Golden Ocean

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For the die hardest fan
My 2005 favorite so far
Martha K. O'Connell, You Rock My World
rock and roll
An off-the-charts sonic explosion of true bliss.

Golden Ocean
50 Foot Wave
Manufacturer: Reincarnate Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007NMKKS
Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

Long Painting
Bone China
Pneuma
Clara Bow
Petal
Dog Days
Sally Is A Girl
El Dorado
Ginger Park
Diving
Golden Ocean

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50 Foot Wave is the mark of a woman without a shred of complacency. Former Throwing Muses front-woman Kristin Hersh is back after years of solo work and sporadic reunions. This new project finds Hersh, along with Muses bassist Bernard Georges and new drummer Rob Ahlers, cranking up and streamlining. Their self-titled EP debut was a 16 minute blast of punk rock aggression matched with Hersh's lyrical dexterity and intense vocal approach. Golden Ocean extends the formula to end up with 11 songs in 35 minutes. Always a master of idiosyncratic connections, Hersh combines disparate elements into cohesive songs, giving the listener a new view of the world--or at least insight into hers. "Long Painting," "Dog Days," "Ginger Park," and "Clara Bow" are all good examples of her fury born of experience. In fact, nearly all the songs here deal with the life-learned oxymoron of, "the more you know, the less you know". Both angry and affirming, this release shows a band gaining strength with each offering. --Robert Arambel

Customer Reviews:

For the die hardest fan.......2005-07-11

I've been a big Kristin Hersh and Throwing Muses fan for years, but this album is just not up to her usual high standards. It's got the rocking part right, but it's missing the sophistication and genuine emotion that set her and the Muses apart from their peers. (I guess you can call it the artistic part.) The songs are there, buried, it's just that *everybody* is pounding away - on every song - all the time. Yet, it doesn't feel angry or aggressive. I listen to it, and I'm like "why are you yelling?" In the end it's just fatiguing. For awhile, I thought she could do no wrong, but this, for me, is a misstep.

My 2005 favorite so far.......2005-06-26

I don't listen to hard rock (or whatever you call it) that much, I usually prefer folk, country, singer songwriters... but this "Golden Ocean" rocked my world. Lots of "good" energy (never pompous) and speed breaks, a sense of dynamics and tunes thrown in pure wildness. You can feel the urgency, and that's usually what the best rock music is about. Kristin Hersh & band have experience enough to do such music avoiding boredom and cliches. Hersh rings true and free, exploding of positive wildness. She has fun. You won't find any marketing strategy here. This music is cool and intelligent.

Martha K. O'Connell, You Rock My World.......2005-05-22

Don't sound like Throwing Muses, don't sound like Sonic Youth, don't sound like X, and it don't sound like The Pixies.

Does sound like Iron Maiden and Motorhead. I know that's NOT what K had in mind. Maybe Rob did a little, though...heh, heh, heh...

I love this very, VERY muchly. My friend Dave already ruined my first copy upon borrowing it. What could it have made him do, to do whatever he did to it? Guess I need to get copy #2 when I pick up S-K's, "The Woods" on Tuesday...

If you don't like rock 'n' roll, heavy metal, punk rock, you will NOT like this. If you like your standard-issue, mediocre ADULT-CONTEMPORARY garbage that most "mature" listeners kid themselves into believing actually emotionally speaks to their years of living and wisdom, then go pick up one of the many millions of records by pansies like Jack Johnson or Sheryl Crow.

Fall to you knees and repent if you please!!!

rock and roll.......2005-04-19

I have heard most this these 50 Footwave recordings and they seems very listenable. They are very appealing. I am not so familiar with Throwing Muses or Kristin Hersh's solo work. But I heard this record and the other one, and it seems like an amazing band. There is really nobody doing music like this. It's aggressive music with female vocals. It has big guitar riffs and screaming vocals. I just love it. I don't know enough about it. It reminds me a little of Wire "Pink Flag." It's original music that is reaching people out there in the online community.

An off-the-charts sonic explosion of true bliss........2005-03-12

Congratulations. If you've made your way to this and most other reviews of this record, it means you, too, are on the brink of discovering, imho, one of THE greatest records to come along in a LONG, LONG time. I recently read a review that said if Cobain were still alive, this is the kind of music he would put out today. I cannot imagine a higher, or more deserving, compliment. The only thing better than 50 Foot Wave's Golden Ocean, is seeing 50 Foot Wave perform it live. What a band. What a record. This is essential listening.

Relax With Ocean Surf/Sounds Of Everglades/Golden Pond

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WKA's Review of Relax with Surf/Everglades/Pond
Relaxation
Close Your Eyes and Be There
I loved it!

Relax With Ocean Surf/Sounds Of Everglades/Golden Pond
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Ent. Media Partners
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Relax with Wind Chimes/Thundering Rainstorm/Ocean Surf
Echoes of Nature: Ocean Waves
Mountain Streams
Relax With Singing Birds/Rain Forest/Mountain Streams
Thundering Rainstorm

ASIN: B00000FXO3
Release Date: 1997-10-27

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Ocean Relaxing Surf

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Sounds Of The Everglades

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Golden Pond

Customer Reviews:

WKA's Review of Relax with Surf/Everglades/Pond.......2007-02-27

I have owned a relax recording of this type for a good while and like it.
The sounds of a pond are accompanied by ocarina music. Lovely.
I imagined that Relax with Ocean Surf/Sounds of Everglades . . . would be
like that, i.e., have music accompaniment. Only the "Everglades" CD
has music, and it is rather dull, droning music.

Relaxation.......2005-10-12

The sounds on this 3 special packaged cd's all in one, are so relaxing,they make you feel as though you are right on the beach,everglades,and surrounded by water,they are so awesome!!!

Close Your Eyes and Be There.......2001-03-21

How soothing! The ocean, to me, is symbolic of Mother Nature cradling and rocking us with the ocean rocking chair. I can close my eyes and be at the ocean, river, or just a complete place of solitude when I listen to the CDs in this set.

I loved it!.......2000-06-17

I loved the set. They were all very soothing and realistic. I especially love the ocean one. It's very pretty and can put you to sleep in almost 15 minutes, if that's what you're aiming for.

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One Bizarre Recital - or Compilation!

Christine Brewer: Great Operatic Arias

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Songs by Fauré, Hahn and Head; Arias by Rossini and Handel

ASIN: B000AA4JAW
Release Date: 2005-09-20

Tracks:

Great Hall Of Song
He Threatened My Honour
Almighty Gods Of Death!
Ocean! Thou Mighty Monster
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Where Is Love's Kingdom
You'll Never Walk Alone
On My Lips Ev'ry Kiss Is Like Wine
Blessed Virgin, May The Flame Of Love
Concert Aria: 'Ah! Perfido'
Mira - Can You Imagine That?

Customer Reviews:

One Bizarre Recital - or Compilation!.......2006-10-03

The Christine Brewer is one of our more important heroic soprano voices of the time is an understatement. For those fortunate enough to have been in the presence of her performances as Isolde there can be no doubt that this is a voice of huge range, flexibility, intelligence and burnished warmth. She is most assuredly a star on the ascent.

The selection on this strange CD is puzzling: 'Great Operatic Arias' these are not. Though there are some of the big ones included ('Don Giovanni', 'Tannhäuser', 'Alceste', 'Oberon', and 'Euryanthe'), the program is fleshed out with operettas from Lehar, Kalman, and Rodgers and even some concert arias such as Beethoven's 'Ah, perfido'! Brewer is accompanied by other singers where indicated and by the London Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by David Parry. But oddly enough the works are all sung in English translations - and some of these translations are poor ones at that.

It does seem a waste of time to include 'You'll Never Walk Alone' from 'Carousel', but that particular song allows Brewer to demonstrate amply that the mezzo range is a strong comfort zone for her. Despite the odd choices of works here, what makes the album work is Brewer's extraordinarily beautiful voice. She sails over the orchestra, tossing off difficult passages with utter ease, and always reminding us that her instrument is never less than one of beautiful sound. If you can get past the English versions and the mixed bag of works she has chosen to sing, you are in for an hour of beautiful vocalizing! Just don't let this album be your introduction to this very fine artist. Grady Harp, October 06

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Singers of Imperial Russia, Vol. 4

Manufacturer: Pearl
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000WMO
Release Date: 1993-11-15

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Queen of Spades/Act 3. What Is Our Life? - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
Juive/Act 4. Rachel, Quand du Seigneur - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
Segreto - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
Donkey and the Nightingale - Fable - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
Africana/Act 4. O Paradis - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
Night ("Why Do I Love Thee, Night?"), Op. 6 No. 9 - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
A: Celeste A (Act 1) - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
Peurs de Perles/Act 1. Je Crois Entendre Encore - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
Cavalleria Rusticana/O Lola, Tu Ch'hai di Latti (Siciliana) - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
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Dubrovsky: O Give Me Oblivion - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
Queen of Spades/Act 1. Forgive Me, Bright Celestial Vision - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
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In the Wild North - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov, Vladimir Kastorsky, Maria Michailova
She Was Yours - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
Far off, Far Off - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
Demon: On Desire's Soft Fleeting Wing - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
Rusalka: Unwillingly to These Sad Shores, Prince's Cavatina (Act 1) - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
Eugene Onegin: Whither, Whither (Act 2) - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
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Princesse Lointaine: Love Is a Delightful Dream - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
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What Happiness! - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich

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Faust: Ah! Je Ris de Me Voir Si Belle en Ce Miroir (Jewel Song) - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Traviata: Ah, Fors' Lui.../Follie, Follie...Sempre Libera (Pt. 2) - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Peurs de Perles: Comme Autrefois - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Dobrynja Nikitich: Zabava's Aria - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
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Ruslan and Ljudmila: Ah, Thou My Fate - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
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Sadko: Sleep Went Along the River (Cradle Song) - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Life for the Tsar: It Is Not for That That I Grieve - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Peurs de Perles: Brahma, Grand Dieu - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
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Huguenots: O Beau Pays de la Touraine - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Mireille/O Lre Hirondell
Fra Diavolo/Quel Bonheur! - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Golden Cockerel/Hail to Thee, Sun! - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Tsar's Bride/Act 4. Mad Scene. Look There, Above Your Head - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
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I Vespri Siciliani: MercDilette Amiche - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
How Fair This Spot, Op. 21 No. 7 (Rachmaninov); the Rose and the ... - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova

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Life for the Tsar: What About a Wedding? (Act 1) - Lev Sibirjakov
Oh, If Mother Volga - Lev Sibirjakov
Why Was I Born? (Convict's Song) - Lev Sibirjakov
Askold's Tomb: In Olden Days Our Forefathers Lived - Lev Sibirjakov
Sonnambula/Act 1. VI Ravviso, O Luoghi Ameni - Lev Sibirjakov
Midnight Review - Lev Sibirjakov
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Queen of Spades: I Love You, Dear (Eletsky's Aria, Act 2) - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
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