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Crack Shadow Boxers (Full Frame)

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My Favorite Things Wall Shelf

My Favorite Things Wall Shelf

This set was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for "Best Small Ensemble Performance." Concerti Grossi No 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 11 are also available on HMU # 2907228. For the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze conducts Handel's masterpiece for chamber orchestra. The Concerti Grossi of Op. 6 were composed in just a month's time in the autumn of 1739. As Handel wrote the score for the eleventh of its twelve pieces, his publisher began canvassing for funds for its publication. (Classical music and penury still go hand-in-hand!) Fortunately, at least one hundred subscribers came forward and subsidized the printing of this marvelous score. Conductor Andrew Manze supplies informative notes to his own recording (part of the superior Harmonia Mundi packaging). The performances are fresh and strongly pulsed. Some might find the original instrument sound a bit driven at times, but the nobility that is Handel is always evident.

This set was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for "Best Small Ensemble Performance." Concerti Grossi No 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 11 are

Metro7 - Women's Splattered Paint Jeans

Metro7 - Women's Splattered Paint Jeans

Sumersault - Teddy Trucks Wall Hanging, Set of 3

Sumersault - Teddy Trucks Wall Hanging, Set of 3

NFL 40-Piece Pocket Pro Set (Traditional)

NFL 40-Piece Pocket Pro Set (Traditional)

Solo performer: Matt Elliot. Recorded in 1999. Treading far less aggressive and dark ground than YOU GUYS KILL ME, this album is still cut from similarly lo-fi gothic cloth. "What Is It With You" overlays several vocal lines building upon one another until a burst of drum 'n' bass trills brings it to a grinding halt. "Lost" has a lovely repeated guitar passage that's punctuated by soft piano chords and a beautiful female vocal. The largely acoustic arrangement evolves over 11 minutes attaining a wonderful psychedelic haze. The album closes with "Goddamit You've Got To Be Kind," a quiet haunting trip-hop number with an overlying string motif that simply falls into diminuendo as the breath leaves the pipes. It would seem a paradoxical combination, the harshest of rhythmic styles and the most beautiful of melodies, but in its own way, it's very primal. Matt Elliott's collage technique is quite organic, unlike Hal Willner or Moby, whose albums are more episodic. Elliott uses a selective palette of themes and creates the songs seemingly as artists put paint on canvas. The choral samples echo previous work, but here the mood is more soulful, accessible and hypnotic, though not without drama. "I wanted to make a beautiful record," says Elliott, "something to melt hearts."

Solo performer: Matt Elliot. Recorded in 1999. Treading far less aggressive and dark ground than YOU GUYS KILL ME, this album is s

Superman Wall Shelf

Superman Wall Shelf

Black & Decker Toast-R-Oven

Black & Decker Toast-R-Oven

Bedtime Originals - Baby Sports Wall Hanging

Bedtime Originals - Baby Sports Wall Hanging

Live Cannibalism (DVD), Metal Blade, Special Interests

Live Cannibalism (DVD), Metal Blade, Special Interests

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