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Epoch - $8.99 Science must confront a power greater than our own in this unusual sci-fi-thriller. As seismic activities around the world begin going haywire, causing untold damages in major cities and claiming thousands of lives, the President of the United States orders Kasia Czaban, one of his top scientific advisers, and Mason Rand, a leading weapons expert, to investigate the phenomenon and see if it can be stopped. Kasia and Mason’s investigation leads them to the Himalayas, where they discover a strange object of otherworldly origin that can generate its own power and water, spawn and support its own life forms, and either extend or extinguish human lives at will. What is this strange item? What is its role in the history of our universe? And can Mason and Kasia unlock its secrets without falling prey to its dangers? Epoch stars David Keith, Stephanie Niznik, Ryan O’Neal, and Shannon Lee. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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The End of an Epoch $22.99 Track Listing: 1. Mnemonia, 2. Boschiana, 3. Figures & Letters, 4. World Has Thinned Out, 5. Moon’s Fury, 6. God’s Plant, 7. Shadow, 8. Go Back, 9. Dialects, 10. Von Weisheit Keine Spur, 11. End of an Epoch, The |
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Frederick Cooper ATB002H1 Miya 1 Light Table Lamp in Gun Metal $592.31 Transitional Table Lamp in Gun Metal from the Miya Collection by Frederick Cooper. Dimensions: 22.0 H |
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Quoizel LSP1826BN2 Epoch 3 Light Ceiling Pendant in Brushed Nickel $201.25 Traditional Ceiling Pendant in Brushed Nickel from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 45.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP6325NR2 Epoch 2 Light Table Lamp in Natural Brass $319.99 Traditional Table Lamp in Natural Brass from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 24.50 H |
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Quoizel LSP6325PS1 Epoch 2 Light Table Lamp in Pewter Plated $287.99 Traditional Table Lamp in Pewter Plated from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 24.50 H |
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Quoizel LSP6325PS2 Epoch 2 Light Table Lamp in Pewter Plated $287.99 Traditional Table Lamp in Pewter Plated from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 24.50 H |
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Quoizel LSP9363PS2 Epoch 2 Light Floor Lamp in Pewter Plated $529.99 Traditional Floor Lamp in Pewter Plated from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 63.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP9363NR2 Epoch 2 Light Floor Lamp in Natural Brass $324.63 Traditional Floor Lamp in Natural Brass from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 63.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP6325NR1 Epoch 2 Light Table Lamp in Natural Brass $319.99 Traditional Table Lamp in Natural Brass from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 24.50 H |
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Quoizel LSP1512NR2 Epoch 1 Light Mini Pendant in Brushed Nickel $148.75 Traditional Mini Pendant in Brushed Nickel from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 38.50 H |
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Quoizel LSP1826BN3 Epoch 3 Light Ceiling Pendant in Brushed Nickel $214.38 Traditional Ceiling Pendant in Brushed Nickel from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 45.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP1826NR1 Epoch 3 Light Ceiling Pendant in Natural Brass $214.38 Traditional Ceiling Pendant in Natural Brass from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 45.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP1512BN1 Epoch 1 Light Mini Pendant in Brushed Nickel $148.75 Traditional Mini Pendant in Brushed Nickel from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 38.50 H |
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Quoizel LSP1512BN2 Epoch 1 Light Mini Pendant in Brushed Nickel $148.75 Traditional Mini Pendant in Brushed Nickel from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 38.50 H |
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Quoizel LSP1826BN1 Epoch 3 Light Ceiling Pendant in Brushed Nickel $214.38 Traditional Ceiling Pendant in Brushed Nickel from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 45.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP1826NR2 Epoch 3 Light Ceiling Pendant in Natural Brass $459.99 Traditional Ceiling Pendant in Natural Brass from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 45.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP1826NR3 Epoch 3 Light Ceiling Pendant in Natural Brass $214.38 Traditional Ceiling Pendant in Natural Brass from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 45.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP9363NR1 Epoch 2 Light Floor Lamp in Natural Brass $529.99 Traditional Floor Lamp in Natural Brass from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 63.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP9363PS1 Epoch 2 Light Floor Lamp in Pewter Plated $529.99 Traditional Floor Lamp in Pewter Plated from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 63.00 H |
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Quoizel LSP1512NR1 Epoch 1 Light Mini Pendant in Brushed Nickel $148.75 Traditional Mini Pendant in Brushed Nickel from the Epoch Collection by Quoizel. Dimensions: 38.50 H |
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Black Snow Epoch $15.99 Track Listing: 1. Goatsbane/Scapewolf, 2. Bearer, Begetter, the Sovereign Wolf, 3. Dark Eyed and Frost Scorned, 4. Goatwalking, 5. Razed Under Cloven Hoof and Bloody Maw, 6. Wall of Goat, 7. Wall of Wolf, 8. Black Drum Droning, A |
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Epoch Eclipse: The Ultimate Best of Hawkwind $11.99 Track Listing: 1. Silver Machine, 2. Master of the Universe, 3. Urban Guerilla, 4. Sonic Attack, 5. Psychedelic Warlords, 6. Assault & Battery, Pt. 1, 7. Motorhead, 8. Back on the Streets, 9. Quark Strangeness and Charm, 10. 25 Years, 11. Motorway City, 12. Angels of Death, 13. Night of the Hawks, 14. Needle Gun, 15. Right to Decide, 16. Alien I Am, 17. Love in Space, 18. Silver Machine |
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Epoch-Eclipse: 30 Year Anthology $24.99 Track Listing: 1. Hurry on Sundown, 2. Paranoia (Part 2), 3. Master of the Universe, 4. Children of the Sun, 5. Silver Machine (Original Single Version), 6. Seven by Seven (Original Version), 7. Brainstorm, 8. Space Is Deep, 9. Urban Guerilla, 10. Brainbox Pollution, 11. Sonic Attack, 12. Orgone Accumulator, 13. Lost Johnny, 14. Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear on Mohe) (Single Edit), 15. Motorhead, 16. Assault & Battery (Pt 1), 17. Golden Void (Part 2), 18. Magnu, 19. Kerb Crawler, 20. Steppenwolf, 21. Back on the Streets, 22. Quark Strangeness & Charm, 23. Hassan I Shaba, 24. Spirit of the Age, 25. PSI Power, 26. 25 Years (12″ Remix), 27. High Rise, 28. Death Trap, 29. Uncle Sam’s on Mars, 30. Shot Down in the Night (Live) (Edit), 31. Motorway City, 32. Levitation, 33. Angels of Death, 34. Coded Languages, 35. Some People Never Die, 36. Choose Your Masques, 37. Night of the Hawks, 38. Needle Gun, 39. War I Survived, 40. Black Elk Speaks, 41. Right to Decide, 42. Sputnik Stan, 43. Love in Space, 44. Silver Machine Infected B |
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Rag Miyaki Todi/Bilaskhani Todi $19.99 Track Listing: 1. Rag Bilaskhani Todi, 2. Rag Miya Ki Todi |
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Now $11.99 Track Listing: 1. Now, 2. Grace, 3. Out of the Mouths of Babes, 4. Hope, 5. Labor Day, 6. Espresso, 7. Forgotten But Not Gone, 8. Search for Peace, 9. Giant Steps, 10. Miya |
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Burdocks $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Burdocks – (featuring Gordon Mumma/Joan Jeanrenaud/Miya Masaoka/Gordon Mumma/Bob Ostertag/Miya Masaoka/William Winant/Christian Wolff/Fred Frith/Christian Wolff), 2. Trio III – (featuring Jennifer Choi/Stephen Drury/William Winant), 3. Tuba Song – (featuring Peter Wahrhaftig) |
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Marvelous Fantasy $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Atanos, 2. Miya, 3. Foi Feito de Vera, 4. Trieste, 5. Marvelous Fantasy (Roughenstein), 6. Lovers, The, 7. Mr. Piccolo, 8. Dance from the Night in Gales, 9. Little Ones |
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This Is Your Way Out $9.99 Track Listing: 1. He Is Ocean, 2. I Am Waves, 3. Armageddon, 4. Utah, 5. Breather, 6. Casablanca, 7. Epoch Coda |
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Handful of Stars $13.99 Track Listing: 1. Cold Landscapes, 2. Downfall Of The Epoch, 3. Towards The Light, 4. Twilight Aureole, 5. Day Will Come, The, 6. Listening To The Silence |
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Feeding the Machine $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Feeding the Machine, 2. Contagion, 3. No One Can Tell You, 4. Epoch, 5. Deconstruct, 6. Odyssey, 7. Through Your Eyes (Distant Mirrors), 8. Race With Devil on Spanish Highway, 9. Visitors, 10. In Lingua Mortua |
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Theodorakis: Canto Olympico $17.99 Track Listing: 1. Songs of Praise: Ode to Zeus/Ode to Apollo/Ode to the First …, 2. Olympic Games: Preperation/The Games Begin, The, 3. Victory, 4. War, 5. Downfall of the Games. The Middle Ages, Olympia and the Olympic Idea, The, 6. Rebirth of the Olympic Games: The Beginning of a New Epoch/Rocks, …, 7. Hymn to the Earth |
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Majesty and Decay $13.99 Track Listing: 1. Intro, 2. Purge, The, 3. A Token of Malice, A, 4. Majesty and Decay, 5. Divine Code, 6. In Human Form, 7. A Glorious Epoch, A, 8. Interlude, 9. A Thunderous Consequence, A, 10. Rapture of Ghosts, The, 11. Power and Shame, 12. Comfort of Cowards, The |
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Physics Of Fire $13.99 Track Listing: 1. Epoch of War, 2. Immolation, 3. Autopsy, 4. Great Fall, The, 5. Nocturne – (instrumental), 6. Monolith, The, 7. Construct and Collapse, 8. Endure, 9. Fire Made Flesh, 10. Second Death, 11. Balance of Eternity, The |
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The Mikado $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Overture, 2. If You Want to Know Who We Are, 3. Wand’ring Minstrel, I, A, 4. Behold the Lord High Executioner, 5. As Some Day It May Happen, 6. Comes a Train of Little Ladies, 7. Three Little Maids, 8. Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted, 9. With Aspect Stern, 10. Braid the Raven Hair, 11. Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze, The, 12. Here’s a How-de-Do!, 13. Miya Sama, 14. More Humane Mikado, A, 15. Criminal Cried, The, 16. Flowers That Bloom in the Spring], The, 17. Alone, And Yet Alive, 18. Willow, Tit-Willow, 19. There Is Beauty, 20. For He’s Gone and Married Yum-Yum |
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Prophecies Denied [Digipak] $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Intro, 2. Bleeding Towards the Wendigo, 3. Epoch of Denial, 4. Grey Massacre, The, 5. Sadistic Intent, 6. Into the Forgotten, 7. Men Down, 8. Barbaric Order, 9. Enslave the Weak Intro, 10. Enslave the Weak, 11. Altrvistic Svicide, 12. Afterbvrner, 13. Cross the Styx Intro, 14. Cross the Styx, 15. To Mega Therion |
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Cross the Styx [Bonus Tracks] [Digipak] $19.99 Track Listing: 1. Carnificina Scelesta, 2. Perennial Mourning, 3. Sacramental Carnage, 4. Doomed, 5. Spiritual Immolation, 6. Cross the Styx, 7. Compulsory Resignation, 8. Corridors to the Abyss, 9. Putrefying Remains, 10. Epoch of Denial, 11. Perpetual Damnation, 12. Outro, 13. Barbaric Order – (live), 14. (Enslaved the Weak Intro) – (live), 15. Enslaved the Week – (live) |
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Hate & Bastard Saints [Digipak] $16.99 Track Listing: 1. Intro, 2. Awaiting the Absu, 3. Embodiment of Chaos, 4. Art of the Damned, 5. Unseen Darkness, 6. 18th Century Hellfire, 7. To Mega Therion, 8. Cursed Mayhem, The, 9. Bloodfeast, The, 10. Reborn from Hatred, 11. Bastard Saints, 12. Rebels Dome, 13. Cross the Styx, 14. Epoch of Denial, 15. Men Down – (live), 16. Afterburner – (live), 17. Altruistic Suicide – (live), 18. Grey Massacre, The – (live) |
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Battlecade: Extreme Fighting – Extreme… [PA] $14.99 Track Listing: 1. One on One – L.U.N.G.S., 2. Pull It Off – L.U.N.G.S., 3. High Rate Extinction – Crowbar, 4. Obedience Thru Suffering – Crowbar, 5. Pain – Solitude Aeturnus, 6. Servant – Crawl, 7. Feed Time – Fear of God, 8. No Salvation – Malevolent Creation, 9. Epoch of Barbarity – Internal Bleeding, 10. Afraid – Ugly Stick |
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Symphony 10 (Bonus Cd) $19.99 This is a DVD-Audio, playable only on a DVD player.Dmitri Shostakovich was one of Russia’s great composers–while rooted in the 19th-century classical epoch, he had a very forward-looking, modernist mindset. This audio DVD features Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony performed by the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, conducted by Roman Kofman. The unique audio format utilizes not only right and left stereo but also front and back as well as up and down for a 3-D sound that simulates the concert-hall experience. |
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Darn Floor – Big Bite $14.99 Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. Return Of The Beat Menace, 1. Unattainable Earth [Remix], The – (remix), 2. Return Of The Beat Menace [Instrumental Mix] – (remix), 2. Strange Animals, 3. Darn Floor – Big Bite, 3. Safety Net [Live @ Cornerstrone 1998] – (live, featuring Andrew D. Prickett/Phil Madeira), 4. Concept, 4. Earth Household, 5. Music W/ Cassette Demos, 5. Safety Net – (featuring Phil Madeira), 6. Lyrics, 6. Pictures Of The Gone World, 7. Divine Instant, 7. Recording, 8. Band, The, 8. Half Light, Epoch And Phase, 9. Looking Back, 9. Unattainable Earth, The, 10. Pictures Of The Gone World [Instrumental Mix] – (remix), 10. Shape Of The Air, The – (featuring Riki Michelle/Ric Alba/Debi Taylor/Maria Chandler/Gene Eugene/Mike Stand/Phil Madeira/Jeff Crandall), 11. Share Of Air [Live @ Cornerstone 2000], The – (live, featuring Phil Madeira), 12. Half Light, Epoch And Phase [Instrumental Mix] – (remix), 13. Darn Floor – Big Bite [Live @ Cornerstone 1988] (live), 14. Unattainable Earth [Live @ Cornerstone 1988], The – (live), 15. Sacred Heart [Demo Of Unreleased Song] |
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Havana and Matanzas, Cuba 1957: Bata, Bembe… $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Tui-Tui For Shango, 2. Ide Werewere Ni’ta Oshun Ide Werewere, 3. Oku O Shola Kiniba O, 4. Baba Fururu Olore Re O, 5. Kurukuru Bede / Osain Adadara Mada O , 6. Mojuba Olodumare, 7. Ago Ago Lona Mojuba / Ibarabo Ago Mojuba , 8. Oya O Owo Kode Oya Be WA IO, 9. Obe Re Obe Ayanaku Nana Lewa, 10. Ibeji Ota Ese Aremu Beji Ota Ese, 11. Kiri Nya Kiri Nya Ago / Eshu O Elegbara E , 12. Kolele Kole O Iya O Wo Miya Kolele, 13. Baba Fururu Olore Re O, 14. Moforibale Oba [K]oso / Moforibale Fu [n] Shango , 15. Kayoba Oba O Mom Iowo Oba Liere Mi / Oba Eleko Aya Osi , 16. Awoyo, Yemaya O Omo du Kwe [Modup(U)Eo] Iowo Mi, 17. Iyami Ile Oro (Odo), 18. Okonile Re Ra E Oko Mi lo E Mile Bewa E, 19. Omode T’Orisa de Ke Awao Omode Funmi Rawao, 20. E Be Oro, Be Mode Loro, 21. Ndudu Dale Vuelta Al Ingenio, 22. Vola Volando Nsaura, 23. Shanigo, 24. Oyaya Obe, 25. Oba O China, 26. Marengue, 27. Umbe, 28. Vamo Tune Tune Tune a Casa Mangoya |
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Zoom [7inch Vinyl Disc] [Single] $5.99 Following the breakup of Guided by Voices at the end of 2004, Robert Pollard’s first release was a comedy album culled from his beer-powered stage banter (talk about your auspicious debuts!), but the brief EP Zoom marked his first public musical statement in the post-GBV epoch. Given Pollard’s long-standing habit of tossing off pop songs with almost alarming speed, Zoom is a predictably casual four-song affair, with cryptic found recordings taking up the spaces between songs. There’s a nice, slightly jazzy guitar instrumental (“Dr. Fuji and Henry Charleston [Zoom Variation]“), a not-quite-finished-sounding acoustic number (“Have a Day Mr. Clay”), and two good if not great pop tunes in the traditional Pollard manner (“Catherine From Mid-October” and “Zoom [It Happens All Over the World]“). In short, this represents the newly solo Pollard sounding pretty much the same way he always has — which, given the ups and downs of his back catalog (especially the Fading Captain material), could be a bad thing as easily as a good thing. For fans only. ~ Mark Deming |
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Ladies Of Canyon (Japan) (Mlps) (Shm) $49.99 Joni Mitchell’s third release found her moving away from the wistful folk of her debut and CLOUDS, branching out into the progressive pop and jazz elements that would define her best work. The bright, poppy “Big Yellow Taxi,” the album’s single, is here, as is her epoch-defining “Woodstock,” a soulful, stirring song about the 1969 rock festival that was later covered by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. But the material on LADIES OF THE CANYON is uniformly strong, demonstrating the mature style and vision that made her one of the leading voices of the ’70s.On songs like, “Conversation” and the title cut, Mitchell’s lyrics begin to turn toward to the quirky, personal poetry of interior landscapes, focusing with a writer’s eye on scene, detail, and the dynamics of human relationships. Her instrumental palette is broadened too, with colorful, textured arrangements that make greater use of piano, as well as strings, reeds, electric keyboards, and percussion. Some songs, like the sweet, chiming “The Circle Game,” seem a bit na?ve, but these are counterbalanced with darker songs like “The Arrangement,” a stark ballad. In all, LADIES OF THE CANYON was Mitchell’s first classic album, one that helped pave the way for its watershed successor, BLUE. |
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Glass Fleet: The Complete Series [4 Discs] – Widescreen Box Uncut $24.99 Includes:Glass Fleet: 10: Like a Demon (2006) Glass Fleet: 9: Like Constant Change (2006) Glass Fleet: 6: Like a Clown (2006) Glass Fleet: 7: Like a Rebuke (2006) Glass Fleet: 1: Like a Shooting Star (2006) Glass Fleet: 5: Like a Mask (2006) Glass Fleet: 4: Like Scars (2006) Glass Fleet: 3: Like Destiny (2006) Glass Fleet: 2: Like the Wind (2006) Glass Fleet: 8: Like the Truth (2006) Glass Fleet: 18: Like Flights (2007) Glass Fleet: 17: Like an Embrace (2007) Glass Fleet: 16: Like an Epoch (2007) Glass Fleet: 15: Like Majesty (2007) Glass Fleet: 14: Like Daybreak (2007) Glass Fleet: 13: Like a Labyrinth (2007) Glass Fleet: 12: Like the Setting Sun (2007) Glass Fleet: 11: Like a Hungry Wolf (2007) Glass Fleet: 22: Like Adoration (2007) Glass Fleet: 21: Like a House of Cards (2007) Glass Fleet: 20: Like a Royal Road (2007) Glass Fleet: 19: Like a Lion (2007) Glass Fleet: 23: Like Scarlet (2007) Glass Fleet: 24: Like Bloodshed (2007) Glass Fleet: 26: Like an Ovation (2007) Glass Fleet: 25: Like a Blood Edict (2007) Glass Fleet: 10: Like a Demon No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 9: Like Constant Change No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 6: Like a Clown No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 7: Like a Rebuke No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 1: Like a Shooting Star No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 5: Like a Mask No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 4: Like Scars No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 3: Like Destiny No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 2: Like the Wind No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 8: Like the Truth No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 18: Like Flights No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 17: Like an Embrace No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 16: Like an Epoch No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 15: Like Majesty No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 14: Like Daybreak No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 13: Like a Labyrinth No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 12: Like the Setting Sun No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 11: Like a Hungry Wolf No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 22: Like Adoration No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 21: Like a House of Cards No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 20: Like a Royal Road No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 19: Like a Lion No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 23: Like Scarlet No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 24: Like Bloodshed No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 26: Like an Ovation No synopsis available. Glass Fleet: 25: Like a Blood Edict No synopsis available. |
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World Peace $14.99 Culture: Joseph “Culture” Hill (vocal, keyboards, percussion).Additional personnel: Robert Brownie, Dwight Pinckney, Wayne Armond (guitar); Dean Fraser, Ronald “Nambo” Robinson, David Madden (horns); Chistopher Birch, Robbie Lyn (keyboards); Clyde “Blip” Golding, Christopher “Sky Juice” Blake, “Harry T” Powell (percussion); June Cole, Nina, Albert Walker, Telford Nelson, Joseph Hill (background vocals); The Firehouse Crew.Recorded at Mixing Lab, Kingston, Jamaica.Personnel: Dwight Pinkney, Robert Brownie, Wayne Armond (guitar); David Madden, Dean Fraser, Ronald “Nambo” Robinson (horns); Joseph Hill (keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Christopher Birch, Robert Lyn (keyboards); Shawn “Mark” Dawson (drums); Christopher Blake “Sky Juice”, Harry T. Powell, Clyde “Blip” Golding, Alvin Haughton (percussion); Talford Nelson, June Cole, Albert Walker (background vocals).Audio Mixers: Kenyatta Hill; Lynford “Fatta” Marshall.Recording information: Mixing Lab, Kingston, Jamaica.Photographer: David Corio.While Culture has made a handful of truly outstanding albums over the course of its 27-year career, it has always had a little bit of trouble emerging from the shadow of Two Sevens Clash, its epoch-making sophomore album from 1977 (even the press materials for World Peace start out with a mention of that album). So the question about World Peace, as it has been with every album since Two Sevens Clash, is: how does it measure up? And the answer is: better than any album the band has recorded in a decade. It’s hard to know just what has invigorated the aging Joseph Hill, but he is singing with more force and conviction than we’ve heard in years; and the band that was organized to back him up (consisting of The Firehouse Crew and members of Shaggy’s backup group) sounds like the rumble of thunder and the crack of a whip. As always, Hill’s melodies are as simple and obvious as nursery rhyme ditties, and as usual, they are insanely catchy and almost endlessly entrancing. On World Peace, Hill chose to reprise a couple of songs from the old book, “Dog a Go Nyam Dog” and “Never Get Weary,” but both come off sounding like new compositions. Highlights from the newer material include the strangely funky and horn-heavy “Holy Mount Zion,” the Nyahbinghi-influenced “Babylon Falling,” and the exquisitely sanctified “Walk in Jah Light.” But his real moment of triumph comes on “Selection Train,” on which he proves that he is still capable of singing the line “reggae train is coming” without losing his audience. How many other reggae singers can do that? ~ Rick Anderson |
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Blind Husbands/The Great Gabbo – B&W Special $24.99 Includes:Blind Husbands (1919) The Great Gabbo (1929) Blind Husbands Because of his portrayals of villainous Prussians in pictures such as Hearts of the World and The Heart of Humanity, Erich von Stroheim was already famous as “the man you love to hate.” But Stroheim had also been quite busy behind the camera over the years, as an assistant director to D.W. Griffith and art director to Douglas Fairbanks. When he approached Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios with a screenplay entitled The Pinnacle, the mogul wasted no time in agreeing to let Stroheim both star and direct. The result was the auteur’s first film, renamed Blind Husbands. In it, Stroheim shows deeper facets to his officer (this time an Austrian) who, underneath the elaborate trappings, is no gentleman. American couple Dr. and Mrs. Armstrong (Sam deGrasse and Francelia Billington) arrive at a retreat in the Alps at the same time as Lieutenant Erich von Steuben (Stroheim). The Lieutenant is a reckless and dissolute soul who sets his cap for Mrs. Armstrong. Since her husband is kindly but neglectful, she is easy prey. Their flirtation is watched over carefully by the guide Sepp (Gibson Gowland), who is indebted to the good doctor, and he manages to keep the wife away from the Lieutenant on the night the four of them spend together in a lodge. The next day when von Steuben and Dr. Armstrong climb the summit, a letter from Mrs. Armstrong falls out of von Steuben’s pocket and a fierce battle between the two men takes place on the peak. The doctor cuts the rope binding the two men together, and for his sins, the Lieutenant falls to a terrible death. This picture introduces themes that carried throughout Stroheim’s career — the eternal triangle shows up in most of his films in one form or another, and the climatic struggle between the two men would be repeated in the director’s flawed masterpiece, Greed (which starred Gowland as McTeague). The easy decadence and the careful attention to detail would also be constants. Even though this isn’t anywhere close to his best work, Blind Husbands was one of the most impressive directorial debuts of all time — “This picture is exceptional. It marks an epoch,” spouted an enthusiastic Variety critic. Stroheim was poised at the dawning edge of the ’20s, at ready to give the decade some of its most deliriously debauched dramatic moments. ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi The Great Gabbo After the disastrous failure of Queen Kelly, the great silent film director Eric Von Stroheim began to parcel himself out as an actor-for-hire, his directing career in tatters. His first post-Queen Kelly acting job was in this early sound film curio, with Von Stroheim playing The Great Gabbo, a ventriloquist who is gradually going insane, transferring his subliminal urges to his dummy, Otto. Gabbo’s lovely assistant Mary (Betty Compson) is in love with him, but Gabbo’s reciprocal love for Mary is transformed by Otto into heaps of hateful verbal abuse — so much so that Mary leaves the |