Our First Record

Our First Record

ASIN: B00006670M

Track Listings

1. Canyon Song

2. Full Circle

3. Japan/Charles St. Melancholy

4. Collin's Delite

5. Cry of the Peacock/Coral

6. Maty's New Bloom

7. Aheer

8. Recuerdos

9. Histoire du Farm Suite

10. Jade Visions

11. Molecular

12. Margueritte

13. Entrez Devotée Compagne

Tracks:

Canyon Song
Full Circle
Japan/Charles St. Melancholy
Collin's Delite
Cry of the Peacock/Coral
Maty's New Bloom
Aheer
Recuerdos
Histoire du Farm Suite
Jade Visions
Molecular
Margueritte
Entrez DevotCompagne

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Wellcurbs
Wellcurbs
Manufacturer: Wellcurbs
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0007M8IR8
Release Date: 2005-09-20

Product Description

Tracks: 1.) The Light and All 2.) Falling 3.) Remove 4.) Directions 5.) Broken 6.) Rainbows (Stealing Flowers) 7.) Reaching Still 8.) Seasons 9.) Magic 10) Breathe For Me 11) A Tendency to Slip Away Mixed by Dave Bellochio

Handel - Joshua / Aler · Baird · Fortunato · Ostendorf · Brewer Chamber Orchestra · Palmer

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follow up
diamond in rough
An occasional Haendel.

Handel - Joshua / Aler · Baird · Fortunato · Ostendorf · Brewer Chamber Orchestra · Palmer

Manufacturer: Newport Classic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000003W2B
Release Date: 1993-10-01

Tracks:

Act One: Ov - Brewer CO/Rudolph Palmer
Act One: Chor: Ye Sons Of Israel, Ev'ry Tribe Attend - The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act One: Recitative: Behold, My Friends, What Vast Rewards Are Giv'n - John Aler/John Ostendorf
Act One: Recitative: Matrons And Virgins, With Unweary'd Pray'r - Julianne Baird
Act One: Recitative: Caleb, Attend To All I Now Prescribe - John Aler/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act One: Accompanied Recitative: So Long The Memory Shall Last - John Aler
Act One: Recitative: But Who Is He? - Tremendous To Behold! - D'Anna Fortunato
Act One: Recitative: Joshua, I Come Commission'd From On High - The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes/John Aler
Act One: Recitative: To Give Command, Prerogative Is Thine - John Aler
Act One: Chor: The Lord Commands, And Joshua Leads - The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act One: Accompanied Recitative: In These Blest Scenes - D'Anna Fortunato/Julianne Baird
Act One: Aria Da Capo: Hark! 'Tis The Linnet And The Thrush - Julianne Baird
Act One: Recitative: Oh Achsah! Form'd For Ev'ry Chaste Delight - D'Anna Fortunato/Julianne Baird
Act One: Fanfare/Recitative: The Trumpet Calls: Now Jericho Shall Know - D'Anna Fortunato/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Two: Recitative: 'Tis Well! Six Times The Lord Hath Been Obey'd - John Aler
Act Two: March Of The Ark: Glory To God - John Aler/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Two: Recitative: The Walls Are Levell'd! Pour The Chosen Bands - John Ostendorf

Tracks:

Act Two: Aria: To Vanity And Earthly Pride - Julianne Baird
Act Two: Recitative: Let All The Seed Of Abrah'm Now Prepare - John Aler/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Two: Recitative: Joshua, The Men, Dispatch'd By Thee To Learn - John Ostendorf/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Two: Recitative: Whence This Dejection? - John Aler/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Two: Recitative: Now Give The Army Breath - D'Anna Fortunato
Act Two: Recitative: Indulgent Heav'n Hath Heard My Virgin Pray'r - Julianne Baird
Act Two: Recitative: Surely I'm Deceiv'd! With Sorow I Behold- - John Ostendorf/D'Anna Fortunato
Act Two: Recitative: Brethren And Friends, What Joy This Scene Imparts - John Aler/John Ostendorf
Act Two: Solo And Chor: Oh! Thou, Bright Orb, Great Ruler Of The Day - John Aler/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Three: Chor: Hail! Mighty Joshua, Hail! - The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Three: Aria Da Capo: Happy, Oh Thrice Happy We - Julianne Baird
Act Three: Recitative: Caleb, For Holy Eleazar Send - John Aler/John Ostendorf/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Three: Recitative: Oh Caleb, Fear'd By Foes, By Friends Ador'd! - D'Anna Fortunato/John Ostendorf
Act Three: Chor: Father Of Mercy, Hear The Prayer We Make - The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Three: Recitative: In Bloom Of Youth, This Stripling Has Acheiv'd - John Aler/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes
Act Three: Recitative: Welcome, My Son! My Othniel Good And Great! - John Ostendorf/D'Anna Fortunato/Julianne Baird
Act Three: Recitative: While Life Shall Last, Each Moment Will Improve - D'Anna Fortunato/Julianne Baird
Act Three: Recitative: While Lawless Tyrants, With Ambition Blind - John Ostendorf/The Palmer Sgrs/Cynthia Richards-Hewes

Customer Reviews:

follow up.......2003-12-14

Oops, sorry, forgot about the soloists. John Aler has a brighter tenor sound, not as dark as Robert Tear, but the way he handles the recitative text is very similar. Both he an John Ostendorf are a little heavy on the vibrato for my taste, but their diction is not that much skewed by it. J. Ostendorf is a heavy, rich bass, which is striking when you first hear it against Aler's brighter lyric voice. It almost seems wooly, but he steers it away from any Wagnerian tendancies to create a striking bu handsome compliment. Baird is gorgeous- it's that simple. She is not my favorite, but she comes real close. With a voice reminiscent of Emma Kirkby and expression along the lines of Janet Baker, it's a refreshing treat among all these increasing Helden-Sopranos who think that baroque music gives them an excuse to through all delicacy out the window. Over all, this recording is more of a 4 1/2, and I think the most well balanced one may come across.

diamond in rough.......2003-12-14

The conductor may be no Raymond Leppard, but he's preferable by a great stretch than some of these other "new baroque" recordings out there where everything is a forte marcato allegretto. He maintains the baroque atmosphere, much like Harnoncourt's sound (is this he? I don't know who the conductor is). The chorus also has the baroque sound, but my goodness! Thank God for a chorus with proper vowels and a nice sound! Much better than some Deutsche Grammaphon choruses I've heard. If you like the Monteverdi Choir with Gardiner, you'd probably like this chorus as well (I myself am a choister and soloist specializing in oratorio and other such sacred music).

An occasional Haendel........1999-10-26

The enclosed booklet is too poor. The singers are only good (the best is the soprano). Only good also the conductor . In this way this Haendel's work seems a minor one. Is really so?

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Our First Christmas
Cynthia Crane , and Mike Renzi
Manufacturer: Original Cast Record
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music

Opera & Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music
ASIN: B000003YMI
Release Date: 2000-01-01

Tracks:

Our First Christmas
Once a Year Miracle
Paris in the Snow
Little Jack Frost Get Lost
Christmas Morning
Best Christmas
Song for Christmas
Christmas Is an Island
Keep Christmas With You
If I Hear Another Song About Christmas
NoBlanc (White Christmas)

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Sci-Fidelity

Manufacturer: Freedomzone Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA8DXO
Release Date: 2005-06-28

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Rock-n-Okie Roll
The Totty Brothers
Manufacturer: Our First Record Company
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000KJZYWA

Product Description

Band members: Byron Totty, David Blue, Dennis Totty. Tracks include: You Got Me Floatin', Babe You Know I Do,and Cool Fool.

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Our First Record
Oregon
Manufacturer: 3d Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000P0IZZ2
Release Date: 2007-02-12

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post-rock with tuba
aural narcotic

Box Fetish
Drums & Tuba
Manufacturer: My Pal God Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

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Vinyl Killer
Mostly Ape

ASIN: B00004X0J3
Release Date: 2000-09-05

Tracks:

Does It Suck To Be You
The Inspector
Adventures Of Poo-Poo And Pee-Pee
Carrots
Loteria
Open Case
Kuc To Luc
Gimpel The Fool
5.24.94
In Case
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No Good With Words
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Customer Reviews:

post-rock with tuba.......2002-05-15

At root, Drums & Tuba sound like Tortoise with bass lines performed on tuba. This is a good thing for a world starved for inspiring instrumental post-rock. Other woodwinds are implicated, angular percussion punctuates the songs, melodies come and go, a guitar comes into and out of focus Fripp style, and odd noises meander through the tracks. Alternatively contemplative and boppy, airy and dense, this one should be filed alongside Tortoise, Brokeback, Isotope 217 and your other favorite post-rockers. Influences are too many to enumerate -- for instance, Track 12 is based on klezmer, which makes sense for a band with a tuba! The music could also be filed with trance-inspired drum and bass on the jazzier side, such as Amon Tobin. Drums and Tuba, who hail from New York by way of Austin, thankfully prove that post-rock can survive outside of the rarefied air of Chicago.

aural narcotic.......2001-07-02

D&T leave no musical stone unturned on this one. The guitar work recalls Modest Mouse, darkish compositions that seem at once free-wheeling and metronomically precise. The diverse instruments dart in front of and behind one another hypnotically. Each gets a shot at being the lead, the rhythm, the conceptual centerpiece. This is math rock at its finest, but don't let the term "math" dissuade you. The music is technically amazing in its painstaking construction, but its intellect is not of the overwrought and emotionally detached sort one might often associate with the genre. There's even a reworking of the Minutemen's "God Bows to Math," a very cool touch.

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Night Rocker
David Hasselhoff
Manufacturer: K Point Gold
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000NGU5H4

Product Description

Rare import gold CD release of David Hasselhoff's "Knight Rocker". Track list: 1. Night Rocker, 2. Crazy On a Saturday, 3. Do You Love Me, 4. Our First Night Together, 5. She Cried, 6. No Way To Be In Love, 7. Any Kind Of Love At All, 8. All the Right Moves, 9. No Words For Love, 10. Let It Be Me, 11. Medley (She Cried, All the Right Moves, Our First Night Together), and 12. Night Rocker (Extended Blaster-Mix).

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A fascinating find!
Definitive "new age" album from 1970
A Must-Own for Fans of Exploratory Acoustic Music

Our First Record
Oregon
Manufacturer: Universe Italy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Music of Another Present Era

ASIN: B00006670M
Release Date: 2002-05-07

Tracks:

Canyon Song
Full Circle
Japan/Charles St. Melancholy
Collin's Delite
Cry of the Peacock/Coral
Maty's New Bloom
Aheer
Recuerdos
Histoire du Farm Suite
Jade Visions
Molecular
Margueritte
Entrez DevotCompagne

Customer Reviews:

A fascinating find!.......2004-10-19

As the title suggests, this IS Oregon's first record, recorded back in 1970 but never released (on LP) until a decade later, in 1980. I have no idea as to how long the 1980 LP sat dormant before being released on CD, but it must have been quite a while. (The Amazon.com product page info states that the CD was released just two years ago, in 2002.)

As one who has followed the careers of both Paul Winter (and his Consort) and the Oregon group, this album is a very special find for me. It was recorded at roughly the same time as was "Road," the first Winter Consort album that included these Oregon musicians, as well as Winter and David Darling, on cello. This group would go on to record one other Winter Consort album, "Icarus," before Oregon established its own identity on a series of albums for Vanguard,and, later, Elektra-Asylum and ECM (although Paul McCandless worked with the Winter Consort both before "Road" and after "Icarus," most notably in "Common Ground" and "Canyon").

Perhaps the most amazing aspects, to me, of "Our First Record" are the facts that Oregon as a group had established its basic sound - its vision - as early as it did and that this vision was so uniquely different from that of the early Winter Consort. The liner notes, as well as some additional web-reading, suggest that the basic sound evolved during jam sessions while with the Consort, and that it all came together during studio work spread over six weeks in 1970.

Whatever one chooses to call Oregon's music (world jazz fusion, acoustic fusion, "the first of the new-age groups," among others, have been applied), it is immediately distinctive, both for its unusual combination of instrumental timbres and for its adventurous range of material. It can groove, as good jazz must, as in the bass work of Glen Moore in "Collin's Delight" and the piano jazz work of Ralph Towner in "Margueritte." Or it can feature the lyrical (and often stratospheric) oboe work of Paul McCandless ("Canyon Song" and "Jade Vision"). And Collin Walcott's sitar and tabla work give the group its "world music" flavor.

This is very much a "studio production" in light of the amount of multi-tracking that appears. (Particularly intriguing is "Recuerdos," in which Paul McCandless appears to be playing a trio of oboes in the background, beneath the bluesy work of Ralph Towner on guitar and Glen Moore on bass). But neither this, nor the group's apologies (in the liner notes) about the quality of the 1970 sound, can detract from what is a superb first effort. In fact, I found nothing about which to quibble as far as the sound is concerned; it's really very fine, and no apologies are required. (The only drawback, and it is a very minor one that doesn't affect my own 5-star rating for the CD, is its 47:14 running time, due to its LP origins.)

A few of these tracks (no.'s 3, 5 and 6) are duplicated on "Oregon: Best of The Vanguard Years" (which, for some, means the best of Oregon, as Collin Walcott was lost to the group before they established their ECM career). But, for those who - like me - are interested in just how quickly the group's sound evolved, "Our First Album" is a must-have.

With this very first Oregon album "safely home," now all this particular compleatist needs is the CD release of those three early Winter Consort albums (two with McCandless and one with the full Oregon group) on the A&M label: "The Winter Consort," "Something in the Wind" and "Road"; these remain major gaps in the shared catalogs of these amazing musicians. In the meantime, "Our First Album" will tide me over nicely, thank you very much!

Bob Zeidler

Definitive "new age" album from 1970.......2002-11-02

Oregon released the first "new age" album in 1970, 20 years before the term was coined. Their acoustic fusion of classical, jazz, and raga remains as unique and intriguing as it was when I picked up a vinyl copy back around 1980, and sounds just as good or better on CD. The grooves are light and ethereal. Great music for relaxing and meditating.

Ralph Towner - Guitar (12 String & Classical), Piano, Arranger, Mellophonium
Collin Walcott - Percussion, Sitar, Tabla, Guitar (12 String) Glen Moore - Bass, Flute
Paul McCandless - Horn (English), Oboe

A Must-Own for Fans of Exploratory Acoustic Music.......2002-05-09

This wonderful album was recorded in 1970, before
Oregon's "official" first release, "Music of
Another Present Era," but not released until 1980.
It was in print on vinyl for about five minutes,
but then disappeared. It's a marvelous record,
and a must-own for fans of Oregon's early sound or
anyone interested in acoustic music that seeks
inspiration in a wide range of cultures and
sources. There are spirited versions of songs
that would appear of later albums -- "Canyon

Song," "Margueritte," and "Mary's New Bloom" --
played with such confidence and collective empathy
it's hard to believe this was the tentative first
recording by this band. One of the gems of this
album is "Aheer," a 7-minute Collin Walcott
composition, with Walcott on sitar, that stands as
one of the group's best recordings: Oregon's
ensemble sound is fully arrived on this track,
with Towner's incisive classical guitar dancing
with Walcott's sitar so deftly they sound like one
player with four hands. (Walcott, the group's
sitar player and percussionist, who died in a car
accident in the 1980s, didn't write very many
melodies, alas, but they're almost all poignant
and lovely, so discovering another major
composition by him is a major event.)

Only one track sounds dated -- the "space" track,
"Molecular," which has some studio gimmickry --
but the rest sounds as timeless as Bach. Few
groups of any kind were as articulate, subtly

emotional, and wide ranging in its influences --
and as swinging! -- as this.

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