New Soil

New Soil

ASIN: B000005HC2

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Product Description
24 bit digitally remastered Japanese reissue on Blue Note of an original album cut for the label in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to the initial pressing only & with the original artwork intact. 1999 release. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Feet in the Soil
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Get Your Worldy Groove On

Makes you wanna move your feet...

Unusual instruments and drumming, each piece finely crafted

makes you want to "move"...great for housecleaning!

Feet in the Soil
James Asher
Manufacturer: New Earth Records
ProductGroup: Music
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Feet in the Soil, Vol. 2

Shaman Drums

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Raising the Rhythms

ASIN: B0000009D1
Release Date: 2002-04-02

Tracks:

Pemulwuy
Ijeilu
Return To Egypt
Tantango
Send In The Drums
Earthsong
Red Rhythm Dragon
Cooking It Up
Heathaze
Ocean Of Dreams
Pemulwuy Returns

Album Description

Drawing on inspiration from African drumming and Aboriginal chants, Asher has created a dynamic hybrid of danceable energies centered in the earth. Feet in the Soil's rhythms are bold and evocative, an exotic blend of traditional and world music influences guaranteed to get you up out of your seat.

Customer Reviews:

Get Your Worldy Groove On.......2006-10-13

"Feet In The Soil" is infectiously fun. As a musician, my reaction is "man, I've got to learn to make grooves like these!" As a listener, this is a disk that I can listen to over and over. It's filled with over an hour of happy, lively, exciting music that varies tremendously in style and instrumentation, showing a broad spectrum of influences but always keeping itself "grounded" in James Asher's equisitely crafted rhythms. The musicianship is impeccable, and the sound quality is superb.

Makes you wanna move your feet..........2002-09-24

Apparently a master percussionist, Mr. Asher uses some more basic (e.g. a variety of drums and percussion) and less heard instruments (e.g. the didgeridoo) to amazing effect. It is driving and moving and exhilarating. I heard this one first in a pair of headphones at a Discovery Channel Store and was captivated and couldn't help being moved along by the beat.

I suppose it taps into something 'primal', kind of like drum circles at concerts and such, when a bunch of folks get together and just start playing away on some drums until a rhythm is created and you start to dance. This album is a lot like that only it is much refined. But it is great, whether to help you on a drive or simply to take you away for a while.

As noted on the album, even Pete Townsend of The Who thinks Asher's music is great.

Unusual instruments and drumming, each piece finely crafted.......1998-06-28

Pemulwuy. Aborigine parents taught their children through songs and dances that described major events, ancestors, and leaders. One such leader of the Bidjigal, was Rainbow Warrior. In 1797, after many were killed and the-people were forced from their home lands, settlers were killed at Parramatta. In the fighting, their guerrilla leader Pemulwuy was wounded. He escaped and lead resistence against the British for five more years. The voices of this piece are the players in Pemulwuy's legend. Pemulwuy and his people are didgeridu, djembe, darabuk and the voices of the women, all speaking the ancient rhythms. The heavy modern sound of the bass guitar and the driving metalic percusive sounds are heard as their oppressors. They play off each other, both fighting for room to exist in the aural space. The tempo is very upbeat, with mid-range hand drums and varied percussion overlayed by the didg' voices. The added interplay of the bass and percussion, a woman's native words, and great rhythms round it out. After the high whistles of the tribe's support, what remains is bangs and raps on a hollow, shakey drum that fades as Pemulwuy's people continue into the distance. Ijeilu. It starts as a likable, jangly mix. Built on multiple percussive beats and a deep reverberent presence, the native men's chorus sings and speaks between synthed vibe/zylophone and guitar riffs. The repeating chorus is followed by now-continuous drums and vibes, then a guitar lyric, into a neat mix of all nearly at once. Pulled back to drums, then up again with guitar and overlays of faraway flute. Ijeilu is the statement of the people, though `Ijeilu' is elusive. Using our imagination, we hear the separation. We hear our tribe, our voices and our ancestor's voices in our music. They are the metalic intruders, taking our hearts. Return to Egypt. At seven minutes plus this tableau is masterful. Literaly a sizzling start, then hand drums, one with the beat, another in sycopated back rhythm, the clear flute voice! , trilling up, inciting the clapping of the crowd, back again with flute, drums. Framing this in your mind, with a little push, connects you to the setting of the players and their stage. Into a theater atmosphere with a big organ, offset by a single voice crying its melody. Bells and wavering synth voices, flute, drums still pounding thru, keeping the energies up. Return to Egypt is done in a grand scale. Guitar and flute, back with strong clapping, back into the theater, missing little in the aural spectrum, building and extending on and on until, poof. A muted cymbal, a few bars of flute speaking, repeating it, saying it different ways, making sure it is heard. Tantango. Another jumpin tune. A driving energizing sensation induced by extensive drums, layered live bass, multiple synth voices with live and synthed wood block. All tweaked up by a perky electric vibe/zylophone, a -different- synth voice, lots of syncopated riffs and extensions, lots of little improvs. The synth, drums, wood blocks, merrily rumble up and along, rolling toward immediate fullfulment. Send in the Drums. This is the one. Its riffs and sections jolt that jump-up-and-dance urge. There is some amount of African influence that mixes it up, probably Asher's hired `talent' again. The didg' is still a big influence. Some great work. This is one you crank up on those occasions. Big drums, mated with the range of players, didg', the simple things, oooh this is a great piece, the drums take over from the didg', lots of rattles, ... a triangle, the didg', oooh those drums, does that pull it right out of you, or what? The didg's repeating chorus, the drums' syncopated message returning with the didg` voice, `wheaeaachhh, wheaeaachhh' jumping, fading, jumping. Earthsong is made of mellow flute and a drifting, soothing melody with percussion backgrounds and interludes. Soft synth strings into mello flute then add another harmonious store of strings. Again these are stories spoken thru time. Beyond the immediate expression,! Flute speaks well, reminding us. Add a broader background, still the flute. Then stronger, closer, more precise, more complementary, a warm soundfeeling, then the strings, low and sweet. Twists and turns bring the base sound, a violin, a flute; the players. Add the percussion, reintroduce all the players in concert. Long phrases told by all the voices. Hear their stories. Red Rhythm Dragon is red, sun, hot, elaborate, theater, and great didgeridoo. Setting it up for this piece, the percussion overlays itself into a pleasing complex, expanding the expressions that drive through this experience. The nonstop didg' drones to keep company with the entourage of drums. It unfolds with hot hands on hot drums, rattles and tick tick tock, tick tock tick. There is a sense of the scale, of the number of surrounding players. It fulfills, it gratifies. There is a true foreground, middle and background. The music, the players, the dancers, are all here to present themselves. They represent themselves. They are here to remember. Cooking it up is contemporary guitars, jazy, syncopated vocals, a fast forward into the current time zone. It says `hey' this is fun, whatayasay! The men's voices are sampled as a multiply punctuated chorus, they sometimes come back in various phrases, all unintelligable. What are they saying? The beat is good, all of it, going on and on. Those middle drums, guitar and high pitched percussions, a wide blast of a man's voice from inside the synth, an interjection by some maniac, more sampled repeating chorus, great flaptapping on the drums, more voices, women's, men's, more sampled `heh, heh, heh, heh', off on the matched drums again, a broadband `ohhhhh', `ohhhhh', as we are leaving. Heathaze has an odd title and an odd compelling synth with a phased harmony that sets up two sounds per beat, that enables the processed sounds/reverb to use either 'beat' for syncopated backbeats and sub melodies, including 'Pong' samples. Got that? Very modern, totaly overtaken by the fore! ign aural universe. Yet it starts to buzz, to pick you up as it goes along it's way. Ocean of Dreams The phrases of women's voices, flute, a mellow vibraphone, it starts. Quite dreamy. An expressive presence of the flute is taken over by women's voices and the sounds of waves crashing, building to ocean drumming. Serious voices chant with drums and waves. The torent of watery collisions make white noise augmented by droning voice. Accompanying drums and shakes join to maintain themselves beyond the watery reach. Pemulwuy Returns is the end piece, but a return from the hereafter, or reliving by the players, it is not clear. Didgeridu, djembe, darabuk and beat*melody do return, now obviously jubilent. The invaders bass, triangle and metalic tapping beats are present, contributing to a more upbeat interplay. Synth intro wrapped around drum beats and didg' keep it staked up with high frequency advances. You can feel the connection to the past in the low bass melody as it jumps in with the synthorgan intertwined with drums and didg'. Together they form an organic reach out into the present, the beating reminder of the past.

makes you want to "move"...great for housecleaning!.......1998-05-23

The different 'obscure' instruments combined with a forceful rhythm have made this one of my favorite CDs for gettin' me going. The percussion is soulful. Some of it can be a little tedious but the majority is good. This is not necessarily an 'easy listening' CD but worth the eccentricity.

Thomson: The River/The Plow That Broke the Plains

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The River/The Plow that Broke the Plains
I you want to move beyond Copeland. Virgil Thompson has 2 classics

Thomson: The River/The Plow That Broke the Plains

Manufacturer: Essay
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Lion in Winter

ASIN: B00000082V
Release Date: 1994-01-28

Tracks:

The River: The Old South
The River: Prologue
The River: Prologue
The River: Industrial Expansion In The Mississippi Valley
The River: Soil Erosion & Floods
The River: Finale
The Plow That Broke The Plains: Prelude & Fugue
The Plow That Broke The Plains: Grass-Pastorale
The Plow That Broke The Plains: Cattle
The Plow That Broke The Plains: The Homesteader
The Plow That Broke The Plains: War And The Tractor
The Plow That Broke The Plains: Blues (Speculation)
The Plow That Broke The Plains: Drought
The Plow That Broke The Plains: Wind And Dust
The Plow That Broke The Plains: Devastation

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The River/The Plow that Broke the Plains.......2007-05-17

This performance is excellent it is a worthy addition to your collection. It is an exciting performance by the Philharmonic Virtuosi under the direction of Richard Kapp. Both the Plow that Broke the Plains and the River (complete scores here) are a part of American History. The music woven through out these scores should be very familiar as they represent part of Americana.

Buy it!

Background:

Many years ago, I have purchases these two compositions in Vinal. As I recall the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority*) was commissioned by the federal government (FDR's New deal in the 1930's) to solve the growing electrical shortage in the southern states while attempting to redress the damage done to the Mississippi by man or visa versa. After years of study and hearings they decided to damn the Tennessee River and build a hydro electric plant. The problem was that this would resultant in flooding many would displace many people, and whole towns had to be moved to new locations. Virgil Thomson was commissioned to prepare a score for a documentary that would be prepared to present the project to the communities. It was elegant in its execution and masterfully integrated with the film.

* Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly hard hit by the Great Depression. The TVA was envisioned not only as an electricity provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and electricity to rapidly modernize the region's economy and society. The TVA's jurisdiction covers most of Tennessee, parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small slices of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia.

I you want to move beyond Copeland. Virgil Thompson has 2 classics.......2007-04-06

Having accidentally taped a Neville Marriner selection of the River, I wanted the entire composition. This is an excellent rendition of very attractive American works. If you like Appalachian Spring and Rodeo, you will love these works and the recording does them justice.

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Take the drums, add a DJ, Mix some voices....OH YES!
Rhythmic Bliss

Feet in the Soil, Vol. 2
James Asher
Manufacturer: New Earth Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000056EQO
Release Date: 2001-02-06

Tracks:

Tammy Tama
Janjara
Standing Ngoma
Royal Blue
Camel Train
Bedouin Wedding
Send In The Scribes
Atlantean Chant
Crocodile Feet
African Sun

Album Description

Asher returns to the music arena that has delighted so many fans around the world. Feet in the Soil 2's raw underpinning of tribal rhythms and exciting, danceable energies offers another invitation to join the groove. This time around, larger and deeper drums are paired with didgeridoo and a fresh palette of sounds to set the party swaying. So kick off your shoes and get your feet in the soil!

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Take the drums, add a DJ, Mix some voices....OH YES!.......2001-02-17

Hey, "Feet in the Soil" is my favourite James Asher CD, followed by "Tigers of the Raj". When New Earth came out with a "Tigers of the Raj-Remix" CD, I thought Id give it a try. Well, I gotta admit that I didn't really like it much. This CD, "Feet in the Soil-2", is anouther story entirely. The remixes here don't get too cluttered up with overdubbed "canned" sounds, and instead focus on what made Feet in the Soil so good to begin with---the MUSIC and the drums! The mixing on this CD is done by Grahame Gerard, and he has done a great job. The 64 track mix includes live music with some of the "canned" sounds, but concentrates on showcasing the "real" stuff. The rhythms are pure fun and very danceable. Adding the vocals and dubbing in the additional beats and sounds, such as digeridoo, make for a complete package. The mix is great and moves "Feet in the Soil-2" to up into the dance-trance groove category! A real work of art!

Rhythmic Bliss.......2001-02-15

A cocophany of Earth Rhythms and smooth melodies, this CD is one of the best in my New Age/International collection. Very interesting and beautiful all at once. Trancey and Dance-able yet can also be very melodic and light. It is passionate, with great depth and musical maturity.

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Mixed McLean
Several outstanding moments
Pushes boundaries of hard bop onto a fruitful new plane
Formidable
baby steps?

New Soil
Jackie McLean
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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A Fickle Sonance

ASIN: B000005HC2
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Hip Strut
Minor Apprehension
Greasy
Sweet Cakes
Davis Cup
Formidable

Album Description

24 bit digitally remastered Japanese reissue on Blue Note of an original album cut for the label in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to the initial pressing only & with the original artwork intact. 1999 release.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Version featuring an LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only. 24bit Remastered.

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Mixed McLean.......2007-06-25

With his raw, keening tone and spiky, inventive lines Jackie McLean was arguably the most individual altoist to follow Parker. The sheer visceral power of a good McLean solo is arresting. McLean recorded prolifically but unfortunately the quality of his output is inconsistent. He could hit the heights, as on Bluesnik and Let Freedom Ring, but on many discs, such as a lot of his early Prestige recordings and some Blue Notes eg A Fickle Sonance, the inescapable impression is that he was not really extending himself. This record is of mixed quality. McLean gets off some good solos as on Hip Strut. However, the disc as a whole is marred by too much reliance on the trite, formulaic 'Good Ole Soul' approach, trumpeter Donald Byrd and pianist Walter Davis being the main offenders. It also has the worst sound quality of any Blue Note reissue I have ever heard, with intrusive background hiss throughout. I have 1920s transfers that sound better than this.

Several outstanding moments.......2004-02-24

I picked this up immediately following a Jackie Mclean performance at the iridum in New York. Jackie can still blow by the way.
The arrangements here are all very strong and Jackie's tone and playing is crisp and very cool. The real surprise on this cd are the compositions from pianist Walter Davis Jr. His tunes are fantastic vehicles for this band to work out on. Davis' blues/stride piano style on track 3 lays a great foundation for some excellent soloing from both Jackie and Donald Byrd. Byrd is not as technically exciting as a Lee Morgan or Clifford Brown but is strong here and in combination with Mclean creates a nice overall effect. Paul Chambers is solid as always and the drumming of Pete La Roca is steady.
The Bluesy third track Greasy is a real standout and so is the final track Formidable. The rest of the cuts are good solid bop playing from a group that deserves to be checked out again.

Pushes boundaries of hard bop onto a fruitful new plane.......2003-01-31

McLean's May 1959 recording shows the budding influence of the avant-garde, as later in the same month Ornette Coleman would record his landmark "Shape of Jazz to Come". "Minor Apprehension" gives Pete LaRoca a solo spot to display his rhythmic interpretation of the new school of jazz. Walter Davis "Greasy" is old school boogie-woogie, but Jackie's solo pushes it beyond the familiar and well-trodden. Donald Byrd is impressive right out of the gate, playing fast flurries of notes on his first solo, and he uses echo effectively in his "Sweet Cakes" solo. Paul Chambers gets a nice bowed solo on "Hip Strut".

Jackie McLean - Sax (Alto)
Pete La Roca - Drums
Donald Byrd - Trumpet
Paul Chambers - Bass
Walter Davis, Jr. - Piano

Formidable.......2003-01-21

The last track is called "Formidable," and the album is formidable. Mr. McLean is a worthy leader -- although the band is excellent, he's still better than the others. He's less relentlessly on the beat, for example.

Although Donald Byrd's playing is a bit unimaginative, he and his brilliant tone still make the music interesting. The rhythm section provides some interesting contrasts with the horn players. Walter Davis's more restrained piano, for example, strikes the right note after the horn solos.

baby steps?.......2001-01-09

Finally, with Blue Note Jackie mclean and Co. were given the time and opportunity to practice/rehearse/jam before the tape started rolling. Not to disparage records like Mcleans Scene, Strange Blues, Alto-Madness etc... for they are wonderful but all are extremely loose and seem to tetter at times not emotionally but in a what the hell is coming next kind of way which is beautiful...its just on New Soil a little preconceiving seems to have let things grow unhindered. Donald Byrd on trumpet, Paul Chambers bass, Walter Davis Jr. piano, and Pete La Roca on drums...an oak-solid band who swing in and out of Mcleans furrowed like phrases...relentlessly. I highly recommend this music.

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A masterpiece of Vangelis
One of the best of its kind
Original and Inspiring
Some musical moments are in your mind forever
One of the best ambient pieces ever created

Soil Festivities
Vangelis
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Music From Koreyoshi Kurahara's Film Antarctica
Mask
China
L'Apocalypse Des Animaux (1972 TV Documentary)
Albedo 0.39

ASIN: B000001FAL
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Movement 4
Movement 5

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A masterpiece of Vangelis.......2007-06-14

Again, this is an excelente work ok Vangelis. Creativity, technology, inspiration... a great piece of music!!!

One of the best of its kind.......2007-01-09

If you are looking for one of the best ambiant music ever maid, this one is for you. The opening track is amazing, as are movement 2 and 4.
Movement 3 and 5 are the weakest of the album but they're not bad at all.
Go outside on a dark summer night, far away from the city and watch the stars and put this cd in your car stereo, you'll be on another world.
Great work Vangelis.

Original and Inspiring.......2006-01-07

I have read all the reviews, and all I can add is that among the Vanglis CD releases, this is a special event. Vangelis, as I have mentioned elsewhere in reviews of his work, has developed a musical vocabulary and grammar, certain instruments and melodies that he tends to weave in and out of compositions throughout his career. These are really quite wonderful, and I am a confirmed fan, but Soil Festivities is deep, close to the level of Beaubourg and Invisible Connections, and yet somehow more accessible.

The jazzy calliope-like ambience that he creates, with a background of rain and storm, is wistful, gentle, insistent, loving, occasionally obtrusive, but mostly calming and delightful.

I can think of nothing that even begins to approach the originality and attractiveness of this musical accomplishment.

Some musical moments are in your mind forever.......2004-12-05

And soil festivities is one of them in my case. Who writes a review about an album that was released more than 10 years ago and which even in those years was a very little known piece of the composer ? Place the album in CD player and put a dark cup of coffee...
Let's begin with the current situation; the electronic musical industry has become an easily accessible hobby for home enthustiast in late 90's. Even in cellular phones, people are given the ability to become some kind of copy&paste musician.I will not dive into the economical causes and effects but I will tell you that there was a time when electronic music was trated as holy, as mysterious, as the ultimate metaphysics;
This album whispers from that era:
Vangelis did compose in many styles, did use many different sounds and musical structures. This is why, people with a little understanding of his music likes some of his work and reject the rest. For me the common element in his music is the progressive approach in every record. I may be taking it a bit over-serious but I think a time will come when people will say "progressive music was excelled by Vangelis".
Vangelis' method is basic and thus the most complex;
he takes a melodic idea as an atomic structure, swirls it, performs it and then develops new variations of the structure.
He "wants" the variations be "instantaneous".Together, these variations reach to a peak level where you actually "see" the music of Vangelis. If you are able to reach at those heights, you are no more on this earth anymore.
The method I described is nowhere more elegant than in movement1 of "soil festivities". The pulse is provided by a pipe sound, rain is the contunity element; and what a lovely faith in rhodes; can you remember "l'apocalypse des animaux" ? the same rhodes was there. A reference to 20 year earlier beauty...and let's not forget the CS80, the classical synth strings; so simple that none has dared to use in such a way.

And the word "ambience"..Ask your friends, who are the top 5 ambient musicians of all time? There will be varied lists, in every of them they will add Brian Eno but be sure none will give the name Vangelis. And then ask yourself, if "soil festivities" is not in every way a true ambient masterpiece, then what is it ?
I am sure you have heard many rain samples, storm samples in other records, but I want to ask you, did you hear the smell of soil in anything you listened ? This record is just like the odour of soil after the rain, I can see it, I can smell it and this is what is called "ambience".
In such a fast century, just because of this, Vangelis was so respectable to be in such a calm state (and in a couple of other records like "the city")..I know there are other down-tempo ambient works by many laptop musicians. But can you imagine them playing the instruments while listening those music ? No. A hum, hiss, speeches and every kind of sleepy nonsense.. Let's dive into a metro station and make a field recording with our boxes; and let's call it ambient. That won't make you feel the rain.
"soil festivities" is not a coincidental name. The album really tells about the microcosmos, you can visualize the "movements" of the insects, the living essence of the plants and you can feel in a place, in such a nature that no one is with you, even you, are not there; but you can "see" the things in those places. It's dark, it's even without emotions, there can be no emotions where there are no humans rubbing. The landscapes are calm and soulless but the visitor or the observer (you) give the shape to the picture. That's why some directive melodic hints are given.
Think of the dust, cold, a night in which no city light is present; a hill, a cavity. When you wear your earphones and turn "soil festivities" on, even if you are in a crowded bus station or a candidate of "field recording" metro station, you will be taken to the savage of no man's presence. You will be the dream of a snake.

One of the best ambient pieces ever created.......2003-09-27

This is probably the best ambient pieces ever created--and it certainly does require an open heart/mind to appreciate its brilliance. The Doors once placed a thunderstorm over "riders" to enhance the piece as an afterthought, here, Vangelis uses it to gently introduce us to the symbiotic forces of nature. The pulsing analog synths that open the first movement will forever be lost in the digital era. I would recommend this for meditation any day. It's deep.

Tracks:

New Canaan (Oliver Holden, 1793)
Maryland (William Billings, 1778)
Bethlehem (William Billings, 1778)
Lynn (Oliver Holden, 1793)
Funeral Hymn (Oliver Holden, 1792)
An Anthem for Easter (William Billings, 1787/1795)
Walpole (Abraham Wood, 1786)
Beauty (Jacob French, 1789)
Happiness (Jacob French, 1793)
Woburn (Jacob Kimball, 1793)
Montague (Timothy Swan, 1801)
Newport (Daniel Read, 1785)
Hatfield (Thomas Baird, 1800)
Attention (Asahel Benham [?], 1790)
Crucifixion (M. Kyes, 1798)
Mechias (James Lyon, 1774)
St. Paul's (Supply Belcher, 1794)
Transition (Supply Belcher, 1794)
Jubilant (Supply Belcher, 1794)
The Lilly (Supply Belcher, 1794)
Buckfield (Abraham Maxim, 1802)
Pennsylvania (Nehemiah Shumway, 1793)
Sounding Joy (J. P. Storm, 1795 )
Redemption (Jeremiah Ingalls, 1805)
Consolation (Lucius Chapin, c. 1812)
Liberty-Hall (Lucius Chapin, 1813)
Babe of Bethlehem (Southern Harmony, 1835)
Convoy (M. L. Swan, 1867)
Hallelujah New (Roland Hutchinson, 1996)
Nativity (Bruce Randall, 1990)
Cortona (M. R. Truelsen, 1996)
Great Divide (Stephen Marini, 1998)
Arinello (Dennis O'Brien, 1997)
Ev'ry String Awake (Glen Wright, 1996)
Ten Thousand Charms (Hal Kunkel, 1996)

Product Description

Sweet Seraphic Fire brings together two unique bodies of American sacred song: choral compositions from the New England singing-school tradition and the most popular Evangelical Protestant hymn texts in historic American use. In the late eighteenth century the New England singing-school movement produced America's first great sacred-music style, employing several genres of unaccompanied four-part choral compositions with the melody in the lead (tenor) part. The enormous popularity of singing-school music also promoted a canon of hymn texts shared across America's competing Evangelical Protestant denominations. This recording contains neglected masterworks from the New England singing school that also helped to create the American hymn canon. Marking a more recent turn in this process, we have also included some new settings of traditional Evangelical lyrics written by leaders in the revival of singing-school music that has blossomed in the Northeast since 1976. ! Selection of pieces for this recording was determined by correlating "The Norumbega Harmony"--our collection of one hundred six historic New England singing-school compositions and thirty contemporary works in traditional style--with a list of the three hundred most frequently printed hymn texts in America from 1737 to 1960. --Stephen Marini

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic!!!!!!.......2006-03-15

This is a REALLY cool album of shape-note singings, I particurlarly like EVERY STRING AWAKE and ANTHEM FOR EASTER.
Some of the songs are kind of dreary, (Hatfield) but all in all this is COOL!!!

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Bluesdusters

Manufacturer: Rootstone Productions
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000CAKE2M
Release Date: 2005-03-29

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Alchemie
The Soil Bleeds Black
Manufacturer: The Fossil Dungeon
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Binding: Audio CD

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Mirror of the Middle Ages

ASIN: B000EWATGE
Release Date: 2006-03-06

Tracks:

Magia Naturalis
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Winter Marriage
Make Not Vain the Cup thou Drankest
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Lapis Philosophorum
Fire of the Sacred Seal
Jongleurs in a Threefold
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Earthe took of Earthe
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Long out-of-print, Twilight Records and The Fossil Dungeon join forces to once again make available TSBB's fourth album, "Alchemie," originally published by the (now defunct) UK distributor, World Serpent. This new edition features re-mastered and newly embellished versions of the original songs along with several bonus tracks. Alchemie is a conglomeration of songs based heavily upon the medieval occult science for which the album is named. The album also features other songs portraying Arthurian legend and the bravery of knights on the battlefield. The well-known Swedish ambient artist, ARCANA, make a very special guest appearance on the track, Lapis Philosophorum. This new edition comes presented in a fancy digipak!

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One of their best efforts!

Quintessence
The Soil Bleeds Black
Manufacturer: World Serpent
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009KBTTW
Release Date: 2005-05-03

Tracks:

Earthe
Air
Fyre
Water
Quintessence

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The quintessential album from TSBB consists of five neo-medieval folk songs, each based on the alchemical elements of earthe, air, fyre, water, and quintessence. This fifth album of theirs showcases the longest songs ever recorded by the band and accomplishes a sound unlike any of their previous musical efforts, while still maintaining their standard of medieval atmosphere. Considered their "neo-folk" album, this release is filled with rich lyrical intricacies and lush acoustic instrumentations.

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One of their best efforts!.......2006-02-24

This is my 4th CD by TSBB. I found "Quintessence" to be the group's most listenable CD by far. If you're not familiar with TSBB, I highly recommend this CD first. It's very melodic and filled with emotion from start to finish. I truly feel as if I am inside a dungeon listening to a live performance. Total time is approx. 41 minutes. Enjoy!

The Power of a New Aeon: Musical Impressions of the Tarot (2 CD set)

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The Power of a New Aeon: Musical Impressions of the Tarot (2 CD set)
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Manufacturer: Palace of Worms Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000KNGHZY

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Disc 1 Track Titles: 1. Juggler -- The Soil Bleeds Black 2. Magician -- 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse 3. High Priestess -- Conscientia 4. Empress -- Opera Multi Steel 5. Emperor -- Ah Cama-Sotz 6. Heirophant -- Lorretta's Doll 7. Lovers -- In Winter Bleeding 8. Chariot -- Dream Into Dust 9. Strength -- Arcana 10. Hermit -- Stay Frightened 11. Wheel Of Fortune -- Pilori Disc 2 Track Titles: 1. Justice -- Athanor 2. Hanged Man -- Ontario Blue 3. Death -- Autumn Tears 4. Temperance -- Vehemence Realized 5. Devil -- Endvra 6. Tower -- Bleeding Like Mine 7. Star -- Chants for the Fallen 8. Moon -- Psychonaut 9. Sun -- Arcanta 10. Aeon -- Nothvs Filivs Mortis 11. Universum -- Dead Leaves Rising, The

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