Melodramatic [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics]

1. Eclipse

2. Melo Deez

3. Whatchu Wanna Do Now

4. Yes I'm Crazy

5. Some Old School SH--

6. Steel Drums

7. Love Prelude

8. Love to a Star

9. Wind It Up

10. Mighty M.C.S

11. Take Me Away

12. Red Sun

13. Abstract Reflections

14. Unspoken Gospel - Melodramatic,

15. Alive - Melodramatic,

16. Hectic Daze in a Beautiful World

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Melodramatic [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics]

Average customer rating: Excellent Rzewski's 7 CD Compilation incredible playing of works with mixed content/concept

Rzewski Plays Rzewski: Piano Works 1975-1999 Frederic Rzewski Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Fred Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated Iannis Xenakis: Percussion Works The Music of Elliott Carter Vol. 7; Boston Concerto, Cello Concerto, ASKO Concerto, Dialogues ASIN: B00006JI9X Release Date: 2002-09-24

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From his 1975 mega-variation set, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, to his eight-hour "novel for piano," The Road, Frederic Rzewski breathed new life, passion, and vitality into the long dormant composer-pianist tradition. Political and social issues provide a subtext from which Rzewski's musical imagination explodes with purposeful virtuosity, stylistic freedom, and high drama. He can conjure slow droplets of notes on a dark, still background ("A Life"), only to cram and compress a multitude of disparate popular themes within a larger, traditional framework (Sonata for Piano), or integrate music and spoken words to a level where they cannot exist without the other ("De Profundis"). Rzewski the composer provides Rzewski the pianist plenty of opportunity to display his ingenious improvisatory mettle: his cadenzas for "Mein Yingele, Which Side Are You On" particularly dazzle. There are, to be sure, other ways to play this music, such as Marc-André Hamelin's suavely proficient People United and Paul Jacobs's authoritative premiere recording of the North American Ballads. But the elemental force and personality defining Rzewski's pianism leave as indelible an imprint as his music. No lover of contemporary piano music should miss this important, superbly annotated release. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2005-10-07

Rzewski is one of the greatest composers of our time.
Definately a must have!

Rzewski's 7 CD Compilation.......2004-01-30

7 Discs of amazing piano performances from Rzewski, and this time around he's playing his own music. Highlights: First track off 1st CD: "North American Ballads (4) for piano, Nos 1-04", an excellent introduction to this compilation. Worth the money? ...Ahh, I dunno.. I hate giving my money away to loony liberals, but in this case, his music is brilliant so I found my purchase well worth it.

incredible playing of works with mixed content/concept.......2002-11-18

Rzewski said he never developed a style or musical language,but if you work your way through all seven disks here there is actually a musical language which emerges and a static dimension as well to Rzewski's creativity.
His music demands a strong subject, an inflammatory one if possible to get his improvisatory creative imagination in gear, as his celebrated solidarity exhibited in the "36 Variations" on the "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" which to my ears still remains the high point of all these disks. His musical language is magnetized around simple contrasts,timbral virtuosity and variations on the music materials he selects, as even the "North American Ballads" suggest,which also maintains a fascination over the years.Equally if not more timbrally fascinating are his "Four Pieces" which are not here.Rzewski I beleive is a composer like Stravinsky, he needs something to manipulate that is already formed in the real world,very postmodern in orientation and his music then never claims a magical dimension where moments can synergize amongst/between itself,themselves, as exhibited by his political brethren as Christian Wolff or Luigi Nono. He does however utilize the entire 20th Century piano vocabulary, but is always drawn toward a what we can refer to as Rzewski-esque chromaticism, a dovetailing of the fifth semitone interval, as: c-e-f#-b-Bb-f,something you may find in the piano music of Karol Syzmanowski. The "Fantasia" opening here is a good example of this,played with great passion and might also suggest the harmonic meaderings of Busoni.Also the 26 miniature variations on "Mayn Yingele" had an interesting subject dedicated to the memory of Kristallnacht, the desecration of synagoges in Germany,the story of a Jewish man working 18 hour days who never sees his son, only sleeping.The musical form of "miniature" is quite interesting,and one Rzewski knows quite well.
He has impressive TV miniature Operas entitled "Chains".
These miniature variations are followed with a Cadenza prior to Variation # 23, a procedure he is fond of, a summing up with a virtuoso recapitulative display.He does similar handlings in his Cardew disk on "We Sing For the Future".

There are some very low points I found in this piano music as the "Sonata" written in 1991, which has smatterings of glissandi Liberace like, and a stupid playfulness, that grows musically thin very quickly but is indeed disarming. The Agitato, the last movement begins with a low register uttering of "Taps".
Also the various four parts of "The Road", a work when complete will span some eight hours,all seemed arbitrary to me with the use of the voice to accentuate violent phrasings, and scouring the insides of the piano, with Cage-like tappings of the piano body.This wasn't exciting to say the least, and incredibly self-conscious.And I don't see what agenda is in place to transport the listener here to sustain such length.

Of course as I've mentioned Rzewski's creativity emanates from many places particulary the imagery of the Left, but was formed in his years with MEV the improvisatory ensemble in Rome,in the late Sixties, playing also with self-imposed American exiles, living on Fulbrights and Guggenheims. Rzewski for instance has been known to improvise cadenzas in his performances of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier Sonata", as well as in the early Sixties was the first to include the repertoire of the avant-garde of Stockhausen, Cage,Wolff and Boulez. Rzewski remains a unique example of radicalism in music with an affinity for the causes of the Left,but not so much as Cardew who was more an activist,founding a Marxist Party,nor not so academic bound as Christian Wolff,nor as deeply committed to European intellectual thought and high modernity,technology as Luigi Nono. But his music maintains an accessible directedness,with a high committment to lyricism.
His music also succeeds at times quite well in a dramatic situation as his 50 minute "Antigone-Legend", for Soprano Voice and Piano, or his chamber opera "The Invincible Persian Army"(1984).

Average customer rating: Hip Hop's Rebirth

Melodramatic Melodramatic Manufacturer: Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005A0IQ Release Date: 2001-02-13

Tracks:

1. Eclipse
2. Melo Deez
3. Watchu Wanna Do Now
4. Yes I'm Crazy
5. Some Old School Sh--
6. Steel Drums
7. Love Prelude
8. Love To A Star
9. Wind It Up
10. Mighty M.C.s
11. Take Me Away
12. Red Sun
13. Abstract Reflections
14. Unspoken Gospel
15. Alive
16. Hectic Daze In A Beautiful World

Customer Reviews:

Hip Hop's Rebirth.......2001-08-08

This album is a must have. It is one of the best albums of the year 2000. Two dope MC's and hot tracks...you just cant beat it. If you dont cop the album its your loss.

Average customer rating: Rzewski's masterpiece in a stunning new interpretation

Which Side Are You On? Manufacturer: Cantaloupe ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Rzewski | Rzewski, Frederic | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00008XUUX Release Date: 2003-05-13

Tracks:

1. De Profundis
2. Dreadful Memories
3. Which Side Are You On?
4. Down by the Riverside
5. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Customer Reviews:

Rzewski's masterpiece in a stunning new interpretation.......2003-08-02

"De Profundis," for speaking pianist, is a tour-de-force -- 45 minutes of portions of Oscar Wilde's text written from prison, coupled with an intricate and often harrowing piano part. Originally written for the superb Anthony de Mare, Rzewski's complex score requires a special type of performer to succeed, and while there are a number of excellent accounts available (including one by the composer himself), now we have this new one from the seemingly fearless Lisa Moore.

What distinguishes this piece is its gamut of emotions, and corresponding demands on the performer. A pianist attempting it must *act* the part, while simultaneously traversing the keyboard, occasionally slapping herself, hitting the wood of the piano, laughing, whispering, and at one point even deploying a car horn. I have heard Moore perform this piece live several times, and am happy to report that this recording accurately captures her considerable stamina and insight. Aside from her technical prowess, Moore captures a wide and uncanny range of moods -- rage, sadness, silliness, introspection -- that make up Wilde's moving and reflective memoir.

In the equally intriguing "North American Ballads," Moore hurls herself into a gripping performance of "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues," recreating the sounds of the mechanical processor, churning and chugging, over and over. In its climactic passages, the piece almost seems to overwhelm itself, with the machinery seemingly spinning out of control. The almost inhuman demands on the pianist don't seem to faze Moore one bit.

Rzewski is one of the most original compositional voices around, and in this recording, he has found an equally original performer to give life to some of his most startling music. The recording quality is excellent, miked a bit close so the listener can catch every nuance of Moore's carefully rehearsed gestures. Just amazing.

Average customer rating: Some Hot Sh!@!!!! The most inovative CD Ive heard in... good lookin out These guys are going places!

Melodramatic Melodramatic Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000056CEY Release Date: 2001-01-02

Tracks:

1. Eclipse
2. Melo Deez
3. Watchu Wanna Do Now
4. Yes I'm Crazy
5. Some Old School Sh--
6. Steel Drums
7. Love Prelude
8. Love To A Star
9. Wind It Up
10. Mighty M.C.s
11. Take Me Away
12. Red Sun
13. Abstract Reflections
14. Unspoken Gospel
15. Alive
16. Hectic Daze In A Beautiful World

Customer Reviews:

Some Hot Sh!@!!!!.......2001-08-08

THE BEST ALBUM I HAVE HEARD IN A LONG WHILE...THE SOURCE WOULD GIVE THIS ALBUM FIVE MIC'S...GOT GET IT...ITS SELLING LIKE HOT CAKES!!!!

The most inovative CD Ive heard in..........2000-12-27

This is the most innovative CD I've heard in years. The album as a whole has many cutting-edge tracks. My favorite cuts are Melo Deez, Red Sun, and Hectic Daze in a Beautiful World. The thing thats best about this album is its versatility and lyrics. I recommend this to anybody looking for that buried tresure in music. Bangin foreal!!

good lookin out.......2000-12-09

Good lookin out for melodramatic! I thouroughly enjoyed this album! My advice to any supporter of hip hop or music in general, is to pick this CD up!!

These guys are going places!.......2000-12-07

I heard these guys perform live in DC and I couldn't wait to get their cd. It's one of the best new albums I've heard in a long time. Really innovative. Check it out.

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....et les fleurs eclosent a l ombre This Melodramatic Manufacturer: Collectif Efferversence ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000BU9N5C Release Date: 2007-04-24

Tracks:

1. Both Ways
2. Stronger, Strongest
3. Home And Away
4. My Sun
5. For Respect
6. L'alchimie alcoolique
7. Errance
8. La Triste Comptine
9. The Automat
10. The Song About God
11. Fin De Partie
12. Ballade

Product Description

" …et les fleurs éclosent à l'ombre" is the first official release of This Melodramatic Sauna in which we are told stories full of poetry and melancholy... Recorded throughout 2005 by Miguel Constantino (The Patriotic Sunday, my name is nobody, Audiopixel), This Melodramatic Sauna's album came to life in a small chapel in Brittany. Confined for several days in this unusual place, "... et les fleurs éclosent à l'ombre" is at once austere and warm, where Jonathan seems to be at our sides, murmuring slowly in our ears, accompanied by the birds of the surrounding country… His music oscillates between peaceful and tormented movements, orchestrated then suddenly minimalist. Supported by a group of musicians on drums, piano, organ, xylophone, theremin, and a string quartet led by Erwan Fauchard, « …et les fleurs éclosent à l'ombre » is a journey, an enigma, a mysterious place where the mist embraces you …"

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Dónde estás corazón? Manufacturer: Eros Sound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CADIAW Release Date: 2002-01-01

Average customer rating:

Instrumentals and Oddities Garrett N. Manufacturer: Garrett N. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA7REA Release Date: 2005-03-08

Average customer rating: The Next Big Thing A New Raw Talent! Impressive Debut ok i never heard the cd but heard him live Spencer is so hot

Everybody Has a Song Spencer Bates Manufacturer: independently released ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005Y7BL Release Date: 2002-02-01

Tracks:

1. Another Song
2. Maggie's Mine
3. All Along
4. I Will Understand
5. Not Quite Enough
6. Just Down the Hall
7. I See
8. Just For You and Me
9. After All
10. The Only One I Need
11. Twenty-one
12. Subway Train
13. Everybody Has a Song

Customer Reviews:

The Next Big Thing.......2004-01-20

I LOVED THIS CD! Not only did I love listening to this beautiful music, but the lyrics truly grabbed me. You could tell that these were words that were written from the heart and soul. I was lucky enough to see the artist in person and let me tell you he is even better live. Favorite songs: Not Quite Enough, Maggie's Mine, After All and Everybody has a Song. I can't wait to see what is coming next for this talented performer. But trust me, keep you eyes out, he is going to be the next big thing.

A New Raw Talent!.......2003-11-14

this debut album from spencer bates shows all the pontetial he has. this cd is a good example of the musical talent spencer has. it is charged with emotion and is truely heart felt. I am very proud to know such a talented person and I recomend that anyone who enjoys new raw talent give spencer a try!!!!!

Impressive Debut.......2003-11-12

"Everybody Has a Song" is a great debut from an emerging singer/songwriter. Spencer sings of love and relationships with a simple but affecting style. Good tracks include I See and 21, but Everybody Has a Song stands out as the high water mark of the album. The best thing about the album is there are no stand-out weak tracks. "Everybody Has a Song" is a good investment for anyone interested in unsigned talent. Also, check out Spencer's new Back to School EP at www.cdbaby.com.

ok i never heard the cd but heard him live.......2003-09-11

after reading all the great reviews about spencer i'm going to make sure i get a copy of his cd the next time i see him live. i am one of the few to say i knew him way back when... i saw him for the first time, in years, last night after hearing him play live at a local shop while i waited tables outside. only after learning who i was listening to did i really get excited.
i'm sure his songs are wonderful, but i have to admit i loved hearing him sing "hey jude" live. i can't wait till i get his cd. help him along folks, he's a great guy.

Spencer is so hot.......2003-07-23

I have bought Spencer's CD and i adore everything about it. His musical talent is breathtaking, both vocally and instrumentally, and is still improving. I saw him perform live a while ago, and he is even better than on the CD. I can't wait for his next one and i wish everyone who writes pointlessly rude reviews just keep their mouths shut. thanks! spencer rocks my world!

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De Profundis Manufacturer: O.O. Discs ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Rzewski | Rzewski, Frederic | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003D8E Release Date: 1995-12-13

Tracks:

1. DeProfundis
2. Piano Piece No. IV
3. Piano Sonata: A) Allegro Moderato/B) Lento/C) Agitato
4. Winnsboro Cottom Mill Blues
5. Bonus Track
6. Bonus Track

Rap Music:

1. Money & the Power [Explicit Lyrics]
2. My Life as a Mack [Explicit Lyrics]
3. Neighborhood Creepas [Explicit Lyrics]
4. No Goats No Glory [Explicit Lyrics]
5. Northern Expozure, Vol. 2 [Explicit Lyrics]
6. Nothin But Bass
7. On Fire
8. On Point [Explicit Lyrics]
9. Platinum Underground [Explicit Lyrics]
10. Real Trues Paying Dues [Explicit Lyrics]

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