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Thorne: Grandma's Goodbye
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Total running time: 53 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color four-page insert, disk and tray.
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The Contessa's Party and its dense dancing arrangements continues attracting new guests. Grandma's Goodbye is the most recent track to receive the Thorne/Norty Cotto extended remix treatment. Here, they go further: Thorne contributes a huge megamix of 16'28" with new material and fresh grooves. It's been a while since we heard one of these, and there's a reason: they take days and days to build.
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| The Shirts: Only the Dead Know Brooklyn |
Total running time: 47 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color cardboard outer sleeve, 16-page booklet, disk and tray.
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The Shirts were one of the original CBGB's bands in the mid-seventies, and achieved success with their first two albums in 1978 and 1979. They drifted apart after their third, only to reform and regroup in 2003 purely for the musical fun of it. With two new, strong female singers added, they're back with their fourth album and reunited with original producer Mike Thorne. 13 new songs resurrect their immediately recognizable sound, but with a new century sensibility.
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Total running time: one hour and 14 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color cardboard outer sleeve, 16-page booklet, disk and tray.
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The Contessa's Party, the second full-length CD from Thorne, marks the fullest fruition yet of a distinctive approach to making music - and records - nurtured by artist-producer Mike Thorne over the course of nearly 35 years. It is also, as the title implies, the soundtrack for one lively dance soirée, complete with a colorful cast of guests: Sarah Jane Morris, BETTY, Lene Lovich, Kit Hain, and the Uptown Horns. Back then a few years, it was time to reinvent the extended club mix, to make music which moved you physically yet was substantial enough to listen to closely.
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Total running time: one hour and 12 minutes
Full CD jewel box container, with full color two-page insert, disk and tray.
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Thorne: Dancing With B 45rpm 12" vinyl record
The Contessa's Party went down so well with the New York dance people that we commissioned noted club DJ/remixer Norty Cotto. He contributes three powerful mixes to this CD collection, complementing three brand new long ones in very different styles from Thorne. The 12" vinyl has one of Norty's extended mixes on each side.
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| Lene Lovich: Shadows And Dust |
Total running time: 45 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color cardboard outer sleeve, 16-page booklet, disk and tray.
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Lene Lovich's impact on pop music can hardly be understated. The influence of her arty, flamboyant new wave persona, assertive, banshee-howl-inflected vocals, and idiosyncratic songwriting style can be seen clearly in countless female artists, from peers like Siouxsie Sioux and Grace Jones, to those who have followed in her footsteps: Björk, PJ Harvey, Gwen Stefani, and Karen O. In her absence, would be hard to conceive of the modern landscape of alternative female pop artists. Lene has carved out a unique niche in the world, always while doggedly pursuing her own muse, her own passions. And only an artist as inventive as Lene can take such ephemeral materials as Shadows and Dust, and fashion them into a record as gripping as this, her fifth full-length offering.
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| Charles Ives: Universe Symphony |
Total running time: one hour and five minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color cardboard outer sleeve, 32-page booklet, disk and tray.
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Charles
Ives' last and possibly greatest work has been completed
in a new realization by Johnny Reinhard, after
over ten years of extensive research through libraries
and the composer's papers. He premiered the first
performance, with the approval of the Ives Society,
at Lincoln Center, June 6 1996. This recording
was five years in the making, a labor of love
reflecting the greatest care in conveying the great
composer's (the father of US 'classical' music)
musical ambitions: 64 minutes of virtuoso playing from 72 instruments.
See our Ives page
for more background to an extraordinary man and
an extraordinary, singular piece of radical music.
The CD package includes as 32-page full-color booklet all in English
(for translations in many other languages see our
Translations page), cardboard jewel box sleeve.
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| Thorne: Sprawl |
Total running time: 57 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color 16-page booklet, disk and tray.
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Mike Thorne
retired from commercial record production in 1994, having delivered
many innovative and successful recordings, such as Tainted Love and Voices
Carry. Sprawl, his own first album, features huge
vocal arrangements contributed by Kit Hain, Sarah Jane Morris, Lene
Lovich and BETTY. The instrumental sound centers on tough techno,
intense and unusual horn arrangements powered by the Uptown Horns,
and raucous drums. Songs include two unrecorded from Marianne
Faithfull, Pretty Vacant (the Sex Pistols, 1976) and an exclusive
translation of Le Ballet (originally a seductive French language
song from Céline Dion).
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BETTY: Snowbiz
Total running time: 28 minutes . Full CD jewel box container, with full color eight-page insert, disk and tray.
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BETTY always celebrate birthdays, holidays and sometimes just getting up in the morning. Come the end of the year, it can be quite a job doing just that. Things often go seriously wrong and not according to plan. During this 28-minute CD EP, enjoy a very different take on the holidays with personal problems like Holiday Office Party (blues) and Happy Holidays (from me to me). The threat of total depression is deftly alleviated by Georgia (calls me) and Miracles Can Happen (they do every day). BETTY also offer several trademark a cappella vocal tracks, including Itchy Fingers (I want my pressie) and the warm Lullabye (for Ruby). And a few other unexpected surprises, avalanches, meltdowns etc.
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BETTY: Carnival
Total running time: 28 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color eight-page insert, disk and tray.
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Step
right up! Hurry, hurry! Welcome to the rocking
roller coaster ride of Carnival, BETTY's debut
album on the Stereo Society label. Sneak into the
freak show as our heroines take you on a musical
journey through the lighter and darker side of
innocence lost. BETTY is internationally known
for their wild live shows, mixing passionate rock
songs with clever spoken word pieces to spin concerts
as breathtaking as a turn on a Tilt-a-Whirl. Savor
this 30-minute masterpiece in one sitting with
the Millennium Man and Jungle Jane. Whatever
your heart desires, You'll be sticky with cotton
candy.
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Hilly Kristal: Mad Mordechai
Total running time: 34 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color 16-page booklet, disk and tray.
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Hilly Kristal, who died August 28 2007,
is best known as the owner of CBGB's, New York's downtown
rock & roll club which, after 33 years in business before it was shut down,
was perhaps the most famous in the world. Most people
have not heard his sonorous bass voice and quirky songs,
and don't realize that he used to earn his living this
way. Songs
include an eight-minute party version of Mud, the
story of the little wiggly pig, 'S No Joke, a paranoia-disco
rap by the guy you didn't want to find sitting next
to you at the bar, and Rock 'n' Roll Jackson, one
of the lesser-known Knights of the Round Table. Also,
a previously unrecorded song from Otis Blackwell, writer
of many Elvis Presley hits, Everybody's Buddy.
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Johnny Reinhard: Raven
Total running time: 55 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color 16-page booklet, disk and tray.
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Johnny
Reinhard has pursued a distinctive course in
microtonal performance and composition. He
is a virtuoso bassoonist. This album of
his own compositions features many of New York's
progressive musicians playing an extraordinary
collection of instruments and arrangements from
conch shells to tuba to upright bass to gong. The
single vocal piece is a gothic setting of Edgar
Allen Poe's The Raven. Many of his
pieces follow a programmatic idea, such as Dune, for
solo bassoon, Atlantis, for five shell
players, tuba and chimes, and Chaco Canyon for
solo flutes.
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The Reds: Cry Tomorrow
Total running time: 43 minutes. Full CD jewel box container, with full color 16-page booklet, disk and tray.
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The
Reds began as one of the most powerful guitar-
and keyboard-based bands of the later New Wave,
formed in Philadelphia in the late seventies. Several
albums later, they became a duo, backed by Mike
Thorne's rhythm and synthesizers, and made further
recordings for Sire. Their music was central to some of the early episodes of Miami Vice, and
they continued scoring for movies such as Michael
Mann's Manhunter. Delivered by one of the most forceful
combinations ever of rock & roll attitude, Cry Tomorrow is
a reworked version of their outstandingly powerful
original 1992 indie release, and includes a radical
version of the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter.
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