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This album contains one of the best tracks I have ever heard. The outstanding number is the title track "Avatar", twenty minutes of pure brilliance. It is a collaboration with Stephen Parsick, whose album "Traces of the Past" has only just fallen out of our charts after having been there for months. "Avatar" unbelievably however is even better than anything on that album. Things start quietly enough, but then a guitar sequence can just start to be heard. The guitar being very processed so that it sounds like another synth as on Ashra"s "Inventions for Electric Guitar". We then get a trademark Parsick sequence combining in such a way with the guitar as to send shivers of excitement down the spine...

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Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973), born Walden Robert Cassotto, was an American singer, actor and accomplished musician. Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country. This two-fer from EMI features a pair of out of print Bobby Darin LPs: "Oh! Look at Me Now" and "From Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie". Originally issued on Capitol Records in 1962 and 1964, respectively, these 23 traditional pop songs include "Blue Skies", "My Buddy", "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", and "Call Me Irresponsible". This is a nice sampler of familiar items that should satisfy the needs of casual fans.

Instrumental version of the famous album "Present" (Paron) of the great Greek composer Akis Panou. The bouzouki soloist Thanasis Polykandriotis, is an excellent vistuoso, a real master. Enjoy some delightful music of Akis Panou.

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The long epic recording made by two ambient composers. Soundscape music of vast space. Minimalistic drone sketches, which become more complex during the flow of music. Immovable and homogeneous field is what should be imagined to these sounds of contemplation. Absolutely calmness and a uniform current of time. Only an infinite field - same in any day.

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Music of this Saty's work transmits a little piece of Eastern wisdom. Skillful and sofisticated use of traditional Eastern instruments combines with ethereal electronic pads - it is a real mastery, worthy the most careful attention. The composer has made a great musical exploration and found those important particles which are completely able to transmit spirit and beauty of Eastern traditions. The album is divided on two logical parts. The first is more common and represents traditional ambient with slow sound evolution. The second part paints visions of the city Mumbai in India and is more instrumental, sometimes adjoining with traditional ragas.

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Digital album released in Germany, fourth in the collection of ten CD's 'Strictly Dancing' dedicated to different ballroom dance styles. The Peres Blanca Band presents a repertoire of sixteen topics in dance style rhumba-bolero, especially suitable for ballroom or competition dancing. Accurate cuts the four medleys and generally splendid music orchestral to enjoy dancing the rhumba-bolero.

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A meditational feast halfway between religious/classical trance music and Germanic space music of the time, this reissue of 1972's Hosianna Mantra and 1979's Die Nact der Seele - Tantric Songs includes some of the most beautiful music Popol Vuh ever recorded. Though the electronics had been forsaken, the music is still quite evocative - "Mantra of the Touching of the Earth" and "Angel of the Air" (both from Tantric Songs) present slow-moving piano passages, punctuated by sitar and tambura. Hosianna Mantra includes much beautiful work by Fricke on piano and harpsichord, Conny Veit on electric guitar, and Djong Yun reciting Biblical passages on "Kyrie," "Blessing" and the title track.

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This five-LP box set (which has been reissued on CD) contains nearly all of Stan Getz's classic bossa nova sessions, five wonderful yet diverse LPs (Jazz Samba, Big Band Bossa Nova, Jazz Samba Encore, Stan Getz/Laurindo Almedia, and Getz/Gilberto). The cool-toned tenor is heard on his groundbreaking collaboration with guitarist Charlie Byrd (which resulted in the best-selling "Desafinado"), is showcased with a big band arranged by Gary McFarland (introducing "No More Blues" and "One Note Samba"), stars in recordings with guitarists Laurindo Almeida and Luiz Bonfa, and is heard at the famous meeting with composer/pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim, guitarist João Gilberto, and singer Astrud Gilberto, which resulted in the major hit "The Girl From Ipanema." This essential set finishes off with three previously unissued performances from a 1964 Carnegie Hall Concert, concluding with a remake of "The Girl From Ipanema." These recordings stand as proof that it is possible for good music to sell.

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Smooth crooner Barry Manilow is best known for hits like "Mandy," "I Write the Songs," "Looks Like We Made It," and the tropical pop-disco smash "Copacabana." Though he is often derided by critics, it is estimated thought that he has sold around 75 million records in his four-decade career. This 19 tracks collection divided into two sections, 'The Beat' and 'The Ballads', featuring a mixture of hits, new versions, and live performances.

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While this two-disc compilation is hardly definitive, it does contain many, many classic performances and it lists for a good price. There are original recordings of "That's Amore," "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," "Lucky Song," "Georgia on My Mind," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Under the Bridges of Paris," and a few dozen others. What a compilation like this reveals about an artist like Dean Martin is simply how talented he was. Sure, there are the sappy Italian songs and the saloon songs, but there are also country songs, pop standards, and jazz tunes thrown in this mix, and like his pal Frank, Martin could sing anything he wanted to at will. Memories Are Made of This portrays how gifted he was, and makes even the most casually curious listener want to dig for more. That is the function of a good compilation, and this one merits attention for that alone.

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Here is another reference to the small collection 'Strictly Ballroom' by Tring International , dedicated to different styles of ballroom dancing and now to the music of Latin style. Again the Montaro Francisco instrumental ensemble is presented as in the rest of the repertoire with ten songs performed with several rhythmic styles of Latin dances.

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"Parking Lot At San Diego International Airport" - official soundtrack of "Route 66", the first German Open Source Movie, reaching more than 1 million visitors. The songs have been newly arranged for the album. Thomas Bechholds celebrates the foundation of their own style that can be hard to describe. Through the use of old analog and modern digital equipment, he brings over a thick atmosphere. Great exceptional rhythm passages alternate with wide open spaces and beautiful melody lines. With this CD he manages a road trip with a difference.

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This story begins with a main theme of life - Time! It flows on and on, and never stops. It goes on every second, but hey - there were a lot of great moments that we can remember. Time Flux shows you the puzzle of event pieces that compose every life. Fast and slow, serene and rush - all these moments have the great value. Only when you understand this you can build your identity and revel the balanced existence. Opening your mind allows to become aware of hidden senses inside you. Uncovering concealed resources within you get the skill to discover new ways and possibilities in the world of present.

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Already an obscure record when it was initially released in 1980, Harald Grosskopf's Synthesist has become something of a cult item, the kind of album that inspires devotion in aficionados of early electronica and German music. Grosskopf himself has kept steadily busy as a solo musician and session drummer since the late '60s, being associated with early lineups of the Scorpions and Wallenstein and working with Lilli Berlin and Cosmic Jokers, among many others. But despite his long underground career, his debut solo Synthesist may ultimately stand as his defining work and as a key representation of the path of electronic music.

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LP album released in Spain by Decca-London Phase 4. A compilation of 11 topics specifically prepared and arranged by musician, British composer and arranger John Keating (Scotland, 1927) conducting his instrumental combo. On this album, from which the subject 'Headinig North' was created by him, Keating adapted a repertoire of other issues of great authors (as Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Young, etc..) to create a range of climates, colors and musical atmospheres with skillful orchestration and instrumentation of percussion for the greatest pleasure of hearing.

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