Crossings

1. Solar

2. Railroad Crossing

3. Never Let Me Go

4. Oleo

5. But Not for Me

6. Love for Sale

Crossings,Red Garland with Ron Carter and Philly Joe Jones,Ojc,Hard Bop,Jazz,Pop

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Average customer rating: happiness takes place in small piano tunes Cacaphonic Harmonious

Gurdjieff's Music for the Movements Manufacturer: Channel Crossings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Blowout Box Sets | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Instrumental | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Thomas de Hartmann: Music for Gurdjieff's '39 Series' Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances Seekers of the Truth: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume One Sacred Hymns Heart without Measure: Gurdjieff Work with Madame de Salzmann ASIN: B00003CK7L Release Date: 1999-12-14

Customer Reviews:

happiness takes place in small piano tunes.......2001-07-24

these short piano pieces are simple, but absolutely not boring. gurdjieff and de hartmann wrote some of the most thoughtful and sincere music you'll ever hear. I found this CD over a year ago and it's one I return to over and over again.

Cacaphonic Harmonious.......2001-07-15

Truly an exposition of beautiful "objective" listening. This music will not put you to sleep. Transitions are abrupt and engaging throughout the score's entirity. I play the music whenever I find myself searching for something to do or am bored. This music will consume all negativity and poke the listner to begin a stirring sensation in their own mentation. The music is not sophisticated or eligant by no means, but has a way about it which will intrige one to listen again and again.

Average customer rating: jazzman, Louisville, Ky Ahead of its Time You're being taken Notes from the synth player... Some ambient, some jazz,some funk--all good

Crossings Herbie Hancock Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Jazz Funk | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mwandishi Sextant Fat Albert Rotunda Man-Child Mr. Hands ASIN: B000056P03 Release Date: 2001-02-05

Tracks:

1. Sleeping Giant
2. Quasar
3. Water Torture

Album Description

2001 reissue of 1971 album, remastered from the original analogue tapes and packaged in a digipak. Currently out-of-print in the U.S. 3 tracks. Approx. 45 minutes.

Album Details

Remastered from original analogue tapes. With the addition of Dr. Patric Gleeson on Moog synthesizer, giving the music an even spacier edge, and Herbie Hancock's Fender Rhodes, the second offering of the so-called 'Mwandishi Sextet's' electronic sound anticipates his later fusion works.

Customer Reviews:

jazzman, Louisville, Ky.......2006-08-15

What I don't understand is why the title cut "Crossings", an
almost 3 minute composition that I have only found on Herbie's
"Treasure Chest" double lp set (vinyl only) is not included in
either this cd, or "The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings"? It's
from the same session and is certainly essential listening, yet
it's not included. Go figure. This is Herbie at his way out
best. Timeless.

Ahead of its Time.......2006-05-26

I purchased this album shortly after it came out and it was a bit much to soak in initially. I was in college studying music and really into synths and I got an earful on this album. In addition this album predates Headhunters in which Herbie combines synths with the funk. Most of my friends couldn't dig Crossings because Herbie was searching and the grooves, timbres, moods and tempos constantly shifted. This album required serious listening. I recently gave it a listen and I re-discovered compositions and sounds of incredible beauty. My favorite tune is Quasar. It is strange how this tune sounds like it could be used in someone's SciFi space thriller today and it would still sound futuristic. Awesome!

You're being taken.......2006-03-04

This is a fantastic album, but it is available domestically as part of the set "Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings" for literally pocket change more than this price. It's worth it to have the two other albums that come in the set.

Notes from the synth player..........2005-07-02

I'm the synth player. I joined Herbie's band as this album was being recorded--much to the displeasure of the rest of the band (who are now my lifelong friends). At the first rehearsal Buster Williams, Herbie's incredible bass player, said, "What do you call that thing anyway?" "An Arp 2600." Buster glared and said, "Well, it sounds like a big vacuum cleaner." The earliest critical responses were in the same vein. The downbeat reviewer was particularly merciless. Then after we'd toured the album for almost a year something very strange happened. Kids would come back stage and want to know where they could buy what I was playing. Downbeat nominated me for outstanding new jazz artist! And an older black jazz fan made a point of apologizing to me for not liking what I was doing the previous time we were in town (although he'd said nothing negative to me before). At that point synths had made their way into funk and jazz.

Now, some thirty-five years later, I look back on this album with such pride--for my contribution, for the band's excellence generally,for Herbie's brilliance as a player--at this point no jazz piano player in the world was any better-- and for Herbie's open-mindedness in hiring this weird academic geek and turning him into a jazz musician. I've played on something like 200 albums since, and this for me was absolutely the best: composition, performance, conception certainly and also for the brotherhood it engendered among the players. "Sextant" was also good, and probably even more electronic, but from a player's viewpoint this album is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Turn down the lights and just listen. It's pretty amazing music.

Some ambient, some jazz,some funk--all good.......2004-07-23

I owned this album in high school, but had not listened to it for over twenty-five years until I purchased the CD. It was deep and mysterious, as I remembered--multilayed and multitextured. It takes you on a journey into alien regions. It was a rich experience through headphones, as I remember.

Indeed it still does all these years later. Herbie was exploring electronic music (he plays mostly electric piano and synthesizer) and a more funk orientation. (I almost wrote funk-rock, but there is little rock sensibility here, beside the electric bass.) But he was not yet into his Headhunters stage of pure funk.

This album is made of of one very long piece by Herbie and two shorter pieces by band member, Bennie Maupin. The music bears some resemblance to early Weather Report, such as "Sweetnigher" (pre-Jacko days), but has a richer, more exploratory sense to it.

The notes say Herbie was influenced by Sun Ra at the time, which gives it an "outside" kind of feel at many places. But there is melody, harmony, and set time to all the pieces. (And there are no lyrics, which plagued Sun Ra too often.) Yet there is an ambient feel to some of it, without being boring. This is jazz, after all.

All in all, "Crossings" is something of a neglected materpiece. I cannot think of another recording quite like it.

Douglas Groothuis

Average customer rating: Ron Carter accompanied by Red and Philly Joe Love this disc Red...Please forgive me Red...Please forgive me

Crossings Red Garland with Ron Carter and Philly Joe Jones Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bright and Breezy Solar Red Garland Revisited! Soul Burnin' I Left My Heart... ASIN: B000000YQG Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. Solar
2. Railroad Crossing
3. Never Let Me Go
4. Oleo
5. But Not For Me
6. Love For Sale

Customer Reviews:

Ron Carter accompanied by Red and Philly Joe.......2007-04-20

I've never been a fan of the "Rudy Van Gelder piano," but if the alternative is this out-of-balance, bass-heavy sound, I'll take all of Red's '50s and early '60s trio dates engineered by Van Gelder, not to mention the ones on which Red Garland is listed as a leader with musicians like Coltrane and Byrd. Of all the pianists Van Gelder recorded, Red was able to preserve his unique sound and voicings better than any other. This Fantasy/Galaxy session, on the other hand, is an example of the '70s "CTI sound" (a company for whom Carter not only served as house bassist but musical director as well) at its worst: Carter is at the forefront on each of the tunes--both in terms of the musical arrangements (he takes half of the melodies! and with wrong notes!) as well as the audio balance (literally making both piano and drums sound faint and distant). Moreover, apart from his solo fills, even Philly Joe sounds curiously weak and ineffective. This was recorded during the "disco days," when bass players adjusted strings close to the keyboard, played with virtually no decay between notes, regarded "walking" as pedestrian--and as far as producers were concerned, nothing seemed to matter as long as the woofer woofed (though in the liner notes Orrin Keepnews suggests that Carter left him no choice but to use him on the date).

Red is one of the most consistent, inimitable, and influential pianists in jazz history, but you wouldn't know it judging from this session. Yes, his playing is not as strong nor his mind as quick, but as a pianist myself (who learned everything from Red), I'm pained not by his playing but the sense of discomfort he must have felt during this session. He's given virtually no breathing room, no margin for comfort and building self-confidence, and no doubt had an unpleasant experience all the way. Carter is like a freight train "running down" poor Red on each track, while Philly Joe is a somewhat ineffective hand-car trying to catch up.

Some of the old Red emerges both on the single-note and block-chorded passages (of which there are surprisingly few) on "Love for Sale"--just enough to make you realize he deserved better on the date. There was no Paul Chambers or Doug Watkins available, but even a Ray Brown, Percy Heath or Milt Hinton (wasn't Sam Jones still on the scene?) and any number of supportive drummers (perhaps including Philly Joe, though his presence pushes things in a beboppish direction) would have made a world of difference.

Turning the bass tone control on your audio system all the way back and boosting the mid-range may help but won't change the way Red must have felt during this unsatisfying session. Three stars just because it's Red, the tune selection is fine, and any recording by him after 1965 is all too rare. (A contemporaneous Red Garland recording--"Red Alert"--is far more successful.) Perhaps Carter felt he had to overcompensate on Red's behalf. If so, the kind of "support" provided by the indomitable bassist proves to be counterproductive.

Love this disc.......2005-03-18

Excellent record , Carter and Jones are awesome Red is pretty darned good too !I play in rotation with earlier stuff , like Manteca , and Rojo ..my first daughter 's middle name is 'Garland' after the great one ..

Red...Please forgive me.......2003-01-03

Red Garland is one of two piano players I adore (Wynton Kelly is the other); now having said that, I feel the same way about listening to this as I do watching tapes of my favorite boxer, Ali, vs. Leon Spinks. Red, once a boxer himself, would never want to see (or hear) someone go one fight too many. This is that "one". I remember seeing Red in Dallas in 1976. He was trying then to make a comeback in his home town. After his second set, his fingers were bleeding. It was heartbreaking. Look to "Red in Bluesville" for great trio (or anything during the 50s and 60s), and EVERYTHING by the Red Garland Quintet. I'll bet Ali wished he had a bass and drums of this calibre to carry him through the Spinks fight. Red, no disrespect intended: your place in Jazz History is 'Heavyweight Champ'

Red...Please forgive me.......2003-01-03

Red Garland is one of two piano players I adore (Wynton Kelly is the other); now having said that, I feel the same way about listening to this as I do watching tapes of my favorite boxer, Ali, vs. Leon Spinks. Red, once a boxer himself, would never want to see (or hear) someone go one fight too many. This is that "one". I remember seeing Red in Dallas in 1976. He was trying then to make a comeback in his home town. After his second set, his fingers were bleeding. It was heartbreaking. Look to "Red in Bluesville" for great trio (or anything during the 50s and 60s), and EVERYTHING by the Red Garland Quintet. I'll bet Ali wished he had a bass and drums of this calibre to carry him through the Spinks fight. Red, no disrespect intended: Your place in Jazz History is 'Heavyweight Champ'.

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Crossings Herbie Hancock Manufacturer: Bomba Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Jazz Funk | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000GGSKSM Release Date: 2006-07-31

Tracks:

1. Sleeping Giant
2. Quasar
3. Water Torture

Album Description

Limited edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Bomba. 2006.

Album Details

Japanese Digitally Remastered Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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Crossings Tony Rice Manufacturer: Mountain Home ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Country Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: 58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection Cold on the Shoulder California Autumn Acoustics River Suite for Two Guitars ASIN: B0009NSDDO Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

1. In the Sweet By and By
2. I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
3. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
4. Holy, Holy, Holy
5. Living by Faith
6. Amazing Grace
7. Victory in Jesus
8. Sweet Hour of Prayer
9. I Feel Like Traveling On
10. Just as I Am
11. Are You Washed in the Blood?
12. Doxology

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Crossings: Music by Frangiz Ali-Zade Manufacturer: Bis ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000016OV Release Date: 1997-03-18

Tracks:

1. Music For Piano
2. Preludium
3. The Narcissus (No. 1)
4. The Boatman (No. 2)
5. Interludium
6. Expectation (No. 3)
7. Postludium
8. Adagio Con Sordini
9. Variations
10. I. When Like A Rare Visitor...
11. II. You Broke An Azalea Twig...
12. III. All People Are Going...
13. Crossing II

Average customer rating: Find This Hidden Jewel This is a must have for every collection The real stuff Amazing Music! ...Simply Amazing...

Crossings Tom Saviano Manufacturer: Miramar ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Making Up Lost Time Ear Candy ASIN: B00004C4P6 Release Date: 2000-02-22

Tracks:

1. You Move Me
2. A Leap Of Faith
3. One More Dance
4. Twist Of Fate
5. Don't Doubt My Love
6. That Was Then, This Is Now
7. All For You
8. Night Moves
9. Time Zone
10. Crossings

Customer Reviews:

Find This Hidden Jewel.......2003-10-26

"You Move Me" grabs you & pulls you along for a mighty & melodic ride. "Twist of Fate" shows off Tom's wide palette of compositional colors, my favorite of this collection. I had the great pleasure of meeting this sax giant at Humphrey's in San Diego this year in between set's with his friend & guitar great Thom Rotella. Two class acts on stage & off. Why they both aren't known more out of musical circles is beyond me. Do yourself a favor..buy this asap. Check out these highly rated musicians at digitaldreamdoor.com

This is a must have for every collection.......2000-06-28

If your really like music this is the album to have. This album has everything and more, you can really hear why this guy has played with artists like Dolly Pardon, Ringo Star, Bill Champlin and Earth, Wind and Fire. He even has Bill Champlin singing on "One More Dance." To mention just a few other awesome artists who appear on it was the bass God Brian Bromberg and smoking guitarist Thom Rotella. I had the chance to interview Tom and had him play live in the station and never have i met a man with such passion for his music. Trust me this Cd is a must have for every collection!

The real stuff.......2000-05-02

Reflected in Tom Saviano's CDs is a dedication to composition , production , and a tribute to excellent musicianship . Tom's playing is articulate , crisp and never loses it sense of melody . Why his stuff isn't eating up all the radio airtime is a mystery left to those who make program desisions . When you compare Tom's music to some of the smchaltzy retorical and boring stuff I hear on the "smooth jazz " stations . It isnt' any wonder why I and my contemporarys won't listen more . Tim Chafee

Amazing Music!.......2000-03-03

Tom Saviano's "Crossings" is perhaps the best CD I've heard in at least eight months. If you are in the market for a very mellow, beautiful piece of work, this disc is it. From muted trumpet lines, to Tom's soaring saxophone leads, there is something for everyone here. Bill Champlin's vocals on this record are, in Tom's own words, "gorgeous". Simply elegant. This is a purchase I knew I'd be making...the decision was cemented the moment I heard "Making Up Lost Time". Mr. Saviano knows the instrument and is a great arranger, as well. Give it a listen! ;-)

...Simply Amazing..........2000-03-03

As a musician, it's difficult to completely leave any "biased opinion" out of this review. I have recieved "Making Up Lost Time" previously, and truly am amazed at both CD's but Tom's artistry truly presents itself in this newest recording, for the beautiful thing it is. If you listen closely, bits and pieces of "Lost Time" are evident in this new material. Bill Champlin listeners will be afforded yet another display of Mr. Champlin's vocal artistry as well. This is one purchase I knew I was going to make-months ago. The purchase wasn't even a question. Good things truly do come in small packages. Wow isn't accurate...just listen to the music...for its own sake. This is a beautifully crafted work.

Average customer rating: Fusion At It's Best quiet brilliance

Crossings Steve Khan Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Headline Let's Call This ASIN: B0000046VL Release Date: 1994-07-26

Tracks:

1. Descarga Khanalonious
2. Think of One
3. What I'm Said
4. Pee Wee
5. It's You or No One
6. I Love Paris
7. Capricorn
8. Melancholee
9. Inner Urge
10. While My Lady Sleeps

Customer Reviews:

Fusion At It's Best.......2005-10-26

I like this album for several reasons. The first being that the songs are really great. It's not a jam-oriented fusion chops festival, but rather an album filled with great compositions. It has sort of a carribbean-tinged flavor to the album. It's "cool" sounding, but don't think smooth jazz!!- that it is not. Maybe the most cool-sounding cd that I own. Steve Khan plays a really clean sounding guitar that is just beautiful. I consider this to be one of those "sleeper" albums that is so great, but that very few people are familiar with. If you can find a copy, go for it. You will enjoy it.

quiet brilliance.......2005-04-11

The title of this review is for the artist as well as this recording. Steve Kahn has been a vital and sustaining force in modern music for almost 40 years. He has played with the best musicians on the planet and has contributed to the jazz and latin jazz catalog with wonderful compostitions. He was the principal guitarist on Steely Dan's "Gaucho". "Crossings" is one of my favorite recordings. Kahn's deep respect as well as his creative brilliance make these standards shine. And I include his originals as standards. The band is fantastic, Dennis Chambers on drums; Anthony Jackson on electric contra-bass, and Manolo Badrena on percussion, with Michael Brecker on tenor on a few tracks. Very highly recommnded!

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Gurdieff - Music for the Movements composed in collaboration with Thomas De Hartmann - Wim van Dullemen (2 CD Set) Manufacturer: Channel Crossings ProductGroup: Classical Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000HJ5ZZO

Product Description

GEORG IVANOVITCH GURDJIEFF (1866-1949). CD 1 1. The Essentuki Prayer 2. The Initiation of a Priestess From the Struggle of the Magicians 3. Before decision to go to Sorceress 4. Fragment I 5. Fragment II 6. Dance in G-minor 7. Fragment III From De Hartmann"s White Movements book 8. Exercises 1924-N1 9. Exercises 1924-N3 10. Exercises 1924-N4 11. Exercises 1924-N6 12. The Fall of the Priestess 13. N33 14. The Sacred Goose 15. Woman"s Prayer 16. Enneagram 17. The Shoemaker 18. Woman"s Dance 19. The Great Prayer 20. Forming Twos 21. Ho-Ya. CD 2 From De Hartmann"s White Movements book 1. Dur-Rud 2. Slow Second Obligatory 3. The Three Canons 4. Canon of 15 November 5. The Circles 6. Derviche 7. Adam & Eva 8. Multiplication of 9 October 9. Women"s Dance 10. Rug Weaving 11. Trembling Dervish 12. The First Dervish Prayer 13. The Big Seven 14. Andantino Historical variations to complement De Hartmann"s white Movements book 15. The Carpet 16. The Spinners 17. Woman"s Prayer 18. Thirty Gestures 19. The First Dervish Prayer 20. The Shoemaker 21. Carpet Weaving 22. The Spinners 23. Women"s Round Dance 24. Turning 25. Enneagram. Wim van Dullemen, piano.

Average customer rating: A One Of a Kind Experience Powerful sound that enters inside you... beats, beats, and more beats...

Crossings Manufacturer: Lovely Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Septets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000IN9Q Release Date: 1990-03-01

Tracks:

1. In Memoriam Jon Higgins, for clarinet in A and slow-sweep pure wave oscillator (19:00)
2. Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings and Pure Wave Oscillator (19:28)
3. Crossings, for small orchestra with slow-sweep pure wave oscillator (16:00)

Album Description

Three works for classical instruments and oscillators, including In Memoriam, Septet and Crossings for small orchestra with slow-sweep pure wave oscillator.

Lucier explains the process: The three works on this compact disk explore interference phenomena between sound waves. When two or more closely tuned tones are sounded, their oscillations periodically coincide to produce audible beats of sound. The speed of the beating depends upon the distances between the pitches of the sounds. The further apart, the faster the beating; at unison, no beating occurs. Furthermore, under certain conditions, the beats may be heard to spin around the room..... That process is applied on this CD to clarinet, chamber orchestra, and orchestra. One would never expect to produce such musical results from such a simple idea, but then, that's Lucier's particular genius.

Customer Reviews:

A One Of a Kind Experience.......2006-07-07

It's truly difficult to accurately grade and review "music" such as this. As music, it's not particularly exciting, nor does it carry any emotional breadth, and its point and purpose also seems to have been lost. The truth is, as music, it's rather stagnant - and yet, it's the most compelling stagnant music I've ever encountered in my life.

It's stagnant because it doesn't go anywhere in particular. Each piece begins and is saturated with the 'om-sounding' drone of the pure wave oscillator while classical instruments play the pitch and key of the oscillator. It's only really during the periods when the oscillator begins spiralling into various rhythmic waves that the acoustic classical instruments can actually be detected from the overwhelming sound of the oscillator simply because while the oscialltor begins its spiral the acoustic instruments hold the same key and pitch as before.

These are three highly original works in which sound and music are manipulated giving reason to question who exactly determines what music is? As a previous reviewer mentions, the unique quality of this work is where and how you play it, based on acoustic dynamics. I find the most rewarding listening experience happens to be with a set of noise-reduction headphones. For nearly 56 minutes, your whole body becomes absorbed into the frequencies produced by the oscillator - and when you finally take the headphones off, there's any even greater experience to be had as your hearing is actually affected by the static frequencies of the oscillator.

This is not a disc for everyone, but, then again, it's an experience every music lover should have at least once.

Powerful sound that enters inside you..........2001-05-29

This is a truly amazing electronic work. This is sound at its purist level. This CD will sound different in every acoustical environment it is played into.

In Greensboro, my bedroom had a sloped ceiling. I put this album on and went to bed--turning off the lights. The sound of this CD would whirl around the room, enter my left ear, linger inside my brain, then exit through my right ear, and vascillate back again. OK, you think perhaps I was "high", and I was. But just on Lucier's pure sonic creation. Try it!

beats, beats, and more beats..........2000-07-30

This is a good album, but it certainly isn't for everyone. All three pieces on this recording exploit an interesting sonic phenomena (as described in the editorial review, so I won't repeat it here), albeit in slightly different ways. The differences between these works is so slight (save for instrumentation) that it's frequently hard to tell them apart. There is music here, but the listener is forced to find it between the waves. If you REALLY love slow-sweep pure wave oscillators and controlled acoustic 'beating,' this disk is for you. If not, be warned; this is not an easy listen, even when compared to some of Lucier's other works.

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1. Cry!/Tender
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3. Deep End [Import]
4. Down by the Riverside
5. Down Home Style
6. Down with It!
7. El Mejor
8. Elmo Hope Trio With...
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10. Family

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