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Delectronict2(more) »rank: 1165937by: Various Artists
Our review:Album Description:Motor City still looks deceptively empty these days, its buildings and warehouses hollow and blackened. But put your ear down close to the blasted concrete and listen: electronic music is a vital part of Detroit, and an increasingly visible one. The Detroit Electronica Coalition, founded in 1997 by CEOXiME's hEADaCHE, facilitates the production and distribution of local electronic music. Listeners dissatisfied with mass-marketed releases have proved to be an eager audience for the DEC. In the few years that have passed since the release of the first DEC compilation, ... Detail |
Forever(more) »rank: 278627by: Bruderschaft
Our review:Album Description:This project features: the famous New York DJ & promoter Rexx Arkana (lyrics), Sebastian Komor (ICON OF COIL) on music, Joakim Montelius (COVENANT) on electronic loops, Ronan Harris (VNV NATION) on vocals and Stephan Groth (APOPTYGMA BERZERK) on backing vocals and production. This first release 'Forever' is dedicated to Rexx Arkana's father: Charles Richard Millhouse who died in 1999 after having lost the battle against cancer, he was only 57 years old. Detail |
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A Gottschalk Festival(more) »rank: 64028from: Vox (Classical)
Our review: :Despite the value revisionists pretend to find in MacDowell and his contemporaries, the only really interesting 19th century American composer is the Creole Louis Moreau Gottschalk, who conquered Europe and South America with his colorful music and extravaganza piano performances. These recordings aren't new, and they don't include any of his solo piano music. But they do include some of Gottschalk's most characteristic music, in performances and recordings that are at least fairly good. It's a lot of fun for the money, and the accompanying booklet does a very good ... Detail |
Gottschalk: Piano Music for 2 and 4 hands(more) »rank: 43330from: Nimbus Records
Our review: :Disc 2 of this new collection, the solo piano pieces, has been doing good service for well over a decade. Marks plays a good variety of Gottschalk music, sparkles in the virtuoso pieces, and even manages to keep a straight face when he plays sentimental tripe like 'The Last Hope' and 'The Dying Poet.' As the only important composer produced by the U.S. in the 19th century, Gottschalk still deserves our attention, and his folk-influenced pieces are still fun to hear. Oddly, the four-hand piano recording is inferior to the ... Detail |
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Gottschalk: Piano Music for 2 Hands(more) »rank: 335098from: Nimbus Records
Our review: :This disc does a little too good a job of presenting a cross-section of Gottschalk's music. Pieces that retain their interest, flavorful folk-influenced works like Le Banjo, Pasquinade, and the delicious Civil War piece Union (which Gottschalk probably played at the White House for President Lincoln) are included. But so are sentimental drawing-room twaddle like The Last Hope and The Dying Poet, which Gottschalk may have had to write but we are entitled to forget. Alan Marks plays with flair, but the recording is so resonant it blurs detail and ... Detail |
On the Edge of Tomorrow(more) »rank: 358626by: Steve Coleman & The Five Elements
Our review: :This disc does a little too good a job of presenting a cross-section of Gottschalk's music. Pieces that retain their interest, flavorful folk-influenced works like Le Banjo, Pasquinade, and the delicious Civil War piece Union (which Gottschalk probably played at the White House for President Lincoln) are included. But so are sentimental drawing-room twaddle like The Last Hope and The Dying Poet, which Gottschalk may have had to write but we are entitled to forget. Alan Marks plays with flair, but the recording is so resonant it blurs detail and ... Detail |
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On the Edge of Tomorrow(more) »rank: 804710by: Steve Coleman & The Five Elements
Our review: :This disc does a little too good a job of presenting a cross-section of Gottschalk's music. Pieces that retain their interest, flavorful folk-influenced works like Le Banjo, Pasquinade, and the delicious Civil War piece Union (which Gottschalk probably played at the White House for President Lincoln) are included. But so are sentimental drawing-room twaddle like The Last Hope and The Dying Poet, which Gottschalk may have had to write but we are entitled to forget. Alan Marks plays with flair, but the recording is so resonant it blurs detail and ... Detail |
Sounds from the Steam Locomotive(more) »rank: 1154592by: Various Artists
Our review: :This disc does a little too good a job of presenting a cross-section of Gottschalk's music. Pieces that retain their interest, flavorful folk-influenced works like Le Banjo, Pasquinade, and the delicious Civil War piece Union (which Gottschalk probably played at the White House for President Lincoln) are included. But so are sentimental drawing-room twaddle like The Last Hope and The Dying Poet, which Gottschalk may have had to write but we are entitled to forget. Alan Marks plays with flair, but the recording is so resonant it blurs detail and ... Detail |
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Sound Effects Sampler(more) »rank: 1154592by: Various Artists
Our review: :This disc does a little too good a job of presenting a cross-section of Gottschalk's music. Pieces that retain their interest, flavorful folk-influenced works like Le Banjo, Pasquinade, and the delicious Civil War piece Union (which Gottschalk probably played at the White House for President Lincoln) are included. But so are sentimental drawing-room twaddle like The Last Hope and The Dying Poet, which Gottschalk may have had to write but we are entitled to forget. Alan Marks plays with flair, but the recording is so resonant it blurs detail and ... Detail |
Sounds from the Steam Locomotive(more) »rank: 470511by: Various Artists
Our review: :This disc does a little too good a job of presenting a cross-section of Gottschalk's music. Pieces that retain their interest, flavorful folk-influenced works like Le Banjo, Pasquinade, and the delicious Civil War piece Union (which Gottschalk probably played at the White House for President Lincoln) are included. But so are sentimental drawing-room twaddle like The Last Hope and The Dying Poet, which Gottschalk may have had to write but we are entitled to forget. Alan Marks plays with flair, but the recording is so resonant it blurs detail and ... Detail |