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	Amazon.com: Transfiguration of Vincent: Music: M. Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In 2001, Ward earned some small measure of acclaim for his sophomore effort, End of Amnesia, and if the Portland, Oregon-based songwriter keeps making records as inventive and thoroughly rewarding as this third album, he won't be unknown long.
		Full of snappy, loping pop tunes interwoven with mellow instrumental passages, Transfiguration of Vincent shows Ward to be a terrific folk and blues guitarist, a perceptive, witty storyteller, and--in tossing piano, percussion, harmonica, and various other instruments into mixes that never feel the least bit cluttered--an imaginative arranger.
		This, M Ward's third CD, places him in the forefront of a modern movement that is clearly progressive while simultaneously sounding regressive, feeling dusty with age, and manifesting a genius that is pure and untempered.
	www.amazon.com /Transfiguration-Vincent-M-Ward/dp/B00008BL5M (789 words)

	Vincent Ward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vincent Ward (born Greytown, New Zealand, in 1956) is a film director and screenwriter.
		Ward was dismissed from the film towards the end of the shoot, and then in an unusual reversal, was rehired just weeks later for six months of editing, and additional shooting in both New Zealand and England.
		Ward had been working on scripting and pre-production for five years and said his hair turned grey during those few weeks away, though he was fueled to make his film into something worth all the effort.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vincent_Ward (379 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Transfiguration of Vincent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ward is certainly a talented guy, this was evident from 2001’s incredible opus “End of Amnesia” where he provided some deft guitar mastery, razored honey vocals and lest we forget some absolutely fantastic songs.
		Ward’s vocal style can be found somewhere between Tom Waits and Tim Buckley – maintaining the gruffness of the former whilst still being capable of slipping into falsetto with the same skill as the latter.
		Ward is an excellent talent and though I would probably advice that “End of Amnesia” is a better place to start than this, there is little doubt that he has repeated the trick with this one.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008LKGL (1068 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Vincent Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ward, Vincent, born in 1956, New Zealand film director and screenwriter.
		Born in Greytown, New Zealand, Ward was educated at the University of...
		Vincent, John Heyl (1832-1920), American Methodist Episcopal bishop and founder of the Chautauqua movement in adult education, born in Tuscaloosa,...
	encarta.msn.com /Vincent_Ward.html (124 words)

	The visual qualities of Vincent Ward's Vigil (1985) are arguably its most striking aspect
		Ward is deliberately drawing inferences from this phenomenon, particularly the group now known of satirically as the "Dead Tree Club." This 'club' particularly refers to various painters in the 1920's and 1930's who depicted the bare trunks of native trees for its symbolic potential.
		Ward's film establishes a sense of the claustrophobic isolation of the characters by limiting the cast to only four people present in the valley at any one time, except for the funeral sequence where the extra characters remain completely nebulous.
		Vincent Ward conveys the overpowering forces of nature and the isolation of the characters in Toss's valley with a striking command of visual vocabulary.
	www.raynbird.com /essays/Visual_Vigil.htm (2561 words)

	The Black Ward is on the Burbank Radio - Inside Beat
		Ward is a 27-year old, Portland, Oregon native who has the vocal chords of a man who smoked two packs a day for forty years.
		Ward has a lot of credible and talented friends that have helped him along the way.
		Ward's sound doesn't need a gimmick, although it's understandably used as a means of giving the work some sense of continuity.
	www.dailytargum.com /news/2005/03/01/InsideBeat/The-Black.Ward.Is.On.The.Burbank.Radio-881080.shtml (776 words)

	M. Ward, Transfiguration of Vincent
		The second track is about the album's title character, "Vincent O'Brien," who "only sings when he's sad/and he's sad all the time." Musically, though, the song features soaring, distorted electric guitars, and a refrain that's full of McCartney-esque vocal flourishes, rocking harder than just about anything on his previous two albums.
		Ward is impressive in his use of metaphors and imagery, as in "Undertaker," where he sings "Love is so good when you're treated like you should be/The sky goes on forever in a symphony of song...
		Ward's work is quietly powerful testimony to the potential of one young man with a guitar to make effective art.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_ward_transfiguration.html (477 words)

	Vincent Ward @ Filmbug UK
		Wards' critically acclaimed first feature, Vigil (1984), the story of an imaginative, isolated farm girl on the brink of puberty, was the first film from his homeland to be selected for competition in the Cannes Film Festival.
		Ward co-produced, directed and created the story for the critically acclaimed Map of the Human Heart (1993), the story of a half-Eskimo boy and his love for a half-Cree Indian girl.
		Ward lived for two years in an isolated Maori community while filming the documentary In Spring One Plants Alone, exploring the relationship of an elderly Maori woman and her 40-year old schizophrenic son.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/36169 (515 words)

	Film & TV: Heaven Can't Wait (Nashville Scene . 10-05-98)
		Vincent Ward's reach exceeds his grasp, and as it turns out, that's what heaven's for.
		Ward's previous films all involve a hero who ventures outside his insular world into a hostile, separate land that has the power to destroy him.
		Ward's afterlife is a jumble of Christian and New Age notions, laid out along a geographical scheme cribbed from Greek mythology.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-05-98/nash_film-lede.html (1042 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Transfiguration Of Vincent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		From the buoyant, late-Beatlesque "Vincent O'Brien" to the dank, shuffling, south of the border groove on "Sad, Sad Song," the troubadour manages to capture a timeless folkiness and match it with a surreal and sparkling sense of nostalgia that clearly echoes Tom Waits.
		Ward's guitar work is intricate and warm, and the John Fahey comparisons are certainly well founded.
		Ward is possessed of a voice of almost unearthly beauty - sweet and raspy at the same time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008BL5M (898 words)

	Shoot: Vincent Ward Relocates To Omaha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ward continues to be represented in New Zealand by Flying Fish Films, Auckland and Wellington, and in Australia by Sydney-based Independent Films.
		Ward spent three years on the film about lovers tragically separated by death--first developing the script, then directing--all the while working closely with the effects artists to create the film's various "after life" settings.
		Ward's earlier work includes the documentary In Spring One Plants Alone ('80), about an elderly Maori woman and her 40-year-old handicapped son, which received a silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DUO/is_20_42/ai_75477441 (1029 words)

	M Ward - End of Amnesia, Transfiguration of Vincent, Transistor Radio Review
		I would say that M. Ward would have a hard time topping this album but I think that he is here to stay and that it is going to be an interesting career to watch.
		Ward has a raspy and yet very beautiful voice and the ability to back up his own voice (that darn studio trickery).
		Ward is able to write charmingly beautiful songs with a slight twang to them and bestows a haunting overtone on them.
	www.musicemissions.com /display_review/1442 (614 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Ward Vincent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ward, Vincent (1956- ), New Zealand film director and screenwriter.
		Born in Greytown, New Zealand, Ward was educated at the University of Canterbury,...
		Hurt was the archetypal victim, Winston Smith, in the George Orwell classic 1984 (Mike Radford; 1984), and added to his gallery of misfit outsiders...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Ward_Vincent.html (91 words)

	What Sounds May Come: Soundeluxe Hears Heaven and Hell
		Although most technical acclaim for Vincent Ward's What Dreams May Come lauds the film's stunning visual depiction of heaven and hell, the sound design that accompanies those visuals was every bit as delicate and painstaking.
		Director Ward says that required "a sound palette that, like the images, is tied to Chris' perceptions." Ward elaborates: "He perceives things through his incredible love of classic painting.
		Ward says, "The idea was to show that Chris and Annie are soulmates, connected even after death." Sullivan adds that the team designed the sounds associated with the tree to convey the couple's emotional stress of being apart and longing for each other.
	millimeter.com /mag/video_sounds_may_soundeluxe (959 words)

	PittsburghLIVE.com - Local trio gives St. Vincent a high-flying line
		Five years ago, Spallone and Ward were teammates for a season at Greensburg Central Catholic High School.
		Ward is quick with a joke, and keeps his teammates loose with wisecracks on the ice.
		In just its second season as a full member of the WPCHA, St. Vincent is the highest scoring team in the league and is favored to earn a playoff berth.
	www.svchockey.com /news/trio.html (1112 words)

	Rockzillaworld M. Ward "Transfiguration of Vincent" By Marianne Ebertowski
		Being Dutch, I had expected the album's main character, Vincent, to be Vincent van Gogh, but it turns out to be a person called Vincent O'Brien.
		Ward hopes he can get himself together before he cuts his ear off.
		Then there's a strong finale starting with "A Voice At The End Of The Line" where Ward comforts a dead man by telling him not to cry, because he shall be saved by and by.
	www.rockzilla.net /ebertowski18.html (713 words)

	M. Ward: Transfiguration of Vincent: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		With this album, Ward moves onto the same block as Sparklehorse, Pinetop Seven, Calexico, Lambchop, and a host of other artists who draw from backwoods phantasmagoria and disparate genres.
		On the instrumental "Duet for Guitars #3", Ward takes things to the back porch for a brilliant, kinetic moment of levity, but otherwise, Transfiguration of Vincent is laden with heavy emotions and musings on death, loss and violence.
		There are moments on Transfiguration of Vincent for which words fail-- particularly the cover of David Bowie's "Let's Dance", where Ward's low-key, acoustic delivery reveals a surprisingly emotional, fragile piece-- and while that may be an extremely uncomfortable position for a music reviewer, for a listener, it's the best place you could possibly be.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/w/ward_m/transfiguration-of-vincent.shtml (388 words)

	Stinkweeds Online Music: Your independent source for indie, rare, new, import CDs, LPs and reviews.
		While Smith draws primarily on British influences and Ward definitely American, they both tug on your heartstrings in a similar fashion, and both have been able to make the jump to a more produced sound with ease.
		The record is not without its minimal moments, as bits of Fahey-inspired plucking stand alone (and hold their own) at several points on the record; sans percussion or voice.
		With a bigger budget at his disposal, M. Ward is able to finally flesh out his ideas that come across beautifully even when reduced to just an acoustic guitar and voice.
	www.stinkweeds.com /review_detail.cfm?rvID=264 (364 words)

	Dream Weavers - page 1
		In this new film, New Zealand director Vincent Ward combines the quasi-medieval vision of his first feature, The Navigator (1988), with the passion of his most recent picture, Map of the Human Heart (1992), to create a mature, haunting story of heartfelt longing.
		Ironically, Ward originally passed on Ron Bass's script because he felt there was no way to visualize the journeys of Chris Nielsen (Robin Williams) through Heaven and Hell in search of his family.
		Ward's biggest stumbling block was the fact that in the script, as in the novel, Chris's wife, Annie (Annabella Sciorra), was a caterer, a profession that the director felt wouldn't provide the ideal visual link between the couple.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/nov98/dreams/pg1.htm (908 words)

	Director Vincent Ward
		When still in his twenties, Ward lived with an isolated Maori community for two years-where he made the documentary In Spring One Plants Alone.
		How do you make it feel viscous?" While Ward lived with the script for three years and led four months of presvisualization, he confides, "We only really worked out how to do it effectively in the last eight weeks.
		Ward is proud that the effects do not run along the same lines as those in disaster flicks and sci-fi skirmishes.
	millimeter.com /mag/video_director_vincent_ward/index.html (579 words)

	ALIEN Movies Resource > Scripts > Alien 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Vincent Ward -- Ward 'hired himself' to make a script; he left the movie after 'Fasano' part 2.
		Vincent Ward entered new ideas of his own, such as a wooden planet and monks galore.
		But Ward said he didn't like [David] Twohy's script.
	www.planetavp.com /amr/scripts/a3scripts.html (977 words)

	Merge Records - CATALOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ward's distinctly weathered voice and intricate guitar playing are helped along with an impressive group of guests incuding Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) and Jordan Hudson (The Thermals).
		Transfiguration of Vincent is the third solo album from M. Ward, who cut his musical teeth in the San Luis Obispo based trio Rodriguez.
		Ward's seemingly effortless finger picking guitar conjures the elegance of the late John Fahey.
	mergerecords.com /catalog.php?method=band&query_band_id=8 (383 words)

	LittleCubeNews - Entertain Us!
		If Elliot Smith had gotten better instead of trifling when he awkwardly moved from his “acoustic” period to his “instrumentation” period, plus had a box full of mid-century American records to dwell on, then this is what it might have been.
		Matt Ward has a similar, soft voice that compliments the sparse affair in many of his songs.
		But the sense of loss that has suffused his past two albums is complimented by a spry wink.
	www.littlecubenews.com /oldissues/entertain/entertain002.php (817 words)

	September Story
		Vincent Ward’s vision encapsulated an art world that Chris would draw upon for his Heaven.
		It was to reflect his passion for 19th century painting and the wonder of a released soul.
		As Ward described his vision for the tree, Digital Domain was able to grow it to his specification from the genetic description.
	www.cameraguild.com /magazine/stoo998a.htm (2038 words)

	Vincent Ward -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		His next film, The Navigator, took four years to make and won six (Click link for more info and facts about AFI) AFI awards.
		In the years following Map, Ward made an abortive attempt to direct and script (Click link for more info and facts about Alien³) Alien³, but the film's backers were leery of his underlying concept: a spirtual parable involving monks aboard a giant wooden ark in space.
		Despite this setback, Ward's next feature moved away from the lower budgets and art-house atmosphere of his earlier works: the (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood-friendly What Dreams May Come ($90m), starring (Click link for more info and facts about Robin Williams) Robin Williams, appeared in 1998.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vincent_ward.htm (276 words)

	Used-Books for Sale from Mary Ward Books, Used, Rare and Out-Of-Print Books
		If you have any further questions about an individual book or require a more detailed condition report please e-mail Mary Ward Books or use our 'ask question' button, found on every book description page.
		Mary Ward Books holds a large selection of off-line second hand and out of print books.
		Mary Ward Books, Blyford, Suffolk, IP19 9JR, United Kingdom.
	www.marywardbooks.com (256 words)

	The Haunted Palace - VPFS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		One hundred and ten years later, Charles Dexter Ward (Vincent Price) and his wife Ann (Debra Paget) arrive in the town of Arkham to visit a house they have inherited from Ward's great-great-grandfather, Joseph Curwen.
		Ward fights this invasion, and this battle takes place through the remainder of the film.
		The doctor tells her that Ward has been effected by the house and its atmosphere and advises her to leave him.
	www.vincent-price.com /newpalace.html (1468 words)

	Media Nugget : Transfiguration of Vincent : M. Ward
		Singer-songwriter M. Ward plays the acoustic guitar, sometimes accompanying himself with an impromptu recorded loop of that same instrument.
		It's a simple combination, but deceptively powerful -- a phrase that could easily apply to M. Ward himself, who appears onstage as nothing more than a soft-spoken kid from Portland wearing a t-shirt and a baseball cap.
		Ward can also slide behind the piano, and that's a treat not to be missed, as he scratchily croons songs like the haunting "Carolina." Transfiguration of Vincent, as with Ward's first two albums, is packed with individual gems ("Vincent O'Brien," "Undertaker"), but also works together as a beautiful whole.
	www.medianugget.com /2004/08/transfiguration.html (165 words)

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