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Essential Music | List Price | $16.99 (You save $1.24) | | Category | World Albums, French CDs | | Label | Phantom | | CD Universe Part number | 7626157 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 04, 2008 | | Additional Info | Import |
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Purchase Essential CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Pink Martini Splendor In The Grass CD (2009) Digipak
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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, ...
| | Buena Vista Social Club DVD (1999)
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No one can recall exactly where the Buena ...
| | Celtic Woman New Journey CD (2007)
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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. ...
| | Richard Harris Macarthur Park CD (1997)
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MACARTHUR PARK goes beyond the famous hit title track to explore the recorded work of stage and screen actor Richard Harris, including his versions of "Paper Chase" and "Name Of My Sorrow."
This CD reissue from England is almost (but not quite) identical to Raven Records' Richard Harris: The Webb Sessions 1968-69 from Australia, combining the contents of the albums A Tramp Shining and The Yard Went on Forever. The difference is the absence of the last Richard Harris-Jimmy Webb collaboration, "One of the Nicer Things," which appeared as a free-standing single in 1969. Alan Hodgson's annotation is slightly less informative than the notes by Jimmy Webb on the Raven CD. On the other hand, this disc is also about $3-$5 cheaper, so budget-minded fans may appreciate it. As for the sound, it is superior to any of the LP versions of A Tramp Shining, with Webb's reliance on stereo separation for important timbral effects coming through bright and sharp throughout -- a small, muted string orchestra coming up opposite an electric guitar and bass on one song, an electric piano or harpsichord tinkling from one speaker, while a big-scale orchestra pumps out rich horn playing from the other. Moreover, at this late date, the background chorus on "If You Must Leave My Life" sounds amazingly like the Fifth Dimension -- their radiant singing and clear, upbeat sound recalls the pop-soul work of that group. Either this CD or the Webb Sessions CD is preferable to the domestic A Tramp Shining CD, which is inferior in ...
| | Claude Challe Buddha-Bar, Vol. II CDs
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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 ...
| | Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers Bible Stories CD (1995)
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| | Monica All Eyez On Me CD (2002) Bonus Tracks; Japan
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| | Cleopatra Cafe, Vol. 2 CDs (2004)
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| | Hekiru Shiina Clear Sky CD (2005)
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| | My Unit Yasai Okoku CD (2005) (Import) Japan
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| | Meissnitzer Band Aufi Aufn Berg CD (Import)
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| | Daniel Santos Sentimental Y Alegre CD (2008)
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| | Jayson Buonaspetta My Life CD (2008)
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| | Jennifer Perri He Mele Aloha: Songs Of Love CD (2009)
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$12.15
Jennifer PerriAt the age of eight, Honolulu-born singer/songwriter Jennifer Perri began making a name for herself. Using singing and dancing skills she performed on Hawaiian TV shows and made various theater appearances. By age13, she had won Hawaii's top children's talent contest, and had the opportunity to co-host the hit local television variety "OKC TV." A year later she signed with the major Japanese record label Victor Entertainment. She released her self-titled mini-album in Japan and Hawaii in 2001. Honoring the young star's achievements, the City and County of Honolulu commemorated her album's success by proclaiming July 2 as "Jennifer Day."MTV Japan featured Jennifer in a special artist to watch program and had the opportunity to be a spokesperson for Nickelodeon Asia. Success followed as she caught the eyes and ears of multi-platinum R&B and reggae superstar Shaggy. Jennifer was invited on tour with the superstar to sing and perform ...
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