Monday, October 31, 2011

Songbook

Songbook
Songbook
~ Chris Cornell
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Release Date: November 21, 2011

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After a sold-out spring tour this year, Grammy-award winning singer/songwriter, Chris Cornell, has announced fall and winter tour dates for the second run of his acoustic Songbook tour. These intimate shows highlight the songs Cornell has written throughout his illustrious career and are made up of entirely acoustic, solo performances. An album of live SONGBOOK tour performances will be released on November 21st, featuring songs written by Cornell as well as a few covers. In addition to being one of the most acclaimed voices in rock, he stands in a class of his own as a songwriter whose works have reached limitless audiences, the world over. Familiar songs emerge in a new context, showing that great songwriting translates to any idiom.

Chris Cornell has been heralded as one of the pioneers of the grunge era for writing a string of hits for Soundgarden, including the Grammy award-winning "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman." In 1991, Chris formed Temple of the Dog, writing the classic song "Hunger Strike" featuring a duet with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. In 2000, Cornell joined former Rage Against the Machine members (Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk) in Audioslave and wrote a series of the band's hits including "Like a Stone," "Be Yourself" and "Doesn't Remind Me." Cornell's career as a songwriter for film has included such songs as "Can't Change Me," and "Mission", from the soundtrack to Mission Impossible II as well as hit theme song "You Know My Name" for James Bond thriller Casino Royale, one of the most successful installments of the spy franchise to date. His songs have been recorded by diverse artists from Johnny Cash to Alice Cooper.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #311 in Music
  • Released on: 2011-11-21
  • Number of discs: 1

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Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain"

Music from
Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain"
~ Prince
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4.7 out of 5 stars(193)

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 25-MAR-2008

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #349 in Music
  • Brand: PRINCE
  • Published on: 2008-08-06
  • Released on: 1990-10-25
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .22 pounds

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Under The Mistletoe [CD/DVD Combo] [Deluxe Edition]

Under The
Under The Mistletoe [CD/DVD Combo] [Deluxe Edition]
~ Justin Bieber
Release Date: November 1, 2011

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Deluxe Version contains 4 bonus tracks. Global phenomenon Justin Bieber begins his third year on the world stage with the November 1st release of his first Christmas album UNDER THE MISTLETOE. The album is a seasonal mix of traditional Christmas standards and newly penned holiday music largely co-written by Justin Bieber. UNDER THE MISTLETOE will be available both as a standard and as a deluxe CD + DVD edition. The deluxe CD edition includes 25 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage plus the video for "Pray," along with four additional holiday songs. UNDER THE MISTLETOE's first single "Mistletoe" will be launched worldwide on October 18th and the accompanying video was shot last week in Franklin, Tennessee by Roman White, who also directed Justin's "One Less Lonely Girl" video.

"Mistletoe" was written and produced by the hit making Canadian duo known as The Messengers (Nasri and Adam Messinger). The Messengers first wrote and produced Justin's chart-dominating hit of early 2011, "Never Say Never," title track off his hit concert film, Never Say Never. In addition to "Mistletoe," the Messengers wrote and produced the songs "Christmas Love" and "Home For Christmas" (featuring The Band Perry). The album UNDER THE MISTLETOE was Produced by Kuk Harrell.

In just two short years Justin Bieber has accumulated over 13 million Twitter followers, 36 million facebook friends and 2.2 billion combined views on You Tube and VEVO. UNDER THE MISTLETOE is 17 year old Justin's fifth release since he first arrived on Island Records/RBMG in November 2009 with My World. My World contained his worldwide debut hit, "One Time," the follow-up "One Less Lonely Girl," and two more chart hits, "Love Me" and "Favorite Girl." With that, Justin became the first solo artist in history to send four songs from a debut album into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 prior to the album's release. To date, Justin has amassed more than 11 million in worldwide CD sales.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #10 in Music
  • Published on: 2011-10-31
  • Released on: 2011-11-01
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Original language: English

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Sea Sew

Sea Sew
Sea Sew
~ Lisa Hannigan
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4.5 out of 5 stars(36)

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #393 in Music
  • Released on: 2009-02-03
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Dimensions: .12 pounds

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The Maltese Tenor

The Maltese
The Maltese Tenor
~ Joseph Calleja (Artist), Marco Armiliato (Conductor), L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Orchestra), Alexsandra Kurzak (Performer), Chur d'hommes du Grand Theatre de Genev (Performer), et al.
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 129% Sales Rank in Music: 255 (was 586 yesterday)
5.0 out of 5 stars(3)

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JOSEPH CALLEJA - THE MALTESE TENOR It was summer 2010, and Joseph Calleja was making his role debut as Gabriele Adorno in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. The house was Covent Garden in London, and his co-stars included a certain Plácido Domingo, now singing the baritone title-role. Joseph Calleja had planned to study the challenging role of Adorno during the previous summer, but had lost that time preparing for another new role, Offenbach's Hoffmann, which he had taken on at the Metropolitan Opera in New York after another tenor withdrew. "So, contrary to all my principles, I studied Adorno for just two weeks before I came to London", Joseph Calleja explains, laughing. "I had no other time. But the voice was telling me it was ready for new things. And the minute I started on the piece, it just fitted into the voice as if I had been singing it for ten years. It was really one of those instances when it all just works." The critics enthusiastically agreed: plaudits for Joseph Calleja not only matched those for Plácido Domingo himself, but in some cases even came close to exceeding them. It's a story that doesn't just attest Joseph Calleja's increasing prominence on the world operatic stage, but also his development as a dramatic artist. It's now five years since the Maltese singer recorded his last recital album, The Golden Voice (a follow-up to 2004's Tenor Arias) - a long time to be away from the studio. "Back then I was an extremely young artist to be recording CDs at all", he replies. "Of course I enjoyed the success, but I also had a long way to go. What's changed is that I'm much more in control of my vocal facility and I have a maturity which only time on stage can bring to one's art. If you know the role inside out, then you can find the right nuances and inflection much more easily." So one way into The Maltese Tenor is through the roles that Joseph Calleja now knows from the immediacy of live performance. There is, of course, Adorno's aria "Sento avvampar nell'anima", a late addition to the album, but one that Joseph Calleja felt was indispensable after his London triumph. It is still rarely performed outside of complete performances of the opera. "But any self-respecting tenor with a good voice should make it a show-stopper, because it's so beautifully written." Hoffmann is here too, as part of a quartet of French heroes that also includes Massenet's des Grieux (from Manon), Gounod's Faust and, in a languorous duet with another Decca artist, the Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, the lovesick fisherman Nadir in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles. "The next four to five years are ideal for me to explore these full lyric French roles", Joseph Calleja explains. "There are so many opinions about what the `French style' really is. The consensus is that the French line gives you less room to manoeuvre, to do your own thing as a singer. But the way I see it is through the Italian bel canto style. It's what I try to do with Hoffmann, particularly in the middle of his chanson, which is more lyrical." In the celebrated "Salut, demeure chaste et pure!" from Faust, meanwhile - a role Joseph Calleja has sung in Berlin and would love to reprise - the challenge is to give fresh spontaneity to one of opera's hit numbers. "This aria is sung so much in concert that one tends to forget about what's in the text, what the aria means in context." The Pearl Fishers duet, too, followed live concert performances in Frankfurt. "At the end of the evening there was a thirty-minute standing ovation . . . so I thought I had to include that duet on the album." A stronger dramatic take on these arias hasn't diluted Joseph Calleja's fidelity to that bel canto style. It's one reason why his voice has often been described as "old-fashioned": grace and elegance matched to a timbre that's lighter than that of many other tenors of Joseph Calleja's generation and flecked by a rapid, persistent vibrato. Early on in Joseph Calleja's career, some found that intrusive. "For a period of time, my vibrato was very, very fast", Joseph Calleja concedes. "But people fail to mention or think about how old I was at the time. If you listen to very early recordings of Jussi Björling, Enrico Caruso or Giuseppe di Stefano, they all have it. Eventually it settles down and matures." Joseph Calleja grew up soaked in the golden voices of the twentieth century and won't be lectured on what they did or didn't do to keep their voices in peak condition: listening to their recordings was a cornerstone of his studies in Malta with his childhood mentor, the tenor-turned-teacher Paul Asciak. "He sang concerts with Tito Schipa, he was friends with Franco Corelli . . . what he gave me is really the way they used to do things back then, based on listening to the old recordings. Some people say that when they're preparing a new role they don't listen to anybody else. I can understand that, but I don't accept it! If you don't listen to what your predecessors did before you, it's like being a leaf on a tree and not knowing which tree you're on." The old masters will be Joseph Calleja's guide as he tackles the bigger, meatier Italian repertoire, too. It's a new direction in The Maltese Tenor: not just Puccini's La bohème, but Tosca and Manon Lescaut, too; Verdi, aside from Boccanegra, is represented by the more spinto (literally: pushed) operas Un ballo in maschera and Luisa Miller. Some would call Boito's version of the Faust story, Mefistofele, from which Joseph Calleja sings the winsome "Dai campi, dai prati" and "Giunto sul passo estremo", another step up altogether on the ladder to the big dramatic repertoire. "The voice should tell the singer by itself when it's time to move on from La bohème or Lucia di Lammermoor to this repertoire", Joseph Calleja observes. "Mefistofele and Un ballo in maschera in particular are both beautifully written, they're all on the breath and the approach is still bel canto. Just because it's Verdi doesn't mean you have to shout your way through it." You could call this the wisdom of the more mature Maltese tenor. Or, if you're Joseph Calleja, you might simply call it gut instinct. "I'm sorry I haven't anything more intellectual to offer you", he laughs, by way of apology. "But I just want to sing as beautifully as possible - without losing my commitment to the work." Neil Fisher

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #255 in Music
  • Released on: 2011-10-24
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .24 pounds

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That's Life

Thats Life
That's Life
~ Landau Eugene Murphy Jr (Artist)
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 200% Sales Rank in Music: 47 (was 141 yesterday)
Release Date: November 21, 2011

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That's Life is the debut album from this year's "America s Got Talent" winner, Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. For his album, Landau collaborated with legendary jazz, soul and pop producer Steve Tyrell on a songbook of Sinatra's hits from the 60s, '70s and '80s.

Landau's emotional AGT triumph on Sept. 14, 2011, was seen by more than 14 million viewers. And his thrilling renditions of Frank Sinatra classics like "My Way," "Fly Me To The Moon" and "Under My Skin" won him a legion of supporters who were wowed by his poise under pressure and his unassuming charm.

When Landau first auditioned on NBC's "America s Got Talent" in June, 2011, he said simply, "I am here to show America I can sing." And when he did sing, he gave the audience in New York's Radio City Music Hall a moment of astonishment. Landau's version of "Under My Skin" brought the audience and even the judging panel -- to their feet.

That's Life features classic tracks such as "My Way," "Ain't That A Kick In The Head," "I've Got The World On A String," "Fly Me To The Moon," and "Baby It s Cold Outside."

The album is produced by Steve Tyrell. During his storied 40-year music career, Tyrell has scored movies (That Thing You Do, Father of the Bride), produced albums for dozens of top singers (Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Linda Ronstadt, Mary J Blige, Chris Botti, Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler and Stevie Wonder among them) and recorded his own albums.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #47 in Music
  • Released on: 2011-11-21
  • Number of discs: 1

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Let It Bleed

Let It
Let It Bleed
~ The Rolling Stones
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 173% Sales Rank in Music: 396 (was 1,085 yesterday)
4.5 out of 5 stars(220)

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #396 in Music
  • Brand: ROLLING STONES
  • Released on: 2002-08-27
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Formats: Original recording remastered, Original recording reissued
  • Dimensions: .15 pounds

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Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Ltd. Deluxe Edition)

Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Ltd. Deluxe Edition)
~ Various Artists (Artist)
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4.7 out of 5 stars(100)

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The Limited Deluxe Edition features 23 songs (an additional 7 songs) including all the original songs performed in the film by Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell, "The Weary Kind" performed by Ryan Bingham (the theme song heard in the film's trailer and closing credits) and music featured in the film by Waylon Jennings, Lucinda Williams, Buck Owens, Sam Phillips and many more. It is packaged with a 12 page booklet featuring liner notes, lyrics and photographs. The soundtrack was co-produced by 10-time Grammy Award winner T Bone Burnett. Burnett, who co-produced the soundtrack with guitarist/songwriter Stephen Bruton. Synopsis Four-time Academy Award® nominee JEFF BRIDGES stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake, a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man s crazy heart.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #312 in Music
  • Released on: 2010-01-19
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Dimensions: .16 pounds

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Passenger

Passenger
Passenger
~ Lisa Hannigan
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 2,270% Sales Rank in Music: 47 (was 1,114 yesterday)
4.1 out of 5 stars(7)

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Lisa Hannigan follows her acclaimed 2009 debut Sea Sew with Passenger, out September 20th on ATO Records. Lisa's first solo outing garnered critical praise from NPR's 'All Things
Considered', The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Daily News and The Los Angeles Times, in addition to earning her performances on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' and 'The Colbert Report' as well as a Mercury Prize nomination.

Passenger finds Hannigan further developing her signature vocal sound and songwriting. Recorded over a week at Brynderwyn Studios in North Wales by Grammy-winning producer Joe Henry (Solomon Burke, Allen Toussaint, Ramblin' Jack Elliot) and engineer Ryan Freeland (Ray LaMontagne), Passenger includes 10 sparkling new songs including the gorgeous 'O Sleep' on which she shares vocal duties with Ray LaMontagne.

In addition to her solo work Hannigan sang with Damien Rice for seven years, touring the world and playing sell-out shows at Radio City Music Hall and the Greek Theatre. She contributed significantly to Rice's platinum-selling debut O and critically
lauded follow-up 9. She also sang with the legendary Herbie Hancock on a rendition of Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changin' for his Imagine Project.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #78 in Music
  • Released on: 2011-09-20
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Dimensions: .11 pounds

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The Andy Williams Christmas Album

The Andy
The Andy Williams Christmas Album
~ Andy Williams
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4.8 out of 5 stars(58)

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #389 in Music
  • Released on: 2004-08-24
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Dimensions: .20 pounds

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Wish You Were Here

Wish You
Wish You Were Here
~ Pink Floyd
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4.5 out of 5 stars(8)

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On its release in 1975 Wish You Were here topped the album charts in both the UK and the US. Reflecting the band’s thoughts of the time on the music business, and exploring themes of absence, Wish You Were Here contains the classic cut Shine On You Crazy Diamond, a tribute to founder member Syd Barrett. The new Discovery version presents the original studio album, digitally remastered by James Guthrie and reissued with newly designed Digipak and a new 16 page booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson.

 

The ‘Discovery’ collection: 14 Remastered Studio Albums

Since 1967 Pink Floyd have produced one of the most outstanding and enduring catalogues in the history of recorded music. All 14 original Studio albums have now been painstakingly digitally remastered by James Guthrie (co-producer of The Wall), and are reissued with newly crafted packaging and booklets created by the band’s long-time artwork collaborator Storm Thorgerson.

‘Discovery’ albums are designed as an introduction to the artist, with all booklets including full album lyrics.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #373 in Music
  • Published on: 2011-09-26
  • Released on: 2011-09-27
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Original language: English

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All I Want For Christmas (Deluxe)(2CD/1DVD)

All I
All I Want For Christmas (Deluxe)(2CD/1DVD)
~ Straight No Chaser
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 150% Sales Rank in Music: 330 (was 828 yesterday)
4.9 out of 5 stars(23)

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The 'All I Want For Christmas' holiday gift set includes the group's 2 best-selling Christmas albums ('Holiday Spirits' and 'Christmas Cheers'), plus a full-length concert DVD, 'Live In New York: Holiday Edition' filmed at the Angel Orensanz Theatre in New York City in 2009.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #330 in Music
  • Released on: 2010-10-25
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Dimensions: .52 pounds

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Head and the Heart

The Head
The Head and the Heart
~
The Head and the Heart
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4.6 out of 5 stars(32)

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So many decisions in life and in the music we love can come down to a critical tug between the logic in our heads and the hot red blood beating through our hearts. Seattle s The Head and the Heart live authentically in that crux, finding joy and beauty wedged there. Their music pulses effervescently both explosively danceable and intuitively intelligent. With Americana roots and strong vocal harmonics that swell like a river, this band finds its anchor in solid songwriting that has even the jaded humming along by the second listen.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #85 in Music
  • Released on: 2011-04-19
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Dimensions: .60" h x 5.10" w x 5.90" l, .17 pounds

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A Wonderful World

A Wonderful
A Wonderful World
~ Tony Bennett, K. D. Lang
Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 190% Sales Rank in Music: 217 (was 630 yesterday)
4.4 out of 5 stars(79)

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #217 in Music
  • Released on: 2002-11-05
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Dimensions: .20 pounds

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