Oil And Water

Oil And Water

ASIN: B0000E69L8

Track Listings

1. Oil

2. Water

3. Baraka

4. Thel Kupa

5. Ouled Sergo

6. Valley of the Winds

7. Edge of Three

8. Lookout

9. Upstreaming

10. Elders Lament

Tracks:

Introduction
When The Springtime Comes Again
Joe Kirby Blues
Requiem For Mississippi John Hurt
When The Catfish Is In Bloom
Fahey Blows His Nose
Intro To 'Lion'/Challenges To Quitting Cigarettes
Lion
Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain
View East From The B&O Railroad Viaduct And The Riggs Road Intersection
On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean
The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
In Christ There Is No East Or West
Announcement
The Death Of The Clayton Peacock
The Revolt Of The Dyke Brigade
Magruder Park

Customer Reviews:

Superb Talent!.......2007-05-08

I'm a big fan of all kinds of music. One of the stations I created on Pandora radio was based on Tommy Emmanuel - a truly amazing 'picker'. While listening John Fahey came up as a selection. I was taken back, not simply by his guitar ability, but by the tone, the wonderful ambiance. The first Fahey selection I heard was 'The Death of the Clayton Peacock' and I wanted more. I immediately ordered the CD and was totally absorbed during my first listen. I could easily do Yoga to this - if I did Yoga.

John's greatest hits, live.......2006-08-24

A newly discovered, newly released live session with John Fahey at the top of his game. He'd finished eight albums (more or less) on Takoma, sold his Takoma label and recorded two albums for Vanguard. the big time. And three years or so before he'd make his masterpiece statement, "America". Shy, laconic John occationally talks but mostly plays, without the tape loops feedback and more "psychedelic" stuff. Consistantly good performance, without filler or outtakes. Bluesy, Heartfelt. but without the whiskey.

The announcer is wrong, he might have lived in Berkeley in '68, but he came from Takoma Park Maryland, in suburban Washington, DC as his first label and many song titles attest. On the title track he improvises and pieces together bits from "Voice of the Turtle" (America) and Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper, from Requia. Those familiar with his studio albums will here similar arrangement with occational improvization. The best cut is the thoughtful leadoff "When Springtime Comes Again" and a standout shortened "Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt".

I met John a few times, talked to him for hours, even tuned his guitars twice. Despite what he later said about disliking his earlier music, I know he'd approve of this. A great find, a great addition to the Fahey cannon, before John went off into the wilderness of his last decades, searching for that new sound....

Well recorded for a live album.

While I don't think it's his best (see my list), it is certainly his best live!

THE Fahey album.......2006-01-28

After extensive listening of many of John Fahey's albums, I would say that this is easily the best. It brings together many of the best songs off his albums in incredible form. For evidence, just listen to the version of "when the springtime comes again," one of the greatest fingerpicking performances ever, in my opinion. The whole disc is almost equally good, there is a great assortment of fingerpicking, slide, and alternate tunings. Anyone interested in Fahey or fingerpicking or blues should get this immediately and prepare to be blown away.

Fahey blows his nose, and there ain't no better thing........2005-02-23

I just bought this album, and I should probably listen to it and study
it for a decade or two, like I did with almost all the rest of Fahey's
amazing production, before pronouncing a verdict like this, but.... here
it comes. This could be the one Fahey CD to have if for some cruel and
unusual reason you were condemned to only have one. He was at the top
of his game in terms of creativity (though some of his early eighties live
guitar playing remains unmatched technically and is better recorded) and
chose a marvelous (marvelous!) set of compositions for these concerts,
including some of the more ambitious and complex symphony-like pieces,
as well as a handful of the more folksy and gospely arrangements that
made him a favorite of fingepicking gymnasts.

Live albums are my favorite of his, and this is inevitable, after seeing
him in concert. Live, he was shyer with kitch and gratuitous
experimentalism than he was on vinyl, but still visionary and
uncompromising. He communicated an energy, and a sense of complete
sincerity and meaning that where overwhelming and emotionally
exhausting. He also had a sound that was out of this world. I once hung
out with him for a couple of hours while he was warming up before a
concert. For him a warm-up was much like that of an athlete, because he
played strings that would have pulled a cable car and used picks that
could have been made out of the rails (ok, slight exhaggeration). But out of
all of that metal he managed to negotiate a rich, complex and
surprisingly warm range of tones, as well as a massive volume and
harmonic inhertia (check out the requiem for John Hurt). Most everyone
else on the same gear would sound like an old metal bridge swaying in
the wind.

So, listen to the beautifuly simple and profound melody of Joe Kirby
Blues. It is an elementary piece to play. If it does not get you to a
guitar store buying metal picks and steel strings (and the wood to go
with it) I don't know what else will.

Essential early Fahey.......2004-12-23

The earliest live recordings yet released by the late and immortal John Fahey, find him at the peak of his powers. Veering between his vision and version of traditional playing that may ocassionally slow or speed up for emotional emphasis, to pieces of beautiful hallucinatory individuality and expression like "Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain". Over 76 minutes long with excellent sound quality, and most of the audience noise thoughtfully edited out by producer (and liner note author) Glenn Jones (of Cul de Sac), making this sound more like an album than a "live album", though it has all of the charm of the latter, without having it's flow chopped up by waves of applause. Subtitled "Live at The Matrix San Francisco, California 1968/1969", this is essential for the already converted, and an ideal entry point for the novice.

Average customer rating:

An inventive world music/world fusion set

Oil & Water
Stephen Kent
Manufacturer: Family Tree
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Oil
Water
Khoomei Song
Baraka
Thel Kupa
Ouled Sergo
Valley Of The Winds
Edge Of Three
Lookout
Ya Rabbi Bil Mustapha
Elders Lament

Customer Reviews:

An inventive world music/world fusion set.......2006-04-27

The mere mention of the Australian digiridu --a long, oboe-like instrument-- is enough to make some nonbelievers cringe in terror: several years ago it was adopted as an instrument of choice by world music's fusion-y New Age contingent, and since then its status has never been the same. What's most remarkable about this album, though, is that it's really quite good, although it is pretty much what you'd call a "world fusion" album. To start with, Californian Kent is a virtuoso performer, capable of delving deep into the tonal richness of his chosen instrument, but also of playing shorter notes and not just the long, resonant drones the digiridu is known for. These controlled percussive bursts are so unlike most digiridu playing that at first I wondered if they'd been sampled or digitally manipulated; but no, I think he's just an amazingly skilled performer. Naturally Kent also explores a wide variety of musical styles and it's the album's odd multicultural combinations -- the "oil and water" of elements you wouldn't expect to mix -- that bring life to this album. Some parts work better than others: in general, the Western funk and pop mixes seem tacky, but the tracks that borrow from various "world music" styles -- Tuvan throat singing, Arabic percussion, EastIndian flutes -- are pretty nice. One song which features a shimmering cascade of Rajasthani flutes, "Edge Of Three," is particularly beautiful. Though this record edges into territiory that I don't normally go for, there are several songs on here that I could see working into a mix. Worth checking out!

Average customer rating:

Coming Up From The Deep End

Oil and Water
Cardinal Sin
Manufacturer: Grey Flight
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-04-05

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Quarter-Life Crisis
Woke Up in Pain
Call for Help
Bastards of Young
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A Cry For Help
Woke Up In Pain
Bastards Of Young
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Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Coming Up From The Deep End.......2005-06-13

The Cardinal Sin, are at first glance, a band trying to cash in on Alkaline Trio's sound; the punk is dark and moody, the guitars jangle and crash and the bass hums while the drums are sparatic and heavy, hell, even the lead singer sounds like Matt Skiba, but the Sin have a sound that's more organic and heavier than what the casual listener might expect. "Where We Shine" is about the weakest song on this EP, but it's still great and it only gets better until the end, with "Quarter Life Crisis" standing out as the best. All in all, give the Cardinal Sin some time and they very well may surprise us with a more evolved disc of doom.

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Oil and Water (film by Corwin Fergus)
Closing (Corwin Fergus)
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Over Water (performance by Astrid Larsen)
5,000 Falling Souls (dance by Joan Lange)

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Extinction Is Inevitable

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Water
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Thel Kupa
Ouled Sergo
Valley of the Winds
Edge of Three
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Upstreaming
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Oil & Water
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Tears
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