The Silent Touch (1992)

Bruce Springsteen has always been steeped in mainstream pop/rock music, using it as a vocabulary for what he wanted to say about weightier matters. And he has always written generic pop as well, though he's usually given the results away to performers like Southside Johnny and Gary "U.S." Bonds. Sometimes, those songs have been hits - think of the Pointer Sisters' "Fire" or Bonds' "This Little Girl Is Mine." Occasionally, Springsteen has used such material here and there on his own albums; some of it can be found on The River, for example. But Human Touch was the first Bruce Springsteen album to consist entirely of this kind of minor genre material, material he seems capable of turning out endlessly and effortlessly - the point of "I Wish I Were Blind" is that the singer doesn't want to see, now that his baby has left him; "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)" is about TV…

Greek new age keyboardist and composer who popularized the combination of synthesizers with a full-scale symphony orchestra.
Of the artists who rose to popularity as part of the new age music boom of the 1980s and '90s, few (if any) enjoyed greater or more lasting success than Yanni. Composing and performing instrumental music with a pronounced sense of drama, dynamics, and romanticism, Yanni broke through to a significantly larger audience than his peers, thanks to adult alternative radio airplay and a commanding performance style that attracted fans through frequent appearances on public television as well as world-wide concert tours.

Tadd Dameron - The Magic Touch (1962) {Riverside OJCCD-143-2 rel 1992}
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Jazz / Bop / Progressive Jazz

Tadd Dameron is known to proclaim that he became an arranger rather than stay an exclusive instrumentalist because it was the only way he could get his music played. In retrospect, considering his best-known works are widely revered, few of them are frequently played by other bands, and only the finest musicians are able to properly interpret them. Dameron's charts had an ebb and flow that superseded the basic approach of Count Basie, yet were never as quite complicated as Duke Ellington. Coming up in the bop movement, Dameron's music had to have been by definition holding broader artistic harmonics, while allowing for the individuality of his bandmembers.

Benny Golson - The Modern Touch (1957) {Riverside OJCCD-1797-2 rel 1992}
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© 1957, 1992 Riverside Records / Fantasy | OJCCD-1797-2
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone

Benny Golson's second album as a leader (reissued on CD in the OJC series) is a solid hard bop date featuring the tenorman in a quintet with trumpeter Kenny Dorham, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Max Roach. The all-star group performs three Golson originals (none of which really caught on), a pair of Gigi Gryce tunes (best known is "Hymn to the Orient") and the standard "Namely You." Excellent playing on an above-average set that defines the modern mainstream of 1957 jazz.

For his 1694 offering to the Queen, Come ye sons of Art, away, Purcell was on sparkling form, and produced an Ode markedly different to the majority of the twenty-two works which had preceded it. The forces utilized were greater than normal, with an orchestra replacing the more usual single strings, and there was a clearly defined role for the chorus. Recent successes on the stage had led to this more expansive style of composition, and the inspired text (probably by Nahum Tate), full of references to music and musical instruments, was one which gave Purcell’s fertile imagination plenty of source material.

V.A. - Obsessions (1992). Erotic music. Bodies in harmony. Songs for making love. Sexy music. Dangerous. Touch, feel, smell, demand. Exploring the curves, following inner desires. Explosive and sensuous.
Dancing Fantasy, Software, G.E.N.E., Megabyte, Mind Over Matter and Peter Seiler.
The booklet contains erotic photographies of Gunter Blum!
V.A. - Rouge & Noir (1993). Erotic music. Bodies in harmony. Red and Black. Songs for making love. Sexy music. Dangerous. Touch, feel, smell, demand. Explosive and senseous. Exploring the curves, following inner desires. Unreleased and remixed erotic songs by: Software, Megabyte, Dancing Fantasy, TeeKay, Blue Knights, etc…