Imaginaryland

Imaginaryland Artist: Petra Haden
Label: Win Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 751937099123
EAN: 0751937099123
ASIN: B0000059RA


Release Date: 1999-03-10

Imaginaryland


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Tracks:

  1. Look Both Ways Before You Cross
  2. Cuckoo Clock
  3. Apple Juice
  4. Watermark
  5. Prelude No. 2 In C Minor (For Well-Tempered Voice)
  6. I'm Fired
  7. Red
  8. Song For The Whales
  9. How Are You?
  10. Miranda Sex Garden Song
  11. Richard
  12. Moonmilk
  13. I

Amazon.com

Petra Haden's uncanny vocal harmonies and graceful violin are two of the best about That Dog, a Los Angeles pop combo also featuring her twin sister Rachel. On her first solo project Petra loops together interlocked vocal strings that "ahh," "la-aa" and "tra-la-la" in such a childishly engaging manner that it'll melt years of cynicism off your slimy trunk. Primarily an a capella venture, <I>Imaginaryland</I> pops in a few numbers where Petra plays violin and viola, as on her father's slippery composition "Song for the Whales" and on a cover of Enya's "Watermark." Even though most of the album has the feel of a hypercreative kid bubbling away into a tape recorder between classes, Petra is obviously well-schooled (her father is Ornette Coleman bassist Charlie Haden), as her take on a Bach choral piece and the transofmraiton of her bouncing-ball vocalese into alluring and hypnotic madrigals ably demonstrate. If your eardrums (and patience) wear thin from too many guys with guitars, <I>Imaginaryland</I> could be the aesthetic panacea you've been looking for. --John Chandler

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Imaginaryland~Petra Haden.......2001-01-04

This is a refreshing musical masterpiece taking the listener on a refreshing and wondrous journey through time and sound. If you are tired for the "same old, same old", this is the CD for you.

5 out of 5 stars A sweet album by a sweet girl........1999-02-23

I've never written a review for anything but here it goes... Imaginaryland is one of those albums you want to listen to the whole way through. Petra has a beautiful voice and uses it very well in her album. It struck me as a very sentimental album and those are always the best. Something your ears will thank you for. I hope she does another one cause it's really quite beautiful.

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