Acoustic Machine

Acoustic Machine

ASIN: B00005NNEP

Editorial Reviews
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Chicago reed-player Ken Vandermark has a formidable set of chops. He's honed them by being one of the most active musicians on the healthy Chicago scene, and from touring both in the States and Europe with clocklike regularity. Amidst all this activity, the Vandermark 5 is where Vandermark is at his best. His most active combo (with five albums in five years under their belt), the three-horn quintet adeptly attacks Vandermark's patented angular compositions, swings the noirish bop grooves, and embellishes these tunes with solos that are individualistic without losing sense of the tune. Acoustic Machine also features a number of contemplative interludes that balance the band's brawn with tasteful restraint. As a special bonus, the first edition of Acoustic Machine also includes a second disc of free-jazz classics, which features covers of tunes by written such icons as Don Cherry and Archie Shepp. Nevertheless, with Vandermark's best set of tunes to date on the proper album, it could take a while to get to the second disc. --Tad Hendrickson

Tracks:

M!ssundaztood
Don't Let Me Get Me
Just Like A Pill
Get The Party Started
Respect
18 Wheeler
Family Portrait
Misery (w/Steven Tyler)
Dear Diary
Eventually
Lonely Girl (w/Linda Perry)
Numb
Gone To California
My Vietnam

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There's a rule in commercial pop: don't bite the hand that feeds you. Translation? If you're getting love on TRL, it's best leaving well enough alone and tinkering only slightly with the sound that pays your bills. So you have to give Pink a whole heap of credit. The Philly-raised songbird may have made her rep with infectious and rugged pop-R&B hits like "There You Go" and the remake of "Lady Marmalade," but like the fuchsia coif she once sported, that sound is gone. In its place is a more driving alt-rock attack, liberally laced with some late-night blues and heartfelt lyrics that, while they sometimes come off like diary entries (the simplistic bon mot "Your pain is painful" in "Family Portrait"), are clearly Pink's thoughts, as opposed to words someone put in her mouth. Helping Pink express her inner Alanis are Dallas Austin, who produced the insistent rocker "18 Wheeler," and former 4 Non Blonde Linda Perry, who Pink has resurrected from one-hit-wonder status. Mixing up thumping beats, ("Get the Party Started"), with folksy confessionals, Pink's potent vocals and her honest determination make this a risk worth hearing. --Amy Linden

Album Description

Asian exclusive limited edition pressing of her sophomore album includes one bonus track, 'Catch 22', along with a bonus CD sized spiral bound 40 page 'Dear Diary' note pad that's housed together with the CD in a special slipcase. Enhanced with photo ogallery and lyrics page. 15 tracks in all. 2002.

Album Details

Features a Track Not on the USA Version, 'catch 22.'

Customer Reviews:

Latest album is much better.......2007-06-28

I LOVE Pink!! The first album I bought was the latest one - "I'm Not Dead", and I love it. So I decided to investigate her earlier work. While I am glad I have "Missundaztood", I didn't find it as compelling as her latest work. Good to see where she has come from though.

understood and admired.......2007-06-12

what a sharp lady...love her latest cd...so thought I'd give her older, breakthrough cd a try...great sound. fresh and original collection. smart, sassy, interesting, sophisticated but fun. love the lyrics. love the variety of different musical styles. pink is cool, and honest and real. and she makes fantastic, memorable tunes....already a classic

One of my favorite albums of all time. She is an amazing songwriter. .......2007-03-26

Not only is Pink an amazing singer, but her lyrics are soo deep and personal. I love people who write about the sad times because a lot of people needs to hear something they can relate to. Family Potrait speaks to a lot of people, including my brother, who overhead the song and keeps requesting me to replay track 7. The whole album is a work of art so it's hard to choose, but if I had to choose, my favorites are Don't let me get me, Just Like a Pill, Family Potrait and Lonely Girl. Pink's voice is soo raw and real that you can actually feel the pain in her voice. Once you listen to this album, you will want hear more. So I will go ahead and let you know that her third album is Try This and her fourth, which is her best thus far is "I'm Not Dead". So please give this album a chance. Pink is a real artist and she will be around for a long time because she is true to herself.

out of the gate and running hard.......2007-03-26

This is Pink's first album to my knowledge. It has some raw studio tape footage that is cute and rough. I loved it. The segments give a good hint of what this ballsy little girl is about, and a preview of the bold, strong woman she became. She has fun with this release and you get to hear it. It is cool to listen to the inside track banter between Pink and the recording engineer. She is a force to be reckoned with; and a sweet lady all in one.

Pink.......2006-12-31

I kind of like this CD. I don't listen to it as much anymore for some reason, but I think I'm overdue to listen to it again. One of my favorite songs on this album is "respect" which talks about how girls should act around guys and how they should not let boys push them around any time the boy thinks it's convenient for them "no freebies in the limosouine that's not what it's about. let 'em know just what to do give it up he won't call you respect is just a minimum, go on girl and get you some" Another song about not letting men push girls around that I really like is "can't get me down". Which talks about getting ready to face the day and anything that might come one's way. I love encouraging songs like that... they really help you face your problems in life. I don't like to many of the songs on here because of the swearing content but I do listen to "Mizundastood" constantly. She only says one swear word in the song but I don't mind. Otherwise I avoid songs on here that have swearing on them. I like this CD otherwise... but if you're under sixteen, I wouldn't recommend it because of the swearing. I forgot to add that another one of my favorite songs is "Don't Let Me Get Me".

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A True New Wave Genius
best album ever
We're so exposed...
A True Gem
Another Album That Changed Pop Music.

The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada
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Release Date: 1998-06-23

Tracks:

Airlane
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Complex
Films
M.E.
Tracks
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Cars
Engineers
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Customer Reviews:

A True New Wave Genius.......2007-06-19

"The Pleasure Principle" is the album that contains Gary Numan's biggest chart hit, "Cars". And "Cars" is the only commercial-radio-friendly song on the album. The other tracks, however, are works of pure genius, especially "M.E.", "Engineers", and the masterpiece "Tracks". "Tracks" might be the best two minute song I have ever heard.

Numan is only now being credited for his work practically inventing the entire New Wave movement, and this album certainly stands the test of time as one the classics of the genre. Order it without hesitation, slip on your headphones, and prepare for a real listening treat.

best album ever.......2007-04-24

Someone once asked me what my favorite album of all time is. That is of course a very difficult question to answer. But I'll have to choose Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle because it is the only album of which I've been in continuous possession of for the past 25 years; first as a cassette and then a CD. I can't say that of any other album and I've listened to hundreds. If you like this record then go get Replicas and Telekon. If you like those two then try out I, Assassin.

We're so exposed..........2007-03-30

Numan's sole association for some is still his 1979 hit Cars. It's a shame, because the album it hails from is an excellent record and holds up remarkably well all these years later.

This is a notable rock achievement---a rock album with no guitars. The synthesizers (Minimoog and Polymoog) are put through some guitar pedals and create some big, fat, fuzzy sounds that are pitched, distorted, swished, whatever. The bass and drums are `real', and Numan continues the sci-fi-robot-future-Phillip K Dick-inspired rock. As on Replicas, the hooks seem effortless.

There are a number of Numan classis in addition to Cars, some of them still regularly performed live. Films, for instance, is a funky, menacing number. Metal is a live staple, covered and remixed numerous times and still working. Conversation is another rambling, robot-inspired number with a long synth breakdown at the end, similar to Cars. M.E. is another dark and menacing number, now well-known for the Basement Jaxx use of the sample riff.

Many folks now acknowledge this as an important, influential album, yet Numan remains cult (if at all in the US). The Pleasure Principle is cohesive, the sound has aged incredibly well, and it's ahead of it's time for 1979--not bad for a kid. The remastered and reissued Beggar's Banquet discs are all excellent. The b-sides (three of them) are atmospheric and completely in line with the mood of the album--kind of dark, mechanical, but effortlessly catchy. The live tracks (four) are of excellent quality and come from the Living Ornaments series of live albums (also highly recommended). With a `distant' sound, warm synths, and dark lyrics, Numan was in his own world.

A True Gem.......2007-03-08

The Pleasure Principle, the 1979 New Wave outing from synthpop pioneer Gary Numan is a very enjoyable affair. This is almost-pure (Numan adds electric viola, bass, and acoustic drums to his huge Minimoog sound) cold and melodic synthpop that sounds both modern and dated.
Highlights include the songs "Metal", "Films", "ME", "Observer", and the perennial New Wave favorite "Cars". The sound is excellent and this reissue from the fine UK indie label Beggar's Banquet contains extensive liner notes and photos. Ah...that Minimoog sound!

Another Album That Changed Pop Music........2007-02-19

There were many synth pioneers before Gary Numan: Brian Eno, Wendy Carlos, Pierre Boulez and John Cage among others.

Numan's contemporaries like Ultravox never had a hit in the same stratosphere as "Cars".

What makes The Pleasure Principle so crucial, so pivotal in Pop music was that through "Cars", Gary Numan was able to introduce the mainstream audience to synthesizers better than anyone before him. "Cars" brought them to The Pleasure Principle, and The Pleasure Principle introduced them to synthesizers.

David Bowie's Berlin trilogy of Heroes, Low and Lodger(which included Brian Eno playing on much of them) preceded Numan , but they were more ambient(Heroes and Low) and eclectic(Lodger). Hits like "Heroes" had prominent guitars.

The Pleasure Principle has zero guitars.
It does however have Viola.
And Billy Currie of Ultravox also played Violin on a couple of tracks.

No guitars, mostly synth, some violin and viola.

Does that sound like a hit record?

My favorite track is still "Airlane." It is a simple and beautiful piece that opens the album perfectly.

The single Cars was heavy in synths, (even used synth drums) and yet followed a more pop sensibility.

It's not going to have the complexity of a great Philip Glass work or a Brian Eno album.
And that's the point. The Pleasure Principle was an electronic record that showed a whole new audience how beautiful a synthesizer can sound.

A lot of Electronic bands owe a bit of appreciation to the legacy and influence this album left -including Evening Ocean.

The Pleasure Principle is a classic CD that is still amazing today.

Highly recommended.

-EveningOcean CD "The Attraction" Evening Ocean com
THE ATTRACTION

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Very good, but one complaint
Backstreet's Back Alright!
Closet fan coming out with a rave review
I loved it!
BEAUTIFUL, POWERFUL, SLICK AND MATURE!

Never Gone
Backstreet Boys
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I Still...
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Lose It All
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Siberia
Never Gone

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On Never Gone, the Backstreet Boys crib from the pop foundation they helped establish. Like a lot of smart popsters on the rebound, the reunited fab five broach their return by borrowing from the current hit makers. Even after a four-year hiatus, the flecks of new influence won't matter a bit to the fans. The boys' signature sugar-coated yearning softens every song to a melty consistency, and the lyrics haven't lost any of their babe-magnet pull. "It's all so dark and mysterious/When the one you want doesn't want you," sing the chiseled Lotharios on "Siberia." And on the final title track, a swirling crescendo sums up the sentiments of millions of heartsick, former teen devotees: "Never gone, never far/In my heart is where you are." -Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews:

Very good, but one complaint.......2006-12-23

I've been a big BSB fan since 1999 and have all their import albums with bonus tracks. I think this album is their worst, but still good. My biggest complaint about this album is the lack of the Darren Hayes penned track Lift Me Up, they said in interviews that is was not up to par with the rest of the album and I could not disagree more. The boys didn't have hardly anything to do with the writing on this album, which is not my complaint, but the Darren Hayes track could have over powered almost any track on the entire album. I have the Darren Hayes version and the BSB version and they are both stellar. BSB do an awesome job on the track which is hard for me to say because I am a Darren Hayes fanatic and I wonder what they were thinking when they left this track of the release and didn't even include it as a B-Side. Anyway, Never Gone is a solid album, just pissed they didn't include the Darren Hayes track because it eclipses most of the songs on the album. A solid return and something new. A good album, just could have been slightly better. Too bad for the US fans, we get no bonus tracks unless we buy the import version of the album which is always better than the US release. Record companys give the US the worst version of any album no matter what the artist. Compare any import album to any US release and you will find the US release to be stripped in comparison.

Backstreet's Back Alright!.......2006-11-19

Oh My God They're Back Again!
I love this album! The rock 'n' roll numbers the guys do are awesome. I like all the songs on this album except "Crawling Back To You". The group won't be the same without Kevin Richardson, though. I can't wait for their new 2007 album... nor can I wait for AJ's solo album either. I'm sure they will both be good. KTBSPA!

Closet fan coming out with a rave review.......2006-08-16

I do not like fluffy pop music. I do not like boy bands. I do not like drum machines. I do not like sappy, whiny love ballads. I do not like teen idols.

Yet here I am, with the bold truth that I really, really like this album, because this one does not (for the most part) descend into the pitfalls any of those things.

This review is for the other closet fans like me who are sneaking peeks at the reviews to see if they want to step up and make the purchase. This is for the people who find that the Backstreet Boys' music here is, to their pleasant surprise, a decent exception to the shallow, mindless, Top-40 crap being cranked out by today's pop culture. This isn't what you'd expect from this band. It's better; it goes a long way to break them out of the boy-band stereotypes.

Here's the thing: I don't know any of their names. I couldn't pick any of them out of a line-up to save my life. All I know is that I like what I hear. If you like good harmonies, and you like good music to go with it, that's enough.

Of course, not every track will be to your liking. Even CDs by my way-favorite artists are never full of ringers from start to finish. But they hit it out of the park with "Incomplete," "My Beautiful Woman," and my favorite track, "Siberia." Great stuff. Take a listen on the Amazon preview there. It won't do it all justice, but you'll get the idea.

All right, that's that; let it be known that this album has made me a fan who would probably actually buy tickets to see the Backstreet Boys if they came to town.

I loved it!.......2006-08-14

I think that the Backstreet Boys are the most talented boy band ever, (and my favorite musical group personally), and the album Never Gone was a great example of that talent. Although I loved their other albums, this one has to be one of my favorites because of its mature and powerful sound. I do miss the dance pop sound, but this album shows that as they get older they can also get better. I loved the powerful ballads, "Just Want You to Know" "Lose it All" and "Safest Place To Hide." Those three along with "Poster Girl", which had a very unique sound, are my favorites on the CD. Anyone who has a problem with boy bands can listen to this album before they say anything bad about them. Obviously they have loads of talent!

BEAUTIFUL, POWERFUL, SLICK AND MATURE!.......2006-07-23

I can't stop playing this CD since I first purchased it in June 2005. There is a mixture of fast and slow songs, however, it is full of songs that touch my heart. A beautiful CD full of strong, mature and powerful songs for every fan as well as people who wouldn't normally give this group a second glance. I was never much of a fan at the height of their popularity, however, once I bought this CD (the first of theirs I bought) I was in for a luxuriously, wonderful surprise. It is my favourite CD of the last 14 months and I listen to it regularly.

For anyone who has ever lost someone they loved, this CD has some special songs on it that just touch your heart and soul in a way I don't often hear in music anymore. I am referring to songs like Safest Place To Hide, Siberia, Rush Over Me (available on the UK version of the CD), I Still and of course, the powerful song, Never Gone. I can't tell you how many times I have played these songs.

I highly recommend this CD for all of you reading these reviews and who have yet to purchase the disc. You will thoroughly enjoy it! (but do not expect the previous BSB type of music!).

Now I can't wait for their new CD which they are currently in the studio recording! I also quite like Brian Littrell's debut CD ''Welcome Home'' which has just been released.

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Disco rock?
3-2-1 I love E6
Excellent
Ignore the critics...classic underrated gem
This CD is more explosive than a nuclear war

Fire
Electric Six
Manufacturer: Xl Recordings
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ASIN: B00008VAJE
Release Date: 2003-05-20

Tracks:

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Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)
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She's White
I Invented the Night
Improper Dancing
Gay Bar
Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)
Getting into the Jam
Vengeance and Fashion
I'm the Bomb
Synthesizer

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Electric Six is the most exciting band to come tumbling out of Detroit since Kiss. Sporting grimy leisure suits and hilarious stage names (the guitarists are known only as Surge Joebot and the Rock and Roll Indian), the ragtag group comes up with a deliriously catchy disco trash sound on its smart, hyperactive debut. Studio 54 horns mingle anxiously with AC/DC-influenced garage riffs, while frontman Dick Valentine rants maniacally over jerky, suggestive punk-funk songs like "Gay Bar" and "I'm the Bomb." Plus, rumor suggests that single "Danger! High Voltage" features the White Stripes' Jack White on backing vocals and, less plausibly, Bill Clinton on saxophone. How cool is that? Very. --Aidin Vaziri

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Detroit's Electric Six splice punk, new wave, disco, and arena rock into a total entertainment solution for the new breed of rock n' roller. 'This single is...pure driving disco-rock, complete with a new wave saxophone solo and ridiculous lyrics. Easily one of the best rock songs of the past year' - NY Times. 'Hold on, have the White Stripes gone Studio 54?' XL Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Disco rock?.......2007-01-02

This is a really fun CD. It's very vivid and interesting. A great CD for parties too.

3-2-1 I love E6.......2006-12-06

This is the best album I've heard in a long while. It's addictive and they've got the right mix of genres. I highly, highly recommend you buy this album if you want to smile every time you play it.

Excellent.......2006-08-06

This is the best album I've heard in recent years. Gets getter the more you listen to it.

Ignore the critics...classic underrated gem.......2006-06-06

Unfortunately many music critics have a pre-occupation with "credibility" which is deemed as "any singer/band whose lead singers have a messianic complex, whose music is bland and barely listenable and has attempted suicide. It helps if the singer is noticeably drugged-up". If you are like me and like pop, techno and hard rock, you'll love Electric Six. E6 combine a bold fusion of disco and hard rock with a sexed-up singer who sounds like he's got four balls and they're all on fire.

Everything here's about girls, dancing, fire and nuclear war. Nearly all tracks are great these are my favourites in descending order

The Bomb
Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)
Nuclear War (on the dance floor)
Dance Commander
Improper Dancing
I invented the night
Gay Bar
She's White
Getting Into the Jam
Electric Demons in Love
Danger High Voltage
Synthesiser
Vengeance and Fashion

Put this record on before you go out on a Saturday night!

This CD is more explosive than a nuclear war.......2006-05-04

I LOVE this album. Techno-dance-disco-metal-punk-parody-garage rock! This album, and this band, do it all and do it all amazingly well.

Dance Commander starts the CD with all the power and fury of... what else, a nuclear war! If this song doesn't capture you, then you have problems.

Electric Demons in Love, Naked Pictures, Danger High Voltage, She's White, I Invented the Night, Gay Bar, Improper Dancing, and Synthesizer are all OUTSTANDING tracks. I'm the Bomb is great too- the only song on here that is not brilliant is The Jam in my opinion. Once I put this album on I can't stop listening until it's all over- it's very captivating. Musically, it's pure genius.

Easily the best album of 2003 by a long shot.

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Tam
Tam
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Like a gentle breeze - Wind Machine pleases
Windmachine: Timeline

Timeline
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Like a gentle breeze - Wind Machine pleases.......2005-09-28

I truly belive that Steve Mesple and crew cannot make a bad album (CD). That said, this is one of the best in the Wind Machine cataloge. The songs are great the performances, especially "Land of Fire", are spectacular. If you enjoy great music, this CD is for you. Call it "Jazz", or "New Age" or "Instrumental Pop" or as Miles once said "Call it anything", but play it over and over again. Well done !

Windmachine: Timeline.......2004-08-06

A great effort by a polished band, Timeline illustrates Windmachines consistancy in writing evocotive,timely music that reflects the craftmanship of true musicians. From spanish influences to Celtic rythms, Timeline spans a variety of musical tastes that will please everyone.

Makes a great dinner music cd

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This is pure relaxation with superb instrumental musicians

Distant Shores
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This is pure relaxation with superb instrumental musicians.......1999-05-22

If you enjoy relaxing with great instrumental music and no lyrics you'll love this CD. Soft,beautiful music blended so well and a few tracks of equally accomplished light jazz make this a truly great collection of music. Acoustic guitars,piano,violins,mandolin,electric basses etc. are mixed as well as I've heard.

Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology: 1967-1973

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ultimate essential canterbury

Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology: 1967-1973
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As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
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Moon in June

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Customer Reviews:

ultimate essential canterbury.......2005-11-02

this is a long overdue and absolutely essential compilation of the band that probably more than any other defined the canterbury progressive rock movement. the canterbury sound was characterized by sophisticated progressive composition and improvisation borrowing much of the intricate musical chops from progressive jazz and marrying it with elements of classical composition and psychedelia and elaborate musicianship, even some experiments in tonality and dissonance. The sound was, as can be imagined, not easily accessable to new ears, yet becomes infinitely rewarding with close attention. Soft Machine were probably the most proficient of the 'canterbury style' because of their dedication to musical excellence and a shifting adaptable vision which changed as fluidly as the band lineup. This compilation focuses on the period when Soft Machine began as an underground psychedelic trio evolving into a fusion powerhouse with Robert Wyatt's eccentric compositional skills and Mike Ratledge's astounding keyboards which merge later on with beautifully integrated avant garde jazz and fusion bearings adding Elton Dean's challenging sax. As the band matured they became harmonically dazzling and elaborate. What makes this set ultimately essential over previous recordings is that these are remastered(much overdue), and group interaction and instrumental nuance are quite clear; these qualities are very important to hear in a band with this improvisational calibar. I don't think I've ever realized what an excellent swinging drummer Robert Wyatt was to the extent heard on these remasters, for example; or some of the subtle changes that occur in the longer compositions. This should be the first place to start exploring this band.

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Windmachine: Change of Face

Change of Face
Wind Machine
Manufacturer: Blue Meteor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music
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Timeline
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Road to Freedom

ASIN: B000006MHM
Release Date: 1993-07-28

Tracks:

Change Of Face
Wave Goodbye
Highland Express
Morning Flight
El Nino
Water's Edge
Valley Of Tears
Song For Alex
Nelson
Forest Hill
Summer Flight

Customer Reviews:

Windmachine: Change of Face.......2004-08-06

A more mature outlook and sound shines through on this album, which features work by the band leaders sons, Ethan and Taylor Mesple'. Solid studiowork and inspired songwriting lend grace to all the songs, giving them a certain" inspired" feeling.

I recommend this as a travel/vacation album.

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Voices in the Wind
Wind Machine
Manufacturer: Silver Wave
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music

Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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Distant Shores
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Change of Face
Rain Maiden

ASIN: B000000PO7
Release Date: 1992-01-14

Tracks:

Voices In The Wind
Millwood Junction
River Of Lost Souls
After The Storm
Franklin
Our Salvadoran Brothers (Nuestros Hermanos De El Salvador)
Cottonwood
Sixth Sense
Sunset Crossing
Highway To The Sun
Post Script
Soldiers Of Destiny

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