Orange

Orange

ASIN: B0000TLA82

Track Listings

1. Blue Rex

2. Triple Diamond

3. Sky Tango

4. Drop Op

5. Rebass Song

6. Burnt Sweet Orange

7. Goorootoo

8. Box in Orange

9. Language

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Orange, the second release from Mario Pavone's Nu Trio/Quintet in as many years, is the follow-up to the all-star group's acclaimed 2002 debut, Mythos (PSR#J111401), which was named to best of the year lists by the Village Voice, AllAboutJazz and Slate.com. In the same vein as its predecessor, Orange features four tracks by the veteran bassist/composer's core trio, which first recorded 1999's Remembering Thomas (Knitting Factory), along with five quintet tracks, which add trumpeter/arranger Steven Bernstein and tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby

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Songs from Instant Star 3
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Songs from Instant Star 3
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Orange Music Canada
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It Won't Be Soon Before Long

ASIN: B000RW3YIQ
Release Date: 2007-07-17

Tracks:

Where Does It Hurt
Waste My Time
What You Need
I DonT Know If I Should Stay
Just The Beginning
Love To Burn
Unraveling
DonT You Dare
I Will Be The Flame
Worth Waiting For
Darkness Round The Sun
Shooting Star
Breakdown
No Shirt No Shoes

Album Details

2007 Soundtrack of the Third Season of the Hit Canadian TV Show "Instant Star". All of the Songs were Originally Sung by Alexz Johnson for the Show, Though Some were Re-recorded by Others for this Soundtrack Due to Legal Issues.

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A nice surprise

Healing Through Fire
Orange Goblin
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Coup De Grace

ASIN: B000QFCD7C
Release Date: 2007-06-26

Tracks:

Ballad of Solomon Eagle
Vagrant Stomp
Ale House Braves
Cities of Frost
Hot Knives and Open Sores
Hounds Ditch
Mortlake (Dead Water)
They Come Back (Harvest of Skulls)
Beginners Guide to Suicide

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Some You Win, Some You Lose [DVD][Live]
Quincy the Pig Boy [DVD][Live]
Getting High on the Bad Times [DVD][Live]
Ballad of Solomon Eagle [DVD][Live]
Hot Magic Red Planet [DVD][Live]
Round Up the Horses [DVD][Live]
They Come Back [DVD][Live]
Your World Will Hate This [DVD][Live]
Blue Snow [DVD][Live]
Scorpionica [DVD][Live]
Bonus Materials [DVD][*]

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A nice surprise.......2007-07-04

Healing through fire is a very good record. Having never heard anything from orange goblin before i picked this up because of the positive things i read in metal magazines and i was pleasently surprised. I have heard orange goblin labled as a doom band and although that is close to me their songs sound more like jam sessions, that is the best way i can describe them. Highlights are the ballad of solomon eagle,vagrant stomp,the ale house braves,hounds ditch,they come back(harvest of skulls), and beginners guide to suicide.

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I wish I could give it 10 stars!
Best Anime CD in awhile
Greatest CD ever!
A Must Have For Bleach Fans

Bleach the Best

Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000J4OYVI
Release Date: 2006-12-25

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I wish I could give it 10 stars!.......2007-04-30

I bought Bleach the Best for the CD alone. The CD is wonderful!!!! My children and I love the songs and have a great time. In the car or doing dishes at home, this CD has music that gets you pumped to watch the series! The CD songs are the openings and closings for the show and it is great to hear them in their true form. The CD set I purchased from Amazon came with the DVD for Region 2 or for Japanese DVD players, pin-ups of the captians and Renji along with a booklet with the lyrics of the songs in Japanese. As far as I am concerned, it is worth every penny!

Best Anime CD in awhile.......2007-04-19

I love this CD! I watched the first 118 episodes of the show and grew to LOVE the theme songs. I wanted them so bad but Amazon has too high a price for this cd, so I bought it used from one of the sellers. I got the cd in perfect condition for half the listed price for a new one, and just wanted to comment on one of the previous feedbacks about the DVD issues.

First off, this listing is for the CD ONLY, at least for the used copies. There is another listing with the CD/DVD combo here on Amazon. So if you want the DVD as well, make sure to look at both listings carefully or you will pay the same price and only get half of the packege, unless you buy used.

But I do say that the price is worth it to fans of the show who are farther along then the english dubbed episodes, because many of the theme songs are from later episodes. Hope this helps anyone interested in the CD.

Greatest CD ever!.......2007-04-05

I love this CD so much. It's all I listen to right now. I play it in the car on the way to work and then put it into my computer and listen to it alla day at work. The artwork on the cover is very cool too. Well worth the price!

A Must Have For Bleach Fans.......2006-12-20

I managed to pick this up in Japan the day after it was released. What a great find! The CD contains MOST of the openers & closers to the Bleach Episodes that have been aired in Japan (they're well past Episode 100 there). The DVD (Region 2 DVD) has the accompanying "clean" opening and closing anime set to the music. Also included is a set of pin-ups and a book with Lyrics, Credits, and messages from Noriyuki Abe and Tite Kubo (all written in Japanese). A brief warning about Region 2 DVDs... they won't play in a regular DVD Player purchased in North America. You can play them on a computer's DVD-ROM reader, but be careful! You can only change the Region of a DVD-ROM reader 4 or 5 times before the setting becomes permanent.

Song Titles & Artist by Track:
1. Asterisk by Orange Range
2. Life Is Like A Boat by Rie fu
3. Thank You by HOME MADE KAZOKU
4. D-tecnoLife by UVERworld
5. "Comet" by Younha
6. happypeople by Skoop On Somebody
7. "Flower of one wheel" by HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
8. LIFE by YUI
9. "My Pace" by SunSet Swish
10. TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT by BEAT CRUSADERS
11. HANABI ("Fireworks") by IKIMONO GAKARI
12. MOVIN!! by TAKACHA

A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score

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A little bit misleading
Pioneering and enjoyable electronic music
'A Clockwork Orange:Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score' Movie Soundtrack (East Side Digital)
Lost pieces and extras from the gifted musician who gave A CLOCKWORK ORANGE that Moogish flavour
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A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score

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Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film)
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ASIN: B00000DGXX
Release Date: 1998-11-03

Tracks:

Timesteps
March From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoven: Ninth Symphony: Foruth Movement, Abridged)
Title Music From A Clockwork Orange (From Purcell's Music For The Funeral Of Quenn Mary)
La Gazza Ladra (Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, Abridged)
Theme From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)
Ninth Symphony: Second Movement (Scherzo)
William Tell Ouverture, Abridged
Orange Minuet
Biblical Daydreams
Country Lane

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One of the most satisfying soundtrack "companion" pieces ever released, this collaboration between synthesist Wendy Carlos and producer Rachel Elkind manages to both logically extend and credibly expand on director Stanley Kubrick's masterfully conceived Clockwork Orange musical ethos. That shouldn't be surprising, as the pair was largely responsible for initiating those concepts with the music they'd begun as a follow-up to their successful, synthesizer-pioneering Switched on Bach collection. "Timesteps," a rich, wildly evocative, 13+ minute electronic sound and music collage, was based on impressions gleaned from Anthony Burgess's original novel (excerpts of it are liberally scattered throughout the film), while an abridged version of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was an early experiment in vocal synthesis that ended up as one of the film's key motifs. Also featured here are synthesized versions of music Kubrick ultimately chose to use in orchestral form (Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie") as well as original Carlos/Elkind electronic compositions ("Orange Minuet," "Biblical Daydreams," and "Country Lane") that ended up on the cutting-room floor. Composed on primitive, monophonic analog instruments (which could play only one at a time!) long supplanted by generations of digital revolution, this work has a brooding otherworldly quality all its own. As our favorite Droog would say: "It was like a bird of rarest spun metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all nonsense now." --Jerry McCulley

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A little bit misleading.......2007-05-13

I thought I was buying the complete soundtrack to the film and not just Wendy Carlo's bits. But it was ok.

Pioneering and enjoyable electronic music .......2006-09-15

I used to have this recording on LP - the cover was a marvellous collage (the new cover is slightly naff) - and it was a very fine companion to the regular A Clockwork Orange soundtrack, which featured music which didn't fit together very well outside the context of the film.

Wendy Carlos's complete score is very satisfying and it still stands up well today (2006). I think that the standout tracks on this album are 'Timesteps' and 'Country Lane', which are powerful original compositions. Both tracks display a remarkable musical imagination.

Timesteps is a freely composed fantasia which takes us from place to place in the mind of the composer. There are moments which sound like jungle music, others which sound like sentimental film music with an ocean in the background and another second with an unnaturally sweet heavenly female choir sound. It is a unique composition and quite superb. It is a pity Wendy Carlos didn't write more music as inspired as this piece - perhaps she did and I haven't heard them!?

Country Lane is also very impressive. It is a piece which demonstrates very cruel emotions very well. The use of the ancient "Dies Irae" tune, also used very effectively by Liszt and Berlioz, "vocoded" is a brilliant touch. In fact, the vocoder was used very effectively by Wendy Carlos in Timesteps, Country Land and the Fourth Movement of the 9th Symphony of Beethoven on this disc. Perhaps the first significant use of this instrument on a recording? Kraftwerk and Zap went on to use the instrument in more popular musical styles.

The choral section of the fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony recorded by Wendy Carlos is strangely beautiful and beguiling. Sort of a "reification" of a dreamt interpretation of the music? Perhaps.....

The purely "instrumental" works and Classical and Classically inspired works on this album are very interesting and represent some very effective use of the synthesizer. Of course, it would be easy for many people with a computer and some other equipment to do their own electronica versions of these works today. However, Wendy Carlos had a very personal style and understanding of this music. Her version of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Brandenburg Concertos still entertain me today, even though I am really a devotee of the HIP approach to this music.

I dare say that Wendy Carlos introduced a lot of young people to the music of Beethoven and to the idea of using synthesizers. I remember reading that Phil Oakey, from The Human League, said that Wendy Carlos was a major influence on him.

'A Clockwork Orange:Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score' Movie Soundtrack (East Side Digital).......2006-07-03

I've heard several long-time music fans boast about how this movie soundtrack is simply 'one of' THE best album releases,period!Rather they be a big-time metal head,a classic rock supporter,someone who plays easy listening material all the time,maybe an school punk fan,etc.To best describe this CD(with added bonus cuts that wouldn't fit on the original vinyl lp)I would say it's like ahead-of-it's-time new age with an experimental vibe to it.Key tracks are the unforgetable thirteen minute "Timesteps",the creative "Theme From A Clockwork Orange","William Tell Overture,Abridged" and a tune that was co-written by Carlos and movie producer Rachel Elkind "Biblical Daydreams".A must-have reissue CD of the cult masterpiece Stanley Kubrick film,that after you've seen the flick for the very first time,it MAY effect the way you look at the world from here on out.Highly recommended.

Lost pieces and extras from the gifted musician who gave A CLOCKWORK ORANGE that Moogish flavour.......2006-04-30

I own the original LP and cassette of this album ... released after the release of the "original soundtrack," this album offers the CLOCKWORK fan the "real" soundtrack. Missing are the third party tracks which Kubrick used ... included are the complete "Timesteps" which is what convinced Kubrick to hire (then) Walter Carlos to adapt the classical works for the film ... also included is the electronic rendition of "The Thieving Magpie," not finished in time for inclusion in the film ... and a piece which wasn't used, "Country Lane."

The Warner album includes an abridged excerpt of "Timesteps" (bits of it were used in the film), but the complete composition gets a deserved spotlight here. This is not a "movie soundtrack" album, but Wendy Carlos' own release of the music she prepared for the film. "Angel trumpets and devil trombones ... hear all proper now." ;)

A Bit of the Old Ludwig Van.......2005-10-21

Yes the Moogs are this album are "primitive" but their sound is vastly superior to today's synths. The Moogs were vastly more expressive and subtle. If this album were recorded on digital synths, it would just sound cheesy. Timesteps is an amazing piece that gives you the creeps even if you haven't seen the movie. As a soundtrack it perfectly mixes the themes of ultra violence and Beethoven seemlessly. If you buy this cd (and by all means do)please refer to it as "early electronica" rather than "new age". It deserves the credit for everything it helped spawn

Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film)

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Kubrick At His Best
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Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film)
Various Artists , Ludwig van Beethoven , Edward Elgar , Terry Tucker , Erika Eigen , Nacio Herb Brown , and Gene Kelly
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ASIN: B000002KDU
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Title Music From A Clockwork Orange - Walter Carlos
The Thieving Magpie (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST
Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana) - Walter Carlos
Ninth Symphony, Second Movement (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST D
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Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 - Stanley Kubrick
Pomp And Circumstance March No.4 (Abridged) - Stanley Kubrick
Timesteps (Excerpt) - Walter Carlos
Overture To The Sun - Terry Tucker
I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper - Ericka Eigen
William Tell Overture (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST
Suicide Scherzo (Ninth Symphony, Second Movement, Abridged) - Walter Carlos
Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST
Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly

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Stanley Kubrick's demanding perfectionism in all aspects of the filmmaking process has led to some of the most memorable soundtracks of the modern era. Kubrick's taste for the classics led to his scrapping Alex North's original score for 2001: A Space Odyssey in lieu of the "temporary" tracks he had used for editing, turning Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra into an unlikely 20th-century pop icon. For his 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's cautionary future-shocker, Kubrick once again turned to the classics. Malcolm McDowell's protagonist Droog Alex's taste for Beethoven is given a nice tweaking by Moog pioneer Walter (now Wendy) Carlos's synthesized take on the glorious Ninth Symphony. Some have complained that the now-primitive electronics involved give it a dated feel. Disturbingly--and effectively--other-worldly is more like it. Kubrick also imbues repertory standards by Rossini and Elgar with dark, frequently hilarious irony, and makes Gene Kelly's sunny reading of "Singin' In The Rain" the underscore to an all-too-accurate prediction of societal nightmares to come. --Jerry McCulley

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Prisoner 6 double-five 3-2-1.......2007-03-16

The soundtrack album of CLOCKWORK ORANGE, even with it's simple (and supposedly) outdated Wendy Carlos recordings, holds up far better than the actual film has over these 36 years. This story takes place in the 1990s, and we all know that today's world is nothing like Anthony Burgess' dismal and nightmarish vision . . . don't we?

Most of the CLOCKWORK ORANGE soundtrack's classical selections are by Herbert Von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. These spirited Beethoven and Rossini interpretations remain some of the very best ever recorded.

The excerpt of Wendy's "Timesteps" is the most compelling piece here. In the film, this stark aural collage is background to Alex's behavior modification. In order to shorten his prison sentence, the violent sociopath is made chemically ill while forced to view scenes of rapine and bloodshed. His sickness can only be arrested by replacing his natural criminal urges with passive thoughts.

It's hard to listen to "Overture To The Sun" without recalling the spotlighted naked girl who tempts an on-exhibit Alex into a state of unwellness that he likens to "wanting to snuff it." His freedom to choose brutality has been taken from him forcefully, through violent reprogramming. The subsequent events that precipitate Alex's restoration into a fully non-functional member of society beset him in a fashion ironically similar to the chaos he once left in his violent wake.

The stark images and perversities of this movie tend to stay with a person. Perhaps watching Kubrick's CLOCKWORK ORANGE has in some way "programmed" the viewer, too, by desensitizing us to the madness that is all around. Maybe this film holds up better than I thought. I must have a glass of choko moloko and reconsider . . .

Kubrick At His Best.......2007-01-11

This is a fantastic Kubrick movie. Based on a novel of equal respect, this movie details troubled youth, violence, and sex in a modern-yet-more-so world. The slang of the young men in the movie is a mixture of British and Russian slang terminology created by the book's author. A must-see for the Kubrick fan out there.

Good soundtrack.......2006-02-20

I own this on vinyl and yes an exellent soundtrack from an exellent movie

Easier to experience than the movie!.......2005-08-17

Having purchased this soundtrack along with its respective CD score (by Wendy Carlos), it is a wonderful installment to any soundtrack fan/buff. The awesome sound of classical music, contained in the CDs, in which director Stanley Kubrick chose for the picture, is so juxtaposing it is brilliant. Even if one does not know a lick of classical music, one can easily suggest this soundtrack as a useful introduction into the genre. Though the film may not be as easy to experience as the music contained inside, the soundtrack stands as a milestone for music in film perhaps only beaten by the director's previous work in '2001 A Space Odyssey'.

Horrorshow Lomticks of Music to do the old Ultra-Violence By. .......2005-07-28

Bolshi Yarblockos, my droggies. Viddy thou this incredible soundtrack from the film A Clockwork Orange. Cued from the novel by Anthony Burgess, the musical selections mainly focus on the Beethoven obsession of the main character Alex, however Carlos's deep knowledge of the classical repetoire and Kubrick's neurotic perfectionism combine to fill out this album. I love most of the tracks here, and have listened to them since 1972.

My personal favorite is the title music of the film, Henry Purcell's "Funeral Music for Queen Mary," a piece so appropriate to the film that Purcell must have been channelling the future when he wrote it in the late 17th century. Carlos's interpretation of this Purcell piece is astounding in its forboding textures and alientating timbres. Electronic tympani have never sounded better - and were never used like this before. Ring modualtions, filter sweeps, phased sawtooth angel trumpets and resonate devil trombones - oh bliss!

I also liked the strange music Kubrick chose - "I want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper," and "Anthem to the Sun," both obscure and perfect.

Carlos's avant-garde composition "Timesteps" appears in abbreviated form here, and for most listeners this abridgement is enough.

The concluding ironic use of "Singing in the Rain," is wonderful, and after an album (and film) full of electronics, classical music, and weirdness, a standard is shocking enough.

There is a new version of the soundtrack put out by Carlos herself, which includes only her work. Some tracks composed but not used in the film appear here, as do some track used, but not appearing on the OST as well. Timesteps in its 13:37 form is also on this album.

For those fans of Prog rock: Viddy the film when Alex visits a record store: Notice the Vertigo swirl above the main desk, also in the wrecked foyer of Alex's highrise, one of the figures on the vandalised mural has "Suck it and see" written on it, also the name of a Vertigo music sampler of the same era.

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Philip Glass: Theater Music Vol. 1

Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music
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ASIN: B000PHW16O
Release Date: 2007-04-24

Tracks:

Sound of a Voice Suite
In the Summer House
"My one and only hope..."
Gertrude's Paradise
Mr. Solares' Picnic Lunch
"Molly is a Dreamer."
Enter Vivian
The Beach/ Lionel and Molly
Vivian's Death/Two Marriages
"Life is tragic, Mrs. Constable"
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Left alone...
The Lobster Bowl
Back to Sad Things
Gertrude Returns
"I knew you'd come back..."
A Choice
Lionel Departs
"When I was a little girl..."

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From the Philip Glass Recording Archive Vol. 1 represents the first release by Orange Mountain Music from the extensive archive of recordings made in the last 40 years of Philip Glass' recording career. Theater Music Vol. 1 features two ravishingly beautiful works from the world of theater: the instrumental suite from Glass' 2003 chamber opera is highlighted by eastern and western instrumentation in one of Glass' most original scores. In the Summer House is music composed for the revival of the 1953 Bowles play. Both these scres bring a rare chance to hear one of the most important theater composers of our time in unknown scores.

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Laughs,beers,and bikes
One of Prine's Best
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John Prine "Bruised Orange"
I Beg to Differ

Bruised Orange
John Prine
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ASIN: B0000005XV
Release Date: 1989-08-08

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Fish And Whistle
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If You Don't Want My Love
That's The Way That The World Goes 'Round
Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow)
Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone
Aw Heck
Crooked Piece Of Time
Iron Ore Betty
The Hobo Song

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It took John Prine seven years to make his peace with the "New Dylan" expectations that accompanied his critically hailed 1971 debut. Which isn't to say that the Illinois-born singer/songwriter didn't make some fine music in the years that passed between his initial recording and this, a comfortable-as-an-old-shoe collection that signals the start of Prine's settling-in period. Folk-circuit fellow traveler Steve Goodman's sympathetic production suits Prine just fine. The songs, meanwhile, are sprinkled with wise and witty wordplay. "Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone" chronicles a misbegotten movie promotion. "If You Don't Want My Love" is an oddly unrepentant exercise in self-pity copenned with reclusive pop producer Phil Spector, while "Aw Heck" is its polar opposite--a sing-it-from-the-rafters celebration of passion ("I could get the electric chair for a phony rap / Long as she's sittin' in my lap"). It's not faint praise to note that Bruised Orange is thoroughly likable. --Steven Stolder

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Laughs,beers,and bikes.......2005-12-17

I used to live in Marquette, MI. On snowy winter nights I would hang out with my friend Matt and work on bikes,drink beers, and listen to this album. All he had was a crumby cassette tape of this recording. So, months later, I knew I had to have this CD in my collection. Its so awesome! This is great songwriting! Very happy ,life loving songs. I need more John Prine, thats all I know. Thanks John, where would we be with out you?

One of Prine's Best.......2005-08-08

Folk legend John Prine's albums are all somewhere between good and excellent, and "Bruised Orange" is one of the best. The opener, "Fish and Whistle" and "That's the Way the World Goes Round", have been played countless times at open mike shows in my hometown of Baton Rouge and many other places I would imagine. "If You Don't Want My Love" certainly sounds a lot different from the other more folksy selections, but I still like it--it just presents another side of Prine's songwriting ability. My other favorites are the title track, which as another reviewer noted features a poetic refrain about the wages of anger "for a heart stained with anger grows weak and grows bitter, you become your own prisoner as you watch yourself sit there wrapped up in a trap of your very own chain of sorrow."--unmatchable lyricism--and the closing "Hobo Song", which features another great chorus "could it be that time has gone and left them tied up in life's eternal traveling sack," sung by the "Hobo Chorus", which in producer Steve Goodman's able hands sounds very much like you'd expect a chorus of hobos to sound.

It's a happy enchilada ..........2005-04-23

One of my two favourite John Prine albums, the other being the more recent "Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings". And Prine followers will know the "happy enchilada" reference from his live performances ... this was the album where it appeared first!

John Prine "Bruised Orange".......2004-06-16

"Fish And Whistle" 5/5
"There She Goes" 3/5
"If You Don't Want My Love" 1/5
"That's The Way The World Goes 'Round" 4/5
"Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow)" 3/5
"Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone" 5/5
"Aw Heck" 4/5
"Crooked Piece Of Time" 3/5
"Iron Ore Betty" 3/5
"The Hobo Song" 3/5

"Bruised Orange," is John Prine's fifth studio album. Highlights include "Fish And Whistle" and "Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone."

Overall rating: Three and a half stars.

I Beg to Differ.......2004-04-22

While this album is just as wonderful as the reviewers below have said, and a classic of the singer-songwriter genre, I want to cast a vote in favor of the cut "If You Don't Want My Love" which is much-maligned below. While it has none of the whimsy and humor which characterize most of Prine's work, it is in fact a perfect encapsulation of a bitter cast-off lover's state of mind -- and stays on and on in the memory. It is in fact my favorite cut on the album!

Philip Glass : The Voyage: An Opera in Three Acts

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Finally this has been recorded!!
A long awaited Voyage
operatic tedium with occasional power and beauty...
the Voyage.
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Philip Glass : Symphony No. 8
Philip Glass: The Concerto Project, Vol. 2
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ASIN: B000GFK8ME
Release Date: 2006-06-20

Tracks:

Act II Scene 2
Act III Scene 1
Act III Scene 2
Act III Scene 3
Act I Scene 2 Conclusion
Act I Scene 3
Act II Scene 1

Product Description

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in 1992, The Voyage commemorated the 500th anniversary of Columbusï¿½s arrival in the New World. At the time of its premiere, Philip Glass was only the second composer in 26 years to receive a commission from the worldï¿½s largest and most prestigious opera house. Glassï¿½s grand opera was ultimately the most expensive and monumental in the history of the Metropolitan Opera. Itï¿½s filled with great flare, fantastical elements, but firmly rooted in the personal intimate visions of the main characters. In considering Columbus as a subject for an opera, Glass bypassed the controversial historical persona; he focused rather on the explorer who had tremendous individual courage and drive to discover. It is this fundamental ï¿½spirit of discoveryï¿½ which is at the heart of the opera. Orchestrally exciting, dramatically gripping, the opera explores the motivation of what drives individuals to explore and the consequences of their exploration. The recording, led by conductor Dennis Russell Davies highlights stellar performances by the Bruckner Orchester, chorus of the Landestheater Linz and a wonderful ensemble cast of singers. At its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, The New York Times said: The Voyage ï¿½has something for everybodyï¿½some bombastic insistence and some tender, lyrical music that is among Mr. Glassï¿½s bestï¿½His music uses large brush strokes to create almost Baroque blocks of atmosphere. His polyrhythms have now been joined by long-lined lyricism suited to the voice and by some intriguing experimentation with harmonies and timbres. Some segments of the music are actually haunting.ï¿½

Customer Reviews:

Finally this has been recorded!!.......2007-01-18

I was at the World Premiere for this opera - my first time to be in the Met Opera House, my first time to be at a Philip Glass premiere, in the first month after I moved to New York City. No better welcome to New York City than the opportunity to see this at the Met AND to see a revival of Einstein on the Beach at BAM a month later.

I have awaited this recording for years - The Voyage is some of Glass' best music for orchestra and voice. It's powerful, lyrical, triumphant, tender, introspective, and gorgeous at various times. The libretto is a artistic and well-done exploration of what "exploration" is, and what drives so many human hearts to wonder "What's over there....?"

While all of Glass' music is worth having, on the scale of "what should the new fan buy first?", I'd put this in the first five of essential Glass compositions to know.

A long awaited Voyage.......2007-01-06

When this opera premiered in 1992 I made it a point to tape the Met broadcast off the air. Then I waited for a CD. Finally after so many years they recorded it. Shame on the Met for not doing it earlier. So, although I can't really compare it with the original (Troyanas since passed away) it was a very welcome recording and, being a Glass fan, I have enjoyed it greatly.

operatic tedium with occasional power and beauty..........2006-12-21

Finally on CD almost 15 years after its Met Opera premiere, The Voyage contains plenty of overwrought operatic tedium, but also some choral passages of surprising power and beauty.

the Voyage........2006-11-10

I had heard this years ago and did not know a CD was available. It is typical Glass. Either you like him or you don't. I do. The recording was quite good.

A pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass's most tedious music.......2006-10-31

Philip Glass's opera is the most tedious one for the listener that he has written since his first, "Einstein on the Beach." It lacks the beauty of some of his opera "Satyagraha," though it has the bombast of "Akhenaten," and the eccentric mysticism of "Einstein on the Beach." All in all, it seems to be a pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass music, supplied with a text by Henry David Hwang (to Glass's outline) that is as meretricious as Marc Blitzstein's "Airborne" Symphony.

There is quite a bit of Glass music that I find beautiful and have a high tolerance for repetition, but "Voyage" considerably exceeds that tolerance. And with the articulation of the cast in the recording of "Voyage," they might as well be singing in Sanskrit (as in "Satyagraha").

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timeless music
Fantastic record
Totally recommended for seventies folk enthusiasts as well as fans of contemporary singer/song-writers.
Contemplating the eternal evening
Sibylle Baeier Melancholy Folk Gems (4.5 stars)

Colour Green
Sibylle Baier
Manufacturer: Orange Twin
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000E1155O
Release Date: 2006-02-07

Tracks:

Tonight
I Lost Something in the Hills
End
Softly
Remember the Day
Forget About
William
Says Elliott
Colour Green
Driving
Girl
Wim
Forgett
Give Me a Smile

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Product Description In a particularly dark and moody period of her young life, a friend of Sibylle's took her on a road trip to Strasbourg, and they ended up across the Alps in Genoa. Upon returning, Sibylle felt her spirits renewed and she wrote the song, "Remember The Day", grateful to be alive. Recorded in the early '70s, the songs on this CD are intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty. A gem of an album. Sibylle is a star who chose to shine for her friends and family instead of for the whole world.

Recorded in the early seventies in her home on a reel-to-reel recording device, the songs on Colour Green are intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty.

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timeless music.......2007-02-05

Difficult to describe music with words so I won't even try.
People who like Leonard Cohen, Nico ("Chelsea girl"), Nick Drake,
Will Oldham, Sandy Denny, etc... should love this music.

Fantastic record.......2006-03-24

If you are into folk such as Vashti Bunyan and Marissa Nadler you will love this. Gorgeous melancholy songs.

Totally recommended for seventies folk enthusiasts as well as fans of contemporary singer/song-writers. .......2006-03-19

Some of us here whose proclivities gravitate towards rare psych and folk have been bemoaning the recent flurry of "buried treasures" and "lost classics". It seems a day does not go by without a new release or re-issue of a forgotten or recently discovered artist rescued from obscurity passing before our attentive eyes and drooling mouths. Sometimes the "lost classic" status is not always deserved (not everything made in the sixties and seventies that didn't receive any attention is noteworthy, somethings are better off staying buried or lost), but it's sure keeping the reissue labels and revisionist musicologists busy as they map out an ever-growing expanse of the spheres of influence on music today. It's hard to keep up and also pay equal attention to all the great music that is being made right now.

This makes me very happy on the one hand that amazing music continues to be discovered but it also drives me crazy us to see my paycheck quickly dwindling every week. Why just in the past month, I've seen re-issues from Bridget St. John, Kay Hoffman, John Jacob Niles, Kaleidoscope and Fairfield Parlour (all pretty amazing!) among others. And now on my plate are these previously unreleased home recordings of German underground folk singer, Sibylle Baier.

I must admit when I first heard this, I suspected fraud. These recordings sound almost too contemporary to have been made in the early seventies. But after doing a little research, I found out this is no fraud. These intimate recordings fully deserve their "buried treasure" status, for whatever that's worth at this point. Baier, only previously known for a song on an early Wim Wenders film soundtrack, recorded these songs in her home from 1970-73 after a "spirit-renewing" trip through the Swiss Alps. She has the warm Sunday jam and tea voice reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan, but with the more spare guitar compositions and melancholy vocal delivery of someone like Chan Marshall. In fact, I sort of wish the new Cat Power or Beth Orton records were this good! Like Bunyan, Baier shunned what could have been a successful career in order to raise a family and it's because of her son, Robby, that these recordings are being heard at all. But unlike Bunyan, these songs don't derive from a back to nature hippie-folk aesthetic, but rather they come from a more delicate fragility where life's beauty and despair are interwoven with the tiny details of daily life. Beautiful! Totally recommended for seventies folk enthusiasts as well as fans of contemporary singer/song-writers.

Contemplating the eternal evening.......2006-03-09

The appearance of a completely unexpected treasure, such as this quietly stunning album, serves as a reminder of the hidden wonders in this world. Which is a good description of its tone, in fact. Listening to these songs draws one into a wistfully austere & pure landscape, where the melancholy of the gathering twilight meshes with the secret thoughts & musings of the day, as the soul now approaches sleep in resigned yet grateful stillness. It's amazing to think that such beauty was consigned to a closet for some thirty years! We can only be thankful that it's finally available to the rest of us. A collection of astonishing emotional honesty, both stark & rich, most highly recommended!

Sibylle Baeier Melancholy Folk Gems (4.5 stars).......2006-02-27

Sibylle Baier was primarily an actress, born in Germany, and these songs-she was living in the States by then-are the result of the inspiration she drew from a certain road trip with a friend, which led her to write and sing this low-fi and quite private set of recordings between 1970 and 1973.

The first thing that might strike about these songs is the consistent sadness of their melodies, akin to the mood she had been in at the time, and the hushed yet expressive phrasing of these lyrics.

More than anybody else, this album may remind you of Vashti Bunyan, particularly her debut "A Diamond Day." Although the Bunyan's songs were less imbued of somberness, they share a certain melancholy with these tunes. Also, you may think of what Sylvia Plath might have sound like if she chose to sing rather than poetry, more through its mood than the nature of its words.

Still, the important thing is that this album, which had never been released before, presents a singer/songwriter of exquisite sensibility, sharing a very personal batch of songs that were never intended for "the public" and, perhaps due to that, conjure up an intimate and gorgeous portrait of a woman's inner life.

If you are a friend of brave and intimate Folk, you will not be disappointed with this purchase.

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Hearing the Third Movement
Like Bernard Herrmann's best, music for driving rain.
beautiful
Philip Glass sucks
... Symphony No. 8 is a Charm for Philip Glass

Philip Glass : Symphony No. 8

Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Philip Glass : The Voyage: An Opera in Three Acts
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ASIN: B000F1HQTW
Release Date: 2006-03-15

Tracks:

Movement I
Movement II
Movement III

Product Description

After the critically acclaimed Orange Mountain Music release of Philip Glass Symphony No.6 Plutonian Ode, Symphony No. 8 marks an exciting return for the composer to purely instrumental symphonic writing. This World Premiere recording is conducted by Dennis Russell Davies and performed by the Bruckner Orchester Linz. After a series of symphonies which featured text and voices, Philip Glass was asked by Davies to think of the orchestra as a collection of virtuoso instruments as you would find in a concerto formation. Symphony No. 8 starts from this point in presenting ideas involved with timbre, density, structure, and melody. In reviewing the Symphony, the New York Times said: (Symphony no. 8) is about continuous changethe chromaticism that has crept into Mr. Glass music since Koyaanisqatsi is now more extreme, and more fluid. Indeed, the great attraction of the work is the unpredictable orchestration. Once again, Orange Mountain Music is pleased to be releasing this major work by Philip Glass.

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Hearing the Third Movement.......2007-02-14

It took many hearings before I could engage emotionally with Glass's Symphony No. 8. That happened in Movement III -- a slow, quiet little thing of only seven minutes. This movement does not call attention to itself, and I had at first mistaken it as just a gentle conclusion to the symphony rather than its most profound statement. Now I see the first and second movements as a lead-in to Movement III. The statement by the oboe, a theme that is presented with slow, deliberate simplicity in the middle of this movement, could break one's heart. I had to be in a quiet frame of mind to hear this music and be open to its somber emotional colors.

Like Bernard Herrmann's best, music for driving rain........2006-12-14

This delicious music presented me with an unusual joy- a disc that stayed in my car cd player for several days of repeated play. I'm no musicologist so I can't describe how this music works but can rather tell you that it brought me a great deal of delight. Like Bernard Herrmann's music for "Marnie" it can be listened to closely, felt deeply or left to play in the background. If you are expecting 19th century classical music, you might be disappointed. If you've already decided, as has one of Amazon's more brilliant reviewers, that "Philip Glass sucks", why bother? This sumptious and delicious music. At just under 40 minutes, the length is perfect for my attention span and a complete presentation of one beautiful idea. 5 Stars!

beautiful.......2006-11-10

I love Glass' music and this Symphony is Glass at his best: nothing else needs to be said.

Philip Glass sucks .......2006-10-29

Yet another dull, recycled symphony from Glass. Why doesn't he do what he does best .... the minimalist keyboard and small ensemble pieces that made him famous in the first place. Glass has gone astray and alienated his original fans. Glass symphonies suck. Other Glass fans may not want to admit this, but I am just being honest.

... Symphony No. 8 is a Charm for Philip Glass.......2006-09-28

Philip Glass' Symphony #8 is arguably the best symphony he has written to date and one of the most spirited instrumental works he has created in years. Under the always faithful baton of Dennis Russel Davies with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz performing. Glass' most recent symphony proves that this mostly film and opera composer can create something in the world of (in his own words) abstract concert music worth listening to.

Ever since Glass' premiere of the Low Symphony in the early 90's (based on themes from Brian Eno and David Bowie's collaborative album of the late seventies entitled Low). The composer who at that time created a prolific body of work in the genres of film, opera, dance, theater, chamber music, and at times a mixture of all of the above seemed to step in an exciting new direction that at that time was quite unexpectant for both ardent fans of the composer and even Philip Glass himself.

After the Low Symphony all of the other symphonies (mostly commisioned by longtime confidante Russel Davies) came as fast and furious as a car on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company. Some were good, most were bad, and all unfortunately were as foursquare and predictable as the next. Worse than that every new symphonic work that came after the other would all very much sound identical to each other in some way. After about a decade of symphonies from Philip Glass one might have thought that it seemed to be just another paycheck for a composer who has carved his career from at times repeating what he does all to well in the first place.

Luckily here Glass comes full circle with Symphony No. 8 and goes "for the juggular" right from the very start in the first movement. The opening moment is loud, galiant, and expressively triumphant. Then with unexpected surprise, Glass adds and or subtracts several rythmic elements in the structure of the movement. His use of the orchestra is profoundly rich and flourishes with a vigor that is undoubtedly enthusiastic. Add of course his use of inventive polytonality via: hyperkenetic arching lines, harmonic sliding, counterpoint, and intriguing sudden changes in musical themes and motifs, altogether this brilliant mix of density and complexity keeps one on the edge of his or her seat for about 20 minutes.

And in some ways the excitement stops there (or does it?). The second movement could be called a "grand stately march" tinged in melancholy. It gives the impression of trying to drive during a foggy day. Themes here are mixed slowly against each other, structurally the second movement takes a cue from the first one yet its slower and is in essence a passacaglia. There is some genuine lyrical music here throughout the movement and for just a few bars the flute and harp share a beautiful dialogue with each other in the middle of this section.

The third movement is the most unlikely third movement probably in the history of symphonic composition. And although it is astoundingly beautiful and elegant, it is also even slower than the preceeding movement and sounds more like the ending of a movie soundtrack. Over all this movement fails to connect to what was happening before it and although it is 6 minutes of beautiful music it seems more like an afterthought than anything else.

As symphonies goes for Philip Glass. Symphony # 8 is quite simply the best of Glass' output in this genre yet. I do await the next few at this point to see what he does.

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