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Bellini:
I Capuleti e i Montecchi / R. Abbado, Kasarova, Mei |
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While many of his contemporaries had reduced opera to
empty displays of vocal prowess, Bellini crafted the
gorgeous melodies of bel canto style with a poet's
intuition for character and dramatic truth. This recording
gives ample evidence of both qualities, above all in the
tender, yearning, and almost unbearably poignant blend of
Vesselina Kasarova and Eva Mei's voices as Romeo and
Juliet, respectively. Roberto Abbado brings loving but
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The
Shape Of Punk To Come |
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If not the album of the year, it's at least the punk-rock
album of the year, fiercely representing a musical ethos
that has suffered the ignominious shame of commercial
popularity. "We want the airwaves back!" shrieks
singer (if you can use that word) Dennis, and over the
course of The Shape of Punk to Come's 12 sonically
stunning tracks, they reclaim the right to rage, rant, and
innovate. The Refused broke up soon after recording this
album, but they've left behind an invigorating manifesto.
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Preacher
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Ranking among the best of the younger generation of blues
guitarists, Joe Louis Walker is more than capable on Preacher
and the President. He's a topnotch songwriter and can
riff and solo with equal ease. Preacher is filled
with a delightful sense of fun and has one of the smoother
grooves heard on disc in 1998. --Genevieve Williams
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The
Circle Maker [2-CD Set] [BOX SET] |
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John Zorn
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Zorn's work with Masada is prolific if nothing else: 10
CDs of Ornette Coleman-inspired klezmer tunes that evoke
the Old World and swing. These two discs highlight
those compositions in a whole new setting, music for
chamber groups. One disc has a string trio, the other adds
percussion and Marc Ribot on guitar to create a sextet.
Great playing by New York City jazz heavyweights and
compositions that sound like they belong on a spaghetti
Western soundtrack combine to make this one of 1998's
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Clinch
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Various Artists - Country - Bluegrass,
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In many ways a follow-up to 1992's stunning Saturday
Night & Sunday Morning, this glorious two-CD
set pairs the bluegrass pioneer with established legends
and notable comers from across the worlds of country and
bluegrass. Now in his 70s, Stanley still possesses the
most spine-tingling high-tenor wail the world has ever
known, and he still knows how to make it mesh with whoever
might be joining him. --Marc Greilsamer Read
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Arches
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With its loping, chunky, buzzed-out-bliss guitar line and
distorted-vocal-loop tracking nestled in organ groove,
plus chim-chim-cherie chimey vibes and tight snare,
"Greetings from the Sugar Lick" is one of 1998's
most alluring repeat-play songs. A hyper-rich offering in
a less than frugal year, the Spinanes' Arches and
Aisles marries the smart-assy punk sass of Manos
with the brittle delicacy and spaciousness of length of Strand
to make Rebecca Gates's finest yet. --Paige La Grone
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Tim's
Bio: Life From da Basement [EXPLICIT LYRICS] |
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Timbaland
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Timbaland was known as an innovative producer before
deciding to make a name for himself; on his second album,
he shows that he keeps his best tracks stockpiled for the
home team. When he raps, "He said 'Timbaland can't
rap' / But I don't care / Because I make dope tracks / I
make you bounce and wiggle / And do this and that,"
it's no idle boast; it hasn't been this much fun to strap
yourself into a pair of headphones in years. --Randy
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Dig
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Nick Lowe
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Who'd have dreamed that Nick Lowe, one-time New Wave smart
aleck at large, would reemerge in the '90s as a soulful
balladeer? And yet 1998's Dig My Mood is a splendid
study in moody, bar-time reverie, as is the lost treasure
that is its predecessor, The
Impossible Bird. The onetime hit man (remember
"Cruel to Be Kind"?) may not have rediscovered
the commercial base he'd once accumulated, but, against
the odds, he's making the finest albums of his lengthy
career. --Steven Stolder Read
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Territory |
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Alvin Youngblood Hart
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San Francisco Bay Area performer Alvin Youngblood Hart
established his credentials as an acoustic bluesman with
his acclaimed 1996 debut, Big
Mama's Door. To his credit, he's off in new
directions with the first notes of Territory. The
western-swing opener "Tallacatcha" lets fans
know from the get-go that Hart won't be bound by genre
restrictions and, indeed, he explores everything from
reggae to rock without ever seeming showy. As Hart's
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Everybody
Hollerin' Goat |
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Othar Turner
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Othar Turner is the living master of the cane fife, a
short piece of hollowed-out sugar cane with holes. The
simplistic, tranced-out party music known as fife and
drum--the most clearly African-sounding of all traditional
blues--remained all but hidden to most listeners until
1959, when Alan Lomax first encountered and recorded it in
Mississippi. There are but a handful of records of real
fife and drum music, and this clear-sounding document,
with multiple versions of the classic "Shimmy She...Read
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Bart?k:
The 6 String Quartets / Tak?cs Quartet |
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If chamber music suggests merely sedate and timid
pleasures, let the Tak?cs Quartet guide you through the
profound experience that this medium can convey--above all
in the hands of a composer as rich in imagination and
innovative in temperament as B?la Bart?k. In some ways
his cycle of string quartets traces not only his personal
creative evolution but the deeply tragic zeitgeist of half
a century as well. The Tak?cs Quartet plays with an
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Welcome
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The Zoobombs hail from Japan yet play American-style
punk-rock groovy blues ? la Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
and Firewater. They infuse the music with manic and na?ve
energy; it's hard to tell whether they're playing with
such unironic vigor or they're missing the mark so widely
that they're creating something new by accident. Either
way, it's damned refreshing to hear. Leave it to an
outsider to discover something new and exciting in
something old. --Tod Nelson Read
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Hell
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A much more quietly celebrated CD than her debut, Gillian
Welch's sophomore effort assured fans of old-timey country
folk that she was salt of the earth. Her songs speak with
both plaintive yearning and a seasoned storyteller's
moxie, urged on by her and David Rawlings's economical
guitar picking and strumming. Welch's vocal timbre bears
ideally twangy power, giving her a constantly strong vault
into her similarly creative tales, which help place this
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Hello
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Beastie Boys
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It's been a dozen years since the Beastie Boys broke, and
on Hello Nasty, they show that--though they've
grown up, matured, and just gotten older--they're still in
touch with the inner brat that always made them so much
fun. Turns out that the brat's turned into an ace record
collector with choice taste in collaborators, too. --Randy
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Sacred
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Sergei Rachmaninov(Composer), et al
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Although this collection intends to transport the soul, it
has a tremendously potent low-end depth to it that earns
high marks indeed in the worlds of vocal and liturgical
music. Dmitri Bortniansky's "Hymn of the
Cherubim" is performed with a gracefulness that gets
a warming fatness from the production, as does Alexander
Gretchaninov's "I Have Chosen the Blissful,"
which travels with a ringing resonance. In a year of fine
choral works--check out Sequentia's Hildegard cycle box, 900
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Permutation |
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Amon Tobin
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Amon Tobin's mixing of jazz noir with breakbeats on Permutation
resulted in one of the most infectious electronica discs
of 1998. Using hard-bop drum samples, extended horn
passages, and a constant groove, Tobin succeeded where
others have fallen short: he captured the essence of jazz
and made it ready for the dance floor. Thoroughly
enjoyable and swinging. --Jason Verlinde Read
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Other
Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful) |
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Some find the Texas thrush a bit precious. (Maybe it's the
way she sings "When I woke up this mawwwwwnin'"
on this album's "You Were on My Mind"). Still,
the sequel to her popular Other
Voices, Other Rooms provides an easy-to-take
introduction to some classic folk songs and performers.
The likes of Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Jimmie
Dale Gilmore, and John Prine add depth and range to the
good-natured song swap. --Steven Stolder Read
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VH1
Storytellers |
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Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson
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Two of the greatest artists in country music history
swapping stories and songs! How could anything go wrong?
The truth is, meetings of legends often fail to meet
expectations. Perhaps this one works because the concept
is so simple: two men exchanging their signature songs and
stories behind them. Johnny checks in with "Don't
Take Your Guns to Town," Willie retorts with
"Funny How Time Slips Away," and so on. Nothing
wrong with that. --Steven Stolder Read
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God
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Junior Kimbrough
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This CD has a considerable mix of music on it, which is
understandable given that it's a posthumous release of
tracks collected over five years of recording. Every
track, however, showcases guitarist Kimbrough's
distinctive style, which regional isolation made very
different from any other; it's not Delta, and it's
definitely not Chicago. Kimbrough was primarily a live
performer, recording only in the last years of his life,
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Me
Media Naranja |
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Labradford
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Listening to Labradford's Me Media Naranja is like
eavesdropping on the dream music of the American cowboy.
Echoing, watery guitars float over the open, dusty range
of the mind. A waxy organ and percussive bells flesh out
the atmosphere while each song seamlessly carries on the
soundtracklike tradition of its predecessor. The small,
whispering voices and relaxing, risqu? melodies survive
in the soul long after this eerie music has ceased. An
absolute ambient classic. --Karen Karleski Read
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Khepera |
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Pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston never
ceases to find new heights of excellence, whether
exploring West African polyrhythms in jazz or excoriating
silence with blasting energy. Khepera blasts open
with "Creation," which ushers in a lengthy,
telling meditation on jazz's intercontinental reach, both
in terms of source material and influence. Chief Bey's
percussion and Pharoah
Sanders's saxophone playing bookend the meditation,
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Rossini:
Il Turco in Italia / Chailly, Bartoli, et al |
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This Pirandello-like, 1814 comedy of manners has long
lived in the shadow of Rossini's better-known L'Italiana
in Algeri, but this recording, more than either of its
predecessors, allows it to bloom in all its ironic
loveliness. Cecilia Bartoli, a born comedian, sings
expressively and angelically while her character behaves
devilishly, and the supporting cast is no less effective.
Riccardo Chailly brings out all of the score's humor, and
all of its warmth as well. A little-known gem for fans of
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A
Lammas Ladymass - English Chant & Polyphony /
Anonymous 4 |
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Anonymous(Composer), Anonymous 4
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This is a pre-Renaissance British mass not to miss. Both
commercially and artistically, Anonymous 4 have advanced
the early music cause and their own considerable genius a
great deal with A Lammas Ladymass. Expert at
webbing disparate works into a themed set, Anonymous 4
here create a long paean to harvests, fertility, and the
richness of creation--whether in regard to crops or
community. Their tactical decision to not try recreating
any single event end-to-end on CD leaves them room to find
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The
Complete Hank Williams [BOX SET] |
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Hank Williams Sr.
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Hank Williams rose to prominence at the exact middle of
the 20th century, and this fact helps to explain why he
remains such a unique figure in country music. Put simply,
he is the thread that connects (however loosely) Jimmie
Rodgers and Garth Brooks. This 10-CD mother lode
brilliantly captures the essence of the man and his
spellbinding music. The official studio takes provide the
foundation, while the demos, outtakes, and live recordings
are the putty in the gaps. --Marc Greilsamer Read
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William
Kapell Edition [BOX SET] |
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To this day, William Kapell has all the makings of a
legend. He died tragically young, but in his life he
produced some of the finest Romantic recordings ever, big
works filled with vitality and emotion. On the nine-CD William
Kapell Edition, we get all these works, some
unreleased material, and great liner notes. Many box sets
seem gratuitous or, worse yet, unnecessary; this one is
neither. --Jason Verlinde Read
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