Silverbird

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
UK 2002 reissue of the British singer/songwriter's debut album, originally released in 1973. Includes three bonus tracks, 'Living In America' (Patches), 'Quicksand' (single A-side not on album) & bonus audio of Leo talking about his beginnings & playing extracts from some of the album demos. Housed in a slipcase.

Silverbird,Leo Sayer,Rpm Records UK,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Soft Rock

Average customer rating: Raider Genius Double Good A wonderful solo album A Great Solo Effort By Mark Lindsay ! sultry singer

Golden Classics: Arizona/Silverbird Mark Lindsay Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music | Dance Pop | Easy Listening | General | Oldies | Traditional Vocalists General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Legend of Paul Revere Alias Pink Puzz Just Like Us! The Spirit of '67 Revolution! ASIN: B00000092J Release Date: 1996-11-05

Tracks:

1. Arizona
2. Something
3. Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
4. Love's Been Good To Me
5. Small Town Woman
6. First Hymn From Grand Terrace
7. Miss America
8. The Name Of My Sorrow
9. Leaving On A Jet Plane
10. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
11. Man From Houston
12. Silver Bird
13. We've Only Just Begun
14. So Hard To Leave You
15. Bookends
16. And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind
17. Medley: The Long And Winding Road/Yesterday
18. Funny How Little Men Care
19. Come Saturday Morning
20. Feel The Warm
21. Windy Wakefield

Customer Reviews:

Raider Genius.......2006-12-21

Double Good.......2006-07-23

A wonderful solo album.......2006-03-08

A Great Solo Effort By Mark Lindsay !.......2005-10-04

sultry singer.......2004-08-22

Average customer rating: ...another music fan fan... Leo Sayer Rocks 100%! Total agreement! The original life of Leo Sayer THE BEST CD EVER

Silverbird Leo Sayer Manufacturer: Rpm Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Just a Boy Endless Flight Thunder in My Heart Another Year Leo Sayer ASIN: B00005V359 Release Date: 2002-03-18

Tracks:

1. Innocent Bystander
2. Goodnight Old Friend
3. Drop Back
4. Silverbird
5. The Show Must Go On
6. The Dancer
7. Tomorrow
8. Don't Say It's Over
9. Slow Motion
10. Oh Wot A Life
11. Why Is Everybody Going Home
12. Living In America
13. Quicksand
14. Leo's Story Part 1

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

...another music fan fan..........2006-10-24

Leo Sayer Rocks 100%!.......2005-08-02

Total agreement!.......2004-01-22

I couldn't wait for his subsequent recordings but ultimately found them wanting as it seemed he sidestepped his roots and original soulful stylings to appeal to a broader audience. Unfortunate. This, his first album, was without a doubt his best.

I had the good fortune to see him perform on a late night TV program around the time this album was released. He was dressed in his clown personna. I was absolutely captivated. The showman's, showman.

Again, congratulations to "A Music Fan" for his or her ability to put down in words what so many of us feel toward Leo Sayer's first and best effort.

The original life of Leo Sayer.......2003-10-07

Silverbird is his first album, originally released in 1973, quite a few years before his metamorphose to the popster that most know, and whatever fame and success he achieved later. In the beginning, starting with this album, he was a melancholic intriguing figure in pop/rock music, arguably ahead of or outside of his time. In these early days he performed in clown persona, complete with costume and makeup. The image was androgynous, and when combined with the music, created a dark aura of irony, isolation, vulnerability and emotional depth that was at once highly personal, in some ways relatable, and powerful enough to make him, as an artist, songwriter and performer, an intriguing figure that seemed to be verging on nightmarish.

Set to a backdrop of mournful, eerie string arrangements and a sparse piano based band, the songs on this album are dark, strange and disturbing, and ultimately captivating. The themes are isolation and loneliness; a youthful cocktail of depression, separation, failure and angst, with an underlying desperation for love and connection.

The album opens with a rocker, Innocent Bystander. The lyrical image of "running down the track, trying to reach the end, but the train never comes..." work as a metaphor for unfulfilled hopes and dreams; time going by with nothing accomplished to the point of near insanity. Goodnight Old Friend comes across with the same feeling of Robert Johnson's Hellhounds. You get a sense that the "old friend," may well be his personal demons or the devil himself. Drop Back has a chorus set to an incessant pleading string arrangement reminiscent of Eleanor Rigby, with a lyrical storyline about being rejected by a rather upset, almost shocked love interest. You hear a sense of frustration and misunderstanding that leads to unhealthy introspection and confusion. The title track Silverbird is a brief, haunting, wordless vocal and piano piece that evokes both a circus sense and a haunting echo that reveals again, a sense of isolation underlying this deceivingly somewhat happy tune. The Show Must Go On was a Top 40 hit for Three Dog Night, and as a result perhaps the most, if not the only, familiar song to the early Leo Sayer uninitiated. His version is starker, more sideshowish, almost vaudevillian, and more foreboding with the mixed image of the happiness of a circus clown and the reality that he has somehow angered his audience. The Dancer is a mournful tale about a tragic fall for a high wire dancer. Tomorrow (Is The First Day of the Rest of Your Life) is a thumping rocker, which turns this clichéd ironic phrase on its head with a sense of being less purely optimistic as encouraging, yet aware of the difficulties and challenges of life.

For the most part these are the themes and images of the entire album (I am going by the original record and these comments don't relate to bonus tracks since I have not heard them).

This is the kind of music that should appeal to fans of artists like Nick Drake, Love's Forever Changes, The Zombies Odyssey and the Oracle and Roger Daltry's first solo album, Daltry (most popular track Giving It All Away), which is Daltry performing songs written by Leo Sayer in that period. It probably will not appeal to the fans of Sayer's disco era Top 40 music. To them this will be startlingly different. But for those who appreciate the artists and albums mentioned here, this will probably be a satisfying experience, not to mention for those unfamiliar with Sayer's pre-hit life - a fascinating, almost mysterious look into the abandoned direction of an artist who once upon a time made some very self reflective, dramatic, and in this reviewer's view, artistically intriguing, honest, revealing music.

I for one, can't wait to get this CD.

THE BEST CD EVER.......2002-06-01

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Anthology of Chant Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Allegri | Allegri, Gregorio | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Hildegard of Bingen | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Orff | Orff, Carl | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Saxophone | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Germany | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Armenia | Eastern Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Tibet | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Native American | North America | International | Styles | Music Turkey | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Music of Islam Sampler Music of Islam, Vol. 10: Qur'an Recitation ASIN: B0000007YM Release Date: 1995-11-30

Tracks:

1. The Taj Mahal Suite XV - Saad Ullah Khan
2. Das Wessobrunner Gebet (The Wessobrunn Prayer) - Madrigal Choir Of The Munich Academy Of Music/Max Frey
3. Ezan (Call To Prayer) - H. Hafiz Huseyin Erek
4. Sirt Im Sasani - Haissmavourk Choir/Mihran Ghazelian
5. Lamentationes Jeremiae - Students' Choir And Students' Chamber Choir Utrecht/Jan Boogarts
6. O Felix Anima - Augsburg Ensemble For Early Music
7. Peace Pipe Prayer To The North, South, East And West - Perry Silverbird
8. The Prayers Of Forgiveness - Sosol - Monks Of The Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery Of Dharamsala
9. Kuranda Warrior - David Hudson
10. Brotherhood - David Hykes, Timothy Hill
11. Bats Mez Ter - Karineh Avetissian
12. Miserere - Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
13. Wa-She-Poh - Perry Silverbird, Steve Roach
14. Al Fatiha - Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Brian Keane
15. The Taj Mahal Suite XV - Saad Ullah Khan

Album Description

This is some of the most personally felt music the world's greatest traditions have to offer. If the act of making music is a personal one, so too is listening. Music was always meant to be listened to - by other people, or by something else, whether you call it God or nature or by another name. And that is the reason for Soul Alone: The Art of the Solo. Because after all, music can be performed alone, and heard alone, but it is still a communal art, meant to be shared. Perhaps it only truly becomes music when it is shared.

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Spirit of Fire Perry Silverbird Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000007XJ Release Date: 1993-11-22

Tracks:

1. Wa-she-poh (Tribute to the Lakota)
2. Yolkai Estan (In Memory of White Shell Woman)
3. Estanatlehi (Woman Who Changes)
4. Peace Pipe Prayer To The Nouth
5. Klehanoai (Moon-Carrier)
6. Peace Pipe Prayer To The South
7. Tsegihi (Prayer of the Night Flute)
8. Temecula (Song of the Spirit)
9. Ku Shunte (Listen to My Heart)
10. Shanaje (My Beloved Wife)
11. Chu-tu-tai (The Falling of Eagle's Son)
12. Peace Pipe Prayer To The East
13. Om-ai-ya-mai (Emptiness)
14. Yu-vai-to-vai (Without the Light)
15. Ke-vish-a-tak-vish (The Creator)
16. Peace Pipe Prayer To The West
17. Shanaje (Flute version)
18. Gan (Spirit of Fire)

Album Description

The creativity of the artist can be seen in his imaginative, mystical chanting that can be dreamy, peaceful, and powerful at the same time. Encouraged by producer Steve Roach, this release includes much more chanting than Silverbird's previous work, and it can take a toll on the artist. Silverbird asserts that chanting does not come easily to him. The musician must get into an almost trance-like state in order to be able to express the essence of one's being and spirit through chants. Silverbird claims that a fire inside him kindles the need to express himself and chanting is surely an eloquent and powerful means of doing so.

Finally, the constant, pulsing beat of the drums illustrates the immortality of man's spirit as he and his descendants continue to perform these ancient rhythms. The messages expressed in each song are also immortal in their significance to people everywhere. Silverbird states that each song conveys a situation or emotion that most people have experienced. For example, one of the most poignant songs, Tsegihi (Prayer of the Night Flute), paints an aural picture of how we are when alone. Fed by the flames of creativity and fueled by sparks of inspiration, the Spirit of Fire is a sizzling union of flute-playing, percussion, and chanting that is both primal and contemporary.

Average customer rating: Peaceful Music! Healing sounds, with one word - "Magical"

The Blessing Way Perry Silverbird Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000007WZ Release Date: 1992-11-09

Tracks:

1. The Blessing Way
2. Mother With Child
3. Peace
4. Ashne Ate
5. Child At Play
6. Spirit
7. The Prayer
8. Happy Shepherd
9. The Drum
10. I Love You
11. Boy In Love
12. Singing Birds
13. Kokopelli
14. Shy Girl
15. Hunt
16. Hunting Chant
17. Mothers Cry
18. Peace Chant
19. The Blessing Way-End
20. Nature (Collage By Ulrich Kraus)

Album Description

The listener is transported to a rocky ridge within the canyon as the sun rises and the birds awaken. Perry Silverbird begins the melodious poetry of his small reed flute. The music seems to spiral through the canyon, echoing off its massive red walls. As the sun moves higher, his drumming commences like the pulsing rhythm of the earth. Far away, there is chanting. It draws nearer and surrounds the listener with the cleansing of The Blessing Way, a sacred Navajo ceremony. Gradually, while the sunlight fades and the canyon turns to twilight, the chanting and drumming fade as well. When the lone flute finally ceases and the birds have nested for the night, all that is left is the wind whistling once again through the haunting darkness of Canyon de Chelly. The Blessing Way was recorded on location in the Navajo Nation's spectacular Canyon de Chelly (pronounced Shay), in the northeastern corner of Arizona. The musical performances are crystal clear and the sounds of nature are quite remarkable, making the combination both uplifting and calming.

Customer Reviews:

Peaceful Music!.......1999-12-16

Healing sounds, with one word - "Magical".......1999-12-15

Average customer rating: An exoerience in Native American music and culture Creation Pure ecstacy...it transports you from one world to another.

The World In Our Eyes (A Native American Vision of Creation) J. Reuben Silverbird Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Native American | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Stories | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000007ZQ Release Date: 1992-01-23

Tracks:

1. Chapter 1: Prologue/Earth Maker Created The Stars/Celestial Offspring/Creation Of Man And Woman
2. Chapter 2: Mankiknd And Creatures Crystalline Waters/Sky Father/Mother Earth/ Flute Air
3. Chapter 3: Prologue To Four Seasons/Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter
4. Chapter 4: Seasons Formed The Circle Of Life
5. Chapter 5: Prelude/Deep In The Forest
6. Chapter 6: The River/What Is Life?/What Is Death?
7. Chapter 7: You Are The Rain
8. Chapter 8: The River Runs To The Sea/Life From The Sea Gave Life To The Land
9. Chapter 9: Epilogue
10. Chapter 10: I Am Beautiful

Tracks:

1. Chapter 1: Prologue/Celestial Stars, Wind and Rain Purification/Tears Of The Great Spirit
2. Chapter 2: Crystalline Waters/Sky Father/Mother Earth Flute Air/Desert Wind
3. Chapter 3: Spring (In Motion)/Summer (Maiden)/Fall (Rhapsody)/Winter (Fury)
4. Chapter 4: Dancing Flute Song/Tears of the Great Spirit (Extended Version)
5. Chapter 5: Flowing Waters/Flute Flirtation
6. Chapter 6: Evening Song/Lighting, Thunder, Rain and The Rivers
7. Chapter 7: The River Runs To The Sea
8. Chapter 8: Reprise
9. Chapter 9: Eagles of Freedom
10. Chapter 10: Epilogue: Everything is Beautiful Around Me

Album Description

"I'm constantly asked at lectures and performances about what Indians believed as far as the birth of the world was concerned," says Silverbird, who frequently speaks about Native American concerns around the country. "Despite the differences between tribes, they all have common symbols: the Great Spirit, Sky Father, Earth Mother, the circle, the rain, the eagle. Although some of us have tried to keep many of our sacred myths and ceremonies secret, I think that projects like this one will help non-Native Americans to understand Indians better."

On disk one, Silverbird weaves these age-old ideas into a colorful tapestry of dramatic recitation; music, and natural sounds, guide listeners on a journey from the primordial awakenings of the universe, to man's discovery of his true nature. Disk two presents the compelling instrumental score to The World in Our Eyes: A Native American Vision of Creation without narration, providing a continuous musical meditation on the ideas expressed throughout the first disk.

Customer Reviews:

An exoerience in Native American music and culture.......2006-06-30

Creation.......2003-09-23

Excellent CD would buy over again.

Pure ecstacy...it transports you from one world to another........1999-04-23

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World Peace ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FTKSYY Release Date: 2004-11-16

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Jump and Shout the Name of the Lord Silverbird Manufacturer: Silverbird Family ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music ASIN: B0009XT8GK Release Date: 2005-07-05

Tracks:

1. Jump And Shout
2. Pray Pray Pray Together
3. My Father's Here
4. I Am The Rock
5. Father Ed
6. I Will Wait For You
7. The Only One
8. Nothing Means Anything Without GOD
9. Holy Holy Holy
10. They Know We Are Christian By Our Love
11. Yo Te Esperare
12. Nothing Means Anything Without GOD

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Best Of Best (Japanese LP sleeve Edition) Manufacturer: Silverbird / Imperial Records Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002XKVPY

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Silverbird Casino ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music | Ambient | Dance Pop | Disco | Drum & Bass | Electronica | Freestyle | Techno-House | Trance | Trip Hop ASIN: B000KCHWEK Release Date: 2006-12-05

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