With the Tides [Enhanced]

Product Description
South's 2003 album showcases the band's evolution as musicians and songwriters and introduces a more mature sound. Produced by Dave Eriga (Idlewild, Ash, Manic Street Preachers). Kinetic.

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With the Tides [Enhanced]

Average customer rating: Solid Album, Solid Group, Worth a Listen! (four and a half stars) Listen and appreciate Magnificent from start to finish! Brilliant stuff! Better than Coldplay, don't miss this record!

With the Tides South Manufacturer: Kinetic Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: From Here On In Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars Speed Up/Slow Down Breathe Lost Souls ASIN: B0000AM6O8 Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. Motiveless Crime
2. Colours in Waves
3. Loosen Your Hold
4. Natural Disasters
5. Fragile Day
6. Nine Lives
7. Same Old Story
8. Mend These Trends
9. Silver Sun
10. Straight Lines to Bad Lands
11. What I Find
12. Threadbare

Album Description

South's 2003 album showcases the band's evolution as musicians and songwriters and introduces a more mature sound. Produced by Dave Eriga (Idlewild, Ash, Manic Street Preachers). Kinetic.

Customer Reviews:

Solid Album, Solid Group, Worth a Listen!.......2007-01-12

'South' is one of those artists that you are either going to like, or dislike. I would not liken it to the extent that 'Boards of Canada' can segregate music listeners, but there are definitely some bits of their music that may make you shy away.

'With The Tides' starts out with a bit of a slow touch and moves onto Tracks 03 and 04, which are quite strong. The albums flows well and is a very enjoyable listen for many occasions. 'Silver Sun' is also a strong track which brings a bit of a 'Beetles' feel to it.

I highly recommend this album for those that like ambient music and indie (hard to use this word with them) with a bit of a post-rock feel.

Favorite Tracks: Track 03, Track 04, Track 06, Track 09

(four and a half stars) Listen and appreciate.......2006-12-27

It's quite difficult to classify South -- perhaps similar in some ways to the shoegazer genre of Ride and Catherine Wheel, or maybe more like the Britpop of the Stone Roses and Charlatans UK. No matter who they're compared to however, one thing's for certain, South is a terrific band, and, to this reviewer, "With the Tides" is even better than their debut "From Here On In," which was very good indeed. Complex textured instrumentation with soaring vocals and choruses -- almost every song on "Tides" is a winner.

The first three songs set the stage for everything that follows and provides the listener with the range of the band. "Colours in Waves," might be my second favorite South song -- just behind "Paint the Silence" from "Here On In." "Natural Disasters," has an almost Beatlesque feel (think a more pop version of "Strawberry Fields Forever"). Like the Beatles, South isn't afraid to experiment with sound not normally associated with a rock and roll. Check out the harp in "Nine Lives," or the harpsichord in "Loosen Your Hold." "Same Old Story" could have been South's break-out song, as it's perhaps more "hit" oriented than the others, but the the essence of the band isn't compromised at all.

Songs 8 through 11 take the listener down gently with a more mellow approach, but the closer, "Threadbare," has a harder edge, almost reminiscent of Radiohead, as if South's telling us not to get too comfortable.

"With the Tides" has no weak songs and is quite incredible in its consistency. I would have awarded the album five stars if "Paint the Silence" was included on it rather than the prior album; but, even without this song, it just misses the top rating in my opinion.

Magnificent from start to finish!.......2006-10-11

I was awe-struck the first time I heard this album. This was my introduction to South, and I was blown away. If you are new to this one, this is a great starting point. The whole disc is a masterpiece.
The best way to listen to this album is on a cool, end of summer night's drive with the windows down, and the sound UP!
Have I mentioned this album is great?? It is! buy it!

Brilliant stuff!.......2006-05-09

I'd say With the Tides and Parachutes are my favourite records since OK Computer.
Isn't that enough?

Better than Coldplay, don't miss this record!.......2006-02-25

Heard about South 2 years ago, but didn't purchase this album until a few months ago. Was unimpressed with Coldplay's "X & Y" album, with its rather overpolished feel and sound, and the word across the internet was that South, who many compared to Coldplay, had a better album out. There's an understatement! Lyrically and instrumentally, I found South more expansive, creative and willing to take more chances with the melodies. Simply beautiful to listen to, this album is something I put on and play all the way through - a rarity for me. While the band members are still quite young - and it sometimes shows - the obvious talent they show in this album makes me not just a fan but really looking forward to see what they produce in the future.

Average customer rating: sonic~textural~evokative

Rivers and Tides: Working With Time Manufacturer: Winter & Winter ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides Clearing Step Across the Border Touch the Sound - A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie Volta ASIN: B0000953PX Release Date: 2003-08-05

Tracks:

1. Part I.
2. Part II.
3. Part III.
4. Part IV.
5. Part V.
6. Part VI.
7. Part VII.
8. Part VIII.

Customer Reviews:

sonic~textural~evokative.......2003-08-19

Stunning minimalism with sonorous spice. With the first handful of notes played in the beginning of the sound score for this film, I knew straight away that I must have this music in my collection. The film is wonderful enough as is, however, adding Frith's magical composing makes the film and Andy Goldsworthy's work all the more intriguing. I am familiar with Frith's work along side John Zorn, but this is another level. Thanks to Amazon we're able to have this at lower price! One last thing, the packaging of this CD is also quite unique, very inventive.

Average customer rating: Alchemy Amateurish Exciting Discovery Enjoy the CD thoroughly Not the worst, not the best

Everchanging Tides Kristine Robin Manufacturer: Cedar Tree Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0001CVE84 Release Date: 2003-11-01

Tracks:

1. Sacred Night
2. Dawn
3. Everchanging Tides
4. The Quiet Lands of Erin
5. One is the Sun
6. Hold Me
7. Seacht nDolas na Maighdine Muire (The Seven Sorrows of Mary)
8. Winds of Time
9. By Your Side
10. Tha Mi Sgith (A Faerie Love Song)
11. The Dark and Light
12. A-Hay, A-Ho (Thank You in Arapaho)

Album Description

Have you ever had the experience where uncanny events just happen, as if some other force were choreographing them? If you know what I'm talking about, then you can relate to the title track "Everchanging Tides" from Kristine Robin's new release.

Throughout the album, vivid pictures depicted through haunting harmonies take you on a journey through Robin's life. A life influenced by early teen years spent in a Scottish fishing village, the Appalachian Mountains, and then later in Native American ceremonies conducted by her adopted Arapaho dad.

An eclectic array of musical influences, from the lush harmonies of Celtic ballads to the emotional appeals of Sarah McLaughlin, have built Robin's style of thought provoking, moody, and melodic tunes and lyrics. Although Robin exudes a magical sense of nature and spirit, it's not just about elusive concepts. It's the everyday nitty-gritty-relationship-integrity struggles we all deal with. Like an unrequited love lost in the "Winds of Time," we can yearn to go back, but in the end we must reconcile ourselves to the life we have chosen.

Robin has skillfully blended the modern trends with her Celtic, Appalachian, and Native American influences to create a soothing but progressive sound laced with folkish overtones. "I want to help connect people to a place of reverence in their everyday lives." These words become three dimensional when you listen to the song track "A-Hay, A-Ho," which takes the stories she learned in the tipi, sets them into a lush Appalachian style tune, then wraps them up in a contemporary arrangement.

When you set all esoteric concepts aside, Kristine Robin's album is there for you to sit back and allow the melodic chords and harmonies to lull you into another realm. Are you listening…Can you feel the Gaelic breezes, the Arapaho fire, the emotional waves as they ripple across your fingertips?

Go ahead…try.

Customer Reviews:

Alchemy.......2005-10-15

Like any truly resonant work of art, this music not only evokes the experiences of the creator, but creates an alchemy in the mind of the audience, calling forth one's own dreams and memories. Many of these songs weave such strong moods that I can listen to them over and over.

"The Quiet Lands of Erin," one of my favorite tracks, is haunting and evocative. I have a lovely version on an old LP, but I prefer Kristine's new rendition. The simple sounds of water, birds, and the laughter of children set the scene of a pristine, isolated, rocky shore imprinted deep in the memory, and a love of place as romantic as any human love. The mournful harmonies of Kristine's voice and gentle, unobtrusive instrumentals fuse perfectly with the melancholy longing of the words.

In "One Is the Sun," the exotic drone of a didgeridoo quickly pulls you into a sort of child's rhyme/environmental prayer, combining the reassuring simplicity and soothing tunes of lullaby with all-too-observant words warning of the danger of our present path, as "two-hearted people," and a heartfelt Cheyenne prayer from Kristine's adoptive grandfather adding spiritual resonance.

"Winds of Time," my other favorite track, for me paints a strong, poignant picture, half imagination, half memory. The subtle percussion seems to echo raindrops on the window pane or crackling fire in the room behind, pressing one's face against the cool glass pane, looking out into a dim present scene and still seeing and feeling the emotion for a love from the past. Here again, a synthesis of mood, melody, instrumentation, and the meaning of the words show a true artist at work--one whose future creations I look forward to.

Reading some of these reviews reminds me once again of how subjective taste is, especially in the aesthetic area, and what it is I think a review should hopefully accomplish--point out the strengths and weaknesses of a work for the benefit of artist, but more particularly, for the audience. I.e., it is all very well to express one's love or hate for something, but more useful to help others figure out whether they will love or hate it.

The dislike of reviewers who criticize this lovely CD for being what it is, rather than something else, seems rather pointless to me, but I do agree with one thing: The best way to know if you will enjoy Kristine's music is to listen to the available audio samples before buying. In fact, I rarely buy a CD anymore if audio samples are not available. On Amazon, you can get free downloads of three of the songs that are fairly representative of the different types of music on this album--an original, contemporary piece (By Your Side), a Celtic piece (Quiet Lands of Erin), and an original, Native American-themed piece (Sacred Night). However, in my opinion, Sacred Night is not the strongest such piece on the album; the lyrics are not as interesting as in other original songs. I prefer One is the Sun (see detailed comments above) and the title piece, Everchanging Tides. Samples of more of the songs are also available at the CD Baby website, including those two, as well as Seacht n'Dolas na Maighdine Muire (The Seven Sorrows of Mary), one of the traditional Celtic songs sung in Gaelic. There is also more information available at the artist's website (which I accessed directly via CD Baby), including a link to a new online video to the song One is the Sun, which I also really enjoyed.

Amateurish.......2005-06-30

I was very, very disappointed in this CD. I bought it based upon the recommendations here at Amazon, but it makes me wonder....I recommend from now on to listen to a snippet before you buy. Her voice just sounded very, very amateurish to me. It sounded like so typically of somebody singing at a small town country fair. I wish her luck, but I think she will have an appeal to people looking for the same ol', same ol' small town overly trilled voice.

Exciting Discovery.......2005-06-07

There's something extraordinarily exciting about finding a new talent, especially in unexpected places. I first heard Kristine's voice at a Celtic faire and thought, "I love this woman's voice. I hope she records someday." Three or four years later, my wife brought home Kristine Robin's EVERCHANGING TIDES. My first thought after hearing it for the first time was, "This is surely a voice that was shaped by angels!" It was obvious that Kristine had matured and perhaps had some great voice training since I first heard her. This was far better than I remembered. There are several places in this CD where Kristine's solos soar exquisitely, and in soaring they carry me as if on wings. I dislike that overused word "transformative," but it accurately describes what I experience. Coming from many different influences, from Native American to Celtic, this CD has a special texture all its own--which may puzzle or even confuse some purists. But when you take this CD in as a whole, it actually showcases the wide range of a singer and song writer whose talent cannot be confined to any single tradition. My wife and I have purchased over 20 copies of this CD over the past year or so, to give to friends. All I ever hear is raves from the people who've received these gifts. If you are excited by discovering new talent, I highly recommend this artist. The production itself is highly professional in every way, from the cover to the notes to the recordering quality itself.

Enjoy the CD thoroughly.......2005-05-04

When I first heard this heartfelt and moving music, I was caught in it's spell. Taken as a whole I feel there is a healing quality to this debut work of art. The individual songs themselves transported me to so many different places; it reminds me of the musical lushness created by Peter Gabriel or Loreena McKennitt. (There are clips of all the songs on her website at KristineRobin.com.)

The CD is a mix of her influences: Native American inspired (Tracks- 1, 2, 5, & 12), Celtic (her overall vocals and there are 3 traditional pieces - tracks 3, 7, & 10), Appalachian (she uses a mountain dulcimer and the last song is arranged Appalachian style), and her own contemporary writing and compositions (All the tracks but 3, 7, & 10). The songs flow through the different styles or influences very nicely.

The CD booklet is a whole other world to explore, with images and stories to support the songs. It turns out the album is a personal look into some fascinating experiences the artist has had, which she shares with us. This is the case with the title track "Everchanging Tides." Here, the verses are actually different experiences she has had where simple events became poignant because of the amazing timing and interaction between people and the natural world. I got the chills after reading the story in the booklet and listening to it again.

After listening to the CD a few times, the words and melodies played over again and again in my head. I found the harmonies and voices haunting and captivating. The instrumentation throughout feels just right, whether it is her Appalachian lap dulcimer creating a magical undercurrent, her penny whistle creating soaring sensations, or the viola's rich voice speaking to us. I can really see the inspiration for the sense of moodiness she creates in "The Quiet Lands of Erin," having myself spent time in Scotland near where she lived. The whole CD creates a wonderful progression which I have listened to on headphones, enjoyed as background music during a small get together of friends, and even heard played over a PA at a business expo (strange but true.)

The overall feeling is gentle and moving. The songwriting is quite nice. The effect is a very healing one.

Just so you know, I am one of those people who love to listen to the words. Oh, by the way, I also got the lyrics through the music page on the artists website.

I enjoy the CD thoroughly.

Not the worst, not the best.......2005-03-28

There is really good Celtic music out there. This is not one of them. There is really bad Celtic music out there. This is not one of them. Well yeah there are some really bad songs you will just skip but there are a few songs I thought were okay. Still all things considered if I were to give a suggestion it would be to try something else.

Average customer rating: Crumb, Ustvolskaya? No: Cowell was there before. Piano music of stupendous imagination and invention, way ahead of its time definintely not suitable for children, one song inparticular .

Piano Music Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sound Forms For Piano Henry Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music, Vol. 1 New Musical Resources Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 8; Makrokosmos Books I & II, Otherwordly Resonances Henry Cowell: Persian Set ASIN: B000001DM0 Release Date: 1994-02-01

Tracks:

1. The Tides Of Manaunaun
2. Exultation
3. Harp Of Life
4. Lilt Of The Reel
5. Advertisment (Third Encore To Dynamic Motion)
6. Antimony (Fourth Encore To Dynamic Motion)
7. Aeolian Harp And Sinister Resonance
8. Anger Dance
9. The Banshee
10. Fabric
11. What's This (First Encore To Dynamic Motion)
12. Amiable Conversation (Second Encore To Dynamic Motion)
13. Fairy Answer
14. Jig
15. Snows Of Fujiyama
16. Voice Of Lir
17. Dynamic Motion
18. The Trumpet Of Angus Og
19. Tiger
20. Henry Cowell's Comments

Amazon.com

Henry Cowell, a few years before his death in 1965, chose and recorded 20 of his own piano pieces, going from his first composition (1912), spreading out over 20 more years, and, more importantly, over the width, breadth, and depth of the piano itself. The pioneer in prepared piano techniques, Cowell's approach, at times, is really an attack--he strikes with elbows, climbs inside and plucks strings, uses his entire fist on the keys as a way of changing harmonic direction. Amidst this modern mayhem lands strong marching melodies and charging, bright clusters of chords. The piano, as a response, grumbles, rolls, and purrs, and even Cowell's gentle stroking of the keys can sound like thunder. His techniques were so groundbreaking and unidentifiable that even Bartok wrote to ask Cowell's permission in order to experiment with clusters himself. --Robin Edgerton

Album Description

Cowell (1897-1965) invented ways to play the piano that no one had ever considered. Taking the whole world of music as his inheritance, Cowell created music which covered a wider range of expression and technique than that of any other American composer. Reissue of Folkways 3349. "A revealing reissue...You'd be thoroughly pleased you asked him into your house."-Classical Pulse

Customer Reviews:

Crumb, Ustvolskaya? No: Cowell was there before. Piano music of stupendous imagination and invention, way ahead of its time.......2007-03-25

I had come across the music of Henry Cowell through various collections including some of his orchestral and chamber works (some of his Hymn and Fuguing Tunes and symphonies, recently his Violin and Piano Sonata), but these are mostly conservative pieces (by the 1940s, after four years of incarceration at the Saint Quentin State Prison on a "morals" charge - he was bisexual - Cowell had completely changed his compositional outlook, as the pastoral, "prairie"-style 1946 Violin and Piano Sonata bears witness). I had read in the textbooks about "Cowell the cutting edge experimenter and innovator" from the 10s to 30s, but this is my first encounter with his early piano music. I wish I hadn't waited so long.

It is simply stupendous.

Many of these pieces are based on fairly simple modal folk or folk-inspired melodies, most of the times of Irish origin (the disc also contains a Japanese "Snows of Fujiyama"). Sometimes, in the music's chorale-like writing, you could be hearing a Busoni Bach-transcription ("Harp of Life"), Mussorgky's "The Great Gates of Kiev" ("Voices of Lir") or Albeniz' Iberia ("The Trumpet of Angus Og"). But then what you get as "accompaniment" (I am not sure it is the proper word) is breathtaking: deep tone clusters sometimes reaching two-octaves, as in "The Tides of Manaunaun", "Harp of Life" and "Voice of Lir", sounding like the deep rumbling or moaning of some mythological Celt God. Likewise, the tone-clusters of "Snows of Fujiyama" conjure a mysterious sound-world where the voices of nature intermingle with evocations of oriental bells with their complex and non-tempered overtones (there is also some of that in "Antinomy", where at one point the right hand apparently arpeggiates the keys so to produce the sound of a strummed harp.)

At its most exuberantly pounding Cowell's writing sounds like the early piano music of George Antheil, as in the dazzling "Advertisement" - but that was written some years before Antheil's piano sonatas - "Antinomy", "Amiable Conversation", "Jig" - but there is more to Cowell than pounding.

It is music of incredible evocative power and poetic invention. Cowell's appetite for bringing the inside of the piano out (quite literally, some times) results in uniquely eerie sonorities. I had thought George Crumb had invented the various techniques of string strumming and of altering the tone quality of the piano strings being struck by the hammers by placing the fingers at various points directly on the strings, as with guitar or violin. Not so: it is all there in Cowell, as early as the late 10s (try "Aeolian Harp", "Fairy Answer", "Sinister Resonance" and the mesmerizing "Banshee", of which it is difficult to think that it has NOT been composed by Crumb in the early '70s). I had thought that obsessive and angrily violent cluster pounding was a trademark of Shostakovich's maverick protégée Galina Ustvolskaya - no, it is all there in Cowell's "Antinomy" from 1914 (revised in 1959), in his 1916 "Dynamic motion" and his "Tiger" (c. 1928).

Though apparently Cowell "backdated" some of his early compositions, in an attempt to make them seem even more precociously innovative than they already were, to think that a 19 year-old youth was capable of such unbridled invention as marks the 1916 "Dynamic Motion" simply defies the imagination. There is something deeply moving about the sad fate of the early American modernists. The early 20th century United States harbored a string of great innovators - to Cowell one can add Ornstein, Antheil, Ives, to name but a few - that should have been greeted and hailed as beacons of a new era. Instead, they had to fight against an unwelcoming musical environment which ultimately succeeded in stifling or silencing their unique creative personalities. They were, of course, "rediscovered" from the 50s onwards (though, judging from this disc, Cowell's piano music doesn't nearly get the exposure it deserves). They were ahead of their times.

After about 48 minutes of music, the disc is topped off my an invaluable 13-minutes of commentaries by Cowell himself on the compositions featured therein, delivered with his inimitable accent. There can be no end to the praise that Folkways deserves for recording the composer playing his own works in 1963 (and the Smithsonian for reissuing it on CD), about two and ½ years before his death. He plays with awe-inspiring virtuosity. The 1963 tapes haven't aged so well, with some tape hiss that I don't find obtrusive but also numerous dropouts that are more annoying. But this drawback is of no weight in comparison to the musical and historical importance of the this recording, which belong to any collection of 20th century music. Don't wait as long as I did!

definintely not suitable for children, one song inparticular.......2003-03-16

I bought this CD, and I ended up throwing it in the bin the very next day. I bought it and I'm a bit of a ghost freak and I saw the song "Banshee," I put the record in and skimmed over to listen to it. I couldn't move I was white with terror. Henry Cowell is a good composer and all, but his songs are petrifying. I went over to my friends house and told him about the CD. He told me to bring it over. As I put the CD in the player. My friends 5-year-old sister came in and Screech went the song and as if the song were a magical spell, Alakazam! The sister went screaming with terror crying all the way up the stairs and daren't come back down until it was established that I had left the house, which I did immediately. I don't think anyone should waste their money on this. It is an unsuitable collection of screech, screech, ooo, I hate that sound.

........2000-01-22

Put a kid in front of a piano and the first thing they do is slam their fists onto the keys, creating an awful racket. That's what Henry Cowell as a mature composer earlier this century; he named the technique "tone clusters" and subsequently got famous for it. But that's not all: he reached inside the piano, plucked and strummed the strings creating eerie and gorgeous siren-like and harp-like noises. He often twisted the instrument into sounding like a full gamelan orchestra. Cage, Stockhausen, Zappa, Cecil Taylor and others took Cowell's cue and brought these techniques to radical extremes later in the century. This disc, recorded in 1963 shortly before his death, features Cowell at the piano banging out 19 short selections. The disc finishes with a fascinating blow-by-blow commentary where he described each selection on the disc and how he came to compose these revolutionary works

Average customer rating:

Toru Takemitsu: Between Tides and Other Chamber Music Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Takemitsu | Takemitsu, Toru | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Takemitsu: Requiem; Twill by Twilight ASIN: B00005MGAO Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

1. Romance
2. Distance De Fee, SJ1050
3. Hika
4. Pno Pieces For Children, SJ1123: Breeze
5. Pno Pieces For Children, SJ1123: Clouds
6. Rain Tree Sketch, SJ1010
7. From Far Beyond Chrysanthemums And November Fog, SJ1014
8. Orion, SJ1019
9. Litany-In Memory Of Michael Vyner, SJ1057: I. Adagio
10. Litany-In Memory Of Michael Vyner, SJ1057: II. Lento Misterioso
11. Rain Tree Sketch II, SJ1072
12. Between Tides, SJ1091

Average customer rating:

At War With The Moon Rane Manufacturer: Product of Tides ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0009U846I

Product Description

Created by Moonlight Entertainment & Sales

Average customer rating: Great Album, Horrible Price

With the Tides South Manufacturer: Bmg Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000AZSSF Release Date: 2003-12-30

Tracks:

1. Motiveless Crime
2. Colours in Waves
3. Loosen Your Hold
4. Natural Disasters
5. Fragile Day
6. Nine Lives
7. Same Old Story
8. Mend These Trends
9. Silver Sun
10. Straight Lines to Badlands
11. What I Find
12. Threadbare
13. Too Much Too Soon [*]
14. Estimation [*]

Album Description

Japanese edition of 2003 album, features 14 tracks, including 2 exclusive bonus tracks, 'Too Much Too Soon' & 'Estimation'. Kinetic.

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

Great Album, Horrible Price.......2007-01-24

South's second album offers a more polished sound than the lo-fi dreamscape rock that was par for the first album. Most of the reviews on the Amazon page for the standard release describe this album very well. Anyone who owns that first album might notice that one of the two bonus tracks ("Too Much Too Soon") is actually a track taken from that album. The other bonus track is nice, but not worth the hefty import price, unless you can pick it up used like I did. Stick with the standard release and you will not be disappointed.

Final Analysis: (+5) stars for content, (-2) for price = 3 stars

Average customer rating: Mend those "Trends

With the Tides South Manufacturer: Sanctuary ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001EMVXO Release Date: 2004-03-29

Tracks:

1. Motiveless Crime
2. Colours in Waves
3. Loosen Your Hold
4. Natural Disasters
5. Fragile Day
6. Nine Lives
7. Same Old Story
8. Mend These Trends
9. Silver Sun
10. Straight Lines to Bad Lands
11. What I Find
12. Threadbare

Album Details

Produced by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Ash, Idlewild). Captures the Raw Energy of their Live Shows While Condensing it all Into 12 Tracks of Timeless Pop.

Customer Reviews:

Mend those "Trends.......2004-11-18

The atmospheric, sweeping sound of South's "With the Tides" is hard to take in at one sitting. It's thoughtful, pensive and a bit dismal, and slowly strips itself away to show the Brit-rockers' maturation as musicians. It's a bit darker and more stripped down than their debut, and has its passion welling up through the cracks.

It starts off with the solid mixture of rippling sound and sharp percussion in "Motiveless Crime." Then it shifts into two main types of music: the thunderstorm rock of "Colours in Crime" and "Natural Disasters," and the rich, eerie pop of "Loosen Your Hold" and "Nine Lives." The songs tend to blend more orchestral music with solid Brit-rock.

Things take a slightly different, less organic direction with the shimmering, plaintive pop of "Silver Sun," mellow electronica-rock, and surreal, compelling "Straight Lines to Badlines." After the gentle melody of "What I Find," South explodes into a whirlwind of sound with "Threadbare," full of howling, sweeping distortion that builds steadily to a crescendo.

South straddles the line between dreampop and the Stone Roses, which sounds like a disaster in the making. But it's not. "With the Tides" is quietly moody, thoughtful, with a vaguely rainy tone. It's not terribly catchy either, and it loses some of that Stone Roses vibe of "From Here On In." Instead, South goes for the atmospheric sound, keeping their textured riffs and complex instrumentation, but weaving the threads in a totally new pattern.

Obviously it's got the usual rock mix -- percussion, guitar, bass, and keyboards. And they do wonderful things with them, blending electronic flourishes in with their more stripped-down guitar rock. But they also give extra depth to their music by weaving in some orchestral grandeur, such as a harpsichord and string accompaniment.

Joel Cadbury's vocals have lost some of their laddish quality. He doesn't sound like a pub-crawler here, but lost and wounded. And there's a similar feel to the songwriting itself. It's very melancholy, but edged with a sort of forlorn optimism: "From this fear there may come light/stretch me out over this divide."

South dodges the sophomore slump with the polished, compelling "With the Tides." Don't expect a carbon copy of their first album -- just expect a rich mix of the majestic and the mournful.

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Stumble In Dave Lemon Manufacturer: Off The Vine Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006PIN6C Release Date: 2004-12-14

Tracks:

1. Relax
2. Standing On Stilts
3. Stumbled In
4. Cell
5. Plasma Junkie
6. Remember
7. Freedom Of Choice
8. Some Girls
9. Job Hopper
10. Freaky Freddie
11. Cell (radio edit)

Album Description

Dave Lemon's debut album - Stumble In, has a powerpop/pop-punk vibe that reverberates with catchy lyrics amongst a tide of melodic energy, which rides above quirky and sometimes dark undercurrents. The album celebrates good times and conveys dark moments with a glimpse of hope for a better future.

Dave Lemon turns experiences, observations, and social conditions into a lyrical story that is brutally honest, be it funny or serious. The signature sound is unique and memorable. Ride the edge with Stumble In this season!

Recorded at Hanzsek Audio, Seattle.
Mixed at Stir Audio, Seattle.
Recorded, engineered, mixed by Pat Gray.
Produced by Pat Gray & David Lemon.

Mastered at The Shack, Seattle.

(c)2004 Off The Vine Records

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Strange Tides EP Rick Hanson Manufacturer: Crystal Disc Music Publishing ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000CA8S2U Release Date: 2005-08-01

Tracks:

1. I'm Ready For You
2. Sax in the Evening
3. Escape Pod Love
4. Strange Tides

Product Description

An eclectic mix of modern rock and smooth jazz with heartfelt lyrics and inventive melodies.

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10. An Innocent Man [Enhanced] [Original recording remastered]

Rap Music

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