La Paloma: One Song for All Worlds, Vol. 4 [Import]

Product Description
UK digipak pressing. Further details TBA when information is available. Trikont. 2005.

La Paloma: One Song for All Worlds, Vol. 4,Various Artists,Trikont,Pan-Global,World Beat Collections,World Music,Worldbeat

Average customer rating: 100 years - 24 artists - one song, one planet

La Paloma: One Song For All Worlds, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Indigo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: La Paloma: One Song for All Worlds, Vol. 3 La Paloma: One Song for All Worlds, Vol. 4 ASIN: B00000I28K Release Date: 1995-12-04

Tracks:

1. Paloma - Merle Haggard
2. Paloma - Raymond Kane
3. Die Taube
4. Paloma
5. Paloma - Hans Albers
6. Whistling Palomino - Carla Bley
7. Paloma - Garde Rblicaine
8. Paloma
9. Paloma - Rosita Serrano
10. Paloma - Jelly Roll Morton
11. Paloma - Charlie Parker Quintet
12. Paloma
13. Sad Paloma - Carla Bley
14. Lagerleitung Ohe
15. Paloma
16. Paloma - Claude Thornhill
17. Paloma
18. Paloma - Edmundo Ros
19. Paloma
20. Paloma - Caterina Valente
21. Krautoma - Amon D
22. Paloma - Freddy Quinn
23. Paloma
24. Paloma - Flaco Jimenez
25. Paloma

Album Description

UK digipak pressing. Further details TBA. Trikont. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

100 years - 24 artists - one song, one planet.......1999-09-15

In song, as nowhere else, our human race can be seen as one people. This collection of historic recordings is drawn from perhaps a dozen countries and spans a hundred years. The song La Paloma, credited to S. Yradier, earns its status as the mother of international popular hits, universal in its appeal to a longing for flight, flight from desolation, flight toward re-union.

There's a message of peace that steals into the listener; artists as dissimilar as Charlie Parker and Benjamino Gigli let out this winding, soaring folk melody, expressing themselves, different as they are, through the same lovely song. One track is Jelly Roll Morton giving it the latin quarter cathouse treatment, another sounds like a Ventures soundtrack for a crude Italian spy comedy; the newly rediscovered virtuoso pop vocal sextet from Germany, the Comedian Harmonists, contributes a singularly stunning early 1930s arrangement featuring a nifty Mills Bros. "mouth trumpet" intro; next comes a moody, cool-school jazz orchestra treatment with some very creative harmonic interpretation, and then a big, lush Hawaiian slack-key guitar solo paraphrase. The growing sense that this melody speaks for all these artists, without altering their distinctive voices, fosters a hope for humanity.

As with most historical reissues, sound quality varies wildly; the oldest track sounds like sitting in a quiet room eating celery while a marching band goes by your window. If you're used to such things, it won't mar the experience.

Thanks to some very thoughtful sequencing of tracks, at the very end of more than an hour, the dove seems to return us to our spot on earth, having taken us in a state of wonder to visit so many places and times. The wonder of it is, as much as anything, that the tune never wears out its welcome. Did I mention that it's a great song?

Average customer rating:

La Paloma: One Song for All Worlds, Vol. 3 Various Artists Manufacturer: Trikont ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: La Paloma: One Song For All Worlds, Vol. 1 La Paloma: One Song for All Worlds, Vol. 4 ASIN: B000025UPU Release Date: 2005-09-12

Tracks:

1. Streng Vertraulich...
2. Paloma
3. Paloma - Dean Martin
4. Paloma
5. Paloma
6. Paloma
7. Da Staunen Sie, Was?...
8. Paloma - Bill Ramsey
9. Paloma
10. Paloma
11. Paloma - Robertino
12. Paloma - Lecuona Cuban Boys
13. Paloma
14. Paloma
15. Paloma
16. Paloma
17. Paloma
18. Paloma - Eddie Peabody
19. Paloma
20. Paloma
21. Teenage Paloma - Carla Bley
22. Paloma
23. Paloma - Larry Adler, Fred Hartley's Orchestra
24. Paloma - Bing Crosby, Paul Whiteman
25. Paloma - Eulalio Sanchez
26. Paloma - Noro Morales
27. Nie, Nie, Nie
28. Paloma

Album Description

Digipak. On the third volume of La Paloma, the Trikont series where the classic Cuban ballad "La Paloma" is played over and over by many different artists from many different time periods in the 20th Century, things really start to get wild. For one, the 1961 Dean Martin version of the song is done without his usual lounge lizard shtick, and is rendered graciously and seemingly sincerely with the Henry Mancini orchestra backing him. This is a revelation in and of itself -- not that he knew the song, because everybody does, but that he could actually sing it. More beautiful, however, is the great Spanish alto diva Conchita Supervia's rendering where you can hear her heart breaking in every syllable. There are far more Latin artists on this volume, giving interpretations like the aforementioned, to the folk-flavored vocalizing of the Lecuona Cuban Boys from 1937, and the wacky drama of Perez Prado that is every bit as harmonically challenging as it sounds. His arrangement is mind-boggling. The most bizarre thing here is a Vietnamese blues reading by Jiao-Jim-Hai from 1980, where guitars and handmade percussion shimmy together in a kind of spectral bliss amid the bluesed-out tempo and atmospherics -- he even adds a touch of Oriental folk music to the mix in the bridge. It's more than satisfying -- it's mystifying. The most ass-kicking versions here are by the Cuban maestros Orchestra Valde and the '60s ska group the Orchids. While the former is a classic Cuban son arrangement with polyrhythms clicking all over the place -- from 1919 no less -- the latter is a groover with a Hammond organ solo, brassed-out horn section, and a chunky electric guitar. Carla Bley makes a return appearance -- she was featured twice on volume one -- with "Teenage Paloma," a brief synth/guitar/organ workout from wack-o-land. Noro Morales checks in with one of his many versions, this one the best, from 1960 -- it's the only one featured on the collection -- with a rumba slipped into the middle eight. And then there's whitest of white singers, Bing Crosby, with -- ironically enough or not -- the Paul Whitehead Orchestra. It's so damn bland it sounds like milk being swished around in somebody's mouth. The Quinteto Mexicano brings us back to the folk tradition of "La Paloma" as a tragic, bittersweet love song -- recorded in 1928. In all, volume three is very strong, better than the second but number one is still the champ.

Average customer rating:

La Paloma: One Song for All Worlds, Vol. 4 Various Artists Manufacturer: Trikont ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: La Paloma: One Song for All Worlds, Vol. 3 La Paloma: One Song For All Worlds, Vol. 1 ASIN: B00005606N Release Date: 2005-09-12

Tracks:

1. Paloma - Laurindo Almeida
2. Paloma - Andre Popp
3. Paloma
4. Paloma
5. Paloma
6. Paloma
7. Paloma
8. Paloma
9. Paloma
10. Paloma - Stanley Black,
11. Paloma - Klaus Wunderlich
12. Paloma
13. Paloma - Adalbert Lutter
14. Paloma
15. Paloma - Arno
16. Paloma
17. Paloma
18. Paloma
19. Paloma
20. Paloma
21. Paloma
22. Paloma
23. Paloma - Patric Catani,

Album Description

UK digipak pressing. Further details TBA when information is available. Trikont. 2005.

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