title: Szidon plays these rhapsodies with plenty of passion

text: These highly acclaimed performances by Roberto Szidon are easy to recommend.  His technique is rock-solid and he plays with plenty of passion.


title: The sweetest music CD for the Holidays

text: This is the first CD that we play for the start of the Holidays. It gets us "in the mood".  It's full of very beautiful and calming songs for the season.


title: MANUEL J

text: I AM EXTREMELY HAPPY, I GOT MY ORDER SATURDAY, JUST TWO DAYS AFTER I ORDERED, THIS IS AND AMAZING GREAT SERVICE, THE MUSIC FROM ONE OF MY ICONS PERSONAL ARTIST MONICA NARANJO IT IS JUST AWESOME! THANK YOU GUYS! AND NOW I AM READY TO PLACE MY SECOND ORDER THE ONE IS COMING WITH ME IN MY TRIP NEXT WEEK AS A PART OF A GIFT FOR ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS IN GUATEMALA! GRACIAS AMIGOS!


title: Five Stars

text: Works as expected


title: Must have for Mesh fans

text: Nicely filmed for a concert and good audio. Also all song lyrics. Must have all region Blu-ray player if in US.


title: Just buy it u wont regret it!

text: I got mines today and the price is so worth it for all the things i got. It came earlier than i thought it would and wow thank you!! A good buy😔✊🏼


title: Another Andre delight!

text: This older concert in Heidelberg is fun, as well as filled with marvelous music and performances.  Guests,the wonderful Berlin Comedian Harmonists, add \ to the enjoyment.


title: EXCELLENT Music By The Big Kahuna, Keali'I Reichel!

text:
Aloha Keali'I Reichel.  It's so good to have Melelana back Sir! Lost in divorce. WONDERFUL to sing your songs again! Such a BEAUTIFUL VOICE you have. In REMEMBERING THE 21 YEARS I LIVED IN HAWAII,  I  SAW ALMOST EVERY CONCERT YOU DID! A few times you smiled at me while I mouthed the words to your songs and did Hula in my seat! As a gay man I feel the pain of your loss and hope that one day I will find Mr Right and would be an honor if you would sing at our Hawaiian Wedding.
Me ke Aloha
Aloha au ia oe!
Capt Stan Howard  (Kana Haoa)
IRS ENROLLED AGENT #73044


title: sound quality

text: Sound quality is terrible, on my bose stereo, it sounds like mono not stereo.


title: Absolutely beautiful , want more!

text: Absolutely beautiful! I want more!


title: Get it on iTunes instead but a fantastic set

text: Very rare cd, but a great collection of music. Tough to find other recordings of some of this material. It is available cheaply on iTunes which is the way to go in my opinion. Stradivarius discs seem to have been pressed with questionable quality.


title: Great album from a no-name artist

text:
I can't believe nobody else has reviewed this CD.  I got it from his website a few months ago, and it's abosultely brilliant.  Kevin Reeves is a blind singer/keyboard player who does all his work himself.  He wrote all the songs, he produced the music, and he sung the lyrics, and they're all amazing.

Every aspect of this album is beyond description.  The song "Shine" is one of the most inspiring and catchy tunes around.  I've heard a couple radio station's playing it.  Everybody needs to hear this CD.


It sounds like you would expect a 1970 bootleg to sound.  The band not as tight as they became later but this was literally first tour right after first album release.  Interesting hearing them close the show with fast blues jam rather than their own material.<br />Bought it out of curiosity.  Listened to once and done...


I got all love yourself tear albums in very good condition. I am very happy with my purchase. I recommend buying from this seller.


title: I got all love yourself tear albums in very good condition


title: I love it

text: Amazing I got jr. Photocard and a jb extra photocard....ps love the poster

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title: No me llego😕

text: No me llego😕


title: Best Authentic Oktoberfest Music Ever!!!!

text:
I have purchased most of the Oktoberfest music CDs available today, and they don't come even close to this old 1958 vinyl pressing by Capitol Records!! As the album's title implies, it is basically a partial live recording of the Oktoberfest that was celebrated in Munich in the year of the city's 800 year anniversary. No hokey, campy, or otherwise commercial-sounding stuff here! This is the real deal, full of the sounds of a Real Muenchen Oktoberfest, complete with singing, jodeling, instrumental music, carnival sounds, etc. (Regardless of what anyone may say, jodeling is just as much a part of the sound of a REAL Oktoberfest! I should know, as I grew up in a German family.)
Emil Vierlinger is the stage MC throughout much of this largely live event recording.  He also sings some of the songs in praise of the Muenchner Weisswurst, Bayerisches Bier, and so on. Many Munich bands and soloists are featured, all singing and speaking the Bavarian dialect, which can be difficult to understand, at times. Also featured, is the then famous Bavarian comedian, Der Weissferdl. Some obviously inebriated Oktoberfest-goers are even heard! The bands and string ensembles that are featured are also top-notch local Munich groups. My father purchased this album when I was two years old, and I've been in love with it ever since! The album's sound quality isn't bad, for a 1958 Hi-Fi recording.
I inherited this album after Dad passed away a few years ago and it is a cherished part of my music collection. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to find an almost pristine copy of this album, so that Dad's well-worn record can be retired. If you can find a clean copy of Munich's 800 Years, I suggest you snap it up, as they are becoming harder to find as more Oktoberfest enthusiasts discover them. Why Capitol has not reissued Munich's 800 Years, remastered in Stereo on CD is beyond me. If, and when they do, it will surely be a hit with lovers of the sounds of a real Bavarian Oktoberfest. Oans-Zwoa-Sufaaa!!!


title: Not just another band from LA

text: Los Lobos was one of the groups from the 80s that rekindled my love for rock.  Being 63 yrs old I still get thrilled listening to their first albums.  You can pick up this release via Discogs.com for around $20.  Why this isn't available in US is a mystery, although it probably has something to do with $$$.


title: Dellghtful music!

text: I just recently discovered "Die Wildecker Herzbuben" and have to say how sorry I am that I did not know about them sooner - all those wasted years of not being able to enjoy their beautiful music.  The melodious songs and beautiful voices are a delight to hear, some of the songs and music are hauntingly lovely.  I bought four CD's and love every one of them.  I just can't stop playing them over and over.


title: Five Stars

text: Nothing like the good old sounds of yester year.  GREAT!!!!!


title: All Time Favorite

text: This has long been my favorite Christmas CD.  After a move, I couldn't find it and ordered it here.  Martina sings Christmas like no one else!


title: Music of interest.  Avoid this seller.

text: I have a number of Rautavaara discs and find his music always interesting, and occasionally quite beautiful.<br />However, this particular seller "Sparkling Store" has become a nuisance.  I gave an honest, slightly lower feedback on this seller as the item arrived much later than expected.  Since that point, I have received about a half dozen email requests that I alter my feedback, including emotional appeals regarding the seller's personal needs.  Avoid this seller unless you would like the same email clutter.


title: Buy

text: My favorite worship album of all time. Amazing album. Bask in the presence of the Lord with this cd. Best cd purchase ever!!!!


title: Jackie dazzles as she finds new highs in her vocal range

text: Jackie hits all the notes she is famous for, and finds new ones, too!  An amazing album from one of this century's most gifted vocalists.<br />This seller packed the CD carefully, which is important if the case is to arrive crack and chip-free.  Most amazing to me was how fast they got the CD out to us.  Five stars for that alone.


title: Best quality ever.

text: Best ever!


title: Si te gusta la música norteña esto es pera tí!

text: Me gustó mucho este juego de discos y concierto en video, para los que les gusta la música norteña, esos del norte de Mexico todas las canciones les van a traer buenos recuerdos!


title: UBDERRATED GEM CAME OUT AT WRONG TIME

text: LIKE MANY OF THE LOST WB ALBUMS. DIVORCING SONNY & TOP TEN TV CHER. THE PUBLIC WANTED THEM 2GETHER. EVEN THOUGH MY BEST PART OF COMEDY HR & POST DIV SONNY & CHER SHOW WAS WOITHOUT SONNY. SHE WAS FINDING OUT WHAT WORKED WAS THIS ALBUM PIRATE (BEST) SHE LOVED TO HEAR THE MUSIC, (VERY GOOD) MUSIC WAS CHANGING AND THIS WASN'T THE TIME FOR THIS ALBUM. NOW A CLASSIC TIME CAN BRING OBJECTIVITY * AND I ENJOY IT WITH OBJECTIVITY AND THE MUSIC PUTS ME IN GOOD MOOD.<br />THAT TO ME IS WHAT MUSIC SHOULD DO


title: CHER AHEAD OF HER TIME. HER VOCAL RANGE PHENOMENAL

text: WHEN THIS CAME OUT IN 1975, AMERCAN PUBLIC STILL REELING FROM THEIR DIVORCE. SHE WED GREGG ALLMAN &  9DAYS LATER WANTED OUT.<br />UNFORTUNATELY CHER WAS STARTING TO GET BACKLASH FROM ALL PR. PLUS THIS WAS ADULT CHER. NOT ONE WITH STORY SONGS..AS ALWAYS LIKE MOVIES LP BOMBED BUT IS RECOGNIZED AS A CLASSIC NOW. AND WILL REMAIN


title: Rip Off*price wise)

text: The album & the singer are great! The price of the deluxe edition is an insult & a huge rip off! Shame on you! I wouls suguest just down loading the ones you like on I Tunes & refuse to play this stupid game!


title: Track listing for the Collectible Version offered...

text:
The Collectible Version of this title (which is extremely rare & hard to find these days) the tracks are:

1. Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Dr. Jazz
2. Sonny Rollins - Without a Song
3. Lisa Ono with Joao - The Girl from Ipanema
4. Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
5. Duke Ellington - Take the 'A' Train
6. Benny Goodman Quartet - Runnin' Wild
7. Steve Coleman with Mystic Rhythm Society + Afrocuba de Matanzas - Montuno
8. Glenn Miller - Rhapsody in Blue
9. Dizzy Gillespie - Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat
10. Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Star Dust

This is the THIRD PART of this Borders/RCA series! The cover art on this collectible is from the same artist (M. Harfield) as the other two shown, so you know these are all part of a set... GREAT for any collector who only has two of the three from this series!!! Email me with any questions you might have... ENJOY!!!


title: A GREAT Holiday CD!

text:
This CD is a fantastic addition to my holiday music collection. It's a mix of traditional songs with new, originals mixed in... The songs cover all the genres of music, from Pop and Rock, Classical and Jazz, even Alternative and Blues... Just a great project that will instantly get the listener in the holiday spirit!

The track listing for this compilation is as follows: 1)  Go Tell It by The Swarthmore College Alumni Gospel Choir - 2) Little Drummer Boy by Grey Eye Glances - 3)  Santa's Bag by It's Only Roy - 4) Sing for Christmas by Andy Pratt - 5)  On a Day Like Christmas by Cliff Hillis - 6)  Jingle Bell Rock by Kati Mac - 7) Hanukkah & Christmas Hand in Hand by Huffamoose - 8)  The Chipmunk Song by Jim Boggia - 9) Carol of the Bells by Peter Vitalone - 10)  O Holy Night by Barbara Montgomery - 11) The Road to Calvary by The Swarthmore College Alumni Gospel Choir - 12)  Pax by Jake Holmes - 13) Bells by Ben Arnold - 14)  Father Christmas by The Contes - 15) On Christmas Night by Grey Eye Glances - 16) Silent Night by Motorbaby - 17)  Christmas in New York by Kyf Brewer - 18) Away in a Manger by Lisa Richards - 19) Our Own Place and Time by Greye Eye Glances - 20)  Glad to Be Home for Christmas by It's Only Roy - 21)  Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming / All Through the Night by J.D. Martin & Jan Garrett.

Get it; enjoy it; and share your thoughts about the CD with others on this page - and no matter what time of year you happen to be reading this - HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!


title: Hard-to-find gem by Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians!

text: In the summer of 1999, the original five members of the New Bohemians got together in Montauk, Long Island. On a cliff high above the ocean, in an old, one-room building that used to be an artist's studio, they began a five-week writing session. These eight songs are a few of the many written during that time. The eight songs on this CD are; 1) Uh-huh 2) Spanish Style Guitar 3) Rush Around 4) Came A Long Way 5) Oh Child 6) Funny Thing 7) I've Been Gone 8) One Last Time. Some of the songs were recorded the very same day they were written!


title: love it

text: Love this book


title: The Jukes are back

text: A return of the Jukes to their roots. Johnny and the gang are back in blues form, with many songs penned by John and his cohort Jeff Kazee. Great record.


title: Five Stars

text: Great songs, I love them


title: Adele cd

text: Great cd from Adele


title: cool depeche mode concert

text: Way Cool.concert. bluray is audio but still.great set.


title: awesome cure concert dvd

text: Awesome DVD!!


title: Five Stars

text: Classic Kristine W - Amazing music from this amazing artist with 16 number ones collectively!


title: Exactly what we ordered

text: It's George Strait...enough said!  Fast delivery, packaging was protective of the product.  Very happy with purchase.


title: Música inspiradora.

text: Hermosas las canciones , muy inspiradoras , especial par las jovencitas .


title: Five Stars

text: Love it! Love it! Love it!


title: Overall good but QR code did not work

text: Cons: the QR code did not work and the poster was a bit wrinkled. I would not buy again and I suggest you buy from a store instead. Pros: 3 free unofficial photo cards


title: Great condition

text: LP Record was in excellent condition.  It was exactly what I wanted.  Thank you,


title: Five Stars

text: Great CD.


title: The only Jazz Opera (to the best of my knowlege)

text: Since the 50's I have loved this unique and genial work -- to the best of my knowledge, the only Jazz Opera -- Of course, in the 50's it was a LP (from the school library).<br />I have not yet been able to find the complete  Opera on CD -- The usual CDs are often made of a few fragments of Bechet's  opera drowning in bland commentaries by the person who most likely is  collecting the money for the CD (because s/he is the "author")


title: Product were as advertised and packaged well.

text: Contents were  undamaged even though the package was left on the doorstep in the rain.  Thank you for being cautious with your packaging. I love it!!


title: One great CD.

text:
I like all of Rick's stuff, but of all of them this one is probably still my favorite.  An eclectic sound with overtones of alternative, folk, rock, and other elements... well-written songs... and thoughtful and personal lyrics.

If you prefer superficial Christian music this is not the cd for you.  Rick has never been afraid to challenge the status  quo, and that's one of the things I love about him.  If you don't think so, check these lyrics out...

Don't want no statues / No movie stars

Don't need more saints in luxury cars

I don't want nobody pointing at me

Asking for my money / Say they set me free

and...

Don't want no cat / Rich and fat

Talkin at me about where  I"m at

I don't want no daddy with two strong arms

I got one already / He done too much harm

I only want one word from high above... the word is love...

Other songs go one to challenge materialism in and out of the church, or pull deep personal descriptions of heartbreak and loss and a desperate need for redemption from the failures of life out of the depths of his soul.  Rick stricks me as a very serious guy, and his lyrics reflect who he is without any attempt at pretense.

Personal favorites of mine are the rockers "The Word is Love" and "Confession of Love", the almost folksy but upbeat "Streets of Rome" (much better than the later version on Blink in my opinion), and "Someday" - a song complex enough to almost fit into the prog rock category.

Whether or not you are familiar with Rick, give this one a chance.  I don't think you'll regret it.


title: Great CD!

text: This is a great CD from the OJ Simpson Trial.  After all these years I still get a good laugh listening to the songs.


title: Very Hard to Find!

text: CD arrived in excellent condition.


title: Four Stars

text: some good cuts, some great cuts.


title: Very easy to work! AAAAA+++++++

text: Very easy to work with! AAAAAA++++++++++++


title: Five Stars

text: Just what I was looking for!


title: hysterical political satirical songs

text: Rocky Mountain Mike is the most clever and funny political satiricist who writes amazing songs based on original songs I've ever heard! Listen to his work on The Stephanie Miller radio show every day!


title: Harper Valley PTA-Jeannie C. Riley

text: I purchased this "Album" when it first came out.  This CD was a replacement, since my album was lost over the years.  It was just as great as when I first bought it.  I was very pleased that Amazon.com was able to provide it to me.


title: Five Stars

text: Set is in great condition.


title: John

text: Breath taking


title: Five Stars

text: Great song.


title: these are free to download..... ...

text: these are free to download.....some scum bag lowlife is just trying to scam you. these are all free recordings you can get on the net. sleep well you piece of trash..get a job and a real life...


title: Four Stars

text: Jimmy can never do wrong. All though I'll never understand the song "Hats off to Roy Harper."


title: Tom Jones prime greatness.

text: All of Tom Jones Decca albums plus two extra discs of rare cuts. Some of the cuts are better than others and it’s mostly scorching stuff, I definitely wouldn’t call any tune in here bad. Tom had really good taste in his material choices and of course he could sing his ass off. My only minor quibble is that the back cover art is not presented as from the original albums. (The front covers are) Just a bland type. As long as we’ve waited for this I wish the record company could make that tiny bit of extra effort. I would still recommend this set highly.


title: A lush overview of Bob

text: Mammoth, spectacular, and comprehensive. My only wish is that the original art had remained intact for each record it’s hard to associate old memories with new visuals, pleasant though they are. In the end though it’s mostly about the music really. Highly recommended.


title: great activity for the kids.

text: Have been using these for my autistic grandson, they have worked out fabulously.  The only problem I see is the fact that they only have one of each of the letters and numbers, and especially with the numbers many of the flash cards are in need of two.  One of the word flash cards does also....I just have to watch and make sure that he doesn't accidentally get one of those to avoid any confusion.  This has turned inso one of his favorite activities durning his day where we spend time with educational matters.


title: Absolutely the best complete Grieg piano, song, and chamber music cycle

text: For Grieg's abundant (12 CDs) solo piano works, Braaten is superb. His masterful performances of the complete solo piano repertoire, recorded in clear and dynamic Victoria sound, simply has no equal among the other famous Grieg pianists (Kiesling, Knardahl, etc.).


title: Four Stars

text: It nice and I was happy with my order


title: Five Stars

text: Probably one of the best punk/hc bands to come from Texas. Seriously, dont pass them up.


title: A Little Nugget

text: Found this is a pile of used CDs. Wide variety of music from Alex Chilton to the Wailers (not's Bob's back-ups).  Everyone should have the Easybeats "Friday on my Mind" in their possession for the drive to work on Monday. Pick it up for that alone.


title: Track Listing

text:
1)  Double;

 2)  Kill Will;

 3)  Blame;

 4)  Thinkin';

 5)  Bad Disease;

 6)  Grace;

 7)  Shaker;

 8)  Gift Taker;

 9)  Freedom;

10)  Christ Saves.


title: Beautiful

text: A great experience that you can repeat over and over with every listen.<br />I could rave, but you should just listen to it yourself.


title: Just Buy It and Party!

text: I was interested in the music and it did not disappoint. Great music for a party near the end of the night. The language of music crosses any language barrier. You will love this. The West sure misses out on some great talent. What is the music like? It's a genre mix which evokes the best of the 1990s. There's great textures, warmth and a sense of fun.


title: Awesome

text: Perfect complement to the book


title: Might just end up on your list of must-have CDs

text: This is a very difficult record to find. So if you like 80's style new wave rock, and you can find this record for what you consider to be a reasonable price, I highly recommend getting it.  If you know Real Life from their previous record Heartland, which contained Send Me An Angel, then I think you'll find these songs to be a bit more lively, edgier, and more agressive but still very identifiably Real Life.  I personally think these songs are a bit more well-developed and complex than the songs on Heartland and they definitely show that these guys know and understand the potential of their instruments and how to integrate them with each other. This is NOT just drum machine and guitars with some synthesizer thrown in. The highlight/standout song for me is the title track, though all of the songs are strong. While I have a hard time finding any other bands to compare them to, I could say that their style fits in well with Duran Duran.


title: Nicole Torres is an amazing musician.

text: I have this album, and it's really good.  I got it at one of her concerts FOR $10!  There's no way this album is worth $40, because she's still selling it.  Anyway, she and her ensemble  make great music.  She's on Myspace, or you can check out her website at [...] it's great.


title: As described

text: As described


title: Three Stars

text: Good version


title: Lullaby of Devil

text: Third track of this fine release is "Lullaby of Devil" from The Hungarian Bop-Art Orchestra, a very original band of their times (the '80s and '90s): a big canvas, panoramic and filmic, as are also their "Elephants of The Milky Way" or "Clinical Picture" opuses. This title is more than 18 minutes, live, edited version, but the original, never released studio version is around half an hour, that would really worth its price. Lullaby was on repertoire for years and was their big success also at Montréal Jazz Festival (Canada) in 1990. At its peak, the "Lullaby of Devil" evolved to an hour-long epos (at The MIDEM in Cannes, 1993). Unfortunately this rendition at Montreux '89 was recorded mono, hence the obligate stereo effect, applied at the mastering phase, is a bit annoying. But till the hoped release of the studio version, for progressive funs, it is a must to check this composition of Attila Malecz (orchestra leader, keyboard player), even in its transitional and torso state.


title: Toninho Horta is on...

text: You should get out of the confusion with the labels printed on these CD-s, since Toninho Horta is not on the Disk that is labelled for him. When you identify the right one, you can close your eyes: Horta gives you not only a typical Brazilian feel, but his unique ballads,  with his unique vocal and a gentle band, recorded live at Moscow in 1992, in a big hall, with many disturbing reverbs, not the best sound, but the music is so human, so uplifting that shines through every barriers. This music is an integral part of you...<br />The very best of our feelings.


title: Progressive music that really bops

text: Confusingly original and colorful, virtuoso music for progressive rock funs (Yes, UK, King Crimson) and those who are aware of a satirical be-bop, like Monk, devoted admirer of the thrilling keyboards of Joe Zawinul, or simple just would like to believe that music is still alive, and very originals can evolve even nowadays. Follow the letter B (Bach, Bartók, Beatles, Bill Bruford as strong references for Bop-Art). Hungarian means here an universal musical landscape in a very bartokian way, while Orchestra stands here for an electronic quartet rendering unbelievable dense orchestral complexity. Be well prepared to follow, headphones advised. A cathartic one-hour long journey is guaranteed. Otherwise, the band is really Hungarian, the most successful with its 15 years story in the Hungarian Jazz history. Strongly advised to search for  the second and third CD of their Trilogy ignited with this perfect B&W release, namely the best of its class "Clinical Picture" and "Samba Concertante".


Five Stars


title: Love it.

text: Love it. Plays great.


title: Awesome!

text: Just as awesome as when I was a child.  Side B still gives me goosebumps of patriotism!


title: NO MORE A FAN

text:
Man I used to think of Malombra as a really awesome band.  Their early forays of gothic tinged rock and metal with prog influences was excellent with their very first album.  Amazing piece of work.

But THIS disc just ruined everything.  No longer concerened with horror/occult stuff, then band has just turned into a lineup of angry old men ranting about politics.  Moreso, their lyrics talked trash about gay people like myself and on about how we are 'destroying society' ETC ETC....  I've heard that all before.  Hey, I loved your music!  I was a big fan!  But the moment you start talking trash about gay people like me, dont expect me to have any respect for you guys anymore!

And you know that is the greater problem of metal-goth and shockrock artists who have used themes against religion and celebrating dark subjects, evil, occult, and erotica.  This is supposed to be music of the darkside, but then SOME of these artists as they get older suddenly discover they are really just as morally correct, prudish, and traditionalist as the church their 'shocking' art had once defied.  Malombra's long lyrical rants (which take up the whole album now, no occult/horror stuff) against everything from 'sodomits' to UNICEF, gay mairrage, minorities, women leading the family etc...  just makes this into the next ted nugent for Italy.  No longer horror or sinister or magical.  Just whining prudish junk.

A real real shame... I thought you guys were great, then you just stab me in the back.  You lost a fan.  In the lyrics you say: "accept the brotherhood of men who think, feel and act as you do in full respect".  Thats EXACTLY what Im gonna do and cast aside the band who does not show people like me any respect.


title: A black metal drama play

text:
Many times I find myself returning to this little EP, the only major creation of the project Wilds Forlorn.

Its not exactly the most exciting or darkest black metal album, but what keeps drawing me back to it is how its one epic piece of cinematic symhonic black metal.  If this album had to accompany a film, it would definitely be a dark drama.  The pianos and strings move in gently and breathe much like a student of composer Arvo Part.  They build and build slowly to dramatic crescendos.  Its a drama play, not a crude suicidal wail, an epic battle, or a roar of hate.  Its kind of sophisticated in fact.

This is still a basement project.  The metal passages are backed by a drum machine and are somewhat weak compared to other groups.  But it is definitely a lot heavier than what some of those new shoegaze influenced black metal groups are calling metal.  The real star then is the well recorded orchestrations and their emotive drama.

I can think of very few black metal bands that make this delicate drama and that why I find myself regularly returning to it.

This is music for soul searching, doing battle with your own demons, and finding the important reasons for living.  Its a great mini-album too!  Now if only he could get a record deal and put out more of this kind of stuff!


title: Music of the spheres...

text:
Procer Veneficus is not at all like any other black metal project.  Lead by singular one man composer Night, Procer Veneficus serves the expression of the movement of heavenly bodies and the cosmos rotating in their orbits, a canopy above a high vista in a natural space where small lifeforms such as trees, insects, and animals go about their ritual of survival regardless of the excessive inept ponderings on the purpouse of life that plagues one inept scheming race.

Night has in his mind determined that the best manner to express this vision is through the mix of black metal with drone music and minimalist spatial ambient.  Some artists have done similar, but Procer Veneficus was one of the very first to push black metal primitivism so far as to teeter on the edge of drone music.  And for being one of the first, the project became the symbolic pariah of the late 2000's metal purism reactionists.  All the big critics and cultural elite of the genre congregated together to beat and demonize and hold up Procer Veneficus as the quintessential example of the decline and degradation of black metal to date.  Their bile against the band was endless.  One would ask why, but as an outside observer its easy to see why they hated Procer Veneficus.  And that is becuase this artist relied on the most supple and quiet expressions to create his art.  The exact opposite of the conventional concept of heavy metal as loud offensive music.

This train of thought though is not at all correct.  Defining metal as most importantly loud and offensive actually is very inhibiting and should be irrelevant to any good artist or listener.

Of all of Procer Veneficus's releases, this is perhaps his most ambitious.  It is a concept release honoring the experience of a summer twilight.  Contained within are two chapters, Duskworlds and Lunar Transit.

The first chapter, Duskworlds, is a creation of visceral simple black metal washed down into a rich drone.  Normally I am not keen on such a style, but Procer Veneficus keeps my interest in it through actually using just the right notes and chords to create a sense of a huge dark void.  Its a lot more grim than any of the other artists working in a similar format.  Also there are long drawn out cosmic synths accompanying the music and further enhancing this aura.  The best thing to say is this music groans.  It groans with an aching weight like the music of the spheres being hurled across countless eons.  The drums, clearly programmed, even dont seem to be recognized as drums as we know them.  The guitar seems unnatural in its tone as well.  All of the instruments distorted to unify the sound and cross over into the drone space.  Nowadays other obscure artists have written black metal of this character.  Procer Veneficus has in a sense sacrificed itself to the baying rage of the scene so that they may have a space to work and find some recognition.  They owe this band thanks for granting them a home for drone black metal.

The second chapter, Lunar Transit is a clear night sky after the thunderstorm.  Even metalheads who gave some iota of praise to Duskworlds could not toleralte Lunar Transit.  Morons!  They abhor it becuase they are unable to slow down their vision and feel the moment of the single note, and the vast space contained within it.  To play with the most quietest of annunciations.  To explore the very edges of sound....  There are other ambient acts who have come before like so.  But Procer Veneficus adds a little something extra to that thought the dispersing of field recordings throughout.  In Lunar Transit you will hear the graceful hum of the moon and the earth fade away to the silence and reveal crickets chirping away all around you and you will find yourself left in the peace of the field at night.  Moreso, having heard the same ambient come from the previous Duskworlds behind the metal segments, Lunar Transit goes beyond just simple ambience and maintains a spiritual current with the black drone roots of its preceiding chapter.  And to top this all off, is a very fascinating Dead Can Dance cover. one that manages to preserve the same feel of the original Dead Can Dance sound even despite having reduced it to the most barest of compositions.

Its well clear through my many reviews that i often favor the very lush and layered, the multinstrumental and the complex in music.  I also have ranted hotly against minimalism and primitivism in black metal.  But much like Striborg, Procer Veneficus have managed to defy these standards in my taste.  There are some clear reasons though.  Like Striborg, Procer Veneficus makes much use of the so critical synth in their music.  In addition to that, both artists have chosen to focus very heavily upon nature for inspiration without loosing grip on what the heart of black metal mean (unlike the Cascadian scene).  In a way Procer Veneficus is simply a meditative reduction of the same spirit that made Emperor or Dimmu Borgir great in the mid 90's.  That is what I see within their music and I love it.  I kind of wish they would pull back just a tiny bit from the border with drone music and let a little more black metal filter through, but alongside everything else, including the lovely packaging with absolutely fantastic photos, incense, a poem, and the preserved leaf, this album still manages to be a satisfying experience.


title: overlooked transcendental naturalist black metal

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Lets think of a little marten, a small predatory animal that lives in the high mountains of the rural forests in Europe and Asia.  Far away from the domain of the modern world, this creature goes about its existence in a manner I think is spiritually akin to the music of this album.  A marten is a predator.  It has a very high metabolic rate and its temperament is extremely excitable.  Built for killing, it must survive by preying upon many little rodents and squirrels or even birds.  It its perfectly adept for being a bloodthirsty carnivore.  But there is an irony about this animal.  A marten is small enough that it itself can be prey.  It is easily overpowered and killed by wolves and especially large owls.  This creature thrives in a life where it dominates over all the other poor animals it eats, but endures the ultimate irony that it itself must sacrifice its life in the same way.  Its an experience of bloody violence and humbled supplication.  And Dornenreich has captured an essence in their music very much akin to this.

Bitter ists, dem Tod zu dienen is a fascinating artifact in the black metal world.  With the large scale interest in nature-worshiping black metal that came to be centered around Agalloch and WiTTR and others of the Cascadian scene, oftentimes fans assume that this movement has a specific voice and sound...  with Fauna and Celestial and Gris and other such groups continuing this trend.  The truth of the matter is the trend to naturalism in black metal has another smaller and forgotten voice that was generated in the mid 90's before the Cascadian scene took off.  Bands heavily inspired by Ulver and Empyrium, or shimply their own creative genesis experimented with nature worship back then and the results were these lost little treasures who often offer a very exciting alternative to the sonic characteristics of the Cascadian scene.

On this album, Dornenriech sought to tackle this theme through the medium of a highly symphonic and technical black metal aura.  They grasp onto the moody folky characteristics Empyrium were creating and then fed it full of symphonic eclecticism sped up to and ecstatic whirlwind.  It's actually a bit absurd.  Throughout this album they try and use pretty acoustic guitar flourishes, moody cello reverive, and warm clean folikish vocals to give an inviting heart to their music.  Though it has this warm folky heart, by GOD is it ever visceral!  The metal passages race by frantically, the giutars and synth fighting and dancing furiously with each other while prolific drummer Moritz Neuner gives the performance of this life!  The sonic assault skips from idea to experimental idea in a free train of thought, yet still grounded in the symphonic BM genre. To apply that warm inviting Empyrium-esque sound on top of some hyperfast tech black full of dramatic synthwork is so insane and absurd, but it actually works.  And this is where my previous comparison to the marten comes into play.

Yeah this music is blisteringly fast and full of fiery drumwork and over the top black metal screams.  It is excitable and violent full of resentment and catharsis, but it also reveals its vulnerable side very frankly and openly.  The spirit of this album... the little entity painted onto the cover standing before a vast universe... its laid bare emotionally, crying out its agonies to the universe, and ultimately receiving its purpose and place as just a little creature against something so vast and beautiful.  To rest the pained spirit and to accept.  Surely this is clear by the last track of the album in which the estatic metal is pushed out and left to just some warm and weepy vocal serenades over a cold and soothing acoustic guitar.  Dornenreich does not assault and push out their listeners.  The band invites them to join in this cathartic ecstasy as they cry out and are refreshed by the cosmos and the beautiful earth.  They nowadays operate as simply a folk music ensemble.  Their leader reminisces about an ancient little cabin in his hometown and the myth that it once was inhabited by a witch.  The expanded booklet of the Prophecy Productions repress of this album shows the frontman shirtless being bathed in a waterfall with the rest of the band hiding behind flowers and branches like a group of elves.  What a bunch of romantics!

I put off buying this album for a while because I assumed it was some strange experimental post-black metal akin to say Korovakill or Dodheimsgard.  I mean look at that very modernist painting on the cover!  But I knew that some of the songs sounded fantastic so it never really left my conscious.  When I became interested in the  'German mystic metal' school centered around the early Prophecy Productions lineup, I finally dished out the money to get this album.  Yes this is a very experimental symphonic black metal album, but it is in no way moderinist and its spirit still carries the early black metal tradition.  Some of the band members even have a little facepaint with a little white on their faces and black eyeshadow and lipstick in a much less corpsepaint, more gothic variety.  Very funny!  But still quite cool.  You would not see anything like this in the Cascadian scene with their stripped down indie look of tight pants, worn out hoodies, and wool hats.  No this is a little bit more superfluous than that!

But dont at all mistake Dornenreich as being a band of image and shallowness.  Their music cuts to the organic and vibrant of the human condition.  Its a step away from contemporary wastelands to touch up on something eternal and spiritual.  A breath of fresh wet air damp with earthy loam.  Yes.  I took this album out on headphones on a beautiful rainy hillock trimmed with old woodlands on a fall evening.  And I looked up and I felt the sonic fury and it spun me around like a tattered leaf in a Dervish dance.  And when I exhausted my body striding madly across the cold forest trails I huddled up at the shore of a spring as night set in and listened to Eviga and his guitar giving up the struggle of it all.  The universe has won against man.  But its not so bad, just a sweet melancholy.


title: Early black ambient master

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Profane Grace is perhaps the earliest project of black ambient, ambient music informed heavily by black metal.  Starting with their 1990 demo tape Seal of Xastur, the USA band Profance Grace chose to create ritual ambient much like many of the post-industrial artist of the 80's.  But what made them special was their focus on Satanism and the use of black metal vocals.  The band was lead also by metalheads, the frontman being Lord Ixithra, the mastermind of black metal band Demoncy who has achieved underground cult fame with their much hailed album "Joined in Darkness".  Amidst all of Ixithra's other projects, he kept Profane Grace operating, even as the project became more of a solo effort after their first album in 1995.  Even to this day though the project has never failed to produce the soundtrack to dismal haunts and cosmic nightmares, improving its vision with every album.

1998 saw the release of this their third album Serenity of Endless Graves.  It is packaged with early artwork courteousy of Michael Riddick (most well known for his art on Arsis albums).  Profane grace continues in a path much similar with fellow American black ambient contemporaries Darkness Enshroud, but its clear from even their first works that Profane Grace has a sound noticeably different from Darkness Enshroud.  His compositions are longer and more droning with less percussive elements.  There is also more synth use, though again used in a droning manner.  As I mentioned the project has evolved continually with each album.  The 1995 album The Divination of Souls was very raw and direct, using a great deal of black metal vocals and whaling on top of basic and shrill synths that created a decrepit and visceral feeling, though one without any subtlety.  That tastefulness lacking on the first album is a lot more prevalent on Serenity of Endless Graves.  The black metal rasps have been subdued a bit and the droning syths pushed forward.  Moreso, the absurd wailing voices are also gone, improving the maturity of their music.  By 1998 the gothic and symphonic trend was in full swing.  It would not be unexpected for ambient acts to reflect this, but you will not find symphonics, classical guitar, or tinkling pianos here.  Instead its ambient drones completed with ghostly voices.  Ixithra also uses a lot of found percussion, you hear a deal of glass shards and bowls being struck, metal chains and rods being struck, maybe also some bones too.  There is not too much more to it than that, it's all very subtle as said before.  But one thing is the low end.  The bass drones are hard, throbbing intensely in your head and could very well shake your house down if turned up loud.  The percussion is also very varied.  Sometimes very soft and intimate in feel while other times loud as heck and shocking.  Some tracks have a nice eerie male choir sample and some cello, just hinting at gothic, but again they are used on a droning manner and become a massive wall of omnipresence.  It's interesting, Profane Grace has managed to produce an album that sounds both very big vast and atmospheric, but is capped and held back, loud but muffled.  The result is that it is also claustrophobic and oppressive.  It never allows you to enjoy a clear atmospheric elation, it suffocates you instead.  You could say it evokes a grand cathedral, but one buried deep under the earth and forever absent of spacious light, choked full of the dust of time and death.  What you have is a grand spacious tomb.

And I am pretty sure that is how Ixithra would want his listeners to feel with Serenity of Endless Graves.

I do enjoy it as a more suffocating and deathly style of black ambient.  With Profane Grace's next album Epitaph of Shattered Dreams, however, the project would tweak the oppressiveness down a bit and finally let some gothic elements shine through, just allowing a bit of that clear atmospheric elation reach its zenith.  For me, that is more satisfying than Serenity of Endless Graves.  But that is simply a matter of taste.  Lord Ixithra is a very talented artist, and each of his albums with this black ambient project is different in its own way, and yet still tied together in sound (the hallmark of a very good artist).  I prefer gothic atmospheric expanses, but if you prefer your expanses to be subdued and then turned into a claustrophobic horror sick with the pallid air of ossuaries and tombs choked with the remains of the dead, then this is an absolute must have!  There is little hope in this dark realm, only the sleep and peace of eternity that the dead know.  The living though will now only nightmares and panic as they try to escape this hallowed abyss!

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Word of advise, Profane Grace cds are limited and long out of print, but most are not hard to come by, plagued by the indifference of most metalheads to a genre of music they see as secondary to metal... just an extension of metal song intros lasting for a whole album.  That's a big failure in the end by music listeners, but its a benefit to fans as it makes the project's cds not too expensive to come by.  I got mine for around 8 dollars.  I would really advise not paying some price hiker anything around $20 or more for this album since you should be able to find a cheaper copy for sale elsewhere if you look enough.  Black ambient is still a sadly lost genre of music among people looking for a more cerebral and driving fix.  But its their mistake cause this music is far more apt at speaking on the subjects of death and eternity than any typical black metal band!


title: GREATEST FANTASY AMBIENT EVER!!

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Hah!  OK..

Is it possible to literally shout and rave like a madfan over what is essentially just relaxing quiet ambient?!?!

Id say so!

Uruk-Hai is essentially new-age music for the black metal world.  Although many people care next to nothing for this highly proliferous project, this one man ambient band lead by the chainmail clad Hugin has been able to do something that no other metal artist has truly been able to achieve for me.

I look for metal to take me away to mystical worlds I've created in my mind, or to memories of natural landscapes I've explored.  Music has served for me what fantasy novels or video games have done for so many others.  And even in my earliest of days that is what I got out of my first heavy metal cds from Tiamat and Type O Negative. It has been for me the wellspring of inspiration and spiritual refreshment.  Uruk-Hai came to me after looking through his long discography of fantasy themed ambient.  I got a few cd-rs from this group, which I enjoyed for the most part.  But it was with the demo tape "The Lord of the Rings" that I found a recording capable of actually making me feel like I was really there!  That I was really IN the world I envisioned in my mind!  The music was EXACTLY like the landscape on the tape's cover!  It probably will later become one of the most inspirational experiences of my life.  After that I was sold on tracking down the most interesting Uruk-Hai publications I could.

Lost Songs of Middle-Earth would not have been the most immediate choice to someone psyched up on having just discovered Uruk-Hai.  That allthough this release is an actual professional cd album rather than Hugin's typical cd-rs and demo tapes, it certainly did not have all the nifty home-made package additions that his unprofessional albums have.  Ahh but dont be lured by all the fancy packages and obscure print numbers.  I would opt to say that Lost Songs of Middle_Earth is likely one of Uruk-Hai's most perfect albums ever released!

So when I got this cd, I sat out in a field in the afternoon, looked to the southeast horizon, and watched time go by.  I was shocked to discover that this release would do exactly what the Lord of the Rings demo tape did, and even succeed it!  This has without a doubt become one of my most favorite albums of all time!

Here, Uruk-Hai has created a great symbiosis.  It is not like the early years where the music was long long minimalist stretches going for 30 minutes or more.  Neither though was it the chaotic sample, symphonic, and sound effect epics of albums like Black Blood White Hand.  Lost Songs of Middle Earth is a perfect blend of both!  It has all these rich passages with interesting sound effects and synth melodies... then long quieter meditative ambiance that sets you into a trance and puts your whole being at peace.  It is sublime!  Wardrums, whispering voices in an Elvish tongue, droning synths, flute harmonies, dreamy acoustic guitar, spatial waves of galactic energy... wow wow WOW!  It is amazing how a talented artist can bring out the purest meaning out of the most simplest of elements.

I dont normally do a track by track review, but this release warrants it...

"Ecthelion" begins the album in a huge wave!  It grabs you immediately with a roaring rush and trumpeting horns and immediately hurls you down into right into the world.  And then just like that it is gone leaving winds of atmospheric rush far overhead and whispering voices of the inhabitants pondering your entry into their dimension.  The music is now all minimalism with as you begin to explore.  With a few intriguing subtle melidoes arising here and there.  But it does not last long before you enter the next piece.

"The Last of the Dragons" begins with thunder and dread and solitary oboe, marching drums.. its very foreboding as you begin to wonder in fear of whats ahead.  But then you become aware that you are in a wonderful dream and the music suddenly becomes a beautiful solitary acoustic guitar and piano peace.  Its like sunshine in a mountain field or through a window warming your flesh.  You bask in it as ghosts of passing armies wander through the clearing.  Then you find the wind picking up and you are high in the air, alone, like a dragon in flight.  A beautiful flute sings the creature's song of lonesomeness in the blue sky.  Its enough to make you cry, afterwards you glide back on airs of ambient and guitar to rest.

"When Daylight Is Gone" is a much more minimalist track of simply washing hums of ambient mimicking monastic mantras accompanied by reverberating crashes.  This piece takes you in a cosmic space where you leave the fantasy behind and instead occupy some singularity at the dawn of creation.  Matter crackles and undulates all around you, as you feel privileged to witness this dimension where energy and particles are the only occupants.  The unformed universe.

"Last March of the Orcs" is the best song on the album, therefore probably the best song ever written by Uruk-Hai.  This piece is impossible to describe.  It sounds not so much like orcs in combat but an ancient memory of the end of war, or the end of the greatest of empires.  A heroic and noble end.  It's melodies of cello and viols play some of the most saddest yet beautiful tunes you could imagine.  It's a rich and varied track with harps, flutes, marching drums and some of the best synth patches I have ever heard all mixed diversely.  Here is your peace in the sunny forest!  Here is fair Elven music at times rising to even a parade march lead by playful flute before then sinking down into ambient remembrance of the most emotional variety.  It will set your spirit to vibrate and move you to tears!  I know it does me!  And on this long song goes.  So much here!  A world encapsulated, a gateway to the daydreamer's realm.  Your world youve always dreamed of!  Beauty... such beauty...

"The Shire" comes after the long cleansing bath of "Last March of the Orcs".  And at this point it feels like youve arisen from a sleep and you are unsure where you are.  The music here is gastly and dark, much like the beginning of "The Last of the Dragons".  It's chilling and cold and fearful, then suddenly it all abruptly changes in a flash and you find yourself surrounded by a celebration of gnomes and folktale critters in a pastoral countryside.  All here is charming and homely, like Tolkein's home for the hobbits, though I'm sure you can use your own imagination to come up with your own fairytale creatures to invite to this party!  Its wonderful!

"The Nazgul" begins once again like the first song "Etchelion", borrowing the same structural backdrop from it.  However, the whispering voices are more malevolent and the air rings with haunting buzzes and a great deal of dread has been added.  Soft horns herald a dusty moor inhabited only by the tombs of the dead, and here you are left to blow on the wind, your soul lost.

"Die Legende..." finishes the album.  Its a 6 part symphonic poem from long back in the history of Uruk-Hai.  However, its inclusion here becomes the perfect cap onto the end of this fantastic album.  Without it, I feel Lost Songs of Middle Earth would have ended too early and on a sombre note.  "Die Legende..." with its more primitive synths and shriller processors adds variety to this masterpiece and creates a fantastic unbalance that makes the album feel less predictable and always an adventure!  The piece moves between many moods on an established theme, out of darkness, into light, though a heroic sombre march, and eventually to the solitary glint of golden treasure in your hand.  The sound of thunder, wind and peaceful rain divide each momentary mood piece of the epic story while Hugin softly roars, echoing out from canyon valleys and around you.  Each mood from peace, fear, bravery, and lonesomeness passes only briefly but just enough to get a little taste.  Its an ecapsulated album on its own, and you will find many a moment where the music ends leasving just an ambient sample... and you will think the album is over.. and then suddenly the music renews again!  Wonderful!

So there you have it!  I have tried my best to explain my experience to this amazing album.  Not everything that Hugin has created is pure brilliance, but the music on THIS album is absolutely so! And it is by far my most favorite release of his art!  Here all the music syncs up in a sublime way and you are presented with a masterpiece.  So far it is the best I have ever experienced of the project.  And if you are thinking about getting into Uruk-Hai, this release will make you a rabid fan for sure!

To complete this perfect album is in fact is an amazing package of artwork befitting of the music.  The cover of this cd drew me in, for its stark, less photogenic image of nature looked so much like some one observation I would make or a photo I would take when off on one of my many nature hikes.  Inside the booklet is a complete spread for every song on the entire album save for the "Die Legende" symphony.  Every picture gives you a glimpse of images that Hugin feels best to be a springboard of mental visualizations for each song.  And on top of it is 2 photos of Hugin himself in chainmail and armed with a broadsword posing like a warrior!  Amusing and fun!  The album also comes with a lot of runic text, even a paragraph of some for each song.  You might have to do some research to decipher the runes and receive additional thoughts from this artist!  The only downside is I feel that the label printed the artwork a little too dark.  Also, fans of computer games may get a good chuckle out of the picture of the orc in the booklet, they may recognize him!

Ambient is not a genre many have liked, metalheads especially.  Some often cite it as great to get lost in and to have as background music.  That certainly is true, and a lot of Uruk-Hai, especially his full hour long sets, are often such a kind of ambient.  But not this album!  Sure it makes for good 'ambiance' but to get the full experience you MUST listen with full attention!  Everything here is so well crafted.  Minimalist you would say, but in fact it is lush and filling!  Hugin has stripped away the progress of time and lets us enjoy every individual sound impression to its fullest!  The sonic equivalent of meditation on a wooded mountainside where only nature occupies your entire senses and you are aware of every little brushstroke!  An art critic from the 1950's, Clement Greenberg, once established the genesis of modernism by saying that paintings of the past acted like little windows to get lost in rather than be 'art discussing art'.  He implied that art should do what it could to avoid being a 'theraputic' 'little corner'.  Frankly I dispute his assertion.  I would also like to say that Lost Songs of Middle-Earth is exactly that!  It is a little corner, a window into an imaginative and ultimately therapeutic place that brings joy to its viewer bu giving voice to their own inner worlds.  After my experience I could not help but do such a long and gushing praise of Lost Songs of Middle-Earth.  My own paintings will benefit so much from this masterpiece!  It surely is one of my favorite albums of all time!

Perhaps it could be your's too?


title: Shamanistic nature black metal

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Dont let the band's name or generic song titles and album title confuse you about this group.

Vintersemestre comes from the early days of Finnish black metal and like a lot of seminal Finnish extreme metal groups of the early 90's, their connection to the constraints of the metal scene and uber-Satanic ideology is only tenuous and in the end incompatible with their evolving artistic ideas, many such bands disappearing or going into other genres of music.  There is an air of parody about their Satainic-ness.  The album even starts off with a surreal ambient track that is massively out of place on a black metal album... but subtley speaks more to the real ideals they were feeling... a resentment at contemporary life and the interest in escape.  That escape becomes quite clear when the booklet is opened.  Rather than presented with typical metal trappings, we get a heavy dose of images of witchcraft, shamanism, herbal taxonomy, and hermitage.  The message under the parody of black metal is that of self-imposed primitivism and communion with nature.  This aesthetic is nowadays well known through the Cascadian scene and its progenitors like Agalloch and Wolves in the Throne Room.  But Vintersemestre were the first to walk this wooded trail in 1994.

The band is forever a lost mystery as none of the members ever gave their real names and the band dissolved after this album... but not before their mastermind gave interviews and wrote long discourses on his band and their naturalist ideologies.  Through his opinionated tirades on the fallacies of black metal culture and his personal claims of studying the works of a Russian primitivist shaman, he reveals that although the band has little use for the trappings of the genre, it nonetheless has found one aspect of it that it wishes to enhance... the dark naturalistic hermitage, the witchcraft.  Unlike much of the Cascadian scene though, Vintersemestre has succeeded in creating something that actually pulls off as beautifully in sync with their ideologies and still more connected to black metal than they even expected.

Excluding its intro of people in a park at play muddled to a haze, Kirkkokyrpa is a glacier of grandiose and furiously fast black metal with epic yet tasteful symphonics, topped by a shrieking vocalist who delivers with an uninhibited rage.  This vocalist is almost sqealing with rage, but still maintains a strength that leaves you awestruk.  The guitars are the same, they are thick but blistering, as powerful as an avalanche.  The drummer... goddamn.. he is sprinting on his kit for christsake!  Finally though the keyboards take a backseat to the giutars and are reigned in from becoming too overbearing, the fan of highly symphonic black metal will find much enjoyment as they are very competently composed to deliver maximum dramatic awe in their assigned range.  If these guys were unhappy with black metal, the something else motivated them to play with such diehard conviction.  I believe it likely is the passion for their love of naturalism and frustrations with the failures of society and the metal scene.  It has all the hallmark of the ragtag flag of defiance that is natural of youth.

After this album they would cease to be.  I would believe that their goals in life and or music had outstripped what playing in a metal band could do for them.  Or perhaps they continue on in other bands leaving us this enigma.

The final thing I want to add her is that I can grasp something special out of this album.  Especially with the songs "Satanic Oath" and "Speak for Themselves".  Their atmosphere somehow feels far far more lofty than most any band I can recall.  It's as black as midnight in a storm, but it feels as though the music stretches up beyond our view into the highest cosmic temples of the Gods above.  It is wild and autonomous music, but the monument it guards is the grandest and majestic of all.  The mighty riffs and the waterfall-symphonics are so perfect in balance as to make this sensation of this Olympian temple where the Gods inhabit possible.  You cant fully see it and you can never reach it, but you can hear the orchestra playing from it through the tempest.  This is anthemic black metal, darkness and pride in a new chosen righteousness.

Turn to the woods, there is your salvation.


title: Gloriously bad crypitc black ambient!!!

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You know something is not good if even Sin Nanna of Striborg is reluctant to cite this album as an influence!

Baron Drakkonian Abaddon Nachttoter is well known for his endlessly over the top Satanic beliefs.  In a way, he has never really left these days of juvenile demonic passion.  Though he certainly did improve his composition to some degree.  It is amazing that someone actually was willing to release Ancient Kingdoms on cd.  But Moribund did take the challenge and even included bonus tracks.

So if this album is a huge mistake and quite possibly the black metal aesthetic at its worst, why buy it?

Well actually there are a lot of reasons.  For one this is one of the earliest black ambient albums ever written.  The historical aspect is definitely worthy of note as far as the attempt to have ambient music serve as black metal. Another reason is in order to document the intense evolution this project underwent.  In less than 2 years, Darkness Enshroud went from doing absolutely everything wrong with black ambient to then doing everything absolutely right with their truly haunting and frightening second release "Unveil Ghostly Shadows".  Trying to imagine how that could have possibly happened makes my head spin and it is a great puzzle to mull over as I listen to the 2 cds back to back.  Finally, one of the best reasons is that much like proper ambient, despite all of Baron Nachttoter's screams, this music is actually very relaxing in a hermit-like, peaceably brooding way.  Its good to listen to deep into the night all alone before drifting off to sleep... enjoying the isolation from the disgusting modern world as the shades of tree branches dance shadows on the walls.  Its an antisocial's consolation.

Most of the music on this album was composed using old computer music program software, much like that which was used to compose old PC game soundtracks from the late 80's.  There are a lot of samples of wind, howling, and other such evil s--t.  Over it all Baron Nachttoter screams and wails in the most absurd manner.. but he had the wise idea to record is pathetic despair at a low volume matching that of the music. So they never feel that intrusive.  The performance is lackluster with a few accidental notes here and there and not the strongest ear for tone.  But the overall unchanging timbre of his instrument program these accidents also do not detract too much.  Most of it is surreal meandering, but sometimes, like in the case of the long epic title track, Baron Nachtotter latches onto a very mediocre but effective sorrowful note progression and then plays it out as far as it can go with a dirge-like dismalness.  Though the computer program played at the same dirge pace covers all of this disc, there are many unusual samples and ideas that make the music very unpredictable and hard to follow.  This slurry of sonic grimness makes for an endless maze of exploration where even after multiple listens it still is a puzzle.

The artwork on the disc also deserves a mention.  Though there is not much, it is absolutely fitting with the music and is rich with images of the night, castles, leafy underbrush, dark moons hanging over cold dells, and wolves out to prey.  All then topped with that most excellent picture of Baron on the back cover with a mournful grim expression raising his candles to light the path to the ritual space. And for the first time a totally black and white cover that does not feel unsatisfactory or dull.

So if you can find it for a good price, if you love absurd or ultra kult black metal,vif you desire to spend your days a sullen hermit hating the world, or if you like me have a great fondness for failed or forgotten metal projects, then I would highly recommend "Ancient Kingdoms"!


title: Awesome educational CD

text: I purchased this book/cd set last year to use with my five and 10 year old sons. At first they balked when I popped it into the car's cd player, but I told them, "Let's listen to it every time we are in the car for just one week and then see how much we have learned."  They were agreeable, so the experiment began!  (I will note that we typically were in the car anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour a day, just running errands or going to and from school/sports.)  Within a week, all three of us had learned all the presidents, their terms, facts... pretty much all of the songs!  We would even sing them when we weren't in the car because they grew on us so much!  I can't recall if we liked them immediately or not, but I can tell you that it was perfect for learning about the branches of government and Presidential history so they definitely were never annoying.  I am actually purchasing a second cd because my original was damaged in my car and I want to have it to "refresh" our memories occasionally!  I highly recommend this cd if you are looking for something catchy to teach these subjects.


title: I pulled my bias in the end, but....

text:
There I was, peeking through my curtain blinds like a creep as I watched the delivery guy bring my album safely to my porch.
It was then that my life flashed before my very eyes as I saw him NOT bring it safely and set it down like a gentle lamb, but YEET IT onto my porch with utmost gusto.
The audible bang of my album against my wooden doorstep was deafening and ear shattering, just as my heart shattered in that moment. I scrambled in a disoriented manner and reached out onto my doorstep, grabbing my package like a confused badger and praying that no damage was done due to the impact, hoping earnestly that the album case and it's contents were ok.
But alas, it was not to be. As I carefully opened the album, not even it's bubble-wrapped protective outermost shell could save this albums corner from it's gravity induced assault. The delivery driver drove off into the distance, the soft boom of their once loudly blaring music slowly fading away with their departure, taking the remainder of my sanity with them.

On the bright side, I have succeeded in pulling my bias' photocard on the first try. That helped to restore a bit of my sanity regarding the situation. Hanbin can make anyone smile. These are true scientific facts.

I'll be holding one star hostage as restitution for my anxiety induced mental breakdown as my album was damaged before my very eyes, because that vision will most certainly become my new sleep paralysis demon and I can't afford therapy, so here we are.


title: Funny Fairy Fables Funkily Flipped!

text: This book takes the nursery rhymes you grew up with and yanks their pants down, inserts explosives, and lets the bloody chunks land where they may. It has a sense of humor like Robert Asprin's Myth Series, with just a pinch of Terry Pratchett.


title: “Third Stone”!!!

text: Killer set from the Allen Woody-era of Mule!  This 4 disc set is so much better than the 2 disc version.  The “Third Stone From The Sun” is mind blowing  - the best version of this song, ever.  Jimi would be proud!  Track this down and get it!


title: 5 stars for 1st album, 3 stars for remastering on the second

text:
Waaaaay back in the day, when Y&T was still known as Yesterday & Today, my introduction to them was seeing them open a couple shows for another new SF bay area band called Journey - once for free in Golden Gate Park and then for about $5 at Ygnacio Valley HS.  Both bands had recently released their debut albums and were a long way from the respective successes that both would find later in their careers.  In other words, at those two shows, they were just rocking out and having fun!

Yesterday & Today is an overlooked classic that, IMHO, compares very favorably with the first two Montrose releases. Yes, it is that good!  Unfortunately, it's never been readily available on cd - until now.  I bought this on lp when it first came out and it's been a personal favorite ever since.  Songs like "25 Hours A Day", "Fast Ladies (Very Slow Gin)", "Alcohol", and "Beautiful Dreamer" were staples of their live shows for years.  Dave Meniketti demonstrates blazing speed and he has great tone.  While the material here is a little raw (compared to the more slickly produced material they eventually put out) it's solid enough that it's instantly recognizeable as Y&T.  While "My Heart Plays Too" is of a slower, bluesier vein, Meniketti lays down a true facemelter of a solo!

Overall, to my ears, the remastering job is fine and the music jumps out of the speakers at you...especially at high volumes!  I'm thrilled to finally have gotten a copy of this, especially as it sounds so good!

Struck Down was their second album and may be an example of the dreaded sophmore slump.  The material just isn't as strong.  Other than the title track, I'm not sure there's much here to truly satisfy.  The worst part is that the "remastering"  job on this album is pretty bad, especially when immediately preceded by the great sound of the first album.  While there is a booklet that comes with the cd, it's just a reprint of the front and back covers of the original albums with no new information so there's nothing to indicate why the discrepancy in the sound quality.

Bottom line, their debut album kicks major rock n roll *ss and this twofer is well worth it just for that one!  If you're reading this and you like good hard rock and roll, you definitely want to get this!!


title: Timeless harmony

text: I am an avid collector of Christmas music. This is one of my most treasured possessions of that collections, and the first one I listen to at the beginning of every Christmas season. All of the songs are so well done, but Carol of the Bells stands above the rest. It is hard to find, but you can still get it.


title: Not what I expected

text: After listening to other CDs from these to, I was not pleased with these CD. Try again.


title: Missed opportunity

text: The title is the best part. George Clinton could have done so much with this theme, but he was either intellectually exhausted, too strung out on drugs, or both, and so the album is a late-70s high-school student's version of a decade earlier Funkadelic.


title: Five Stars

text: Great album


title: Perfection

text: Kim Feels has a very beautiful, soothing unique voice. I put this cd on replay and just revel in the softness of his gentle vibrato and sensual emotion. Every song on this disc is beautiful and can stand on its own. That doesn’t happen too often on cds anymore. If you want an intimate experience in music, this is the cd for you!


title: Five Stars

text: Wonderful!


title: Five Stars

text: satisfied


title: refreshing

text: Great country music


title: script

text: a bit disappointed that there were only two songs on the disc but i guess that is my fault for not investigating a bit further.  came quickly and good quality product otherwise


title: Hilarious CD

text: I love comedy so I'm pretty picky. This was hilarious for an hour. Very unique style. Well done.


title: Five Stars

text: Didn't know these guys had this out. Unbelievable! From the beginning of the CD to the end! HOT!!!!!!!!


title: I expected more hits

text:
I enjoyed Ghost in the Shell when it came out in the 90's.  The series and music are phenomenal.  I bought the discs b/c itunes & amazon have no downloads & I avoid file sharing.  These 2 discs disappoint.  I expected more hits like Spotter(off Be Human & used for an entire episode in series) & Torkia.
The 1st disc samples from GITS the movie & Innocence.  I didn't like Kenji Kawai soundtracks to much but I can appreciate the choruses and the difficulty putting it all together.  Some of the bluesiness is alright too.  It's also the classic sound of the 1st movies so it gets points there.  Randomly though tracks 2 & 3 are some J-pop I don't recognize from movies or series.  If I were Japanese maybe I could recognize where they came from or maybe they're serious pop hits in Japan.  The rest of disc 1 is ok.
Disc 2 samples the GITS series.  This is Yoko Kanno and her techno, classic, jazzy stuff.  Now I know 2 seasons and 1 movie is difficult to pack into 1 disc.  However, I expected the random tracks, such as Spotter off Be Human to be on there.  Spotter is all alone Be Human album but belongs in the greatest hits in the techno sound group.  I also expected Torkia b/c it's just friggin awesome and finding it was difficult.  I ended up buying Be Human & OST 3.  Other than not including 2 tracks, all of disc 2 is packed with the driving sound of the series.  And therein lies the flaw of greatest hits albums.
They packed disc 2 but still didn't get everything I wanted.  The J-pop hits on the 1st disc throw off the entire feel and don't belong.  For $50 I could have (and did) bought 2-3 of the OST's.

Disc 1 I can't read Japanese, Amazon should add a track list
Disc 2
Run Rabbit Junk
Where does this ocean go
Velveteen
Lithium Flower
Inner Universe
Beauty is within us
Monochrome
japanese
Rise
I can't be cool
get 9 (long version)
japanese
What's it for
Living Inside the shell
I do

That's all I got.  Just buy the OST's.
Z


title: Album Information

text:
You can sample and see the songs on the MP3 version of the record but here's the tracklist anyway:

1. You Can't Fight (The Slytherin Might)
2. Magical Me
3. Undesirable Number One
4. Potter Give Up
5. Welcome to Malfoy Manor
6. My Dad is Rich (Draco and the Malfoys cover)
7. Let's Get Sorted to Our Houses
8. A Slytherin Scene
9. The Godfather's Theme
10. The Greatest Seeker
11. Remember Dumbledore


title: For all who like modern Italian pop music!

text: Best represfntative collection series of the most current Italian-language-only hits from Italy. Never dissapoints. Whether you are a long-time fan of San Remo music festival, fan of Eurovision winners Måneskin, have all albus from Eros Ramazxotti, Robert Miles, Puppo, Drupi, Al Bano i Romina Power, Gianna Nannini, Gigi D'Agostino, Eiffel 65, Nek, Zucchero, Chiara, Giulia, Annalisa, Tiziano Ferro, up to the hottest hitmakers as Fedez, J-AX, Cesare Cremonini, Antonio Maggio, Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, or Gabri Ponte, this 2CD collection is definitely for you. Radio Italia also releases Spring, Winter, Fall & Love collections on annual basis.


title: If you want the freshest & hottest hits on 2cds every 3 months, get BRAVO HITS!

text: German Bravo Hits hit music compilation never fails! Always great, always packed with freshest radio hits from Germany and all over Europe. Always way ahead of their competition like UK or US' NOW That's What I Call Music! Collections.


title: Bravo Hits - volume Jesieň (Autumn) 2018

text: Always a great collection of multilingual international dance and pop hits from BRVO - Poland edition.


title: Five Stars

text: Great mix on this perfect compilation volume 77 of best dance tunes in the world of electronic dance music!


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent Collection of European and Polish Dance Hits!!!


title: A great score from a great composer!

text: I am a huge fan of this film, and an even bigger fan of James Horner's score for it. I am very pleased that I was able to obtain a copy of this score! It is well worth the price.


title: Five Stars

text: havent received the item but i already love it.


title: good stuff

text: My mom had this album when I was age 5 or 6. If you get into the funky rock of the late 70's early 80's and like the word in your Christian music you'll love it. We used to listen to this all the time. I am 30 and I can still sing a few of the songs!


title: For Both Mainstream and Prog Fans Alike

text:
Hailing from the New Jersey area, The Tea Club releases their debut album entitle General Winter’s Secret Museum in 2008. At the time the band was a trio which consisted of Patrick McGowan (vocals, bass, guitar), along with his brother Dan (vocals, guitar) and Kyle Minnick (drums). Together this trio created some magical music on their debut from beginning to end.
From the opening "Werewolves" (6:09), which captures the listener and lock them in for a ride of their life. Ending the ride is “Ice Clock”(5:08). The music on this album is a mixture of Radiohead, King Crimson (Red-Disciple) and The Beatles. Just as soon as the album is over, you want to hear it again.

This is one of those albums that captivated me with each of the tracks. Very seldom does that happen to me. Some of the highlights for me, besides the opening track are “Big Al” (6:12) with it’s very infectious Beatles like melodies. Then the band shows it’s more melodic side with “Castle Builder” (4:38).

The band then goes full on Beatles mixed with Radiohead vibe on “The Moon” (4:41). The song has a perfect mixture of mellow and aggressive moments. I could listen to this song over and over, which is the case on the entire album.

In closing, The Tea Club has created an absolutely wonderful debut album that goes down as one of my all time favorite albums of all time. This is also the beginning of a fruitful career, as they have qualities that would cater both the mainstream and progressive rock audiences. The band currently has two albums out but I really think it’s best to start at the beginning.

Reviewed by Ron Fuchs on April 26th, 2011


title: The MP3 Download is Incorrect!!!!

text: I was excited to see that this CD was available for MP3 download until I clicked on the link. The album for download is NOT "The Players" Nashville CD, it's some techno dance album. I'm glad I listened to the samples before just clicking on the purchase button. As of 05/14/12 the MP3 download for this CD is incorrect. Hopefully someone at Amazon will fix this oversight.


title: Venezuelan Onda Nueva is still live!

text: Recorded in USA by Aldemaro Romero in 1972, it was the second international exposition of Onda Nueva genre. In its time, the vinyl version wasn't a great seller but nowdays it's the proof of the genius of that great musician, composer and conductor from Venezuela: Aldemaro Romero.


title: Five Stars

text: Great condition


title: Vampire Knight opening themes.

text: Purchased for the opening themes to Vampire Knight. Enjoyed the rest of the album. Just a note as far as I can tell, the DVD's region is 2. It will not work in a US DVD player as they are region 1.

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title: superb cd

text: Superb cd


title: So bad that I'm angry it exists

text:
This is clearly a third party, bootleg cash-in.

If you're a psychotic completist or were actually at the show, it may be of historical interest, but don't bother listening to it more than once, it's atrocious.  Instead of buying it, just look at the setlist, think to yourself, "Oh, wow, they played Surfin' Bird for the first time in a few years," then move on with your life. It's the Ramones, it's not like Johnny was doing some mind-bending extended jam solo on We're a Happy Family that is only available from this concert. They play everything exactly the same as they did on the other 150 dates on that tour.

Other than a few late-era songs (mostly covers from Acid Eaters) that aren't available live elsewhere, there's nothing interesting about the performances from this concert. The audio itself sounds primitive, and there's very little care taken with the levels in the mix - It's a straight soundboard recording for an FM radio broadcast. Oh yeah, and as others mentioned, it has plenty of gaps that kill the flow and criminally step on CJ's "1-2-3-4..."

If you want to hear basically this same setlist from the same tour, just get "We're Outta Here." If you want to hear them at their most musically exciting with a broad setlist that spans the prime of their career, go for "Loco Live." And if you want to hear that original line-up at the peak of their powers, grab the classic "It's Alive."  They all sound better than this, you can hear separation between the instruments, you can hear crowd noise, you can hear... excitement.

But whatever you do, do not buy this, it's awful.


title: Three Stars

text: Love music but ocean sounds are irritating


title: My favorite song on this album was how I got over

text: My very first favorite album since February 2003


title: This includes 2 extra songs alvin for President and the chipmunks adventure theme tune

text: My  top favorite album since 2003


title: This includes the original dialogue never before released on cd

text: My top favorite album since 2003


title: Our favorite song is honky cat

text: Chris and mena favorite album


title: Five Stars

text: My mom's favorite cassette


title: Classic R&B!!!

text: I don't remember the songs on this album EXCEPT----> "The Rain"!! THIS SONG IS HOT-HOT-HOT....O.J. had the Billboard on lock for his time with this cut...very nice.


title: Surprised I found this unit at the price I paid ...

text: Surprised I found this unit at the price I paid.  Even more surprised it was available on prime.  It works, condition was as described and it is getting daily use as part of my stereo system.  Buying used audio gear is always a gamble.  In this case it paid off.


Five Stars


title: LP arrived just great

text: Now I need something to play it on.  I saw the group in San Francisco many times years ago.  LP arrived just great


title: The cutoff point here is 1963 which is the year ...

text: The cutoff point here is 1963 which is the year before things got interesting in Detroit, but if you are a completist, have at it.


title: Five Stars

text: This is just the tip of the iceberg, but everything here is choice.


title: live cds sound awesome.

text: Hi,the cd was in great condition.no skipping or anything.thanks a lot for the great order.robharr-715.


title: Good music

text: Exellent


title: I love Laura Cox and have been following her for years ...

text: I love Laura Cox and have been following her for years on Youtube.  She's the real deal with that special twist!  I love this album!!


title: Great customer service. Answered my question promptly.

text: Great product. Worth the price. Fast expedited shipping arrived quickly.


title: Five Stars

text: All original material, can't get enough !!


title: What a gem of a recording to listen to.

text: Great reimagining if the CD, Fly From Here. Yes, Trevor Horn is doing the vocals on this one instead of B. David. The CD was remixed and remastered by Trevor as well. This was supposed to have been a followup to the Drama album. I think they was a song or two add to this CD. I think this was a good closure to that line-up. I think that if YES never records a new album, this stands as a great way to end their recording career. Of course there is always a chance that Jon Anderson hopfully comes back for at least one more album. They could still keep Jon Davidson in the band as well. I could only imagine  the harmonies the two could make. Jon D. can also work doing the live shows to give Jon Anderson a breather on stage. Sort of like how Andi and Michael K. Do on stage with their band Helloween. I turned out great for them, so I can only imagine how great YES would sound with two lead vocalists.


title: Underground punk finest

text: The Dread are a great band from California, when you first play the first song it blows you away with great lyrics and great music. Plus Andy Wright is gutiar, Vocs and Produces dang, and former Anti flag band member. Also many bands to check out, Submachine, Aus Rotten now called Behind Enemy lines,Bad Genes, Disco Crisis, Real underground punk real great music go out and get this one you will love it.


title: Wow

text: Its a great debut


title: Five Stars

text: Great beginning to end


title: Three Stars

text: it was fine


title: I love Tex and the Horseheads

text: I love Tex and the Horseheads, but this didn't sound anything like them. Her singing and song styles reminded me more of Janis Joplin.


title: Happy

text: Very happy with record


I actually have this album from 30 years ago.  Great songs and tremendous emotional voice.  Surpirsed he never made it big.


title: Five Stars

text: Come on, it's a classic.


title: NO TRAE PHOTOCARD

text: Según sé todos los albums japoneses vienen con al menos una PC y no vino con PC.


title: Don't waste

text: This has to be the worst S T album ever done. It's not even good enough to use as a coaster or ashtray. Stay as if it's contaminated with black plague. I can't give it lower than one star but the band should pay you to listen to it. It's even worse than still cyco get the original albums you'll be happier.


title: Absolutely gorgeous music.

text: Absolutely gorgeous music.


title: Five Stars

text: This album is officially out as a re-mastered version here on Amazon! Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07918S38R/?ref=idea_lv_dp_ov_d


5*


For many years I have longed for a really good, complete recording of the score for ROSE MARIE. When I saw that this 1999 recording from the Media Theatre was available I did not hesitate to order a copy. Prior to this recording, the best one we had was the old Al Goodman version, which was originally released on 78 rpm, but was later available on an RCA Camden LP. It has Marion Bell singing Rose Marie, and it is quite good, even though it consists of only the overture and seven songs from the score. Also, the sound is antiquated by today's standards. I do not like the Julie Andrews-Giorgio Tozzi recording, but I will not go into the reasons here.

This Media recording is wonderful in many ways. In fact, it is the best I have heard. The performances are flawless, and the sound is great. I have only one negative criticism, and that is that the song "Totem Tom-Tom" has been omitted from this production. I would guess that a concern for political correctness was the reason for the omission. I love that song, largely for nostalgic reasons, and I was sorry to find that it is missing. As far as I can tell, however, all the rest of the material is included. I would highly recommend this recording. It is the best we have, even taking into account the absence of "Totem Tom-Tom," and it will most likely be a long time to come before we get a better one.


title: How Great is our God

text: I believe it is a great description of our God.  The Dvd and Cd arrived in great shape.


title: Pink Floyd is amazing.

text: The sound quality is very nice except for when Gilmour addresses the audience, but what’s lacking a bit for me is video quality. That’s probably on account of it being filmed in 94. The concert itself was amazing and I wish I could’ve been there, but I’m excited to go back and revisit it whenever I want.


title: Love LR

text: I Love Vixx and LR and my Cd came in a timely manner, but i ordered the Photo cover and got the character cover instead, plus the poster was not one of the LR ones, it was just a small Vixx poster.


title: orgasmic!

text: I love this CD!  if you don't like the newer NIN albums (with teeth, year zero) you probably won't like this, but d*** I love it!  this is one of those albums that resonates at a different level each time you listen to it... highly recommended for those who don't fear change :)


title: Unique Orchestral Composition

text: A sadly overlooked composition that deserves much higher recognition.  If one checks YouTube you can see the ballet it was composed to accompany.  Truly awesome.


title: Good for lovers of Martinu, of Czech music, and of patriotic themes--very enjoyable.

text: This is not typical Martinu, in that it is very early (written at the dawn of Czech independence) and frankly "hand on hart" patriotic, while most of his music is more or less suave and international in style.  That said, this is still a stirring piece, celebrating the rebirth of a Czech/Slovak nation and is well worth hearing.  A fine performance, too.


title: Five Stars

text: Great, classic Jack album.  Vinyl quality is satisfactory and sounds great.


title: Nice CD to start the day!!

text: Love this cd


title: Pleased

text: CD was in good condition


title: Five Stars

text: fond memories


title: Excellent Condition. Exactly what I wanted.

text: If you are looking for orchestral recordings of LDS hymns, you have found the perfect collection of hymns. I searched long and hard and was extremely satisfied with this purchase.


title: I love Fiona Apple

text: I got this compilation because Fiona Apple's rendition of frosty the snowman. I love it, it has a very folky style with a simpleness that is spot on. I wish I grew up with this frosty the snowman!


title: The case is cracked and one of the songs skips so much I can’t play it

text: I want to start this off by saying I don’t regret buying this, and I still use it very often. The case it came in was cracked a bit, but I didn’t really care, as long as the CD worked fine. Unfortunately, the Phantom of the Opera, the song, skips so much I can’t listen to it at all. I still use it to listen to the other songs, but the Phantom of the Opera is one of my favorites in the album, so it’s a bummer


title: Excellent band, great songs, but this inflated price has gotta go

text: For anyone interested, the track listing for this release is "AI TO JONETSU NO MATADOR," "Thrill" and "Summer Drive." And touching upon what the other reviewer has already mentioned, the price tag for this single will surely deter most people. It's a shame that both this release and their album are out-of-print. This band is amazingly good, and these releases are in dire need of better distribution and availability.


title: Awesome talent!

text: Of course, I may be a little biased, as I am a member of this group. So, I feel blessed and honored to be a part of this amazing talent of Christian contemporary sound that has something enjoyable on the recording for every listener.


title: Great little singer.

text: Haven't actually got around to listening to it.  Soon, hopefully.  I liked her on YouTube on Britian's Got Talent.


title: Jackie Evancho-Dream wit Me

text: Once again this little Angel brings her own style to classical music. Every time we listen to this CD we play #12 twice. This is possibly the best rendition of the Lord's Prayer I have ever heard. While I am not a follower or frequent listener to "Classical" music, I can certainly appreciate Jackie's ability to hit these notes<br />with the precision of a Neuro Surgeon. Her God given talent is being used to bring joy to the ears of us mere mortals. What more can I say? My wife and I both absolutely love this CD and play it on a regular basis. If I can find one drawback it is song #7 done with Barbra Streisand, but that is personal as I have a severe dislike for B.S. and anything she does. Now I am anticipating a full length Christmas CD from this very talented young lady. May God bless her and her family!


title: Jackie Evancho - Dream With Me DELUXE LIMITED EDITION CD

text: This girl is phenomenal. So gifted and beautiful,it's like an angel singing to you. I totally enjoy  listening to both of her cd's. God Bless you little one.


title: It arrived broken.

text: This was supposed to be a gift to the same person.  The record was wrapped in two pieces of cardboard only and was cracked all the way through.  Wasn't worth returning it because it would have cost more for the postage that I paid for it.


title: This has to be a typo

text: Last time i looked Target was selling this version for under 15.00.This  is worth the trip to pick up the delux.But at 50 bucks it better be gold plated.


title: Dream with me Jackie Evancho

text: This beautiful little girl's voice is amazing, her voice would also be amazing for an adult.  I can't stop listening to the CD.  Just love it and Jackie too.


title: Fantastic!

text: Let me say that it is a real shame that this CD is currently unavailable on Amazon, because it is fantastic! Luckily enough, here in Europe, it is not difficult to find it and it is also available for purchase on Negene Records web site. After I received from Amazon Matt's last effort "Ear to the ground" I was so impressed by his blues that I decided to buy everything was on the market and I am glad I did. Of course this is a live recording taken on April the 20th in Camden Town, London. What a talented guy and what a gifted guitarist Matt is! Surely one of the best around and not just in UK. To be fair it has to be said that on this records there are three songs that are also included on the previous live album "The trio live" and they are: "Uncle junior", "Travellin' south" and "Cissy strut", however just for the stunning live version of "Lights are on, but nobody's home" this is a must have for every blues fan. Fantastic guitar playing, incredible groove, amazing feeling throughout the entire recording (and more takes from the same gig are available for free downloads from Negene web site) make this CD elevates to the higher standard. Matt Schofield is about to take the electric blues world by the storm. Excellent!


title: pretty good listen

text: I was given this cd by my cousin a few years ago and I have to listen to it every now and then.  The other reviewer is correct in the style of music, it does have that 80's synth sound to it, but since I spent my teenage years in the 80's, I tend to like all things 80's.  A couple of things to note, this is the only release this group ever had that I know of, I was actually surprised to find them mentioned here on amazon when I googled them.  With that said this is not a bad listen.  The lyrics are cleverly written and I like the synth sound.  I would consider most of the songs good with the exception of monkeyshine, which is more than I can say for many better know acts' cd's.  The production level isn't great as was usual with early christian labels but for some reason I keep coming back to listen to it, it has some haunting quality to it that I can't get out of my head.  In any case, for a few bucks it's not bad.


title: Achingly beautiful with it's combination of melody and lyrics which seem ...

text: It has taken me a long time to find this CD single way down here in little ole New Zealand since I first saw the video for it several years back, but was well worth the time and effort.  It is one of those songs that strikes a chord instantly, well it did for me. Achingly beautiful with it's combination of melody and lyrics which seem to suggest both hope and despair throughout.  DMB are truly a very underrated musical force.<br />Well worth seeking out their other offerings.


title: A bit of Everything

text: Incredible sessions for a true Eagles fan. Sound quality is awesome! One review said they didn’t care for the gaps in between songs on 2nd disc. It’s funny banter between band members. Oh and there are one or 2 miscues in the performance.... yeah they screw up; shows they’re human. Worth every cent for my collection !!!


title: Rare to find, yet found...

text: In classic Moonblood style, raw yet somehow epic in all it's offerings. This is my favorite album because it is the production is the best from the band over their whole career.


title: Amazing Talent - Discover the Secret

text: One of the most talented voices and creative arrangers today.  Don’t pass up a chance to sample his work on YouTube and then buy one of his albums.


title: great voice, great songs - thanks

text: still love listening to cd's - especially cd's like this one - thanks


title: Beautiful voices

text: Such haunting melodies, harmonies.


title: Love it, love it, love it.

text: I keep listening to it over and over. Great songs, beautiful voices, great selection.


title: Angelic songbird

text: Corinne Bailey Rae has one of the prettiest voices of our time. Soft, seductive and her lyrics remind me of a modern day Sade. Keep singing, Corinne.


title: Simply lovely

text: I bought this CD for our son around ten years ago and it proceeded to cast a special magic over our household. The artfully-composed tunes are adorable and used to send him - and me on several occasions - straight to the Land of Nod.


title: Sarit, great as always

text: Excellent collection, a good mix of her older and some new songs.  Makes for great listening in my car during my long commutes and nostalgic for another trip to Israel.


title: Lovely album

text: Very vintage look and sound.  Took me back to my childhood


title: Life changing book!

text:
I grew up in a home that approached race from a colorblind perspective. I grew up not really learning about or fully experiencing my culture. Through my masters program and reading this book I have grown in knowledge about the African-American culture and myself. This book has really taught me a lot of what I didn't learn in school during Black history month. This book gives you a lot of information about the history and successes of the Black community. And I've grown in appreciation of my culture.

A lot of people have a lot to say and a lot of complaints about how Blacks are treated in America today. But not many people have a solution. D. Haynes the Author gives us a solution. I give D. Haynes the Author credit for building me as an individual and inspiring me to build my community.

A couple of aspects I loved about this book is that he uses quotes from historical black figures and how the book seems to be written for everyone in words that are easily understood. I also loved how he portrayed that everyone can help. "...No one person can, nor should they have to carry that burden of everyone else in the community. No matter how much or how little, each and every person has some type of power."

I also have had the opportunity to hear D. Haynes The Author speak about his journey as an author and his experience as a Black male in America. His story is so inspiring and people really should hear him speak.


title: Five Stars

text: Great item


title: MFSL "Melissa" is spectacular!

text: I bought the remastered CD recently, which caused me to revisit my MoFi vinyl copy, and let me say this:<br />The CD is a pale version of this recording, lacking the punch, presence and depth of the LP.  The choice is easy here.


title: God's hope and power

text: This video is a awesome display of God. The three part series is a must to have and share.


title: Awesome Family

text:
My cousin in Macon Georgia turned me on to the CNN and 60 Minutes segment of The Knight Family.  What an inspiring story!!!  The music is incredible!!
I wish the father or mother would write a book on their life!!!!
Later in Life.....I would like to read a book authored by the children!!!!