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	Encyclopedia: Aja (album)
		Aja (pronounced the same as "Asia") is an album by the rock band Steely Dan.
		An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public.
		Aja is also the title of a documentary about the making of the album.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aja-(album) (1224 words)

	RollingStone.com: Aja : Steely Dan : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Forget for a moment the album's surreal sonic perfection, its melodic and harmonic complexity - music so technically demanding its creators had to call in A-list session players to realize the sounds they heard in their heads but could not play, even on the instruments they had mastered.
		Drummer Paul Humphrey's upstroke during the beginning of "Black Cow," the 1977 album's languid opener, is so hesitant, so world-weary that it barely catches up to the pulse he sets with his foot.
		Aja's extended tracks achieve their power through a dynamic dance: Mellow, stark passages (which drew a blueprint for "smooth jazz" radio) are offset by obsessively dense musicianship, stacks of notes that grasp at euphoria.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/214470/steelydan?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1 (397 words)

	Desitunes4u - Album Reviews - Khadija's My First Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The debut album from Khadija has been long anticipated on by fans of the Pakistani songstress for over three months, however it has finally arrived and hopefully her fans won't be disappointed.
		Not to mention the D-Classified album, which was basically a showcase of her amazing vocals, in addition to RDB collaborations.
		But the album is just desi-pop mixed in with an emcee or two, which might work well in the old des, but the pardesi audience might not find it as moving.
	www.desitunes4u.com /Album_Reviews_Khadija_My_First_Time.htm (1015 words)

	Aja - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The language of the Aja people, part of the Gbe dialect continuum.
		Aja Leith, a character in Jem, a television animated series which aired in the mid-1980s.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aja (92 words)

	Buy Series: Classic Albums - Steely Dan: Aja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This DVD gives you a thrilling peek into the making of the album, demonstrating some of the musical techniques that were used--the way the bass was doubled on guitar on 'Josie', and the layering of Michael McDonald's background vocals on 'Peg' to point out a couple examples.
		Aja, however, was to prove to be the biggest selling album of Steely Dan's illustrious career, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard chart and spending a year in the Top 40.
		Becker and Fagen, renowned for their relentless perfectionism in the recording studio, recall the history of an album that was a year in the making, but rewarded with a Grammy Award and three hit singles.
	dvd.video-dvd.com.ru /C_1023406/G_6305772649/Classic-Albums--Steely-Dan-Aja.html (1277 words)

	Aja - Compare prices and read reviews on Aja music CD CDs album buy - price
		Aja album by on www.nitroprice.co.uk the best place to find Aja reviews and compare prices on the CD record.
		Sneaking onto the charts a half-decade earlier with sinuous, jazz-inflected "rock", the dysfunctional duo's acerbic, anti-heroic visions had been critically lauded for their band identity and killer guitar riffs, then promptly challenged when the two songwriters retired from the road, dissolved any formal band lineup, and used the studio as laboratory.
		Aja carried the added indignity of its increased focus on sophisticated jazz models and musicianship, which carried the Dan's ambitions even further in terms of suave harmonies, intricate song structures, and brilliant playing.
	www.nitroprice.co.uk /Music/AJ1/Aja.html (268 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Aja [Remaster] - Steely Dan at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This album is the witnessing of Steely Dan coming into their own, as far as sound, tone and mood.
		Steely Dan's one long song on this album is Aja, and the purpose was to groove on these incredible jazz instrumental breaks.
		This album was released on September 23, 1977 and was their most successful album to date at that time.
	www.epinions.com /content_141373247108 (931 words)

	Metal Leg 16 - "The Fall of Steely Dan"
		Though these questions are unanswerable, they point to the problematic nature of "Aja," an album whose lyrics are preoccupied with home and with where (if anywhere) one belongs.
		Consider, for instance, their all-out attack on the concept of freedom, that rallying cry of pop music and youth culture in the '60s which was amplified by an expanding economy and the baby-boom generation's strength in numbers.
		And "Aja," their most jazz-like album to date, fails because it cannot overcome, try though it might, a distance it mostly pretends not to recognize.
	www.granatino.com /sdresource/16fool.htm (1522 words)

	Steely Dan / Aja album review [plus 'I Got the News' song lyrics]
		Album Review: If you somehow missed the news that the album Aja is Steely Dan's finest effort, I'm hear to say it plainly: It is without question their topper.
		Aja is a masterpiece of studiocraft, with production qualities to please the pickiest audiophile, and with songwriting and playing so good that they propelled Steely Dan into the stratosphere of rock stardom in the late 1970s.
		Aja was the album where Steely Dan perfected the slick jazz-rock sound they had been moving toward, and because their creative juices were peaking at the time, the result was a set of seven songs that is nearly without flaw.
	www.grinningplanet.com /review-lyrics/steely-dan-aja.htm (293 words)

	Aja
		However, on this album each song is outstanding, and it is only a matter of the degree of excellence.
		Aja's compositions are the most complex they have written, just listen to the rhythmic pattern in the solo of the title track.
		Miraculously, Aja included three chart toppers with "Peg" at 11, "Deacon Blues" at 19 and "Josie" at 26.
	www.thebestofwebsite.com /bands/Steely_Dan/Aja.htm (244 words)

	Steely Dan - Aja
		"Aja" may prove to be the farthest Becker and Fagen can take certain elements of their musical ambition.
		The farthest Aja strays from the minor joys and tribulations of the good life in L.A. are the dreamy title cut and "Josie," which hints ominously about a friendly welcome-home gang-bang.
		Forget for a moment the album's surreal sonic perfection, its melodic and harmonic complexity -- music so technically demanding its creators had to call in A-list session players to realize the sounds they heard in their heads but could not play, even on the instruments they had mastered.
	www.superseventies.com /steelydan3.html (1528 words)

	Aja Album
		Thanks to their deliberately vague manner of listing album credits, it became virtually impossible to determine who was playing what on any given track (a practice that has persisted until now).
		In this writers opinion, "Aja" signals the onset of a new maturity and a kind of solid professionalism that is the hallmark of an artist who has "arrived".
		The tile cut, "Aja", is a rather ambitious work in which a latin-tinged pop song is inexplicably expanded into some sort of sonata or suite.
	www.broberg.pp.se /sd_aja.htm (2706 words)

	Amazon.com: Aja: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The album is full of complex musical concepts which immediately remind the progressive rock fan some of the common manoeuvres in classic progressive rock albums.
		Unlike previous albums by Steely Dan, which contained a fair amount of good songs as well as a number that seemed forced, Aja flows out of Steely Dan's occasional strolls into that rare land of pure genius.
		This album is often hailed as the finest example of jazz-rock ever.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002PF2?v=glance (1828 words)

	Women in uniform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aja "‘Bruce Lee’ Chickinson" Kim (vocals): The band was already going strong when I joined in March of this year.
		Aja: I haven’t had the chance to meet the band yet, though the other girls have (sniffsniff).
		Aja: They’re entertaining, to be sure, but whether their music will endure on the level of Iron Maiden only time will tell.
	www.78magazine.com /arts/maidens_10_04.htm (2695 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Aja (Rm) (W/Orig Art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Okay, now that that's out of the way, "Aja" is their most popular and one of their strongest albums.
		"Aja" is an album that is rich in pure musicianship, tone, and texture.
		The album continues to dazzle as it moves on to the title track, a slow charmer that has an incredibly loose jam toward the middle of its' almost 8 minutes.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003002C (1815 words)

	Steely Dan : Aja - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock, Aja has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous Steely Dan records.
		But Aja isn't just about texture, since Becker and Fagen's songs are their most complex and musically rich set of songs -- even the simplest song, the sunny pop of "Peg," has layers of jazzy vocal harmonies.
		It's complex music delivered with ease, and although the duo's preoccupation with clean sound and self-consciously sophisticated arrangements would eventually lead to a dead end, Aja is a shining example of jazz-rock at its finest.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,168695,00.html (294 words)

	Big3 Records
		The album is sequenced to form a thematic arc that coincides with her experiences--it kicks off with plucky anthems that feed off the energy of frustration, segues into thoughtful, quiet self-discovery songs and winds up bursting with promise.
		AJA (pronounced ah-zha) are sisters Andrea and Jaime Anderson who adopted the group name from their combined initials.
		AJA released their self-titled debut album October 7, 2003.
	www.big3entertainment.com /howitbegan.htm (520 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Aja [Original recording remastered] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I could wax lyrical about this album for ever and have indeed had many a drunken conversation about it's merits over all other DAN albums if not anything else in the universe.
		I recall this album being used as a hi fi show piece when it came out and it still stands out as a fine recording - tastefully remastered by the duo themselves in recent times.
		Aja does not quite have that lyrical streetwise savy found on Katy Lied and Countdown to Ectasy, but it marks a high point in the Steely Dan collection as a work of outstanding musical genius and a showcase for the talent of those reluctant maestro's Messrs Fagen & Becker.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000259F9 (1110 words)

	Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja (2000)
		"Aja", however, was to prove to be the biggest selling album of Steely Dan's illustrious career, reaching Number 3 on the Billboard chart and spending a year in the Top 40.
		I found myself impressed with the presentation of the albums, as the discs involved provided a good look at their recording.
		Classic Albums: Aja appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /classicalbumsaja.shtml (1491 words)

	HumanSongs.com - Aja Addy on Weltwunder Records
		Influenced by his work as a tigari priest, the nephew of Mustapha Tettey Addy combines the power of the Kpanlogo drum with the more relaxed highlife rhythms of Ghana.
		It is no coincidence that the second album by Aja Addy is called 'The Medicine Man'.
		Aja addy spends part of the year in Ghana where he is involved in healing ceremonies.
	www.humansongs.com /WWAja.htm (318 words)

	DOYZ punya album.... - www.ezboard.com
		gwe bilang album doyz keren koq cuma ada sedikit kekurangan.........
		Nggak aneh lah...soalnya memang album ini bagus dan layak untuk diulas di koran dengan jumlah pembeli sebanyak 'Pos Kota' dan gue rasa isi album doyz ini cukup mewakili komunitas pembaca 'Pos Kota' yang umunya dari "kalangan bawah",juga di 'Kompas' yang selama ini sudah diakui apresiatif terhadap suatu karya seni yang baik semisal album "Perspektif"-nya Doyz...
		Semoga aja mereka sudi mendengar untuk kemudian mengulas sehingga masyarakat tahu akan keberadaan musisi hiphop di Indonesia sebenarnya gak bisa dipandang dengan sebelah mata (seperti yang selama ini dialami)...
	p206.ezboard.com /fhiphopindofrm6.showMessage?topicID=232.topic (529 words)

	Arizona Jazz Academy \| Live at the TCC!
		The AJA is the brainchild of trombonist Doug Tidaback, whoâs the glue that holds the organization together.
		Also performing on the album are the Arizona Womenâs Jazz Orchestra (conducted by Tidaback) and the High School and Middle School Vocal Jazz Groups (conducted by Crystal Stark).
		In closing, a few observations: first, the AJA is a marvelous idea, Tidaback deserves a medal for making it come true, and itâs wonderful to hear these young musicians playing Jazz and giving it their best shot.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=19121 (459 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja on DVD
		Becker and Fagen, renowned for their relentless perfectionism in the recording studios, recall the history of an album that was a year in the making, but rewarded by a prestigous Grammy Award and three major hit singles, Peg, Deacon Blues, and Jose.
		Steely Dan's Aja has proven to be one of the most outstanding jazz-rock albums in the history of popular music.
		This is a vivid portrait of a '70s record that is still as fresh and as memorable more than two decades after its release, a true Classic Album.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=6209 (661 words)

	Steely Dan: The Royal Scam, Aja, and Gaucho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's difficult to beat Aja in my book, and while Gaucho is a continuation of development, it doesn't reach Aja's heights.
		Like Aja, the songs are longer and a whole host of special guest, including Patti Austin, Randy Brecker, Mark Knopfler, and David Sanborn.
		Gaucho was Steely Dan's last album, though Donald Fagan's subsequent disks have similar themes, and even Becker as guests, and there is growing rumor and plans of a NEW Steely Dan album, but it seems to be taking a bit to get it together.
	home.earthlink.net /~mjohnsen/Music_Reviews/Steel.html (500 words)

	» Gaucho (Hybr)
		Although it was immaculately recorded, I don't think there are many Dan fans who believed the overall quality of the album was quite up there with any of the previous six classics.
		There is no doubt that the three previous albums -- Katy Lied, Royal Scam and Aja -- would all benefit from a 5.1 surround remastering for SACD.
		Gaucho often gets lost in the shuffle as it followed Aja, but it is every bit a good as that album and ranks right up there with anything this great band has released.
	www.faxtarget.com /Shop/Gaucho-Hybr/B0000AYL17 (545 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Steely Dan: Aja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's a fairly interesting, though hardly spellbinding, look at the music that went into that landmark album, from the point of view of Fagen and Becker and some of the other original musicians.
		Aja remains the duo's landmark album; more than that one of the shortlist of truly significant, groundbreaking "rock" albums of the '70s.
		Whether or not "Aja" can be considered a classic album, worthy of a dvd documentary in the company of albums like the Who's "Who's Next" & The Band's "The Band" is highly debatable.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6305772649 (944 words)

	Archived Steve Gadd Site News 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The percussion is great on this album and it will transport you to another world, but it's the songwriting that is so strong that I would love to see these songs become part of the typical set of jazz standards.
		I was happy to hear her doing "Escape," which she did on her 70's album "Carry On." She does an excellent verion of Chick Corea's "Crystal Silence." The last track "Carinhoso" is a beautiful little tune featuring Oscar Castro Neves on acoustic guitar and Flora on voice.
		The album is called "Preservation" in an attempt to preserve these great grooves of the past.
	www.intrepidsoftware.com /sgadd/news2001.php (5595 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Gaucho [Original recording remastered] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The whole albums laid back feel is so wonderful and i rate it very highly.
		In the new light of the 2000 release of "Two Against Nature" Steely Dan's previously considered final album now deserves re-evaluation.Following on from the critically acclaimed and near perfection of "Aja" Donald Fagen and Walter Becker found themselves under enormous pressure now they were back in New York (mostly) to record the follow up.
		Personal and contractual problems aside there appears to be a slight uneasy atmosphere permeating the whole album from the opening attack of electric piano on the favourite to be "Babylon Sisters" on track one to the haunting guitar fills at the fadeout of "Third World Man" that closes the album.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YX39 (1164 words)

	User Comments for Everything Must Go by Steely Dan
		The average user rating for this Album is 9.1 out of 10 (based on 37 Votes).
		If this is the last album for the duo, it is a fond farewell.
		My favourit album is The Gaucho album,and this is sounding more like that one than all their released albums since then.
	www.metacritic.com /music/usercomments.jsp?id_string=464:d9FunqimcNdTyqVUxvoWcg** (1499 words)

	Aja the Poet - Compare prices and read reviews on Aja the Poet music CD CDs album buy - price
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		You can even rate the album Aja the Poet and write your own review to tell others how good or bad it is.
	www.nitroprice.co.uk /Music/AJ1/Aja-the-Poet.html (75 words)

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