Melodica [Import]

Product Description
Asian preesing of 2004 album. Dream On.

Melodica,Neil Zara,Dream on,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Haunting and beautiful Joyfully melancholic

Queen's Dominion Basya Schechter Manufacturer: Tzadik ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Out of the Reeds Haran Daddy's Pockets Night Silence Desert Art of the Ud ASIN: B0002IQIS8 Release Date: 2004-08-24

Tracks:

1. Dead Sea
2. By Way of Haran
3. Burning Bush
4. Pashmina
5. Midian
6. Under the Moes Tree
7. Bedouin Tea Party
8. Dancing Georgina
9. Queen's Dominion
10. Wherewolf

Customer Reviews:

Haunting and beautiful.......2005-10-25

I had the priviledge to hear this music live and found it mesmerizing and challenging. Since I've bought the CD, and listened to it a number of times, the music has really grown on me. I think that it's terribly original but there are some beautiful repeated melodies that unify the albumn and remind me of early 20th century French composition, but then we get arabic rhythms and lots of other stuff without sounding too eclectic, at least to my ears. I've never heard anything like this, especially since there are influences from the Far East as well as Middle East and European. While the santur and oud are the central instruments, Basya draws upon the many talents of her classically trained musicians including Meg Okura (violin) and Daphna Mor (recorder). This is probably ideal music for taking your mind out of the present, if that's where you'd like to go.

Joyfully melancholic.......2004-11-06

Brooklyn born Basya Schechter, leader of the stellar Jewish roots world jazz band Pharaoh's Daughter, here delivers an all-instrumental album of great depth and spirituality. An oud player of uncommon accomplishment, she seems to have a natural affinity for this odd instrument's timbral universe, one which evokes sounds similar to those one associates with a lute, a bouzouki, a sarod, even a berimbau. It's an earthy, emotionally laden sound, one that wafts and slithers off desert sands like the cool even breeze that presages a precipitous nighttime temperature drop in arid landscapes.

One of the keys in making this music come alive is the playing of Alan Kushan on santur, an instrument that sounds like a cross between a zither, a koto, and a prepared piano, lending the aural palette a very oriental cast. Kushan makes this awkward instrument dance and sing with a deeply delved authority and weight. Also contributing mightily is percussionist Jerrod Cagwin, a player whom I've only encountered once before (and I just can't seem to pull up the context, although I remember him being a player of significance), but who here consistently establishes very evocative percussive underpinnings. And Meg Okura shines on violin. Add the coloration of recorder, trumpet, melodica, and cello, and you've got a wide and engaging sound canvas.

Rather simple sounding on the first couple listens, closer attending begins to reveal music of profound nuance and subtlety. There's also a kind of mesmeric, dronelike quality to this music that conjures up feelings of wisdom and tranquility achieved through great suffering. Certainly worth checking out by anyone at all attracted to mystical music of the Middle East.

Average customer rating: Melodious "Melodica" Royksopp meets Bjork & Portishead

Melodica Frost Manufacturer: Shadow Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hotel Sleep Future Morning Star Wholeness & Separation Pursuit of Happiness ASIN: B0000CBL9M Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. Pharmacy
2. Running Boy
3. Alphabet
4. Half-Whole
5. Amygdala
6. Duo
7. Klong
8. Damian
9. Sink
10. Past
11. Magika
12. Endless Love (Royksopps Analogue Mix)*
13. Amygdala (Mental Overdrive's Bleep Mix)*
14. Amygdala (Qwerty's Coldwave Mix)*

Customer Reviews:

Melodious "Melodica".......2004-05-07

With an album name like "Melodica," the Norwegian electronica band Frost has given itself a lot to live up to. And amazingly, it does live up to its title. Cool, sweet and sensuous, this is a collection of trip-hop laced with angelic vocals. It's definitely "melodica."

Starting off with the plaintive, sweeping "Pharmacy," Frost bounces off into a series of shimmery dance music (the sultry "Alphabet," bouncy "Sink," and blipping "Amygdala") and sweeping trip-hop ballads (the echoing "Half-Whole," the gentle "Duo") and the occasional mix of both (the mind-blowing dancepop "Magika"). Finally rounding it off is a remix of "Endless Love," and two of "Amygdala" (one too synthesized and poppy, the other sweet and soft).

Frost proves that good trip-hop comes from Norway as well as Iceland. The effect of listening to "Melodica" is like looking at a snow-covered forest in the sunshine -- it's beautiful, both chilly and warm and thoroughly beautiful. Despite being rooted in eighties dreampop, the sound of Frost is un-dated, and entirely its own.

Aggie Peterson slips effortlessly into the slot beside Emiliana Torrini as a trip-hop chanteuse. Her voice is sweet, and sometimes sultry, switching in tone from song to song (such as the angelic echoes in "Half Whole"). When the music chills you, her ethereal vocals warm you. Except for some nu-jazz trumpeting and vague drumming (and what sounds a little like an organ), most of the music is made up of electobeeps and sonic sweeps.

Frost's ethereal "Melodica" sounds like the Cocteau Twins did a bunch of Portishead covers, starring Peterson's chilly vocal allure. A uniformly lovely experience, and a truly unique sound.

Royksopp meets Bjork & Portishead.......2003-10-26

I was first introduced to Frost on "Perfecto Chills vol.1", Paul Oakenfold's first foray into chill out music. The song was "Amygdala" and ironically enough, it was remixed by Royksopp. I loved the lush electronic beats and the sensual vocals of Aggie Peterson. I immediately put "Melodica" on my wish list. Today on a recent jaunt to Cheapo records, I found a used copy of "Melodica". The cd quickly became one of the four cds I bought today. As soon as I got home today from running errands, I threw "Melodica" into the cd player. The results was a heavenly experience. I was quickly reminded of Scandinavian electronica duo Royksopp. And the Royksopp comparisons is obvios throughout the entire album. The album is peppered with smooth electronic beats with the occasional foray into disco and drum & bass. Vocalist Aggie Petersen reminded me of both Bjork and Portishead's Beth Gibbons. She has a nice soothing voice. One of my favorite songs on the cd is "Endless Love" (and no it isn't the cheesy '80s ballad). It is the most upbeat song on the entire song, very disco-ey. I thought the song had a nice groove to it. Of course it had to be remixed by Royksopp. I love both the original and the remix versions of "Amygdala" which got me into Frost to begin with. If "Melodica" is a sign for what is to come in Frost's future then I look forward to hearing and buying more music from them. "Melodica" is a stunning debut album for this avid music listener.

Average customer rating: DELICATEZZA....

Telemann: Sinfonia Melodica Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Telemann, Georg Philipp | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concerto Grossi | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Telemann, Georg Philipp | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Telemann: Concertos; Unknown Works Telemann: Flute Concertos; Emmanuel Pahud Telemann: Sinfonia spirituosa; String Concertos Johann Friedrich Fasch: Concertos Telemann: Flötenquartette (flute quartets) ASIN: B000ATJ4GM Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

1. Ouverture
2. I. Allegro
3. II. Adagio
4. III. Allegro
5. I. Largo
6. II. Vivace
7. III. Andante
8. IV. Allegro
9. I. Largo
10. II. Allegro
11. III. Andante
12. IV. Allegro
13. I. Vivace
14. II. Largo
15. III. Allegro
16. I. Vivace Assai
17. II. Sarabande
18. III. Bourre
19. IV. Menuet En Rondeau
20. V. Loure
21. VI. Chaconnette
22. VII. Gigue En Canarie

Customer Reviews:

DELICATEZZA...........2006-02-20

The Berlin Baroque Soloists is an immensely stylish modern-instrument band comprised of principals from the BPO, including Albrecht Mayer, Emmanuel Pahud, and Rainer Kussmaul.

Their past recordings of Telemann and Bach have met with tremendous critical acclaim. The words most often used to describe their playing are "light" and "elegant." By contrast, the Telemann recordings by Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln can seem excessively hard-driven, missing out entirely on Telemann's delicatezza.

Rainer Kussmaul is a particular favorite of mine. His recording of Haydn's violin conertos is an especially lovely, joyful disc (ASIN B000003W7S, reviewed in the 1996 Gramophone Guide).

This Telemann recording is yet another charming disc by these truly world-class performers.


CRITICAL PRAISE FOR THE BERLIN BAROQUE SOLOISTS:
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This disc, "Sinfonia Melodica"

Gramophone (March 2006 issue): "... an absolute charmer ... wonderful vitality ... brilliantly played ... lightness -- of touch, not of content -- best sums up this disc: one that shows a perfect blend of 'modern' playing with 'historical' awareness."
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Telemann Concertos: "Unknown Works" -- ASIN B00005NY9A

2005/06 Penguin Guide rosette and key recording: "... a particularly light, graceful style of playing ... captivating ... engagingly delicate ... wonderfully lighthearted and polished ... this is one of the very finest of all Telemann collections."
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Telemann Flute Concertos (with Pahud) -- ASIN B00006L3S5

2006 Gramophone Guide recommended: "... understated elegance ... enchanting ... joyous exchange and textural delights ... ravishingly blended ... exquisite taste and mesmerising sound. A real winner."

2005/06 Penguin Guide: "An enchanting disc ... magical phrasing ... exquisite elegance ... wonderfully nimble and light-hearted ... wonderful finesse and warmth..."
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Bach/Telemann (with Petri) -- ASIN B00000F1BO

2003 Gramophone Guide recommended: "... breathtaking .. delicacy and flexibility ... a consistent lightness and liveliness of touch. In short this is exemplary baroque-playing on modern instruments."
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Bach Cantatas (with Quasthoff) -- ASIN B0002VDYPA

2006 Gramophone Guide recommended: "... the most red-blooded of modern-instrument bands with a 'period' conscience ..."

2005/06 Penguin Guide key recording: "... one of the most beautiful Bach cantata records in the catalog."
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Bach works (with Pahud) -- ASIN B000055WFG

2005/06 Penguin Guide rosette -- "... exquisitely articulated ... light as thistledown ... wonderfully buoyant and totally free from rhythmic or textural heaviness..."
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Bach Reconstructed Concertos -- ASIN B00005USER

2004 Gramophone Guide recommended: "... a happy medium of a stylishly aware gestural palette without, for them, the disorientation of 'period' specialism ... A stimulating addition to the catalogue."



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From The Kitchen Archives - New Music New York 1979 Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Nyman | Nyman, Michael | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Reich, Steve | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Glass | Glass, Philip | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: From The Kitchen, Archives No. 2: Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977 From The Kitchen Archives No. 3 - Amplified: New Music Meets Rock 1981-1986 Steve Reich: You Are (Variations) Symphony No. 6, Plutonian Ode Portraits - Bruce Levingston ASIN: B0002251DM Release Date: 2004-04-13

Tracks:

1. Dance No. 4 (Philip Glass)
2. Do You Be (Meredith Monk)
3. Criss Cross (Jon Gibson)
4. Where We Are (Garrett List)
5. Schoolwork (Gordon Mumma)
6. The Kim and I (George Lewis)
7. Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (Michael Nyman)
8. The Tuning Meditation (Pauline Oliveros)

Tracks:

1. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
2. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
3. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
4. Dream Song/Vision Chant (Charlie Morrow)
5. Exchanges (Barbary Benary)
6. Four Arthurs/Two Octaves and a Fifth (Phill Niblock)
7. Touch Tones (David Behrman)
8. Solo (Joel Chadabe)
9. Untitled Pieces (Tony Conrad)
10. Untitled for Solo Voice (Charlemagne Palestine)
11. Drumming, Part One (Steve Reich)

Album Description

Founded in 1971 by video artists Woody and Steina Vasulka, The Kitchen is internationally known as a leading center for video, music, dance, performance, new media and literature. The first institution to focus exclusively on cutting-edge, multidisciplinary works, it has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country. Over the last thirty years The Kitchen has documented every one of its performances with video and/or audiotape. However, in recent years much of this documentation, primarily recorded on what are now obsolete formats, began deteriorating. In 1999, under the leadership of Executive Director Elise Bernhardt, and with the dedication of The Kitchen9s Board of Directors and the help of numerous donors, The Kitchen began an initiative to catalog and re-master its extensive collection of 3600 videotapes. In the fall of 2001, an additional trove of audio recordings from the 1970s was discovered. While these tapes promised rare and exciting music by such artists as John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and David Tudor (in the first box alone!), none of this material could be accessed without proper cleaning and re-formatting and the funds and facilities to do so. A recent collaborative partnership with The Looking Glass Studios and Philip Glass9 label, Orange Mountain Music, has allowed for the restoration of a number of audio reels. This work has been done with the goal of producing a series of CDs, From The Kitchen Archives, with New Music, New York 1979 as the first release. This 2-disc set offers re-mastered recordings from the landmark New Music, New York: A Festival of Composers and their Music, held at the Kitchen9s 484 Broome Street space in SoHo from June 8-16, 1979. The festival, which set a standard for new and contemporary music, paved the way for New Music America, the annual event that emerged the following year in Minneapolis and ran in various cities until 1990. Now 25 years later, these recordings are an invaluable time-capsule, a privileged view/listen into a historic event, initially heard by only a few hundred people. Beyond their historic value they offer brilliant and exciting music by composers now considered masters of the genre, as well as remarkable performances by figures nearly forgotten. While many recordings from the festival could be restored, several gaps remain: concerts that were either not recorded or whose tapes vanished into the ether of the last 25 years. That said, we feel extremely fortunate to be able to release New Music, New York 1979 as our first CD in a series that promises to make available more lost treasures from The Kitchen Archives, uncovering the origins of new music today.

Average customer rating: It's impossible to derscribe in words why I like Monk's stuff so much Otherworldy Music Meredith's Beautiful Music... Moving and Intriguing Meredith Monk as I've Always Loved Her

Mercy Katie Geissinger , Ching Gonzalez , and Allison Sniffin Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music Volcano Songs Book of Days Our Lady of Late: Music for Voice and Glass Meredith Monk: Facing North ASIN: B00006RINB Release Date: 2002-10-29

Tracks:

1. Braid 1 and Leaping Song
2. Braid 2
3. Urban March (Shadow)
4. Masks
5. Line 1
6. Doctor/Patient
7. Line 2
8. Woman At The Door
9. Line 3 and Prisoner
10. Epilogue
11. Shaking
12. Liquid Air
13. Urban March (Light)
14. Core Chant

Customer Reviews:

It's impossible to derscribe in words why I like Monk's stuff so much.......2006-11-06

I feel that in many ways, the only way to properly review Meredith Monk is not to write text, but to insert a wav file that would reveal me howling in glee or anguish in reaction to her recordings. Indeed, this is how Meredith Monk uses voice herself, for even when she does use words, she often uses them in most abstract way possible, playing more with their sounds than their meaning.

_Mercy_ is no different. Monk explores the possibility of voice in ways that no one else has. Her work is so playful when it comes to sound and voice--her pieces insight a little laughter, a little joy, and sometimes just plain awe. I was a little dismayed to hear her voice being synthesized and sampled a little in this recording, for I always thought that her work was strongest for NOT using electronics but allowing voice to have its own natural depth. Pieces like "Shaking" make it clear that, in Monk's musical world, voice is as much an instrument to be arranged as piano or percussion.

The I Ching says that before a brilliant person begins something great, she must look foolish to the crowd. I have turned many a friend off from Monk just by playing some of her work, but I remain a big fan, listening to her musical oddities with a pleasure bordering on rapture.

Otherworldy Music.......2003-10-22

Downtown New York is famous for it's post-modern stew of approaches to the arts. A downtowner is likely to be a musician/artist or a poet/performer and the idea of one person controlling all aspects of a production isn't all that far-fetched. It's a new twist on the old Wagnerian ideal of gesamskunstwerk and perhaps the one figure that best represents this is Meredith Monk. Known as a dancer, choreographer, singer, and composer, Monk's work is complex and never complete without the visual element, based as it is on movement and striking stage pictures. Yet musically, she is a powerful force in her own right. Her conceptual frame work is based around her voice and exploring extended vocal techniques from world cultures and has developed from her early solo explorations, through the marvelous work with her vocal ensemble and even to her mega work opera, Atlas.

Mercy is the latest work to be recorded in the Monk canon, and it is a beauty. The piece is conceived for her vocal ensemble with the addition of a trio of multi-instrumentalists. Monk's process with a composition is interesting. She will supply sketches to her performers and then develop the work through improvisation, much like the process used by many modern dance troupes. The material is based on familiar musical modes and superficially has a resemblance to better known minimalists like Steve Reich and Phillip Glass. Except that with Monk, the improvisational element in the piece gives the works an internal life that goes beyond mere process music. Each piece is a journey, with a wonderful mix of the familiar and the surprising. The acuity of the vocal ensemble is astounding. They have all worked with Monk for many years and have assimilated her vocal techniques while each of them brings something original to the process. The result is a haunting recording, gently breaking over the listener like waves, but with a reservoir of deep emotion.

As always with a Monk work, it's a shame not to have a visual document for this piece. As DVD and CD-ROM technology get more and more advanced, it seems to me that this kind of work would be a no-brainer for technology. A DVD of the work might be more hypnotizing...in fact, if the work was recorded especially as a DVD, as opposed to a recorded live performance, this might be the best way to experience Monk's haunting work. That being said, this CD is a lovely, if only partial, document. ECM and Manfred Eichter have once again recorded this in their trademark sound.... spacious and dark, with an ambience that is as much a part of the music on their label as anything the performers do. This is marvelous late night music...deeply calming and emotionally moving. It is also one of the best introductions to the unique work of one of New York's most interesting post-modern figures.

Meredith's Beautiful Music..........2003-01-11

....A masterpiece of stunning beauty....one of her greatest recordings.... full of passion and seasoned with grace.... 'Mercy' is a great place to start for anyone curious about the music of Meredith Monk.... and if you are a long time fan, it will rocket to the top of your fave list... it is recordings like this that make "hearing" such a wonderful thing.... a treat for your hear holes....

Moving and Intriguing.......2002-12-21

In this work Ms. Monk again demonstrates her unique creativity and why she received the MacArthur Foundation 'genius' award. There is simply nothing else like her work. This disc captures much of the performance of 'Mercy', which combined Monk's vocal compositions with Ann Hamilton's visual art. Monk's work is moving and intriguing. For those interested in exploring the voice as art, I readily recommend 'Mercy'.

Meredith Monk as I've Always Loved Her.......2002-11-10

Gorgeous. Magnificent. Breathtaking. Haunting. These are the words I use to describe the best of Meredith Monk's music, and this cd is the best she's done since... "Turtle Dreams"? It's mysterious and exciting and instantly recognizable as Meredith Monk. I've been listening to it non-stop for a week now, and I can't get it out of my head. As soon as it's finished playing, I want to hear the whole thing again from beginning to end. A Masterpiece.

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Melodica Neil Zaza Manufacturer: Mascot ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Similar Items: When Gravity Fails Staring at the Sun Sing Snakes & Arrows ASIN: B0007Q6Q8W Release Date: 2006-03-30

Tracks:

1. On With the Show
2. This Time
3. All My Life...
4. As I Go Before You
5. Melodica
6. Breadstick
7. Ship of Dreams
8. Flow
9. I Can See Miracles
10. Across the Sands
11. Rena
12. Very Important Cat Things
13. Everything About You
14. Forgot to Make Her Mine
15. Goodbye

Average customer rating: Thanks to Jim Black maybe time for a new line up?

Habyor Jim Black & AlasNoAxis Manufacturer: Winter & Winter ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Splay Dogs of Great Indifference AlasNoAxis Tyft Oceana ASIN: B0001ZWGGU Release Date: 2004-08-03

Tracks:

1. Talk About
2. Z
3. Rade
4. Cha
5. Part Wolf
6. Hello Kombiant
7. Let It Down
8. Be Real
9. Endgatherers
10. Stay Go

Album Description

Jim Black, Hilmar Jensson, Chris Speed and Skuli Sverrisson play together with a deep common musical love and understanding…and so they create the unmistakable sound of AlasNoAxis.

Black works and tours extensively with such diverse groups as Pachora, Chris Speed's Yeah No, Uri Caine's Gustav Mahler project and Laurie Anderson's band.

Customer Reviews:

Thanks to Jim Black.......2004-09-28

People will be talking about this music for a long time. Arguments will come and go as to whether this is jazz or rock or some hybrid yet to be labelled.
I don't think that matters.
This music sings with the very joy of creation. A sound that is common to all genres when the artists involved are speaking truly and without thought for markets or labels.
What we have on this CD is four musicians dedicated to the task of realizing the compositions of their leader, Jim Black...and we have a leader with the wisdom and faith in his band to allow them to extrapolate and improvise around, over and through his wonderful musical ideas. They create sound-scapes that are evocative, minimalist, dense, industrial, poetic, humorous and/or just plain beautiful...sometimes within seconds of one another.
Alasnoaxis are, I believe, that rare phenomenon in music...something new. They combine their collective musical experiences and create something immediately accessible and yet at the same time, exotic...foreign. Accessible because there are no barriers to this music other than the preconceptions you might bring to it. Foreign, as there are no four gentlemen at this time putting it down in this particular way...of course. This music has the `shock of the new' but is not self-consciously avant-garde... it seems to exist for the best reason of all...because it must.

I don't hear `Habyor' as better or worse than the two previous releases from Alasnoaxis. I hear a continuity of purpose in the three CDs so far. I wait for further releases impatiently.

Those with ears will listen and hear...those with a need to pigeon-hole might be in trouble.

Thanks to Jim Black.

P.S. - The packaging, production and recording quality are all first rate.

maybe time for a new line up?.......2004-08-23

This band may have exhausted all there resources recording the last 2 albums. This line up just can't achieve what they had on the first recording together... While the music is far from bad or bland - it doesn't sound as new and exciting as the first effort "Alas no axis." The songs may have had insightful improvements with a new line up or even just replaceing 1 or 2 of the musicians to get a different feel. If you have the first two albums by these guys - you can safely avoid this effort. Again, it's not bad - but it doesn't break any new ground at all...

Average customer rating: unique sound experience

Dub, Reggae & Roots From The Melodica King Augusto Pablo Manufacturer: Ocho ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dub | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004Z3JO Release Date: 2000-10-31

Tracks:

1. Cassanva Piece
2. Baby I Love You So - Jacob Miller, Augustus Pablo
3. 555 Crown Street
4. 555 Dub Street
5. Rockers Rock
6. Young Generation - Augustus Pablo,
7. New Style
8. Meditation Dub
9. Give Praise - Augustus Pablo, Norris Reid
10. Silent Satta
11. Dub Ethiopia
12. East of the River Nile
13. Let's Get Together - Augustus Pablo,
14. Black Ants Lane
15. Memories of the Ghetto
16. Skanking Easy
17. Black Gunn
18. Tippa Tone Blues
19. Up Warricka Hill
20. Thunder Clapp
21. Brace's Tower Dub

Album Description

Unique compilation of classic singles and album tracks from the legendary producer who almost single handedly invented dub, along with King Tubby. 21 tracks in a digipak. 2000 release

Album Details

Classic singles & album tracks from legendary Reggae/Dub producer & melodica player. Selected exclusively from his most acclaimed recordings for his own Rockers label, this is the quintessential Pablo collection. Guest appearances from such Reggae luminaries as the late Jacob 'The Killer' Miller (Inner Circle), Tetrack, Norris Reid & Bongo Pat.

Customer Reviews:

unique sound.......2001-08-21

This is a nice collection of stuff he's done over the years with his trademark melodica sound weaving its way throughout the album. Overall this is a great, trippy, relaxing reggae/dub album. Not all songs are great (I found the songs with vocals to generally be pretty weak). Augustus is a great doorway into the world of dub, and this is album in particular is a good choice.

experience.......2000-11-01

Augustus Pablo, recently deceased of a nerve disorder, was an influential dub artist with many good releases. This title gives a good representation of his work while also displaying his vast experience and inate talent. While, as with almost any album some tracks are stronger than others, I'll let you decide which. I can say however that this is a great overall album. If you are new to dub reggae or Augustus Pablo, this is a MUST have-you won't be sorry.

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Melodica Manufacturer: Melodik ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAJFZY Release Date: 2004-10-19

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Imaginary Stars Manufacturer: Made Ya Look ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CADI84 Release Date: 2000-12-19

Tracks:

1. Supersize
2. Imaginary Stars
3. George Bailey's Shoes
4. Hollywood Ending
5. One Big Blur
6. Where You Stand
7. Obvious
8. Stronger Than Fate
9. Happy
10. Never Explain
11. Dirty Filter
12. This Time Of Year
13. Tomorrow

Rock Music:

1. Mistaken Identity [Import]
2. Never Ending Story of Radio Veronica [Import]
3. Not for All the Love in the World [CD-single] [Import]
4. Now See Hear [Import]
5. Nueve [Import]
6. Obsession Pt.3 [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
7. Oh Aaron
8. Only the Lonely [Import]
9. Pilgrimage [Import]
10. Poppy Melodies

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