are similar in form to those in his last
disc.
No wonder it was so joyful to have a new version of the album with bonus tracks. As you know, the American version was different from the British version, as it used to happen with the Beatles or the Rolling Stones and others.
This remastered version contains essentially what the British version was, plus alternate takes, the most impressive of which is the title track, Sky moves sideways, which has some interesting variations in relation to the original version. As an advantage, this alternate take is not divided in two halves, as it was in the original album, it runs freely as a single piece. I am tempted to say that I like it better than the original!!!
In few words, this is an excellent album for a band that is beginning its career, although it is composed of already veteran musicians. It is progressive rock at its best. I thought, and I continue thinking, that Porcupine Tree is the true succesor of Pink Floyd in current times.
For those new to the album, it was originally released in 1995, was their third proper album (they had a couple of early cassettes at the end of the '80s/beginning of the '90s, a lot of it ended on their proper debut album, On the Sunday of Life anyways). Up until this point, it was entirely a Steven Wilson project, and in the middle of recording The Sky Moves Sideways, he assembled a band, with ex-Japan keyboardist Richard Barbieri, bassist Colin Edwin, and drummer Chris Maitland. The title track (both parts) and "Moonloop" were full band interaction, while "Dislocated Day", "The Moon Touches Your Shoulders", and "Prepare Yourself" was all Steven Wilson (drum tracks were drum machines, which got replaced by real drums on the current reissue, which you won't notice much difference).
I have since acquired the Snapper reissue, which I'm ever glad I did (since I never acquired the Delerium original). First disc contains the original British album, but ommitting "Moonloop" (the original LP never had this cut, only the CD, due to time constraint), but with new drummer Gavin Harrison providing drums on "Dislocated Day" and "The Moon Touches Your Shoulders" (which you'll hardly notice the difference if you owned the original). The band wanted this album to be one 50 minute piece, but apparently didn't have enough good ideas to warrant such, so instead, they pull a Wish You Were Here by sandwiching four songs in between (although only three on this reissue, after all, "Moonloop" is now on the bonus disc). The title track is divided in two, which varies from Pink Floyd-like pieces to Ozric-like techno experiments to nice spacy ambient sections. The end part of "The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2" includes a bunch of themes revisited, plus some played in reverse. The other songs? Well, "Dislocated Day" is a more aggressive number, while "The Moon Touches Your Shoulders" is a nice acoustic piece with some nice Mellotron backdrops. "Prepare Yourself" is a rather atmospheric guitar-oriented piece that pretty much "prepares yourself" for the last piece on the album, the closing title track.
Now for the second disc. First off, you get a 34 minute alternate take of the title track. You get yourself some extra lyrics not found on the version we're all familiar with. Some of the material is arranged differently, plus some familiar sounding stuff. I can see why they didn't make it the full 50 minutes, this version does seem to end without knowing how to end. But I found some of these arrangements superior, while others you can see why it didn't make the cut. Plus I love how Suzanne Barbieri gets to have her voice a second time on this version, which I thought was great! The rest is the complete Moonloop EP. "Stars Die" is exactly the same as the old American version, but you'll quickly learn that "Moonloop" was abridged, and here you get the complete version. I was even more blown away by this full version! Since I have not heard the original Delerium CD, I can't say if there's any difference with that version of "Moonloop" over the EP version.
While many people like to think Porcupine Tree's best starts with Stupid Dream, I prefer the stuff before it, and I really think this is one of their best. This is truly one of the greats from the 90s, as far as I'm concerned.
My fiancé' was always listening to this band but I never paid much attention, since I thought it was some "new band" that wouldn't be around in four years.
I was so wrong, this band's music is phenomenal and they remind me a lot of Pink Floyd's material from the mid seventies. Really blissful, elongated sounds that are a treat of art rock. Very relaxing but also very intelligent music! Some songs really get crazy and shall we say "rock" well, like the song "Dislocated Day" which is one of the shorter songs on the album.
Some of these songs are over 12 minutes long, which remind me of the progressive rock that was again, popular years ago. Sky Moves Sideways is my first album of these guys (well, it is my fiancé's) but I just ordered two more of their albums on Amazon.
Sometimes I am the colour of air
Sometimes it's only afterwards
I find that I'm not there"
Far from the self-absorbed whining of many musicians (some of which I admit I enjoy) Wilson's call sends chills down my spine.
Where In Absentia is the pinnacle of their progressive rock phase, Sky Moves Sideways is the pinnacle of their progressive phase. After this album Porcupine Tree moved into a more song-oriented direction, but this album is one long chain of jam session -esque music, ranging from the spacey flittering of the first 4 minutes, moving into the lyrical swooping drug induced middle section, and finally moving to the pulsing, almost Trance-like middle-end section. The final section leads you back to ambient flickering, and then Dislocated Day slaps you in the face like a jilted lover.
While this album takes some getting used to, it is one of their most unassuming masterpieces. I would recommend later albums before this one, this is not for the new-comer unless you are familiar with this sort of music.
(The Bonus Disc actually has an alternate version of "The Sky Moves Sideways" that is 34 minutes long. The whole album was meant to be one continuous track, but the longest they got to was 34 minutes.)
After diving into those, go to earlier CDs like this one to see how Steven and the gang got to where they are now!
The remastering is amazing. The digipak is beautiful but I am not a fan of "cardboard" CD cases.
Perhaps one of the best CD's I've ever bought. I recomended it for all of my friends and family that enjoy instumental music.
Buy this CD and enjoy.
This is a perfect CD for those interested in sampling Elmore's music for the first time. Every song is a winner. You won't be disappointed!!
That is NOT to say that this CD is disappionting, by any means! You will be introduced to many of his less-known songs, and you will hear his guitar style, as well as his voice, mature with his later recordings.
One thing that you will walk away with is a stronger sense of the early roots of electric blues, which did not always keep proper time, and was often plagued with poor recording techniques. Nonetheless, Elmore's guitar gets meaner, and his voice gets sweeter over time.
If you're a fan of early blues, if you need to understand Elmore's music from your PERSONAL perspective (rather than reading some music critic's opinion), if you love the eerie, yet powerful, electric slide than this CD is certainly for you.
Slide it into the CD player, dim the lights, and feel the blues!
Why did I give it get 5 stars? For delivering just what it promised; the history of Elmore James.
The album was the first since late 1980's Turn of a Friendly Card. Whilst that album had its moments (Games People Play and Time), the album had not been as successful. In 1981, Alan Parsons (well known engineer and producer who had worked with The Beatles as a tape operator and engineered Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother and classic Dark Side of the Moon and produced albums for Pilot, The Hollies and Al Stewart) and collaborator Eric Woolfson began work on Eye in the Sky with musicians that were bass player David Paton and guitarist Ian Bainson formerly of the band Pilot (famed for its 1975 hit "Magic") and drummer Stuart Elliott (famed for his work on Al Stewart's Year of the Cat and Time Passages albums and on Paul McCartney's 1984 hit "No More Lonely Nights"). When the album was released, it was right in the middle of New Wave and schlock pop ala Air Supply time. Would this album be a classic or seen as a relic of the past, read on and find out as I did recently.
We open the album with the instrumental "Sirius". What a great opener. i first heard this piece when former WWE wrestler Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat used this music as his entrance theme during his 1986/1987 tenure with WWE (formerly World Wrestling Federation). Since then, "Sirius" has been used by sports teams such as The Chicago Bulls for its entrance music and sampled by Diddy (a/k/a Puff Daddy a/k/a P Diddy a/ka Sean Combs) on his The Saga Continues album. We then segue into the album's title cut and Parsons Project's biggest hit. The track, sung by Eric Woolfson, got its name from Woolfson hearing that phrase whilst in the US to describe air traffic, surveilance cameras and every other device. Next is "Children of the Moon" which is sung by ex-Pilot frontman and APP bass player David Paton and it's a great song about the death of culture (which still holds up today). We segue into the short but sweet "Gemini" sung by Chris Rainbow. The first half closes with the epic "Silence and I", which was sung by Woolfson. The piece harkens back to some of the classic prog sounds of I Robot. What a great piece.
Next is the rocker "You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned" which was sung by Lenny Zatatek (whose voice was dominant on songs like "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" and "Games People Play"). What a great rocker. Next is the album's other sing "Psychobabble" sung by Elmer Gentry. This piece is another winner. Next is the album's second and last intrumental called "Mammagamma". Whilst it sounds like something that could have been used on the soundtrack to Scarface, the piece had more b*lls and passion than anything that Giorgio moroder could have come up with. Next is another Zatatek sung piece called "Step by Step" whcih is another great piece. We close the album with possibly my favorite APP track ever, the ballad "Old and Wise". The track's orchestrations is so powerful that it can actually bring tears to your eyes hearing it. The track is sung by former Zombies frontman Colin Blunstone and this is his best lead vocal EVER done (surpassing anything he recorded pre-1982). The track ends with the most powerful alto saxophone solo ever recorded by famed saxophonist Mel Collins (who has worked with people from King Crimson to Eric Clapton to Roger Waters to Bad Company and The Rolling Stones) and his ending solo playing with the orchestra and band even had brought tears to my eyes as it is the most moving piece I had ever heard (and I hardly ever cry but something about this makes me shed tears of joy).
The album became the APP's biggest selling album here in the US and reached the US Top 10.
Now, the album was rereleased and superbly remastered by Parsons himself with Dave Collins and features SIX bonus tracks including demos for "Sirius" and "any Other Day". Plus the Eric Woolfson guide vocals for "Old and Wise" and "Silence and I". Then the rough mix medleys dubbed "Naked Eye" and "Classical Eye". These tracks are excellent different looks of each of the album's tracks.
Recommended!
The remastered version adds quite a lot of brilliance and air to the recording when compared to the original Arista release.
But this review is about the remaster. The improved sound quality... what improved sound quality? The music on the original CD sounds almost identical to the new release (granted... this isn't a "remix"). So if you are looking to really step it up a notch with this CD, unless you are going from tape to CD, you aren't getting a noticeable sound improvement here. Granted, I don't own a $2000 sound system, so maybe for them, it is improved, but for most people, I don't think they'll appreciate any new quality to the sound.
That said, the extra tracks are indeed interesting. The best being the two last tracks. The first of those two is a conglomeration of studio recordings in the process of developing the songs. The second is a conglomeration of the orchestral music developed for the songs. These two tracks are really cool to listen to. It seems apparent that the Alan Parsons Project didn't have B sides, because there are no extra songs really as part of the additional tracks. You'll just be hearing first / second draft recordings of some of the songs. The experience is really neat.
The other additional feature is added material in the CD booklet. Pics and stuff from the mind of Alan Parsons and Eric Wolfson. Perhaps the only thing that would have been nicer was contributions from the other members or guest members of the band, but all in all, the additional material given in the booklet definitely is nice.
To round it out, overall, you aren't getting too much from this. You'll read the booklet once or twice, you won't be able to listen to the raw tracks that often like you could the album itself and as I noted, at least from my experience from Eye in the Sky (and I Robot), these remasters aren't particularly ground shattering in their remastery (you can go pretend that's a word ;)).
Luckily, the price isn't expensive. Whoever was in charge of the releases had mercy and realized they weren't giving us much we hadn't already had. To me the most important thing is the sound! So buying up all these new remasters probably won't be my plan. However, if you really want to hear the additional tracks, especially the "naked" tracks and appreciate the material put into the CD booklets, you won't be wasting your money.
That is not to say the songs are lacking. As usual, they are tunefully hooky and usually memory grabbers, like the title track. The opening instrumental "Sirius" became the introductory theme for thousands of athletic events, and "Psychobabble" is the obligatory prog-rock song aimed directly at 80's AOR Radio. (Actually, the other song in the vein, "You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned," is the weakest song on the CD.) As on previous CD's, the highlights include ballads. On "Eye In The Sky," it's "Old and Wise" with ex-Zombie Colin Blunstone on the lead vocal. One of the discs' more interesting extras is Eric Woolfson's vocal demo on that particular number.
The bonus tracks are indicative of just how much work Parsons and Woolfsons put into their music. While "Eye In The Sky" plays almost like a soundtrack to a movie never produced, the demos show the tinkering that goes on before the final, lush and cinematic sound is crystallized. (Frankly, I like the album enough to have not needed to hear works in progress.) But now that "Eye In The Sky" and "I Robot" have been given their sonically upgraded due, it's a joy to hear the kind of mastery Parsons and company put into this soft-rock marvel.
I am now hoping for the eventual remastered versions of "Pyramid," "Eve" and "Turn Of A Friendly Card."
The first four tracks are some of the most beautiful music you may ever find. All have David Lindley, playing a creaking, pained guitar that moans with the same sorrow as Jackson. All four also carry gorgeous harmony, each voice echoing as if they all are lost. But these ones just bring you down for what comes soon. The fifth track, "The Road And The Sky" is a groovy rocker, an optimistic sounding tune that makes you feel like the damage is over and all is back in order.
But then track six comes along.
"For A Dancer," number six on Late For The Sky, contains so much pain, and so much sadness. It's hard to get through it, actually. But in the pain, there is so much beauty, Jackson's pleading voice looking for answers to the questions we all have, asking what happens to all of us at the end. Again, Lindley helps to catch Jackson's sorrows, but this time with an eerie fiddle.
Most every song on this album starts with deep sadness and distress. Many songs on here make you want to cry. Many will remind you pains you have felt yourself. But the experience this album will give you may very well change you. Each song gets a little more optimistic as is goes on, not so much as to forget the sorrows of before, but to remind us all that we just have to keep moving on. As Jackson himself sings on the For A Dancer,
"Don't let the uncertainty turn you around; the world keeps turning around, and around."
Christophe POISSON produces an original electronic music, yet undoubtedly close to the works of HELDON. Published under the Gazul label, "Music Sky" (1997) is actually a posthumous album, released eleven years after the keyboardist's death. His family and his colleague Bertrand LOREAU have done their best, so that this piece of work could eventually see the light of day. In addition to the three parts of the original project (Recorded between 1984 and 1985), three more compositions were included, involving experiences that strenghthen the originality of his work. This unique music turns out to raise a lot of emotion, tension and discords. A special touch is also brought by some guest musicians, such as a guitarist and a saxophonist. You have to rediscover this !
Music Sky,Christophe Poisson,Gazul/Musea
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- Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
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After their wild experimental streak of the past decade, Wilco's sixth studio album might feel like a bit of a comedown. Sky Blue Sky is mellow, moody, and uncharacteristically monotone, opening with a pleasant jangle and Jeff Tweedy singing a simple song: "Maybe the sun will shine today, the clouds will blow away." He doesn't even follow it up with a barbed punchline. Could it be that the restless Chicago band has settled back into its gentle Americana roots--or does this sudden mid-career reappraisal represent Wilco's gutsiest move yet? Mostly written in the studio by the full band, it's certainly the group's most cohesive album in ages, presenting a dense song cycle padded with intricate guitar work, brushed rhythms, and '70s soft-rock accents. In places it sounds like Wings ("Hate It Here"), in others Harry Nilsson ("Walken"), and in the middle it goes a bit Grateful Dead ("Shake It Off"). At the same time, there's a distinct sense of hearing a band finally at ease in its own skin. Sky Blue Sky represents the sound of Wilco finally pulling through its petulant adolescence. --Aidin VaziriAlbum Description
"Sky Blue Sky" has hints of early-seventies Southern California folk-rock sweetness in the harmonies. The album is filled with brash guitar solos that take songs like "You Are My Face" and "Shake It Off" in unexpected directions.Customer Reviews:
Wilco at its best!.......2007-07-20
Best album yet.......2007-07-18
make up the break up.......2007-07-15
I honestly would pay to see this band live no matter what came of an album. -Now? -oof.
When did the already accused "dad band" plummet into the background of a Tide commercial? Will I hear their sound bites on NPR? I am waiting for the newest TV drama to add "Hate it Here" to a young girl's emotional breakdown in her bedroom.
What happened to Charles Wright and Woody Guthrie's influence? Where is the competent composition [shown briefly in "On and On and On"]? I fear O'Rourke's dreamy sonic influence led to gravitational boredom. I expected so much more...
No one is forcing the hand to make tons of albums, here. It's a damn shame.
Mellow Gold.......2007-07-14
Amazing.......2007-07-14
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- Boadicea
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New Age diva Enya first became widely known when her 1988 album Watermark sold 4 million copies and launched the single "Orinoco Flow." Her follow-up, Shepherd Moons, was even more successful, selling over 10 million copies despite its slightly lower grade of ethereal enchantment. In 1997 she released Paint the Sky with Stars, an assortment of her best work from these two early albums plus gems from 1995's The Memory of Trees and the soundtrack to the BBC series The Celts. The most melodic and atmospheric examples of Enya's lovely Celtic-flavored songwriting shine on this disc. Those unfamiliar with the former Clannad member will find charm in such sweet lullabies as "Marble Halls" and "China Roses" while delighting in the more energetic "Book of Days," "Storms in Africa," and "Caribbean Blue." Overall, an outstanding collection from an artist who gives New Age a good name. --Karen KarleskiAmazon.com
New Age diva Enya first became widely known when her 1988 album Watermark sold 4 million copies and launched the single "Orinoco Flow." Her follow-up, Shepherd Moons, was even more successful, selling over 10 million copies despite its slightly lower grade of ethereal enchantment. In 1997 she released Paint the Sky with Stars, an assortment of her best work from these two early albums plus gems from 1995's The Memory of Trees and the soundtrack to the BBC series The Celts. The most melodic and atmospheric examples of Enya's lovely Celtic-flavored songwriting shine on this disc. Those unfamiliar with the former Clannad member will find charm in such sweet lullabies as "Marble Halls" and "China Roses" while delighting in the more energetic "Book of Days," "Storms in Africa," and "Caribbean Blue." Overall, an outstanding collection from an artist who gives New Age a good name. --Karen KarleskiCustomer Reviews:
Serenity Now!.......2007-07-10
Real Ear-Candy.......2007-07-07
You may like this selection also: Sunrise
A Sound All Her Own !.......2007-07-06
ALSO RECOMMENDED: M E H D I ~ Instrumental Paradise Volume 8..A True Gem.
Mood Music, some good, some bad.......2007-06-27
Orinoco Flow
Carribean Blue - very ethereal
Book of Days
Celts
Anywhere Is
Only If
The Celts
Paint the Sky with Stars - not a good song. I mention it as illustrative of my above comment. This is a real downer. Don't listen to it if you are struggling with suicidal thoughts in your life. I'm not just making a bad joke with this comment; it is truly mournful.
Overall the first half is more enjoyable. Album could have 5 stars if it had maintained that pace, but the 2nd half is much more depressing rather than emotive
Timeless.......2007-06-16
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Sky Blue Sky (CD/DVD)
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ASIN: B000P6R6X8 Release Date: 2007-05-15 |
Tracks:
- Either Way (CD)
- You Are My Face (CD)
- Impossible Germany (CD)
- Sky Blue Sky (CD)
- Side with the Seeds (CD)
- Shake It Off (CD)
- Please Be Patient with Me (CD)
- Hate It Here (CD)
- Leave Me (Like You Found Me) (CD)
- Walken (CD)
- What Light (CD)
- On and On and On (CD)
Tracks:
- Intro (DVD)
- Sky blue sky (DVD)
- Impossible Germany (DVD)
- Please Be Patient With Me (DVD)
- Shake It Off (DVD)
- Walken (DVD)
- What Light (DVD)
- Side with the Seeds (DVD)
- Hate it here (DVD)
- Credits (DVD)
Album Description
"Sky Blue Sky" has hints of early-seventies Southern California folk-rock sweetness in the harmonies. The album is filled with brash guitar solos that take songs like "You Are My Face" and "Shake It Off" in unexpected directions. The Deluxe Edition includes a bonus DVD, which contains more than 45 minutes of footage of the band performing songs from Sky Blue Sky. The DVD also contains interview segments with all six band members. The film was directed by Christoph Green and Fugazi's Brendan Canty, the creators of the Jeff Tweedy solo concert film, Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest, as well as the acclaimed documentary series, Burn to Shine.Customer Reviews:
Give yourself time.......2007-06-27
Here I am one month later and I really love this album. I found everything I want from a Wilco record in Sky Blue Sky. The roller coasters are there, its just not the same ride as before. Nor should it be. The hooks are there where you least expect them. The irritating moments of the first few listens (Shake it Off's tempo or Impossible Germany's verbiage) have long faded. Whats left is satisfying and heartfelt.
Let yourself get lost in it and you too can find exactly what you didn't know you were looking for.
tweedster.......2007-06-21
Phenomenal.......2007-06-21
Alternative fans will love it, as will fans of folk music. I think rock and country fans will enjoy it quite a bit as well. Metal only fans may want to look elsewhere.
Aimless Wandering.......2007-06-18
Jeff Tweedy and his Wilco have managed to make the dullest record of their career with Sky Blue Sky. Its instrumentation is as bland as elevator music, and its lyrics are as infantile as a middle schooler's book of so-called "poems" (and good lord do I wish the preceding were hyperbole).
Since 1999's "Summerteeth," Tweedy has frustrated and befuddled old fans of Uncle Tupelo and his new band's first pair of stellar albums ("A.M." and "Being There") by striking off in new musical directions with every record. This consternation was always tempered, though, by the fact that the directions in which Tweedy took the band were interesting, particularly in the case of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," his first foray into his own brand of "progressive electronica," to suggest a category. But the one adjective that can't be used to describe "Sky Blue Sky" is 'interesting.' This album is interesting's absolute antithesis. Searching for days for the right descriptors for Tweedy's latest effort led this reviewer back to a small stable of terms: "directionless", "uninspired", "pointless", "inoffensive". It is the last of these I've settled on most comfortably. "Sky Blue Sky" is not a terrible album, it's just immensely disappointing. Its songs blend together in a bland soup of sound, Tweedy's vocals sound as though he's moments from slumber, and the instrumentation is derivative at best.
Gone are all the things that once made Wilco a fantastic band to listen to: the enthusiastic energy of "A.M." and "Summerteeth," the sublimity of "Being There" ("the first alt-country masterpiece," as I believe No Depression Magazine put it), the historicity and collaborative spirit of the "Mermaid Avenue" records, and the compelling sonic experimentation of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." With "Sky Blue Sky" Jeff Tweedy and his band achieve the acme of boredom, a greater musical sin than any other I can imagine.
Others have lamented that this record is too much a "regression" to the days of "A.M." and "Being There." If only this were true! Any sensible Wilco fan would regard a genuine return to 1994-98 stylings to be a triumph (who among us would be displeased with more work like "I Must Be High" or "Pick Up The Change" or "Sunken Treasure"?). Sadly, "Sky Blue Sky"--even in its best moments--is the palest imitation of such work. It's flat.
Go back and listen to A.M. instead. Or better yet, pick up Son Volt's new album, "The Search." *There* is an interesting record.
Wilco f**king triumphs.......2007-06-16
Anyone who has ever actually made a record within the last 10 years though knows how much less musicianship it takes to do 1,000 overdubs and then cut, paste, and edit like a madman in pro-tools to make it sound the way you want than to do it the way Wilco did on this record.
Most records today are of this cut and paste variety, with the producers and engineers often having as much or more to do with the record's final sound than the musicians themselves.
However, I still feel their is something magical about a band playing together in a room, and being able to pull it off 99% live and really capturing the moment, which to me is what rock 'n' roll is truly about. You can see and hear the amount of time and energy the band spent playing together and working out these arrangements...plus the fact that they all play together and don't try to play over each other...it's just a great band of talented, mature musicians. Something very hard to find these days.
To me this is like how the Beatles' "Let It Be" album would have turned out if they were all still working together as a cohesive unit - great rock songs with tons of feeling, played to perfection. Long Live Wilco!!!!
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Andrea Bocelli: Under the Desert Sky [DVD Included]
Andrea Bocelli Manufacturer: Sugar ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Italy
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ASIN: B000I2J6RI Release Date: 2006-11-07 |
Tracks:
- Besame Mucho - live
- Cuando Me Ennamoro - live
- Estate - studio version with Chris Botti
- September Morn - live
- Can't Help Falling in Love - studio duet with Katharine McPhee
- Canzoni Stonate - new studio edit with Stevie Wonder
- Momentos - live
- Somos Novios - live
- The Prayer - live duet with Heather Headley
Tracks:
- Amapola
- Besame Mucho
- Somos Novios
- Canzoni Stonate
- Pero Te Extrano
- L'Appuntamento
- Estate
- September Morn
- Can't Help Falling In Love
- Mi Manchi
- Jurame
- Solamente Una Vez
- Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)
- Porque Tu Me Acostumbraste
- Cuando do Me Enamoro
- The Prayer
- Momentos
- Because We Believe
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It's impossible to hear Andrea Bocelli singing Perry Como's "It's Impossible" without being overcome by a sense of utter enchantment. As the ripe-hearted have known since 1997's Romanza, though, Bocelli's French-perfume-like appeal generally lingers well beyond a single song, suffusing entire lovestruck evenings with its richness and warmth. And so it goes with Under the Desert Sky. Recorded at a floating concert venue near Las Vegas (thus the title), Bocelli's first CD/DVD combo plays like an elaborate seduction. Cue up the DVD, and the crossover classical tenor, outfitted in black velvet, tortures the besotted with visible sincerity and knockout performances alongside David Foster and the elegant Heather Headley. Spin the CD and the songs come spilling out like elegant reminders of the swoon-worthy live performance. Several of the nine songs on the CD--"Cuando Me Enamoro," "Canzoni Stonate," and "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" among them--are available on other Bocelli discs, but that shouldn't deter the faithful. For one thing, "Can't Help Falling in Love," a dazzling duet with American Idol's Katherine McPhee, can't be heard elsewhere. For another, outside of a few vintage Julio Iglesias albums, you just won't find this much feeling packed into a single 33-minute disc. It's impossible. --Tammy La Gorce
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UNDER THE DESERT SKY: a spectacular new CD/DVD combo package from Andrea Bocelli, featuring his first ever live pop concert performance. Performed on a specially constructed floating stage in Lake Las Vegas, a resort community 20 miles south of Las Vegas, this historic performance captures Andrea Bocelli's first ever pop concert. Under the Desert Sky, which co-stars Tony® winner Heather Headley (Elton John's Aida), represents a new era for the Tuscan-born singer. Spanish guitars flourish, traditional Latin percussion seductively keeps the tempo, accordions and harmonicas provide haunting ambience. Highlights include "Somos Novios" - Perry Como had a hit with it as "It's Impossible" - and "The Prayer," a duet with Heather Headley, David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager's Oscar® nominated song from Quest for Camelot. Capping the program is a new song, "Because We Believe," by David Foster with lyrics by Andrea Bocelli and Amy Foster Gillies which was written for and introduced at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics.Customer Reviews:
Andrea Bocelli Under the Desert Sky.......2007-07-14
Damaged CD Received - Andrea Bocelli (1 of 2 discs).......2007-07-02
My Favorite Singer.......2007-06-08
The best.......2007-05-16
Tears to your eyes .......2007-05-12
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From the Sky
Ryan Farish Manufacturer: Neurodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B0009JE670 Release Date: 2005-06-21 |
Tracks:
- The Promise
- Living Water
- Joy
- Pacific Wind
- Home Again
- Walk With You
- Legacy
- Cry No More
- Miles Away
- Shine
- From The Sky
- Rejoice!
Product Description
1. The Promise
2. Living Water
3. Joy
4. Pacific Wind
5. Home Again
6. Walk With You
7. Legacy
8. Cry No More
9. Miles Away
10. Shine
11. From The Sky
12. Rejoice!
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
From The Sky by Ryan Farish.......2006-05-06
Farish branches out into Deep Forest-ish territory with third world chant/chorale samples on the opening "The Promise" (set off against his usual piano, snare/high-hat beats, and flowing keyboards).He incorporates these same elements in a few other spots on the album (e.g. the celebratory "Joy").
"Living Water" opens with breathy wood flute samples and also features the first noticeable appearance of acoustic guitar, deep in the mix but easily heard on headphones, and the beats have a more sensuous if not primal urgency, counterpointed by almost blues-jazz piano.
Some songs hone closer to the sound Farish perfected on Beautiful, such as "Home Again" and "Legacy", which is a trippy beat-laden "happy to be alive" kind of tune featuring excellent use of female chorals with piano, beats and lush synths, as well as some funky bass rhythms."Miles Away" is a slower tempo piece that would be ideal accompaniment for a brisk walk along a country lane.
The title track is a slow tempo song but dramatic affair which again uses orchestral strings to greater effect than simply applying a layer of wash of violins."Rejoice", the album closer, starts off sounding like Ray Lynch before veering over into Deep Forest tribal chants set against a percolating backbeat, lilting lively flute samples, and eventually Enigma-esque rhythms, all the while retaining the particular plucked string synth sound.
My favorite song from this CD would have to be the beautiful "Pacific Wind", which features stunning female vocals with a nice piano piece to back it up.
In conclusion, "From The Sky" amply displays Ryan's strong blend of reverbed piano, bubbly beats, expert layering of assorted keyboards and chill-out/electronica effects, as well as production that is flawless in every respect.I highly recommend this CD to all music lovers, trust me, you won't be disappointed with this CD, I know I wasn't........
Guilty Pleasure.......2005-12-27
Simply Beautiful New Age Music.......2005-11-03
It was, however, mp3.com that made this artist. He originally released his music on mp3.com, rapidly becoming one of the most downloaded artists on the site. His New Age music is inspiring, providing compositions that explore his melodies fully with a very upbeat and positive inclination.
This CD contains twelve tracks, with no times listed, and it runs about an hour. This is very professionally produced, with string arrangements by John Majkut.
Some highlights include "The Promise" which is reminiscent of Deep Forest, with drums, lovely piano composition, tribal voices and choir. This piece has a lovely upbeat rhythm and a delightful piano melody. A very good opening introduction to this CD.
Also "Home Again" which has a stand out beat, Again, bright, melodic and almost inspirational. "Walk With You" takes an almost Eastern turn, adding flute to accompany the piano with the return of the choir and tribal beat. A nice blending of rhythms and style.
It's easy to see why this CD is #3 on New Age Billboard Chart. The music is always upbeat, even when it takes a time out to contemplate. It is inspirational in feel, and the compositions are worth taking the time to appreciate. As in all New Age music, this CD can be a focal point, or a soundscape for your personal space. A must have for your New Age collection. mafoster
Inspiring!.......2005-11-02
Not quite as BEAUTIFUL.......2005-10-26
with more vocals than Beautiful. Ryan seems to be reaching for
something new with this release. In my opinion the best tracks
are the ones that are similar in form to those in his last
disc.
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Sky Moves Sideways
Porcupine Tree Manufacturer: Madfish Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient
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ASIN: B0002CU4Y8 Release Date: 2004-07-26 |
Tracks:
- The Sky Moves Sideways (Phase 1)
- Dislocated Day
- The Moon Touches Your Shoulder
- Prepare Yourself
- The Sky Moves Sideways (Phase 2)
Tracks:
- The Sky Moves Sideways (Alternate Version)
- Stars Die
- Moonloop (Improvisation)
- Moonloop (Coda)
Product Description
Disc 1:
1. The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 (18:39)
2. Dislocated Day (5:24)
3. The Moon Touches Your Shoulder (5:40)
4. Prepare Yourself (1:58)
5. The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2 (16:48)
Disc 2:
1. The Sky Moves Sideways (Alternate Version) (34:37)
2. Stars Die (5:01)
3. Moonloop (Improvisation) (16:18)
4. Moonloop (Coda) (4:52)
Format: CD
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Wonderful start as a new band!.......2007-06-27
No wonder it was so joyful to have a new version of the album with bonus tracks. As you know, the American version was different from the British version, as it used to happen with the Beatles or the Rolling Stones and others.
This remastered version contains essentially what the British version was, plus alternate takes, the most impressive of which is the title track, Sky moves sideways, which has some interesting variations in relation to the original version. As an advantage, this alternate take is not divided in two halves, as it was in the original album, it runs freely as a single piece. I am tempted to say that I like it better than the original!!!
In few words, this is an excellent album for a band that is beginning its career, although it is composed of already veteran musicians. It is progressive rock at its best. I thought, and I continue thinking, that Porcupine Tree is the true succesor of Pink Floyd in current times.
You really need this reissue.......2007-04-09
For those new to the album, it was originally released in 1995, was their third proper album (they had a couple of early cassettes at the end of the '80s/beginning of the '90s, a lot of it ended on their proper debut album, On the Sunday of Life anyways). Up until this point, it was entirely a Steven Wilson project, and in the middle of recording The Sky Moves Sideways, he assembled a band, with ex-Japan keyboardist Richard Barbieri, bassist Colin Edwin, and drummer Chris Maitland. The title track (both parts) and "Moonloop" were full band interaction, while "Dislocated Day", "The Moon Touches Your Shoulders", and "Prepare Yourself" was all Steven Wilson (drum tracks were drum machines, which got replaced by real drums on the current reissue, which you won't notice much difference).
I have since acquired the Snapper reissue, which I'm ever glad I did (since I never acquired the Delerium original). First disc contains the original British album, but ommitting "Moonloop" (the original LP never had this cut, only the CD, due to time constraint), but with new drummer Gavin Harrison providing drums on "Dislocated Day" and "The Moon Touches Your Shoulders" (which you'll hardly notice the difference if you owned the original). The band wanted this album to be one 50 minute piece, but apparently didn't have enough good ideas to warrant such, so instead, they pull a Wish You Were Here by sandwiching four songs in between (although only three on this reissue, after all, "Moonloop" is now on the bonus disc). The title track is divided in two, which varies from Pink Floyd-like pieces to Ozric-like techno experiments to nice spacy ambient sections. The end part of "The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2" includes a bunch of themes revisited, plus some played in reverse. The other songs? Well, "Dislocated Day" is a more aggressive number, while "The Moon Touches Your Shoulders" is a nice acoustic piece with some nice Mellotron backdrops. "Prepare Yourself" is a rather atmospheric guitar-oriented piece that pretty much "prepares yourself" for the last piece on the album, the closing title track.
Now for the second disc. First off, you get a 34 minute alternate take of the title track. You get yourself some extra lyrics not found on the version we're all familiar with. Some of the material is arranged differently, plus some familiar sounding stuff. I can see why they didn't make it the full 50 minutes, this version does seem to end without knowing how to end. But I found some of these arrangements superior, while others you can see why it didn't make the cut. Plus I love how Suzanne Barbieri gets to have her voice a second time on this version, which I thought was great! The rest is the complete Moonloop EP. "Stars Die" is exactly the same as the old American version, but you'll quickly learn that "Moonloop" was abridged, and here you get the complete version. I was even more blown away by this full version! Since I have not heard the original Delerium CD, I can't say if there's any difference with that version of "Moonloop" over the EP version.
While many people like to think Porcupine Tree's best starts with Stupid Dream, I prefer the stuff before it, and I really think this is one of their best. This is truly one of the greats from the 90s, as far as I'm concerned.
Very impressive.......2007-03-18
My fiancé' was always listening to this band but I never paid much attention, since I thought it was some "new band" that wouldn't be around in four years.
I was so wrong, this band's music is phenomenal and they remind me a lot of Pink Floyd's material from the mid seventies. Really blissful, elongated sounds that are a treat of art rock. Very relaxing but also very intelligent music! Some songs really get crazy and shall we say "rock" well, like the song "Dislocated Day" which is one of the shorter songs on the album.
Some of these songs are over 12 minutes long, which remind me of the progressive rock that was again, popular years ago. Sky Moves Sideways is my first album of these guys (well, it is my fiancé's) but I just ordered two more of their albums on Amazon.
"Sky Moves Sideways" sidesteps most........2006-11-04
Sometimes I am the colour of air
Sometimes it's only afterwards
I find that I'm not there"
Far from the self-absorbed whining of many musicians (some of which I admit I enjoy) Wilson's call sends chills down my spine.
Where In Absentia is the pinnacle of their progressive rock phase, Sky Moves Sideways is the pinnacle of their progressive phase. After this album Porcupine Tree moved into a more song-oriented direction, but this album is one long chain of jam session -esque music, ranging from the spacey flittering of the first 4 minutes, moving into the lyrical swooping drug induced middle section, and finally moving to the pulsing, almost Trance-like middle-end section. The final section leads you back to ambient flickering, and then Dislocated Day slaps you in the face like a jilted lover.
While this album takes some getting used to, it is one of their most unassuming masterpieces. I would recommend later albums before this one, this is not for the new-comer unless you are familiar with this sort of music.
(The Bonus Disc actually has an alternate version of "The Sky Moves Sideways" that is 34 minutes long. The whole album was meant to be one continuous track, but the longest they got to was 34 minutes.)
An excellent early CD.......2006-07-20
After diving into those, go to earlier CDs like this one to see how Steven and the gang got to where they are now!
The remastering is amazing. The digipak is beautiful but I am not a fan of "cardboard" CD cases.
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The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Explosions in the Sky Manufacturer: Temporary Residence ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B0000DJYME Release Date: 2003-11-04 |
Tracks:
- First Breath After Coma
- Only Moment We Were Alone
- Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean
- Memorial
- Your Hand In Mine
Customer Reviews:
Deffinately NOT cold and dead.......2007-07-07
Perhaps one of the best CD's I've ever bought. I recomended it for all of my friends and family that enjoy instumental music.
Buy this CD and enjoy.
easily their best album.......2007-06-16
Excellent ambient music for reading/coding........2007-05-14
melodophonic.......2007-05-14
Woah.......2007-02-26
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The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James
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ASIN: B0000032Z0 Release Date: 1993-04-06 |
Tracks:
- Dust My Broom
- The Sun Is Shining
- Hawaiian Boogie
- Sho' Nuff I Do
- Please Find My Baby
- T.V. Mama
- My Best Friend
- Madison Blues
- Cry For Me Baby
- The Sky Is Crying
- Sunny Land
- I Can't Hold Out
- Look On Yonder Wall
- I Need You
- Done Somebody Wrong
- Shake Your Moneymaker
- The 12 Year Old Boy
- It Hurts Me Too
- Rollin And Tumblin
- Something Inside Me
- Standing At The Crossroads
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Other post-WWII Chicago bluesmen are better known, but the work of Elmore James holds up as well as any of theirs. If he never had the technical accomplishment of, say, Earl Hooker, he did have as much depth of emotional expression as Muddy Waters; just listen to the sweetness of "I Need You" or the pain of "It Hurts Me, Too." The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James contains some of the most important work of a man who still reigns as the king of slide guitar; anyone who wears a bottleneck today owes a debt to James. Highlights include Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom," which James made his signature tune, as well as the title track, which contains some of the sweetest licks in blues history. --Genevieve WilliamsCustomer Reviews:
One of the greatest collections ever!!!.......2007-05-05
This is a perfect CD for those interested in sampling Elmore's music for the first time. Every song is a winner. You won't be disappointed!!
Excellent.......2007-04-11
The Sky May Be Crying But Elmore Makes Me Happy.......2007-03-27
Listen as His Early Hits Mature Before Your Ears!.......2006-11-16
That is NOT to say that this CD is disappionting, by any means! You will be introduced to many of his less-known songs, and you will hear his guitar style, as well as his voice, mature with his later recordings.
One thing that you will walk away with is a stronger sense of the early roots of electric blues, which did not always keep proper time, and was often plagued with poor recording techniques. Nonetheless, Elmore's guitar gets meaner, and his voice gets sweeter over time.
If you're a fan of early blues, if you need to understand Elmore's music from your PERSONAL perspective (rather than reading some music critic's opinion), if you love the eerie, yet powerful, electric slide than this CD is certainly for you.
Slide it into the CD player, dim the lights, and feel the blues!
Why did I give it get 5 stars? For delivering just what it promised; the history of Elmore James.
One of the Greatest.......2006-10-04
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Eye in the Sky
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ASIN: B000IOM1Y6 Release Date: 2007-03-20 |
Tracks:
- Sirius
- Eye In The Sky
- Children Of The Moon A
- Gemini
- Silence And I
- You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
- Psychobabble
- Mammagamma (Instrumental)
- Step By Step
- Old And Wise
- Sirius (Demo)
- Old & Wise (Eric Woolfson guide vocal)
- Any Other Day (Studio Demo)
- Silence & I (Early version; Eric Woolfson guide vocal)
- The Naked Eye
- Eye Pieces (Classical Naked Eye)
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The Alan Parsons Project's most famous album gets a royal treatment for its 25th anniversary.......2007-07-04
The album was the first since late 1980's Turn of a Friendly Card. Whilst that album had its moments (Games People Play and Time), the album had not been as successful. In 1981, Alan Parsons (well known engineer and producer who had worked with The Beatles as a tape operator and engineered Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother and classic Dark Side of the Moon and produced albums for Pilot, The Hollies and Al Stewart) and collaborator Eric Woolfson began work on Eye in the Sky with musicians that were bass player David Paton and guitarist Ian Bainson formerly of the band Pilot (famed for its 1975 hit "Magic") and drummer Stuart Elliott (famed for his work on Al Stewart's Year of the Cat and Time Passages albums and on Paul McCartney's 1984 hit "No More Lonely Nights"). When the album was released, it was right in the middle of New Wave and schlock pop ala Air Supply time. Would this album be a classic or seen as a relic of the past, read on and find out as I did recently.
We open the album with the instrumental "Sirius". What a great opener. i first heard this piece when former WWE wrestler Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat used this music as his entrance theme during his 1986/1987 tenure with WWE (formerly World Wrestling Federation). Since then, "Sirius" has been used by sports teams such as The Chicago Bulls for its entrance music and sampled by Diddy (a/k/a Puff Daddy a/k/a P Diddy a/ka Sean Combs) on his The Saga Continues album. We then segue into the album's title cut and Parsons Project's biggest hit. The track, sung by Eric Woolfson, got its name from Woolfson hearing that phrase whilst in the US to describe air traffic, surveilance cameras and every other device. Next is "Children of the Moon" which is sung by ex-Pilot frontman and APP bass player David Paton and it's a great song about the death of culture (which still holds up today). We segue into the short but sweet "Gemini" sung by Chris Rainbow. The first half closes with the epic "Silence and I", which was sung by Woolfson. The piece harkens back to some of the classic prog sounds of I Robot. What a great piece.
Next is the rocker "You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned" which was sung by Lenny Zatatek (whose voice was dominant on songs like "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" and "Games People Play"). What a great rocker. Next is the album's other sing "Psychobabble" sung by Elmer Gentry. This piece is another winner. Next is the album's second and last intrumental called "Mammagamma". Whilst it sounds like something that could have been used on the soundtrack to Scarface, the piece had more b*lls and passion than anything that Giorgio moroder could have come up with. Next is another Zatatek sung piece called "Step by Step" whcih is another great piece. We close the album with possibly my favorite APP track ever, the ballad "Old and Wise". The track's orchestrations is so powerful that it can actually bring tears to your eyes hearing it. The track is sung by former Zombies frontman Colin Blunstone and this is his best lead vocal EVER done (surpassing anything he recorded pre-1982). The track ends with the most powerful alto saxophone solo ever recorded by famed saxophonist Mel Collins (who has worked with people from King Crimson to Eric Clapton to Roger Waters to Bad Company and The Rolling Stones) and his ending solo playing with the orchestra and band even had brought tears to my eyes as it is the most moving piece I had ever heard (and I hardly ever cry but something about this makes me shed tears of joy).
The album became the APP's biggest selling album here in the US and reached the US Top 10.
Now, the album was rereleased and superbly remastered by Parsons himself with Dave Collins and features SIX bonus tracks including demos for "Sirius" and "any Other Day". Plus the Eric Woolfson guide vocals for "Old and Wise" and "Silence and I". Then the rough mix medleys dubbed "Naked Eye" and "Classical Eye". These tracks are excellent different looks of each of the album's tracks.
Recommended!
Entering the pop era.......2007-06-20
The remastered version adds quite a lot of brilliance and air to the recording when compared to the original Arista release.
Eye in the Sky is brilliance... but the remaster... not so much.......2007-06-02
But this review is about the remaster. The improved sound quality... what improved sound quality? The music on the original CD sounds almost identical to the new release (granted... this isn't a "remix"). So if you are looking to really step it up a notch with this CD, unless you are going from tape to CD, you aren't getting a noticeable sound improvement here. Granted, I don't own a $2000 sound system, so maybe for them, it is improved, but for most people, I don't think they'll appreciate any new quality to the sound.
That said, the extra tracks are indeed interesting. The best being the two last tracks. The first of those two is a conglomeration of studio recordings in the process of developing the songs. The second is a conglomeration of the orchestral music developed for the songs. These two tracks are really cool to listen to. It seems apparent that the Alan Parsons Project didn't have B sides, because there are no extra songs really as part of the additional tracks. You'll just be hearing first / second draft recordings of some of the songs. The experience is really neat.
The other additional feature is added material in the CD booklet. Pics and stuff from the mind of Alan Parsons and Eric Wolfson. Perhaps the only thing that would have been nicer was contributions from the other members or guest members of the band, but all in all, the additional material given in the booklet definitely is nice.
To round it out, overall, you aren't getting too much from this. You'll read the booklet once or twice, you won't be able to listen to the raw tracks that often like you could the album itself and as I noted, at least from my experience from Eye in the Sky (and I Robot), these remasters aren't particularly ground shattering in their remastery (you can go pretend that's a word ;)).
Luckily, the price isn't expensive. Whoever was in charge of the releases had mercy and realized they weren't giving us much we hadn't already had. To me the most important thing is the sound! So buying up all these new remasters probably won't be my plan. However, if you really want to hear the additional tracks, especially the "naked" tracks and appreciate the material put into the CD booklets, you won't be wasting your money.
Cinematic Genius.......2007-05-12
That is not to say the songs are lacking. As usual, they are tunefully hooky and usually memory grabbers, like the title track. The opening instrumental "Sirius" became the introductory theme for thousands of athletic events, and "Psychobabble" is the obligatory prog-rock song aimed directly at 80's AOR Radio. (Actually, the other song in the vein, "You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned," is the weakest song on the CD.) As on previous CD's, the highlights include ballads. On "Eye In The Sky," it's "Old and Wise" with ex-Zombie Colin Blunstone on the lead vocal. One of the discs' more interesting extras is Eric Woolfson's vocal demo on that particular number.
The bonus tracks are indicative of just how much work Parsons and Woolfsons put into their music. While "Eye In The Sky" plays almost like a soundtrack to a movie never produced, the demos show the tinkering that goes on before the final, lush and cinematic sound is crystallized. (Frankly, I like the album enough to have not needed to hear works in progress.) But now that "Eye In The Sky" and "I Robot" have been given their sonically upgraded due, it's a joy to hear the kind of mastery Parsons and company put into this soft-rock marvel.
I am now hoping for the eventual remastered versions of "Pyramid," "Eve" and "Turn Of A Friendly Card."
Uno de los mejores.......2007-04-06
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Late for the Sky
Jackson Browne Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000002GXU Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Late For The Sky
- Fountain Of Sorrow
- Farther On
- The Late Show
- The Road And The Sky
- For A Dancer
- Walking Slow
- Before The Deluge
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His third album, and arguably his finest, Late for the Sky continues Browne's sincere self-analysis into positively grim territory. The title track concerns the lingering effects of a dead relationship and was featured in Martin Scorcese's film Taxi Driver. While "For a Dancer" confronts death head-on, "Farther On" explains the difficulties faced by us dorks who live life through books, films, or music; and "Before the Deluge" forecasts environmental gloom and doom. Guitarist David Lindley adds terrific counterpoint to Browne's musing, supporting the tracks with tasteful slide and fiddle work. --Rob O'ConnorCustomer Reviews:
Close to the end........2007-07-05
REMASTER ????.......2007-04-11
my favorite jackson browne album........2007-03-24
Simply the Best.......2007-01-11
Distress, sorrow, and pain captured so brilliantly, it will blow you away.......2006-08-04
The first four tracks are some of the most beautiful music you may ever find. All have David Lindley, playing a creaking, pained guitar that moans with the same sorrow as Jackson. All four also carry gorgeous harmony, each voice echoing as if they all are lost. But these ones just bring you down for what comes soon. The fifth track, "The Road And The Sky" is a groovy rocker, an optimistic sounding tune that makes you feel like the damage is over and all is back in order.
But then track six comes along.
"For A Dancer," number six on Late For The Sky, contains so much pain, and so much sadness. It's hard to get through it, actually. But in the pain, there is so much beauty, Jackson's pleading voice looking for answers to the questions we all have, asking what happens to all of us at the end. Again, Lindley helps to catch Jackson's sorrows, but this time with an eerie fiddle.
Most every song on this album starts with deep sadness and distress. Many songs on here make you want to cry. Many will remind you pains you have felt yourself. But the experience this album will give you may very well change you. Each song gets a little more optimistic as is goes on, not so much as to forget the sorrows of before, but to remind us all that we just have to keep moving on. As Jackson himself sings on the For A Dancer,
"Don't let the uncertainty turn you around; the world keeps turning around, and around."
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