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Kaila Flexer & Third Ear | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 1995)
• Original Release Date: March 28, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Compass Records
• ASIN: B00000202S
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,327 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nenovsko Gruncharsco

2. Yossel

3. Kolamenka Excursion

4. Brides' Knot/Clothes Crisis

5. Joe And Rose Waltz

6. Gator Love

7. Novo Cetvorno/Tune Of Choice

8. Lucid Dreaming

9. Vienna Smaba (For Lara)

10. Full Moon Tango

11. Lisa's Lullaby

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real zinger - I keep coming back to it, March 11, 2003

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Dancer (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

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I was given this album as a gift and had never heard of Kaila Flexer before. Now it's my single favorite album. Lively, brimming with playful energy, and tender too, it feels like a blend of jazz/folk/klezmer to me, very well done. Each of the musicians is individually technically marvelous, and they've all clearly put some significant time in to shaping a cohesive sound. Very clean, very complex.

4.0 out of 5 stars multi-percussionist Joel Davel takes this Instrumental Folk to a new level, October 6, 2007

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P. Dahl (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This is great instrumental folk music with the added dimension of multi-percussionist Joel Davel's marimba, tamboura, bongos, metal goblets, Mexican glasses played with coat hangers, etc. etc.!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Never Quite Soars..., July 16, 2009

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Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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Violinist Kaila Flexer leads an acoustic quartet comprising another violin plus acoustic bass and percussion through a set of energetic music that often takes off but never quite soars. I suspect that this is a group that sounds better live than in the studio, where things seem just a little too studious to be as spontaneous as I believe they probably can be. Still, in a world in which mediocre recordings by folks such as the Moody Blues, Queen, and the Beach Boys--and don't even get me started on "bachelor pad music!"--can be sold for $30 per gold CD, when the original LPs were already a ripoff at the $5 or so they originally sold for, surely a genuine musician such as Kaila Flexer deserves to sell a few CDs, so I am passing along a sincere but not quite enthusiastic recommendation.