Designs & Mistakes

Designs & Mistakes

Track Listings

1. Palid

2. Toasted Bot Bop

3. Soluble Ducks

4. Nodding Dogs

5. Family

6. Scene for Ash

7. Fall Like Dandruff

8. Shoddy Kicks

9. Flush Fit Fanatic

10. Loath

11. Clay Pot

12. Eggshell

13. Stan's Soluble Fish

Tracks:

Avanti
Apt. 604
Too Happy
Crash Point
While We're Here
Blues From Nowhere
The Big Parade
Wrong Turn
Frequent Flier
Brushfire
The Stalker Pt. ll
Smoketree Serenade

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Rarely does one record so confidently honor a category like Ben Vaughn's Designs in Music. This fun, audio soundtrack for what could be spaghetti westerns, quirky sitcoms, romantic cinema, and jazzy incidental moments creates its own kind of visual stories, moods, meditations, and more than its share of whimsy. You're bound to hear echoes of Henry Mancini, Enrico Morricone, and others whose film scores from the '60s and '70s remain some of the most unsung works of pop culture even today. On "While We're Here," Vaughn and various member of his exquisitely assembled 15-piece ensemble also give a bold shout out to Mark Isham, who scored many of Alan Rudolph's films in the '80s. You can also tell the way he voices various instruments and vocal splashes throughout that he's yet another Brian Wilson aficionado. Which is not to say Designs is a retro album full of homage. Rather, it's Vaughn and company exploring terrain that is familiar and foreign and always original, with inventive flourishes and cool and occasionally abstract song titles. Like the best of the genre, these intriguing music beds always seem to lie right below our consciousness and yet right on our radar screens, too. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews:

Time Warp Cocktail Hour.......2006-08-07

Don't dismiss this collection as a goof on easy listening or lounge music--it's carefully and creatively arranged, with moods that range from sultry to sunny. The musicians are obviously expert, but just as obviously, really digging what they are putting together. Truly a great addition to anyone's collection, especially when you have a nicely frosted martini glass in hand.

Just what I was looking for........2006-07-09

Exceptional. Mr Vaughn takes an old genre, and makes it young, fresh, and new again, without losing any of the lunacy that makes lounge music so much fun!

modern exotica.......2006-05-17

Guitarist and composer Ben Vaughn has obviously listened long and hard to early-'60s exotica, TV themes, spy films, spaghetti Westerns, and cocktail music. His Designs in Music -- a highly arranged, richly textured collection of original instrumentals -- manages to pay tribute to guitarists Hank Marvin, Duane Eddy, and Vinnie Bell, and composers Martin Denny and Ennio Morricone, without being utterly derivative. Hearing the peppy themes and doo-ahh vocals, one might be tempted to write off Vaughn's music as kitsch. But a careful listening reveals a depth in the orchestration and writing that's totally AWOL in modern pop. Vaughn's guitar palette runs the gamut from spanky, tremolo-drenched lines to moody jazz-noir, and his vintage tones are always cleverly framed by various combinations of strings, brass, reeds, old-school analog synth and combo organ, harp, percussion, pedal steel, and wordless singing. Going on a road trip? These quirky sounds will make a perfect soundtrack.

The Band With That Sound/Designs for Dancing

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Great Elgart recordings from way back when!
Les Elgart is tops if you love big bands!

The Band With That Sound/Designs for Dancing
Les Elgart
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005NG4S
Release Date: 2001-09-11

Tracks:

Cheerful Little Earful
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Do You Ever Think Of Me
The Man I Love
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Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
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West
Yesterdays
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Moonglow
The Swingin' Genie
Breezin' Along With The Breeze
Cocktails For Two
East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
They Didn't Believe Me
Stella By Starlight
Designs For Dancing
The Mar-Cha-Cha
Anything Goes

Customer Reviews:

Great Elgart recordings from way back when!.......2007-07-08

As many of you know Les Elgart was the person behind the successful "Bandstand Boogie" for "American Bandstand". His band showed off their talents in this two-fer CD set from albums released in 1960. Good material and sounds so clear today on compact disc. I can not get enough of the Mar-Cha-Cha in the Designs for Dancing portion of the C.D. Great rhythm for some of Elgart's new fans!!

Les Elgart is tops if you love big bands!.......2007-04-29

This may take you down memory lane, but I enjoy listening to the big bands. I loved Glenn Miller and the others, but Les Elgart has a big band style of his own. As a young kid, I played in the school band myself. I purchased most of his albums in the late 1950s and early 1960s. When I saw the Elgart CDs offered on Amazon, I purchased four of my favorite Elgart CDs of his past music albums. It's amazing how much better CD music is to the old albums and his music is no exception.

Most of you will recognize one of Les Elgart's popular songs played on Dick Clark's old bandstand TV show called "Bandstand Boogie."

Bottom line is if you like big bands, try Les Elgart!

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Wake Up and Revolutionize Your Thinking
Another Essential Snapcase Album
Don' sell us the perfect human
Pioneering, excellent hardcore punk.
No really, ARE you tuned in?

Designs for Automotion
Snapcase
Manufacturer: Victory Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Progression Through Unlearning
End Transmission
Lookinglasself
Bright Flashes
Steps

ASIN: B00003ZA61
Release Date: 2000-01-25

Tracks:

Target
Disconnector
Bleeding Orange
Typecast Modulator
Are You Tuned In?
20th Nervous Breakdown
Energy Dome
Ambition Now
Break The Static
Blemish
Box Seat

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Is Snapcase the next Fugazi? No, but consider the similarities: both are among the tightest punk combos on the planet, spitting bile and yet not afraid to cry; both groups also have unusually large fan bases that have little to do with radio or MTV play. Snapcase's Designs for Automation (their third full-length) is like a pillow full of nails--sharp and meant for the head. The loud lock-'n'-load guitars bust out of the gate in a hurry, but careful listens reveal more psychedelic corners: "Bleeding Orange" and "Ambition Now" cut deep and have room to stretch out. Like all good punk rock, Designs for Automation is all about giving the status quo the old heave-ho. Like all great punk rock, it sets a sonic benchmark for aggression, volume, and soul. Snapcase's old-(Fugazi)-meets-new-(Rage Against the Machine) sound is either the future of punk or the end of pop. Stay tuned. --Jason Josephes

Album Description

One of the most antiscipated releases of 2000. Thoughtfull and powerfull punk-hardcore with a postive message. Long time legends are back with the latest and greatest release to date

Customer Reviews:

Wake Up and Revolutionize Your Thinking.......2006-02-10

SNAPCASE - Designs for Automation
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There underground legacy that Snapcase left on the hardcore music world is undeniable... And as I said in my review for "Progression..." in just 5 Years they released 3 of the finest hardcore albums ever! (1997's Progression Through Unlearning, 2000's Designs for Automation and 2002's End Transmission)
Track 4, Typecast Modulator was actually the first Snapcase song I had ever heard. (Victory Sampler) And it completely took me off guard:
-Distorted Vocals? -Spastic Drumming? -Crazy Rhythms?
Yet it was quite appealing so I picked up this album and `PTU'.... Whenever I read the lyrics was when I fell in love... (In an entirely heterosexual manner) The sincerity and the honesty in his lyrical delivery is well beyond the standard realm of hardcore. This wasn't your usual Tough-Guy "Wanna step up? Throw your fist up!" Hardcore, this was "Can you feel it? Are you living? Your mind is unsung... because you're not driven... You have to wake up and revolutionize your thinking..."
Needless to say I was in awe and have been a Snapcase fan ever since.

The 3 Albums mentioned above should be required listening for any self-proclaimed fan of hardcore. (Also bands like Throwdown should be forced to read Daryl's lyrics and actually self educate themselves instead of being angry morons...)

Anyways I will stop rambling... All you need to know is buy this!
Favorite Songs: Energy Dome, Typecast Modulator, Break the Static and Ambition Now.
-4.75 (Not quite PTU but really damn close.)

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Another Essential Snapcase Album.......2005-03-10

Snapcase 3rd full length, "Designs For Automation", has never left my boombox ever since I bought it (I bought the edition with the bonus CD, which features an unreleased track, two live songs, which are "Caboose" and "Zombie Prescription", and crappy remixes of "Disconnector", "Bleeding Orange" and "Typecast Modulator"). Good tracks are "Typecast Modulator", "Bleeding Orange", "Energy Dome" and "Disconnector". Buy this. You will not waste your money.

Don' sell us the perfect human.......2004-06-14

Snapcase never got the recognizition they deserved. This album brings the pain it is so amazing the riffs that they spew out in each of thier songs. I actually like thier message too, something that a lot of people find unorginal. But think about it, how many bands actually tell you to think for yourself? How many bands tell you that you are your own hero, that you are your leader? So many bands preach that they are correct, that everyone else should eat their crap they are correct. So many bands take thier word for gospel, but then there is Snapcase. I learned so much from these guys (and I always am apprehensive about the things bands say). They have a great message, an almost perfect message. So while many bands claim to carry profound messages, Snapcase go on and speak thier minds. No preaching, all they do is ask "are you who you think you are?" An amazing record.

Pioneering, excellent hardcore punk........2004-03-04

From their inception in the mid '90s, Snapcase have always been at the forefront of the hardcore punk scene. They are probably the finest band on the Victory label. While contemporaries such as Hatebreed have seen fit to make the same album over and over again, this Buffalo oufit has continued to change and expand their sound, culminating in 2002's End Transmission which is a progressive post-hardcore landmark on the same level as The Refused's magnum opus, The Shape Of Punk To Come.

In my opinion, Designs For Automotion is the best of Snapcase's albums. It is less straight-up hardcore (read: hard and energetic, but repetitive) than Progression Through Unlearning but it still sacrifices little energy and is more straightforward than End Transmission. It finds a happy medium between the two albums, remaining very much a hardcore record while still throwing in some neat left turns including the use of spacey electronic touches. Also of note is the production, which is clean and well-defined without being glossy. While this slighly more accessible sound might dissappoint the hardcore kids, these guys have not sold out in any way, shape, or form.

Designs For Automotion is one hell of a fun album. There's no dour angst here, just plenty of motivation and adrenaline. At 30 minutes, this album rarely lets up on the intensity, and it's not long enough to feel repetitive. You'll be too busy spastically flailing about to get bored. Guitarist Jon Salemi lays down some breakneck playing and the rhythm section of Tim Redmond (drums) and Frank Vicario (bass) is tight, pulling off more complex changeups and rhythms than you would expect from your average hardcore band. Dary Taberski's voice never drops below an impassioned shout, screaming out lyrics that are literate, motivating, intelligent, and (surprise!) without a single profanity to be found.

Highlights include powerful opener Target, the catchy Disconnector and Typecast Modulator, and the complex yet crunchy Bleeding Orange and Ambition Now. If you dig punk rock that truly pushes boundaries and rocks both your body and your mind, Designs For Automotion is a mandatory purchase, along with Progression Through Unlearning and End Transmission.

No really, ARE you tuned in?.......2003-08-04

Snapcase is not a band you need an acquired taste to enjoy. Their music is quick, organized, and incredibly smart. I plainly agree with another reviewer here in stating Snapcase is hardcore for people who hate hardcore music. After hearing (and loving) the song "Caboose" I picked up every Snapcase record I could find. I was able to get a Victory Records compilation with some 30 hardcore bands on it. Honestly, I couldn't find one I liked besides the Snapcase song, "Harrison Bergeron". They just have something no other band possesses: all-around excellence. One thing that struck me about this album is how up-beat and amazing the lyrics are. In a genre that typically gets labeled as screaming freak music, Snapcase manages to act as educators in humanity. It's really quite amazing. An overview:

1. Target - 5/5 - short, to the point, and extremely catchy. The perfect starter.

2. Disconnector - 5/5 - my personal favorite. The guitar work here is absolutely astonishing; as are the lyrics.

3. Bleeding Orange - 3.5/5 - together, the words and music don't flow as smoothly as before. Still good.

4. Typecast Modulator - 5/5 - seems to be the `single' of Designs. That's for good reason. A lot like "Disconnector".

5. Are You Tuned In? - 4.5/5 - if you read the lyrics, they almost seem to be speaking directly to you. Awesome.

6. Twentieth Nervous Breakdown - 5/5 - a lot like "Target", as it's pertinent and catchy.

7. Energy Dome - 5/5 - the line `your mind is unsung / because you're not driven' takes the cake.

8. Ambition Now - 3.5/5 - this seems to be a favorite for many people. Decent; a lot like "Bleeding Orange".

9. Break The Static - 5/5 - my second favorite. The guitar work just makes you want to turn up the volume at the strike of each new chord.

10. Blemish - 5/5 - yet another five-out-of-fiver. What else can I tell you?

11. Box Seat - 5/5 - just an unbelievable closer. Great music, great lyrics, it all just flows so beautifully.

Designs For Automotion is nearly perfect. The only downside of it is you cannot always make out the words unless you have the booklet right there with you. But I guess that's the idea behind the hardcore scene, right? Songs like "Typecast Modulator" and "Ambition Now" seemed to give this album its starting appeal, but really it's the unknown gems like "Disconnector" and "Break The Static" that make it impeccably brilliant. If you have heard any of Snapcase's songs or albums, be prepared for what I'm hailing their best release yet. The lyrics and music are entwined in a way that no other band can even begin to challenge. Whether you're a fan of hardcore punk music or not, Designs For Automotion is bound to suit your musical fancies. `Can you sleep?... It's on your mind'.

Tibor Serly: 6 Dance Designs; Concertino; Violin Concerto
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Surprise! This is a Must-Have!

Tibor Serly: 6 Dance Designs; Concertino; Violin Concerto

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000ION68G
Release Date: 2006-10-24

Customer Reviews:

Surprise! This is a Must-Have!.......2006-11-30

Until I ran across this disc my only association with the name Tibor Serly was remembering that he had completed Bartók's Viola Concerto after Bartók died. (As it turns out, after being importuned by Ditta Pazstory Bartók, he virtually wrote the concerto using a sketchy outline left by Bartók. And it's a great piece, too.) So, I had no idea what to expect with this CD. I couldn't have been more surprised or pleased with what I found here. First of all, I have a very fond place in my heart for composers who don't take themselves too seriously; hence, for instance, my attraction to much of the music by Les Six. And that is what one finds here, rollicking good music that pretty much skips 'great thoughts', preferring to delight.

'Six Dance Designs for Orchestra' (1932-33) is a work which, according to the excellent booklet notes by Kile Smith, is filled with 'winks and asides', making use of ingenious and infectious rhythmic complexities whose purpose is both to keep one off balance and to engage one's intellect. The first dance, 'Promenade', pits polytonal close harmonies in violas, clarinets and bassoon against insistent off-beat pizzicato strings. 'Dance Dialogue' stammers and shuffles and swirls to a lopsided one-step beat. 'Donkeys' features a heehawing E flat clarinet accompanied by bass line clip-clops. It leads directly into a woozy fox-trot ('Doldrums'), which could be Serly comparing the fox-trotters to the donkeys; it ends with a 'how dry I am' tag. 'Tap Dance' makes use of 1930s Hollywood syncopations. 'Dragons' ends the work with a menacing slow sarabande that builds to a minatory climax.

'Concertino 3x3' (1964-65, pronounced 'three times three') is best described in the composer's own words: "Concertino 3x3 is at once a Concertino for Solo Piano in three movements; it is also a Concerto for Orchestra, alone; but when played together simultaneously, it is converted into a Concertino for Solo Piano and Orchestra. Thus, in actual performance one hears three different compositions." The nine movements are structured in the following sequence: solo piano, orchestra alone, solo piano with orchestra; solo piano, orchestra alone, solo piano with orchestra; solo piano, orchestra alone, solo piano with orchestra. The first set of three movements is marked moderato, the second set andante sostenuto, the finale allegro vivace. There are many cross references of themes and rhythmic devices. Rather than sounding fragmentary, the work combines into a coehrent whole, written in an almost Stravinskyan harmonic and rhythmic style. There is a good deal of technical discussion in the booklet notes of the methods involved (and particularly regarding the harmonic structure) but suffice it to say the Concertino is an exciting and eminently satisfying work given a spiffy performance by pianist Lynn Kao with Paul Freeman leading the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. (Are we indebted to Paul Freeman for his intrepid explorations of American musical byways, or what? And in case you're thinking, that Serly was Hungarian, he was born in Hungary but moved to New York as a toddler and lived almost all his life in the US. He really should be considered an American composer.)

The final work is Serly's Concerto for Violin and Wind Symphony. Carla Trynchuk is the violin soloist. This is a thirteen-minute work with two movements: Improvisamente & Dance Concertino, played without pause. It was written in the 1950s but did not receive its first performance until a year after Serly's death in 1978. It is notable for its almost romantic melodies and its engaging dance rhythms. 'Improvisamente' has a Hungarian folk tinge and of the music on this disc sounds, for this reason, most like that of Bartók. 'Dance Concertino' is in 5/4, often sounding like the dancer stops now and then to gasp for breath. The Hungarian flavor continues and this is emphasized by the use of folk-like Magyar violin double-stops. The concerto is notable for its expert orchestration; in spite of the violin being pitted against the orchestral winds and percussion, it is never once covered nor the tone color muddied.

This disc opens up new possibilities, it seems to me, for further exploration of the music of Tibor Serly.

Strongly recommended.

Scott Morrison

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Give Us More!
new British band

Grand Designs
My Architects
Manufacturer: Fierce Panda
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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From the Cliffs

ASIN: B000CMNHBK
Release Date: 2006-01-30

Tracks:

Airborne
Under The Pines
Lists
Keystone
Please
Picture
What Would You Do?
At That Time
Pure Timing

Album Description

My Architects are five intense young men from Warrington, England. They consist of aid burrows (vocals/acoustic guitar), Rich Robinson (electric guitar), Matt Mc William (bass ), Dave Cheetham (drums ) and Mike 'Fibes' Philips (keyboards/ sampler/backing vocals ) .They formed in 2004 and have been stealthily honing their sound in the wilds of the North - West over the past year. Grand Designs is the quintet's first album. It was recorded in Warrington and France in the company of James Sanger (U2,Keane ) and then mixed by lan Grimble (Manics,Travis). It is by any standards a lovingly crafted debut. On their seething busy My Space site the band say that they sound like ''contradictory thoughts and sensations''. Fierce Panda Records. 2006.

Album Details

An Upbeat Vibe with a Dowbeat Twist; Intelligent, Complex Music with a Commercial Appeal.

Customer Reviews:

Give Us More!.......2007-05-21

This album is easily the best album I've heard from 2006. Enchanting, melodic, peaceful, exhilarating. Led by Aid Burrows into the new mystic of British acoustic alternative rock, joining the likes of Elbow and Doves. That voice is amazing: crisp, echoing, hauntingly familiar. Why these 5 English lads from Warrington haven't gained more popularity seems to come down to promotion and timing, because their music is as good as anything being created out there. The only draw-back to this album is that there are only 9 songs (and mostly short ones at that). Give us some more to listen to, and soon.

new British band.......2006-04-28

this is a very interesting new band. they come from near Liverpool and while their album might not grab you round the throat it certainly grows on you after a few listens. they're getting quite a following in the UK and could make it big. definitely one to look out for.

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Interior Designs
Jessica Rylan
Manufacturer: Important Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000N60H04
Release Date: 2007-03-27

Tracks:

Extraordinary
Timeless
Phantasia
Interior Designs

Album Description

"A revelatory marriage of avant-garde form and intuitive, almost diarist-style folk documentation." -- THE WIRE

Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Can't) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more "classic" in nature than her work as Can't. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis, and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan confidently takes her place among these monumental artists with a collection of strikingly original pieces recorded on a Serge Modular in addition to analog synthesizers that Rylan built.

Jessica Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and works in the Boston area. She builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance. Her music incorporates the intuition of folk music with the techniques of the avant-garde.

Rylan was featured in the PBS documentary Greater Boston Arts in March 2003. She has created sound installations at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts, Harvard University, and the Berwick Research Institute. She earned an MFA in electronic music from Bard College and has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and LEF Foundation. She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

Rylan has performed across the US, Eastern Canada, Scandinavia, and Western Europe. She has shared the stage with Thurston Moore, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, Emil Beaulieau, Prurient, Hrvatski, Magik Markers, Mouthus, Tim Barnes, Charalambides, Amps for Christ, and Chris Corsano.

Darker Designs and Images
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Darker Designs and Images
Siebenburgen
Manufacturer: Napalm
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AM1TTO
Release Date: 2005-09-26

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Darker Designs
Rebellion
As Legion Rise
A Crimson Coronation
Skuggor
Born Under A Black Sun
Of Blood And Magic
Remnants Of Ruin
Harvest For The Devil
Forged In Flames
Summoner Of The Unseen

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The masters of vampiric metal, Siebenbürgen, return with Darker Designs & Images, a spellbinding release complemented by beautiful melody lines and charming female vocals. The Swedes remain true to their Transylvanian tradition by creating a shadowy realm from beginning to very end - Dracula's soundtrack!

Album Description

The latest showstopper from Siebenburgen takes their individual blend of styles one step further combining Heavy Metal, Brutal Death Metal and Classic Melodic Metal into their very own sound. Crushingly heavy and yet laden with hooks that most metal bands would die for. This is sure to be their biggest album yet! Napalm. 2005.

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Grand Designs

Manufacturer: Capstone
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000001YVD
Release Date: 1997-07-01

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Con - Chicago SO and Contemporary Chm Players of the University of Chicago/Clifforn Colnot/David Schrader.
Harmonizer - Roger Zahab
Rain Forest - Alfredo Rugeles/Juan Jose Perez/Carlos Arias/Militza Nunez...
Chm Con - Theodore Antoniou Alea III/Donald Berman
Music - The Michigan State University Brass Ens/Stanley E. DeRusha...
Synthecisms No.4 - Aarhus SO/Soren Hansen/Philip Mead/Stephen Gutman

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The Full Catastrophe
William Lee Ellis
Manufacturer: Yellow Dog Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0000C8AU7
Release Date: 2003-08-26

Tracks:

Dark World Coming
Paratrooper's Blues
Jackpot Rag
John Ate the Locust and the Honey
Darkness as the Noonday
That Angel's Trumpet Sound
Heaven
Evil Witness Song
In My Time of Dying
'Til the Last Train Comes Along
Bouncing Ball
Trouble I Once Knew
Sushi Lady Blues
New Boot Blues
The Good Fight
All Sorrow Given Over to Christ

Album Description

With "The Full Catastrophe" - a record declared one of the year's best in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll - William Lee Ellis works the roots of American music and twists them to his own designs. In 16 original songs that range from gospel-blues to rockabilly, from Delta swing to haunting guitar instrumentals, his second solo recording brings together the pieces of the American music puzzle that has been his life.

Tracks:

Paper Doll
Ol' Man River
St. Louis Blues
Poor Butterfly
Blue Skies
Stardust [#1]
More Than You Know
Tea for Two
I Surrender, Dear
Body and Soul
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
Peg O' My Heart
Come Back to Sorrento
Yesterdays
I've Got the World on a String
Lover Man
Cocktails for Two
Stardust [#2]
How Am I to Know?
Lover
Sophisticated Lady
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
Peanut Vendor

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