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Eternal Echoes: Songs & Dances for the Soul
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Format: Audio CD
Publisher: SONY MASTERWORKS (2012, Sep 4th).
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2013 collaboration between Classical violinist Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. While rooted in the cantorial-liturgical tradition of Jewish music, the ten tracks on Eternal Echoes encompass a wide range of musical moods. The two masters began to explore the confluences of sound between Perlman's famed classical technique with Helfgot's magnificent golden voice. more
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Dreams Of Fireflies (On A Christmas Night)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Universal Republic (2012, Oct 30th).
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5 Tracks, Jewelcase more
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Dos
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Green Day
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Reprise (2012, Nov 13th).
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Dos! is the second installment of Green Day's album trilogy Uno!, Dos!, Tre!. more
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Michael
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Michael Jackson
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Epic (2010, Dec 14th).
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MICHAEL is the much anticipated album of newly completed recordings from Michael Jackson. The creative process never stopped for the King of Pop who was always planning for his next album; unbeknownst to many fans around the world Michael Jackson was writing and recording songs continuously everywhere from a friend’s home in New Jersey to studios in Las Vegas and Los Angeles with a small group of handpicked collaborators. Now, through the unique stories that will be told about the songs that comprise MICHAEL, fans will get mind-blowing insight into how this artist worked and a chance to hear the songs he most recently created along with tracks that Michael had a desire to bring to fruition. more
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Mean Old Man
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jerry Lee Lewis
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Verve (2010, Sep 7th).
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Deluxe edition includes eight bonus tracks. 2010 release from the Rock 'n' Roll legend. Mean Old Man was produced by Jim Keltner and Steve Bing in Memphis and LA, and features guest appearances from Solomon Burke, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, John Fogerty, Merle Haggard, Mick Jagger, Kid Rock, Kris Kristofferson, Nils Lofgren, Shelby Lynne, Tim McGraw, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, Slash, Mavis Staples, Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood. This is Lewis's much-anticipated follow up to his 2006 release Last Man Standing, which continues to sell consistently with sales of over 500,000 worldwide. more
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Raising Sand
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Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Rounder (2007, Oct 23rd).
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Perhaps only the fantasy duo of King Kong and Bambi could be a more bizarre pairing than Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Yet on Raising Sand, their haunting and brilliant collaboration, the Led Zeppelin screamer and Nashville's most hypnotic song whisperer seem made for each other. This, however, is not the howling Plant of "Whole Lotta Love," but a far more precise and softer singer than even the one who emerged with Dreamland (2002). No matter that Plant seems so subdued as to be on downers, for that's one of the keys to this most improbable meeting of musical galaxies--almost all of it seems slowed down, out of time, otherworldly, and at times downright David Lynch-ian, the product of an altered consciousness. Yet probably the main reason it all works so well is the choice of producer T Bone Burnette, the third star of the album, who culled mostly lesser-known material from some of the great writers of blues, country, folk, gospel, and R&B, including Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Milt Campbell, the Everly Brothers, Sam Phillips, and A. more
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Oh, My Nola
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Harry Connick Jr.
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Sony (2007, Jan 30th).
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Fresh off his Broadway stint in The Pajama Game, Harry Connick went back to his New Orleans roots and recorded a pair of albums in tribute to his hometown. Released the same day as the similarly themed but mostly instrumental Chanson du Vieux Carré, Oh, My Nola is a loose, effortlessly swinging album that ranks among Connick's best. He traces New Orleans' prodigious musical legacy with well-chosen covers peppered with some originals. Though he wrote only four tracks, at least one of them, "All These People," is a stand-out--a mid-tempo elegy about the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with a strong contribution from gospel great Kim Burrell. When it comes to the covers, Connick chose tracks that either originated in New Orleans or found particular resonance there. more
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My Life
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jake Shimabukuro
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: HITCHHIKE RECORDS (2007, Sep 18th).
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An EP release featuring six brand new arrangements of Jake's favorite tunes by such heavyweights as Sarah McLachlin, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and Cyndie Lauper, all on one album wrapped around the timeless classic "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Heartfelt and beautiful, this album pays repect to the originals while integrating Jake's own soulful, one of a kind interpretations. more
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