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by Sophia Bilides
ISBN: B00002970T
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Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. ALL DISKS ARE CHECKED PRIOR TO LISTING. No scratches. Original case and artwork. Case has moderate wear.
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Inspirational recording
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-02-14
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a great recording of traditional music displaying a variety of Greek genres. The instrumentation is also folk, though personalized to this particular orchestration. Sophia's singing is rich and emotive, with her unique vocal style breathing fresh life into some of the classic songs. Great folk artists do not merely imitate old masters, they infuse new energy while retaining the traditional values. This is a challenging line to walk, and the group in this recording succeeds wonderfully.
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Masterful
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-02-13
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
The scope of Greek music in this recording spans from the mountains of central Greece through the islands and to Asia Minor. The instrumentalists add lush and virtuoso arrangements, and Sophia's rich, ornamented contralto voice is the central gem set in this Hellenic jewelry. The dance rhythms are driving, and Sophia's vocal mastery of the music is most evident in the more sparsely accompanied (and a capella) songs. Her deceptive smoothness in the rebetika tunes belie their complexity and allow us to simply enjoy the results.
This CD is a modern artistic interpretation of beloved Greek music, while it also preserves an amazing level of detail from the vocal and instrumental stylistic heritage. It deserves its place among the best of such recordings--as well as in your dance music playlists!
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Enchanting
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-02-12
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sophia Bilides provides a fine look into rebetika. Her ornamentation and rich voice combine to take the listener to another time and place. Her fine technique makes it seem effortless, but her singing represents years of commitment to and knowledge of the genre. Perhaps it is her own Greek heritage that informs the singing so well. Whatever it is, yasou, Sophia!
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Wonderful Greek music sung by Sophia Bilides
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-02-11
6 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sohpia Bilides sings from the heart, especially when she is singing songs from her Greek roots. Her deep, rich voice can cry out "aman" in anguish or coax a baby to sleep with a lullaby. This is a first rate album and should be in the collection of anyone interested in Greek music.
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Bilides
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-02-01
0 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
The music is EXTREMELY stale. The musicians are playing from script and the music sounds that way. Sophia Bilides is an excellent musician but her music lacks the depth of the original recordings that have since become available that she claims to have listened to (if she has then her interpretations are even worse that reviewed here.) She over-dramatizes the music horribly and it comes across as if she is trying to glamorize music that just isn't glamorous.
In addition, the santouri was a main instrument only on RARE occaisions. She makes this out that the santouri was the end all of music in that day and it simply wasn't - it was a rhythm instrument. There is no real knowledge of rembetika here whatsoever, just someone who is trying to make a buck on poor unsuspecting people who know no better. Anyone having any remote knowledge of the music can see this in her horrible interpretations and incorrect liner notes. STAY AWAY FROM THIS.
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by Liz Carroll
ISBN: B000044U2W
Audio CD
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. ALL DISKS ARE CHECKED PRIOR TO LISTING. No scratches. Original case and artwork. Case has moderate wear.
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Just BUY IT!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-11-06
Im a latecomer to Liz Carrol's work and wished I had discovered her sooner. If you like Irish fiddle or celtic style instrumentation: just go ahead and buy this CD its fantastic! "See it There" blows my mind every time I listen. Enjoy!
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Liz Carroll "Lost in the Loop"
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-07-06
Outstanding CD. Liz Carroll is a passionate and creative virtuoso of the Irish fiddle!
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Her best work to date.
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-01-25
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Having seen Liz play live more than a dozen or so times, I've always appreciated her ability, but her first studio album (Liz Carroll) didn't seem to live up to her live performances. The first time I heard "Lost in the Loop", it brought back every live performance I had seen. This is it. The style, the ability, beautiful tune selections and you don't have to jostle with a few hundred beer toting people to hear it.For anyone asking me to recommend to best example of Irish style fiddling, this is it. Hands down, no competition. Eileen Ivers, Natalie McMaster and Winifred Horan are all great fiddlers, but this is the best I've heard.
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Me Own Celtic Music Queen Elizabeth!
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-10-09
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Failte! (Greetings!)Why is Liz so special? For starters, she is a prolific composer of what sounds like traditional Irish Music. While I have heartfelt thanks to other wonderful Irish fiddle players, Liz is inventing or re-inventing the tunes she plays, either through writing the song or coming up with a unique and wonderful spin on old tunes. While I would characterize Kevin Burke as one of the few fiddlers that could play alone in any Irish pub and have his audience spellbound, the same is true for Liz. Kevin is playing to an audience of one, for himself, and according to his 1000 percent in synch meditation on internal music. Liz is using the fiddle as her voice, as if singing. She rips through double notes, single and double leads, counterpoint, triplets and slides with ease and dexterity. Both styles are absolutely excellent. Liz excells as a former journey woman on back up fiddle in working with others as close friends and making different chemistries work. "The Golden Champagne Jig" is an excellent example of what sounds like authentic, traditional, old, Irish music. It is her own composition demonstrating both gut instincts for the music and a load of creativity. It is crying time when John Doyle's beautiful chording complements Liz's exquisite, gorgeous lead in the "Lament of the First Generation" and "Crow in the Sun." It is "toe tapping time" in the "Golden Legs/The Flogging Reel" set. John, Winifred Horan (fiddle) and Seamus Eagan are borrowed in this album from Solas, and demonstrate the Celtic style that first made Solas famous through the 1990's. Both Liz and Winifred are former All-Ireland fiddle champions. Seamus plays flute, mandolin, tenor banjo and bodhran and is reaching a point of his career as a more than two decade veteran to support other deserving talent. If this Solas-Carroll collaboration continues, many longtime Solas fans like myself will make the transition with the band.
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Outstanding
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-03-09
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Irish fiddle music is wonderful and Liz Carroll is the best. This album raises it to another level. You won't hear any better than this, until maybe her next album.
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by The Klezmatics
ISBN: B000095J3D
Audio CD
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. CD and original case in like new condition. From private collection. ALL DISKS ARE CHECKED PRIOR TO LISTINGS.
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break the boxes
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-12-26
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Calling all CD file clerks, including the one this reviewer doubles as when he puts away his cds on their shiny little stands (bought cheap at Target and hastily assembled by the reviewer and file clerk): where the *heck* do you file music by the oddball, fast-paced, old-new, traditional-iconoclast, Yiddish-English makers of this hilariously titled albums like this one (RHYTHM + JEWS) and JEWS WITH HORNS?
I'm not sure there's an answer. So put off the filing and download a track or two of this amazing (as in 'love it or hate it') music. This reviewer loves it, or at least wants to register his admiration for the sheer panache of the Klezmatics' offering.
If you're unfamiliar with the tradition, it's probably worth the intent only if you're moderately patient and have a modest ability to link with the Jewish tradition(s) that stand behind this music. But you could probably also go away happy if you're a musical experimenter as a minimum requirement.
Heavy on the clarinet (and it *wails*!) and the updated and tweaked and retweaked sounds of Central European Yiddishkeit, the sound is worked out with equal parts irony and inside jokes. The foot does tap.
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5 stars are not enough
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-10-05
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have no idea how many times I've listened to this album--by now, I know much of it by heart. It's one of the best I own, and certainly the best klezmer I've ever heard.
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