My Mind's Eye

my mind's eye

Track Listings
1. Driving
2. Beautiful Monster
3. Shiva Descending
4. My Mind's Eye
5. I Come from the Sun
6. Field of Tall Flowers
7. Always Near
8. Route 666
9. Mystery Plane
10. And All the Stars

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UK mid-price reissue of the alternative act's classic 1992 album, described by All Music Guide as a, 'near-flawless gem'. 1998 release. Standard jewel case.

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My Mind's Eye
Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A musical treasure-box
  • a beautiful journey into melancholy
 Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley
John Dowland , Anthony Rooley , Emma Kirkby , Christopher Wilson , The Consort of Musicke , Colin Tilney , Anthony Bailes , Jakob Lindberg , Nigel North , Glenda Simpson , Peter Holman , and John Donne
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ASIN: B000004CYV
Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

  1. First Booke Of Songes: I. Unquiet Thoughts
  2. First Booke Of Songes: II. Who Ever Thinks Or Hopes Of Love
  3. First Booke Of Songes: III. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
  4. First Booke Of Songes: IV. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
  5. First Booke Of Songes: V. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
  6. First Booke Of Songes: VI. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
  7. First Booke Of Songes: VII. Dear, If You Change
  8. First Booke Of Songes: VIII. Burst Fourth My Tears
  9. First Booke Of Songes: IX. Go Crystal Tears
  10. First Booke Of Songes: X. Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning
  11. First Booke Of Songes: XI. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
  12. First Booke Of Songes: XII. Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
  13. First Booke Of Songes: XIII. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
  14. First Booke Of Songes: XIV. All Ye, Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betray'd
  15. First Booke Of Songes: XV. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
  16. First Booke Of Songes: XVI. Would My Conceit
  17. First Booke Of Songes: XVII. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
  18. First Booke Of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks
  19. First Booke Of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love
  20. First Booke Of Songes: XX. Come, Heavy Sleep
  21. First Booke Of Songes: XXI. Away With These Self-Loving Lads

Tracks:

  1. Second Booke Of Songs: I. I Saw My Lady Weep
  2. Second Booke Of Songs: II. Flow My Tears
  3. Second Booke Of Songs: III. Sorrow, Stay
  4. Second Booke Of Songs: IV. Die Not Before Thy Day
  5. Second Booke Of Songs: V. Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled
  6. Second Booke Of Songs: VI. Time's Eldest Son
  7. Second Booke Of Songs: VII. Then Sit Thee Down
  8. Second Booke Of Songs: VIII. When Others Sing Venite
  9. Second Booke Of Songs: IX. Praise Blindness Eyes
  10. Second Booke Of Songs: X. O Sweet Woods
  11. Second Booke Of Songs: XI. If Floods Of Tears
  12. Second Booke Of Songs: XII. Fine Knacks For Ladies
  13. Second Booke Of Songs: XIII. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
  14. Second Booke Of Songs: XIV. Come Ye Heavy States Of Night
  15. Second Booke Of Songs: XV. White As Lilies Was Her Face
  16. Second Booke Of Songs: XVI. Woeful Heart
  17. Second Booke Of Songs: XVII. A Shepherd In A Shade
  18. Second Booke Of Songs: XVIII. Faction That Ever Dwells
  19. Second Booke Of Songs: XIX. Shall I Sue
  20. Second Booke Of Songs: XX. Toss Not My Soul
  21. Second Booke Of Songs: XXI. Clear Or Cloudy
  22. Second Booke Of Songs: XXII. Humour Say What Mak'st Thou Here

Tracks:

  1. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: I. Farewell, Too Fair
  2. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: II. Time Stands Still
  3. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: III. Behold A Wonder Here
  4. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IV. Daphne Was Not So Chaste
  5. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: V. Me, Me, And None But Me
  6. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VI. When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
  7. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VII. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
  8. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VIII. Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains
  9. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IX. What If I Never Speed?
  10. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: X. Love Stood Amazed
  11. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XI. Lend Your Ears To My Sorrow
  12. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XII. By A Fountain Where I Lay
  13. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIII. O What Hath Overwrought
  14. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIV. Farewell, Unkind
  15. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XV. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
  16. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVI. Fie On This Feigning!
  17. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVII. I Must Complain
  18. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVIII. It Was A Time When Silly Bees
  19. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIX. The Lowest Trees Have Tops
  20. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XX. What Poor Astronomers Are They
  21. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XXI. Come When I Call

Tracks:

  1. A Pilgrimes Solace: I. Disdain Me Still
  2. A Pilgrimes Solace: II. Sweet Stay Awhile
  3. A Pilgrimes Solace: III. To Ask For All Thy Love
  4. A Pilgrimes Solace: IV. Love, Those Beams That Breed
  5. A Pilgrimes Solace: V. Shall I Strive Wih Words To Move?
  6. A Pilgrimes Solace: VI. Were Every Thought An Eye
  7. A Pilgrimes Solace: VII. Stay, Time, Awhile Thy Flying
  8. A Pilgrimes Solace: VIII. Tell Me, True Love
  9. A Pilgrimes Solace: IX. Go Nightly Cares
  10. A Pilgrimes Solace: X. From Silent Night
  11. A Pilgrimes Solace: XI. Lasso vita mia
  12. A Pilgrimes Solace: XII. In This Trembling Shadow Cast
  13. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIII. If That A Sinner's Sights
  14. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIV. Thou Mighty God
  15. A Pilgrimes Solace: XV. When David's Life
  16. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVI. When The Poor Cripple

Tracks:

  1. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVII. Where Sin Sore Wounding
  2. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVIII. My Heart And Tongue Were Twins
  3. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIX. Up Merry Mates
  4. A Pilgrimes Solace: XX. Welcome Black Night
  5. A Pilgrimes Solace: XXI. Cease, Cease These False Sports
  6. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Lachrimae Pavane
  7. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can Shee
  8. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana
  9. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: The Frogge
  10. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Frog's Galliard
  11. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavana And Galiarda
  12. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana Lachrymae
  13. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can She Excuse
  14. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavion Solus cum sola
  15. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Dowland's Almayne
  16. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Piper's Paven And Galliard
  17. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavan Lachrymae

Tracks:

  1. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: I. The Lamentation Of A Sinner
  2. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: II. Domine ne in furore
  3. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: III. Miserere mei Deus
  4. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: IV. The Humble Suit Of A Sinner
  5. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: V. The Humble Complaint Of A Sinner
  6. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VI. De profundis
  7. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VII. Domine exaudi
  8. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae
  9. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
  10. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Gementes
  11. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Tristes
  12. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Coactae
  13. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Amantis
  14. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Verae
  15. Lachrimae: Mr. John Langton's Pavan
  16. Lachrimae: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith His Galiard
  17. Lachrimae: Sir John Souch His Galiard
  18. Lachrimae: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
  19. Lachrimae: Mr. Giles Hobies Galiard
  20. Lachrimae: The King Of Denmark's Galiard
  21. Lachrimae: Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
  22. Lachrimae: Mr. Henry Noell His Galiard
  23. Lachrimae: The Earl Of Essex Galiard
  24. Lachrimae: Mr. Bucton His Galiard
  25. Lachrimae: Mr. George Whitehead His Almand
  26. Lachrimae: Captain Digorie Piper His Galiard
  27. Lachrimae: Mr. Thomas Collier His Galiard
  28. Lachrimae: Mrs. Nichols Almand

Tracks:

  1. Sacred Songs: Sorrow, Come!
  2. Sacred Songs: I Shame At Mine Unworthiness
  3. Sacred Songs: An Heart That's Broken And Contrite
  4. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
  5. Psalms: Psalm 38: Put Me Not To Rebuke O Lord
  6. Psalms: Psalm 130: Lord To Thee I Make My Moan
  7. Psalms: Psalm 104: My Soul Praise The Lord
  8. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
  9. Psalms: Psalm 134: Behold And Have Regard
  10. A Prayer For The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
  11. Instrumental Music: Solus cum sola pavan
  12. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
  13. Instrumental Music: Galliard
  14. Instrumental Music: Pipers Pavan
  15. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
  16. Instrumental Music: Lady Rich Galliard
  17. Instrumental Music: Earl Of Essex Galliard
  18. Instrumental Music: If My Complaints
  19. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae Doolande
  20. Instrumental Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home
  21. Instrumental Music: My Lord Chamberlaine His Galliard
  22. Instrumental Music: Comagain
  23. Instrumental Music: Pavan Lachrymae
  24. Instrumental Music: Sorrow Stay

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Preludium
  2. Lute Music: Lachrimae
  3. Lute Music: Can She Excuse
  4. Lute Music: Dr. Case's Pavan
  5. Lute Music: Melancholy Galliard
  6. Lute Music: Sir John Smith, His Almain
  7. Lute Music: Fantasia
  8. Lute Music: A Dream
  9. Lute Music: Almain
  10. Lute Music: The Queen's Galliard
  11. Lute Music: Coranto
  12. Lute Music: Resolution
  13. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux Galliard
  14. Lute Music: Almain
  15. Lute Music: Mr. Dowland's MIdnight
  16. Lute Music: Fantasia
  17. Lute Music: Loth To Depart
  18. Lute Music: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
  19. Lute Music: The Earl Of Essex, His Galliard
  20. Lute Music: Pavan
  21. Lute Music: John Dowland's Galliard
  22. Lute Music: Aloe
  23. Lute Music: The Lady Clifton's Spirit
  24. Lute Music: What If A Day
  25. Lute Music: Mr. Giles Hobie's Galliard
  26. Lute Music: Come Away (Song arrangement)
  27. Lute Music: Galliard
  28. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Lachrimae (Basic Version)
  2. Lute Music: Galliard To Lachrimae
  3. Lute Music: [Jig]
  4. Lute Music: Galliard On 'Wasingham'
  5. Lute Music: Complaint (Ballad Setting)
  6. Lute Music: Mignarda (Galliard)
  7. Lute Music: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Pavan)
  8. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
  9. Lute Music: A Fancy (Fantasia)
  10. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
  11. Lute Music: Piper's Pavan
  12. Lute Music: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
  13. Lute Music: Lady Laiton's Almain
  14. Lute Music: Dowland's Galliard
  15. Lute Music: Dowland's First Galliard
  16. Lute Music: Tarleton's Jig
  17. Lute Music: Walsingham (ballad Setting)
  18. Lute Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home (Ballad Setting)
  19. Lute Music: Sir Henry Guilforde, His Almain
  20. Lute Music: Pavan (Related To 'Lachrimae')
  21. Lute Music: Mr. Langton's Galliard
  22. Lute Music: Mrs. Clifton's Almain
  23. Lute Music: Galliard
  24. Lute Music: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (Almain)
  25. Lute Music: Galliard
  26. Lute Music: Go From My Window (Ballad Setting)
  27. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Pavana Johan Douland
  2. Lute Music: Mrs. Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan (Solus sine sola)
  3. Lute Music: La mia Barbara
  4. Lute Music: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (Pavan)
  5. Lute Music: Lachrimae
  6. Lute Music: Farewell Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)
  7. Lute Music: Farewell (On The 'In Nomine' Theme)
  8. Lute Music: The King of Denmark's Galliard
  9. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux's Jig
  10. Lute Music: Mrs. Nichol's Almain
  11. Lute Music: Galliard
  12. Lute Music: Lord Strang's March
  13. Lute Music: Mrs. Winter's Jump
  14. Lute Music: Can She Excuse (Galliard)
  15. Lute Music: The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy
  16. Lute Music: Mrs. Norrish's Delight
  17. Lute Music: Galliard
  18. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Thing (Almain)
  19. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Nothing
  20. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
  21. Lute Music: Solus cum sola
  22. Lute Music: The Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard
  23. Lute Music: Orlando Sleepeth (Ballad Setting)
  24. Lute Music: Robin (Ballad Setting)
  25. Lute Music: Galliard (On A Galliard By Daniel Bacheler)
  26. Lute Music: Forlorn Hope Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: The Lady Russell's Pavan
  2. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
  3. Lute Music: Sir John Langton's Pavan
  4. Lute Music: Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
  5. Lute Music: A Coy Toy
  6. Lute Music: Fortune My Foe
  7. Lute Music: [Almain]
  8. Lute Music: Mr. Knight's Galliard
  9. Lute Music: Sir John Souch His Galliard
  10. Lute Music: Tarletone's Riserrectione
  11. Lute Music: The Lady Rich, Her Galliard
  12. Consort Music: Lachrimae Pavan
  13. Consort Music: Can She Excuse Galliard
  14. Consort Music: Captain Piper's Pavan And Galliard
  15. Consort Music: The Frog Galliard
  16. Consort Music: Round Battell Galliard
  17. Consort Music: Fortune My Foe
  18. Consort Music: Dowland's First Galliard
  19. Consort Music: Katherine Darcie's Galliard
  20. Consort Music: Tarleton's Jigge
  21. Consort Music: Almain a 2
  22. Consort Music: Mistress Nichols Almain a 2
  23. Fullsack And Hildebrandt: Auserlesener Paduanen und Galliarden: Susanna Fair (Galliard)
  24. Haussmann: Rest von polnischen und andern Tanzen: Mistress Nichols Alman a 5
  25. Opusculum: Mr. John Langton Pavan And Galliard
  26. Opusculum: La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard
  27. Opusculum: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard

Tracks:

  1. Consort Music: Mistress NIchols Almain
  2. Consort Music: Volta a 4 ('Ioh. Douland')
  3. Consort Music: Were Every Thought an Eye
  4. Consort Music: Lady If You So Spite Me
  5. Consort Music: Pavan a 4
  6. A Musicall Banquet: I. My Heavy Sprite (Anthony Holborne)
  7. A Musicall Banquet: II. Change Thy Mind Since She Doth Change (Richard Martin)
  8. A Musicall Banquet: III. O Eyes, Leave Off Your Weeping (Robert Hales)
  9. A Musicall Banquet: IV. Go, My Flock, Go Get You Hence (Anon.)
  10. A Musicall Banquet: V. O Dear Life, When Shall It Be? (Anon.)
  11. A Musicall Banquet: VI. To Plead My Faith (Daniel Bacheler)
  12. A Musicall Banquet: VII. In A Grove Most Rich Of Shade (Guillaume Tessier)
  13. A Musicall Banquet: VIII. Far From Triumphing Court
  14. A Musicall Banquet: IX. Lady, If You So Spite Me
  15. A Musicall Banquet: X. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
  16. A Musicall Banquet: XI. Si le parler et le silence (Pierre Guedron)
  17. A Musicall Banquet: XII. Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie (Pierre Guedron)
  18. A Musicall Banquet: XIII. Vous que le Bonheur rappelle (Pierre Guedron)
  19. A Musicall Banquet: XIV. Passava Amor su arco desarmado (Anon. Spanish)
  20. A Musicall Banquet: XV. Sta notte mi sognava (Anon. Italian)
  21. A Musicall Banquet: XVI. Vuestros ojos tienen d'Amor (Anon. Spanish)
  22. A Musicall Banquet: XVII. Se di farmi morire (Domenico Maria Megli)
  23. A Musicall Banquet: XVIII. Dovro dunque morire? (Giulio Caccini)
  24. A Musicall Banquet: XIX. Amarilli mia bella (Giulio Caccini)
  25. A Musicall Banquet: XX. O bella piu (Anon, Italian)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A musical treasure-box.......2006-09-10

Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.

The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).

This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.

I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.

5 out of 5 stars a beautiful journey into melancholy.......2001-06-15

I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.

Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).
My Mind's Eye
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The Best Album Of A Great Band
 My Mind's Eye
The Comsat Angels
Manufacturer: Renascent UK
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000JU7IUG
Release Date: 2007-02-05

Tracks:

  1. Driving [Alt Mix]
  2. Always Near
  3. Beautiful Monster
  4. Shiva Descending
  5. My Minds Eye
  6. I Come from the Sun
  7. Field of Tall Flowers [Acc Mix]
  8. Route 666
  9. Mystery Plane
  10. And All the Stars
  11. Magonia
  12. Too Much Time
  13. There Is No Enemy
  14. My Mind's Eye [The Wind, The Bass, The Drums]
  15. Field of Tall Flowers [Orig Mix]
  16. Driving [Orig Mix]

Album Description

Expanded reissue of The Comsat Angels' 1992 release My Mind's Eye, the band's personal favorite and the album that harked back to the early sound of the band, a tough update of Sleep No More-era Comsats. With six extra tracks and slightly re-sequenced as the original track order was meant for vinyl. This album comes in a card gatefold sleeve and contains a facsimile of the original poster insert. Renascent. 2007.

Album Details

2006 Issued Digitally Remastered Edition of the Album that Members of the Band Cite as their Favorite from their Discography. The 1992 Release "my Mind's Eye" Harkened Back to the Early Sound of the Band, a Tough Update of "Sleep No More"-era Comsats. This Edition Adds Six Extra Tracks and is Slightly Re-sequenced as the Original Track Order was Meant for Vinyl Limitations. This Album Comes in a Card Gatefold Sleeve and Includes a Miniaturized Facsimile of the Original Poster Insert.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Best Album Of A Great Band.......2007-02-12

Knowing the story of the Comsat Angels, of their years of commercial disappointment and frustration, it's remarkable that near the end of their career they would produce such an outstanding album as My Minds Eye. At this point, there was little hope that they would ever score a hit single; maybe that's what freed them to just create great music. To those familiar with the earlier Renascent releases, the sound has evolved here; the post-punkness is virtually gone (this album having been recorded in 1991). Steve Fellows' emotive vocals shine through, especially on Always Near, Magonia, and I Come From The Sun. Other great tracks are Shiva Descending, with its slight Mid-Eastern musical hook, and the catchy Field Of Tall Flowers. But then all the songs are good. By all rights, this brilliant album should have been topping the charts and the band showered with acclaim. Consider yourself lucky that you have come across it here...and don't hesitate to buy it.
My Mind's Eye
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    Manufacturer: Caroline
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    1. Waiting for a Miracle
    2. Sleep No More

    ASIN: B000000I1O
    Release Date: 1993-09-28

    Tracks:

    1. Driving
    2. Beautiful Monster
    3. Shiva Descending
    4. My Mind's Eye
    5. I Come from the Sun
    6. Field of Tall Flowers
    7. Always Near
    8. Route 666
    9. Mystery Plane
    10. And All the Stars
    In My Mind's Eye
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      		In My Mind's Eye
      Tears For Fears
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000A298OM

      Album Description

      Asian VCD edition of 1985 live video recorded during the 'Songs From The Big Chair' tour. 12 tracks, 'Start of the Breakdown', 'Mothers Talk', 'Pale Shelter', 'The Working Hour', 'The Prisoner', 'Ideas as Opiates', 'Mad World', 'We Are Broken', 'Head Over Heels', 'Suffer the Children', 'The Hurting' & 'Memories Fade'. Unavailable on any format domestically.
      My Mind's Eye
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • A Fine Comeback Record
      • Near the apex for the decade
      		 My Mind's Eye
      The Comsat Angels
      Manufacturer: Thunderbird
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00002489F
      Release Date: 2001-04-10

      Tracks:

      1. Driving
      2. Beautiful Monster
      3. Shiva Descending
      4. My Mind's Eye
      5. I Come from the Sun
      6. Field of Tall Flowers
      7. Always Near
      8. Route 666
      9. Mystery Plane
      10. And All the Stars

      Album Description

      UK mid-price reissue of the alternative act's classic 1992 album, described by All Music Guide as a, 'near-flawless gem'. 1998 release. Standard jewel case.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars A Fine Comeback Record.......2004-05-29

      I'm delighted to see that this solid, alternative, guitar rock album is back in print. The music itself is excellent, though this time around the vocals don't quite do the songs justice. Stephen Fellows sings about an octave higher than on the classic records and this makes his voice sound a bit whiney. He also made the mistake of trading in the cold wave lyrics of alienation that characterized his early work for trite platitudes (for example: Driving, And All The Stars) and fanciful musings (I Come From The Sun, Shiva Descending). But the songwriting mostly eclipses these deficiencies.

      Be aware that this is a domestic reissue of the first UK edition of this record. The original US version, credited to the C.S. Angels, contains two wonderful bonus tracks (presumably non-album singles) for a total of 12 songs. Since the price of this CD is a bit high anyway, you may as well seek out and buy the augmented version.

      The Comsat Angels' ultimate material can only be found on the highly sought after first three albums (Waiting For A Miracle, Sleep No More, and Fiction) and their BBC collection, Time Considered As A Helix Of Semi-Precious Stones. Bootlegs surface occasionally, but official CD copies of these recordings are insanely rare and expensive. That said, anyone (myself included) who has heard this early post-punk material will tell you that whatever you have to pay for it, it is worth every single penny.

      5 out of 5 stars Near the apex for the decade.......2001-07-13

      This 1992 album came out of the blue sky after a six-year, seemingly final, silence from Stephen Fellows' band.

      Fellows rates this his favourite Comsats album, although The Glamour (1995) runs it close. Even more, it is one of the lasting rock albums of the decade. Let's hope that, like the Notorious Byrd Bros, it always remains in print.

      Guitar hero Jimi Hendrix, rather than 12-stringer Roger McGuinn, is probably Fellows' mainman, but here he summed up his space fascinations to produce the perfect companion piece for McGuinn's Space Odyssey: 'I, I come from the sun/I've looked everywhere but you're the one/You you fascinate me/I whisper your name and you are gone/In fiery arms Andromeda will take you far beyond the mortal sea of storms/In winter constellations ever wander and never go home'.

      This is a typically classical script from one of the outstandingly original writers in rock, the only man ever to work the words 'event horizon' and 'deliquesce' successfully into pop songs. And such music, Fellows doing falling leaves and wintry soul vocals, bathed in the bleak galactic warmth of Andy Peake's swirling keyboard fills. Other rainy mood pieces, like Shiva Descending, feature the prettiest keyboard flourishes you can imagine. Field of Tall Flowers, and Always Near, are uncharacteristically heady nectars of love.

      My Mind's Eye, and Beautiful Monster, are contrasting off-the-wall pieces, where Mik Glaisher can be the best drummer in the world (as usual) and Fellows gets to show off that post-Hendrix guitar wizardry.

      Topping it all off is an insprired variation on a 1986 piece, Carried Away. This time Fellows makes it as simple and eternal as a child's nursery song: 'As I look upwards at the dreaming sky I can't help thinking sometimes/If you can hear me just tell me so for I'd give anything to know/And all the stars they shine so bright are you out there tonight'.

      The lyrics channel familiar introspections of the soul and the 'dreaming sky' has been dreamt before. But the band's unexpected alchemies lend each song an emotional lustre and transcendence rarely heard in rock music.

      Sure, the band stuck together for 17 years, but they were so good that you are forever wishing 'just one more time'. Well, that was The Glamour, and it seems there is no more.

      [Adapted from my piece in Juke National Rock Weekly, Melbourne, Australia, March 6 1993]
      Inside My Mind's Eye
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • Take a Trip Inside His Mind's Eye
      • Sunt Lacrimae Rerum - "There are tears of things"
      		 Inside My Mind's Eye
      Jim Haptonstahl
      Manufacturer: Oasis
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Folk | Styles | Music
      Folk RockFolk Rock | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
      ASIN: B00073FGL8
      Release Date: 2004-12-10

      Tracks:

      1. Escape From Camp Cusino
      2. The Moon Is Blue
      3. Prairie Trance
      4. Arctic Repentance
      5. Gone Too Soon
      6. Lachrymale
      7. Inside My Mind's Eye
      8. Never To Be Lost Again
      9. Lamentia
      10. Orphans of Shadows
      11. KLAA2 #9
      12. Skip Rocking

      Album Description

      INSIDE MY MIND'S EYE The new CD from Jim Haptonstahl A powerful journey through the heart to the center of the mind . . . Veteran singer-songwriter Jim Haptonstahl creates a swirling tapestry of sound, evoking images of prairie land and sky-scapes mixed with voyages into deep recesses of the soul. Inside My Mind's Eye winds through complex emotional and psychological territory—from escape and alienation to meditation and personal redemption, from anxiety and self-doubt to hope and self-renewal. The title song serves as the central piece of this artful puzzle. Haptonstahl tackles his creative demons while trying to stay connected to those he loves, and to the cosmic forces in his mind. The twelve songs of Inside My Mind's Eye represent a wide sonic spectrum, yet form an organic whole to match with the CD's theme. The music includes a mesmerizing blend of acoustic and electric guitars. Haptonstahl's voice is at once strong and clear, then pensive and earnest. He supports the songs with a broad palette of percussion, lyrical bass lines, and inspired psychedelic effects.

      Seven instrumental tracks are featured, including three solo acoustic finger-style compositions, and mixtures of intricately arranged 6-and 12-string guitars, electric guitar, bass, mellotron and eerie soundscapes. Haptonstahl's five vocal tunes are richly layered ensemble pieces, featuring stirring melodies, transcendent harmonies and glistening guitar solos.

      The CD is family artistic affair. Haptonstahl's 16-year-old daughter Julia provides accomplished accompaniment on bass for two songs. His brother Max's mind-bending intaglio print serves as the CD artwork. Surreal images interspersed throughout the CD package match the mood of the music.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Take a Trip Inside His Mind's Eye.......2006-02-09

      What a trip inside Jim Haptonstahl's Mind's Eye! He brings the listener a sense of harmony mixed with edginess, with side-trips into the subconscious. Fine fingerstyle guitar work on the instrumentals, but also a deft touch with the muted attack on electric guitar, creating flute-like tones in counterpoint lines. Evokes everything from John Renbourn to Jimmie Spheeris to Steve Hackett. But Haptonstahl also stakes a claim to a new and original voice: poetic musings within a dense thicket of reality, with some magic and heart thrown in for good measure.

      4 out of 5 stars Sunt Lacrimae Rerum - "There are tears of things".......2005-01-03

      This CD album delivers on the promise of its title and the surreal skies of the cover art: introspective but airy, flowing through many complex moods and colors - and stretches of wonderful passion. Tinted with a dark sadness throughout, but always believing in, and hoping for, something wonderful at the root of nature.

      First the bad news - the title song was a comparative thud measured against the emotionally driven palette of the rest of the offerings. Plodding in composition and delivery, as though JimHap was taking an emotional breather.

      That said, after putting the disk in the player the first time, I played the tracks repeatedly throughout the evening and into the morning... and the next evening. JimHap puts his fingers to the frets in search of beauty, and finds it. His riffs are reminiscent of many influences, from Frank Zappa to Pat Metheny, David Crosby, Leo Kottke, Will Ackerman and, well, Joni Mitchell among others.

      I'm familiar with JimHap's work from previous decades, and there's clearly an evolving maturity in his instrumental technique. The voice of the golden youth has acquired an understated quality well suited to the aging child.

      This work being vocally a solo effort, I think JimHap would benefit from some help on the harmonies. His backup voice tracks seem to falter sometimes, as though he's worn out from all the emoting on the lead tracks. Get yourself some compatible but contrasting singing voices behind you on the next one, Jimmy! Anyway, I recommend you get this CD. And be prepared to spend some quality time with it!
      My Mind's Eye
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		My Mind's Eye
        Comsat Angels
        Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD
        ASIN: B000A2PNQE
        Release Date: 2001-12-04
        In My Mind's Eye
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          		In My Mind's Eye

          Manufacturer: Heart to Hand Publishing
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD
          ASIN: B000BWNQBW
          My Mind's Eye
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            		My Mind's Eye

            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            ASIN: B000RZGFBQ
            Release Date: 2007-06-26
            In My Mind's Eye
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              		In My Mind's Eye
              Frank Russo & Max Murray
              Manufacturer: X!posed Records
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

              GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
              ASIN: B000CAA6T8
              Release Date: 2003-08-05

              Music:

              1. My Private Nation
              2. Nice [Enhanced]
              3. Off White Album [Import]
              4. One
              5. Out Side
              6. Pub Punx United [Explicit Lyrics]
              7. Redemption
              8. Release the Hounds
              9. Reminiscing [Import]
              10. Ringo Starr & All Star Band

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