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Remastered and expanded edition of the band's 1968 debut with original members Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, and Mike Radledge. Includes the 2 bonus tracks 'Love Makes Sweet Music', and 'Feeling Reelin Squeelin' which were released as a single before the album came out. 15 tracks Soft Machine Songs | 1. | Blessed Art Thou |
| 2. | Blind Something |
| 3. | Modest |
| 4. | And The Sound Of Fury |
| 5. | Your Machine |
| 6. | Quotes |
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Purchase Soft Machine CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Hatfield & The North Hatfield & The North CD (1974)
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One of the Canterbury scene's most revered bands, Hatfield and the North made up for the brevity of their career with some fascinating music. Always adventurous, the quartet had the keen sense to realize that only the most hardened jazz fans respond to numerous key changes and exceedingly complex time signatures, and thus enlivened their live set with the odd gnome smashing, suggestive lyrics, and jokey song titles. It worked a charm, with the band quickly amassing a large, loyal following at home in Britain and across the continent. On their eponymous debut, Hatfield stunningly succeeded in translating both their sense of fun and their musical brilliance onto disc. After a bit of light humor, the band slide into "Going Up to People and Tinkling", which glides gloriously across the keys and rhythm shifts. Both "Calyx" and "Aigrette" ...
| | Hatfield & The North Rotters' Club CD (1975)
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Hatfield and the North's second LP stands as a high watermark for the prog rock associated with England's Canterbury scene and, while filled with stunning musicianship, demonstrates both the strengths and some of the weaknesses of the Hatfield style. Dave Stewart on keyboards, Phil Miller on guitar, Richard Sinclair on bass and vocals, and Pip Pyle on drums (supplemented by a few guest instrumentalists and the ever-ethereal Northettes with their "la la" backing vocals) generally show an admirable sense of restraint and, like their Canterbury peers, are careful to avoid the pomposity and bombast of better-known prog rockers of the era, such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes. But the Hatfields might actually have been light to a fault, particularly whenever a segue from one of their convoluted instrumental passages into a Richard Sinclair vocal vehicle occurred. Sinclair shares a bit of Robert Wyatt's singing approach, or at least Wyatt's more whimsical side, but his polite and mellow croon, while pleasant, is less idiosyncratic and ultimately rather bland. And, don' t look for much importance from the songs' nearly empty lyrical content; perhaps this was another ...
| | Gentle Giant Free Hand CD (1975) Anniversary Edition; 35th Anniversary Edition
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The follow-up to 1974's surprisingly well-received THE POWER & THE GLORY, Gentle Giant's FREE HAND marks the pinnacle of the British prog-rock group's international success. (Like its predecessor, it appeared on the U.S. charts.) While the band's eccentricities--complex song structures, strange vocal harmonies--are present, these tunes are framed in a slightly more pop-conscious way, as on the funky, elastic title track. The ensemble also indulges in its occasional penchant for medieval music on the jaunty "Talybont," arguably making this the archetypal Gentle Giant album.
Free Hand is perhaps Gentle Giant's most realized effort. After the excellent In a Glass House, the group further developed its Renaissance-medieval approach, producing one of the most creative and complex recordings in progressive rock history. Their vocal approach to the four-part fugue "On Reflection" was revolutionary ...
| | Gentle Giant Power And The Glory CD (1974) Anniversary Edition
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One of Gentle Giant's most successful albums, 1974's THE POWER & THE GLORY managed to sneak briefly into the U.S. charts, an unusual feat for the lauded, but never terribly popular, U.K. prog-rock band. Though the record is considered "accessible" by Gentle Giant standards, it is filled with the group's trademark break-neck time changes and bizarre vocal harmonies (the restless "Cogs in Cogs") with occasional moments of relative quiet (the serene passages of "Aspirations") rounding out the strangely fascinating proceedings.
The Power and the Glory was the point where Gentle Giant abandoned the more obvious lyrical sound that had characterized the quieter moments of their earlier records. Starting with "Proclamation" and "So Sincere," they shoot for a combination of dissonance and virtuosity that leaves little in these two tracks resolved. "Aspirations" and "No God's a Man" mark something of a return to their earlier, more acoustic-driven and melodic sound -- both are showcases, to a greater or lesser degree, for Derek Shulman's singing and Gary Green's acoustic blues and folk playing, but they're merely quiet interludes surrounding the more intense riffing represented by "Playing the Game" and the ...
| | Van Der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts CD (1971) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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Van Der Graaf Generator's third album, Pawn Hearts was also its second most popular; at one time this record was a major King Crimson cult item due to the presence of Robert Fripp on guitar, but Pawn Hearts has more to offer than that. The opening track, "Lemmings," calls to mind early Gentle Giant, with its eerie vocal passages (including harmonies) set up against extended sax, keyboard, and guitar-driven instrumental passages, and also with its weird keyboard and percussion interlude, though this band is also much more contemporary in its focus than Gentle Giant. Peter Hammill vocalizes in a more traditional way on "Man-Erg," against shimmering organ swells and Guy Evans' very expressive ...
| | Soft Machine Volume 2 CD (2009) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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| | Emily Pinkerton Valparaiso CD (2008)
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When she lays down South American grooves on guitar, audiences are hard-pressed to tell that Emily Pinkerton is a native of the Midwest. Born and raised ...
| | Ajattara Noitumaa CD (2009) (Import)
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| | Corneille Birth Of Cornelius CD (2007) Import
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After releasing two platinum French-language albums that were heavily influenced by his family's murder at the hands of a Rwandan death squad, neo-soul singer Corneille realized he was "becoming a symbol for something, a persona." On the Rwandan-Canadian artist's first English-language album, feelings of despair and the search for peace are once again touched upon, but when the provocative title "Murder" leads to a breezy, almost Swing Out Sister song that uses homicide as a metaphor for breaking up, there's little doubt the "persona" is shaken. Save a couple autobiographical lines found in "A Man of This World" and "Heaven," plus the heart-wrenching genocide commentary that's "I'll Never Call You Home Again," the singer/songwriter's connection to the past here is mostly neo-soul, influenced by Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, and others Corneille has declared were his father's favorites. Dad was also a Tracy Chapman fan and that figures into the mix, and judging by the humble acoustic soul that fuels key track "Too Much of Everything," some Bill Withers records must have been in the collection. Work in a modern John Legend-styled croon plus string arrangements from MFSB alum Larry Gold and you've got the sound, but the reason to fall for Corneille is his unique comfortable and conversational lyrics. Unfortunately, this self-produced album sounds a tad too bright and the great "I'll Never Call You Home Again" is way too heavy to be anything but a closing number. Still, returning fans will find Corneille's evolution remarkable, while all the newcomers will get a rich and rewarding soul-folk experience. ...
| | Rice Drewry Thousand Shades Of Gray CD (2009)
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Rice Drewry is a Memphis-born singer/songwriter with a myriad of influences, including Elvis, the Beatles, James Taylor, John Mellencamp and Tom Petty among others. This variety of exposures help him create songs with different flavors melded together with an acoustic rock / adult contemporary style. He has ...
| | Papa Lock Heat Babe CD (2008)
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Papalock a 14yr old artist from the East Coast has brought the sound of real "hip hop" back in a big way. Armed with production from some of the hip hop's leading beatsmiths, he is destined for greatness. Between doing shows for the WNBA's Washington Mystics, a ...
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