Savage Beauty

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
The Virtual Reality Band plays scenes from the techno-jungle/Featuring flute/shakuhachi, guitar/harp, bass, and percussion (digital synthesis)

Savage Beauty is an instrumental album which crosses the boundaries between jazz, classical, and new age. The music can be relaxing, engaging, and psychotropic; it holds up well with repeated listening.

Strange, Savage Beauty
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • our dance class loves this CD!
  • music that has something to say
  • This music is like travelling through a strange land.
  • this is one crazee recording
 Strange, Savage Beauty
John Glossenger
Manufacturer: The Orchard
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00002EPTG
Release Date: 2000-03-29

Tracks:

  1. Monsters Under Your Bed
  2. Irrationally Exuberant Technorave
  3. Randon Acts Of Silliness
  4. Mountains
  5. It's A Drum Thing
  6. Trains
  7. Robot Mating Call
  8. Escher Goes To Africa
  9. Pinball
  10. Grooviness
  11. Stars
  12. Generic Movie Monster Vs. Taiko
  13. The Individualist March

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars our dance class loves this CD!.......2001-08-04

our dance teacher asked us to create our own choreography for this music. we've had a lot of fun with it, it's primitive yet hi-tech, powerful yet beautiful. it's really good for the kind of expressive dance that we do. i'd encourage any dance troupes that are looking for new music to check it out.

4 out of 5 stars music that has something to say.......2001-05-14

i have mixed feelings about this recording, although in general i have a favorable opinion. the title of the recording is "strange, savage beauty". it's certainly strange and savage ... which is cool in its own way ... but it doesn't meet the conventional meaning of beauty. the recording is made with just percussion instruments, so i suppose it was hard to make music that is conventionally beautiful with just percussion instruments. a good deal of the recording is complex rythyms with strange sounds ... only a few songs, such as "random acts of silliness" (which would be great for the Dr. Demento show) are really melodic. As i was listening to this recording, i kept on thinking that parts of it would be really cool in TV commercials or background music for movies ... it's got that soundtrack vibe. anyway, kudos to glossenger for making music that has something to say, rather than most of the bland music out there.

4 out of 5 stars This music is like travelling through a strange land........2001-05-03

This music is like travelling through a strange land. The cover photo sets the mood ... you are travelling through a colorful, strange landscape. The music, which is just percussion instruments (drums, cymbals, xylophones, electronic sounds, etc.) is really different. When you finish listening to this recording, you'll feel like you've had an adventure. Surprising, there's a lot of humor here, and it's quite musical, considering that it's just percussion instruments. My favorite track is Irrationally Exuberant TechnoRave, which is at the forefront of modern electronic music. The track Monsters Under Your Bed would be excellent theme music for a scary movie. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in adventurous music.

3 out of 5 stars this is one crazee recording.......2001-04-24

this recording isn't something you'd play every day, cuz it's just drums and percussion instruments ... but it's good for variety. i've never heard anything quite like it before. it'll really stretch your mind.
Savage Beauty
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Savage Beauty
    Edwin McLean
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | New Age | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    GeneralGeneral | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    ASIN: B00007LLJT
    Release Date: 2002-12-01

    Tracks:

    1. Tropical Dreams
    2. The Mystic Horsemen
    3. Rattler
    4. Rite of Passage
    5. Window View
    6. Breakout
    7. Waves
    8. Savage Beauty
    9. Alley Paranoic
    10. NighTime
    11. Lost in Paradise

    Album Description

    The Virtual Reality Band plays scenes from the techno-jungle/Featuring flute/shakuhachi, guitar/harp, bass, and percussion (digital synthesis)

    Savage Beauty is an instrumental album which crosses the boundaries between jazz, classical, and new age. The music can be relaxing, engaging, and psychotropic; it holds up well with repeated listening.

    Music:

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    2. Siren [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]
    3. Slow Motion Daydream [Import]
    4. Solid Gold: The Best of T.Rex [Import]
    5. Soul's Core [Import]
    6. Sound
    7. Supergrass
    8. Teenage Fbi [CD-single]
    9. The Chronics [Explicit Lyrics]
    10. The Complete Picture: Very Best of Blondie [Import]

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    The Poor

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    Trumpet Artistry Of [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]

    Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker, Swan Lake - Highlights

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    The Uncollected Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra, Vol. 2 (1943-46)

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    Josef Suk: Praga, Symphonic Poem, Op. 26 / A Fairy-Tale, Suite from the Music to Zeyer's Dramatic Tale "Radúz & Mahulena", Op. 16

    The Definitive Collection