1) The Very Best of Michael Nyman (2 CD) [The man who brought you soundtrack scores such as "The Piano" and "Gattaca" - the latter showing influences by Glass]
2) Michael Nyman & the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - "The Piano Concerto" + Music commissioned for the launch of the MGV High-Speed Bullet Train [Track#9 - Movement No.5 is particulary beautiful]
3) Philip Glass - Naqoyqatso
4) Philip Glass - Low Symphony (with Brian Eno & David Bowie)
5) Philip Glass - The Photographer
6) Philip Glass - Glass Works
7) Soundtrack - Bladerunner (Music composed by Vangelis Papathanassiou)
[Vangelis is better known for his Oscar-winning score for "Chariots of Fire" (1982)]
Soundtrack - Twin Peaks [Got this just for David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti's #11 "Falling"]
9) Soundtrack - American McGee's "Alice" [twisted version of "Alice in Wonderland" computer game] [Composed by Chris Vrenna, member of Nine Inch Nails]
10) Yo-Yo-Ma - Simply Baroque II [No introduction needed]
11) Soundtrack - Royal Tenenbaums (New & Sealed)
12) Charlotte Church - Enchantment (New & Sealed) [Yes, you may start laughing now. But did you know she did all of the soaring vocals in the soundtrack and score to "A Beautiful Mind"?]
13) Kitaro - Asia [Sucks, stay away from it. Bad compositions, even worse recording/mastering quality]
14) Single - Sarah McLachlan - Angel [Got this just for track #2 "Ice Cream" 'live' - think of a female version of Sting's "Roxanne" 'live']
15) Soundtrack - The Hours - Philip Glass. [Watch the movie with a sensitive and non-garrulous soul. It is the equivalent of an emotional root-canal. NOT a date movie. Ed Harris commands a titanic, majestic and yet tragic, Dostoevskian character by the name of "Richard."]
16) America - The Greatest Hits. Remastered
17) Ivy - Realistic [Excellent Chill-Out Ambient music by a breathless-voiced French lady living in NYC]
18) Ivy - My Apartment Life
19) Ivy - Long Distance [Track #3 "Edge of the Ocean" is used in the music score to the TV series "Roswell"]
20) Roy Orbison - 16 Greatest Hits (Monument/Legacy) [For a CD proporting to be in HDCD format, it sure sucks in quality]
21) Billie Holiday - Love Songs (1996 Columbia/Legacy) [For a CD with a 20-bit re-mastering badge, its quality is so dismal I only played it once since owning it]
22) Soundtrack - Don Juan de Marco [Yes, I love Brian Adams. Now go away]
23) Soundtrack - Bram Stoker's Dracula [Got this just for Annie Lennox's "Love Song for a Vampire"]
24) Soundtrack - The Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore - Fellowship of the Ring
[Enya's "May It Be" is reason enough to get this]
25) Soundtrack - The Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore - The Two Towers
[#8 Evenstar, featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian, & #19 Gollum's Song, performed by Emiliana Torrini, justify the succumbing to lemming-led-consumerism here]
I have been playing so much Philip Glass that my roommate has threatened violence on me if I don't give his ears a break from my aural minimalism. ;-p
That's all, folks!
Later!
benny
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Look, one says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing. Some more years will pass, and after them will come gloomy solitude; then will come old age trembling on its crutch, and after it misery and desolation. Your fantastic world will grow pale, your dreams will fade and die and will fall like yellow leaves from the trees... (White Nights, Feodor Dostoevsky)
