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Cotswold Symphony/Hampshire Suite
"Jolly Cotswolds Symphony... shows the Holstian flair for colourful orchestration and has folksy influence....Scherzo an attractive dance rhythm.....and finale a striking tune in 6/4...in the Perfect Fool we hear the composer at his most inspired ...and like the whole programme, it is most vividly played and recorded... remarkable how well this fine Munich orchestra takes to English music" (Penguin Guide 3 stars)- Shop: odax
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New Country Rock Vol.8
New Country Rock Vol. 8: Wenn eine Musikrichtung permanent neue Freunde gewinnt, dann wohl der Country Rock. Authentisch, ehrlich, folksy. Retro ist das neue modern, also her mit bodenständigem Country Rock, vorgetragen von Heroen wie Zona Jones, Mark Selby, Buffalo C. Wayne, Eric Heatherly und vielen anderen! New Country Rock. Vol. 8: You wanna catch that train, stranger!- Shop: odax
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Flowers On Gooey Sand Dunes
Adolfo is an artist who writes and sings songs with a folksy bend, fused with pop and reggae, sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes in his unique combination of both. His new CD is his third as a solo artist, and showcases a new level of his talents, and a new range of sounds.- Shop: odax
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Strata
With influences as diverse as Steve Reich, Alan Hovhaness, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Ludovico Einaudi, Bach, film scores, World Music and Impressionism, it is difficult to label this music. At times seriously minimalist, at others unabashedly Romantic, folksy, ambient or even new-age, the one thread tying everything together is the harp. But is this an album of harp music? Decidedly not! It is more about musical pattern, colour, texture, story-telling and atmosphere....with a harp or two or five! Seven Crows a Secret for solo harp takes it's name from a mysterious old children's rhyme in which seven crows foretell 'a secret never to be told'. Features solo harp (and a couple of cooperative crows!). Latin rhythm meets Bach in Tango Barroco for harp and Roland C-80 digital harpsichord. This instrument is featured in two pieces in this collection, and a versatile little workhorse it is, too! Michael Ethier is at the keyboard. Tinkly 'glass harp' (recorded live) gives Spiral Dance some of it's ethereal quality. It slowly swings along with multiple layered harp parts. [A glass harp is produced by rubbing a moistened finger around the rim of a wineglass partially filled with water. The amount of water in the glass dictates the pitch of the resulting eerie sound. The children of the Country Airs Harp Camp helped out with this!] The title track, strata, is a fabric of patterns and revealed melodies arising from the layering of five separate harp parts. Okavango Elephant Walk is a soundscape tribute to the animals of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. In the 17th and 18th centuries, clockwork automata were all the rage. These were basically life-sized wind-up 'toys' that could do all kinds of things, including play musical instruments! Clockwork is about a tinny mechanical harp orchestra that slowly goes slightly awry. A print by Kawase Hasui gave me the idea for Saishoin Temple in Snow, evocative and sparse in the extreme. Romantic and unapologetically emotional, Bachskinder uses a gloss for solo harp that I wrote years ago, based on one of the master's unaccompanied cello suites. Here it is given a fuller interpretation as a kind of elegy for Bach's twenty children, only half of whom survived infancy. Mandala for harp and Roland C-80 weaves circular webs of patterned and textured sound. Michael is again at the keyboard. My interest in ancient history inspired Two Ancient Dances. A threnos was an ancient Greek funerary dance, very solemn and stately. Dance for Tigi-harp seeks to evoke a very interesting instrument from ancient Mesopotamia. Consisting of a drum-shaped body strung like a harp, the tigi was also rimmed with little bells that sounded in rhythm with each pluck of a string. Silver Apples of the Moon, Golden Apples of the Sun was inspired by the poem 'Song of Wandering Aengus' by W.B. Yeats. In it, the fates of a mortal man and a faerie woman (represented by two separate musical motifs) are intertwined. Solo harp is featured. Three little sound pictures make up Nightscapes. In the first, Night Train, the many interesting effects of which the harp is capable are used to mimic the sounds of a train passing, night birds and other creatures. Moonrise over Water is an Impressionist miniature. Cancion de la Noche (Song of the Night) is a little snapshot of a street festival under the stars. The final piece in this collection, Postludium Perpetuum, is a happy little bit of perpetual motion to say 'adieu' but not 'goodbye'.- Shop: odax
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Coldest Room in the House
At once both literate and earnest, this album of sophisticated but folksy indie rock explores an eclectic array of genres and sounds, from intimate finger picking to appalachian mountain folk to arena rock.- Shop: odax
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Promise of Rain
"The Promise of Rain" is my "Chinese Democracy." 5 Years, countless re-recordings, different studios and setbacks. The thing has been on the back-burner, front burner, in the crock-pot and on the grill. If I had a budget - the thing would have sunk me. But here we are, 2010 - I grabbed the bull by the horns and beat the stuffing out of it. "The Promise of Rain" is here. It's a collection of 12 songs about fires, floods, love and desire, loathing and disgust, and addiction and redemption. It's a poppy, dark, folksy, silly, campy affair. Country songs about lost love and hippy peace anthems about humping on the floor. I'm sure there's something for everyone here, and I hope you enjoy it. Chris Many (Singer, songwriter, home-recording enthusiast, home-improvement specialist, and nutball.) All songs written, performed, recorded, mixed, mastered, re-recorded, tweaked, dismantled, and set on fire by Chris Many. Photography: James Magill Album Layout: Matt Patsis and Chris Many Special Thanks: Tina & our families, the Patsis and Chandler clan, James Magill, Sam Schrader, Kevin Brawley, Ryan Stroker, and all who have given support, encouragement, time, money, and attention to my little project.- Shop: odax
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Leave Only Footprints
We all have our playlist favorites...you know, those discs reserved for road trips, friendly gatherings or IPod moments. We reach for these when we just want to put something on and listen..get absorbed...sing along...play air guitar...without changing the station or setting it on shuffle. Well, you may want to make room for one more in your list, Leave Only Footprints by singer/songwriter Brian Perin. From begining to end, ten infectious and skillfully played tracks will connect to you through folksy blues/rock guitar and earthy lyrics (go ahead, try not ot have them stuck in your head afterward as if they'd been there all along). Perin's love of music is clear and well-represented in his straightforward, unpretentious style.- Shop: odax
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Blues Soufflé
This CD came about because I noticed that I was writing a number of blues songs and also that I was playing some of my older, folk-style songs in a much more bluesy manner. I figured I could rework some of these older folk songs into blues songs and produce an album that would be all in a blues style. This CD contains 8 new songs and 5 older songs (folk/rock songs that I have attempted to 'bluesify') and one instrumental piece. My style of blues is on the light side (I tend to vary the standard blues chords) so that's why I titled this CD 'Blues Soufflé'. I asked my wife to bake a soufflé for me with blue food-coloring in it. As you can see, the soufflé fell after it came out of the oven but I think a fallen soufflé is more appropriate for a blues album than a successful soufflé, so I went ahead and used it for the CD's front cover. 1. Monica Harmonica: A few years ago I couldn't play the harmonica at all. My wife bought me a harmonica because she heard on a radio talk show that people play them when they're stuck in traffic, so I had it in the car but still rarely played it. Then I decided to write a song that would feature this instrument (it would be about a female virtuoso harmonica player who lives in the subway). Composing this song turned out to be a great motivator for practicing on the harmonica. For those not familiar with harmonica terminology, both 'harp' and 'tin sandwich' refer to the harmonica and a 'draw' involves bending notes by pulling air in (rather than blowing air out). There are two major types of harp: chromatic and diatonic. Chromatic harps have all 12 tones but it's difficult to bend notes, so I use diatonic harps. For this song I actually bound two harps together (each one in a different key) and I switched back and forth rapidly between them while playing harmonica riffs. (Here's a verse: Monica Harmonica's a bit bizarre. Blows smoke rings through brass reed bars. Sports dirty tattoos and wicked scars. Won't say 'Hello', just 'Au revoir.') 2. Turnin' Me Blue: This new song was inspired by a guitar chord riff I discovered, which is: Em G A7 A# A7 Em7add 4. I was considering the cold/temperature-sense of the word 'blue' and that is I how came up with the title. In this song the singer's girl has left him, but it's his own fault, because he's chosen a life of crime. (Here are first verses: 'Babe, I've got it made, so why rock the boat? Hit a liquor store today. Can buy ya pearls and fur coats. Babe, why ya gotta leave? When it's all there to take? You're makin' me grieve, When ya say it's a mistake.') 3. All-In-Good-Time Blues: I felt I could improve my folk song 'All in Good Time' by making it more bluesy. (The folk version appears on my first CD: Nothing Seems Like What It Seems.) The blues rearrangement required substantially altering the melody (and the song now includes a key shift). The lyrics were also altered, but just a bit. 4. Exhaustion: I composed both the music and the lyrics to this song on a very hot spring night. I was tossing and turning in bed and could not sleep because there was a Santa Ana heat spell. The air was so still and oppressive and since I couldn't sleep I decided to write a song about how I was feeling at that moment. (Here are first two verses: 'I lie awake in the naked night. Can't sleep in spite of, Exhaustion. My body burns. My heart just yearns, twists and turns, in Exhaustion. My skin sheds tears as my eyes are seared, With shimmering sight, in the black of night. Visions of you, I must pursue. My soul now aches, with Exhaustion.') 5. Physical Woman: I was thinking of Janis Joplin's style of singing and that inspired me to write this blues song, which is meant to be belted out 'nice 'n' slow' and with lots of bluesy vocal improvisations. It's about a guy trying to convince his woman to not get seduced by 'Some intellectual who claims a high I. Q. But what can his incorporeal mind really do? With a physical woman, Oh, such a physical, physical woman, yeah, such a physical, physical woman, like you?' 6. Young-Old-Man Blues: This is a more bluesy rearrangement of my song 'Young Old Man' (which appeared originally in my first CD: Nothing Seems Like What It Seems). 7. Ghost-Trek Blues: The original song ('The Trek') was a folk/rock song with a mystical kind of sound to it. This blues version has a completely different melody and very different chords, so I consider it a different song. The lyrics tell a similar story but have been altered to fit the meter of this new song. 8. Full-Of-It Blues: This is a rearrangement of my song 'Full Of If' (which appeared on my CD: Nothing Seems Like What It Seems). I have altered both the lyrics and the melody extensively to make it more bluesy. 9. Hidden in Plain Sight: We all have our own private demons that torment us. I was quite depressed when I wrote this new song. Expressing my state of mind in words and music helped me feel better. I think that playing the guitar and creating songs is great therapy. (Here are some of the lyrics: 'Can't escape, not really, 'cause I'm stuck with me.Just myself to blame. What a pain. And hidden in plain sight, the height, of absurdity.' ) 10. Lost-Cause Blues: 'Lost Cause' was one of the first songs I ever wrote (many years ago, but I never played it publicly and I didn't copyright it until 2006, just before it came out on my second CD: Our Unwinding Time). Recently, I began playing this song in a less folksy and more laid-back, bluesy manner (and with a key shift). My mother-in-law had said that some of my folk songs were 'too wordy' so I cut out over 20 words from the lyrics of the folk version and also changed a few words here and there. 11. No-Holds Barred Blues: I wanted to write another blues song but had no musical instrument nearby, so I decided to write the lyrics for a to-be-composed-later blues song. I thought of how 'blues' could also refer to a color and that gave me the idea of having a blues song that would mention many other colors with the singer being 'blue' because he's lost access to many colors (which can happen in prison). Later, I came up with a bluesy melody for the lyrics. (Here are first verses: 'Ain't got no red wine, Ain't got no green grass. Ain't got no sapphire sun. Just an orange jumpsuit outcast. Know what I got? The Stripe City blues. A black-barred, cell-in-hell, upstate, no-holds barred blues.') 12. Riffin' Raccoons 1: This is an instrumental piece, so the title is somewhat arbitrary. This title came about because, the night I started composing it, I saw raccoons in my back yard. The violin-like sound is me playing a synth keyboard. I also play bottleneck steel guitar, nylon acoustic guitar, electric bass and both D & E harps on this song. 13. Tar Paper Blues (Revisited): This song appeared earlier in my CD: Butterfly's Release. Since it is a very bluesy song, I decided to include it here. This version in a different key and has a slightly different arrangement (for example, there is no percussion here so I can speed up and slow down in this version). 14. First-Time Country Song: My brother likes country music and had told me that I should try my hand at composing country songs. Also, I have beautiful friend who lives in S. Carolina, so both these facts influenced me in attempting my very first (and so far, only) country song. (Here is the first verse: 'She likes country more, than even her malt liquor. So I'm tryin' to compose, God only knows, a simple country song, that sticks like liquorice, for my sweet, soft, southern dish.')- Shop: odax
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