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Golden Arm Trio
Why The Sea Is Salt
Genres: Jazz, Soundtracks

Track Listings (19) - Disc #1
1. The Ship
2. Finster Crumley
3. Poor Brother Percival
4. The Whispering Campaign
5. Swift Ship Sailing
6. Deadman's Hall
7. The Old Woodcutter
8. Treasure Hunt
9. Handmill Turning
10. Friends and Neighbors
11. My Halo Hands, My Halo Labors
12. Handmill's Fortune
13. I Can Do Whatever I Want
14. Late Ship Wandering
15. The Handmill
16. Golden Empire
17. Captain Goodnight
18. Deadman's Salt
19. The Ship At The Bottom Of The Sea

CD Details

All Artists: Golden Arm Trio
Title: Why The Sea Is Salt
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Original Release Date: 3/11/2000
Release Date: 3/11/2000
Genres: Jazz, Soundtracks
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 669493800025

Synopsis

Album Description

"Why The Sea Is Salt" is the second full-length release by Austin's Golden Arm Trio. Recorded with 16 musicians (including the string quartet of Austin tango group Tosca) on a variety of classical string instruments and traditional jazz brass/woodwinds, "Sea" is a collection of compositions inspired by the fairy tale of the same name and select pieces from GA3's accompaniment to the Eisenstein film "Battleship Potemkin" (which has been performed in both Austin and San Francisco). Alternately playful, intense and breathtaking, "Sea" is a must for any fan of Prokofiev, Bernard Herrmann, or even John Zorn.

CD Reviews

Beautiful and Haunting

08/01/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is, quite simply, a beautiful and haunting album. The melodies are intricate but impossible to forget after a couple of listenings. I keep this in my computer cd player and listen to it over and over, and I always discover something new--instrumentation I'd never noticed, a different mood, an echo of another song. I'm afraid I found the first Golden Arm album a little hard to get into, but this is accessible and also deep. Great production values, too. Much, much better than Golden Earring!"

Creepy, yet satisfying

djpuppyt | Funkytown, TX | 05/23/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's really hard to decide on a good word to describe this cd. It is absolutely one of the most stunning pieces of music that I have ever heard. One moment I'm frightened by this cd, the next I want to get up and do a strange little dance. I am, however, very afraid of falling asleep while listening to this cd."