Sublimation

Editorial Reviews
Bernard Von Islaker– Side-Line Magazine #39
"...Synth-pop with EBM touches. Catchy synth-pop tunes. A band that every synth-pop follower should have checked out!"

DR - Side-Line Magazine
"Contemporary synth-pop. They perfectly melt a solid synth-pop basis with triphop rhythms and acid bleeps."

Album Description
The debut release from this catchy Electronic Synth-Pop band with strong Industrial influences, EBM dance beats and soothing vocals (that have been compared to the likes of Morrissey, Chris Isaak and Neil Tennant). Melodic, yet driven with hints of Industrial bass, Techno sounds, and Trip Hop tendencies. "Sublimation" has been dubbed "intelligent and infectiously catchy well-crafted songs" where "harsh sounds are nicely incorporated into the electro pop world of Null Device." 14 tracks of pure electro bliss that even includes "There is a Light" cover by The Smiths." A must have for fans of Depeche Mode, Wolfsheim, Pet Shop Boys, Iris, and B! Machine.

Sublimation

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Kill this band Please!
Tech metal!
Simply the best
The Perfect Canvas!
Canvas Solaris's first 'real' studio effort

Sublimation
Canvas Solaris
Manufacturer: Tribunal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002CX1G6
Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

Cosmopolysyndeton
Spheres In Design
When Solar Winds Collide
Cyclotron Emission
Syzygial Epiphany
Ekstatik Parataxis (The New Measure)
Sublimation

Customer Reviews:

Kill this band Please!.......2006-07-12

EVERY SONG SOUNDS EXACTLY THE SAME ON EVERY CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This band has no direction or talent! Theyre only good for giving headaches! Instrumental music shouldnt be non directed random jibber playing all thrown together with a horrible drummer!

Tech metal!.......2006-02-18

As far as technical metal releases go, Canvas Solaris's debut is a promising and enjoyable album. It has everything that you would want from a tech/jazz metal album: Mind bogglingly good playing, full of odd and shifting time signatures and flawless production so that you can have your mind thoroughly ****ed by the ability to hear each and every note (there are lots of them) they play. The music might sound almost like a metal jam session by some musical virtuosos if it was not so meticulously tight and syncopated in some parts.

But Canvas Solaris go beyond just being your average technical metal band by adding atmospherics, interesting songwriting, and variation to their music. In this way they bear many resemblances to what I would imagine an instrumental Cynic (the favorite band of all three members of Canvas Solaris) sounds like - they have the same spacyness, jazz influences, and amazing musical chops. Songs range from short, mind bogglingly fast assaults of constantly switching riffs, such as the opener "Cosmopolysyndeton", to more drawn out but equally technical crescendos like "Ekstatik Parataxis (The New Measure)" or their two opuses "Sublimation" and "When Solar Winds Collide" (the best two songs on the album in my opinion). They add to these skillful compositions by accentuating them with sections of acoustic guitar playing, keyboards that remind me of a cheesy sci-fi movie (the whole album sort of feels like a trip through space really), and a variety of drums such as tablas and congas, there are more but those are the only two I definitely heard.

If you are a fan of hearing brilliant musicians playing brilliantly but never really straying too far into the realm of self-indulgence then Canvas Solaris are the ones from you. Be warned though, if you do not like the technical metal genre, they are quite unlikely to win you over.

Simply the best.......2005-12-29

I may be a little biased since I have been friends with Hunter, the drummer, for 10+ years, but regardless, this is simply some of the most progressive, brilliant, and innovative music out there. period. You don't neccessarily have to be a diehard fan of metal to enjoy Canvas, as their musical influences are absolutely all over the place. If you are even remotely a fan of prog/metal you need this album. If you are merely a fan of great music, then this is also a must have. Expect more and more great things from these guys.

The Perfect Canvas!.......2005-11-15

Wow! Never heard of these guys before, but I took a chance based on the reviews I had read being a fan of Fates Warning, OSI, Chroma Key, Dream Theater and Gordian Knot, etc. These guys definately have created something powerful here. I absolutely love this! And this CD came out two years ago! Where was I? Sure hope to hear something new from them soon. Also purchased the first CD and it is great too. They are superior musicians and it is quite hypnotic the way the music continuously changes. You have to hear it to believe it! Very highly recommended.

Canvas Solaris's first 'real' studio effort.......2005-07-06

this has become my favorite album. period. i'm very hard to impress and this album joins the ranks of Cynic's Focus and Death's Symbolic in my list of favorite releases.

The Life and Works of Antonín Dvorák, Narration with Musical Excerpts

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An Extraordinary User-Friendly Multimedia Dvorák Biography

The Life and Works of Antonín Dvorák, Narration with Musical Excerpts

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

Slavonic Dance In G Minor, Op.46 No.8/Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Symphony No.8 In G, Op.88 (Mvt 3: Allegretto Grazioso - Molto Vivace)
A Secret Life: Early Manhood, Determination And First Love
Cypresses, B.152 (No.3: When Thy Sweet Glances)
A Change Of Job, Marriage And Increasing Success
Symphony No.3 In E Flat, Op.10 (Mvt 1: Allegro Moderato)
Hope, Grief And Sublimation/Stabat Mater, Op.58 (Quando Corpus Morietur)
International Celebrity And Deceptive Simplicity
Serenade In E For Strings, Op.22 (Mvt 2: Walzer)
A New Championing, A New Friendship: Brahms Weighs In
String Quartet In D Minor, Op.34 (Mvt 1: Allegro)

Tracks:

A Populist Commission
Slavonic Dance In C, Op.46 No.1
An Amateur Pianist's Dream
Slavonic Dance In A, Op.46 No.5
A Token Of Gratitude
Serenade For Wind Instruments, Op.44 (Mvt 1: Moderato, Quasi Marcia)
An Explosion Of Popularity - On Both Sides Of The Atlantic
Romance In F Minor For Violin And Orchestra, Op.11
Personal Glimpses: The Outer Man
Symphony No.6 In D, Op.60 (Mvt 1: Allegro Non Tanto)
The Anti-Czech Stance Of Vienna
Piano Trio In F Minor, Op.65 (Mvt 3: Poco Adagio)
Dvorak In London
Vysoka: A New Home, A Simple Life
The Second London Visit
Symphony No.7 In D Minor, Op.70 (Mvt 1: Allegro Maestoso)
Dvorak The Conductor
Czech Suite, Op.39 (Preludium: Pastorale)
London, Birmingham - And Brighton Belles
Dvorak The Czech
Symphony No.6 In D, Op.60 (Mvt 3: Scherzo: Furiant)

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Discord With Simrock
Slavonic Dances In A For Piano Duet, Op.72 No.15
'Orchestra!'
Slavonic Dance In B, Op.72 No.1
Dvorak In Leeds
Piano Quintet In A, Op.81 (Mvt 3: Finale: Allegro Con Brio)
Dvorak And Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin: (Act III: Polonaise)
Dvorak In Russia
Schezo Capriccioso, Op.66
Dvorak The Teacher
Mozart: Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Mvt 4: Allegro Con Spirito)
Dvorak In Cambridge
Dvorak In New York
String Quartet In F, Op.96 ('American' - Mvt 1: Allegro Ma Non Troppo)

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Dvorak In Iowa
Sonatian In G For Violin And Piano, Op.100 (Mvt 2: Larghetto)
Niagara Falls
Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95 ('From The New World' - Mvt 1: Adagio - Allegro Molto)
The Dark Side
Cello Concerto In B Minor, Op.104 (Mvt 3: Finale: Allegro Moderato - Andante - Allegro Vivo)
Home Again
Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95 ('From The New World' - Mvt 4: Allegro Con Fuoco)
The Death Of Brahms And A Change Of Direction
A Hero's Song, Op.111
The Return To Opera
Rusalka (Act I: Song To The Moon)
Distraction, Disappointment And Death
Symphony No.6 In D, Op.60 (Mvt 4: Finale: Allegro Con Spirito)

Customer Reviews:

An Extraordinary User-Friendly Multimedia Dvorák Biography.......2004-04-28

I have followed with interest the series of CDs explaining popular operas by Jeremy Siepmann, an American musicologist long resident in Britain. Each of those is a single CD with a spoken text interspersed with longish excerpts from the opera in question. This 4-CD set, though, is something else again. It is a combination of music/audio CDs with superimposed CD-ROM material (on the same discs). One plays the audio portion on your regular stereo equipment. When put in your PC or Mac CD drive, the CD-ROM portion of the discs brings up an extensive set of hyperlinked text materials as well as links to the CDs from which the musical examples are taken (all from the Naxos music recordings library, of course). Also included in the CD-ROM material is the full text of Siepmann's detailed biography of Dvorák. There is also a thick booklet that includes cast lists (various actors playing various important people in Dvorák's life), an extensive essay about the sociopolitical and cultural conditions extant during Dvorák's life, an longish essay about his major works and their significance, a graded listening plan, an article outlining recommended reading, biographical snippets about each of the important people in Dvorák's life, a chronological calendar of Dvorák's life, and an extensive glossary of musical and other pertinent terms.

Siepmann's four-and-a-half-hour exploration of Dvorák's life and works is in his wonted polished, often witty, prose. It is read gracefully by Siepmann himself. Dvorák is played by the suave-voiced British actor, Sean Barrett. The musical examples are extensive, often including complete movements, arias, etc., and are placed expertly within the flow of the text. Production values for this budget-priced set are quite high.

I will admit that I had a particular interest in this production as I grew up in a rural Oklahoma town settled by Bohemians (Czechs) and came to love some of Dvorák's music before even that of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. I've already recommended this set to the public schools and town library in my hometown.

I am not quite sure who the intended audience for this set is. Presumably there are those, like me, who are insatiable when it comes to increasing their knowledge of classical music, its composers and their sociocultural milieu. One also imagines that even in these days of decreasing support for music and music appreciation courses in our schools, there are teachers who could make wonderful use of this material for their students. Whoever the audience is, I cannot imagine a listener coming away from this set without a great deal more information and appreciation for the genius of Antonin Dvorák.

Recommended.

Scott Morrison

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Sublimation
Lee Oskar , and Ryujiro Band
Manufacturer: Pjl
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2002-06-19