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Staff pick of the week...
This week...Angie picks it!
Artist: 88
Magic
Title: Gere Played Piano
Price: $12.75 CD 
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Tracks
on this CD: |
| Ziggy Stardust-David
Bowie |
| Round Midnight-Thelonius
Monk |
| Tarot Card-Gere
Fenelly |
| Feed The Birds-R
Sherman |
| Twisted on Ludwig-Beethoven/Fennelly |
| All the Things You Are-Kern/Kammerstein |
| Moonlight Seranade-Glenn
Miller |
| Dear God-Andy
Partridge |
| I'll Fly Away-Jennings/Sample |
| Life On Mars-David
Bowie |
| Moonfall-Rupert
Holmes |
| In Dreams/Tengo-Roy
Orbison |
| Serenade-Sigmund
Rommberg |
| Black Orpheus-L.
Bonfi |
| Macaroni Albinoni-Gere
Fennelly/Albinoni |
| Lotus Land-Cyrill
Scott |
| Milhail 665-Gere
Fennelly |
| Goodbye-Elton
John |
Gere
Fenelly's first solo CD (released mid 2002) is absolute piano
brilliance! And I chose it as my staff pick because I think
this is potentially
one the best Christmas/Holiday gift you could give to any music
lover. Gere Fenelly is "88 Magic"…and a true
genius and cult phenomenon. Gere spent her teens as a rock
star in Japan (with the band ROX), and then moved on to be
the toast of San Francisco…"flooring people with
her classically trained, yet outrageously flamboyant playing".
As well as being a church organist since the age of ten and
playing for countless dance studios.
In
the USA Gere is probably best known for the keyboards she
played in the band Redd Kross. "Gere Played Piano" was
recorded live- no retakes or overdubs- on a grand piano in
a small home studio in Eagle Rock, California, by Scott Frazier,
of the avant-garde modern violin group The Kronos Quartet.
Gere plays us her own unique…haunting versions of David
Bowie, XTC, Elton John, Thelonius Monk, Glenn Miller, Albinoni
and Beethoven. You really have to hear this CD to believe
it! I once gave a copy of this CD to my massage therapist,
so she could play it in her salon...it would also be great
background music for your holiday parties…Trust me…even
Grandma will enjoy this one…
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