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Map Of The World (Part II)
"Map of the World (Part II)" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter Jane Siberry. It is the second single released in support of her third album ''The Speckless Sky'', issued in 1985. Formats and track listing All songs written by Jane Siberry. ;Canadian 7" single (DSR 81019) #"Map of the World (Part II)" – 5:07 #"The Empty City" – 4:20 ;US 7" single (OS-0021) #"Map of the World (Part II)" (edit) – 3:59 #"The Taxi Ride" – 5:38 ;US 12" single (OA-17415) #"Map of the World (Part II)" (edit) – 3:59 #"Seven Steps to the Wall" – 5:11 #"The Taxi Ride" – 5:38 Charts Personnel Adapted from the ''Map of the World (Part II)'' liner notes. * Jane Siberry – vocals, guitar, keyboards, production ;Musicians * Anne Bourne – keyboards * Al Cross – drums * Ken Myhr – guitar, guitar synthesizer * John Switzer – bass, production * Rob Yale – Fairlight CMI, keyboards ;Production and additional p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Siberry
Jane Siberry ( ; ; born 12 October 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels (Jane Siberry song), Calling All Angels". She performed the theme song to the television series ''Maniac Mansion (TV series), Maniac Mansion''. She has released material under the name Issa ( ) – an identity (as opposed to a simple stagename) which she used formally between 2006 and 2009. On 30 August 2005, Siberry was awarded the 2005 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in music by the Canada Council for the Arts. Career history Childhood and early years Jane Stewart was born in Toronto in 1955 and was raised in the suburb of Etobicoke. She would take her subsequent surname, "Siberry", from the family name of her maternal aunt and uncle. Many years later, she would explain this choice by stating "this woman and her husband were the first couple I met where I could feel the love between them and I held t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Speckless Sky
''The Speckless Sky'' is an album by Jane Siberry. It was Siberry's highest-charting album on the Canadian charts and contains her biggest Top 40 hit, " One More Colour". The album's second single, " Map of the World (Part II)", was also a hit on Canada's adult contemporary charts. Rheostatics recorded a cover of "One More Colour", with additional lyrics by Martin Tielli, on their 1995 album '' Introducing Happiness''; Siberry and Tielli recorded a duet, "A Long Time Love Song", on the 1991 Bruce Cockburn tribute album '' Kick at the Darkness''. Sarah Polley also performed a cover of "One More Colour" in the film '' The Sweet Hereafter''. After this album, Siberry's work was distributed outside of Canada by Reprise Records. Shawn Colvin based lyrics for her song "Kill The Messenger" on the cover art for this album after seeing Siberry perform live. ''The Speckless Sky'' is no longer available on CD, but can be obtained via her store site on Bandcamp. Reception '' Keyboard'' c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Pop
Art pop (also typeset art-pop or artpop) is a loosely defined style of pop music influenced by art theory, art theories as well as ideas from other art mediums, such as fashion, fine art, film, cinema, and avant-garde literature. The genre draws on pop art's integration of high culture, high and low culture, and emphasizes signs, style, and gesture over personal expression. Art pop musicians may deviate from traditional pop audiences and rock music conventions, instead exploring postmodern approaches and ideas such as pop's status as commercial art, notions of artifice and the self, and questions of historical authenticity. Starting in the mid-1960s, British and American pop musicians such as Brian Wilson, Phil Spector, and the Beatles began incorporating the ideas of the pop art movement into their recordings. English art pop musicians drew from their art school studies, while in America the style drew on the influence of pop artist Andy Warhol and the affiliated band the Velv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synthpop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the band would be a major inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Street Records
Duke Street Records was a Canadian independent record label"Barren ground for Canada's gutsy record labels". ''Edmonton Journal'', May 10, 1990. established in 1984 by Andrew Hermant, but the record label ceased operating in 1994. The Universal Music Group took over the label when it halted operations. The label released albums in a wide variety of genres by artists such as Art Bergmann, The Front, Jane Siberry, FM, Rik Emmett, Willie P. Bennett, Rob McConnell, Scott Merritt, Chalk Circle, Valdy, Manteca, Don Ross, Eye Eye, Neo A4, and Barbara Lynch. at . In 1995, Hermant donated his entire archive of Duke Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One More Colour
"One More Colour" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter Jane Siberry. It is the first single released in support of her third album ''The Speckless Sky'', issued in 1985. Composer Mychael Danna later rearranged the song for the 1997 film '' The Sweet Hereafter'', where it is performed by Sarah Polley.Miguel Mera, ''Mychael Danna's The Ice Storm: A Film Score Guide'', The Scarecrow Press, 2007, p. 41. It was covered by Rheostatics on their 1994 album '' Introducing Happiness''. Formats and track listing All songs written by Jane Siberry. ;Canadian 7" single (DSR 71019) #"One More Colour" – 4:30 #"The Empty City" – 6:42 Charts Personnel Adapted from the ''One More Colour'' liner notes. * Jane Siberry – vocals, guitar, keyboards, production ;Musicians * Anne Bourne – keyboards * Al Cross – drums * Ken Myhr – guitar, guitar synthesizer * John Switzer – bass, production * Rob Yale – Fairlight CMI, keyboards ;Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calling All Angels (Jane Siberry Song)
"Calling All Angels" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter Jane Siberry. It was featured on the soundtrack for Wim Wenders 1991 film, '' Until the End of the World'', and in the final scene and on the soundtrack for the film ''Pay It Forward''. It features in season 2 episode 10 of '' Roswell'', in the first season finale of ''Charmed'', in episode 1, season 4 of the television series '' The Fosters'', and in Season 1 of '' The Chair'' on Netflix. It also plays over the end credits of the 2021 film ''The Many Saints of Newark''. Relatedly, in '' Six Feet Under'', in episode 6 of Season 5, one of the main characters (Ruth Fisher) takes part in an improvised, harmonic version of this song, following the death of one of her sister Sarah's closest friends. Many fans of the show consider this one of the most emotional moments in the entire series. Formats and track listing All songs written by Jane Siberry. ;US 1991 single (PRO-CD-5398) #"Calling All Angels" (edit) – 4:12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar Synthesizer
A guitar synthesizer is any one of a number of musical systems that allow a guitarist to access synthesizer capabilities. Overview Today's guitar synths are direct descendants of 1970s devices from manufacturers (often in partnership) such as Hammond Innovex and Ovation, Ludwig, EMS, 360 Systems, Norlin Music and Maestro, Ampeg and Hagström, Arp, Roland Corporation and FujiGen ( GR-500 and GR-300), New England Digital, Electro-Harmonix, Casio, Terratec/Axon, Starr Labs, Ibanez, Holt Electro Acoustic Research, Zeta Systems, and Yamaha. In the early days, there were three main types of guitar-synthesizers: * Multi-effects type * Frequency-to-voltage converter type (using guitar with pickups) * Guitorgan type (using guitar with fretboard switches) Later, the multi-effects type evolved into modeling guitar, and the other two types evolved into current devices. Presently, there are two main groups: * Guitar-synth using guitars: regular guitars equipped with sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairlight CMI
The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, music sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight. — with links to some Fairlight history and photos It was based on a commercial licence of the Qasar M8 developed by Tony Furse of Creative Strategies in Sydney, Australia. It was one of the earliest electronic music workstations with an embedded sampler and is credited for coining the term sampling in music. It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed with the Synclavier from New England Digital. History : 1971–1979 In the 1970s, Kim Ryrie, then a teenager, had an idea to develop a build-it-yourself analogue synthesizer, the ETI 4600, for the magazine he founded, '' Electronics Today International'' (ETI). Ryrie was frustrated by the limited number of sounds that the synthesizer could make. After his classmate, Peter Vogel, graduated from high school and had a brief stint at university in 1975, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audio Engineering
Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound *Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound * Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum *Digital audio, representation of sound in a form processed and/or stored by computers or digital electronics *Audio, audible content (media) in audio production and publishing * Semantic audio, extraction of symbols or meaning from audio * Stereophonic audio, method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective * Audio equipment Entertainment * AUDIO (group), an American R&B band of 5 brothers formerly known as TNT Boyz and as B5 * ''Audio'' (album), an album by the Blue Man Group * ''Audio'' (magazine), a magazine published from 1947 to 2000 * Audio (musician), British drum and bass artist * "Audio" (song), a song by LSD *"Audios", a song by Black Eyed Peas from ''Elevation'' Computing * HTML audio, identified by the tag See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinyl Record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English) or a vinyl record (for later varieties only) is an analog signal, analog sound Recording medium, storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the outside edge and ends near the center of the disc. The stored sound information is made audible by playing the record on a phonograph (or "gramophone", "turntable", or "record player"). Records have been produced in different formats with playing times ranging from a few minutes to around 30 minutes per side. For about half a century, the discs were commonly made from shellac and these records typically ran at a rotational speed of 78 rpm, giving it the nickname "78s" ("seventy-eights"). After the 1940s, "vinyl" records made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) became standard replacing the old 78s and remain so to this day; they have since been produced in various sizes and speeds, mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Songs
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches '' Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. February * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969. * February 5 – Australia cancels its involvem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
