Soiree Afrolatin [Import]

Soiree Afrolatin [Import]

Soiree Afrolatin [Import]

Track Listings
 
1. African Journey (Stephan M. Native Mix) - Stephan M. vs. Samy K
2. E Luande (Mimosa Tropical Mix) - Racoon feat. Rose Max
3. Baila (Penn's Suave Mix) - DJ Chus & David Penn feat. Caterina
4. Madan (Exotic Disco Mix) - Salif Keita vs. Martin Solveig
5. No Se (Summer Mix) - Leo Cuenca
6. Mussiki e (Jazzy Mix) - Miango
7. Alegria (Phearce Barbarela Mix) - Soul'amour
8. Calinda (Club Vocal Mix) - Ritmo-Dynamic
9. Soul Makossa (Original Mix) - Tony Carrasco & Mamadi Kaba
10. Palco (Soulman's Brazilian Groove Vocal Mix) - Rose Max
11. A New Day (Coco Mix) - Joe Montana & DJ Soch
12. Tengo (Nathan Hawks Had To Do It Mix) - Louis Botella
13. Emma (Main Chant Mix) - Chocolatine
14. Soul Samba (Cafe Samba Mix) - DJ Rhythm & Tempo

Soiree Afrolatin,Various Artists,Sfp Records,Dance,Dance Music,Electronic Collections,Pop,V/A Compilations
Best of L.A.G.Q.
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • I love these guys!!!
  • Excellent album
  • This is only a warning
  • Recent Purchase that I'm Joyed to Find and Enjoy
  • Simply Amazing
Best of L.A.G.Q.

Manufacturer: Delos Records
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ASIN: B00000DCXY
Release Date: 1998-09-22

Tracks:

  1. Hoe-Down
  2. Jumpin' At The Woodside
  3. Nutcracker Suite, Waltz Of The Flowers
  4. El Amor Brujo, Danza Del Juego De Amor
  5. El amor brujo, Danza del juego del fuego (Para Ahuyentar Los Malos Espiritus)
  6. Black Horse Troop
  7. Capriol Suite, Pieds-en-l'air
  8. Capriol Suite, Mattachins
  9. Traditional: Shenandoah
  10. Simple Gifts
  11. Corral Nocturne
  12. Introduction & Fandango, Introduction
  13. Introduction & Fandango, Fandango
  14. My Lord Of Oxenfordes Maske
  15. Canzon Per Sonar Primi Toni
  16. Dance Suite, Gavottes 1,2,3 & 6
  17. Dance Suite, Volte II
  18. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, III: Allegro
  19. La SoirDans Grenade (Evening In Granada)
  20. Main Street Electrical Parade (Baroque Hoedown) Disneyland in the Style of Vivaldi

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I love these guys!!!.......2007-01-02

At first I did not know anything about LAGQ. I was taking an intro to guitar class on the campus of USC. One of my assignments was to attend two guitar performances happening on campus and write about each. I was so fortunate to have picked LAGQ. I fell in love with their music and their humor. I was amazed by the variety of sounds coming out of the guitars. Although guitar playing is a hobby for me... these guys inspire me to study the guitar more seriously. This is the first album of theirs I bought. Their rendition of Shenandoah is the best. It is so beautiful I fall asleep to it. Simple Gifts is the most lovely version too. Jumpin' at the Woodside is another favorite... it jazzy bounce makes it a popular choice for background music to any situation. The Main Street Electrical Parade never fails to delight me and surprise my friends when I play it. These guys are silly...but in a good way. Its 2007 now and I still go back to the songs on this album. Great variety. This is a good starter to a LAGQ collection. Go see them live if you can!!!

5 out of 5 stars Excellent album.......2004-11-23

Recently I learned about LAGQ and bought this album. I have been impressed by the arrangements and interpretation, the texture, innovative touches and originality. It is a treat!

3 out of 5 stars This is only a warning.......2004-09-19

The LAGQ are fine players, and the music here is first rate as a summary of what they do, or for any purpose. HOWEVER, the transfer to CD on my disc was very poorly chosen, so that the top octave and a half was mostly missing (worse on some pieces than others, though). This takes the snap! out of guitar strings and notably attenuates your ability to tell what the 4 are doing with guitar timbre and the like. So, if you have wide-range audio gear, you might want to look elsewhere for an introduction to these players.

5 out of 5 stars Recent Purchase that I'm Joyed to Find and Enjoy.......2001-01-27

Not until recently did I know about this guitar four. Hearing a number of their songs on internet classical radio, I decided I'd try this one.

What a great surprise --- their arrangements of Copeland to Sousa to Praetorius are excellent and in taste. I'll be venturing into their other works.

5 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing.......2000-06-12

LAGQ is wonderful and this CD is a great compilation of some of their best work to date. Extremely versatile musicians, they perform swing music, Sousa march music, a Main Street Electrical Parade tune from Disneyland, as well as music by Copland and Praetorius. It's amazing how they are able to produce the sounds they do. A great compilation and one that would nicely add to your LAGQ collection or a great CD to start that collection!
L.A. Guitar Quartet: Evening In Granada
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Classical Guitar
  • These fiery renditions surpassed my expectations!
L.A. Guitar Quartet: Evening In Granada

Manufacturer: Delos Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000006YY
Release Date: 1994-01-25

Tracks:

  1. Introduction
  2. Introduction and Fandango: Fandango
  3. Folias
  4. El Amor Brujo: Introduccion y escena
  5. El Amor Brujo: En la cueva -- La noche
  6. El Amor Brujo: Cancion del amor dolido
  7. El Amor Brujo: El aparecido
  8. El Amor Brujo: Danza del terror
  9. El Amor Brujo: El circulo magico -- Romance del pescador
  10. El Amor Brujo: A media noche -- Los sortilegios
  11. El Amor Brujo: Danza ritual del fuego (Para ahuyentar los malos espiritus)
  12. El Amor Brujo: Escena
  13. El Amor Brujo: Cancion del fuego fatuo
  14. El Amor Brujo: Pantomima
  15. El Amor Brujo: Danza del juego de amor
  16. El Amor Brujo: Final (Las campanas del amanecer)
  17. La soiree dans Grenade (Evening in Granada)
  18. Capriccio espagnol: I Alborada
  19. Capriccio espagnol: II Variazioni
  20. Capriccio espagnol: III Alborada
  21. Capriccio espagnol: IV Scena e canto Gitano
  22. Capriccio espagnol: Fandango Asturiano

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Classical Guitar.......2007-03-15

It was a gift for my father who turned 88 on March 1st.
I sent it to him in Spain. He has been a guitar teacher all his life and still has students now in his ripe old age. He loved it, loved the music, loved the way they play.

5 out of 5 stars These fiery renditions surpassed my expectations!.......1999-11-19

Once again the L.A.G.Q. triumphs with their transcriptions of the very well known works included here. All of the music lends itself very well to the instrument, especially in the hands of this phenomenal quartet. This debut recording of the Ian Krouse selection is dramatic, dynamic and generally astounding. This is absolutely one of my favorite guitar recordings.
Songs by Stephen Foster, Vol. 1-2
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Time Capsule
  • Unexpected
  • An album to treasure
  • A classic recording of American songs
  • The sessions of sweet silent thought stirred
Songs by Stephen Foster, Vol. 1-2

Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005IYE
Release Date: 1992-05-28

Tracks:

  1. Songs By Stephen Foster: Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
  2. Songs By Stephen Foster: There's A Good Time Coming
  3. Songs By Stephen Foster: Was My Brother In The Battle?
  4. Songs By Stephen Foster: Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair
  5. Songs By Stephen Foster: If You've Only Got A Moustache
  6. Songs By Stephen Foster: Gentle Annie
  7. Songs By Stephen Foster: Wilt Thou Be Gone, Love?
  8. Songs By Stephen Foster: That's What's The Matter
  9. Songs By Stephen Foster: Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway
  10. Songs By Stephen Foster: I'm Nothing But A Plain Old Soldier
  11. Songs By Stephen Foster: Beautiful Dreamer
  12. Songs By Stephen Foster: Mr. & Mrs. Brown
  13. Songs By Stephen Foster: Slumber My Darling
  14. Songs By Stephen Foster: Some Folks
  15. Songs By Stephen Foster: We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 More
  16. Songs By Stephen Foster: Linger In Blissful Repose
  17. Songs By Stephen Foster: There Are Plenty Of Fish In The Sea
  18. Songs By Stephen Foster: Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
  19. Songs By Stephen Foster: The Soiree Polka
  20. Songs By Stephen Foster: Better Times Are Coming
  21. Songs By Stephen Foster: Katy Bell
  22. Songs By Stephen Foster: The Hour For Thee And Me
  23. Songs By Stephen Foster: Summer Longings

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Time Capsule.......2006-11-30

The voices and instruments, like the songs, are straight from the mid-19th century. If you want to be transported back in time 150 years to a wonderful parlor performance of Foster's songs, this is the album to do it. The voices are marvelous and trained, and one must imagine that the strict phrasing and style are what one would have expected at the time. The cheap upright piano is perfect.

But the one perfect moment for me is the ONLY good extant rendition of "Was My Brother in the Battle?". Accompanied on a harmonium or pump reed organ, if this song doesn't tempt a tear, you simply aren't a romantic.

Very highly recommended.

3 out of 5 stars Unexpected.......2005-11-26

Quality of this recording is fantastic! Performances are superb! However, they don't fit being an example of Foster's music and times. I was expecting banjos and a Mississippi Sound - therfore, very, very disappointed in this CD and consider and a waste of money. Be sure to LISTEN to a few examples to match what you are looking for and what the CD offers. I, unfortunately did not listen before I bought. I rate this low only because my expectations were shattered. This IS a fine CD if opera styles are ok for an example of this southern, 1800's composer's work.

5 out of 5 stars An album to treasure.......2004-09-23

The landmark Library of Congress album, now on enhanced CD. Years
ago, I went on a six-months field assignment to a remote area of
Africa, where I could take only what music I could carry in a vest
pocket. I chose a tape player and two albums: a recital by Perlman
and this album on tape, and was content. If you love American
music, sung poetry, beautiful singing and deeply moving musicality,
this is an album you will treasure for a lifetime.

5 out of 5 stars A classic recording of American songs.......2004-08-22

What can I say that hasn't already been said below? I only wanted to reiterate how wonderful this album is and assure the reader the sound is spectacular on CD. This is a live recording, and intentionally so, as the idea was to create a "parlor" experience as these were parlor songs to be sung by family and friends around the old upright piano. I especially liked the comment about the upright piano which, indeed, does croak and clank throughout the performance adding a note of "authenticity" without becoming obtrusive.

If only Ms. DeGaetani had graced my parlor...

5 out of 5 stars The sessions of sweet silent thought stirred.......2003-11-22

I have never heard such unadulterated extraworldy sound emanate from two human voices and what would otherwise be firewood (the period instruments played by Gilbert Kalish). It stirs profound patriotism and a deep sentimentality for our early days when a civilized people pined to find virtue by examining its own body-- the north and the south, the small town, the simple flag, and the beauty of gentile manly and womanly love expressed through equisite song. There is no other music I would rather hear 'when summoning up the remembrance of things past.' The ghost of the early American parlor will prick your skin through these simple hymns and you may escape for a moment our troubled and busy times.
Romantic French Music for Guitar and Orchestra
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • The finest music for guitar and orchestra NEVER written
Romantic French Music for Guitar and Orchestra

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000013SG
Release Date: 1994-02-15

Tracks:

  1. La fille aux cheveux de lin
  2. Arabesque No. 1
  3. Clair de lune
  4. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
  5. The Little Shepherd
  6. Golliwog's Cake Walk
  7. Pavane
  8. Sicilienne
  9. Soiree dans Grenade
  10. Reverie
  11. En Bateau
  12. Ballet
  13. Gymnopedie No. I
  14. Gymnopedie No. III
  15. Je te veux

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The finest music for guitar and orchestra NEVER written.......2003-03-25

Here excellent Naxos guitarist Gerald Garcia (check out his "Latin American Guitar Festival" and "Brazilian Portrait" CDs) teams up with conductor/arranger Peter Breiner to produce a highly enjoyable collection of music for guitar and orchestra.

Here Breiner takes some of the best known piano works of Debussy and Satie, plus some items from Faure's orchestral output, and presents them in lush original arrangements for guitar and orchestra. The arrangements work best when they are simple. On a few they're a bit over the top, and for that the recording loses one star, but for the most part Breiner provides fine backings for Garcia's beautiful and sensitive playing.

Highlights include the two Satie "Gymnopedies", Debussy's "Le Fille Auz Cheveux de lin", "Arabesque", and "Reverie", and Faure's "Pavane" and "Sicilienne": all beautifully played and arranged.

An original idea, nicely executed with only one or two questionable moments. Should appeal to fans of classical guitar and French classical music.
Debussy: Clair de lune & Other Piano Favourites
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • The perfect rain music, but I wish for more
  • Debussy Favorites in OK Performances, Variable Sound
Debussy: Clair de lune & Other Piano Favourites

Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B0001N9ZCA
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

  1. Clair De Lune
  2. La Plus Que Lente
  3. Arabesque No.1
  4. Le Petit Negre
  5. The Snow Is Dancing
  6. The Little Shepherd
  7. Golliwog's Cakewalk
  8. La Soiree Dans Grenade
  9. Jardins Sous La Pluie
  10. Arabesque No.2
  11. Valse Romantique
  12. Danse (Tarantelle Styrienne)
  13. Toccata
  14. Reflets Dans L'eau
  15. Poissons D'or
  16. Mazurka
  17. Reverie
  18. La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin
  19. Minstrels
  20. La Cathedrale Engloutie

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars The perfect rain music, but I wish for more.......2007-04-26

Collections are tricky. Either they fulfill your needs perfectly, leading to you wanting more, or they don't fulfill enough, leading to you wanting more. Either way, you're left with the uncomfortable feeling that "something"'s missing. Is that the case with this "favorites" CD? Yes.

Oh, this is a nice enough collection to get you into a Debussy mood, but after listening to it, I felt frustrated. Why, I thought, did I buy a collection? Now I would have to find MORE. Yes, I got the generic favorites. I now have "Clair de lune" and "Reverie" (my reasons for purchasing the CD), but the musical beauty made me want more and more, to the point where I got very frustrated. After all, collections only give you a taste. Now I need to find... MORE.

The rain quality can be either a plus or a minus. By "rain quality" I'm referring to a slightly fuzzy sound. Not the best quality, that is. It sounds like the radio on a rainy day, so while getting you in the mood perfectly, it's a bit... well. It's of lower quality, though it does enhance the mood. I personally like it, but facts are facts.

While I listen to this CD often, I think that it's probably better just to jump straight to full CDs. No snippets. While enjoyable, it's not amazing and it leaves you with the slight sense of, "...well?". So... well?

3 out of 5 stars Debussy Favorites in OK Performances, Variable Sound.......2004-05-24

Francois-Joël Thiollier has recorded much of Debussy's piano music for Naxos. This CD appears to be a 'favorites' album drawn from several previous issues. The most familiar and probably the best-loved Debussy pieces are here, beginning with a dreamy (but somewhat soupily-recorded) 'Clair de lune' ('Moonlight'). [The cover illustration is a nice reproduction of Eugène Boudin's gorgeous 'The Effect of the Moon.'] As of yet Amazon has not listed the contents, so I shall do so: Clair de lune, La plus que lente, Arabesque Nos. 1 & 2, Le petit nègre, excerpts from The Children's Corner (The snow is dancing, The little shepherd, Golliwog's cakewalk), La soirée dans Grénade, Jardin sous la pluie, Valse romantique, Tarantelle styrienne, Toccata, Reflets dans l'eau, Poissons d'or, Mazurka, Révérie, The Girl with the Golden Hair, and The Engulfed Cathedral.

Thiollier often takes slower than usual tempi, and he often sounds rather deliberate or even stodgy as a result. This is not to say there aren't some quicker tempi taken: 'Le petit nègre' starts off with a real Gottschalkian verve, but when he comes to the second theme he backs off. 'Poissons d'or' ('Goldfish') swim excitedly (and beautifully). 'The snow is dancing' all right, but it seems to be doing a sarabande. These are pretty straight interpretations; one misses the drama or sadness in, say, Golliwog's Cakewalk. I think one problem in all these performances is a lack of crisp articulation. Debussy's soft-edged harmonies can lead a pianist to play in a flaccid, dreamy fashion and that works for some of the pieces, but on the whole Debussy requires more rhythmic spine, and that is often lacking here.

The primary thing going for this compilation is the price. But I couldn't recommend it to anyone other than someone on a sharply restricted budget and who wants these particular pieces. For somewhat more outlay, one could have performances by say, the fabled Michelangeli or the spectacular Kocsis or the legendary Gieseking.

TT=78:10

Scott Morrison
Schubert-Soirée
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent!
Schubert-Soirée

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001GIG
Release Date: 1993-05-10

Tracks:

  1. Polonaise for Vn and Orch in B flat D 580
  2. Five German Dances: 1. Deutscher Tanz in C-Trio I-Trio II
  3. Five German Dances: 2. Deutscher Tanz in G-Trio I-Trio II
  4. Five German Dances: 3. Deutscher Tanz in D-Trio
  5. Five German Dances: 4. Deutscher Tanz in F
  6. Five German Dances: 5. Deutscher Tanz in C-Trio I-Trio II-Coda
  7. Rondo for Vn and SO in A D 438
  8. Five Menuets from D 89: 1. Menuett in-C-Trio I-Trio II
  9. Five Menuets from D 89: 2. Menuett in F
  10. Five Menuets from D 89: 3. Menuett in G-Trio I-Trio II
  11. Five Menuets from D 89: 4. Menuett in G
  12. Five Menuets from D 89: 5. Menuett in C-Trio I-Trio II
  13. Con Movement for Vn and Orch in D

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent!.......2005-09-23

It's surprising that there have been no reviews written for this album before mine. I chanced upon this CD and it is now defintely one of my favourites. I'm not particularly a fan of Schubert so I was pleasantly taken aback by this CD. Among the many classical CDs that I own, this is definitely one that uplifts the spirit. Enjoy it!
Piano Dreams
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Piano/Dreams
Piano Dreams

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007L4R7
Release Date: 2003-01-07

Tracks:

  1. Erik Satie: Gymnopidie No.1 - Lent et douloureux
  2. Franz Liszt: Rjve D'Amour No. 3 in A-flat major
  3. Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky: Octobre - Chant D'Automne
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in A minor, Ks. 310 - II. Andante catabile con espressione
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven: : Sonata No.14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight - I. Adagio sestenuto
  6. Robert Schumann: : Fantaisie in C major, Op. 17 III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten
  7. Sergei Rachmaninov: Eligie in E-flat minor, Op. 3 No.1
  8. Paderewski: Nocturne in B flat, Op. 16 No. 4
  9. Erik Satie: Gnossienne No.1
  10. Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante difunte
  11. George Gershwin: Prelude No. 2
  12. George Gershwin: Love Walked In

Tracks:

  1. Claude Debussy: Clair de lune (from Suite Bergamasque)
  2. Edvard Grieg: Notturno in C major (Pihces lyriques, Op. 54 No. 4)
  3. Alexander Scriabin: Prilude in F-sharp minor, Op. 11 No. 8
  4. Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No.1
  5. Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in C-sharp minor
  6. Franz Liszt: Au lac de Wallenstadt (Annis de phlerinage, I. La Suisse)
  7. Claude Debussy: La soiree dans Grenade
  8. Artur Rubinstein: Melody In F
  9. Maurice Ravel: Ondine (from Gaspardde la nuit)
  10. Francis Poulenc: Improvisations in C minor, FP 176 No.15- Hommage A Edith Piaf
  11. Sergei Rachmaninov: Prelude in F- sharp minor, Op. 23
  12. Gabrilovich: Melodie in F
  13. Leos Janacek: On the Overgrown Path
  14. Samuel Barber: Sonate Op. 26 - III. Adagio mesto
  15. Roger Quilter: The Crimson Petal
  16. Henri Dutilleux: D'ombre et de silence (from 3 Preludes)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Piano/Dreams.......2003-02-24

I love this cd so much I been play in my store all time and so many customers come up to ask what's cd are we playing and where to get it, i give them all information I know. we love it.
Penance Soiree
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Grimy
  • Punk
  • boring cd
  • Best Album Ever
  • Very cool
Penance Soiree
Icarus Line
Manufacturer: V2 Ada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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  5. 1977

ASIN: B0001FVEFY
Release Date: 2004-05-04

Tracks:

  1. Up Against The Wall Motherfuckers
  2. Spit On It
  3. On The Lash
  4. Caviar
  5. Spike Island
  6. Kiss Like Lizards
  7. Getting Bright At Night
  8. Big Sleep
  9. White Devil
  10. Meatmaker
  11. Virgin Velcro
  12. Sea Sick
  13. Party The Baby Off

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Grimy.......2007-07-03

jagged, loud, intoxicated, innovative, well mixed. good tracks
sounds like the L.A. sun beating down on a ghetto,and I'm walkin down the street, stoned

5 out of 5 stars Punk.......2007-01-10

This album is by far one of the most unintelligable albums ever...and I love it. The lyrics are completely smothered by slurring and screaming, but it's emotional. If you like noise, and even if you don't, I recommend this album for at least one listen. If you don't like it after that, listen to it again, and if you still don't like it, try one more time...if after that third (and for the adventurous ones, fourth) time, then keep it anyway. The Icarus Line, and their album Penance Soiree are among the best you could have in a collection.

1 out of 5 stars boring cd.......2005-11-19

this cd is so boring, after the first listen I wanted to sell it already, on amazon marketplace. the singing is boring, the lyrics are mindless and misguided. therefore when I listen to bands like Death From Above 1979 and blood brothers, I wonder why I bought this crap instead

5 out of 5 stars Best Album Ever.......2005-10-10

I really think that people who don't like this album simply don't like rock music. With this record, the Icarus Line take influences ranging over the entire spectrum of rock 'n' roll and manage to push them forward into a sound that is breathtaking in its originality. Do you like The Stooges? Or My Bloody Valentine? What about The Jesus Lizard? Or Born Against, Funkadelic, Suicide, Spiritualized, Nirvana, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, Ink & Dagger? Do you like music at all?

The guitars of Aaron North and Alvin DeGuzman clash against each other like some demon cocktail of Fugazi and the MC5. The rhythm section of Don Devore (a legend in his own right) and Jeff Watson is unbeatable - they attack each song like bulldozers, each going into wild new structures dead on. And on top of all the mayhem, Joe Cardamone sings like a bastard child of Iggy Pop and Mick Jagger who grew up listening to the Dwarves.

This album is a landmark record. No one liked Funhouse when that album came out. Now it's looked at as one of the most revolutionary records ever released. In 30 years, everyone will be looking back at this album and wondering how the Icarus Line could produce such awe-inspiring material.

4 out of 5 stars Very cool.......2005-04-14

I gotta both agree and disagree with the previous review. The Icarus line do take alot of influences and "cut and paste" them into their music but unlike maybe older listners I really don't have the time to be going through 100s of old Iggy Pop albums to find these similarities. Bands like the Icarus line have to be given due credit as they're the ones that carry this music foward. I mean dude I can't exactly travel into the past to an Iggy concert, but I can see bands like the Icarus Line when they tour and maybe experience some of that energy.
Trader John's Crawfish Soiree
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Trader John's Crawfish Soiree
    Dr. John
    Manufacturer: Blue Label
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Blues | Styles | Music
    PianoPiano | Blues | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | R&B | Styles | Music
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    5. N'Awlinz: Dis Dat or d'Udda

    ASIN: B000MTOQ7C
    Release Date: 2007-04-24

    Tracks:

    1. You're Just Too Square (You Ain't Nowhere)
    2. Trader John
    3. Cat & Mouse Game
    4. Helping Hand
    5. Go Ahead On
    6. Loser For You
    7. One Night Late
    8. I Pulled The Cover Offa You Two Lovers
    9. New Orleans
    10. The Ear Is On Strike
    11. Just Like A Mirror
    12. Della (Part 1)

    Tracks:

    1. Crawfish Soiree (Bring Your Own Along)
    2. Tipitina
    3. In The Night
    4. Woman Is The Root Of All Evil
    5. The Time Had Come
    6. Shoo Raa
    7. Zu Zu Man
    8. Baldhead
    9. Mean Cheatin' Woman
    10. Make Your Own Bed Well
    11. A Little Closer To My Home
    12. Della (Part 2)

    Album Description

    A great boogie and blues pianist with a growl of a voice, Dr. John's most enduring achievements have fused New Orleans R&B, rock and Mardi Gras craziness to come up with his own brand of "Voodoo" music. He's also enjoyable when sticking to purely traditional forms of Blues and R&B.

    This double CD collection consists of two hard to find albums, Trader John's and Crawfish Soiree, previously released on the Australian AIM label in 1998 and 1996 respectively. Crawfish Soiree includes demo versions of songs which Dr. John chose for his 1965 debut in Los Angeles, the album Zu Zu Man. Most of the music on that album was Dr. John in boogie-woogie, R&B mode but Zu Zu Man, a version of which is included here, augurs the voodoo feel and textures of his 1968 cult classic Gris Gris album. Although the performances are not perfect, they capture these Dr. John obscurities in pure and raw form. Crawfish Soiree is a compilation of rare and unreleased 70s studio recordings. The Blue Label version is digitally remastered with greatly improved sound quality and is housed in deluxe fold out packaging including historical notation on Dr. John by Martin Celmins.
    Piano Transcriptions of works by Johann Strauss II
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Finally, an equal to Piers Lane!
    Piano Transcriptions of works by Johann Strauss II

    Manufacturer: Angel Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000005GV6
    Release Date: 1998-02-17

    Tracks:

    1. Improvisation Uber Den Walzer An Der Schonen Blauen Donau
    2. Soiree De Vienne, Op.56 (Konzertparaphrase Uber Johann Strauss' Walzermotive Aus Fledemaus U.A.
    3. Paraphrase Uber Walzer-Motive Von Rosen Aus Dem Suden
    4. Kaiser-Walzer
    5. Valses-Caprices
    6. Fruhlingstimmen (To Wilhelm Blackhaus)
    7. Paraphrase Uber Walzer-Motive Von G'Schichten Aus Dem Wiener Wald
    8. Du Und Du- Walzer
    9. Fantasie Um Johann Strauss Uber Die Walzer And Der Shonen Blaunen Donau, Die Fledermaus Und Freut...
    10. Etude De Concert No.2: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Finally, an equal to Piers Lane!.......2003-01-17

    Before this album, Piers Lane was the only pianist to record an entire album of virtuoso piano transcriptions on Strauss waltzes. Where technically Piers Lane is more aggressive and high strung, Scherbakov's technique is fluid, effortless, and rock-solid. Most pianists would avoid music with such formidable difficulties. Scherbakov tackles each piece with an unmatched technical security. This is Russian piano playing at its best! His tone is full and warm. The charm of each piece is perfectly captured. The rhythm and rubato breath naturally. This cd has been reissued for some reason, so buy it while you can. Nearly everything Scherbakov touches turns to gold! This album is no exception!

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