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Music of the Fae
Music listed here is music that is about the fae, or music that sings
about love and peace,
spirituality, or is transformative.
If you have suggestions for fae music, email: kringle@lavendise.com
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Love Spirals Downwards |
| Love Spirals Downwards wouldn't sound out of place in a dance club; languorous synthesizer chords and spookily sweet melodies are complemented by electronic beats at a tempo just fast enough to dance to. On Flux, this is most handily demonstrated by "Nova," where the repeating tones that open the piece become a syncopation to the main beat. Suzanne Perry's vocals are appropriately ethereal, but solid enough that they never sound superfluous, especially on "City Moon" and "Psyche." The closing song, "Sunset Bell," is the longest on the CD, clocking in at nearly eight minutes, but Perry and Ryan Lum (responsible for everything you hear except the vocals) keep things interesting all the way through by starting off simply and becoming progressively more complicated. This style of music is all too often bland, but such is not the case here, which is extremely refreshing. --Genevieve Williams |
Days of Future Passed |
| DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED is the Moody Blues' true contribution to rock history: the most cohesive integration of rock songs with orchestral music ever produced. Asked by Dream Records to create a rock reworking of Dvorak's ''New World'' Symphony, the Moodies instead wrote their own symphony, a song cycle that describes the emotions that accompany each part of the day, from dawn (''Dawn Is A Feeling'') to night (the classic ''Nights In White Satin''). The songs are connected by lush orchestral passages in which the basic musical themes are reworked. Meanwhile, the band had already begun to sound like its own orchestra, using signature Mellotron string sounds, flutes, tympani and multiple vocalists. |
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Greatest Hits |
| Every time I listen to Cat Stevens, I am still amazed. His words and insight manage to touch my inner chords, tap my feet, make me laugh, and make me cry. If you are unfamiliar with his work, this album is a great introduction. Father And Son, Wild World, Another Saturday Night-each song is great in its own right. If you are an old fan, you never grow tired of listening to him. I was raised on Cat's music, and would recommend him to anyone, from any generation. Everyone could use to ride on the Peacetrain once in a while! |
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Mama Said |
| Last year's hands-down winner in the specialist category of best debut
album by a deadlocked Russo-Jewish Bahamian-American, Lenny Kravitz has since gone global,
being taken up as multi-instrumentalist writer and producer by Madonna and, possibly,
Michael Jackson. However, Mama Said confirms that, so far, he's not letting luminary
demands leech away his vital juices. Mind, his objections to being seen as a retro man still fail to convince. The opening moments here feature acoustic guitar, a Fool On The Hill facsimile flute and Lenny Kravitz intoning in dreamy falsetto, Let's wander slowly through the fields/I touch the leaves that touch the sky (even a raucous guitar break by Slash, of Guns N' Roses, fails to crack the dippy-trippy mood). Of course, he's not so much influenced as tie-dyed to the bone by the late '60s. But there's no shame in it because, like World Party, he re-invents, he is truly inspired by the old heroes from the days when he was still in Pampers. That applies even in his most soundalike mode. His love of John Lennon's simple way with piano, bass and drums (Imagine, for instance) declares itself on Stand By My Woman and, not surprisingly, on All I Ever Wanted which he co-wrote with John Lennon and Yoko Ono's son Sean Lennon. His awe of Jimi Hendrix boils through Stop Draggin' Round. His fondness for Motown Records's sweet soul smiles out of every Smokey Robinson moment on It Ain't Over Till It's Over. It's not a matter of reverent copying, there's fresh life and excitement in every one - plus the sheer sparkle and shake-up as he switches the jump-leads from one source to another. The distinctive, somewhat oddball, character behind all this defines himself a little more through his less directly derivative arrangements. The twin cylinders of the Lenny Kravitz motor appear to be sex and morality. He's passionate on both fronts, singing his basic I want to be your man message with intensity which matches the darkness of Hammond organ and strings on More Than Anything In This World, and then delivering an angry sermon to a girl who's dabbling with drugs and other sins in When The Morning Turns To Night. But, style strumpet that he undoubtedly is, perhaps the real Lenny Kravitz is the sanguine and rather coarse cynic who enquires of governments What The Fuck Are We Saying? and remarks of more personal strife, in What Goes Around Comes Around (a bossa nova no less), My cup overrunneth with fullness and grace/Yet people push bullshit in my face. He may touch the leaves that touch the sky, but he's not soft, he's sussed right down to the socks he never wears and, as advertised (by himself), full of positivity. Mama Said is a 14-track holiday - and even at giveaway recession prices still cheaper than a week in Majorca.--Phil Sutcliffe -- © Emap Consumer Magazines Limited. For personal use only. |
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| This Icelandic marvel is such an original that, even after four Sugarcubes albums and a brilliant solo Debut, she remains an acquired taste. "Army of Me" is a turbulent, darkling tune that's almost conventional next to the gloriously eclectic material that follows. Working with Tricky, Soul II Soul/U2 producer Nellee Hooper, and string rranger/one-hit wonder Deodato, Bjork looses her helium-fueled voice and surreal wordplay on Gershwinesque pop (the adorable "It's Oh So Quiet"), ambient dub ("Possibly Maybe") and all kinds of fresh dance/pop hybrids ("Enjoy," "Hyper-Ballad," "I Miss You"). Too raw and adventurous for mass success, perhaps, but a more unique, engaging, oddly accessible artist just doesn't exist. --Jeff Bateman |
| 1967-1970 (Blue Album) The Beatles |
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| If you're a beginning Beatles fan,the Blue album is the album for you.It contains some of the Beatles' best work.The album contains the best tracks from Abbey Road,some classic songs from the White Album,and three quarters of the fantastic Magical Mystery Tour album.The best songs on the album are Paul's Hey Jude and Let it Be.In fact, there my most favorite Beatles songs. All together, this is a must for any beginning Beatles fan.I'd also reccomend getting the Red Album as well.It contains some of the Beatles' best early years songs. |
