Onye Obula Zoba Isi Onweya [Vinyl]

Onye Obula Zoba Isi Onweya [Vinyl] Review

This 1981 album epitomizes the incredible career of a prodigy, who started at age 11 as a member of an Ese ensemble, a traditional Nigerian form of choral music, and has since excelled in many of the varied forms of African music. The most distinctive genre created by Sir Warrior (born Ezebuiro Obinna) is the one known as Nigerian "high-life" music, a modernization of Ghanian high-life obtained by combining elements of tradition with a modern musical approach. In Warrior's case incredibly gifted guitar playing combined with lyrics deriving from traditional Igbo proverbs made him a pop icon and superstar, with hundreds of hits and dozens of best selling records all over Africa. His importance as a political icon for the struggling nation of Nigeria is not lesser than, even though different from, another Nigerian music star, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

ISIS / REBEL SOUL / FACE THE BASS

ISIS / REBEL SOUL / FACE THE BASS Review

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Holy Tears

Holy Tears Review

Isis, the innovative LA by way of Boston based band, just celebrated their 10th anniversary with a bi-coastal tour as well as releasing a pair of CD singles. The singles, original songs culled from the 2006 release of In The Absence of Truth, are for "Holy Tears" and "Not In Rivers, But In Drops."

The first of two enhanced CD singles is "Holy Tears". Label mates Melvins do a remix as well as a live version and a video.

Split

Split Review

The long running and the longer running. The finite and the perpetual. Two of the last studio tracks from a band now in their final days, and two songs from a band who will potentially outlive us all. ISIS. The Melvins. If you enjoy music of the heavier variety and haven't heard either of these aural entities you are also probably unaware of other modern developments such as disposable contacts, the internet, and Snuggies.

Sola

Sola Review

Sola by Isis Flores

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Mozart: The Magic Flute (Highlights)

Mozart: The Magic Flute (Highlights) Review

Still probably the most magical recording ever of The Magic Flute, this starrily cast production featured the incomparable Fritz Wunderlich as Tamino, Evelyn Lear as a wonderfully sympathetic Pamina, Roberta Peters as a regal Queen of the Night (surprisingly good coloratura, if a little light at the top), Wagnerians James King and Martti Talvela as the two armed men (imagine that!), and of course, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, in one of his finest operatic outings, as an engagingly earnest Papageno. Behind it all, the marvelously astute Karl Böhm and the Berlin Philharmonic are in top form. The 1964 stereo is first rate. --Ted Libbey

Music for Strings

Music for Strings Review

World premiere recordings of works by established and upcoming composers, from Malcolm Arnold to 17-year-old Salomón Cuellar. Superb playing by the passionate and disciplined Isis Ensemble, featuring many of the UK's finest musicians under Jacques Cohen (director) and Susanne Stanzeleit (leader). Detailed and elegant inlay notes, written by Jacques Cohen, describe the musical origins and character of each work.

Panopticon [Vinyl]

Panopticon [Vinyl] Review

On ISIS' third full-length, the unblinking eye of counter-insurgency is exposed with mesmerizing stereophonic clarity. Ultra dynamic sound-design takes on the heighhtened dimesions of institutionally-induced anxiety, and the carefully constructed artifice of an omniscient predatory apparatus becomes the paradigm of surveillance culture. Meanwhile, panoptic cognizance, while ostensibly the outmost of all Orwellian implications, lends itself to far more insidious applications: Just as hidden crosshairs hold sway over every prison yard, to see everything is to know all.