CD Reviews

[Sarong1]

You can try "Amik", his style is nice. Muffled on Telarc? interesting...I never expect this to come from a Telarc label. Let me try if you don't mind.

[Kaiserdome]

Will check out this Amik. Thanks for the recommendation

 

Maybe muffled is not the right term. It just sound not as clear as my Acoustic Alchemy CD (also recommended by NDV boss). Or perhaps my expectations too high.

[Sarong1]

Hmm...time to upgrade your ICE then...

[Ivan0507]

Maybe you can try some of this CD acoustic or flamenco .good recording and fast track.especially row number 4 1st CD (from left to right) flamenco guitar ,track 2 listen to some step dance performance ,strong stepping bass. all are very good guitar music. should pick one to try it out.

Edited December 30, 2006 by Ivan0507

[Sarong1]

Ivan0507, your collection is fantastic...the style of capturing the pics of the CD is great too. Any possibilties that any of these CDs are collectors items already? If not, finding them will be tiresome. Anyhow, where you recommend him to get the CDs?

 

Guitar fanatics out there, these are highly recommended CDs, so Ivan, wanna do some CD sharing???

[Ivan0507]

here are the title of the album

(from left to right)

row 1

1)Ottmar liebert-nouveau flamenco(higher octave music)(collectors)

2)Jess cook-tempest (narada equinox)

3)Armik -Rubia (baja) (collectors)

4)Flamenco-various (JVC) (collectors)

row 2

1)Ottmar liebert-borrasca (higher octave music)

2)Jesse cook - gravity (narada music)

3)Armik-malaga (baja)collectable)

4)Acoustic alchemy-reference point (grp)(collector)

row3

1)Ottmar liebert-leaning into the night(higher octave music)

2)Jesse cook-vertigo(bmg)

3)Flamenco-fire and grace(narada)（collectors)

4)Guitarisma-collection(higher octave music)

5)Flamenco-pepe romero(mercury)(collectors)

 

 

some cds still can find at sembawang music .if you cant just order from them.

[Sarong1]

Liebert's recording by Higher Octave is worth a special mention. Having heard its reproduction in home and car audio environment, I have to say that it has got superb recording.

 

The sound stage is exceptionally wide, it has got this WOW factor in it. The sound stage goes beyond the speakers laterally and has got depth and space that mesmerises me till today.

 

I am strongly recommending his compilation to anyone that wants to test their sound stage limits. Liebert's albums are ideal for driving through the nights with your loved ones...classically romantic...I am sure you will like it.

 

Many thanks for Ivan0507.

[Kaiserdome]

Wow...that's really a nice collection. Will check them out in stores

[Bobcatsysop]

Hi Bro Ractis,

 

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You can download the PDF file directly from emmanet right here.

Here is the screen capture from that same file:

[Ractis]

Excellent resource! Thanks!

[Ivan0507]

here are some romantic guitar music ,if you prefer slow track. try one of this.will never disappointed you.especially row 1 no.1.

 

row 1

1)chris spheeris - europa

2)chris spheeris - eros

3)gordon giltrap-a matter of time

row 2

1)chris spheeris - desires

2)chris spheeris - culture

3)antonio de lucena - best of guitarra clasica espanola

4)jaime valle- round midnight

[Kaiserdome]

Thanks bro. I think I will like them

[Sarong1]

Was looking thru my CD collections for more CDs to let go and happened to chance upon this album from Astrud Gilberto's Beach Samba. You should find her familiar because, she was the one that sang and made famous the song "The Girl from Ipanema". Ring a bell?

Look at the picture of the album I have attached, there are a total of 17 tracks to this album, none are familiar songs to you but the Bossa Nova flavour similar to those of Lisa Ono's style will make you tap with the songs in this album. An absolutely nice album by Verve, recording is also very typical of Verve.

Astrud Gilberto "Beach Samba" (Verve, 1966), V6-8708

In 1967 Astrud Gilberto, with a studio orchestra including Ron Carter and Toots Thielemands, recorded the arrangements of Eumir Deodato and Don Sebesky to create a Brazilian-jazz classic. In addition to the original LP, five tracks are presented with the Walter Wanderly Trio from Gilberto's album, A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness.

1993 Polygram Records

Filed under: Jazz vocals, and Brazil

Abstracted from her official website..http://www.astrudgilberto.com/.

 

Astrud Gilberto, known as "The Girl from Ipanema" and often referred to as "The Queen of Bossa-Nova", is an artist with roots firmly planted in Brazilian music. Her music has become an interesting combination of the sensual rhythms of Brazil and American Pop and Jazz. Born in the Northeast of Brazil, in the state of Bahia, one of three sisters of a German father and a Brazilian mother, Astrud grew up in Rio de Janeiro. She immigrated to the United States in the early 1960s, where she resides since then.

 

Astrud was first introduced to the World at large in 1964 through "The Girl From Ipanema", the Grammy-winning recording with Stan Getz and her then-husband Jo

[Sarong1]

This is one of the latest Eddie Higgins Quintet album I have bought from Richard at RDH, Adelphi recently and this is also one of the albums I have been waiting for dearly for its style of jazz play. The album, titled "It's Magic" features Scott Hamilton playing the tenor sax accompanied by Eddie Higgins with the piano, Jay Leonhart with bass, Ken Peplowski with tenor sax and clarinet, and Ben Riley with drums.

 

You will probably realise that the album features a young girl cladded in a thinly veiled dress, on closer look, the picture should carry some Restricted rating actually, that is because of the public display of pubic hair...argh....

 

OK, enough of the cover, lets dwell more on the album. Total of 10 tracks recorded in The Studio in New York on 18 Oct 2006 and manufactured by Venus Records, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. Its pretty impossible to provide any more info on the album as content within are in Japanese. But, I must say this new album is one of my favourite jazz recording thus far, besides Oscar Peterson Trio and Stan Getz, not forgetting the evergreen Jazz in the Pawnshop Vol 1. This album, I give it . You people into jazz must get one.

 

It's Magic TKCV-35383 VENUS RECORDS

 

Eddie Higgins Quintet featuring Scott Hamilton, Ken Peplowski

Venus Records Hyper Magnum Sound 24 BIT Stereo

24 BIT mastering

[Sarong1]

For you folks, here is a folk song album by Janis Ian, called Folk is the New Black by Rude Girl Records under the exclusive licence to Cooking Vinyl USA L.L.C.

 

Some very nice tracks with good percussion play and upright bass but I particularly like these few tracks in the album.

 

Track 1. Danger Danger. What America means to Janis? Her way of putting it best...

 

"I watched the news last night at nine

Saw a head blown off somebody

Edited January 15, 2007 by Sarong1

[Prodigysaint]

Maybe you can try some of this CD acoustic or flamenco .good recording and fast track.especially row number 4 1st CD (from left to right) flamenco guitar ,track 2 listen to some step dance performance ,strong stepping bass. all are very good guitar music. should pick one to try it out.

 

wow... u are very much a NARADA records man... nice collection there..

[Ivan0507]

This is one of the music lover or hi fi lover must have testing disc.

 

A Journey Into Stereo Sound.

 

1)Train Sequence (listen to the train coming from the far end and pass by you,

train stop,closing of door,horn and start moving ,listen to train moving from the

right spk to the left spk and away from you)

2)Chabrier : Espanfia (listen to classical instrument at the different location)

3)Tap Dance Sequence(listen to ballroom dancing)

4)Under The Bridges Of Paris

5)Rehearsal Sequence(

6)Stravinsky :Rite Of Spring

7)Wagner:Die Walkure

8)Racing Cars Sequence(listen to racing car ,bike coming from the far end and passing by

you)

9)True Love

10)Ceremony Of The Keys(listen to the guard matching and changing of shift)

11)Rimsky-Korsakov :Capriccio Espagnol

12)Gounod: o Divine Redeemer

13)Only one of you

14)Another Time

15)June Is Busting Out All Over

16)Mozart :Piano Concerto No.27

17)Potrait Painter Of Parce

18)Berlioz :Symphonie Fantastique.

 

All track are good.make sure control of the volume that you going to play.

Edited January 15, 2007 by Ivan0507

[Ivan0507]

pick one up and try it out.