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The next batch of Cliff Richard original albums remasters are all film soundtracks.Full of memorabilia relating to the films each CD includes a "History of the Movies" essay, a film synopsis, behind-the-scenes notes and a discography. As with previous Cli

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A perfect album!
Awesome.
kitsch freakout music

The Yamasuki Singers
Le Monde Fabuleux de Yamasuki
Manufacturer: Finders Keepers UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007XTOI4
Release Date: 2005-04-11

Tracks:

Yamasuki
Aisere I Love You
Kono Samouri
Yamamoto Kakapote
Okawa
Aieaoa
Abana Bakana
Seyu Sayonara
Yama Yama
Fudji Yama
Yokomo
Kashi Kofima

Album Description

Finders Keepers. 2005.

Album Details

After a Dazzling Critical Acclaim of Jean Claude Vannier's, Serge Gainsbourg Related, Rarity 'l'enfant Assassin Des Mouches' LP, April 4th, 2005 Will See Your Manchester/London Based Purveyors of Obscure and Undiscovered Vinyl Treats Consolidate their Healthy Obsession with Funked-up French Concept Albums by Releasing the Mind-boggling "Yamasuki" LP by Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger. This Pseudo-japanese Concept Album was the Brainchild of Prolific French Production Duo Jean Kluger and Daniel Vangarde. Based on a Dance Named the "Yamasuki", it was Originally Released in Very Small Quantities on the Independent Label Biram in 1972, Inadvertently Becoming a Useful Educational Tool for French Students Keen to Learn Japanese. "Yamasuki" is a Collection of Beautiful Pop Songs, Sung by a Japanese Choir, Offset to Pounding Drum Patterns, Vibes and Fuzz Guitar Work-outs.

Customer Reviews:

A perfect album!.......2006-07-05

Wow! This is one of the best records I have bought this year (perhaps ever). In my book this is a perfect album. Each and every song is good and the best ones are extremly good, so no need to hesitate - buy it.

Awesome........2006-04-05

I'm a great admirer of odd music, and seek it out as often as possible, and if you describe yourself in similar terms, you must definitely buy this CD.

It's worth the price alone for the songs "Yamasuki" and "Abana Bakana." "Yamasuki" has to be the weirdest song I've ever heard. While what sounds like Japanese schoolkids sing beautifully, a karate dude screeches in the background like he's killing multiple enemies. Bizarre. "Abana Bakana" sounds like nothing else on the album, but it's alive with energy.

Inside the CD's booklet, this album is called "educational-bubblegum-multi-cultural-psycho-rock-opera," but I'd just call it an offbeat gem.

My gratitude is extended to Finders Keepers for reissuing this.

kitsch freakout music.......2005-11-17

This album sounds like Serge Gainsbourg conducting the Langley Schools Music Project through a rendition of the Mikado. While such a pairing may sound like a supremely bad idea (especially if there were any cute girls at the Langley School and Gainsbourg just broke up with Jane Birkin), the sound on this album is really diggable.

So here's how it went down, a 70s French pop duo creates a song/dance called the Yamasuki that's a mix of the smooth funk/pop elements of the time with Japanese choruses singing the melodies, a Toshiro Mifune screaming along to the freakout bits, and hints of oriental percussion (woodblock anyone?), the kids go crazy for the single, so the duo figures why not make an album? While the kitsch of it all wears thin by the end of its 12 tracks, each song on here deserves at least one good listen.

Put this in and watch your friends' expressions at the sheer coolness of "Kono Samouri" with its matched wails of some Tatsuya Nakadai-aping Japanese cat and the funky wa-wa pedal. Odds are their faces will show a mixture of confusion, awe, and a struggle with the urge to dance. Give it a shot, see what you think!

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Nice!

Selda
Selda
Manufacturer: Finders Keepers
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HXDXIQ
Release Date: 2006-11-06

Tracks:

Meydan Sizindir (The Arena Is Your)
Yaz Gazeteci Yaz
Mehmet Emmi
Nasirli Eller (Callous Hands)
Ince Ince (Delicate, Delicate)
Gine Haber Gelmis
Yaylalar
Dam tlserer
Dost Uyan (Wake-Up Friend)
Gitme
Niye ttin Kaslarini
Kizil Dere (Red Stream)
Utan Utan [*]
Karaoglan [*]
Eco'ya Donder Beni [*]
Anayasso [*] - Mogollar, Selda
Nem Kaldi [*] - Kardaslar, Selda

Album Details

Released in 1976 to Huge Critical Acclaim and Skepticism in Equal Parts, the Album Smashed New Boundaries Both Lyrically and Musically. But the Fact that Selda was One of the Few Female Voices to Adopt the Use of Such Cutting Edge Techniques Put the LP in a League of Its Very Own. Frowned on by the Paranoid Turkish Authorities She Would Face the Threat of Imprisonment Due to her Unwaning Desire for Freedom of Speech and a Demand for a Quality of Human Life. Selda Would Face Future Jail Sentences and Travel Restrictions as her Popularity Spread Amongst Turkish Communities in Europe and America. Luckily Turkuola Arranged the Immediate Release of a Second which was Released in Late 1976 (Some Songs Recorded in the Same Sessions Are Presented on this Release as Bonus Tracks).

Customer Reviews:

Nice!.......2007-03-28

I've seen this album floating around and never bought it because of the cover. I'd heard some of the songs before on Turkish compliations. But never associated it with Selda. Selda kicks it. It's a solid Turkish album and you won't be disapointed. I'm like "Oh Selda..." It's got some rockers and it's got some nice slower melodies. It's got it all. Don't judge an album by the cover. But now, after hearing it, the cover is mad sweet. And so is what's inside. You'd be a fool to pass this up!
Selda. Reissued. Nice!

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not bad
Funky Monkey Magic

Genclik Ile Elele
Mustafa Ozkent
Manufacturer: Finders Keepers
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Edip Akbayram
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ASIN: B000HXDXIG
Release Date: 2006-11-06

Tracks:

k
Bur
Dolana
Karadir
Emmioglu
rsamba
Zeytinyagl
Silifke
Lorke
Ayas

Album Details

After What Seems Like a Decade of Cross-continental Detective Work and Blind Alley Buffoonery, Finders Keepers Finally have the Auspicious Privilege to Introduce the Incredible Music of Anadolu Pop's Very Own Dr. Frankenstein - Maestro Mustafa Ozkent. Regarded Amongst Hardened Collectors of Anatolian Rock as the Daddy of all Turkish Rarities, this Record Simply Has to Be Heard to Be Believed and Even Then It's Still Literally Unbelievable. Is this Record for Real? Either These Guys Had Time-machines Or DJ Kool Herc Had Secret Eastern Connections. If a Box of Original Copies of this Seldom-sighted Album Had Made Its Way to the South Bronx in the Late Seventies Then Mustafa Ozkent Would Be Sharing Throne Space with Other Ultimate Breaks and Beats Such as Michael Viners 'incredible Bongo Band', Funky Drummer and Johnny the Fox Bringing Modern Record Collectors New Found Turkish Obsession Forward by Some 20 Years.

Customer Reviews:

not bad.......2007-07-11

not all that. decent frenetic overly bongo'd beats with a slight bossa vibe - the melodies are subtly asiatic. i like the monkey cover but i prefer selda and that turk psyche comp over this cd.

Funky Monkey Magic.......2007-01-23

This is a stunning album filled with tight grooves and funky beats. Clocking in at 30 minutes, none of the tracks over stay their welcome. The style of music is not a million miles away from 70's library music but is of a much higher standard. It's hard to believe that this was recorded over 30 years ago. I'm not sure if this was copied direct from the master tapes, however the sound quality is excellent.

Highly recommend, and much kudos to B-music for unearthing and releasing this lost gem. Also, the cover is very cool.

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For once, the hype was worth it.
Mind Blowing
Difficult
Discover more Vannier

L' Enfant Assasin des Mouches
Jean-Claude Vannier
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ASIN: B000776MCG
Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

Enfant la Mouche Les Allumettes (The Child the Fly and the Matches)
Enfant au Royaume des Mouches (The Child in the Fly Kingdom)
Danse des Mouches Noires Gardes du Roi (Dance of the Black Flies, ...)
Danse de l'Enfant et du Roi des Moushes (Dance of the Child and ...)
Roi des Mouches et la Confiture de Rouse (The King of the Flies ...)
Enfant Assassin des Mouches (The Child Fly-Killer)
Garde Volent au Secours du Roi (The Guards Fly to the King's Rescue)
Mort du Roi des Mouches (Death of the King of Flies)
Pattes de Mouches (Spidery Scrawl/Fly Legs)
Papier Tue-Enfant (The Paper Child-Killer)
Petite Agonie de l'Enfant Assassin (The Death Throes of the Child ...)
Je M'Appelle Geraldine [Mid-Tempo][*]
Je M'Appelle Geraldine [Up-Tempo][*]

Album Details

The Debut Release from Finders Keepers Records, We Present the Seminal 1972 Album from Serge Gainsbourg's Right-hand Man Jean-claude Vannier. Recorded During the Same Sessions as Gainsbourg's Highly Acclaimed Masterpiece "Melody Nelson" it Follows in a Similar Avant-garde Rock-opera Vein. "l'enfant Assasin Des Mouches" (The Child Fly-killer) is a Supernatural Tale Written by Gainsbourg Depicting the Journey of the Young Child Travelling Through a Nightmarish "Fly Kingdom". Vannier Narrates the Story with Sparse Music Concrete Sounds Coupled with Choirs, Funky Beats, Cowbells, Wah-wah Guitars and Ethnic Strings. Comparisons Could Be Made with Some of Frank Zappa's "Hot Rats" Material and Alain Goraguer's Creepy "le Planet Sauvge".

Customer Reviews:

For once, the hype was worth it........2007-01-19

I'm trying to be a more educated and wary rare-groove connoisseur. I can recall being burned time and again by reissues that promise you Thomas's but can't even make toast when the smoke clears. So, even though I've come to trust Andy Votel's recommendations a lot more over the past year, I was a little uncertain when I looked over the albums he's putting his weight behind on the Finders Keepers label--namely, this one.

But, ya know something? This would have to rank as my first favorite discovery of 2007--the hype turned out to be worth it. "L' Enfant Assassin des Mouches" is just as twisted, graceful and psychedelic as the liner notes and tons of hipster critics say it is--it most definitely qualifies as the "psychedelic symphony" it claims to be on the cover.

If you need an idea of what to expect, loosen yourself up with some music in a similar vein--music like Aphrodite's Child's "666," the "Fantastic Planet" soundtrack and (of course) Serge's "Melody Nelson." If you can get down with those three albums, this one'll take you on yet another tour through those same trippy landscapes. Votel's picked another gem...check it out.

Mind Blowing.......2006-11-02

This is not an easy album to review. I don't agree that this is a difficult album. This is an amazing album. I love Melody Nelson, but i don't think there are any similarities, these are totally different albums, don't compare them. If you want something nice that creates an atmosphere to play in the back round don't get this. When you listen to this be ready to be torn out of your present reality and plunged into something you've never experienced. L' Enfant Assasin des Mouches, plays like a genius concept album. Buy this buy this buy this, holy crap buy this. Way ahead of its time. Buy it!

Difficult.......2006-05-15

Just a warning to listeners coming to this album because of Vannier's association with Gainsbourg (which is probably most people). The music on this doesn't resemble the music on Histoire de Melody Nelson in the slightest, save for some of the choral arrangements. There's none of the funky spaciousness that characterises Gainsbourg's classic album and it's also entirely instrumental which means that it comes off almost as some kind of film score.....from a very bizarre, avant-garde film.

What I'm trying to say is that this album is a pretty difficult listen and offers few rewards for the casual listener. Make sure you listen to some of it before you make the purchase.

Discover more Vannier.......2005-05-17

If you thought Melody Nelson was too short at a sublime 28 minutes, here is the remedy. Not in the Melody Nelson league, so 4 stars, but a sweeping mind-expander of a 1972 album. Funky, soulful, unself-conscious soundscapes. Yeah baby.

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Mudhoney/Finders Keepers Lovers Weepers/Motor Psycho
Russ Meyer
Manufacturer: Qdk Media/Forced Exposure
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000N0TWZ6
Release Date: 2006-06-20

Average customer rating:

4 1/2 stars of fun .

Gluckskugel
Bruno Spoerri
Manufacturer: Finders Keepers UK
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ASIN: B000FJHW5C
Release Date: 2006-06-26

Tracks:

Glgel - Title (Ball of Luck)
Glgel - The Race
Oederlin (The Iron Foundry)
Electroniciens [Original Recording]
Soft Art Theme
Lilith - Singing in the Dark
Lilith - The Dance
Lilith - On the Way
Drillin'
Wer Gw(Who Wins?)

Album Description

Finders Keepers present the first ever collection of musical works of BRUNO SPOERRI, the mythical character who used to work with member of legendary Krautrockers CAN and composed music for engineering companies and made motivational music for industrial sites and factories utilizing concrete techniques, primitive sampling techniques and contemporary experimental psych-rock and funk musicians. Packed with rare and previously unseen photographs and detailed liners by Bruno, and following the success of Jazzman Records long deleted and HIGHLY collectable 7" reissue a few years ago, this unique collection of Bruno's vast, and largely unheard until today, body of work is sure to go on to similar critical and commercial success! PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED on any format!! Deluxe vinyl and CD with exclusive pics and extensive liner notes written by Bruno and Andy Votel. Re-mastered by Bruno Spoerri from the original reels taken from his own personal library. Finders Keepers' releases to date have garnered excellent press and radio support (NME, UNCUT, Q, MOJO, WORD, RECORD COLLECTOR etc.) - expect this to do the same!

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The First Ever Collection of Musical Works of Bruno Spoerri, the Mythical Character who Used to Work with Member of Legendary Krautrockers Can and Composed Music for Engineering Companies and Made Motivational Music for Industrial Sites and Factories Utilising Concrete Techniques, Primitive Sampling Techniques and Contemporary Experimental Psych-rock and Funk Musicians. Also Packed with Rare and Previously Unseen Photographs and Detailed Liners by Bruno.

Customer Reviews:

4 1/2 stars of fun ........2007-03-11

for something off the beaten track, here's an extremely fun cd of music composed between 1971 and 1980 for various projects, including: some rejected tracks for a TV show in switzerland (1978), three tracks from an experimental film about an evening in the life of a striptease dancer (also 1978), an electronic work for a trade exhibition in basle (1971), theme music for a successful swiss tv quiz show (1972), music for a PR-disc made for an iron-foundry company (1972), more PR music for a company called "lansing-bagnall" (1971), and finally, music from a documentary film about an art exhibition in zurich (1980). lots of synths, keyboards, and electronics throughout. and it is all fun stuff. highly recommended for those who like something different.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Paint a Lady
Susan Christie
Manufacturer: Finders Keepers
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ASIN: B000GJ286O
Release Date: 2006-08-08

Tracks:

Rainy Day
Paint a Lady
For the Love of a Soldier
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Yesterday Where's My Mind
Echo in My Mind
When Love Comes
No One Can Hear You Cry

Album Description

Previously unreleased Psychedelic Folk album from 1970 by Susan Christie, a Philly based sophomore folk singer who had one novelty hit for a major label in the late '60s. This album, which featured her psychedelic take on Country standards and hand crafted tales of inner-city solitude backed by a Folk-Funk rhythm section, was not considered commercially viable and shelved...until now! Uber-legend John Hill produced the album which features 8 tracks including a 12 minute 'drugsploitation' epic called 'Yesterday - Where's My Mind' featuring Susan flipping vocal styles between Janis Joplin and Margo Guryan. Finders Keepers. 2006.

Album Details

Susan Christie was a Philly Based Sophomore Folk Singer who Had One Novelty Hit for a Major Label and Never Quite Recovered. Afterwards, her Psychedelic Take on Country Standards and Hand Crafted Tales of Inner-city Solitude Backed by a Break Heavy Folk-funk Rhythm Section was Never Accepted as a Commercial Viability by Record Company Bigwigs. They Just Didn't have Crystal Balls to Foresee that Future Hip-hop Producers and DJ'S Would Be Feeding Into Digital Music-machines 30 Years Down the Line!

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Finders keepers, losers weepers........2007-01-01

I'm amazed that this album was released only now..in 2006. Yes it has that '70's psychodelic feel to the music but that is a good thing. Her voice creates this wonderful atmosphere folk/rock that lies somewhere between morrison and joplin. It makes me wonder what other great albums live.. waiting to be released.

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Sitting Target

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ASIN: B000BNX5NA
Release Date: 2005-12-05

Tracks:

Sitting Target/First Suite (Prison). Main Theme
Sitting Target/First Suite (Prison). Visitor - Divorce
Sitting Target/First Suite (Prison). Straight Jacket
Sitting Target/First Suite (Prison). Solitaire
Sitting Target/Second Suite (Outlaws). It's All Yours
Sitting Target/Second Suite (Outlaws). Laundry Lark
Sitting Target/Third Suite (The Mews) . The Mews
Sitting Target/Third Suite (The Mews) . Special Delivery
Sitting Target/Third Suite (The Mews) . Fur Coat
Sitting Target/Third Suite (The Mews) . Salt and Oil
Sitting Target/Third Suite (The Mews) . Friend of Marty's
Sitting Target/Third Suite (The Mews) . Squealing Pig
Sitting Target/Fourth Suite (Betrayal). Split Down the Middle
Sitting Target/Fourth Suite (Betrayal). Sitting Target
Sitting Target/Fourth Suite (Betrayal). Betrayal
Sitting Target/Fourth Suite (Betrayal). Train Yard Chase
Sitting Target/Fourth Suite (Betrayal). Harry - End Theme

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Alongside the Recently Resurrected (But Previously Unreleased) Seminal Scores for 'the Wickerman', 'deathline' and 'psychomania', Stalney Myers 'sitting Target' is Another UK Thriller Soundtrack that Has Sat in the Proverbial 'can' for Over 30 Years While Cinematic Sonic-enthusiasts have Had to Make Do with Homemade Bootlegs Taped from Second Generation Video Tapes in Hope of Soundtrack Amnesty. After Composing 'groovy-movie' Music for Films Such as 'otley' and 'no Way to Treat a Lady', the 'deer Hunter' Axe-meister Brings Us his Most Forward Thinking Fuzzed-out-orchestratral-proto-hip-hop Score to Date (Albeit Three Decades Late).

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Best of early Sain: Welsh-language indie pioneer label

Welsh Rare Beat
Various Artists
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Sitting Target
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Howlin' at the Moon

ASIN: B000A6AB80
Release Date: 2005-08-22

Tracks:

Nia Ben Aur (Golden Haired Nai)
Y Gwylwyr (The Watchkeepers)
Mathonwy
Hwiangerdd (Lullaby)
Dawns y Pair (Dance of the Prairie)
CWMWL Gwym
Cynnwrt Yn ein Gwlad (Excitement in Our Country)
Hedfan (Flying)
Marw a Wnaeth Dy Dad (Your Father Died)
Y Brawd Houdini the Brother Houdini) - Meic Stevens
Nos Ddu (Black Night) - Heather Jones
Y Cynllwyn (The Conspiracy) (From Gorffenwyd (Finished) Soundtrack)
Godro'r Fuwch (Milking the Cow)
O Gymru (Oh! Wales)
Y Penderfyniad (The Decision)
Dyddiau Dwys (Intense Days)
Blodeuwedd
DWR (Water)
Calan Gaef (Halloween)
Breuddwyd (Dream)
Y Crwydryn a Mi (The Drifter and Me) - Meic Stevens
Mae Rhywyn Wedi Dwyn'fy Nhrwyn (Someone's Stolen My Nose)
Penhryn Gwyn (White Peninsula) - Heather Jones
Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Land of My Father)

Album Description

Having delved into the murky history of folk music to produce the excellent Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word compilation, Andy Votel here does the same for Welsh-language music originally released on the pioneering Sain label in the 1970s, with assistance from Dom Thomas and Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys. Most of Welsh Rare Beat's 25 songs seem to be about druids, ancient kings or characters from the Mabinogi myths, performed by a motley assortment radical folksters, musical virtuosos and visionaries - although much of that detail would be lost on non-Welsh speakers, were it not for some lovingly annotated liner notes featuring anecdotes from the scene plus a historical overview of Welsh pop by Rhys. Particular highlights comes from Y Tebot Piws' surreal beats on 'Mae Rhywyn Wedi Dwyn Fy Nhrwyn', and Heather Jones' 'Penhryn Gwyn'. Welsh Rare Beat is also notable for the inclusion of the Hendrix-inspired 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau', performed by acclaimed guitarist Tich Gwilym who sadly died in a house fire in Cardiff in June. Finders Keepers. 2005.

Album Details

Compiled with the Help of Welsh Music Scholar, Librarian and Enthusiast Gruff Rhys, this is the Definitive 'best Of' the Most Prominent and Important Label in Welsh Music History, Sain. This Compilation is the First of It's Kind and is Long Overdue, Brought to You by Finders Keepers Records who Recently Gave You the Jean-claude Vannier Masterpiece 'l'enfant Assassin Des Mouches'.

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Best of early Sain: Welsh-language indie pioneer label.......2006-02-09

This enjoyably eclectic and eccentric compilation of artists on the late 60s-70s indie Sain ("Sound") Welsh-language label makes a strong statement for the cultural nationalism that that era's agitation fomented. It reminds me of the Hungarian music from the same decades, when artists inspired by English-language rock and pop and folk decided to make their own assertive messages in the same idiom, but colored by their own traditions and in their native languages. Track 2 here, for example, sounds to me exactly like the Irish band Horslips, who similarly energized folk music for younger listeners with an infusion of harder rock. Compared to the British "acid folk" artists concurrent, the Welsh musicians tend to feature a grittier, tenser, and denser sound, even on the female-dominated vocal tracks here.

As the excellent liner notes by Gruff Rhys (SFA) explain, this meant no male choirs or winsome lasses with harps--although Heather Jones' couple of eloquent cuts do show this influence, if tastefully! He calls this music a blend of psych, blues, rock, pop, and proto-punk. The last of these genres can be best sampled from tracks 20 + 23, which sound as if the Super Furry Animals could've played them for the first time last week. Track 19 shows the more experimental side of the music; the latter half of the album tends to find the music opening up and stretching out into more innovative takes on then-current sounds. By comparison, the first half sounds more of its time, and the tracks often start out very strongly, but, as if constrained by the 3-minute-pop song rule, tend to suddenly fade out just when you wish they'd start to expand and take the song another couple of minutes! Certainly this feeling's rare for a listener to most such compilations of previously unheard music. I can see why Rhys favors best the Meic Stephens track 10--it's a clever and lively tune that shows why that artist's considered a peer of Dylan--Bob more than Thomas, perhaps.

The packaging deserves special mention. There's even a map of Wales which imitates the cut-and-paste graphics and period typography in showing the relevance of such movements as the Welsh Language Society and the Abergawn martyrs and the social unrest that led to the political as well as cultural demands for recognition of Cymric nationhood and autonomy--reminders that music does not always have to be explicitly topical to cause change in the wider society. The effect as a whole is not so much sounds you've never before heard, but the artists and label's right to simply convey the music they wanted to play in the language they wanted to sing.

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Valerie & Her Week of Wonders - O.S.T.
Lubos Fiser
Manufacturer: Finders Keepers UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000JBWWCY
Release Date: 2006-11-27

Tracks:

Magic Yard
Talk With Grandmother
Letter
Sermon
Losing The Way
Visit
Work Of Death
Dinner
Dense Smoke
Contract / The Wedding
Punishment
Disquiet
Awakening
Brother And Sisters
Sacrifice
Letter / 2 Friends
In Flames
Puppets
Homeless
Questions And Answers
Confession
Forgiveness
And The Last

Album Details

Finders Keepers Make Musical History Once Again with What They Regard as their Very Finest, Darkest and Most Magnificent Hour as They Release the Delicately Haunting and Sacred Score to Jaromil Jires' Essential Eastern European Hallucinogenic-baroque-witch-flick 'valerie and her Week of Wonders'. It Has Taken Andy Votel Almost 12 Years to Finally Get his Grubby Vinyl-magnetic Mits on the Original Studio Recordings of this Previously Unreleased Score. A Futile Decade of Eastern European Phone Calls, Continental Crate Digging and Eventually Wicked Web Scouring Confirmed that Like Most Czechoslovakian Film Scores 'valerie and her Week of Wonders' Never Benefited from a Commercial Vinyl Release and was Condemned to a Life Imprisoned in the Vaults of the Original Film Production Company Sheltered from Political Duress and Controversy for Ever More... Until Now.

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