Incarnation (special edition 2-disc set)

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Incarnation - Produced by Jamison Weddle (DMX, Soulfly, Nils Lofgren)

Remix cd - Produced by Ehron Vonallen

About the Artist
Religion, Sex and Government. The three major components of everyone's life. Obviously the focal points of the media, our thoughts, conversations and relationships. It's also the underlying theme of Ehron Vonallen's debut release entitled, "INCARNATION".

Combining the creative influences of artists such as Depeche Mode with their visionary songwriting, the visual imagery and emotional base of David Bowie's live performances and the sounds and production of Front 242, Recoil and Delerium, Ehron... read more

Album Description
This is a limited edition 2-disc version of Ehron Vonallen's debut album "Incarnation". This product includes a remix cd of the songs from incarnation plus an 8 page foldout and 12 page booklet with extra images and lyrics.

Incarnation (special edition 2-disc set)

Litania - Margaret Leng Tan plays Somei Satoh

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Cosmic Zen

Litania - Margaret Leng Tan plays Somei Satoh

Manufacturer: New Albion Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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John Cage - The Seasons / Leng Tan, Russell Davies, et al

ASIN: B000000R28
Release Date: 1994-04-05

Tracks:

The Heavenly Spheres Are Illuminated By Lights - Margaret Leng Tan/Lise Messier/Michael Pugliese
Birds In Warped Time II - Margaret Leng Tan/Frank Almond
Incarnation II
A Gate Into The Stars
Litania

Customer Reviews:

Cosmic Zen.......2003-10-25

"What are you playing?" she asked. "It's driving me insane" as we drove down Ocean Blvd in my 1969 convertible Mustang. "It's Margaret Lang Tan playing Somei Satoh" I replied as I hit the eject button on the CD player saving the music for myself later on...Do you want to hear something different? Profound? Cosmic? er...Zen? This is the CD for you but be careful who you play it with. Somei Satoh has several hard to find CD's all in a modern multi-cultural (East meets West) minimal Classical music with tape loops & sound effects. Highlights are: "The Heavenly Spheres Are Illuminated By Lights" sounds like the western theory of Universal Big Bang meets Zen Buddhism with prepared piano in tape loops birthing the human voice. "Birds In Warped Time II" again with prepared piano in tape loops setting free Jonathan Living Seagull expressed as a violin. If you like this CD, check out other Margaret Lang Tan or Somei Satoh CD's.

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Another coup for Abravanel. Nobody cleanses the palate like Satie.

Homage to Satie

Manufacturer: Vanguard Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0007IA56Y
Release Date: 2005-03-22

Customer Reviews:

Another coup for Abravanel. Nobody cleanses the palate like Satie........2006-02-04

Let's first say that I was not predisposed to like Satie, given my love for counterpoint (from Bach to Hindemith) and my respect for the nobility of the musical enterprise, as opposed to superficial fluff. So my 2,500+ collection of classical CDs is packed with "monumental" items (tons of Bruckner & Mahler versions, complete works of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Hindemith, etc.), most of which tends toward the heavy, thick side (if not sonically, then in terms of musical values and aesthetics). But I listened to these two Satie disks totally enthralled, breaking out into spontaneous smiles at what Satie has achieved. The "breath of fresh air" that critics have ascribed to Satie's works isn't mere hype, at least insofar as Satie is accurately represented in this orchestral set list: this truly is some of the most gorgeously crafted music I've ever heard. Most of the movements are concise to the extreme (which makes Satie something of the Anti-Bruckner), but this formal structure works to the advantage of the music, where elegant ideas are presented without excessive hyper-rationalization. Even the humorous, parodistic parts of the ballets are well-crafted.

The performances are outstanding across the board. The surprise, sonically, is the virtual absence of tape hiss, and the crystal clarity of this dynamic recording. It sounds better than several hundred digitally-recorded CDs in my collection! Too bad more analog era recordings don't receive so excellent a transfer and re-mastering (none of which are even credited on this CD). The engineers were apparently humble as well as perfectionists. (If their humility was involuntary, oh well.)

If you have preconceptions about Satie's "lack of depth," etc. (as I once did), this recording will realign your priorities. Satie's depth is found in a different place. In their own way, the various miniatures he has crafted are actually as intensely packed as any Webern movement for string quartet. Satie has stripped the music back to what HE regarded as the essentials. The result, far from being stark or austere, comes across as embodying musical joy in an utterly unpretentious manner. This is a CD I will likely break out every other month just to cleanse the palate. You HAVE to respect a composer who can bring a smile to your face, and you have to respect a conductor who knows how to bring such elemental music to vibrant life as Abravanel has done here. Highly recommended.

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Unforgettable Classics: Cello

Manufacturer: Classics for Pleasur
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Jewish Cello Masterpieces
Chopin: Polonaise brilliante; Cello Sonata; Piano Trio

ASIN: B00000I765
Release Date: 1999-02-23

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Cello Concerto In D, Op 3 No 9: I Allegro - Vivaldi
Cello Concerto In G Minor: I Allegro - Artistes Varies
Cello Concerto In D: II Adagio - Haydn _
Cello Concerto In B Flat: III Rondo (Allegro) - Boccherini
Cello Suite No 1 In G: Prelude - Bach
Cello Suite No 1 In G: Courante - Bach
Cello Sonata No 3 In A: II Scherzo (Allegro molto) - Beethoven
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello In A Minor: III Vivace non troppo (opening) - Brahms
Allegro Appassionato - Artistes Varies
Elegie in C minor - Faure
Cello Concerto In B Minor: I Allegro (opening) - Dvorak
Cello Concerto In E Minor: III Adagio - Elgar
The Carnival Of The Animals: The Swan - Artistes Varies
Swan Lake: Act II - Dance of Odette and the Prince (conclusion) - Tchaikovsky
The Protecting Veil: The Incarnation - Tavener
Variations on a Rocco Theme: Introduction, Theme and Variation I Moderato semplice - Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rocco Theme: Variations on a Rocco Theme, Variation III Allegro vivo - Tchaikovsky

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Abbess St Brigid

Manufacturer: Incarnation Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Song List: 1. Deus Meus Adiuva Me 2. Sing Of Mary 3. I Sing Praise To Brigid 4. Let Us Tend The Vine 5. Ag Criost An Siol 6. Folk Hymn To St. Brigid 7. The King Of Love 8. Patrick's Lorica 9. Ave Verum 10. Bi A Iosa 11. Brigid's Feast 12. Stir Up The Waters 13. Cead Mile Failte 14. In The Name Of The Father 15. The Irish Blessing

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Solo debut from Ex-Goya Dress Astrid Williamson

Boy For You

Manufacturer: Incarnation Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000162N30
Release Date: 2003-12-08

Tracks:

I Am The Boy For You
Everyone's Waiting
What Do You...
World At Your Feet
Sing For Me
Someone
Hozanna
If I Loved You
Outside
Say What You Mean
If You See The Man (Hidden Track)

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Solo debut from Ex-Goya Dress Astrid Williamson.......2004-04-14

Radiant 1998 album from Shetland Islands born Astrid Williamson (ex-Goya Dress). Produced by Malcolm Burn (Bob Dylan, Lisa Germano, Sinead Lohan, etc...). Four star reviews in Q and Mojo and rave revues from the normaly acerbic UK press. Work with Tara MacLean, Electronic, Stereophoncs and 4AD's The Hope Blister as well as tours with Aztec Camera/Roddy Frame, Eddi Reader, Aimee Mann, Neil Finn have firmly established the quixotic Astrid in the UK. 'If I Loved You' was used extensivly in Bill Forsyth's film 'Gregory's Two Girls' and Abra Moore recorded a version as well which was used in the Liz Hurley film 'Serving Sara'. Highly reccomended!!!

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More Than Enough...Astrid...My fave CD of 2003
Her fans are out there, they just don't know it yet!
Five years on...No less Brilliant!
Surely now...

Astrid Williamson
Astrid
Manufacturer: Incarnation Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000WVWUK
Release Date: 2003-11-10

Tracks:

Never Enough
Love
To Love You
Bye And Bye
Blood Horizon
Calling
Girlfriend
Tumbling Into Blue
Lucky
Call For Beauty
Superman (Acoustic Demo)
This Is How It's Done Here (Acoustic Demo)
Blood Horizon (Acoustic Demo)
Close My Eyes (Acoustic Demo)

Album Description

Astrid Williamson came to notice as the creative lynchpin (mercurial voice, guitar ambition and beautiful songs) of Goya Dress. Their debut `Rooms', produced by John Cale, was critically well received as was Astrid's first solo album `Boy For You'. Follow up `Astrid' is essentially an album of love songs, a relationship postmortem. More eloquent and graceful than your basic "broken-hearted-wench" album, it has a sensation of grace under pressure, of comfortable intimacy balanced with vulnerability. `Calling' invokes the spirit of Carole King's piano based pop with a momentum and a chorus that begs to be thrust into the mainstream in place of other, lesser singer-songwriters. Opening track `Never Enough' and `To Love You' match it for immediacy while `Love', recalls Tanya Donnelly. All round it's a beautiful combination. `Call For Beauty' has a beautifully gaunt, but accessible, drum pulse and twinkling electronics that end the album proper on an optimistic note ! "Call for beauty / to know you are alive". But before that, the album has to go through its painful emotional fall-out and rawer ballads. `Blood Horizon' is redemptive "Well I know that the world is full of grieving and I feel ashamed by the things that make me cry", `Girlfriend' is plaintive and acoustic, but it's the piano-voice duet `Tumbling Into Blue' and the eerie `Bye & Bye' that sound like the songs that Astrid sang with tears in her eyes. `Bye And Bye' is almost hymnal, although its ghostly ambience and painful lyrics are closer to a personal hell than a restorative heaven. "Making this album felt almost like emotional stripping. There wasn't a lot of hiding behind poetry and illusion." Astrid maintains this album is "the purest and most honest" she's written to date and ironically -by avoiding it- the most accessible. - Martin Aston

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More Than Enough...Astrid...My fave CD of 2003.......2003-12-04

Astrid Williamson, the quixotic former Goya Dress singer-songwriter has released her new 2003 studio album and I am very happy to have it. `Never Enough' should be a UK hit single, `Blood Horizon' may be one of her finest moments, `Lucky' is a song to convert Tori Amos fans, `Tumbling Into Blue' gives me chills while `Bye And Bye' can bring tears. `Call For Beauty', `To Love You' and `Calling' are songs you want to hear again, and now! "Astrid" not only lavishes us with 10 new studio tracks but throws in four new acoustic demos which by themselves are poignant reminders of how powerful, alone, Astrid's voice, guitar and piano can be. 'Superman' is sheer simplicity, hope and tenderness, conveyed even more powerfully in her new live version. (If you get a chance to see Astrid in a small club, spare no expense, get there!) 'This Is How It's Done Here', is another new live favorite while the demo of 'Blood Horizon', stripped-bare, becomes even more heartbreaking (if such a thing is possible). Slightly different lyrics tell a tale of love lost, paths crossed and the heroism and resilience of just getting on with it. 'Close My Eyes' is a beautiful hymn to loving aspiration. Astrid, a classically trained pianist and confessional-style singer/songwriter with a uniquely haunting and beautiful voice, is forever (and somewhat unhappily) being compared to Kate Bush and Tori Amos, which in itself is not a particularly bad thing. While there may indeed be bits and pieces reminiscent of the two (especially Kate), Astrid remains absolutely unique in her songwriting and performance and upon hearing that glorious voice singing `those' songs, comparisons dwindle to nothing and you hear her purely for what she is: Magnificent!

Her fans are out there, they just don't know it yet!.......2003-12-04

First came the John Cale-produced 'Rooms' from Goya Dress, the semi-Goth-pop 1996 Album release from Astrid Williamson, Terry De Castro and Simon Pearson. "An all-but-unearthed jewel of the Nude Records stable in the mid-'90s". They released four singles; 'Bedroom Cinema', 'Crush', 'Glorious' and 'Ruby'. All are loaded with non-lp tracks (A & B-Sides!). Hopefully these out-of print treasures will see daylight once again now Astrid has her own label. This album was one of that year's finest alternative pop releases. Elegant arrangements with twisted delicacy, subtle-yet-striking lyricism, and the gorgeous voice of Astrid elevated the band above their press-supported, chart-topping peers of the time. 1998 saw Astrid go solo and release 'Boy For You', three singles, two videos and a slew of beautiful pop songs. Having grown up under the influence of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and the Smiths, Astrid's approach to songwriting from the very start was a form of emotional therapy within the realms of introspection, independence, and catharsis. By this time, she had gathered a vast array of feathers in her cap through outside contributions, including vocal work for Electronic, 4AD's The Hope Blister, and piano work for Tara MacLean. 'Rooms' and 'Boy For You' were two of the finest albums of the 90's. It's 2003 and Astrid', still solo releases 'Astrid' on her own label. It's a heartwarming, sad, beautiful, complicated record that gets better and better with time. Everytime I listen to it I hear some brilliant nuance that I hadn't heard before. I sincerly hope this is the record that finally makes the rest of the world sit up and take notice of this remarkable woman. Her millions of fans are out there, they just don't know it yet.

Five years on...No less Brilliant!.......2003-12-04

Almost five years to the week Astrid has released her second studio solo album. This is a very different collection of tracks from 1998's 'Boy For You'. Gone is the slick production and the big-label money to throw behind this record. In its place, and still amazingly brilliant, is a beautiful albeit at times quiet, mesmerizing and lyrically haunting record that demands repeated listening. Astrid formed her own label 'Incarnation' to put this CD out there and she deserves to be heard on this side of the Atlantic for a change! This is a wonderful, intelligent and very well-conceived record, 'Blood Horizon', 'Never Enough', 'Tumbling Into Blue', 'Lucky', 'To Love You' are outstanding tracks but there is no filler on this CD. 14 tracks, four bonus demos and clocking in at 54 minutes makes this CD a must have!

Surely now..........2003-11-25

When she released her debut solo album following the breakup of her (fantastic) band, Goya Dress, Q magazine in the UK had her down as one to watch, with comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Carole King. There was almost a marketing push (bits of TV and the cover of style magazine Dazed and Confused) ... and then nothing really happened. It's not immediately obvious why. You don't really read bad reviews of Astrid, but then you don't really see any reviews of her at the moment.
Boy For You, the solo debut, was pretty universally praised by critics and ignored by the mass public. It was, though, a collection of songs overproduced in the extreme - the echoic, sparse and black-and-white-film ambience of Goya Dress' recordings had been lost to clattering drums and overbright mastering. The whole thing sounded like it was made out of brittle caramel.
This new record goes some way in returning the songs - and that heartstoppingly beautiful voice - to center stage. There are still times when the record sounds like it's had someone elses ideas heaped upon it, smothering the sheer quality of the songwriting. "Never Enough" played live is a haunting piano song with regret and redemption in equal measure; on record, the programmed drums kind of kill the magic, aiming at contemporary without having the edginess - you can't help feeling the whole thing would have been better with live drums. And to say there's a bit too much reverb on some of the backing vocals would be an understatement.
Thing is, Astrid has never professed to being a cutting edge artist, as far as I know. That first album, along with the moodily, trendily washed-out shots in Dazed and Confused, never sounded convincing as part of the acoustic-guitar-and-programmed-sounds thing that singers like Ben Christophers managed to pull of with far more nerdy verve. What she does do is write tugging melodies and beauty-in-the-everyday lyrics which actually strike a chord (rather than sounding like they should), and then sing them in a voice which flutters up out of harsh lows into feathery falsettos, skipping across the top of the mundane arrangements unfettered.
If this record had just been as faithful a reproduction of the songs and the voice as was possible, it would have got five stars, and all the people buying Ryan Adams records and Pete Yorn records would be buying Astrid records. Perhaps what it needs is a touch of Americana (and this coming from a Brit) - not the self-consciousness of the New Orleans-recorded Boy For You, but the kind of no-frills honesty that you get making your records wherever it is that everyone else apart from Astrid does. Perhaps the next record will be the one that gets her the acclaim from the public that the critics have been giving all along. But in the meantime, this is pretty good to be going on with.

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A must!
A playful piano Smorgasbord

Play
Joanna MacGregor
Manufacturer: Sound Circus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005QJVT
Release Date: 2003-12-02

Tracks:

42nd St. Stomp
Libertango
Hughe Ashton's Ground
Autumn in Warsaw
Incarnation 2
Endgame
Strumming
Player Piano Study No. 11
Even Tenor
Forlorn Hope Fancy
Sonata No. 5
Alcotts
Ship in Embrace of the Endless Dark Ocean
Allemande
Dance It

Album Description

2001 album & Mercury Prize nominee. Joanna MacGregor's album is a panorama of today's piano scene, from urban jazz to Japanese minimalism, from the keyboard music of William Byrd to Nancarrow's furious player piano studies. With contributions from tabla genius Talvin Singh & South African pianist Moses Molelekwa. Digipak.

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A must!.......2003-07-10

This CD with the amazing Joanna MacGregor is a masterpiece of a recording. Her playing and the collection of pieces is making this a total experience.

A playful piano Smorgasbord.......2003-01-04

Making my listmania list for my favorite cds of 2002, I saw that this disc that I have been enjoying for the greater part of the year is finally available here.

Without stepping in the quick sands of crossover and fusion, Joanna MacGregor decided to start her own label to allow for more artistic freedom. This eclectic cd is a direct result of this vision. The works on this cd span approximately 4 centuries ranging from Gibbons to Ligetti, from Bach to Piazzola, from Dowland to Nancarrow, from Ives to MacGregor.

With such a diverse repertoire there are always strengths and weaknesses. Superb are the Ives, the Nancarrow, the Dowland and Alistair Nicolson's 42nd St Stomp. The Cage, Bach, Gibbons and Somei Satoh's Incarnation II are good to great. Some of the other things were not really my cup of tea, but nevertheless of high quality. The only qualms I have are with the Piazzola piece where the inclusion of a tape of a speech by the composer played in the tango, which some may recognize as a former Grace Jones' hit, started annoying the hell out of me upon repeated hearing.

The album contains both live and studio recordings and the overall quality, while not matching Joanna's own recording of Birtwistle Harrison's clocks, is more than adequate.

Recommended to the more adventurous listeners.

Incarnation of Evil
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Incarnation of Evil
Witchburner
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000OIZ1G6

Never Give Up
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Never Give Up
Incarnation
Manufacturer: Dst
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005AM1N
Release Date: 2001-04-02

Journey
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Journey

Manufacturer: Peregrine Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAGRXW
Release Date: 2001-01-23