| 1. Whistle Stop |
| 2. Hawk |
| 3. Canto Nostálgico |
| 4. Why Not Dance? |
| 5. João |
| 6. Seseragi |
| 7. All the Things You Are |
| 8. Miró |
| 9. Monet |
| 10. Bluesography |
| 11. In a Sentimental Mood |
| 12. Matisse |
| 13. Street Dance |
Dedications & Inspirations,Jim Hall,Telarc,Cool,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop,Post-Bop
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Dream House/Dedications to Flea
Windy & Carl Manufacturer: Kranky ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000BU2D2W Release Date: 2005-11-08 |
Tracks:
- Eternal Struggle
- I Have Been Waiting to Hear Your Voice
Tracks:
- Ode to a Dog
- Sketch for Flea
Customer Reviews:
the sound of love.......2006-10-22
"Dream House/Dedication to Flea" is a nicely priced double disc collection of four long songs displaying what the duo do best--dive deep into the listener's subconscious like some kind of worm to the core of an apple, burrying it's blue-hued tone washes into the deepest depths of your brain.
The first Disc, "Dream House" is a sort of musical dedication to a deceased loved one, but it's in no way sad or depressing, but rather uplifting, with the additional use of ambient synth tones, akin to Eno's best atmospheric work. "Dedication to Flea" has a more straightforward, even organic feel to the guitars, and a rhythmic pacing is more obvious on this disc, perhaps mimicking the walking of the very dog this cd was recorded for. It's the more interesting of the two as well, mainly for the use of their deceased pooch's panting, slurping, and walking sounds--a different kind of field recording.
This is sentimental music without being sappy. It's a refreshing breath of sincerity to, in a world dominated by ironic and fake music. The extensive liner notes, eloquently written by Windy, and the wonderful photography are a fine compliment to the music on this great, lengthy release. I've got lots of Windy and Carl cds and am never disappointed by any of their stuff. This album fosters the lost art of listening--deep listening. If you enjoy expansive, sprawling ambient music made with lots of love then don't hesitate to track this down and support the fine people who bring you these sounds.
IGLOOMAG.com's Review by Mat Propek..........2006-01-06
(01.06.06) It has been five years since the evocative drone sounds of Windy & Carl have hung suspended at the outer edge of your hearing. Releasing their new material in a double CD set, Kranky offers two lengthy EPs that are connected by their themes of memory and loss as well as the eternal hum of captive drones which haunt their work. The Dream House circles about ideas of death, loss and dreams while Dedications to Flea (released last year in a limited run by Brainwashed.com) are memorial works to their recently passed dog, Flea. Both EPs offer the listener vast opportunities for psychic expansion as the drones and stretched tones resonate in your cranium.
The Dream House -- two tracks: the thirty-minute "The Eternal Struggle" and the twelve-minute "I Have Been Waiting to Hear Your Voice" -- contains sprawling affairs of limitless drones and slowing evolving guitar tones. The first six minutes of "The Eternal Struggle" alone barely exists as anything other than an amorphous chord. Eventually the guitar floats in as if it has been gently rocked back and forth by the tide for so long that it has lost all shape and edge, gliding up onto a blank shoreline like a flat sheen of oil. After eleven minutes the opening chord has drained away until it is just an echo in the background while the guitar is layering waves of sound, trailing harmonic overtones in its wake like the long fingers of ancient jellyfish. Built as an elegy to the losses we suffer in our lives, the lengthy introspection inspired by the piece lifts one's melancholy into a space of reconciliation and hopefulness. Buoyed by the endless waves of sound, you feel supported and raised up towards a luminous center. You feel like the struggle may not be futile or endless and that, in the end, we all see again those we love and have lost. "The Eternal Struggle" is a piece meant for letting go and realizing the echoes of our lives are always there.
The second part of The Dream House is the tribute to Windy's mother: "I Have Been Waiting To Hear Your Voice." While the pellucid tones color the background, an evocative melody is bent out of worn guitar strings. The melody chases a hint of counterpoint (flute-like in its resonance) like two fuzzy will o' wisps dancing across a field of blurred flowers. Resembling a filmscape left out of focus for stylistic reasons, this track pushes you to internal reflection where your memories are more vivid, more distinct and comforting than the empty reality. Like "The Eternal Struggle," we are blissed with memory which can be triggered by the barest hint of sound and, in which, waves of emotion are wordless and structureless. You just feel them swallow you up and keep you safe.
The second half is their tribute to Flea, their sweet dog who recently passed from old age. "Ode To A Dog" is filled with the hint of sound effects as if someone left the dog in the studio while they were recording these endlessly looping melodies and you can hear him snuffling around in the waste-bin and chewing on the cables. "Sketch For Flea" has a more overt reminder of the dog as it is filled with a field recording of a walk with the dog, listening to him breathe and pant and slobber as he trots along. The music which wafts in behind the dog noises seems almost superfluous to the recording of the favorite animal but, like "Ode To A Dog," there is always music in the air when you are with those you love, or even when you are dreaming about them.
Drifting meditations on life and death. .......2005-11-23
That release was their Dedications To Flea EP, which was the inaugural release in the Brainwashed handmade series, and hearing it made me glad that I decided to give them another chance. For those that didn't manage to pick up a copy of the limited EP, the group has included it along with The Dream House for a stunning double-dose of music. What you get with the release in total is four tracks and nearly eighty minutes of music split between two discs. The Dream House opens with "The Eternal Struggle," which mixes fuzzy, sustained keyboard chords with low, delayed guitar notes that seem to trickle down into all the right places. Running over thirty minutes, the track is all about slow evolution, but it's absolutely hypnotic, and sparse chimes and closing drone that finish the piece sound like the aural equivalent of clouds parting and letting the last few rays of sun through on a cold winter day.
"I Have Been Waiting To Hear Your Voice" combines more sustained, droning chords with ebow guitar and the result is another subtle piece that shifts in slight ways to slide inside your consciousness and make you feel that despite all the bad things going on, life might just go on. The aforementioned Dedications To Flea is slightly different in source sounds, but no less stunning, as the group mingles field recordings of their departed dog Flea with sparse, but completely lush, layered guitar playing. "Ode To A Dog" is downright uplifting, as overlapping tones dance and mingle with one another while "Sketch For Flea" seems to take a slightly darker turn, as if the entire life of the dog has been compressed into the two long tracks with the happy moments leading into the sad decline of health at the end.
Considering the duo hasn't released a full-length album for almost five years, this long release (split into two beautiful pieces) from Windy And Carl sounds like they haven't skipped a beat. Coupled with beautiful sleeve photography and detailed, heartfelt liner notes written by Windy herself, The Dream House definitely feels like more than just another ambient/drone piece without any thought put into it. If you haven't heard the group before and are interested, this might just be one of the best places to start.
(from almost cool music reviews)
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Casey Kasem Presents: The Long Distance Dedications
Various Artists Manufacturer: Top Sail Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000LKAR7A Release Date: 2007-01-23 |
Tracks:
- Greatest Love Of All -- Whitney Houston
- I Will Remember You -- Sarah McLachlan
- You Are So Beautiful -- Joe Cocker
- If I Could Turn Back Time -- Cher
- I Hope You Dance -- Lee Ann Womack
- Unchained Melody -- The Righteous Brothers
- Endless Love -- Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
- Against All Odds -- Phil Collins
- Daniel -- Elton John
- Time In A Bottle -- Jim Croce
- Somewhere Out There -- Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
- I Will Remember You -- Amy Grant
- Right Here Waiting -- Richard Marx
- The Living Years -- Mike & The Mechanics
- What A Wonderful World -- Louis Armstrong
- You're The Inspiration -- Chicago
- I Honestly Love You -- Olivia Newton-John
- Babe -- Styx
- Three Times A Lady -- The Commodores
- It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday -- Boyz II Men
Album Description
The long distance dedications are a signature part of Casey Kasem's countdown shows. This well-known and beloved portion of Casey's show has touched and inspired all of us. This CD includes 20 hits by big-name artists.
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Oldie Dedications
Silencer Manufacturer: Aries Music Ent. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000F5WO5Y Release Date: 2006-05-02 |
Tracks:
- Talk to You - Bullet Nasty, Mr. Sancho, OG Playboy, , Silencer
- Broken Heart - Lil Bandit, Mr. Sancho, , Silencer, VMF
- Sickest Hass Returned - Buzz, OG Playboy, , Silencer
- Stay Forever - Bullet Nasty, Lil Bandit, , Silencer
- Eye on You - Bullet Nasty, Mr. Sancho, , Silencer
- If You Leave Me - Bizz, Lil Bandit, OG Playboy, , Silencer
- Oldie Dedication - Bizz, Mr. Sancho, Royal T, , Silencer
- Play Me a Love Song - Bizz, Bullet Nasty, , Silencer
- Everywhere We Go - Big Capone, Lil Bandit, Mr. Sancho, , Silencer
- Por Mi Gente - Silencer, Los Soldados
- We Don't Mess Around - Big Capone, Mr. Sancho, Royal T, , Silencer
- We Keep Thugging - Lil Bandit, Mr. Sancho, Royal T, , Silencer
- Mato a Todos - Silencer, Los Soldados
- Low Pro Mix - Silencer
- Remember When [*] - Bullet Nasty
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Great.......2007-05-17
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Dedications
Alan Pasqua Manufacturer: Postcards ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000371Q Release Date: 1996-01-23 |
Tracks:
- Homage
- San Michele
- Mr. Softee
- The Emergence
- Ellingtonia
- Taiowa
- Dedicated to You
- Sha' la ko'
- Grace
Album Description
Pianist Alan Pasqua has dedicated his second Postcards CD to the incredibly rich tradition of jazz. On Dedications, his compositions cover the whole stylistic spectrum from swing and bebop through today's polytonality and modality, and are heard in trio, quartet, and quintet settings. Building from a core trio featuring Dave Holland and Paul Motian (who have rarely recorded together) on four tunes, Pasqua adds Michael Brecker (on seldom-heard soprano saxophone) on one tune, and then creates two different quintets, one with both Michael and Randy Brecker, and one with Randy Brecker and Gary Bartz. From the lush, ducal "Ellingtonia" through the ethereal modality of "San Michele," Alan Pasqua accomplishes the challenging task of leaving his unique and masterful imprint on this homage to the giants of the tradition. "Dedications,"says Pasqua, turning to his 1996 CD, "is my way of paying tribute to the positive influences on my life. Art, music, spirituality, family . . . I draw upon all of these whenever I?m playing or composing.""I wanted to take tradition and put my own stamp on it," he continues, describing how he approached the compositions. "I found myself going back to my roots in jazz, back to an earlier perspective on jazz, to the styles I grew up with musically, and then reshaping the traditions, embellishing them -- finding my own voice, making a more modern statement. It was like taking one step backward to take two steps forward."
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Another masterpiece.......2000-10-14
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Elliott Carter: Homages & Dedications
Elliot Carter , Spanjaard , and Nieuw Ensemble Manufacturer: Disques Montaigne ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000C8WXM Release Date: 2004-01-20 |
Tracks:
- Luimen 'For The Nieuw Ensemble' (1997) For Mandolin, Guitar, Harp, Vibraphone, Trumpet And Trombone
- Scrivo In Vento 'For Robert Aitken' (1991) For Flute
- Con Leggerezza Pensosa - Omaggio A Italo Calvino (1990) For Clarinet, Violin And Cello
- Changes 'For David Starobin' (1983) For Guitar
- Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux II 'For Pierre Boulez' (1994) For Flute, Clarinet, Violin And Cello
- Bariolage 'For Ursula Holliger' (1992) For Harp
- Inner Song 'For Heinz Holliger' In Memory Of Stefan Wolpe (1992) For Oboe
- Immer Neu 'For Ursula And Heinz Holliger' (1992) For Harp And Oboe
- Gra 'For Witold Lutoslawski' (1993) For Clarinet
- Enchanted Preludes 'For Ann Santen's Birthday' (1988) For Flute And Cello
- 90+ 'For Goffredo Petrassi' (1994) For Piano
- Canon For 4 - Homage To William 'For Sir William Glock' (1984) For Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin And Cello
Customer Reviews:
Carter in Europe.......2006-06-28
The two most weighty works on the disc are Luimen and Trilogy. Luimen (roughly meaning 'whimsical moods') is a sextet for the unusual combination of mandolin, guitar, harp, vibraphone, trumpet and trombone, and was written for the performers on this disc. It's a delightful piece, written with a very light touch as it swings from one mood to another. There is a previous recording by Speculum Musicae, which I slightly prefer due to its greater intensity, but the more relaxed feel of this reading suits the music very well too.
Trilogy, for oboe and harp, was written for Heinz and Ursula Holliger. As the title would suggest, it's in three movements: Bariolage for solo harp, Inner Song (an elegy for Stephan Wolpe) for solo oboe, and Immer Neu for both instruments. As with Luimen, it's amongst the most charming of Carter's later works, the harp part full of unusual sounds and techniques, the oboe solo a beautiful lament, and the finale a witty, conversational dialogue. As the Holligers' performance is no longer available, this reading will do very nicely as a replacement (even if it doesn't supersede the original).
The rest of the pieces on the disc are rather slighter. Scrivo in vento is a flute solo which alternates slow, lyrical music in the lower range of the instrument with shrieks and cries at the top of its range, while Con leggerezza pensosa, for clarinet, violin and cello, pays homage to Italo Calvino's writings with rapidly shifting moods. Changes is a delightful solo guitar work that never stays in the same mood for more than a few moments, while Esprit rude, esprit doux II, for flute, clarinet and marimba, celebrates Pierre Boulez's 80th birthday and the two sides of his personality--generous and irascible.
Gra, a homage to Witold Lutoslawski, is a vivacious solo clarinet piece (practically a repertory work now, too), while the charming Enchanted Preludes is a witty dialogue between flute and cello with a joyous close. 90+ celebrates the 90th birthday of Goffredo Petrassi with 90 bars of contrasting pianistic styles...then refuses to quit, while the not-as-austere-as-you'd-expect Canon for 4 is a hommage to BBC radio controller Sir William Glock, for the typically Carterian combination of flute, bass clarinet, violin and cello.
This isn't an absolutely essential Carter disc--unless you don't have another recording of Trilogy--but it's hard to see any lovers of this composer's music being disappointed by it. I know I enjoyed it.
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Dedications & Inspirations
Jim Hall Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003D4R Release Date: 1994-04-26 |
Tracks:
- Whistle Stop
- Hawk
- Canto Nostalgico
- Why Not Dance?
- Joao
- Seseragi
- All The Things You Are
- Miro
- Monet
- Bluesography
- In A Sentimental Mood
- Matisse
- Street Dance
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Heart & Soul: Romantic Dedications
Adam Del Monte , Federico Ramos , and Ramon Stagnaro Manufacturer: World Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000IJO2 Release Date: 1999-04-06 |
Tracks:
- Gioia
- Cecilia
- Angelicia
- Paula
- Nanci
- Christina
- Lorena
- Caterina
- Gina
- Noche
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The Ultimate Romantic Flamenco Fusion.......2002-10-15
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Dedications
Stepan Rak Manufacturer: Nimbus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E093 Release Date: 1995-04-16 |
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TRACK LIST.......2005-09-19
Year: 1990
Track Title
1. Six Early Dances "To My English Friends" Introduction And Pavanne
2. Saltarello
3. Song For Debbie
4. Volta
5. Yorkshire Pavanne
6. Temptation Of The Renaissance
7. Romance Ontario "To Glenn Gould"
8. Spanish Suite "To Federico Garcia Lorca" Memento
9. Taranto
10. Jota
11. Balalaika "To Mikhail Gorbachev"
12. Era Of Rock And Roll "To Elvis Presley"
13. Happyo Birthday John "To John Duarte"
14. Auld Lang Syne "To My Wife"
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In Praise of Woman
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00026W65Y Release Date: 2004-07-13 |
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Live! at the East Coast Jazz Festival
Manufacturer: By-Mor Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00009VPER Release Date: 1998-08-21 |
Tracks:
- Tranquil Moods
- When Lights are Low
- Sometimes Braid
- Monk's Mood
- Panamanian Aire
- All Blues
- Seven Steps to Heaven
Album Description
Hear Unity, for the first time caught Live! In person! At their swingin' best! Its Hot, and they deliver! With dedications to Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, order this CD now! Unity, great music since 1972...Jazz Music: