Parlet is essentially a trio (two trios, actually -- one with Washington, Wright, and Franklin, the other with Washington, Hayden, and Evans) of backup singers from the P-Funk mob. The group is similar to the Brides of Funkenstein in that respect, but perhaps a bit less conservative. The group was originally designed as a concept by George Clinton, as a counterpart to his original doo wop group the Parliaments. The original name for the girls group was actually the Parlettes, but it was shortened to try and escape from the Motown sound genre, again by Clinton.
1. Help From My Friends 2. Watch Me Do My Thang 3. Wolf Tickets 4. Play Me Or Trade Me 5. I'm Mo Be Hittin' It 6. Funk Until The Edge Of Time 7. Wonderful One
The Brides of Funkenstein was a funk musical group originally composed of singers Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry. Previously background singers for Sly Stone, Mabry and Silva joined the P-Funk collective in 1977. George Clinton named the group (based on the scenario and characters from the Parliament album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein) and produced their first album, Funk Or Walk, for Atlantic Records in 1978. Their debut album skyrocketed to success, selling over three hundred thousand copies within the first week as well as winning a record world award for best new female group.
Antibalas (pronounced approximately "ahn-tee-BAH-las", from the Spanish for "bulletproof") is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modeled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, it incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa.
1. Si, Se Puede 2. Dirt And Blood 3. Battle Of The Species 4. N.E.S.T.A. [Never Ever Submit to Authority] 5. Musicawa Silt 6. Uprising 7. El Machete 8. World War IV
Utada Hikaru is a J-pop artist born in New York in 1983, she is also known as Hikki, Utada and Cubic U. Her combined record sales of over 52 million put her in the top 10 list of highest selling Japanese artists.
She began her career in the US, moving to Japan where her work was truly appreciated. Her debut release in Japan was "Automatic/time will tell", sales of which were top five in Japanese music history. Her debut album First Love was the first of a successful string of releases, surpassing 10 million sales, with her first three albums placing her in the record books as the most popular singer in Asia.
Her 2004 album, the Timbaland-produced Exodus, was released in the US. The album, which incorporated dance and hip-hop, sold well in Japan while in the States it made No.160 on the Billboard 200, promoted by the single "Devil Inside".
Utada is a classic example of how truly talented artists/musicians can go totally unappreciated by U.S audiences, who tend to allow the radio to stunt their musical experience.
1. Come Back To Me
2. Me Muero
3. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
4. Apple And Cinnamon
5. Taking My Money Back
6. This One [Crying Like a Child]
7. Automatic Part. II
8. Dirty Desire
9. Poppin'
10. On And On
11. Simple And Clean
12. Sanctuary [Opening]
13. Sanctuary [Closing]
1. Fight The Blues
2. Heart Station
3. Beautiful World
4. Flavor Of Life [Ballad Version]
5. Stay Gold
6. Kiss & Cry
7. Gentle Beast Interlude
8. Celebrate
9. Prisoner Of Love
10. Flavor Of Life [*]
1. This Is Love
2. Keep Trying
3. Blue
4. Nichiyo No Asa Ga Kanaukoro
5. Making Love
6. Dareka No Negai
7. Colors
8. One Night Magic
9. Kairo
10. Wings
11. Be My Last
12. Eclipse [Interlude]
13. Passion
1. Opening
2. Devil Inside
3. Exodus '04
4. The Workout
5. Easy Breezy
6. Tippy Toe
7. Hotel Lobby
8. Animato
9. Crossover Interlude
10. Kremlin Dusk
11. You Make Me Want To Be A Man
12. Wonder 'Bout
13. Let Me Give You My Love
14. About Me
1. Sakura Drops
2. Traveling
3. Shiawase Ni Narou
4. Deep River
5. Letters
6. Play Ball
7. Tokyo Nights
8. A.S.A.P.
9. Uso Mitaina I Love You
10. Final Distance
11. Bridge
12. Hikari
1. Wait & See
2. Can You Keep A Secret
3. Distance
4. Sunglasses
5. TV Series
6. Eternally
7. Addicted To You
8. For You
9. Throw It Away!
10. Parody
11. Time Limit
12. Indescribable Feelings
13. Hayatochi [Remix]
1. My Little Lover Boy
2. Lullaby
3. How Ya Doin'
4. I Don't Love You
5. Promise
6. Ticket 4 Two
7. Take A Little Time
8. 100 Reasons Why
9. Work Things Out
10. Close To You
11. Precious Love
12. How Ya Doin' [Rap Version]
By distilling the sounds of Franz Ferdinand, the Clash, the Strokes, and the Libertines into a hybrid of swaggering indie rock and danceable neo-punk, Arctic Monkeys became one of the U.K.'s biggest bands of the new millennium.
1. My Propeller 2. Crying Lightning 3. Dangerous Animals 4. Secret Door 5. Potion Approaching 6. Fire And The Thud 7. Cornerstone 8. Dance Little Liar 9. Pretty Visitors 10. The Jeweller's Hand 11. Red Right Hand [Japanese Bonus Track] 12. I Haven't Got My Strange [Japanese Bonus Track]
1. Brianstorm 2. Teddy Picker 3. D Is For Dangerous 4. Balaclava 5. Flourescent Adolescent 6. Only Ones Who Know 7. Do Me A Favour 8. This House Is A Circus 9. If You Were There, Beware 10. The Bad thing 11. Old Yellow Bricks 12. 505
1. The View From The Afternoon 2. I Bet you Look Good On The Dancefloor 3. Fake Tales Of San Francisco 4. Dancing Shoes 5. You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But you Were Looking Straight At Me 6. Still Take You Home 7. Riot Van 8. Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured 9. Mardy Bum 10. Perhaps Vampire Is A Bit Strong But... 11. When The Sun Goes Down 12. From The Ritz To Rubble 13. A Certain Romance
Return To Forever were at the forefront of Jazz/Rock fusion in the '70s and, like their contemporaries Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra, were formed by a former Miles Davis sideman, in this case the great Chick Corea. Return To Forever hit their commercial and artistic peak with a string of albums in the mid-'70s featuring the line-up of Chick Corea on keyboards, Stanley Clarke on bass, Al Di Meola on guitar and Lenny White on drums. In 2008, this classic line-up reunited for their first tour in 25 years and proved that their musicianship and the chemistry within the band was as strong as ever.
1. Opening Prayer 2. Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy 3. Vulcan Worlds 4. Sorceress 5. Return to the Pharaoh kings 6. Al's Solo 7. No Mystery
Disc 2
1. Friendship 2. Romantic Warrior 3. El Baya de Negro 4. Lineage - Lenny's Solo 5. Romantic Warrior [continued] 6. Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant 7. 500 Miles High 8. BBC Lifetime achievement award to RTF as presented by Sir George Martin, including performance of Romantic Warrior
U.S. only 2 CD edition includes a bonus disc with five live tracks;Right as Rain, Melt My Heart to Stone, My Same, That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On and Chasing Pavements. 19 is the debut album from Adele, also her age at the time of it's release. Citing her influences as diverse as Etta James, Jill Scott, Bjork, Dusty Springfield, Billy Bragg, Billie Holiday, Jeff Buckley, The Cure and Peggy Lee, Adele is a truly unique new artist. With her mix up of R&B and Soul served up with a healthy dash of feisty London attitude, she spins beautiful dark stories of loves won and lost and sometimes just daydreamed about.
1. Daydreams 2. Best For Last 3. Chasing Pavements 4. Cold Shoulder 5. Crazy For You 6. Melt My Heart To Stone 7. First Love 8. Right As Rain 9. Make You Feel My Love 10. My Same 11. Tired 12. Hometown Glory
*Live Tracks
1. Right As Rain 2. Melt My Heart To Stone 3. My Same 4. That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On 5. Chasing Pavements
"Music is a miniature of the harmony of the whole universe, for the harmony of the universe is life itself, and humans, being a miniature of the universe, show harmonious and inharmonious chords in their pulsations, in the beat of their hearts, in their vibration, rhythm and tone. Their health or illness, their joy or discomfort, all show the music or lack of music in their life.
And what does music teach us? Music helps us to train ourselves in harmony, and it is this which is the magic or the secret behind music. When you hear music that you enjoy, it tunes you and puts you in harmony with life. Therefore we need music; we long for music. Many say that they do not care for music, but these have not heard music. If they really heard music; it would touch their souls, and then certainly they could not help loving it. If not, it would only mean that they had not heard music sufficiently, and had not made their heart calm and quiet in order to listen to it, and to enjoy and appreciate it. Besides music develops that faculty by which one learns to appreciate all that is good and beautiful in the form of art and science, and in the form of music and poetry one can then appreciate every aspect of beauty.
What is wonderful about music is that it helps us to concentrate or meditate independently of thought - and therefore music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless. If there is anything intelligent, effective and at the same time formless, it is music. Poetry suggests form, line and colour suggest form, but music suggests no form. It creates also that resonance which vibrates through the whole being, lifting the thought above the denseness of matter; it almost turns matter into spirit, into its original condition, through the harmony of vibrations touching every atom of one's whole being.
Beauty of line and colour can go so far and no further; the joy of fragrance can go a little further; but music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of our life."
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