noir is once again the touchstone for this perfectly pitched score, and these 10 tracks stand repeated listening in their own right. This is in part due to the use of some top notch jazz players such as Buster Williams, Grady Tate, and Vinnie Bell, as well as vocalist Jimmy Scott's haunting delivery on "Sycamore Trees." Sax, vibes, upright bass, and percussion set a smoky atmosphere, and the eerie synthesizer and string arrangements augment the general spine-tingling melancholy and menace. Singer Julee Cruise also appears, lending angelic repression to "Questions in a World of Blue"; Lynch contributes compositions and percussion throughout this exercise in bleakness and love gone awry. --Derek Rath  (less)

a new group called Art Belle, then changed it to Art In Manila (a nod to radio host Art Bell's exodus to the Phillipines). On this release, the band flirts playfully with genre wanderlust without ever abandoning cohesion. Moody slow-burners follow four-to-the-floor rockers that butt up against serene ballads. A powerful debut.  (less)

Sebastian, among others. All Music Guide declared it "a classic-in-waiting filled with durable, memorable, carefully constructed songs, almost any one of which could have been a single"; while NME called it "an indie-pop hallelujah" and Q Magazine wrote "Cats on Fire hit a high mark few other earnest young men can get near." The new album Our Temperance Movement is even better still, demonstrating the band's flair for delivering sumptuous jangle pop with enticing melodies and intelligent lyrics. The album expands upon the traditional guitar, bass, and drums with liberal bursts of piano, organ, clarinet, banjo, glockenspiel and other percussion which help to showcase the extraordinary style of singer Mattias Björkas an...  (less)

Grant and Delia Bell had the magic when they sang together. Like all successful partnerships, each brought out the best in the other. And when Bill Grant and Delia Bell were at their best, singing together on some sad old heartbreaker, it was easy to forget there was more to the world than bluegrass, anything more important than the next song. The fourteen songs on Dreaming are drawn from the three albums Bill and Delia recorded for Rounder during the 1980s: Cheer of the Home Fires, A Few Dollars More and Following a Feeling." --Jon Hartley Fox, from his liner notes This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.  (less)

composition, resulting in a work ablaze with the fire of the Holy Spirit. Each two-CD set celebrates the role and presence of the Holy Sprit in the life of the church and in the prayer life of believers. Living Spirit, Holy Fire includes songs, hymns, psalms, acclamations, and ritual music composed for liturgical celebrations and catechetical events, focusing on celebrations of initiation, especially the sacrament of confirmation. Biblical and ritual texts and fresh settings of the challenging and powerful poetry of Ruth Duck, John Bell, Mary Louise Bringle, Bill Huebsch, and Shirley Erena Murray join together with newly written texts by David Haas and others.  (less)

contemporary music.  (less)

noir is once again the touchstone for this perfectly pitched score, and these 10 tracks stand repeated listening in their own right. This is in part due to the use of some top notch jazz players such as Buster Williams, Grady Tate, and Vinnie Bell, as well as vocalist Jimmy Scott's haunting delivery on "Sycamore Trees." Sax, vibes, upright bass, and percussion set a smoky atmosphere, and the eerie synthesizer and string arrangements augment the general spine-tingling melancholy and menace. Singer Julee Cruise also appears, lending angelic repression to "Questions in a World of Blue"; Lynch contributes compositions and percussion throughout this exercise in bleakness and love gone awry. --Derek Rath  (less)

THIS IS HIS DEBUT ALBUM ENTITLED " LOVE SONGS " YOU CAN CONTACT DOC BELL @ WWW.CURCARLIN.COM  (less)