Hold That Tiger (Original Recordings 1933-1940) - Art Tatum

Advantages: Stands well on its own, with sublime music
Disadvantages: "Western'" ears may find it difficult to understand

...Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was director Ang Lee's first venture into the fantasy world, with striking visual effects and Marshal-arts sequences that hover in the bounds of reality, dream and fantasy. The story revolves around two Marshal-arts warriors and friends, Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) and Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) in 18th-Century China. When Mu Bai's sword "The Green Destiny" is stolen, probably by the infamous student of the hated Jade Fox, who murdered Mu Bai's master, he must now join forces with Shu Lien to locate and battle Jade Fox and her student. The person Ang Lee chose as composer for Crouching Tiger was Tan Dun, a respectable classical and opera composer, who had already composed music for a handful of other films. The approach Dun took, was one of subtlety, with very little of what most of us would call "typical... Read review

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Advantages: Eno is ever creative
Disadvantages: but not as potent as usual.

...with Fripp on No Pussyfooting at a time roughly concurrent as creating Taking Tiger Mountain with Manzanera. No Pussyfooting moving into startling, if somewhat raw, ambient textures and technologies. So much so EG Records refused to release it until several years after it was recorded. Manzanera is immediately apparent in the very opening of Burning Airlines Give You so Much More, a curious tale of air travel, spying with “Microcameras hidden in her hair,” and Eno apparently abandoned by girlfriend but that’s by the by. The lyrics, as always, bear witness to Eno’s stream of consciousness construction; effortless segues between ideas and peppered with countless non sequitors. It’s a joyful song, somehow rather low-key and driven by Eno’s witty lyrics; still it’s not as satisfying as its counterparts on HCTWJ such as Cindy Tells Me, which has... Read review

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Advantages: Some good tunes, suitable for anyone any age
Disadvantages: Also some poor quality tunes, getting worse each time a new ones out

...Now That's What I Call Music Vol.69 Complication Album This is the 69th United Kingdom version of the Now That's What I Call Music volumes as the title would suggest. I had been waiting for this album to come out for a while as I usually buy the Now albums for something to listen to in the car, this album came out on the 17th March 2008, all of the music on these albums is from the recent official chart listings. Now That's What I Call Music albums come out every 6months and have the Number 1 charts singles over that time as the contents, these albums are usually just known as Now 69 etc as it's easier and not as long as the full title! Now69 is the latest version of this set to come out. It was bought out by the record labels EMI and Virgin. This album as like the other previous volumes consists of two disks with the following... Read review

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