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Sing It Like An Idol: Best of the Movies

A collection of karaoke versions of the big screen’s best-loved songs, this will make you feel like a celluloid hero.

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Verdi – Aida / Oren, Zajick, Theatre of San Carlo

Aida is a story of forbidden love between Egyptian leader Radames (appointed by the Supreme Priest Ramfis) and the beautiful Ethiopian princess Aida. Now captured, Aida serves as a slave to Amneris, the Pharaoh’s daughter, who is also in love with Radames. When the Ethiopian enemies headed by King Amonasro (Aida’s father) invade Egypt, Aida is faced with a dilemma–whom should she support: her father or her beloved Radames? Daniel Oren conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Theatre of San Carlo. For many devotees of Aida, the size of a performance’s production budget is the most important consideration. In this respect, the San Carlo Opera Company falls behind its chief video competitors, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera, particularly in the lavish, half-hour triumphal scene in Act II. But in its more modest way, with only one singer (Dolora Zajick) who has a strong international reputation, it gives a good musical account of Verdi’s score.

The costumes and choreography are undistinguished but adequate; the singers in the principal roles are visually less than ideal but more convincing than Pavarotti at La Scala and properly impassioned in the best Italian provincial style. The chorus and orchestra are capable and Daniel Oren keeps the music under firm control. With more splendor in the spectacular scenes, this could have been surprisingly competitive. As is, it’s more likable than one might expect. –Joe McLellan

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Road Trips: Vol. 2, No. 4 – Cal Expo ’93 (2 CD + Bonus Disc)

From the rare “Samson” opener and the unusually long and jammed out “Playing in the Band” from the May 26th show, to the bone-rattling “Shakedown Street” on the 27th, these shows are exciting and action-packed.

The two-disc set offers 19 solid tracks from these justifiably famous performances, spanning the Dead’s repertoire from the ’60s (“The Same Thing”) to the ’90s (“Liberty”). All selections are previously unissued, and as always, engineer Jeffrey Norman has made sure the sonic specs are superior and presented in crystal clear HDCD.

The Bonus Disc offers more killer tunes from these fine shows, including Phil’s tender and emotional “Broken Arrow” from the 26th, and the unique sequence of “Cassidy> Uncle John’s Band> Cassidy” from the 27th, something they’d never attempted before and never played again!

Track listing:

Recorded live at the Cal Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA.

Disc 1

1. Samson and Delilah (5/26/93)

2. Here Comes Sunshine (5/26/93)

3. Walkin’ Blues (5/26/93)

4. Deal (5/26/93)

5. Box of Rain> (5/26/93)

6. Victim Or The Crime> (5/26/93)

7. Crazy Fingers> (5/26/93)

8. Playing In The Band> (5/26/93)

9. Rhythm Devils (5/26/93)

Disc 2

1. Corrina> (5/26/93)

2. Playing In The Band> (5/26/93)

3. China Doll> (5/26/93)

4. Around and Around (5/26/93)

5. Liberty (5/26/93)

6. Shakedown Street (5/27/93)

7. The Same Thing (5/27/93)

8. Dire Wolf (5/27/93)

9. High Time (5/27/93)

10. When I Paint My Masterpiece (5/27/93)

Limited Edition Bonus Disc

1. Picasso Moon> (5/27/93)

2. Fire On The Mountain (5/27/93)

3. Cassidy> (5/27/93)

4. Uncle John’s Band> (5/27/93)

5. Cassidy (5/27/93)

6. Gloria (5/27/93)

7. Broken Arrow (5/26/93)

8. Ramble On Rose (5/26/93)

9. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (5/26/93)

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Tavener: Mary of Egypt Ely Cathedral / Friend

Mary of Egypt “An Icon in Music and Dance”
Recorded at the Alderburgh Festival 1992 incudes exclusive interview with the Composer.
Patricia Rozario, (Mary)
Stephen Varcoe, (Zissima)
Chloe Goodchild (The Voice/Mother of God)

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The Band’s Visit

This heartwarming and poignant winner of the Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard prize is the mesmerizing and witty story of strangers in a strange land. A fading Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to play at the Arab Cultural Center. When they take the wrong bus, the band members find themselves in a desolate Israeli village. With no other option than to spend the night with the local townspeople, the two distinctly different cultures realize the universal bonds of love, music and life. Set against a breathtaking desert landscape, this cross-cultural comedy proves that getting lost is sometimes the best way to find yourself.Can movies change the world? In a word, no. But Israeli writer and director Eran Kolirin’s utterly charming and engaging The Band’s Visit suggests that if we could somehow put aside the politics and the religion, stifle the governments and the rhetoric, and mix in a little Gershwin, maybe even people with a history of cross-cultural suspicion and hostility really can get along. Not that the film has such pretensions–far from it. This is a simple tale involving a group of Egyptian musicians, the Alexandria Police Ceremonial Orchestra, who arrive in Israel for a concert. Things don’t go well; there’s no one to meet them at the airport, and they mistakenly end up in a small, drab desert town called Bet Hatikva, a place whose own residents refer to it as “bloody nowhere.” But the people, especially café owner Dina (a marvelous performance by Ronit Elkabetz), are friendly and welcoming, and when they urge the band members to stay overnight before heading to their proper destination the next day, strait-laced leader Tewfiq (Sasson Gabai) finally relents. What follows is a series of plain but lovely scenes, as the Egyptians and Israelis (speaking English, their common language) tentatively search for common ground. Khaled (Saleh Bakri), the ladies man of the group (“Do you like Chet Baker?” is his favorite pick-up line), accompanies two young couples to a roller rink, where he comically helps the painfully timid Papi (Shlomi Avraham) connect with his date; meanwhile, the dignified but taciturn Tewfiq gradually warms to Dina’s manifest charms, and the other musicians share a rousing chorus of “Summertime” with their Israeli hosts. The Band’s Visit is filled with moments of humor, tenderness, tension, sadness, regret, and, as one character puts it, “tons of loneliness,” every one of them delivered without the slightest bit of pretension or manipulation (not to mention political or religious overtones). And when, at the end, we finally hear the Orchestra perform, we only wish we could spend more time with all of these delightful characters. –Sam Graham

Stills from The Band’s Visit (click for larger image)

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Galatea / Aztec

Galatea / Aztec by Neptune Project

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The Glorious Light Meditation

This CD contains music and meditation sessions including chants based on the Ancient Egyptian text of the Glorious Light where the special teaching was given by the sage King Sety I. This meditation teaching was discovered by Dr. Muata Ashby in 1995.
The CD contains three tracks, the first introduces the beat and melody of the Ra Akhu “Glorious Light”, the second is an extended instrumental version for relaxation and and meditation, the third is a guided meditation session with spoken word.

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Street Jams: Electric Funk 2

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Media Type: CD
Artist: STREET JAMS
Title: PT. 2-ELECTRIC FUNK
Street Release Date: 02/11/1992
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B COLLECTIONS

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Gotta Let This Hen Out

1 Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl (2:10)
2 Kingdom Of Love (4:16)
3 Acid Bird (4:33)
4 The Cars She Used To Drive (3:07)
5 My Wife And My Dead Wife (3:56)
6 Brenda’s Iron Sledge (3:07)
7 The Fly (3:45)
8 Only The Stones Remain (2:38)
9 Egyptian Cream (3:32)
10 Leppo And The Jooves (4:55)
11 America (4:18)
12 Heaven (3:52)
13 Listening To The Higsons (3:00)
14 The Face Of Death (3:33)

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Precious Memories / Way Down in Egypt Land

This is a 78rpm recording: The Dixiaires (Dixie-Aires); LABEL: Lenox Records, Record # L-506, Date: 1949. Side A: Precious Memories (Arr. Don Gabor), Vocal Quartet // Spiritual, (HS-4004) — Side B: Way Down in Egypt Land (Arr. Don Gabor), Vocal Quartet // Spiritual, (HS-4005)

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