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Aki Takahashi
Best of Hyper Music from Lennon & McCartney
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Pop

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Let It Be (Asian Tour) (Arr. Masahiro Miwa)
2. Short Fantasy On "Give Peace A Chance" (Arr. Frederic Rzewski)
3. Michelle (Arr. Barbara Monk-Feldman)
4. Yesterday (Arr. Haruna Miyake)
5. Light Of A Night (Paul Meets Bird) (Blackbird) (Arr. Per Norgard)
6. Golden Slumbers (Arr. Toru Takemitsu)
7. Beatles 1962 - 1970 (Arr. John Cage)
8. Because (Arr. Akira Nishimura)
9. She Said She Said (Arr. Carl Stone)
10. Misery (Arr. Rashid Kalimullin)
11. I Will (Arr. Kensaku Tanikawa)
12. Love Me Do (Arr. James Tenney)
13. Snapshot (Hello, Goodbye) (Arr. Maarten Altena)
14. Norwegian Wood (Arr. Shigeaki Saegusa)
15. Rain N Revolution (Rain & Revolution) (Arr. John King)
16. Something (Arr. Kentaro Haneda)
17. Aki 2.2 (Arr. Ryuichi Sakamoto)

CD Details

All Artists: Aki Takahashi
Title: Best of Hyper Music from Lennon & McCartney
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Japan
Original Release Date: 1/1/2001
Re-Release Date: 2/9/2001
Album Type: Import
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Pop
Style: World Dance
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 4988006788138

CD Reviews

Beautiful

Adrien Wild | New Orleans, LA | 04/24/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There are a lot of "Beatles interpretation" albums in every genre of music, and to my ears they tend to be bland and soporific. The intense familiarity most people have with Lennon/McCartney melodies makes every instrumental version into muzak.

"Golden Slumbers - Best of Hyper Music" is not that kind of album. Aki Takahashi performs the works of contemporary composers who have taken Beatle harmonic and melodic materials and recontextualized them. The result is a decidedly avant garde piano montage with only fleeting moments of beatlemuzak. Besides being the only place to hear a performance of John Cage's 'The Beatles 1962-1970", it has rare works by Feldman, Tenney, Rzewski, Takemitsu, Sakamoto and some others less notorious.)

This is the perfect gift for someone that loves weird, serious music. Sometimes I leave it on repeat all night because it helps me dream."