Blue Green Orange [Import]

blue green orange [import]

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1999 & third album by Canadian hard rock/ alternative quartet with a devout cult following in the U.S. 11 tracks, all co-produced by the band's guitarist Jagori Tanna and Paul Northfield (Hole, Rush). The album is also enhanced with CD-ROM material.

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Blue Green Orange [Import]
Blue Green Orange
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • I Mother Earth Review
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  • Blazing their own trail
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 Blue Green Orange
I Mother Earth
Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000026PEI
Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

  1. Love Your Starfish
  2. All Awake
  3. Gargantua
  4. When Did You Get Back From Mars?
  5. Summertime In The Void
  6. Good For Sule
  7. Cloud Pump
  8. Blacksox
  9. Autumn On Drugs
  10. Infinity Machine
  11. My Beautiful Deep End

Album Description

1999 & third album by Canadian hard rock/ alternative quartet with a devout cult following in the U.S. 11 tracks, all co-produced by the band's guitarist Jagori Tanna and Paul Northfield (Hole, Rush). The album is also enhanced with CD-ROM material.

Album Details

New 1999 Release, Their 3Rd.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars I Mother Earth Review.......2005-09-29

I Mother Earth is a good band. I think thier album Blue Green Orange is very good. I bought the album because i knew the song "Summertime in the void". I saw the video of that song on TV in 1999. Over all it's a good CD.

4 out of 5 stars Showing Their Colours.......2003-05-15

Is it any wonder that I Mother Earth's least commercially successful album also sparked the most debate of the three? This album took along parts of the "old" IME, like their signature jams and percussion. It also left behind some of the elements many fans loved about them, like the alt-rock sound and their instantly recognizable singer, Edwin. In this "post-post-grunge" gem, it turns out change did them good.

This album often meets Dig's progessiveness and Scenery And Fish's sticky hooks somewhere in the middle, with jams that touch both on the former's technical excellence and the latter's great atmospherics. Loops, samples, and effects add to that atmosphere. As for the then "new guy", Brian Byrne's voice is richer, fuller, more emotive, and possibly more powerful than Edwin's, though at this point lacking Ed's polish on record. Guitarist Jag Tanna discovered his knack for writing perfect mood music and delivering it with a greater depth than the other two albums. Bassist Bruce Gordon often layers his sound with Tanna's in the same way as before, but also in hypnotic, repeating riffs over which the guitarist makes all the chord changes, resulting in a different, interesting sound. Percussion is back in a big way here, with broader world music arrangements and a Christian Tanna who shows the intensity of Dig and the subtle nuance of S&F. His lyrics are even stranger than before, but arranged in a well-structured, aesthetically pleasing way. Byrne himself writes the lyrics for the final track, but it's almost impossible to tell the difference.

This disc has no all-encompassing feel like the other two, and its journey into so many different moods takes away the listen-straight-through quality the other two albums had. However, the thicker bass and lighter guitar tones render even the three or four bottom-heavy riffs stripped of any alt/grunge sensibility, and that is a definite step forward. Each song is great on its own, but doesn't necessarily lead into the next one, thus interrupting the flow. Still, this is a rewarding listen, and paves the way for even greater things.

5 out of 5 stars Blazing their own trail.......2003-05-05

Pop quiz. It's 1999. The Alternative sound of the 90's is out. Bubblegum pop and rap-metal are in. Your band is one of Canada's cornerstones of the former, seemingly obsolete sound. To top it off, the voice (and maybe the face) of your band has split to pursue a successful solo career with a more pop-oriented rock sound than you ever had, and you've picked up an unknown to take his place. What do you do?

I'll tell you what I Mother Earth did - they went their own way. The attitude projected in Blue Green Orange, the band's third album and first with vocalist Brian Byrne, is simply, "We don't care." Rather than playing it safe and going about "business as usual" to show they're the same band with or without Edwin, they go in a new direction. That direction still has their signature sound stamped all over it, but if Scenery And Fish was the next step forward from Dig, Blue Green Orange was a left turn.

Grunge-free rockers do battle with mellower, more heartfelt explorations as prog-rock does battle with mainstream, and the band is equally effective at all of these. There are fewer of the soaring pop hooks found on Scenery And Fish, and Byrne adds a more rock-sounding voice to the mix.

Even the relatively commercial Scenery And Fish took a few listens to sink in with me, and that's the rule here, too. The best thing is to come to the table with no expectations. Then you won't be disappointed that it doesn't sound exactly like the other two records, or any record in that year or any year in the 90's. This one stands all on its own.

5 out of 5 stars Took some time..........2003-02-09

This CD took me off guard at first, as I was a fan of the older IME albums... however, a couple of years after popping it in for an occasional listen, it finally clicked.

This is not Scenery and Fish, and it's not Dig.

This is a CD by a band that had started out with hard rock, and then evolved into alternative... only to hit another level of their evolution with this album.

After listening to this over and over again, and now hearing a couple of singles from their forthcoming album, I see this as a stepping stone to something remarkable.

That's not to downplay the greatness of this album... I think of the three released at the time that I'm writing this, it is their most solid and innovative effort. I simply think that most people were disappointed with it solely because it was "too soft."

Drop your expectations and listen to the band for the first time all over again... if you get the point of this album, you'll realize how wonderful it really is.

3 out of 5 stars Brian is to IME what Gary was to VH.......2001-03-29

I was a big fan of Extreme with Gary Cherone (except for their last album; there was no punchline). And, in the same way, Brian is not a bad singer. But he just doesn't fit with IME, IMHO. I spun this disc at least 20 times and came away each time liking it less and less, which is the opposite of my experience with S&F. I'm listening to One More Astronaut right now and thinking, ok, if IME can't get Edwin back then guys please go back to your list of candidates and try again. Brian will be okay.. in a different band.
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    Manufacturer: Ecstatic
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00012SHYS
    Release Date: 2003-01-01

    Tracks:

    1. Green
    2. Purple
    3. Ecstatic Orange
    4. Ash
    5. Bright Blue Music
    Michael Torke: Color Music
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • New Music for Steven Bochko to love
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    ASIN: B000004CVR
    Release Date: 1991-10-11

    Tracks:

    1. Green
    2. Purple
    3. Ecstatic Orange
    4. Ash
    5. Bright Blue Music

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    Torke (b. 1961) writes some of the more interesting minimalism being done today. His punctuated rhythms are always framed around a tonal, melodic core and are as colorful as the titles of the works. But Torke is a bit more than a minimalist; he knows jazz inside and out and makes use of syncopation and even Modern dance rhythms as in Ecstatic Orange. The performance by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is quite good, but the booklet notes are obscure and of no help to anyone. Still, the music is what counts. Start here if Torke is new to you. -- Paul Cook

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars New Music for Steven Bochko to love.......2006-11-26

    What would Michael Torke do if he ever lost his score for Stravinsky's Symphony In C ? He wouldn't have anything to spice up the Bernstein-ism's with ! But the little Mike Post cadences would still save the day... Eat your spinach, dear ! I say it's Academic Minimalism, and I say the Hell with it! It just proves again, if proof were really needed, that any Avant Garde movement carries the seeds of its own decadence within itself from its inception. Those who find this "listenable Minimalism" should be locked in a room with a recording of The Well Tuned Piano on eternal repeat. Philosophical question: does repeating some cleverly orchestrated trifle in a flaccid loop make that trifle "minimalist" ?

    5 out of 5 stars Beyond minimalism.......2006-04-20

    This is music that you can listen without being annoyed. This is genuinely beautiful music, with a great orchestration, with moving masses of sounds that move in parallel with the complex rhytms like brush strokes of an inspired painter.
    This is simple, but not naive, since the structural complexity is extreme, despite the appearance (and this is another achievement). Torke is one of the most personal voices of new postminimalist music. And this is Torke at its best! Definitely a must for anybody interested in modern music...

    3 out of 5 stars Interesting minimalism, if there is such a thing.......2003-10-07

    "You know, I'm no art critic, but I know what I hate. And I don't hate this." --- C. Montgomery Burns, from "Brush With Greatness."

    That about sums it up. As minimalism goes, this pieces are some of the more engaging examples of the genre. It still contains the repetitive rhythms & chord progressions, so beloved by the devotees of minimalism, spun out in innumerable variations for several minutes. But the music remains strangely engaging despite its minimalist qualities. I found that the energy in "Green," "Ecstatic Orange," and "Bright Blue Music" overcomes the repetitive qualities, and is enough to keep all but the most fervent haters of minimalism interested. I cannot say the same for "Ash," with its classically-inspired chord progressions, which became really irritating to listen to after just a few minutes. It would figure that "Ash" is the longest piece on this album.

    3 1/2 stars --- catalogue it under "Minimalist music that isn't totally annoying."

    5 out of 5 stars Elemental and Complete.......2003-04-04

    Yes, two of the five works here also appear on the Javelin album. That leaves three works uncovered: Purple, Ash, and Ecstatic Orange. So the choice to acquire this album in addition to Javelin is ultimately driven by a referendum on the merit of these three works in their own right. For my money, the acquisition of this earlier album is more than justified by the presence of Ash. What makes Ash distinctive is the clever Beethovenian conceit that Torke dishes up. The illusion of linear progress is created in individual sections, but at the macro level this sense of purpose, like water to a thirsty Tantalus, is pulled away. Form follows function, however, and Torke is putting the Beethovenian idiom to an entirely different use than the archetype did. This is assuredly not parody, but a transmutation in the service of a fresh, modern aesthetic. It's as if the IDEA of Debussy's impressionism is being realized with Beethovenesque building blocks (cobbled from the idiom farthest removed from Debussy's).

    On this album, the best works are Green, Ash, and Bright Blue music, in that order. Ecstatic Orange stands out as the dissonant member of the set, while Purple comes off as an effective interlude (a breather, as it were) bridging the effervescent Green to Ecstatic Orange. While some have inferred associative relationships between music and color on Torke's part, I don't think we should lump him in with Scriabin on this account. I've written a series of compositions named after Los Angeles area freeways, but there is no deeper meaning to be sought in that circumstance.

    With the recent release of "Jasper" on Naxos, it's no longer true that all the orchestral Color Music of Torke's can be found on this one album. But the best selection of it is surely to be found on this CD...

    1 out of 5 stars Come Prepared.......2003-01-28

    I do not imbibe when I listen to music. I suspect that one could enjoy this drivel if one smoked enough [...] or consumed enough alcohol. Otherwise, you may find this drivel to be almost utterly worthless. I should think anyone with the power of discernment in matters of music would avoid this CD the plague. Wait, I am being unreasonably harsh on the plague.
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    Album Description

    Michael Torke has created a substantial body of works in virtually every genre, each with a characteristic personal stamp that combines restless rhythmic energy with ravishingly beautiful melodies.

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    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars What's not to like about contemporary music?.......2006-07-08

    Ever since I first heard Javelin, I have looked for more recordings of Michael Torke's music. I resisted old recordings offered at a very high price after some effort and was delighted to find this collection containing a wide perspective of his work ranging from the color pieces (Green, Cool Blue Music, Ecstatic Orange) to the vocal Proverbs to the utilitarian tool music. Don't miss it.
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    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    Release Date: 2001-11-01

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    4 out of 5 stars The Worst of the Best.......2004-02-15

    The introduction of Bryan Burne in the wake of Edwin's resignation from the band in Blue Green Orange leaves me with mixed reviews on the album. While Burne's voice can be found easily strung in with the tunes and melodies of Christian, Jagori, and Bruce, the often muffled and unexplicably incoherant lyrics are a far cry from the well-organized songs from their past. However, songs like 'Gargantua', with it's fierce yet rythmic bass strikes, and 'Good for Sule''s melodic drifts on pianos and drums, prove that I Mother Earth's skills in music and producing songs with impact are enough to keep them from succumbing to the dangers of change.
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