Acoustics

acoustics

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Double CD featuring a 1985 fan club only release with both live and acoustic versions of Fish and Marillion classics and additional material recorded in 1995 and previously unreleased. CD 1 is live at The Funny Farm, 1994 and CD 2 is entitled Krakow Acoustic Set, 1995. Slimline double jewel case. 2000 release.

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Acoustics

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Forget the Stylistic Analysis... It's Awesome.
Do your ears a favor! Get this one!
In the true spirit of confluence
Cooder aint up to par...
good slide work

A Meeting by the River
Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt
Manufacturer: Water Lily Acoustics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005L9Z
Release Date: 1993-02-23

Tracks:

A Meeting By The River
Longing
Ganges Delta Blues
Isa Lei

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Ry Cooder has long had an interest in other people's music, from the blues and gospel of black America through classic jazz and the music of Cuba. Even by this standard, his meeting with Mohan Vishwa Bhatt is certainly a departure. He is neither a serious student of Indian music nor in any way a master of its intricacies. Yet on his improvised session (this album was recorded without rehearsal in one evening), he and Bhatt truly collided musically and created moments worthy of the world-music Grammy they received for it. Bhatt is an iconoclastic character himself. He plays a modified box he calls the mohan vina that is a hybrid of a classical Indian instrument and slide guitar. He is long trained in the arduous classical style, yet his work has always demanded a lot of freedom. His duets here with Cooder are completely unique, liberating both artists from the usual constraints and creating a new musical style that is unlikely to be repeated or imitated. --Louis Gibson

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Forget the Stylistic Analysis... It's Awesome........2006-11-18

God help me, I just keep listening to this. Gentle... Lyrical... Rhythmic... Gives you that feeling you get when exposed to any paradigm of the form: "Yeah, so _this_ is what good music is! I forgot!"

Chillingly good.

Do your ears a favor! Get this one! .......2005-12-28

if you;re anyway involved with slide guitar playing, then get this one. cos it's one of the most outstanding slide-blues-fusion albums ever made. even if you have never heard indian music, it'll still grown on you, pretty soon. VM Bhatt is a master at his music & his instrument. And Ry Cooder is no less. i love both these guys' playing. But be warned that this is a VM Bhatt album featuring Ry cooder and not the otherway round. So apart from the fact that Ry's playing is always minimalistic, there's pretty little of Ry's sound on this album. But it still manages to keep me riveted for some reason. but his blues licks are so well timed and phrased, there's no words to describe what he does. and the chords he uses to accompany VM Bhatts passages, are so colorful. and for the real hardcore blues fans theres atleast one tune ' ganges delta blues' . man it's just awesome, with all the precussion and stuff. it amazing. i got more than i expected.

In the true spirit of confluence.......2004-11-02

The album truly encompasses the spirit of the confluence, of different worlds, different music, different thoughts, united in harmony, in the cool shade of the banks of the ganges.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is as effortlessly beautiful as ever. The flowing quality of his music, with delightful legatos splashes as his solos meet the solid boulders and branches of Ry Cooder's slide guitar. If anything I feel Ry Cooder was too quiet on this album, though, the blues/jazz influence was underplayed a little.

The title piece is one of my favourites, though Isa Lie is equally wonderful.

Magical music from another place and time.

Cooder aint up to par..........2004-11-01

Its a good cd, if you like the music. It may not be what you are used to. Listen to the audio clips. Nice slide guitar playing. Personally, i think Ry Cooder gets killed on this one, the blues licks just seem a little crude and basic compared to V.M. Bhatts licks...granted, he's more used to the style of music.

good slide work.......2002-10-04

It helps to have listened to Indian music before. You can easily get fatigued by it, if you've never heard Indian music.

Tracks:

You Are My Religion
Love Don't Care
In Your Perfect World
No One At All
Love Of A Lifetime
All She Wrote
When I Look Into Your Eyes
Don't Treat Me Bad
Here For You
I Live My Life For You
Seven Bridges Road

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Firehouse talent...acousticly!.......2006-09-08

One of my favorite cd's!!! Talent certainly comes out when they can cover an old southern rock hit like 'seven bridges road' and do it so smoothly! The acoustic guitars rock with rhythm and funk. I never knew firehouse to be this talented! It sure shines out in this acoustic compilation of their most remembered hits! Being partial to modern country rock and southern rock...I can't help but be doubly pleased with hearing a steel guitar added to my all time fav. by this band, "love of a lifetime". This is a must have for any firehouse fan!

Very good acoustics.......2006-04-30

I really enjoy these set of acoustic songs from Firehouse. Lots of passion and feeling poured in. Some of it sounds quite folky/country and some of it maintains a rock feel. Personally i prefer the growling hair metal guitars pounding away in the background lol but this collection sounds very nice in acoustic format. I think a lot of people will be quietly impressed with this CD if you slip it on at a social gathering, barbeque etc.

Terrific.......2005-12-04

See, we all know Firehouse is known for their powerful ballads. These acoustic songs are terrific. Perfection. You can sing these around a campfire, haha. These are very powerful songs indeed. Just because they're hair metal, doesn't mean they can't make great acoustic songs. Poison on the other hand had a little problem. "Here For You" is a great song. I am here for you, always here for you, when you need a sholder to cry on, blah blah. Yes, I don't remember the words, I'm not a words type of guy. "You Are My Religion" can make you feel that really weird feeling when you like someone.

Bottom line here, is that these songs will just blow your mind, because of the perfection and just this band in general. Alrighty my fellow citizens of the USA and the world, peace.

Meio "pop" e nem tão acústico, mas um bom álbum do Firehouse.......2005-02-22

Este álbum de 1996 é o quarto do Firehouse (os outros em 1990, 1992, 1995). São versões "acústicas" de hits da banda (como as baladas "Love of a lifetime" e "When I look into your eyes"), três ótimas músicas inéditas (as 3 primeiras) e uma interessante releitura de um clássico do Eagles ("Seven bridges road"). Do começo ao fim, música de boa qualidade! Mas não deixe de curtir também os outros trabalhos deste ótimo e premiado grupo de hard rock/metal.

Their best.......2004-08-08

This is the only Firehouse album I have. I have heard their so called biggest hits in their original form, and I must say, the versions on this album is far better.

This is a true "summer" CD, with loads of catchy melodies and good songs.

The acoustic versions of tunes like "Love of A Lifetime" and "When I Look Into Your Eyes" is allright, but thats it really. The new songs on this album is the one that stands out.
"You Are My Religion", the song that opens this album, is simply catchy. And what a feel-good song. Number 4 on this album, "Nothing At All" is the albums best track, if you ask me. And of course, one of my favourite Firehouse tracks "I Live My Life For You". Why this song never was a hit, I cant believe.

If you like acoustic rock, with catchy tunes and good songwriting, this is the album for you.

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Listen to it forever
Beautifully Stange
Best of Outside Ambient
Perfect
It's True.

Fascinoma
Jon Hassell , Ry Cooder , and Jacky Terrasson
Manufacturer: Water Lily Acoustics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000J829
Release Date: 1999-06-22

Tracks:

Nature Boy
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Wide Sky
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Listen to it forever.......2005-02-18

This CD is never going to be very far from my player. It is the type of music that unfolds to you over time, again and again giving you something new everytime. It doesnt demand your attention but if you want, you could be utterly absorbed in the infinite improvisation, moodiness, and mirage like tempos. Besides the bamboo flute player, Hassell, Cooder and drone players, the pianist is about as good as it gets.

Beautifully Stange.......2004-03-15

I just heard this CD a few nights ago at a friends dinner party and it grabbed my attention right away...(in a subtle way, that is).

It is a strange sonic mix of electronics, primitivism and jazz. The mood is predominately VERY subtle and hypnotic; if I remember correctly, there is not a bar faster than andante on the entire CD. But trust me, this is a good thing.

And so is the fact that Ry Cooder produced it...

Best of Outside Ambient.......2001-11-03

The opening amazingly beautiful reading of "Nature Boy" is so stunning when Ronu Majumdar's flute begins it's circling run around Hassell's
solo trumpet. wow. we know we are in for something unique and amazing.

This is Hassell's first CD to include covers and as a fan, I welcome this as a trend. This CD is at once beautiful, odd, provocative, and
occasionally challenging. I suppose you could expect that with a meeting of Hassell, Cooder, Majumdar, and Terrasson.

Like most Water Lily cds, it's Recorded live to stereo master in that Santa Barbara seminary with all that fetishist tube gear as usual. Music like
this sums up the underlying vibe of Santa Barbara.

Perfect.......2001-08-11

Misty like a winter evening. Gradually, evening images give their place to night dreams. It is incredible that such things can happen on disc.

It's True........2001-04-06

Even though this disc was released some time ago, I have just come to it. I recall reading a piece about it in a music industry magazine at one point. As it turned out that written piece was really more about the actual recording process and the Waterlily Acoustics label's approach to sound than anything else. Still, I was intrigued as to what it would sound like (as an "ambient recording" process captured in a church with all tube analog stuff).

I should mention that I know of Mssr. Jon Hassell's work from 'back in the day' --- as a soloist on the classic beautiful albums "Remain in Light" by Talking Heads and "Brilliant Trees" by David Sylvian. Sometime during the 1990's I was able to track down a couple of his solo records. I must say that he is unique in the world of music. Of course this is no newz to those who know, and I am most likely preaching to the choir already with this, nevertheless, Jon Hassell knows about transcendance and how "that" relates to what we tend to call -- Music.

Mssr. Hassell is actually well beyond The Trumpet. The fact that his chosen instrument happens to BE The Trumpet is both lucky for us, the listeners, and meaningless to everyone concerned, because in the end His Heart and His Mind are coming from a place of Tone, of Frequency, and of Vibration. These "things" are certainly not contingent upon blowing The Trumpet. You see? One could choose to play the zither or the udu or the mouth organ, no matter in the hands of one who knows to reach Beyond (where the Music dwells). And once one would reach that "place" and to then share THAT, well now we're talking. And we ARE talking about Jon Hassell here for the moment (and in fact most of the folks involved with this particular CD). Kind of.

OK, so speaking of that place.......the last track on Fascinoma.......Estate (Summer).......is truly.......it is truly.......well.......there are no words. No words at all.

Tracks:

On The Table
Lost Patience
Time Marches On
Out Of Sight
Hard Parting
Golden Age
Accepted
Invisible
Bound For Glory
Strychnine
The Misfit's Song
Evangeline

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Accoustic Classic.......2007-01-12

Sitting at the album release party at the Crystal Ballroom. I heard something for the first time at a Floater show....Fans Boo'ing Floater. I myself did not expect had followed for the next hour or so. But if you go back to Floater and Henry's Child. That is the essence of them. Acoustic shows at Tommykockers and such, where they just play to do what they love, in the way they want. The deep, cutting lyric's from Rob are still there and the talented guitar from Dave as always. But added is trumpet, bongo's , chimes , piano and more. All thre show Peter is not the only one who can play a drum. They show there true range of talent on this album and it is one of their best and one of my favorites now. Surprise Floater Fans .... Our Beer Garden / Club band has grown up and out of the N.W ....Thank you Rob , Pete and Dave( Floater ) for taking the time doing what you do, in the way only you three can. Tim N.

Versitility.......2005-07-27

I was lucky enough to hear this album at Floater's CD realease. They literally used like 10 different accustic instrument including a squeeze box, trumpet, and standing bass. The show itself impressed the hell out of me and was followed by a full electric set, where they played all the fan favorites. I purchased the CD, brought it home and was very impressed with quite a few songs that I recognized from the show. The album slowly dug under my skin, and I was soon listening to the entire thing without skipping any songs. I am not going to try and pump up floater and endorse them because they are my favorite band, and any opinion I have about their music is jaded. But I find that with this album they bridge a gap that few rock bands can--they reach out to nearly every age group with their lyrical, vocal, and instrumental versitility. This is a fact. But in my *opinion* Acustics was the very best of it's respective year and will be recognized someday for what it is worth, but hey I think it's sales rating is like 26,000 so their genius may never be realized. So if you are reading this then you heard about floater somehow, give it a spin then goin hands with the indie rocker down the street, the metal head who is always in his garage, and grandma--grab a 12 pack of bucsh and listen(sing along) to one of the finest albums in time.

Floater does it again........2004-08-06

Although much softer and completely acoustic, Floater has done it yet again. With Acoustics, the Eugene trio delivers a passionate, angry, yet loving and calm, and ultimately moving album. So sit back and prepare for a musical intoxication that only Floater can provide.

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Absolutely amazing!
This CD belongs in any real music collection
Superb.

Acoustics
Tony Rice
Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd
ProductGroup: Music
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Absolutely amazing!.......2003-01-06

The musicianship on this album is absolutely phenomenal! I have only recently begun to listen to Tony Rice, but when I heard this cd ....., it blew me away ! Within the first two weeks of buying it, I probably listened to it 40 times, maybe more, no kidding. This is one of the finest albums I've heard in years. If you like bluegrass with a twist, this album is a must-buy. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

This CD belongs in any real music collection.......1999-07-16

If you like to listen to skill, and you can't stand country music...it doesn't matter. The TRU whips up a bunch of jazzy acoustic instrumentals that can be enjoyed directly, or serve as the perfect background music; just put it on continuous play. Swing '51 is fantastic. Buy this CD without hesitation, and then buy some Gryphon.

Superb........1998-06-23

The emotion and energy conveyed through Rice's technical mastery is sublime. Like Backwaters, the jazz/blugrass influence make Acoustics one of my favorite albums ever.

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Any More Evanescent and It Wouldn't Exist
Hollow Bamboo Gives "Solid" Pleasure!

Hollow Bamboo
Jon Hassell , Ry Cooder , and Ronu Majumdar
Manufacturer: Water Lily Acoustics
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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2002-10-04

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When Ry Cooder isn't getting down with the aged Cuban musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club, he's getting serene with Indian flutists and vina players. As he did with the well-known A Meeting by the River with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Cooder teams up with Indian musicians in open-ended improvisations that are New Age music for people who don't think they like New Age. Melodies ebb and flow, rhythms are gentle tabla beats or floating pulses, structure is often amorphous. Ronu Majumdar is actually the leader on these sessions and he's a formidable player of the bansuri flute, an Indian bamboo instrument that's capable of the most sublime and sensual melodies. Majumdar gets all that. Except when he plays oud on one track, Cooder sticks to electric guitar, gently fingerpicking tremolo-drenched backings to Majumdar's ruminations. The sessions for Hollow Bamboo emerged out of those for Jon Hassell's 1999 album, Fascinoma, and shares that CD's musicians. Hassell plays trumpet on a couple of tracks, his breathy, slurred lines echoing Majumdar's melodies. You won't need incense for this CD. It's wafting right up off the disc. --John Diliberto

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Any More Evanescent and It Wouldn't Exist.......2001-06-15

The textures here are so delicate they're sometimes difficult to distinguish. John Hassell's trumpet blends into the filigreed notes of Ronu Majumbar's bansuri flute, a most subtle instrument, while Ry Cooder's guitar lines float somewhere just inside aural invisibility. Does this sound soporific? Not at all. There's some weird kind of ultimacy going on here--the less-is-more principle taken to the max. Though this is Majumbar's session, that (w)ry genius behind Buena Vista Social Club, Talking Timbuktu, and the roots revival has his finger prints all over it.

Hollow Bamboo Gives "Solid" Pleasure!.......2000-10-24

My ears, heart & soul where not prepared for the relaxing pleasure that this disc has given my weary mind! It was total pleasure from the opening notes of the featured bamboo flute, right through to amazing tabla drum textures, silky electric guitar from Ry Cooder, and John Hassell's trumpet You too will feel at one with the Universe after one listen! A QUIET MASTERPIECE-->Ry Cooder has indeed found musical bliss.

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Gastr Del Sol on a steady diet of crystal meth and cocaine

Acoustics
Hella
Manufacturer: 5 Rue Christine
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Album Description

Sacramento's spazz-jazz-freak-rock duo has grown into a full-sized band. Here's a collection of previously released songs, mostly from

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Gastr Del Sol on a steady diet of crystal meth and cocaine.......2006-09-17

You wouldn't think that a band revisiting their past would make us fall in love with them all over again but that is precisely the case with this new ep from Hella. Acoustics finds Hella reworking some of their early songs but this time done all acoustic! Hella + acoustic? "Huh? What? How?", you might be asking yourself, but the answer is a huge big colorful YES!!!

We have to admit we were getting a little cold on the whole Hella thing, but with Acoustics they have totally regained our attention and recaptured our hearts, with their intricate spazzy convoluted prog laid totally bare (err... well acoustic at least). Hard to imagine Hella acoustic, but it's pretty darn cool, maybe like Gastr Del Sol on a steady diet of crystal meth and cocaine, or a more manic Cheval De Frise. While it's easy to sound crazed and weird and spastic with amps turned to eleven and feedback busting out of every speaker, it's a whole lot harder to maintain that same sort of intensity with no electricity at all. That's what separates Hella from so much of the spazzy pack. Sure anyone can freak out hidden behind huge amps and silly costumes, but only the truly talented and demented can knock your block off with an all acoustic record. We think someone should slip a copy of this to Tom Waits as Hella in this incarnation would make the perfect backing band for his next record. OK, Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes, Black Dice -- the gauntlet has been thrown down... can you get it up up when the power is out? Hella sure as hell can! So totally recommended!

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Hollow Bamboo
Jon Hassell , Ry Cooder , and Ronu Majumdar
Manufacturer: Water Lily Acoustics
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ASIN: B00006F85O
Release Date: 2002-07-23

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A fine effort for Waterlily

Gustav Mahler: Symphony #5
Yuri Temirkanov , and St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Manufacturer: Water Lily Acoustics
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Release Date: 2005-06-21

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Album Description

Water Lily Acoustics is proud to present the legendary orchestras of St. Petersburg, Russia, in live concert recordings which capture the excitement and sense of occasion of attending a live performance as no studio recording can. The philosophical and technical ethos of the Water Lily approach to recording is, here, perhaps for the first time, given free rein to produce a musical experience unparalleled in its realism and impact. Forged from the precious metals of the opulent age of the Czars, and tempered in the crucible of Communism, the orchestras of the former Soviet Union occupy a position in world culture that is truly unique. It is a privilege to be the first American record company to have captured the essence of these great orchestras in their native city.

A century after they were written, Mahler's symphonies remain among the most challenging works in the symphonic repertoire, demanding the highest level of orchestral virtuosity and the utmost interpretive insight from the conductor. Mahler's spectacular orchestration presents a sonic palette of the utmost diversity, and a range of dynamic - from whispering solos to apocalyptic climaxes - certain to immerse the listener completely in his unique sound-world. Astonishingly, this recording marks the first time that any of Maestro Temirkanov's critically and publicly lauded Mahler interpretations with the St Petersburg Philharmonic has been available in recorded form. Now, finally, audiences the world over have an opportunity to experience this extraordinary music in the hands of one of its greatest living interpreters.

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A fine effort for Waterlily.......2005-06-22

I bought this SACD, and it was the 14th recording of Mahler's 5 for my library. I will admit that I am a fool for Mahler.

This recording is a testament to the perseverance of WaterLily, as all Mr. Alexander had was two nights to record in, with no rehearsals, no extra sessions, nothing that the big labels have.

The orchestra plays in a truly great hall, but a hall that has a long and shallow stage. This arrangement places the trombones and trumpets in the far right corner. This causes some imbalances from time to time, but over all the orchestra plays very well.

Tempos are on par with the rest of my recordings. My favorite Mahler selection of all is the "Adagietto" or the 4th movement. The tempo here is a little slow, but not agonizing like either the DG Bernstein/Vienna or the Denon Inbal/Frankfurt.

One sore spot on this recording is that it was from a live performance, and the coughing is VERY noticeable and there is one terrible cough early on in the "Adagietto"....

Still, it is a fine performance worthy of respect.

A final note on the sound. WaterLily uses on two microphones, and this recording was done with analogue masters and then transfered to DSD....this is the most natural sounding recording I have ever heard, and the sound is as close to a live performance as you can get!!!!

Highly recommended!!!

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Shostakovich: Symphony 7 "Leningrad"
Alexander Dmitriev , and St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 'Leningrad' - Allegretto
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 'Leningrad' - Moderato (poco allegretto)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 'Leningrad' - Adagio
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 'Leningrad' - Allegro non troppo

Album Description

This recording, though brand new, has already acquired an almost unprecedented level of historical significance. This was the orchestra that gave the first performance in the besieged city of Leningrad of Shostakovich's profoundly moving wartime symphony. Now, sixty years later, they return to the work with which they will always be ineradicably associated in a performance of shattering power and cinematic vividness of imagery. Shostakovich's musical depiction of the horrors and triumphs of the battlefield have never been equaled, and in this spectacular concert recording the sonic splendor of the composer's inspiration emerges with devastating impact. Equally remarkable is the synergy between Maestro Dmitriev and the orchestra he has headed for almost thirty years, lending this recording a particular poignancy and authenticity.

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