Harbinger

Harbinger

ASIN: B000067FOX

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Product Description
A rocking country-style album, Harbinger is a great Tiny album. Tapping into the imagery of Americana, Tiny mines the spirit of loss and longing, forgiveness and redemption. Paula O'Rourke's sultry vocals and Sheila Schat's graceful harmonies soar above the raging and reckless guitar rumblings of Dan Olmsted while Schat's wraithlike fiddle weaves around the bottom-end heartbeat of O'Rourke and drummer Patrick Harte like lightning spiking a dusty plains thunderstorm. Tiny's twang-tinged melodic hooks may be more pure pop than alt.country but with their familiar lyrics of painful nights and half-forgotten dreams, you'll swear you've heard them before.

Tracks:

Happy Home
I Am So Ordinary
Saturn Girl
Watch The Woman's Hands
Bethlehem
Chiaroscuro
Black Boots
Oh John
Our Revenge
Dear Gertrude
Hitler's Brothers
She Can't Feel Anything Anymore
Garden Of Eden
The Ladder

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Following in the footsteps of Sinéad O'Connor and Tori Amos, Paula Cole is an art-rock singer-songwriter who turns her personal wounds into songs full of facile psychologizing and strained allegory with overwrought, humorless music to match. Harbinger, the debut album from the Massachussetts native, is full of grievances against glamorous romantic rivals, patronizing men, insensitive high school classmates and cross-burning racists--all so broadly drawn that everyone can easily join in the complaint. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Raw Passions.......2005-10-01

I've been a fan of Paula Cole since I was 13, and that was 8 years ago. After listening to all three albums (Harbinger, This Fire, and Amen) for a gazillions time, I come to a conclusion that Harbinger is definitely Paula Cole at her best. This Fire is also very strong, but the sound engineer does not do a very good job in that one (especially in Tiger, with all the overload distortions). I admit that I probably listened to This Fire more than Harbinger (and far more than Amen), but musically wise, Harbinger is the one which I think has the most emotional and artistical values. Harbinger tracks are full of unexplainable emotions, like Hitler's Brother, Black Boots, etc. There's a certain higher level of abstractness in Harbinger than This Fire, which is a little more commercialized.
There is something about Harbinger that sounds very outdated, yet fresh everytime you hear it. Musically, Harbinger packs with a lot of interesting sounds. The whistle in Hitler's Brother gets to me everytime, and the clapping, beatboxes, etc. really do show how talented Paula Cole is. She is not just a singer with a unique voice, she's also a great composer, a virtuoso, and a groundbreaker.
It is hard to recommend this album to someone who only listen to mainstream music, because Harbinger is definitely not mainstream. Some people prefer the crispness in a record, but this is not the case. Harbinger has a very distinctive sound, it is very grey-toned and a little strange. Nevertheless, it is a kind of music that you will appreciate once you've become accustomed to. Buy it.. there's a certain CD in which everyone MUST try to listen to at least once, and Harbinger/This Fire is one of those CDs which you either hate, like, or absolutely obsess with.

Do not worry that Paula Cole's musical genre won't fit yours, my preference in music is that of Progressive House, Break Beats, Drum'n'Bass, Future Jazz, Trip-Hop, Industrial Ambience (i.e. Biosphere) but still I think Paula Cole is amazing. Her music is the kind of music that penetrates all kind of genres.

Great Debut.......2005-09-03

Singer/songwriter Paula Cole comes from the same school of passionate music that Tori Amos & Sarah McLachlan do, and Paula can certainly hold her own against her sisters in torchsong. Her debut album from 1994, "Harbinger," is an excellent album, showing off Paula's emotional voice and songwriting that would later make her a star with her acclaimed follow-up, "This Fire." "Harbinger" has such great songs as "Happy Home," "Watch The Woman's Hands," the great rock of "Chiaroscuro," the dark "Black Boots," the beautiful "Dear Gertrude," and the political bent of "Hitler's Brothers." Paula Cole's confessional songs may not be for everybody, but overall, "Harbinger" is a solid debut disc for this very-talented artist.

Listen to this While Reading "Cowboys Are My Weakness".......2001-03-21

I got this as a present, having asked for the album with top-10 hit "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone." I thought I would be disappointed (since that song is not on this album), but I definitely am not. Singable, folksy, pretty, hard, wistfull-- "Harbinger" evokes warm dusty afternoons, convertible mustangs, cool crisp white sheets, and cold bottles of beer. Cole's voice is beautiful but not achingly perfect like some of the latter-day folk divas, which I like.

This is a great album to listen to as you read "Cowboys are My Weakness" by Pam Houston, which all Paula Cole fans should read--I think Pam and Paula must be cousins!

Honest.......2000-12-07

_Harbinger_ is an honest and passionate album, with a bare-boned intensity. Paula Cole expresses the angst of being *different,* overlooked, underappreciated. Each song contains within it a little world that captures a particular essence or quality of some moment of existence where you realize what it means to grow up. Paula Cole acknowledges the little sacrifices, the major and petty disappointments. Overall, this is quite a satisfying album.

One of The '90s Best Efforts.......2000-01-20

"Saturn Girl" is still a hit waiting to happen, and this is an excellent, unusually nuanced and marvelously sung record that occupies its own unique artistic space. Cole has made a truly great album (this one), a good one ("This Fire") and a regrettable one ("Amen") but she hasn't yet made her masterpiece. So, onward!

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Try to Remember
Rita Gardner
Manufacturer: Harbinger
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FIGH2W
Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

The Fantasticks: Opening: Much More And I Can See It
Welcome
Nightcap: No Tune Like A Show Tune
Nightcap: Your Good Morning
Parade: Your Hand In Mine
Off-Broadway Medley
The Threepenny Opera: Mack The Knife
The Golden Apple: Lazy Afternoon
Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris: Carousel
Larry Hagman
Hair: Initials
Lorraine Hansbury
Dames At Sea: It's You
Starting Here, Starting Now: I Don't Remember Christmas
Colette Collage: I Miss You
A Chorus Line: What I Did For Love
Taking My Turn: Taking My Turn
The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks: Try To Remember/They Were You
Colette Collage: Joy
Playoff

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Harbinger of Metal
Reverend Bizarre
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Crush the Insects

ASIN: B00015HUJ8
Release Date: 2006-04-04

Tracks:

Harbinger
Strange Horizon
Ambassador
From the Void
Wandering Jew
Into the Realms of Magickal Entertainment
Dunkelheit

Album Description

2004 EP from the long running Finnish black metal outfit features seven tracks, 'Harbinger', 'Strange Horizon', 'The Ambassador', 'From The Void', 'The Wandering Jew', 'Into The Realms Of Magickal Entertainment', & 'Dunkelheit'. 74-minutes of ruthlessly pure true doom. Spinefarm.

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still going strong--more great soft rock

Harbinger
Dan Seals
Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HEV8K0
Release Date: 2006-10-17

Tracks:

Can't Get You out of My Head
I Could Be Lovin' You Right Now
It's Not Gonna Be That Easy
In My Heart
It Will Be Alright
I Don't Believe I'll Fall in Love Again
Once in a While
Up to Me
Not Every Heart Succeeds
Bad News
Harbinger, Sage or Fool

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First time on CD for the 1982 sophomore solo album from Dan Seals, formerly one-half of the hit-making duo England Dan And John Ford Coley and the brother of Jim Seals from Seals & Crofts. This release sees Dan sliding comfortably into his new Country Music direction, only touched on during his original duo's heyday in the '70s. Wounded Bird. 2006

Customer Reviews:

still going strong--more great soft rock.......2006-11-05

With this 1982 follow-up to 1980's "Stones", Dan Seals (he dropped the "England" part of his name here) turned in another really strong album. Don't be mislead by the above description indicating that "Harbinger" finds him transitioning to his more country-fied sound that brought him huge commercial success--he's still with producer Kyle Lehning & basically this is "Stones" volume 2. That's not a major problem though, because this album is often every bit as strong as its predecessor. It's also a shame that "Harbinger" was such a commercial flop because, somewhat ironically, it's clearly a better album than either "Dowdy Ferry Road" or "Some Things Don't Come Easy" by England Dan & John Ford Coley.

There's lots of high quality stuff here. The album-opener "Can't Get You Out Of My Mind" is marred a little by some annoying spoken vocals, but otherwise it's supremely ominous, with a cathartic chorus and stinging lead guitar. "In My Heart" is a wonderful, bouncy feel-good tune--it sounds a LOT like ED & JFC's "In It For Love". "Not Every Heart Succeeds" is an irresistibly catchy minor-keyed pop-rocker where Seals makes great use of his falsetto. "It Will Be Alright", though a little marred by the overdone gospel-style background vocals, is a soaring ballad; it had previously been recorded by Airplay, a group that included David Foster & Jay Graydon, though Dan's version here is clearly preferrable. "I Could Be Lovin' You Right Now" is really good, with a chorus punctuated by a nice guitar line. "It's Not Gonna Be That Easy" is a strong display of excellent melodicism and harmonies. "Up To Me" is a little sugary, but still a catchy, breezy feel-good tune. The Dan Seals-penned album-closer "Harbinger, Sage Or Fool" doesn't quite feel fully realized, and it's a bit overproduced, but it's nicely tuneful.

The two weakest tracks are the sleepy and somewhat dull ballad "I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Again" and the ho-hum pop-rocker "Once In A While".

You might laugh at the continuous parade of love lyrics on the album, especially with the knowledge of the disastrous losses Dan Seals suffered in an IRS battle that occurred in the time period between this album & his previous one. However, there's one track where he makes a direct nod to everything he lost, the aptly-titled "Bad News", which he co-wrote, & it's a gem; it's got a roadhouse blues flavor to it & crafty, devastating "dangerous woman" lyrics--I'm not sure how autobiographical this song really is, but the fade, where he runs off a list of the things one could lose, is a clear reference to his IRS case.

All in all, "Harbinger" is a very strong record that's essential for any fan of Dan Seals'/ ED & JFC's mid-'70s to early '80s period. Thumbs up to Wounded Bird Records for making it readily available on CD in the US.

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Harbinger

Manufacturer: Animul Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Port of Entry

ASIN: B0006DQ604
Release Date: 2004-10-23

Tracks:

March Hair
Richie Havens
One-Oh-Nine
Phrygian Dream
Miss Chief
Tsuruta Kinshi
Kashmir
Macrame

Album Description

Sync might be envisioned as a modified sax/bass/drum trio, where the bassist has been replaced by Jerome Harris on either acoustic guitar or acoustic bass guitar, and where the drummer's role is taken by Samir Chatterjee on tabla and dumbek. With Rothenberg moving among alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, and the Japanese shakuhachi and composing looping ribbons of melody with odd rhythmic contours, the trio has found a most palatable merger of jazz and Asian music.

The uncommon instrumentation is enhanced by a shared sense of purpose that gives Sync its winning character. Each player displays both the techniques and the sensitivity required to function as both soloist and accompanist, allowing Sync to maintain its three-way conversations after Rothenberg has finished soloing. This is not simply a matter of the leader's ability to sustain extended melodic and rhythmic variations at lower volumes through circular breathing; it also results from the assurance that allows Harris to sustain a pronounced rhythmic underpinning in his guitar work and rare melodic fluency on bass. Chatterjee, who can sing and then play back the most complex patterns in the manner of the great tabla masters, also senses how to highlight more compact, swing-oriented parts through shifts in accents and dynamics.

Child in Me, Vol. 1
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Close your eyes and free associate

Open your heart and release the inner child!

BRAVO FOR THE QUEEN OF CABARET!

With friends like these...

Jamie deRoy - Child in Me

Child in Me, Vol. 1
Jamie deRoy & Friends
Manufacturer: Harbinger
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002SWMS
Release Date: 2001-01-01

Tracks:

Make Your Own Party--Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich
The Child in Me Again--Kathie Lee Gifford
Jenny Rebecca--Stephen Bogardus
My Old Family Quilt--Karen Mason
One of a Kind--Eric Michael Gillett
Your Dog--Babbie Green
A Place Called Home--Liz Callaway
The House on Maple Hill--Jamie deRoy
Make a Rainbow--Deborah Tranelli
Charlie the Frog--Eric Hansen
Little Boy Blue--Heather Mac Rae
Further & Further Away--Ellen Foley
The Kid Inside--Craig Carnelia
Never Never Land--The Accidentals and Jamie deRoy
Sailin' On--Laurie Beechman

Customer Reviews:

Close your eyes and free associate.......2001-10-23

I must confess that I bought this CD to hear how Ellen Foley sounds these days. Her version of "Further and Further Away" is very touching and, IMO, one more example of her great, multi-faceted voice (see THE VERY BEST OF ELLEN FOLEY).
The entire CD though is a beautiful idea and beautifully done. I hope it also has the effect of making some listeners realize that they were, in fact, much happier than what they consciously recall now.

Open your heart and release the inner child!.......2001-04-05

A friend of mine has this CD in her collection. I initially wrote it off as just another "feelgood" collection of hits. BOY, was I WRONG! Just a few weeks later I was at a party, and the DJ was playing Hammerheart's "Shores in Flames" (my wife and I like to slow dance to that tune). The song ended, and the next tune played started out methodically, but rose to a steady paced beat. A woman's voice, possessed with a seething undercut melodic haunt, began singing lyrics filled with deceptive resentment towards our society. Some of us on the dance floor starting rocking our heads ala Rick James, and when this beautiful voice disgorged the angry lyrics "I've got to recapture/the truth I unlearned," we all did something we have not done for at least five years; we started a moshpit, our piqued dance building and swaying in Guajardian ecstacy! I don't think I had moshed since the last time I saw Pearl Jam in concert! AND THEN..... I learned that the woman who sang this brilliant ode to insurrection, a theme with the subliminal message declaring all races and ethnicity equal, a song damning the capitalist dictators who hurt the children within us, this woman is...KATHIE LEE GIFFORD! I borrowed the CD from my friend the following day, and this CD is SOLID musical bliss. The tune "One of a Kind" by Eric Michael Gillet is an intriguing departure from the themes of some of the other songs, and it brought back warm memories of music we played during my teen years. When I heard the lines "One of a kind/is a wonderful thing to be," it brought back memories of those down home Autumn holidays when Dad would be preparing Thanksgiving dinner, I tending to my Precious Moments figurines, my sister chainsawing huge ice sculptures of folks like Jack Kerouac and Charles Nelson Reilly, and Mom tending to our exotic bird and echidna preserve. If you grew up in a traditional American upbringing like my own, these songs will bring you back to that comfortable time of reassurance and inspiration. If you feel surging anger towards an aristocracy disguised as homogenized splendour, this album will release your pent up aggression in healthy and harmless way!

BRAVO FOR THE QUEEN OF CABARET!.......2000-01-18

Jamie deRoy IS the Queen of Cabaret and the entire cabaret/Broadway community can thank her for this terrific CD. It's about time! After 10 years of Jamie deRoy & friends shows it's great to have these folks to listen to whenever I want to do so. I hope Jamie doesn't wait too long to bring forth another great production. If the stars are smart they'll all want to line up and join her in the studio to make some cabaret history for this century -- BRAVO Ms. deRoy!

With friends like these..........2000-01-04

I bought this CD for the names that I knew: Kathie Lee Gifford, Karen Mason and Liz Calloway and because I liked the idea of a CD of songs that take you back to your childhood. The performers I knew were wonderful,however, it's the unknowns - but not for long - that make this a very listenable CD. Favorites were Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler, Eric Hansen and Jamie deRoy with The Accidentals.

Jamie deRoy - Child in Me.......1999-12-31

This is a brilliant CD - I gave it to everyone for Christmas this year. I am going to give it to my nieces and nephews this year for their birthdays too. But the interesting thing is it is not just for children - it is a great gift for adults, also. It is about the child in all of us. My favorite cut has to be "Never Never Land" which has Jamie deRoy and the Accidentals, an amazing acapella group. I also loved hearing Gordon MacRae's daughter, Heather - who is just as talented as her dad. The opening is also great, "Make Your Own Party" - which is written and performed by two young women who are definitely going places: Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich. Craig Carnelia is also swell doing his own composition, but I think the most important thing is you hear all this great new talent - while still getting a cut from a big star like Kathie Lee Gifford. I knew of Jamie deRoy from her TV show but this is the first CD I have been able to find - now I am dying for the next cd with more of her talented friends. Hurry up and put out the next one Ms. deRoy. How about the Adolescent in Me!

Tracks:

You And The Night And The Music
Stella By Starlight
You're Driving Me Crazy
Do I Hear A Waltz? /The Jitterbug Waltz
I'm In Love Again
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Don't Like Goodbyes
Fly Me To The Moon
Mood Indigo
Old Friends

Customer Reviews:

Barbara Carroll never disappoints..........2005-07-24

Like all of Barbara Carroll's cds, this one is complex--warm and intimate, friendly and welcoming, sexy, and elegant--and, all of those at once!

Big City Rhythm: The Songs Of Barry Kleinbort (1996 Original New York Cast)

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A Joy from Beginning to End

Big City Rhythm: The Songs Of Barry Kleinbort (1996 Original New York Cast)
Barry Kleinbort
Manufacturer: Harbinger
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000PER
Release Date: 2001-07-17

Tracks:

Big City Rhythm
I Get Around
Milwaukee
Love Me, Love Me
A Sondheim Song
Love Me, Love Me (Take Two)
Leading Lady Valentine
When Ya Gonna Learn?
The Kindest Man
To Be Wanted/Everyone Needs Someone
What Would You Say?/I'm Waiting
Lost Movie Themes
Skyline (Helen's Soliloquy)
I Belong
Voices
When?
Big City Rhythm (Reprise)

Customer Reviews:

A Joy from Beginning to End.......2003-06-08

I was introduced to this album by a friend two years ago and it blew me away. The marriage of music and lyrics have never been so well matched. These are songs of great feeling and passion. It is a shame that Mr. Kleinbort has not yet been represented on broadway with a full scale show. Maybe the problem is his originality and his fresh approach to material does not fit in with the endless string of revivals and the mindless drek that exists on broadway today. Hopefully, this will change soon and this man will get his due. Get this album and revel in its charm, sophistication and warmth.

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Excellent Broadway!

Mostly Mercer
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Harbinger
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Y8JT
Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

I'm Old Fashioned - Rosemary Clooney
My Mama Thinks I'm a Star - Kaye Ballard
I Remember You - Eydie Gorme
It Had Better Be Tonight - Fran Jeffries
I Wonder What Became of Me - Henrietta Valor
My Shining Hour - Mimi Hines
Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry - Marilyn Cooper
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby - Nancy Lamott
Blues in the Night - Jennifer Holliday
Ask Me Again - Rosemary Clooney
Hooray for Hollywood - Anita O'Day
Out of This World - Jim Bailey
Time, You Old Gypsy Man - Kaye Ballard
I Fought Every Step of the Way - Laura Kenyon, , Mary Gordon Murray
Midnight Sun
How Little We Know - Mark Sendroff

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Broadway!.......2002-09-10

This great CD is a potpourri of new recordings of "Mostly Mercer," Johnny Mercer, that is. The songs are by Broadway and jazz ladies, including Rosemary Clooney, Anita O'Day, Eydie Gorme, Kaye Ballard and others. I't a great collection, excellent sound quality, and everybody is in good voice. The most unusual number is by Judy Garland (aka female impersonator Jim Bailey) singing a song Judy never really sang--OUT OF THIS WORLD--but you would swear the legendary singer was still alive and kicking! Recommended!

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Harbinger
Paula Cole
Manufacturer: Imago Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Amen

ASIN: B00000DUI1
Release Date: 1994-07-19

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