MOYA BRENNAN - AN IRISH CHRISTMAS
Carol of the Bells
[4:56]7.6 Mb
The Wexford Carol
[3:35]4.8 Mb
Deck the Halls
[3:44]5.1 Mb
Do You Hear-Don Oiche Ud I Mbeithil
[4:18]5.4 Mb
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
[3:33]4.8 Mb
Gabriels Message
[3:17]4.4 Mb
Joy to the World
[3:22]5.3 Mb
I Still Believe
[3:55]5.8 Mb
In the Bleak Midwinter
[3:57]5 Mb
Love Came Down at Christmas
[3:26]4.8 Mb
In Dulci Jubilo
[3:45]5.2 Mb
Oiche Chuin (Silent Night)
[3:38]4.3 Mb
Moya Brennan "An Irish Christmas" Album Review
Great CD
I simply love Irish versions of the carols and the way she sings it is very ethereal! Love it!
Video Moya Brennan JOY TO THE WORLD
from her album, An Irish Christmas.
MOBY - AMBIENT
My Beautiful Blue Sky
[5:18]7.6 Mb
Heaven
[8:15]11.8 Mb
Tounges
[5:37]8.1 Mb
J Breas
[2:44]3.9 Mb
Myopia
[4:45]6.8 Mb
House of Blue Leaves
[6:20]9.1 Mb
Bad Days
[2:26]3.5 Mb
Sound
[1:10]1.7 Mb
Dog
[7:34]10.9 Mb
80
[2:05]2.9 Mb
Lean on Me
[3:52]5.6 Mb
Moby "Ambient" Album Review
White man plays black
I'm giving this album 4 stars not because it has "killer" songs-though it does have good ones-but for the fact that it is very easy on the ear. Moby has a very mellow, rhythmic, black sounding album here. I don't really have the vocabulary to describe his musical influences...maybe you could list them as blues, soul and perhaps gospel. Some of his songs sound sort of school-girly...like maybe the kind of stuff you'd hear black girls skipping along to in America.
Moby melds these African American musical influences with elements of hip-hop and dance music. He also seems to sample material from the source-black men and women. I really can't say whether Moby is doing the originals justice but I can say that I like what he's done with the source material. This is another way of saying that if you are familiar with the source material you may find Moby's treatment annoying. Personally, sometimes I feel the same way about people messing with the originals. One case which changed my mind was Muddy Waters' own revisiting of his blues songs, but with a harder, rock sound [I've reviewed Waters' "Hard again" here. Found it superior to his more "classic" approach, as in "Anthology"].
Anyway, some of my favourite tracks on the album are: "Honey", "Body rock", "Natural blues", "Run on" and "If things were perfect".
"Body rock" might be the most well known song from this album and is the least "black" sounding-well, to my ears at least. It's more of a funk/rock song and thus stands out from the mood of the other songs.
There are some instrumentals on this album-around three. Also, a highlight of the album are the wonderfully poetic, spoken voice songs of "If things were perfect" and "The sky is broken". These tracks are sparse, sensual and soothing.
Overall, the tone of the album is pretty consistent: "black" music but with some modern treatment. You'll hear accoustic guitar, piano and violin, on occasion, along with electronic music-be that synthesiser, or techno beats.
Overall, this album does not overstay its welcome. 18 tracks is quite a lot for a non compilation cd, but it never really palls. Some albums I mark down for having too much padding [e.g. The Red Hot Chilli Peppers' "Blood, sugar, sex, magik"] despite having quality songs on them. This is the perfect cd to "chill out" too, as well as to bop along to, sometimes, with his catchy songs.
P.S. for some reason the rap star Eminem had a go at Moby. In one of his songs he has a lyric along the lines of "Moby you don't know me. Blow me". Not really sure what that is all about! Who started that little tiff?
Video MOBY - CHORD SONGS
I have so many music pieces to put on Youtube... so many... I think after all those Trance pieces i put, i'm going to come again to Electronica... But this does not mean i will not put Trance pieces anymore... I say to myself that i must put what i feel in the moment, and what i have near me lol Moby, i love his music since the "Play" album... There's no piece from him i don't like, and that's not the same for other djs... Perhaps, he's simply the best in Electronica, but i prefer to think that him, Airwave , ATB, Jean-Michel Jarre,Brian Eno,William Orbit, Robert Haig Coxon etc......; are ex-aequo...
ROBERT FRIPP - A BLESSING OF TEARS
The Cathedral of Tears
[6:30]7.6 Mb
First Light
[7:59]10.2 Mb
Midnight Blue
[6:06]7.6 Mb
Reflection 1
[6:06]7.5 Mb
Second Light
[7:33]8.2 Mb
A Blessing of Tears
[8:27]10.4 Mb
Returning 1
[2:12]3.2 Mb
Returning 2
[5:09]4.9 Mb
Robert Fripp "A Blessing of Tears" Album Review
Startling beauty.
Robert Fripp's "A Blessing of Tears" consists of improvised live performances from Fripp's solo soundscapes tour in the beginning of 1995. Soundscapes is a form of digital guitar looping based on Frippertronics-- tape-based guitar looping that Brian Eno concocted. Fripp performs this in many contexts, in the case of this album, as a solo performer. The music on this album is entirely improvised, with only Fripp's guitar and processing in place. The result does not sound like a solo guitar record, but closer to electronic orchestral ambient music. It is fragile and often of stunning beauty, in particular on this album-- "A Blessing of Tears" is a reflection on the death of Fripp's mother, whose eulogy (by the guitarist) is included in the liner notes.
From the opening track ("The Cathedral of Tears"), the mood is set. The piece is achingly beautiful, suggestive of loss, prodding but in a gentle way, and overall mournful. This theme and feel is developed over the next two pieces ("First Light", whose loops hint at Fripp's solo line in 2003's "The Power To Believe II" and the album's standout track, "Midnight Blue", a piece of such a delicate nature it demands its listener to stop and listen) before sort of resetting on "Reflection I", whose gentle themes provide an openness not found on the previous tracks. Again,there seems to be a trilogy of pieces on this one, as "Second Light" and "A Blessing of Tears" build on this mood and establishment. The couplet at the end of the album, "Returning I" and "Returning II", is actually the same track, only the tape is played in reverse on one of them. It is interesting to contrast the two, as they are evocative in different manners.
This is certainly the best of the 1995 soundscapes series and likely the best of Fripp's ambient catalog. If you are a fan of ambient music, or of Robert Fripp, this is essential, if you are curious, this is where to start. Highly recommended.
ABA STRUCTURE - EPIC
Deep Step
[8:34]12.3 Mb
Luna dub
[6:53]9.8 Mb
Houseboats
[9:46]14 Mb
Scrambling to Stay Ahead
[7:42]11.1 Mb
Yelo
[10:01]14.3 Mb
The Internal
[9:20]13.4 Mb
Erased
[16:14]23.4 Mb
Aba Structure "Epic" Album Review
Review
1. Deep Step (8:55)~~~ 2. Luna Dub (6:44)~~~ 3. Houseboats (9:43)~~~ 4. Scrambling To Stay Ahead (7:37)~~~ 5. Yelo (10:32)~~~ 6. The Internal (8:47)~~~ 7. Erased (16:02)~~~
