Orange and Blue

Orange and Blue

ASIN: B0009E32O8

Track Listings

1. Paradisio

2. Chilean Pipe Peace

3. Ta'alina Chant

4. Orange and Blue

5. This Way Before

6. Summer Country Song

7. If We Meet Again, Pt. 1

8. If We Meet Again, Pt. 2

9. Cyprus `74

10. Theme of the Mother Ship

11. Precious Little You

12. Casmir

13. On My Own

Tracks:

Blue Note Boogie - The Spencer Wyatt Big Band
Orange Colored Sky - Nat King Cole
Begin The Beguine - The Spencer Wyatt Big Band
Stranger On The Shore - The Spencer Wyatt Big Band
Boogie Woogie Stomp - Jim Cox
Paper Doll - The Mills Brothers
Dizzy (Piano Version) - Jim Cox
Blues In The Bucket - The Spencer Wyatt Big Band
Aunt Hagar's Blues - Jim Cox
Over The Rainbow - Chet Baker
I Remember You - Nat King Cole
The Bridge - Mark Isham
Luke And Adele - Mark Isham
The Majestic - And The Magic - Mark Isham

Customer Reviews:

Mostly Majestic.......2007-05-17

Most of the tracks were excellent but some were a bit long winded.Tracks by Spencer Wyatt best on the disc and made it all worth while.

An excellent olio of music styles.......2007-02-23

Do you like ethereal New Age? Gotcha covered. Does Boogie piano get your toes a-tappin'? Check. Is Swing more your thing? It's here. All fine reasons to add this sound track to your music collection. As for the movie, I like to think it Carrey's best work. The man has the most expressive face in Moviedom. Regarding the story, it's set in the early Fifties during the rabid Communist scaremongering headed by Senator Joseph McCarthy. One result was the blacklisting of suspected Communists and sympathizers in liberal Hollywood, of which our protagonist Peter Appleton became a victim.

This movie is a slam dunk.......2006-10-29

To hear the roar of the crowd as the player goes in to slam dunk the basketball in the professional sports arenas,this film equals those thrills for the audience as Jim Carrey (Luke Trimble)takes us through the mind of someone that has amnesia and unwittingly becomes the hometown war hero set in 1945 period. Stars abound in this film like character actors Martin Landau and James Wittemore.Boy meets girl,they fall in love,then a twist in the plot as Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) is accused of being a communist,similar to the Army McCarthy hearings for those old enough to remember.It all turns out like everyone wants.....Ed Lynch 10/29/06

Boogie Majestic.......2003-08-07

This soundtrack is the best soundtrack I have heard in a long time. Bringing the swing big band music was fantastic.I wish they would have included Pennsylvania 6-5000 in the soundtrack though. This by far is the best movie soundtrack next to Swing Kids. So buy this soundtrack. This is real music.

An answer for a question from Texas.......2003-02-15

Music fan from Texas, Yes both songs are there and as strange as it may sound, those where the two songs that cought my attention when I saw the movie. The one with the clarinet is called "Stranger on the shore" while the one with the piano is called "Boogie Woogie Stomp" I believe. The soundtrack as a whole is flawless and I strongly reccomend it.

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I Mother Earth Review
Showing Their Colours
Blazing their own trail
Took some time...
Brian is to IME what Gary was to VH

Blue Green Orange
I Mother Earth
Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram
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Quicksilver Meat Dream
Dig
Scenery and Fish
Another Spin Around the Sun
Earth Sky & Everything Between

ASIN: B000026PEI
Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

Love Your Starfish
All Awake
Gargantua
When Did You Get Back From Mars?
Summertime In The Void
Good For Sule
Cloud Pump
Blacksox
Autumn On Drugs
Infinity Machine
My Beautiful Deep End

Album Description

1999 & third album by Canadian hard rock/ alternative quartet with a devout cult following in the U.S. 11 tracks, all co-produced by the band's guitarist Jagori Tanna and Paul Northfield (Hole, Rush). The album is also enhanced with CD-ROM material.

Album Details

New 1999 Release, Their 3Rd.

Customer Reviews:

I Mother Earth Review.......2005-09-29

I Mother Earth is a good band. I think thier album Blue Green Orange is very good. I bought the album because i knew the song "Summertime in the void". I saw the video of that song on TV in 1999. Over all it's a good CD.

Showing Their Colours.......2003-05-15

Is it any wonder that I Mother Earth's least commercially successful album also sparked the most debate of the three? This album took along parts of the "old" IME, like their signature jams and percussion. It also left behind some of the elements many fans loved about them, like the alt-rock sound and their instantly recognizable singer, Edwin. In this "post-post-grunge" gem, it turns out change did them good.

This album often meets Dig's progessiveness and Scenery And Fish's sticky hooks somewhere in the middle, with jams that touch both on the former's technical excellence and the latter's great atmospherics. Loops, samples, and effects add to that atmosphere. As for the then "new guy", Brian Byrne's voice is richer, fuller, more emotive, and possibly more powerful than Edwin's, though at this point lacking Ed's polish on record. Guitarist Jag Tanna discovered his knack for writing perfect mood music and delivering it with a greater depth than the other two albums. Bassist Bruce Gordon often layers his sound with Tanna's in the same way as before, but also in hypnotic, repeating riffs over which the guitarist makes all the chord changes, resulting in a different, interesting sound. Percussion is back in a big way here, with broader world music arrangements and a Christian Tanna who shows the intensity of Dig and the subtle nuance of S&F. His lyrics are even stranger than before, but arranged in a well-structured, aesthetically pleasing way. Byrne himself writes the lyrics for the final track, but it's almost impossible to tell the difference.

This disc has no all-encompassing feel like the other two, and its journey into so many different moods takes away the listen-straight-through quality the other two albums had. However, the thicker bass and lighter guitar tones render even the three or four bottom-heavy riffs stripped of any alt/grunge sensibility, and that is a definite step forward. Each song is great on its own, but doesn't necessarily lead into the next one, thus interrupting the flow. Still, this is a rewarding listen, and paves the way for even greater things.

Blazing their own trail.......2003-05-05

Pop quiz. It's 1999. The Alternative sound of the 90's is out. Bubblegum pop and rap-metal are in. Your band is one of Canada's cornerstones of the former, seemingly obsolete sound. To top it off, the voice (and maybe the face) of your band has split to pursue a successful solo career with a more pop-oriented rock sound than you ever had, and you've picked up an unknown to take his place. What do you do?

I'll tell you what I Mother Earth did - they went their own way. The attitude projected in Blue Green Orange, the band's third album and first with vocalist Brian Byrne, is simply, "We don't care." Rather than playing it safe and going about "business as usual" to show they're the same band with or without Edwin, they go in a new direction. That direction still has their signature sound stamped all over it, but if Scenery And Fish was the next step forward from Dig, Blue Green Orange was a left turn.

Grunge-free rockers do battle with mellower, more heartfelt explorations as prog-rock does battle with mainstream, and the band is equally effective at all of these. There are fewer of the soaring pop hooks found on Scenery And Fish, and Byrne adds a more rock-sounding voice to the mix.

Even the relatively commercial Scenery And Fish took a few listens to sink in with me, and that's the rule here, too. The best thing is to come to the table with no expectations. Then you won't be disappointed that it doesn't sound exactly like the other two records, or any record in that year or any year in the 90's. This one stands all on its own.

Took some time..........2003-02-09

This CD took me off guard at first, as I was a fan of the older IME albums... however, a couple of years after popping it in for an occasional listen, it finally clicked.

This is not Scenery and Fish, and it's not Dig.

This is a CD by a band that had started out with hard rock, and then evolved into alternative... only to hit another level of their evolution with this album.

After listening to this over and over again, and now hearing a couple of singles from their forthcoming album, I see this as a stepping stone to something remarkable.

That's not to downplay the greatness of this album... I think of the three released at the time that I'm writing this, it is their most solid and innovative effort. I simply think that most people were disappointed with it solely because it was "too soft."

Drop your expectations and listen to the band for the first time all over again... if you get the point of this album, you'll realize how wonderful it really is.

Brian is to IME what Gary was to VH.......2001-03-29

I was a big fan of Extreme with Gary Cherone (except for their last album; there was no punchline). And, in the same way, Brian is not a bad singer. But he just doesn't fit with IME, IMHO. I spun this disc at least 20 times and came away each time liking it less and less, which is the opposite of my experience with S&F. I'm listening to One More Astronaut right now and thinking, ok, if IME can't get Edwin back then guys please go back to your list of candidates and try again. Brian will be okay.. in a different band.

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This is just awful - I was suckered by the excellence Reich Remixed
a huge letdown...
The Ever Recyclable Glass
Pop music with only a hint of Philip Glass
Sound Effects

Glasscuts, Philip Glass Remixed

Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music
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ASIN: B0009Y8I0G
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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Another Look at Harmony
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Etude No.1
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Album Description

It has been said that Philip Glass is the `Godfather of Trance' and evidence of that is found in the remixes that a number of young producers/musicians began sending to Orange Mountain Music as early as 2002. These unsolicitated mixes became the genesis for Glasscuts, Philip Glass Remixed (release date Sept 2005). This CD presents a very diverse program without any one dominant style. The artists are Androoval from Uruguay, Robert Bell from Australia, Brian Bender from the US, Hector Castillo from Venezuela, Taylor Dupree from the US, Sebastian Escofet from Argentina, impLOG, from the US, Woody McBride DJ ESP from the US, Marcos Romero from Uruguay, Kate Simko from the US, Dietrich Schoenemann from the US, Luciano Supervielle from Uruguay and Dave Wesley from the US.

We invite you to immerse yourself in Glasscuts, Philip Glass Remixed with open ears to experience a Glass that is reminiscent of the past, but with an adventurous contemporary twist.

Customer Reviews:

This is just awful - I was suckered by the excellence Reich Remixed.......2006-07-23

I just assumed that this would be as equally wonderful, and that Glass' music would be even more translatable into the "trance" genre, or whatever the kids are calling it nowadays.

Sadly, it seems that this was done by junior high kids with a computer and Acid Foundry or whatever that cheap software is.

No creativity, and, oddly enough, not even any real sense of Glass' music still being in the "remix".

I am a huge fan of Glass; I am not a fan of this kind of music, but since I am also a fan of Reich and since, to my total surprise, I am quite enthralled by the Reich Remixed CD, I figured I really needed to give this CD a shot.

What a waste. This is totally amateur, but without the occasional genius that some amateur can manage. Strictly, totally, and banal amateur yuckiness.

a huge letdown..........2005-12-21

Yeah, it's fun and easy to beat up on remix albums since there are so many mediocre and terrible ones out there... but, wait: here's a great idea... let's give the pioneering, repetitive, trance-like minimalist music of Philip Glass the remix treatment... after all, Reich: Remixed was fabulous... surely the same kind of creativity can be unleashed in this project... But alas, something went terribly wrong here... these are mostly unbearably monotonous, grating, overlong, amateurish productions by remixers who don't seem to even GET (or enjoy?) Glass' music. A real missed opportunity and a huge letdown... ick...

The Ever Recyclable Glass .......2005-11-20

This is just another insipid release from the Orange Mountain label, which keeps putting out anything with the Philip Glass
name on it - even if it is flagrant garbage. Several releases have been issued which about 90% have the same old songs, just performed by different people. In fact, Philip Glass has become more banal and bovine in the last few years because he knows anything with his name on it will sell to the trendy modernistic music crowd. Overall, I believe it is time to stop
recycling Glass.

Pop music with only a hint of Philip Glass.......2005-10-28

This music should be categorized under the "popular music" category, not "classical". All the pieces have an incessant drum beat typical of popular music. This is unlike any other Philip Glass CD that I have and I have about a dozen of them. Where can I get rid of this?

Sound Effects.......2005-09-24

When this album was announced, I was quite looking forward to it; before hearing anything, I compared it to the wonderful work done on "Reich Remixed" which takes some daring approaches to Reich's music and does an excellent job (with a few exceptions) of being new and exciting. Unfortunately, Glass Remixed isn't as daring or as good.

Much of the music is overshadowed with Glass's music and themes. It's as if someone was playing the original music in the background and sound effects were added to it. Throughout listening to Remixed, these sound effects got in the way of the music and I ended up digging out the original pieces and listening to them. However, there are some excellent pieces of interpretation contained within: Etude #2, the Tirol Concerto, and the Saxophone Concerto stand out (especially the Saxophone Concerto since I don't care for the original piece).

The other mark against this effort is all the work had to come from the Orange Mountain Music catalog due to ownership complications. This is not to say there aren't outstanding pieces in the catalog, but this restriction limits most of Glass's seminal works from being considered.

As a huge Glass fan, I was mildly disappointed, but I applaud the effort and the concept behind it.

Old and New Fangled Tangos/Folk Songs Around the World

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A Magical Musical Journey Around the World with Mantovani.

Old and New Fangled Tangos/Folk Songs Around the World

Manufacturer: Dutton Labs UK
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Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)
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New-Fangled Tango
Music Box Tango
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Customer Reviews:

A Magical Musical Journey Around the World with Mantovani........2005-02-23

The soaring strings of the original orchestra led by the late great Mantovani are once again presented in this brand new Vocalion release of two of the maestro's masterpiece recordings first released in 1964 (Folk Songs) and 1968 (Tango). Folk Songs from Around the World will charm and excite listeners with melodies as diverse as Aura Lee (what Elvis sang as Love Me Tender) and the sizzling sounds of Hava Nagila. The highly disciplined orchestra under the baton of Mantovani perform spectacular arrangements of "Two Guitars" from Russia and folk songs from Japan, Europe,and the British Isles arranged with such artistry that they will readily evoke from each listener intense emotions. The splendid orchestrations found on the Tango tracks also evoke a variety of emotions, with Whatever Lola Wants, Hernando's Hideaway and Takes Two to Tango, offering playful amusement, and such tracks as Blue Sky, Orange Vendor, and Tango Delle Rose combining captivating tango rhythms with time honored melodies made ever more delightful by the unique, cathedral sound identified exclusively with Mantovani. In an interview at the time of the Tango album's release, the ever perfectionist Mantovani expressed his delight with the musical outcome,noting that he tried "blending fine melodies with exciting rhythms to produce a sound that is stimulating.." Acquire this two CD-set, and new and old Mantovani fans will know the maestro was right on the mark in his assessment of this incomparable musical journey.

Hold the Elevator: Live in Europe & Other Haunts

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Modern Big Band Jazz

Hold the Elevator: Live in Europe & Other Haunts
Orange Then Blue
Manufacturer: G.M. Recordings
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Release Date: 1999-03-09

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Modern Big Band Jazz.......2001-01-04

A good recording by some of the best talent in Downtown jazz. The musical line-up is not what you normally see in a band what with the tubas, dumbeks, cello, and French horn - and they all get their chance to solo. Also features Chris Speed, Cuong Vu, Andy Laster, Matt Darriau, Andrew D'Angelo - some of the best brass or woodwind players working. Overall, the arrangements have a European bent; for a contrast Julius Hemphill's big band used a similar orchestration and the results had just as much elegance but a little more swagger. "Hold the Elevator" also contains the shortest recorded version of Tim Berne's "Bloodcount", clocking in at a mere 14:30.

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Dance And Grow Thin
You'd Be Surprised
A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
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You'd Be Surprised
The Girls Of My My Dreams
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Tell Me, Little Gypsy
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Essential history.......2007-06-24

Hooray for Pavilion Records and all other organizations collecting early recordings and transferring them to CD for the world to enjoy! Of course since they are EARLY recordings (1917-1927) it has that fizzy wax sound to it and the lyrics get mushy at times. That either makes it endearing or annoying, depending on your perspective. It's lovely to finally hear the Brox Sisters sing again, let John Steel's tenor soar, and to hear what You'd Be Surprised sounded like sung by a girl. The earliest songs of Irving Berlin may not be his best, but are a refreshing glimpse into his 30s. Half of the songs on this disc debuted in Berlin's own Music Box Revue at the theater he built after WWI.

Theatre Organ: Wurlitzer & Compton Organs

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Theatre Organ: Wurlitzer & Compton Organs

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One of the most versatile players ever...
If I wanted Pat Matheny...
Meola's Delicate Power
An Excellent Master Piece
An Excellent Master Piece

Orange and Blue
Al Di Meola
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Paradiso
Chilian Pipe Song
Ta'alina Chant
Orange And Blue
If We Meet Again
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If We Meet Again, Part One
If We Meet Again, Part Two
Cyprus
Theme Of The Mother Ship
Precious Little You
Casmire
On My Own

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One of the most versatile players ever..........2007-05-01

I really have no idea what the other reviwers are talking about when they compare this CD to something by Metheny--one favorably, one unfavorably. To compare this to Metheny I believe demonstrates a lack of understanding of the strengths and subtleties of both artists. Their similarity is only in that they are both guitarists who often perform within the genre of "world music", while also making side-trips into jazz and other areas. Their execution, however, couldn't be more different. To clarify at the outset, I am a huge Metheny fan and have everything he's ever done with the Pat Metheny Group (his solo or duet work has been less consistent and generally good other than the periodic journeys into cacophonous self-indulgence like "Zero Tolerance for Silence"), but the PMG is nonetheless more predictable and focused than anything DiMeola does. Metheny's guitar sound is very distinctive, consistent and soft-edged, and has spawned many imitators, one of which is emphatically NOT Al DiMeola. Guitar aficionados, whether they like what he does or not, almost universally admire and respect DiMeola's technique, and he has proven to be a far more versatile player than Metheny, ranging from screaming rock to lightning-speed flamenco to sensitive acoustic and electric jazz. It is the latter two disciplines that are displayed on this disc, I believe better than most other examples of DiMeola's work. Even when playing acoustic or neutrally amplified electric, DiMeola has a subtle strength to his sound that is nothing like Metheny. The solo in the middle of the title track alone should dispel any conception of his being all about speed--it's melodic, emotional and spare, but nonetheless contains a couple of effortless flamenco runs to remind you that this is a special player you're listening to. The work on "Precious Little You", for example, is pretty straight ahead jazz, but contains periodic note combinations that are simultaneously unexpected and smile-inducing at the sheer artistry of it.
This isn't "Elegant Gypsy", and if that's what you're after you're going to be disappointed, but you shouldn't be--you should be amazed and overwhelmed that the man who did that could also do this. It's called "artistic growth", and I believe it's a serious listener's duty to grow as well.

If I wanted Pat Matheny..........2005-03-20

This album was hyped as the follow-up to the excellent "Kiss My Axe", but, with the exception of one arrangement (Casmire), it has nothing to do with the former.

There's a reason I don't have any Pat Matheny albums...because almost all of them sound a lot like this. It's not only the worst DiMeola album I've heard, but it's is among the most boring and uninspiring jazz albums I've ever heard.

Meola's Delicate Power.......2004-01-21

Meola arrived at a point of culmination with this album. The music is consistent, deliberate, and channeled with what seems to have been a kind of mid-life confindence. He does explore new methods of instrumentation as may be expected with Meola, though certainly does not go overboard musically as do some artists during periods of high creativity. He is speaking from a very deep place, and the music represents his mastery, or display of control rather, over the guitar--and the tracts both blend and emerge as an profound expression of life's more difficult sentiments--"Until We Meet Again", 1 & 2, are good examples of this, and would be all one would need to hear to understand where he was coming from, though the album is complete in this respect--every song stands as an independent expression. This was not a pure American writing this music--he allows himself to reach back into his European memory to produce something more methodic and orchestrated--the intricacies are subtle perhaps, but precise and carefully rendered for sure.

An Excellent Master Piece.......2003-08-30

This one of my favorite, A true Master Piece.
It can hear an evolving story with plot, A Theme through out the Record. Its more of a mellow jazzy CD, Kind Of A Pat Matheny Sound. A Must for every jazz fan. Really. Great.
This One Can Really Move me To Tears. Magical.

An Excellent Master Piece.......2003-08-30

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Orange and Blue
Al di Meola
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Ta'alina Chant
Orange and Blue
This Way Before
Summer Country Song
If We Meet Again, Pt. 1
If We Meet Again, Pt. 2
Cyprus
Theme of the Mother Ship
Precious Little You
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On My Own

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