Songs of the Volcano

Product Description
World renowned guitarist Bob Brozman travelled to Papua New Guinea – one of the last places on the planet to have guitars arrive from afar – to capture a sound largely untainted by outside influences; a raw, unique sound developed in isolation. The energetic and distinctive blend of voice and instrument performed by the Rabaul community’s local stringbands reflects their unfailing optimism in the face of adversity, be it war or the volcanic eruptions that have destroyed the town twice in one century, making this album truly ‘Songs Of The Volcano’. In addition to this extraordinary album, this package features a full length, behind the scenes DVD documentary of the making of the album.

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Average customer rating: Great running music Really Under Rated buy it with the new one and have really the best Rocky IV Music with Some Imitation Bill Conti Music It Stirs You to Never Give Up, No Matter What Age.

The Rocky Story: The Original Soundtrack Songs From The Rocky Movies (Soundtrack Anthology) Various Artists Manufacturer: Volcano ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music 1970s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music 1980s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1970-1979 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1980-1989 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Soundtracks | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Rocky: Original Motion Picture Score Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky Rocky Anthology Rocky II (1979 Film) Rocky III: Original Motion Picture Score ASIN: B00000HZY2 Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
2. Burning Heart - Survivor
3. Living In America - James Brown
4. No Easy Way Out - Robert Tepper
5. Hearts On Fire - John Cafferty
6. Gonna Fly Now - The Rocky Orchestra
7. War - Vince DiCola
8. Training Montage - Vince Di Cola
9. Gonna Fly Now (Instrumental) - The Rocky Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

Great running music.......2007-07-05

I purchased this CD to download onto an MP3 player so I can listen to it while I run. I haven't been able to get it away from my kids long enough to use it yet. Great music from great Rocky movies! We all love it.

Really Under Rated.......2007-07-03

Rocky has one of the most under rated soundtracks in history. It's just as good as SAturday Night Fever, but unlike that, doesn't get caught up in its own pretentiousness. Eye of the Tiger gets things going, an awesdome 80s track that is much more straight heavy metal. Then the next several tracks are also by Survivor, as this makdes up about half the whole disc, taken from Rocky 4. Hearts on Fire remains very under rated, Living in America only gets bett each time, The Burning Heart remains emotional. The rest of the album is really hit or miss. War I even under rate, only because it pales in comparison to even Hearts on Fire. The real show stopper here though is Gonna Fly Now, taken from the first Rocky flick, a timeless masterpiece that is a mix of classical, high school band geek and disco with some heavy metal solo thrown in for good measure. A classic album I love that some people just don't care for.

buy it with the new one and have really the best.......2007-02-06

I you wish have the rocky movies soudtracks, get the last one (from Roky Balboa) This just has 10 songs and the new one has the almost the best, but if you get this and the new you will have all better song ( still mising mesurement of men from rocky V)

Get two disc an save a lot of money get it 5 disc

Rocky IV Music with Some Imitation Bill Conti Music.......2007-01-07

While this "Anthology" of Rocky movie music is mostly satisfying, it falls short of capturing the real heart and soul of what makes Rocky movie music so compelling and distinctive. Presented here are the best vocal tracks from Rocky III and IV, which are worthy additions to any music collection. Also included are two Bill Conti imitation tracks of "Gonna Fly Now", both I might add, clearly inferior to the original.

I bought this album thinking I could get the best of the Rocky music without having to buy all the originals. What I found is that the originals are what makes makes Rocky movie music so distinctive. Rather than purchase this album, I'd buy the original Rocky IV and the original Rocky soundtrack; there is more music, and it is all "real" Rocky music. Another option is to purchase the latest Rocky Anthology, "Rocky Balboa".

Jim "Konedog" Koenig

It Stirs You to Never Give Up, No Matter What Age........2007-01-05

My first encounter with Rocky was the new movie, Rocky Balboa, and the music was marvelous. It kept one's interest in what was happening on the screen. The theme from his other movies was used during the computer fight which led up to the actual fight in Las Vegas.

Now, I understand why Michael Pare talked like Rocky in 'The Philadelphia Experiment,' as they were both supposed to be from Philadelphia. That was one of my favorite movies, and this new one about Rocky will be another one.

Average customer rating: Christmas Defined Jodster Best Christmas CD Not unpleasant, but not the Nylons My Favorite Christmas CD

Harmony: The Christmas Songs The Nylons Manufacturer: Volcano ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Happy Together The Best of the Nylons One Size Fits All Hits of the 60's: A Cappella Style The Nylons ASIN: B00000I028 Release Date: 1994-08-30

Tracks:

1. Carol of the Bells
2. O Holy Night
3. Silent Night
4. Christmas Song
5. Little Drummer Boy
6. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
7. What Child Is This?
8. First Noel
9. What Does Christmas Mean to Me
10. Secret of Christmas
11. I'll Be Home for Christmas

Customer Reviews:

Christmas Defined.......2007-01-06

These guys outdid themselves with this very special, all-time Christmas album. Their unique style is especially appropriate for the Christmas season.

Find it and buy it! You'll be glad.

Jodster.......2005-12-03

I wish I had taken Bobbbb's review to heart before I bought this album. I agree wholeheartedly that, while this isn't bad, and may be something different to those unacustomed to a capella groups, it is NOT the innovative sounds of the Nylons when they were the original group. I'm a big fan of their early work, but anything from the 90's on just is not the Nylons. I was very disappointed in this album, and I'll be playing my "Rockapella Christmas" album by the group Rockapella over and over again instead of this one. Rockapella has the spark and the fun that the Nylons used to have, in spades.

Best Christmas CD.......2004-12-03

I love the Nylons, and when I discovered this CD, I was no less impressed with it. My favorite Christmas song through the years has been "little Drummer Boy", and the Nylons sing it better than any one else I've heard so far. I also love "Carol of the Bells", and "Secret of Christmas". This is the one Christmas CD I can't wait to listen to, and usually start the day after Thanksgiving. As a matter of fact, I recently moved and my CD is in a box somewhere. After several days of searching with no results, I decided I'll just have to buy another one. I couldn't go without listening to the Nylons even for one year!

Not unpleasant, but not the Nylons.......2004-01-25

If you want a CD of very ordinary, though pleasant Christmas music done in a basically elevator-music style, you may like this album. If you love the Nylons, as you are accustomed to hearing them on albums such as One Size Fits All, you'll wonder who the heck is singing. Only Carol of the Bells is actually done as the Nylons do what they do; the rest are very generic, stereotypical light-jazz treatments with lots of over-sweetened strings in the backgrounds. The accapella work and sense of rhthym and excitement that make the Nylons so wonderful are missing, except for Carol of the Bells.

My Favorite Christmas CD.......2003-12-27

I rec'd this as a gift several years ago. Every winter I look forward to listening to the entire CD several times. The voices are superb. "Carol of the Bells" is entrancing (close your eyes, lay back and enjoy the song). I never heard of the Nylons before this gift, and what a joyous gift this has become for me. The tracks takes you from old-time standard carols to modern tunes. They're sung respectfully and almost with reverence ("What Does Chreistmas Mean to Me").

Average customer rating: Excellent Nylons' Christmas CD Not a very exciting CD This is a fabulous acapella cd!!

Harmony: The Christmas Songs The Nylons Manufacturer: Bmg/Zoo/Volcano/Pavement/Cz ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: A Wish for You Illustrious The Nylons - Because... Run for Cover The Best of the Nylons ASIN: B000000U89 Release Date: 1997-09-11

Tracks:

1. Carol Of The Bells
2. O Holy Night
3. Silent Night
4. The Christmas Song
5. The Little Drummer Boy
6. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
7. What Child Is This
8. The First Noel
9. What Does Christmas Mean To Me
10. The Secret Of Christmas
11. I'll Be Home For Christmas

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Nylons' Christmas CD.......2004-02-18

My absolute favorite holiday CD. A capella sound is clear. Songs sung with feeling and verve. I always listen to the entire CD; never skipping a song as is my usual habit. It's also my favorite holiday CD to gift to friends. I enjoy it's simplicity...being mindful to the lyrics and melody, not trying to create a new song by brutalizing an original score like so many other artists do.

Not a very exciting CD.......1999-03-16

This album features none of the great stuff these guys can do with harmonies and percussive vocalisations. It is pretty much a series of solo performances of very standard arrangements of Christmas tunes. I don't recommend it unless you want the traditional xmas muzak.

This is a fabulous acapella cd!!.......1998-11-25

I really enjoy the combonation of both classic Christmas songs and the new songs that some of the artists added with have now become traditions in our family. I have been a Nylons fan since the beginning and this is one of my favorites!!!

Average customer rating:

Dancing on the Edge of Volcano: Jewish Cabaret, Popular and Political Songs 1900-1945 Elizabeth Ko , and New Budapest Orpheum Society Manufacturer: Cedille ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00007E8VL Release Date: 2002-11-26

Tracks:

1. "Wiener Fiakerlied" * Gustav Pick (5:03)
2. "...Nach Gro§wardein" * Hermann Rosenzweig / Anton Groiss (5:50)
3. "Der judische Landsturm" * Viennese Broadside / Carl Lorens (3:21)
4. "Der Leb, der Hersch und der Kohn" * Viennese Broadside / "Es klappert die Muhle" (folk song) (3:06)
5. "Die koschere Mischpoche!" * Viennese Broadside (2:42)
6. "Juedisches Fiaker Lied" * Gustav Pick / Carl Lorens (5:30)
7. "Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars" Irving Berlin (3:04)
8. "Liebeslied an ein Proletariermaedchen" * Gerhard Bronner / Peter Hammerschlag (2:55)
9. "Couplet des Schmafu" * Adolf Mueller / Johann Nestroy (2:55)
10. "Eine kleine Sehnsucht" * Friedrich Hollander (3:53)
11. "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt" * Friedrich Hollander (3:50)
12. "Gigerlette" * Arnold Schoenberg / Otto Julius Birnbaum (1:47)
13. "Mahnung" * Arnold Schoenberg / Gustav Hochstetter (2:34)
14. "Haman-Arie" * Gustav Pick (1:53)
15. "Ballade von der 'Judenhure' Marie Sanders" * Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht (3:04)
16. "Der Graben" * Hanns Eisler / Kurt Tucholsky (2:33)
17. "Solidaritatslied" * Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht (2:02)
18. "An den kleinen Rdioapparat" * Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht (1:17)
19. "Und es sind die finstren Zeiten" * Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht (0:47)
20. "Havu L'venim" * Kurt Weill - Mordechai Zaira / Alexander Penn (2:03)
21. "Hine Achal'la Bachalili" * Paul Dessau - Mordechai Zaira / Jacob Schonberg (3:59)
22. "Gam Hayom" * Darius Milhaud - Shalom Postolsky / Levi Ben-Aitai (1:16)
23. "Holem Tza'adi" * Darius Milhaud - Mordechai Zaira / Jacob Schsnberg (2:49)
24. "Ra'inu Amalenu" * Stefan Wolpe - Shalom Postolsky / Levi Ben-Amitai (1:40)
25. "Ba'a M'nucha" * Kurt Weill - Daniel Sambursky) / Nathan Alterman (4:20)
26. "Banu" * Aaron Copland - J. Walbe/Nathan (1:33)

Tracks:

1. "Viennese Coachman's Song" * Gustav Pick (5:03)
2. "...To Grosswardein" * Hermann Rosenzweig / Anton Groiss (5:53)
3. "The Jewish Country Regiment" * Viennese Broadside / Carl Lorens (3:21)
4. "Levin and Hirsch and Cohn" * Viennese Broadside / "Es klappert die Muhle" (folk song) (3:04)
5. "The Kosher Mishpoche!" * Viennese Broadside (2:39)
6. "Jewish Coachman's Song" * Gustav Pick / Carl Lorens (5:32)
7. "Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars" Irving Berlin (3:04)
8. "Love Song to a Proletarian Girl" * Gerhard Bronner / Peter Hammerschlag (2:51)
9. "Schmafu Couplet" * Adolf Mueller / Johann Nestroy - Karl Kraus (2:55)
10. "Do a Little Dreaming" * Friedrich Hollander (3:58)
11. "From Head to Toe I Am Prepared for Love" * Friedrich Hollander (3:59)
12. "Gigerlette" * Arnold Schoenberg / Otto Julius Birnbaum (1:49)
13. "Warning" * Arnold Schoenberg / Gustav Hochstetter (2:36)
14. "The 'Haman' Coachman's Song" * Gustav Pick (2:00)
15. "Ballad of the 'Jewish Whore,' Marie Sanders" * Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht (3:07)
16. "The Trenches" * Hanns Eisler / Kurt Tucholsky (2:32)
17. "Solidarity Song" * Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht (1:59)
18. "To the Little Radio" * Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht (1:19)
19. "And the Times Are Dark and Fearful" * Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht (0:51)
20. "Havu L'venim" * Kurt Weill - Mordechai Zaira / Alexander Penn (2:03)
21. "Hine Achal'la Bachalili" * Paul Dessau - Mordechai Zaira / Jacob Schonberg (3:59)
22. "Gam Hayom" * Darius Milhaud - Shalom Postolsky / Levi Ben-Aitai (1:16)
23. "Holem Tza'adi" * Darius Milhaud - Mordechai Zaira / Jacob Schsnberg (2:49)
24. "Ra'inu Amalenu" * Stefan Wolpe - Shalom Postolsky / Levi Ben-Amitai (1:40)
25. "Ba'a M'nucha" * Kurt Weill - Daniel Sambursky) / Nathan Alterman (4:20)
26. "Banu" * Aaron Copland - J. Walbe/Nathan (1:33)

Album Description

There's more to traditional Jewish popular music than klezmer clarinet and Broadway-style fiddling on the roof. Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano revives the lively genre of Jewish cabaret and music hall songs from early twentieth-century Vienna and other vibrant centers of Jewish life.

Based on new scholarship from the University of Chicago, the CD entertains with songs of self-deprecating humor, political and cultural commentary, and social idealism (made all the more poignant by the unthinkable catastrophe soon to unfold).

You'll discover unfamiliar works by familiar names -- Weill, Milhaud, and even Schoenberg -- plus gems by once-prominent songsmiths such as Friedrich Holländer, a cabaret compatriot of Weill in the intimate cellar nightspots of Weimar Germany, and the inventive and gifted Hanns Eisler, closely associated with the cutting-edge political theater of Bertolt Brecht.

The songs offer vivid storytelling set to music drawn from varied sources including waltz, tango, and jazz. Featured singers are two Chicago cantors, exuberant soprano Deborah Bard and idiomatic baritone Stewart Figa, and mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley, a sublime and highly sought interpreter of 20th century music. Cabaret-jazz accompaniment is by the (all-American) New Budapest Orpheum Society, an ensemble of violin, double bass, piano, and percussion.

Average customer rating: experimental minimalism

Monk: Volcano Songs Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000031ZV Release Date: 1997-03-11

Tracks:

1. Volcano Songs: Duets: Walking Song
2. Volcano Songs: Duets: Lost Wind
3. Volcano Songs: Duets: Hips Dance
4. Volcano Songs: Duets: Cry #1
5. New York Requiem
6. Volcano Songs: Solos: Offering
7. Volcano Songs: Solos: Boat Man
8. Volcano Songs: Solos: Skip Song
9. Volcano Songs: Solos: Old Lava
10. Volcano Songs: Solos: Cry #2
11. St Petersburg Waltz
12. Three Heavens and Hells
13. Light Songs: Click Song #1
14. Light Songs: Click Song #2

Customer Reviews:

experimental minimalism.......2006-09-04

Often I find that a particular kind of facial expression goes with the mention of Meredith Monk.

I would be hard-put to describe that expression from others as `sour,' or in any other way resentful (assuming, of course, they know who she is), but perhaps more a look of recognition, of compliance almost, for as many people I have found who do not care for her, and as many as I have found are quite fond of her, she seems to demand respect.

And why not?

Who else can easily be named who exhibits such unique work?

Who else creates music and vocal works that would take someone at all familiar with her only seconds to recognize it?

Am I mostly to ask questions in talking about her latest release?

Am I to keep to the form I have thus presented to the present moment--one sentence a paragraph?

We'll see.


The main question, I find, is this:

How is it that Meredith Monk has persisted in the traditions of the experimental yet not faded to art history or another type of death?

How is it that she continues as a fresh, alive presence in music?

Those were two questions, weren't they?

Meredith Monk's "American maverick tradition" continues with her latest release off ECM New Series, Volcano Songs.

("American maverick tradition" being, of course, her own term.)

Other `mavericks' (by her own standards): John Cage, Henry Cowell, Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse.

Another `maverick,' by my own: Gertrude Stein.

Allow me to explain.

Perhaps an understanding of Meredith Monk's work may be helped along with a discussion of Gertrude Stein, for the works of these two I find more integrally linked than Monk with the random compositions of Cage, the out-and-out destruction and rebuilding of tonal scale and instrumentation of Partch, the 4th dimensional music of Varèse, the recapitulation of American folk music into classical tradition of Cowell.

Granted, there are startling similarities inside them all (in ways I am not bothering to note here), but I find that Monk and Stein orbit around the same American sphere, a sphere of American influence that to this day is debated and debunked.

The sphere of American language.

We Americans have always been castigated for our language.

Yes, `our' language.

We are accused of not speaking proper English.

When we want to add words like `grunge' and `nerd' to such tomes as the Oxford English Dictionary, Harvard linguists shake their heads mournfully.

When others find their own forms of language (i.e., ebonics), we get outraged that this is not an official language, and thus we want to name our own.

We hold language before us, as if it were the universal way of expressing ourselves, a common denominator.

The point is--we all speak the same language, yet we don't understand each other.

Watch any talk show--you'll see my point.

What does this have to do with Meredith Monk?

Could I say quite simply at this point that Meredith Monk does not hold the language before her as a banner, as something she must mold her ideas to, but behind her, as a tool to bend and shape and mold and crucify and desecrate and love to fit the concepts she is to express?

Would that make any sense at this point?

What about Gertrude Stein?

Have I even really talked about Gertrude Stein?

Is the English language even used in Meredith Monk's works?

It can be hard to tell at times.

In "Walking Song," the first of her duets labeled as "Volcano Songs" (1993), we hear a lot of controlled breathing, a lot of swoops in the voices of the two singers, reminiscent almost of sashaying arms, a body bobbing up and down to the rhythm of a power walk, but is there a libretto?

In other words: are there words?

Listen more carefully--the swoops are o's, the bobs are hi's, back to the o's.

Ohio.

`Ohio?' we may ask.

`Walking in Ohio?

`Is that what the song is about?'

My response:

No.

Ohio has nothing to do with this song.

Ohio has everything to do with this song.

What the hell is Ohio doing in there, anyway?

Musically, you could say Ohio is like the notes in Philip Glass, or Steve Reich.

The point there is not the notes.

The point is the rhythm of the notes.

In Glass and Reich, the notes do not vary much--they repeat.

Thus, minimalism.

The point is the configurations those notes get into, the patterns, how those patterns change, how they relate to each other.

Thus, Ohio has nothing to do with "Walking Song."

The point has to do with the breaths, the singers, the swoops and bobs.

Ohio is not a state in "Walking Song."

Ohio is a sound, a pleasing sound if you will let go of it and let the singers do with it what they are doing.

One of those singers, by the way, being Meredith herself.


The same goes for Gertrude Stein.

Listen to this:

Lena was very sick on the voyage. She thought surely before it was over that she would die. She was so sick she could not even wish that she had not started. She could not eat, she could not moan, she was just blank and scared, and sure that every minute she would die. She could not hold herself in, nor help herself in trouble. She just staid where she had been put, pale, and scared, and weak, and sick, and sure that she was going to die.
--Gertrude Stein, "The Gentle Lena"

How many times needed you hear that Lena knew she was going to die?

How many and's are truly needed in this passage?

By others' terms, we surely don't `need' all that repetition.

But listen to it.

Really listen to it...

...and you will hear that every time it happens it is perfect, needed, necessary.

Same goes for Meredith Monk.

Ohio means nothing in "Walking Song" but how it sounds.

Could other words have been used in "Walking Song"?

Of course: she could have used antelope, blueberry.

She could have used Gertrude Stein.

She could have used no words at all--`fleg,' `huggumph' and the like.

She used Ohio--that's all that matters.

This is why she exacts such a sour note in many ears: she requires you to listen anew to her work, to put aside what words `mean,' what notes need to happen in what places, what we are used to.

But if you listen, you can get along, get used to, accept.

This step is yours.

Any form is adjustable, if you are willing to work with it.

What happened to my questions?

Does this form I've been using still annoy you?

Or have you gotten used to it somewhat?

Maybe, sometimes, it has surprised you.

Like when the paragraph wasn't quite a sentence,

or when it went incomplete into another paragraph.

Maybe you actually expected it, because maybe you thought, "He can't keep too rigid to this form. He has to experiment with it a little to keep it interesting."

I think you're right.

The making of this essay was a process.

I tried some things, went back and took some things out, changed things around, sometimes changed order to see how things looked.

This is what I like best about Meredith Monk--her process.

Her releases are more like compilations--different things she's experimented with over the years, her experiments.

Her pieces are labeled by year--not so much, for me, to chart her progress, but to show that these pieces were not all in one string, that she is still at work, trying things out.

In "The Tale," off Dolmen Music, all she does is laugh.

She laughs rhythmically, but indeed, all it is is laughter.

One day, I was listening to her opera Atlas while playing a board game with my eldest brother; suddenly, after a lot of nonsensical hey-yo's and ya's an such (I think even an occasional watta), a voice struck out, as clear as anything: "I own my own equipment."

"What?" my brother asked.

"He said he owns his own equipment," I responded.

My brother shook his head.

In "Turtle Dreams," Meredith has a long sequence of variations on the line, "I went to the store."

Oddly enough, I did not really think about this until I sat down to write this essay.

Why worry about it?

Every time I listen to "Three Heavens and Hells" (1992) off Volcano Songs, I always seem to lose when the singers explain the third heaven and hell.

The first is People Heaven and Hell.

The second is Animal Heaven and Hell.

Somehow, by that point, I'm not listening for the third.

There's far more at stake by then.

Average customer rating: Stunning Voice! Hauntingly Beautiful compositions.

Volcano Songs Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mercy Our Lady of Late: Music for Voice and Glass Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music Meredith Monk: Facing North Book of Days ASIN: B000024IH9 Release Date: 2000-04-18

Tracks:

1. Volcano Songs: Duets: Walking Song
2. Volcano Songs: Duets: Lost Wind
3. Volcano Songs: Duets: Hips Dance
4. Volcano Songs: Duets: Cry #1
5. New York Requiem
6. Volcano Songs: Solos: Offering
7. Volcano Songs: Solos: Boat Man
8. Volcano Songs: Solos: Skip Song
9. Volcano Songs: Solos: Old Lava
10. Volcano Songs: Solos: Cry #2
11. St Petersburg Waltz
12. Three Heavens and Hells
13. Light Songs: Click Song #1
14. Light Songs: Click Song #2

Customer Reviews:

Stunning Voice! Hauntingly Beautiful compositions........2004-04-20

While perhaps still widely unknown Meredith Monk is a modern master.
This album is another incredible addition to her work. The set of four opening duets will take your breath away. The first of these "Walking Song" was featured in the Coen brothers film The Big Lebowski...As strong as that cut is each of these four composition gets successively stronger. On "Lost Wind" The singers hit ringing overtones that are otherworldly. "Cry #1" is overwhelmingly emotional... The New York Requiem for people lost to AIDS is another standout ...also deeply moving. There are also two sets of vocal solos by Monk herself interspersed with a solo piano piece, and a vocal quartet piece "Three Heavens And Hells" set to the words of a young childs poem. Lyrics are rare for Monk who usually avoids them... she claims in the notes that this is a first. There are other songs with recognizable phrases such as the repeated mantra "I Went To The Store" in TURTLE DREAMS and the woman's conversation with death in THE TALE (from Dolmen Music). However in those cases, words evolved out of the pre-established melody. Here the words came first.
Those who recall 1980's landmark vocal milestone DOLMEN MUSIC will want to give VOLCANO SONGS and the latest release... (the equally beautiful) MERCY a listen.

Average customer rating: "I think of my dad who time-travels mostly now."

Songs of the Volcano Papua New Guinea String Band , and Bob Brozman Manufacturer: Riverboat ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Four Hands Sweet & Hot In the Saddle Kika Kila Meets Ki Ho'Alu Serious Tam Blues Reflex ASIN: B000BDGW58 Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

1. Alir Pukai
2. Watikai Iau Nuk Pau Atalaigu
3. Tavurvur
4. Rabaul Taun
5. Beautiful Rabaul
6. Uma Lari
7. Tomaimo
8. Sori Boko Na Ra Club
9. Youth Development Song
10. Town Kavieng
11. Lau Ga Ki Tara Papara Ta
12. Karanas Leva
13. Valvalian
14. Gossip
15. Tou Ra Vui
16. Ram Kuk

Album Description

World renowned guitarist Bob Brozman travelled to Papua New Guinea - one of the last places on the planet to have guitars arrive from afar - to capture a sound largely untainted by outside influences; a raw, unique sound developed in isolation. The energetic and distinctive blend of voice and instrument performed by the Rabaul community's local stringbands reflects their unfailing optimism in the face of adversity, be it war or the volcanic eruptions that have destroyed the town twice in one century, making this album truly `Songs Of The Volcano'. In addition to this extraordinary album, this package features a full length, behind the scenes DVD documentary of the making of the album.

Customer Reviews:

"I think of my dad who time-travels mostly now.".......2006-01-22

I usually try to buy Brozman-projects right when they're released but this time finances kept me away from this one until early December. In the course of spending about a month-and-a-half with this, I've found out I love it. Before I forget, I just want to say if possible, listen to this in the open air on a stereo or 5.1 system. There is something about this music/recording that needs to be out in the open. I don't mean outside, I mean as opposed to listening to this through headphones. The first few times I listened to it were at night on headphones and I thought it was nice. Then I listened to it on the main stereo and fell in love with it. The instrumental layers and the voices just don't come alive in headphones (at least not on my headphones) at all compared to the vibrancy and emotional impact this album has when pumping out into the room.

If you're truly only into Brozman's projects for his own playing, this may not be the album for you. This album is about these people (from Rabaul, East New Britain Papua New Guinea) and their music first and foremost. Bob plays along with them and adds to their overall sound, but he is not a core focus the way he is on an album with Debashish, Led, etc...

For me, this is one of the most emotional of all the Brozman-related albums I own. Although the album has the songs and music of 5 string-bands there are a couple similarities among most of them. 1) This is very vertical music. When I listen to this album in the open on the stereo I get this vertical picture in my mind from the way the layers are all stacked on top of each other... the bass-string runs, the upper level and the voices. This isn't an outwardly searching music focused on solos. The outer shape of many of these songs could almost seem stagnant if you weren't listening. I fear some people will miss out on what's happening here if they are the type of people who only listen to music while they're doing the dishes, working at the computer or whatever. The best aspects of the movement of this music take place internally. 2) Though almost all the songs have a jaunty, upbeat pace about them, when you delve below the happier surface, there definitely strikes me as being a common sadness here. It's beautiful and painful all at once.

I don't go back to edit reviews because I feel history is what it is, but if I did, I think I'd knock both Mahima and DigDig down a star in favor of this one. Mahima is still the premier album ever (so far) for hearing Debashish's playing in a non-Hindustani context but the overall feeling and emotional impact of this album is superior though none of the guys in these bands could ever approach Deb's level of instrumental ability. The 3 bands here that do it most for me... they have something that really speaks to me. These voices and melodies transcend all language barriers. I don't know why, but this cd makes me think of my dad. There's an inner sadness there that doesn't jump right out at you. He won't take care of himself, our time will come to say goodbye, yet somehow my favorite songs here capture my feelings in this situation perfectly.

I don't know that any of these bands have been recorded before but in case they have and you want to know, they are Alir Pukai Stringband, Eagle Voice Band, Gilnata Stringband, Drop Sun Band and Lions 2000 Stringband. Rabaul is closer to New Zealand than it is to the PNG mainland so if you also have the Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea set (I reviewed it here some years ago) don't worry, there is no overlap in styles or bands. These bands (their music) are nothing like the guitar bands on that set. This album has made me go back to the Bosavi set and find a new joy in those bands but I still greatly prefer the styles and bands captured here.

I've only watched the dvd once but it gives lots of information and gives a nice feel for the people and their surroundings/culture. Oh one last thing, if you have another semi-recent Brozman disc, Blues Reflex, and you're not a big fan of the New Guinea Blues tune, don't let that keep you from this album! That track is styled after what turned out to be (at least for me), the least interesting (instrumentally) band on this album. Their vocals are unique but still not my favorite band here.

I love this album and I think it captures "simple beauty" better than any Brozman project thus far.

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Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano: Jewish Cabaret Popular and Political Songs 1900-1945 Manufacturer: Cedille ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Eisler, Hanns | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Milhaud | Milhaud, Darius | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schoenberg | Schoenberg, Arnold | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000087D7G Release Date: 2002-11-26

Tracks:

1. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Wiener ...
2. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: ...Nach ...
3. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Der Je ...
4. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Der Leb, Der ...
5. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Die Koschere ...
6. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Jes Fiaker
7. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Cohen Owes ...
8. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Liebeslied an Ein ...
9. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Couplet des ...
10. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Eine Kleine ...
11. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Ich Bin Von Kopf ...
12. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Gigerlette ...
13. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Mahnung (Warning) ...
14. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: Haman-Arie (The ...)
15. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: Ballade Von Der ...
16. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: Der Graben (The ...)
17. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: ...
18. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: An Den Kleinen ...
19. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: Und Es Sind Die ...
20. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Havu l'Venim (Bring the Bricks)
21. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Hine Achal'la Bachalili (Lo, I ...)
22. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Gam Haydom (Day After Day)
23. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Holem Tza'adi (My Step Resounds)
24. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Ra'inu Amalenu (We Beheld Our Toil)
25. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Ba'a M'Nucha (There Comes Peace)
26. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Banu (We've Come)

Tracks:

1. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Wiener ...
2. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: ...Nach ...
3. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Der Je ...
4. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Der Leb, Der ...
5. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Die Koschere ...
6. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Jes Fiaker
7. Part I: From the Periphery to the Habsburg Metropole: Cohen Owes ...
8. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Liebeslied an Ein ...
9. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Couplet des ...
10. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Eine Kleine ...
11. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Ich Bin Von Kopf ...
12. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Gigerlette ...
13. Part II: The Crisis of Tradition and Modernity: Mahnung (Warning) ...
14. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: Haman-Arie (The ...)
15. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: Ballade Von Der ...
16. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: Der Graben (The ...)
17. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: ...
18. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: An Den Kleinen ...
19. Part III: Respose and Resistance: Political Songs: Und Es Sind Die ...
20. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Hine Achal'la Bachalili (Lo, I ...)
21. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Hine Achal'la Bachalili (Lo, I ...)
22. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Gam Haydom (Day After Day)
23. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Holem Tza'adi (My Step Resounds)
24. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Ra'inu Amalenu (We Beheld Our Toil)
25. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Ba'a M'Nucha (There Comes Peace)
26. Part IV: Zionist and Pioneer Songs: Banu (We've Come)

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Volcanoless In Canada Volcanoless In Canada Manufacturer: Songs From The Lair ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000NBWZRM

Product Description

Canadian 9-track CD on Songs From The Lair, 2006.

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Volcano Songs ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009MVY68

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