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Pink Martini follow the around-the-world-in-a-dozen-songs thrills of HEY EUGENE! with SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, a mellower, simpler set of small pleasures. These are relative terms, however; the group's music is still well-traveled, with China Forbes singing in five languages (English, Spanish, Neapolitan, French, and Italian) instead of the six or so on EUGENE!. However, Pink Martini opt for a more unified sound here, one that draws on the more straightforward lounge-pop of their debut, SYMPATHIQUE, and the mellowness of '60s and '70s pop. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS' first half is especially smooth, opening with the beautifully soft Neapolitan ballad "Ninna Nanna" and the title track, on which Forbes sings "I think we should take it slow" over swooping strings, brass, and piano that resurrect the glory days of AM pop; that feeling is echoed by the cover of Joe Raposo's "Sing," the Sesame Street song that gained popularity when the Carpenters performed it (Emilio Delgado, aka Sesame Street's Luis, duets with Forbes here in Spanish and English). The album's first few tracks are among its most playful, including the slinky yet winking "Ohayoo Ohio" and the French confection "Ou Est Ma Tete?" While Pink Martini gets almost too cute for their own good with "And Then You're Gone" and "But Now I'm Back," a pair of songs about a quarreling couple inspired by Franz Schubert's "Fantasy Piano for Four Hands" and featuring NPR justice correspondent Ari Shapiro on the latter's vocals, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS' second half is among their finest work. "Over the Valley" is a standout, a ballad so timelessly sweet that it seems like it must be a long-lost standard the group just blew the dust off of, but it's ...
| | Buena Vista Social Club DVD (1999)
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 $7.09 
No one can recall exactly where the Buena Vista Social Club once stood in pre- revolutionary Havana but Wim Wenders's documentary of a dozen legendary musicians resurrects the magnificent ...
| | Celtic Woman New Journey CD (2007)
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$15.19
The chart-busting Celtic Woman are a group of vocalists whose thrilling harmonies and fiery interpretations of traditional and modern folk songs have charmed an international audience. What distinguishes Celtic Woman from other Irish folk groups is the clever way they weave their emerald webs around even the unlikeliest songs. So in addition to fife-and-fiddle rave-ups like "Dualaman" and "Carrickfergus," the women lend their dynamic choral singing ...
| | John Mcdermott Timeless Memories: Greatest Hits CD (2006)
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$11.45
Track Listing of songs: Try to Remember; ...
| | Claude Challe Buddha-Bar, Vol. II CDs
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$42.69 
Claude Challe's Buddha-Bar, Vol. II compilation has elements of Far Eastern spirituality, African song, European electronica, and Spanish spice. The first album, Buddha-Bar, is very mellow for the most part. Deepak Chopra and Demi Moore, far and away the most recognizable names on the album, do a spoken word ditty on love and self-worth. People who are not fans of new age doctrine will appreciate artists such as Oliver Shanti and Consuelo Luz, both of whom contribute songs that manage to sound musical, spiritual and ethnic at once. The second album varies from hallucinatory to groovy to fairly high-energy. "Tears Inshalla" will appeal to fans of Eastern-influenced trance. Lyrics are of almost no importance on the album. They do exist on most tracks, but they bounce around from English to Portuguese to Arabic. Bits and pieces and snatches of phrases come through here and there -- just enough to make a listener feel in sync with it all. This music is intended to be an ambient journey, and while a few of the tracks seem to stray off into Never Never Land, the majority of them should appeal to fans of worldbeat. ~ L. Katz
2004 reissue of the second installment in the Buddha Bar series. After the success of the first Buddha Bar mix by Claude Challe, the customers at the Paris bar may pay less attention to what's on their plate, concerned more with the background music and ambience which accompanies it. Challe proposes with Buddha Bar II the pleasure of reliving at home the insane nights of a magical place. He becomes a master in the art of interbreeding the ethnic rhythms of India, the Caribbean and North Africa mixed with electronica as if it were a postcard of an epic voyage. The music oscillates between the lightness of talented ...
| | Mariza Concerto Em Lisboa CD (2006) Bonus DVD
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$15.09
It was perhaps time for the obligatory live album from fado's big new star, but this was more than a gig, it was a huge concert in Lisbon. Mariza cherry-picks material from her three albums, and there's some fine stuff to choose from on Concerto em Lisboa. Her usual sympathetic group is augmented by strings, but there's never any danger of them swamping the sound; the arrangements on material like "Menino do Barrio Negro" are so subtle and sublime that they color the edges of the piece instead, gently enhancing the mood. Mariza herself shows how well she's developed as a singer, rarely letting her voice carry her away, and showing the control over the crowd that comes with stardom. ...
| | Ustad Khan Ustad Sultan Khan & Anuradha Pal CD (1996)
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$12.09
| | Antonio Marcos CD (2006) (Import) Brazil
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$15.25
| | Mike West New South CD (2003)
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$9.25
Folksinger Mike West lays down his mantra in the opening cut, "Dixie," on New South: "I don't suffer fools and I don't play Dixie." West mixes his left-of-center humor with fairly straightforward arrangements (if one doesn't count the tuba) for 18 original songs. "Dogs and Ticks" includes a number of circular stories, each starting simply and building toward amusing catastrophe. The dogs get ticks, which leads to lime disease; the narrator buys weed, which leads to getting busted. However, all turns out well when the narrator finds Jesus, which gets him saved -- and "being saved got me praying/Now I got to behave." West paints a sardonic portrait of the New South on the album's title cut, a land occupied by "fraternity boys and sorority girls" along with lots of folks from up north. Despite all the changes, everything seems pretty much the same: "In the New South like the Old South/Speak your mind but shut your mouth/When you're talking about the New South." West's skewed point of view works less well on pieces like "Clothes Dryer" and "Muleskinner," songs ...
| | Shinborisaori Aino Izm Prince Of Tennis On Radio (2006) (Import) Japan
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$12.95
After a handful of delays, the big-eared one returns in a big way with his highly anticipated first release on Bad Boy Records, LET'S GET PHYSICAL. Under Sean "Diddy" Combs's hit-making tutelage, Elephant ...
| | Loi Des Cactus CD (2008) (Import) Import
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$18.39
| | Surf Sluts Scareytale In Old York CD (2007)
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$12.69
Rock is safe - its raw edges have been sanded away by Black and Decker - that is until you come face to face with the Surf Sluts. They are the antithesis of safe rock. The Sluts draw their influence from stuff that few people know, influences that are found limping deep in the back-stage shadows of rocks deeper slime-filled cellars.(Zircon Mercedes)Musically you cannot fault the Surf Sluts, they're tight and professional and have their chaos well structured. It's generally fun but it genuinely is great surf music albeit performed by northern white trash rednecks whose music is guaranteed to make you dance until you're sick and in a cold sweat.(Ollie - www.astro-zombie.com)'Scarytale In Olde York' is this years Christmas number one ...
| | Great Summer Games Stuff CDs (2008) Import
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