Crosscurrent

About the Artist
Crosscurrent, an original, globally influenced contemporary Jazz sextet, was formed in 1994 in Boston, MA. Crosscurrent strives to take improvised music in a new direction. Their music ranges from intricately composed to freely improvised. Each member of the group brings diverse influences to his composing and playing, from Indian music to Brazilian, Western classical to American folk. Jazz is the common language and love of the musicians, and is a discipline which gives them the ability to relate creatively and spontaneously to a wide range of musical expression.

Product Description
Laugh & Jangle Records was founded in the early 90's by guitarist Eric T. Johnson. The label is committed to releasing only the highest quality recordings of improvisationally based new music.

Crosscurrent,Crosscurrent,Laugh & Jangle,Brazilian Jazz,Contemporary Jazz,World Fusion

Average customer rating: Cool progressive perfection

Crosscurrent Crosscurrent Manufacturer: Laugh & Jangle ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Brazilian Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000059XSY Release Date: 1996-05-12

Tracks:

1. Pneuma
2. Maya
3. October
4. The Chronic Phase
5. Neither Nor
6. Of Fading Crimson
7. Delayed Resolve
8. Absalom

Album Description

Laugh & Jangle Records was founded in the early 90's by guitarist Eric T. Johnson. The label is committed to releasing only the highest quality recordings of improvisationally based new music.

Customer Reviews:

Cool progressive perfection.......2002-03-10

I have never heard a group come as close to jazz perfection as this 'Crosscurrent' ensemble does in this album and in their 'Rituals' album. These are the complex harmonies and rhythms I have hungered for in over fifty years of searching for cool progressive sounds.

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Rituals Manufacturer: Laugh & Jangle Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAGC6E Release Date: 2001-01-30

Tracks:

1. Intersections
2. North March
3. Firefly
4. Guinnevere
5. Stop & Go
6. Crosscurrent
7. Mirrormere
8. Seven Of Mine
9. Ritual
10. Now The Day Is Gone

Average customer rating: Sexy Rock for Intelligent Listeners

The Girl I Used To Be Lexi Street Manufacturer: Artist One-Stop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00008BFXA Release Date: 2003-01-22

Tracks:

1. Monday Morning
2. Throw Me Over (Titanic)
3. Lover's Catastrophe
4. Girl I Used To be
5. Bebe (Tasty)
6. Trigger Finger
7. Atlas
8. Missing Out
9. Beautiful South

Album Description

Jazz, Rock, Sex, Pop!

Customer Reviews:

Sexy Rock for Intelligent Listeners.......2004-02-10

So, you've never heard of Lexi Street, Atlanta's best kept secret? Don't let that stop you from buying this CD and letting her introduce herself.

Lexi's a complex girl whose songs pull you in with an air of smoky, lingering sexuality. The initial reaction might be, "Here's another hot looking girl using sex to pedal her otherwise mediocre wares." (And the CD cover might only reinforce this opinion.) But you'd be only half right. For her, sensuality sells, but she's selling the musical real deal.

Lexi uses that flirtatious mood like a hook in a song, just a detail to pull you into her musical world. In this way, she is very much like Kate Bush, who also had to fight initial resistance to her music due to her good looks. If you listen to Bush's song "The Sensual World," you will know some of Lexi's world. Here, sensuality means "an awareness and appreciation of all the body's senses in a tactile world," not just "sex" in the way most entertainment is marketed these days.

Also like Kate, Lexi shows an amazing ability to use her voice like a jazz instrument, not afraid to stretch a vocal line past comprehension to stress a unique melody or mood. The results are often quite striking. The rest of the band (the nucleus of which recorded this CD) rises to Lexi's challenge and provides original and supple jazz-influenced backing. The band prefers to simmer slowly most times, but beneath the simmer you can feel the coiled muscle of energy that only completely unleashes on stage. Like King Crimson, even the quietest passages are full of drama.

The songs themselves are quite capable of drilling into your brain until you can't stop singing them to yourself. My personal favorite is the up-tempo "Atlas," in which Ms. Street uses maps as metaphor for human interaction. The infectious rhythm will have you hitting your CD player's repeat button, and Lexi's vocal delivery simply twists in wonderful new directions with each line. "Monday Morning" is a good mid-tempo introduction to her introspective world, a place best summarized in the title track, in which "the girl" takes a look around herself. "Bebe (Tasty)" is a melodic song in which Lexi does live up to her sexual image and let's her lover know what it's all about in a voice that could melt a man's heart at twenty paces. "Lover's Catastrophe" introduces a contrasting bit of darkness with it's hint of love's more masochistic side. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention "Beautiful South," in which Street marries some impressionistic lyrics with a stunningly controlled musical evocation of the languorous beauty of the South, y'all. Add some tasty organ licks, strings, and exotic rhythms, and you've entered the sensual world of Lexi Street.

No match for seeing them live, but then, when does a studio album do that? Until they tour in your area, this small masterpiece will have to do!

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Momentum CrossCurrent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PWACO2

Product Description

1 The Potato & Egg Shop 2 Bruton Town 3 The Fiddle Set 4 New York Trader 5 The Mountain Road 6 The Cuckoo 7 Claires Waltzes 8 The Burning of the Pipers Hut 9 Lough Erne Shore 10 The Seagull Jigs 11 Moon Sphinx

Average customer rating: Crosscurrent's Latest Creative Wonder: Rituals Excellent blend of musical styles Excellent blend of musical styles

Rituals Crosscurrent Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Brazilian Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005IBPJ Release Date: 2001-05-01

Tracks:

1. Intersections
2. North March
3. Firefly
4. Guinnevere
5. Stop & Go
6. Crosscurrent
7. Mirrormere
8. Seven Of Mine
9. Ritual
10. Now The Day Is Gone

Customer Reviews:

Crosscurrent's Latest Creative Wonder: Rituals.......2001-05-29

Crosscurrent's latest CD, Rituals, takes this group's creative trajectory to new heights. They continue to weave melodic and rhythmic threads from multiple jazz and world music traditions. This a cast of serious, talented, and inspired musicians. The result is a sound that is fresh and exciting. This is a CD that rewards repeated listening, as it reveals layer after layer of interest and surprise. Don't miss it!

Excellent blend of musical styles.......2001-05-12

It's been a long time since I listened to a new modern jazz recording, but if you're interested in trying one out I would highly reccommend this CD--I've had a tough time keeping it out of my player. This is a very approachable and listenable CD for the non-regular jazz listener, yet it still deserves high marks from the most critical of jazz listeners. Crosscurrent has put together a mix of styles that will appeal to most music lovers--Modern jazz evolves into world music and back again through a blend of attractive melodic themes, expert improvisation, and diverse instrumentation. Each member of the band demonstrates impressive skill as they each add their own influence to the CD--all but one contribute original writing credits. The arrangement of CSN's "Guinnevere" added a touch of familiarity at first listen, but the other songs quickly took over my interest. The opener "Intersections" and the self-titled track "Crosscurrent" especially stand out. I would recommend this CD to anyone interested in a quality instrumental recording.

Excellent blend of musical styles.......2001-05-12

It's been a long time since I listened to a new modern jazz recording, but if you're interested in trying one out I would highly reccommend this CD--I've had a tough time keeping it out of my player. This is a very approachable and listenable CD for the non-regular jazz listener, yet it still deserves high marks from the most critical of jazz listeners. Crosscurrent has put together a mix of styles that will appeal to most music lovers--Modern jazz evolves into world music and back again through a blend of attractive melodic themes, expert improvisation, and diverse instrumentation. Each member of the band demonstrates impressive skill as they each add their own influence to the CD--all but one contribute original writing credits. The arrangement of CSN's "Guinnevere" added a touch of familiarity at first listen, but the other songs quickly took over my interest. The opener "Intersections" and the self-titled track "Crosscurrent" especially stand out. I would recommend this CD to anyone interested in a quality instrumental recording.

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Crosscurrent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000HA48I8 Release Date: 2006-09-26

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There's a Place Jordan's Crossing Manufacturer: Crosscurrent Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAJOU0 Release Date: 2005-02-01

Tracks:

1. There's a Place
2. Come Unto Me
3. This Little Lite
4. Your Love Oh Lord
5. God Is Not Dead
6. Be Still
7. I Surrender All
8. Forever
9. Morning Devotion

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The Last Run/ Crosscurrent/ The Scorpio Letters Jerry Goldsmith , and Dave Grusin Manufacturer: FSM ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B000NCO6SW

Product Description

The Last Run Music Composed and Conducted by Jerry Goldsmith The Last Run (sung by Steve Lawrence) 2:12 Main Title The Last Run 2:51 Border Crossing 2:52 Spanish Coast 2:39 Claudie Says "Yes" 1:59 Rickard Escapes 1:56 The Last Run 2:36 Double Cross 2:45 Yo Te Amo 2:31 Claudie's Stockings 2:57 The Trap 1:55 End Title 2:11 Total Time: 29:54 Crosscurrent aka The Cable Car Murder Music Composed and Conducted by Jerry Goldsmith Main Title 1:58 Moose Chase (film version) 1:32 Moose Chase (alternate #1) 2:04 Moose Chase (alternate #2) 1:38 The Killer 2:53 End Title 1:43 Total Time: 11:56 The Scorpio Letters Music Composed and Conducted by Dave Grusin Chaffee/Main Title/Alien Registration 2:37 The Vigil/First Chase 3:49 Fretoni Demise/Frightfully Respectable/Bridge to Phoebe 2:58 After You 0:57 No Pass 1:43 Miss Gunther 1:59 Phoebe's Theme 3:21 Bianeri 0:57 Madame Desires/Paris in the Fall 3:09 No New Problems 0:54 Valse de Vitsse/Drinking Party 3:24 Max the Knife 3:46 Interuptus/Innocence/Villa Zoom 1:43 Flight of the Flaming Bullets 2:36 Last Chase/Scorpio Finis 2:08 Wrap Up/End Title 0:50

International Music:

1. Cuidado Mano
2. Dawning of a New Way
3. Desbordando de Amor
4. Deseos
5. Deux Histories D'amour [Import]
6. El Codice de Las Guelgas (S. Xii-XIV) [Import]
7. Encore [Import]
8. Evolution
9. Fado
10. Fado

International Music

International Music