Baltic Organ Music

Advantages: fantastic dance music
Disadvantages: getting a copy

...I seem to be making a habit of finding rare and obscure books or music, Well this is no exception. This is Tielman Susato, Dansereye 1551. Tielman Susato was a cathedral musician and a copyist. He also played in the town band. He set up a publishing shop in Antwerp. He published many of the Chansons and Motets of the day. He also published this book of dance in 1551. There was music in Church. Organ and vocal, catholic and Protestant both. There was music at Royal court. Here as church bishop you could afford to keep several professional musicians. There was the town band, The Waits, professionals who could play in church and at important civic functions. The alehouse usually had something like a violin hung on the wall for anybody to play, though the pitch and tuning can only be wondered at. A major Fayre could attract some... Read review

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Advantages: Double CD
Disadvantages: The first CD isn't all that great.

...A reasonable compilation with a good amount of rock music. This double CD contains alternative, hip-hop, ska and even electronic music. Quite a mix, and if you don't like the last three you may find yourself skipping a lot of the tracks. The rock music that is present is of good quality - some of the poppiest punk, and a lot of summery tunes. The money made from the sale of this compilation goes to help the Heal The Bay organization. (They are dedicated to making the Santa Monica Bay, and S. Californian costal waters healthy for the people and marine life.) So buy it and help save the world!... Read review

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Advantages: mind boggling
Disadvantages: won't tell you what to think say or do if that is what you want

...What a paradox it is to think you have heard it all in the music industry and you know what you like and dislike. Paradox about this sought of thing, about our being, is for a realist like me the best thing in the world. That is paradoxically rather than being the worst as Dr Who told you all to think about paradox the other week. To think that until I got on to the internet I had never heard any of this music now I can not get enough of it. This album has nine tracks. None of which is like the last. They are played with a range of instruments like the xylophone and the saxophone, in an R & B style. There is also the manic flute of 'So flute' where a flutist tries and does get in on the action. To piano sounds are crazy as a piano is not so much played but touched as another piano gets played like a life depended on it. The album... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful