Facebook Twitter Pinterest
Play album in Library Get the free Amazon Music app for iOS or Android to listen on the go.
Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. To enjoy Prime Music, go to Your Music Library and transfer your account to Amazon.com (US).
  
Qty:1
& FREE Shipping on orders over $49. Details
Only 4 left in stock (more on the way).
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Mythologies has been added to your Cart
Want it tomorrow, March 10? Order within and choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
Ship to:
Select a shipping address:
To see addresses, please
or
Please enter a valid US zip code.
or
Used: Good | Details
Sold by 2swellguys
Fulfilled by Amazon
Condition: Used: Good
Comment: ****Former library item. May contain identifying stickers, library barcodes or other markings on the case, artwork and/or disc.

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and .

If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you increase your sales. We invite you to learn more about Fulfillment by Amazon .

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.
Trade in your item
Get up to a $0.40
Gift Card.
Trade in
Learn More
Other Sellers on Amazon
45 used & new from $1.95
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Mythologies

Patricia Barber Format: Audio CD
4.1 out of 5 stars 14 customer reviews
See all 5 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions
Price
New from Used from
MP3 Music, August 15, 2006
"Please retry"
$7.99
$7.99 —
Audio CD, August 15, 2006
"Please retry"
$14.99
$6.96 $1.95
Vinyl, November 9, 2010
"Please retry"
$64.01
$39.99 $54.20
Includes FREE MP3 version of this album.
Provided by Amazon Digital Services LLC. Terms and Conditions. Does not apply to gift orders.
Complete your purchase to save the MP3 version to your music library.
$14.99 & FREE Shipping on orders over $49. Details Only 4 left in stock (more on the way). Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Frequently Bought Together

  • Mythologies
  • +
  • Smash
  • +
  • The Cole Porter Mix
Total price: $40.75
Buy the selected items together

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Back
  1. Smash
    Patricia Barber
    4.2 out of 5 stars 24
    Audio CD
    $13.89 Prime
  2. The Cole Porter Mix
    Patricia Barber
    3.9 out of 5 stars 16
    Audio CD
    $11.87 Prime
  3. Café Blue
    Patricia Barber
    4.6 out of 5 stars 61
    Audio CD
    $13.99 Prime
  4. Verse
    Patricia Barber
    4.0 out of 5 stars 27
    Audio CD
    $10.61 Prime
  5. A Distortion of Love
    Patricia Barber
    4.8 out of 5 stars 15
    Audio CD
    $27.99 Prime
  6. Modern Cool
    Patricia Barber
    4.5 out of 5 stars 63
    Audio CD
    $13.99 Prime
Next

Special Offers and Product Promotions
  • Sample this album Artist (Sample)
1
30
The Moon
7:08
Album Only
2
30
Morpheus
4:34
Play in Library $1.29
 
3
30
Pygmalion
4:37
Play in Library $1.29
 
4
30
Hunger
4:35
Play in Library $1.29
 
5
30
Icarus
5:13
Play in Library $1.29
 
6
30
Orpheus/Sonnet
4:30
Play in Library $1.29
 
7
30
Persephone
6:00
Play in Library $1.29
 
8
30
Narcissus
3:40
Play in Library $1.29
 
9
30
Whiteworld/Oedipus
5:19
Play in Library $1.29
 
10
30
Phaeton
5:17
Play in Library $1.29
 
11
30
The Hours
7:46
Album Only

Product Details

  • Audio CD (August 15, 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Blue Note
  • ASIN: B000GPI15K
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,456 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Amazon's Patricia Barber Store

›

Customer Reviews

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsA Slight Lean Towards Brilliance
By Rick Cornell VINE VOICE on August 18, 2006
Format: Audio CD
Although I'm the first to review this c.d. on Ammy, and although it's been on the market only for a short while, it has already received radically mixed reviews in the trade mags. I've seen everything from "Brilliant: The Most Original Jazz Album (especially from a jazz singer) in Years" to "A Bunch of Self-Indulgent Garbage."

After a few listens, I'm leaning slightly towards the position of Brilliant.

Frankly, I bristle at the label of "self-indulgent garbage." Obviously, Ms. Barber has put far too much thought and study into this project for it to be dismissed so cruelly. But besides that, there are some thought-provoking ideas in these lyrics. I confess I haven't studied Joseph Campbell and the like carefully, so I can't vouch for her originality. But parallels between Narcissus and Eve (as in "Adam and Eve"), and Oedipus and Jesus Christ, or Pygmalion and a lothario (possibly a pedophile?), are thought-provoking.

But I'm an amateur music critic, not an amateur literature critic. And what I have to say about the music is this: It's brilliant.

"Morpheus" and "Pygmalion" are gorgeous ballads. The voicings and musical colorations in "Hunger", "Persephone" and "The Moon" are stunning. And as much as I liked "Whiteworld" on Ms. Barber's "A Fortnight in France", it like it even more as an intro to the world of Oedipus.

This is difficult music. I don't recommend putting this in your c.d. changer while doing the dishes. But a few trips through Ms. Barber's mythological world are worth the effort. Recommended. RC
Comment 43 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsSpellbound
By C. Spica on October 24, 2007
Format: Audio CD Verified Purchase
With a music library of over 1400 CDs, I listen to a lot of musical variety, but I have to have my daily fix of Mythologies, and have now for a whole year. Maybe I'm "in it too deep" to give a reasonable review, but I think Patricia Barber`s compositions about several Greek mythical figures are extraordinary beyond words because they strike at so many levels. It is very listenable as background music, although the first piece, The Moon, as a bookend, has a somewhat unapproachable (to some) intro. But then the rhythm kicks in and everyone takes off. On a musical level, the songs fascinate me at every listen, with her melodies, voice, unusual timings and long time-close knit innovative quartet creating exciting phrases, verses, solos and refrains, giving us little breaks long enough to catch our breath. Her totally current interpretation of the stories is intelligently descriptive and poetic, at times conversational, and expresses the essence of their timeless relationship to us all. How many of us need Morpheus, the god of dreams, to help us sleep? And Pygmalion, who creates a love that cannot love in return, is certainly universal. Then there's Hunger, too often insatiable. Icarus is driven to soar and fly above the masses, while Orpheus wallows in the despair of loss. Provocative Persephone mesmerizes and evokes the need to reveal both our admirable and our dark sides. Narcissus - we must love our own self to enable the deepest connection to another. The dual destruction of native cultures and our Earth is contrasted in Whiteworld and Phaeton, while musically integrating some rap and a large vocal chorus. The Hours is the other bookend and the time of our lives. I've given many copies of Mythologies to loved ones, desiring to share this incredible gift that I enjoy every day.
Comment 9 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starssimply stunning
By Sc Jeannet on September 22, 2006
Format: Audio CD
I was introduced to Patricia Barber via the audiophile route as her cds

recording quality has always been excellent. Over the years I got to appreciate her music. What I love about Partricia Barber is that she has a sound like no one else, her piano playing is first class, and her songwriting is sublime and original. Each of Miss Barber cd been another step forward, and this one is full of surprise catching you unaware

at every turn. I am really tired of the old format of a singer being backed by the standard piano trio, singing the same old songs.

Miss Barber is different she is absolutely unique and I am sure in the years to come will be regarded as one of the great innovator in vocal jazz.

Coming back to the audio quality, this is simply the best recording I ever heard, natural, dynamic etc it has everything a real show stopper.

Can I give it a million stars??

Definetely my choice for cd of the year, in all categories.
Comment 10 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsThe art song returns after a long absence...
By Jonathan W. Brown on December 22, 2006
Format: Audio CD
Who would have guessed that Patricia Barber would be the newest entrant in the art song world? She's written in the great tradition of the 19thC and early 20thC classical composers (Schubert, Berg, Randall Thompson, etc.) but in a jazz genre that really makes sense for the material. Thanks for some really great music.
Comment 8 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
4.0 out of 5 starsIntriguing.
By Adarsh Amin on November 6, 2006
Format: Audio CD
Patricia Barber, one of the most accomplished female jazz singer-pianists on the planet, has made yet another album of subtle, original songs. This time it's a suite based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, composed with the support of a Guggenheim fellowship (Barber is the only songwriter ever to get a Guggenheim).
So in some respects Mythologies is closer to a contemporary classical project, detached and carefully scored, with clever, uncliched meshing of lyrics and melodies. It doesn't completely hang together, but Barber's vocal artistry is superb, expressing intelligent, elliptical words in a voice as seductive as ever: listen to Morpheus, Icarus (for Nina Simone) or Narcissus, which she suggests could become a "gay wedding song". Using her close-knit band - fearless guitarist Neal Alger, bassist Michael Arnapol and drummer Eric Montzka - she generates a wide range of timbres and feels.
Comment 7 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsWhat a great voice and piano chops too

Avant garde ! genius! inventive! What a great voice and piano chops too! She is peerless in a class by herself!

Published 2 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsFanstasic CD Quality

Enough people have commented on this album for its musicality and creativity (or lack thereof) that I don't feel need to add another such review. Read more

Published 2 months ago by kremrik
1.0 out of 5 starsMOBILE FIDELITY VINYL IS DEFECTIVELY MASTERED

I agree with the previous review that there is something seriously wrong with the vinyl reissue by MFSL. Read more

Published on April 4, 2013 by CC-PA
1.0 out of 5 starsAwesome album, but stay away from the mofi vinyl....

This is one of my favorite albums from a unique and talented artist. The cd is nothing short of brilliant, both musically and sonically. Read more

Published on April 4, 2013 by Neil S. Cohen
3.0 out of 5 starsTries too hard

While I can admire the attempt at originality, I can't really get all that into Barber's Mythologies. Read more

Published on April 2, 2009 by IRate
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat work!

As usual, Patricia Barber deliver wonderful music..many cool moments on this cd. I love her voice..a different music than on her other cd that i know from her, Cafe Blue. Read more

Published on March 23, 2009 by Music lover
4.0 out of 5 starssomehow, she pulls it off...

A jazz song cycle based on Ovid's Metamorphoses? Sounds like a recipe for a pretentious self-indulgent disaster, but somehow Ms. Read more

Published on December 20, 2006 by svf
5.0 out of 5 starsMyth Barber triumphs!

This is the first Barber album that I felt inclined to listen to twice through on arrival. Some of her earlier work is "dark and moody" and you really have to be in the mood for... Read more

Published on September 14, 2006 by Grover Glenwood
5.0 out of 5 starsExtraordinary

I've played this CD at least once a day since the day it was released. At l e a s t once. The first time I was slightly surprised because this album is different from Patricia... Read more

Published on September 4, 2006 by shutterbug

Forums

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

Mythologies
Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more
This item: Mythologies
Set up a giveaway

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.



Look for Similar Items by Category