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Vangelis Papathanasiou & IRENA PAPAS-Odes 2008-04-22 12:02:41 Artist: Vangelis Papathanasiou ,Irena PapasAlbum: OdesYear: 1979Genre:Electronica,WorldCountry:GreeceThe music of Odes is inspired by and mostly based on tradional Greek folk songs.On ‘Odes’ Vangelis teams up again with an old friend who'd worked with him before on the Aphrodite's Child album '666'. All songs Greek actress Irene Papas sings on this album are Greek traditionals to which Vangelis adds two instrumental tracks. ‘Odes’ is one of the very few projects Vangelis has been involved in that also has any sort of literary component. Greek author turned politician Arianna Stassinopoulos, who wrote books on Maria Callas and Pablo Picasso, contributes some poems and texts along with Irene Papas, which are printed in the booklet. The latter wrote a few rather dramatic introductory lines, in which she relates how the songs were always with her from childhood, how they reflect the emotions and common destiny of the people in the communities in which they survive across time a ...

Slowdive - Souvlaki 2008-04-22 11:59:50 Artist: SlowdiveAlbum: SouvlakiYear: 1993Genre:Shoegaze,Dream PopCountry:United KindomSlowdive were a dream pop/shoegazing band formed in 1989, lasting until 1995. The band was formed in Reading, Berkshire, England.Souvlaki is an album released in 1993. Widely regarded as their best album, it benefits from synthesizer contributions from co-producer Brian Eno on "Sing" (which he co-wrote) and "Here She Comes."According to interviews with the band, the album was titled after an explicit skit on the first album by telephone pranksters The Jerky Boys, containing the line: "My wife loves that Greek shit. She'll suck your cock like souvlaki." This is one of the best albums of it’s kind and should not be missed by anyone who wants to know anything about shoegaze. Wonderful album and so unbelievably dreamy!! *****Reviews***** "Slowdive are, for me, the band that most defines, and are the best representative of, the genre "shoegazer." The name "shoegazer" was originally a derogatory te ...

Anoice - Remmings 2008-04-22 11:20:12 Artist: AnoiceAlbum: RemmingsYear: 2006Genre:Instrumental, Neoclassical,Post-RockCountry:JapanJapanese group Anoice cherish melodies over everything. This, their debut release, doesn’t redefine music but it does carve out its own little space somewhere near the sea and sets up its own nest of ideas. Anoice is not another instumental group with strong rock tendencies and an armchair association with classical music. Unlike numerous contemporaries which they will undoubtedly be compared to, their goal is not to follow the trends and make the soft/loud/soft/loud juxtapositions in every song, but to carefully craft each song with a strong attention to melody, solid accompaniment, and courteous counterpoint.*****Reviews***** "Released in 2006, the debut album from Japanese post-rock band Anoice is an aural voyage into ecstasy, euphoria and forbidden peace rarely experienced in 21st Century music. Whereas most new-millenium music focuses on overwrought, dramatic post-9/11 political psycho- ...

Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde 2008-04-22 09:59:41 Artist: Akira RabelaisAlbum: SpellewauerynsherdeYear: 2004Genre:Experimental,Ambient Neo-ClassicalCountry:United StatesUpon hearing only the first track of this haunting album I realised that this is a sound completely different from all I heard before. A recording like this one it seems to have arrived from another dimension of sound, one so pure and mysteriously evocative it elevates the consciousness, as if reminding the listener of another existence.Unique!! Akira Rabelais - Los Angeles based composer and author, was born on his mothers birthday and grew up on a racehorse ranch in South Texas. First instrument; metal plates strung along a barbed wire fence shot with a bb gun. Rabelais bridges classical romanticism and magical realism with his music and software. He has collaborated with various musicians including Björk, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, Nobukazu Takemura, Stephan Mathieu and Ekkehard Ehlers. "Akira Rabelais, whose very name evokes images of Renaissance alchemists ...

Tuu - All Our Ancestors 2008-04-22 08:41:47 Artist: TuuAlbum: All Our AncestorsYear: 1995Genre:New Age,Ambient,TribalCountry:United KindomDeep, ancient atmospheres. A rich combination of the exotic and the electronic. A mystical, magical travelogue exploring old, hidden dimensions. Tuu are Martin Franklin on water drums, clay pots, tibetan bells and gongs, Rebecca Lublinski on flutes, and Mykl O'Dempsey with synths and samples.Tuu is an ambient music group, sometimes categorized as new age. The trio emerged from the post Acid House chill-out scene of early 1990s in the UK, blending electronica and the emerging sampling technology with traditional and invented global instrumentatio."Put your headphones on, adjust the levels to achieve maximum results, close your eyes, open your heart, breathe deeply and take in all the sensations this disc will provide you. Light a stick of incense while you're at it; it'll enhance the experience. When you listen to this disc you embark on a transcendental journey from within. This is music wi ...

Peter Broderick - Float 2008-04-19 01:52:52 Artist: Peter BroderickAlbum: FloatYear: 2008Genre:Ambient, NeoclassicalCountry:United StatesAfter a bit of a break the Type label return with this long awaited album from the enigmatic Peter Broderick, an artist who has already been courted by more high profile labels than we care to mention. By the time you'll have finished playing through this incredible album once you'll already feel like you've somehow known this music all your life. Broderick has an inimitable ability to score work that's both technically complex and effortlessly archetypal, so much so that listening to it now im convinced I've heard this music in films, adverts, documentaries - I just can't place exactly where or when. Piano, violins, cello, drums, banjo and guitar take centre stage, painting intimate pictures with that same widescreen quality that so many of you have loved about the likes of Max Richter, Johan Johannsson, Harold Budd, Alberto Iglesias or Michael Nyman - but Broderick makes more than just ...

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - When in Rome... 2008-04-18 12:13:14 Year: 1988Genre:Minimal,folk,instroumental.experimentalBit rate:192 KbpsCountry: United KingdomAir a Danser (5.17)Yodel 1 (4.46)Cutting Branches for a Temporary shelter (2.27}From the Colonies (3.30)Southern Jukebox Music (4.53)Numbers 1 to 4 (7.44)Telephone and Rubberband (4.05)Air (4.00)Beanfields (4.28)Paul's Dance (2.19)Oscar Tango (3.20)Music for a Found Harmonium (3:18)Isle of View (Music for Helicopter Pilots) (4.39)Prelude and Yodel (3.56)Dirt (5.27)Giles Farnaby's Dream (4:14) Simon Jeffes guitarist,composer and arranger describing how the idea of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra came to him: In 1972 I was in the south of France. I had eaten some bad fish and was in consequence rather ill. As I lay in bed I had a strange recurring vision, there, before me, was a concrete building like a hotel or council block. I could see into the rooms, each of which was continually scanned by an electronic eye. In the rooms were people, everyone of them preoccupied. In one room a person wa ...

Clogs - Lullaby For Sue 2008-04-17 19:52:21 Artist: ClogsAlbum: Lullaby For SueYear: 2003Genre:Ambient,Jazz,Chamber,Experimental,Neo-ClassicalCountry: Australia,United StatesClogs are four classical musicians hailing from Australia and the United States.Clogs create music that is highly visual, but the visions they create are of places unknown. Yet for all that they invoke familiar emotions: love, despair, happiness, loss.Think myriad stars in Aussie skies; red desert violins; gnarled attic guitars; medieval bassoons; junkyard metal percussion. Lullaby for Sue is an exploration into sounds that could very well date back to the days of Mozart, but also have the same cinematic scope as, say, Rachel’s or Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Regardless of the comparisons, Clogs is a very intricate and sophisticated sound."An interesting, and often quite beautiful, record, this. There's in a way too much meat and potatoes here to skate over in a mere review, so I won't try to verbally break it down too much. Clogs play classical composit ...

Thanasis Papakonstantinou - Agrupnia 2008-04-17 14:52:51 Artist: Thanasis Papakonstantinou(??????? ????????????????)Album: Agrupnia (Insomnia)Year: 2002Genre:Alternative Rock,ExperimentalCountry:GreeceThe artist states that his lyrics are based on the poem "Insomnie" by Tristan Corbière (1845-1875):"Insomnia, the untouched animal!Without a trace of caring,To anyone thirsty for a chimera, you turnYour cup which is always empty"This is one pole of this record, the state in which the sleep one seeks becomes elusive, trapping its seeker in the state he is trying to get away from:"Anyone who sleeps becomesa child and surrenders himself.Over the closed eyelidsThe wind of time blows furiously"At the other pole is "Rua da Bella Vista," based on the "The Book of Disquiet" by Fernando Pessoa:"The tax of logic is paid by insomnia:it's a wild animal that disguises itselfwithin the body of an accountant" Papakonstantinou says, "I like to say that the best 'songs' t ...

Air - The Virgin Suicides 2008-04-16 12:13:18 Year: 1999Genre:Electronica,Trip-hopCountry: France Air is a French band, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, founded in 1995. Their critically acclaimed first album Moon Safari was followed by the release of Premiers Symptômes, The Virgin Suicides (soundtrack), 10 000Hz Legend, and Talkie Walkie.Although Air's music is often referred to as electronica or trip-hop and is often found in such bins in record stores, their form of electronic music really owes more to the synthesizer sounds of the 1970s such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis. Other influences that are more readily apparent than house and techno are psychedelic rock pioneers Pink Floyd and Krautrockers Tangerine Dream (although there are some echoes of dance music styles in the production). Another influence is french crooner Serge Gainsbourg. Air's music also has jazz inflections at times, and their ability to improvise is more clearly highlighted in the live arena. Before they founded Air, JB and Nic ...