If you like Tom Waits, Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen, this music is for you.
I am a big fan of film composer Donald Rubinstein, with whom I have done two albums. He is also a prolific song writer and performer, and I am trying to get more people interested in his music, so I have asked him to send me some of his albums to sell in the Persey Yahoo store. He has released many CDs, and if these ones will sell well I'll get more of his earlier ones, which are just as good. Listen to the samples; I am sure you will like them. |
| ||||
I will leave the introduction of this CD to director George Romero, who wrote quite graciously about it. “’D’ (Donald Rubinstein) doesn't do s**t for the f**k of it. He does s**t from the heart. His heart, your heart. The amazing thing is that he can see and hear your heart. He says things you've been wanting to say. And he makes you feel less of an asshole for wanting to say them. Because when he says them, they suddenly make sense. Validation, man. I'm not the only sucker on this planet. There's this other guy, D, who's been suckered in too. And he's here to explain how, why and what happened to us all. D Rules!” George A. Romero "Imagine Korngold (composer of original Robin Hood) doing a song cycle , but instead of hiring an old white guy, Duke Ellington shows up out of the grave to play it, cracking his fingers, wanting to raise a little hell fresh out of heaven. That's this. Imagine John Lennon making an album in the late 60s with Yoko that you actually want to listen to more than once. That's still this...You won't be sure how to take it af first - unless you're of a mind not completely pop/rock - but it WILL make you listen. This isn't backbground music. It's cool It's night. It's lookng forr an audience in a theater of alleys. Yes, performance art you might say. But there are beautiful pieces like "Haven" whic defy labeling, so what you get is a full service album. I find it freeing and relaxing. A ghost in a sometimes dead world of music baying at the moon and ass cheeks. Worth relishing." Ben Ohmart, Music Dish 1. Soldiers 1:35 2. 40 Turnpikes 1:38 3. Shadygrove 3:13 4. Juanita's Dreaming 5:56 5. Weird Train 4:04 6. Haven 2:10 7. Miles Away 1:07 8. Four Hands 4:47 9. Tear & Strong 3:14 10. Batman's Dead 3:33 11. Sometimes Love 3:40 12. Blue Manic Cathedral 4:26 13. Maya 10:49 | | “Scars and Dreams” was my first attempt to combine the different kinds of musical approaches I have been involved with, from songs to piano solos to orchestral works. I combined musical idioms as well, moving from the accessible to the avant garde. I still consider it one of my very best efforts. "A wildy diverse and exceptional beautiful album. Rubinstein's musical pallet is vivid and varied as he's joined by a variety of musical explorers such as guitarist Bill Frisell. From midnight blues to exquisite orchestral pieces that dance between light and shadow, this album covers a lot of territory. Whenever I hear an album like this I wish more artists had this kind of diverse talent, or chose to demonstrate it...This is dream music where tender songs drift into dark musical landscapes and then back into morning light. A wonderful album and well worth having." Kevin Slick, Gajoob “I’m here to testify that Donald Rubinstein’s new release is a musical revelation. In order to describe it better, I fear I would have to wax poetic about the visual imagery it inspires within my twisted imagination.” Mic Line 1. Red Rooster 1:48 2. Music For Chamber Orchestra 7:38 3. I'd Rather Be A Wanderer 3:43 4. Ravaged 2:57 5. Ilaina 1:10 6. I'll Be Brave 2:38 7. Knightriders (Suite Excerpt) 4:32 8. (Oh) Sing To Me 3:55 9. Improvisations For The Ill At Ease (#4) 18:52 10. Fence Angels 1:33 11. I Am A Wanderer In This World 2:54 | | "Bill Frisell contacted me. He had just done a duet record with Elvis Costello in which Elvis sang and he played guitar. He said he wanted to more like that and asked if we could record a set of my songs in the same fashion. "Time Again" is the result." Donald Rubinstein "With only the quiet power of Bill Frisell's guitar providing a backdrop for the most part, Donald Rubinstein has created an awesome display of the hold that music can have, Rubinstein's Iyrics are decidedly poetic, yet these are songs in a more traditional sense than a poetry reading might imply, although the approach is similar to a poet shining his lonely spotlight back on his audience for them to peer inside of themselves, I've had this playing over and over for many months and it changes with me, like the best expressions do, "Time Again" is able to be majestic and deeply personal, displaying a solitary reflection that embraces humanity, The music has free, improvisational feel throughout that is more blues than anything else, which I believe establishes a foundation for all the varied emotions it speaks so beautifully. Frisell's guitar is the perfect companion throughout, in fact your never quite sure if it's the guitar or the vocalist who's guiding you here, the match is that solid. A treasure." Bryan Baker, Gajoob Magazine "Donald Rubinstein's "Time Again" collects 12 beatnik-folk songs produced by jazzy avant-gardists, Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz...Quietly compelling, playing like the after hours musing of a (much) tripper John Hiatt," The New Times, Los Angeles 1. Time Again 4:05 2. I Am Just an Angel 3:27 3. Down the Road 2:46 4. Circle of Repent 5:37 5. World Full of Danger 2:59 6. Long Night 3:09 7. Cries Like an Angel 2:52 8. Sword Swallower 1:25 9. World of Science 1:43 10. Things Go Wrong 3:56 11. Fingers 1:50 12. Lily's Lullaby 2:34 13. Purple Sage 2:52 |
| ||||
| ||||
I appreciate the response to this work. I tried to make the most soulful, ballad oriented Cd I could, combining my arranging and composing skills in subtle ways and hopefully effective ways, with my songwriting." Donald Rubinstein "If I were a smarter human being I would now invent a word that would explain exactly how freakin cool and original in thought and execution Donald Rubinstein is with his music. This new word would have to embody the talent that you hear within the first 30 seconds of your first Donald Rubinstein song, that puts your brain on some new rails you didn't even know existed between your ears. His music is inspirational and at the same time melancholy, and he wields his original tonal creations like a true master hitting you where you weren't looking. Folk, jazz, rock, classical, this dude can do it all. His music is three dimensional. You can touch it and it will touch you back...His prolific discography is something you should take the time to explore, to discover the genius landscape that Donald Rubinstein has sculpted over the last few decades...a piece of audio artistry that will be stuck in your cars CD player til about late November until that one annoying friend of yours will ask to listen to Christmas music. But it's okay cuz once they get out you will just put Rubinstein's CD back into the player. "WHEN SHE KISSES THE SHIP ON HIS ARM" is a collection of 13 very important songs. This is the first time I ever used the word "important" to describe an album. You need to hear these songs..." August 10, 2009 Groovey, Adobe Airstream: The Online Magazine For Citizens of Culture 1. Mexican Bay 6:05 2. Righteous 2:35 3. Bell of Fallow 3:19 4. Ain't Brave Enough 3:39 5. Growing Old 5:37 6. Lost Train Jesus 6:32 7. Belinda 4:21 8. I Cracked Up From Loneliness 3:37 9. Forest of Broken Hymns 2:01 10. Love of Mine 3:43 11. Angeles With Pistols 3:15 12. Spiral of Dawn 4:54 13. Bleed 3:51 | | Limited to 1,000 CDs.
1. Black Bird 1:30
| | Our latest CD features two scores by the multi-talented Donald Rubinstein: the re-release of the long out-of-print score from George Romero's cult classic vampire movie "Martin" from 1979. The content of this score is the same as the previous two releases, but in much better sound quality. The CD is completed by Donald's rejected music to Ed Harris' directorial debut "Pollock" (2000). This is the score that was recorded by Donald for the film, but not used in the final cut for reasons explained in detail in the extensive liner notes by film music authority Daniel Schweiger. MARTIN 1. "The Calling"/ Main Title 3:33 2. Train Attack 0:34 3. "Phased" 0:53 4. Tata Cuda's House 0:45 5. Martin at the Butcher Shop 1:45 6. Antique Chase With Villagers 1:14 7. Garlic Chase #6 0:43 8. Martin Goes to the City 1:47 9. Christina Leaves 2:25 10. Halloween 1:18 11. Modern Vamp 1:44 12. Chant 1:36 13. "The Calling" (Reprise) 2:14 14. Braddock/Chase 1:04 15. Back to Me 3:13 16. Crawling Sequence 1:07 17. Martin Martin Martin 0:48 18. Marie - Interlude 0:49 19. Evocation 1:00 20. Fly by Night 3:20 21. Exorcism/Classical Funk 1:31 22. Stake, Well Done! 1:18 POLLOCK (The Unused Score) 23. Art Opening 1:20 24. Painting on Canvas 2:12 25. Pollock Blue 2:39 26. Walking the Streets 1:02 27. Blurring the Scream 0:42 28. Empty Heart 1:47 29. After the Art 1:51 30. Snow Walk 1:04 31. Rendition of Privacy 0:54 32. Along Corridors 1:15 33. Working the Mood 0:53 34. Thought Provoked 2:35 35. Sketches For Pollock #2 2:39 36. Sketches For Pollock #1 3:47
|
|