Aqualung may refer to:
Aqualung is the eponymous debut album by Aqualung, released on 30 September 2002 on the B-Unique label. It reached #15 in the UK albums chart and went gold in December 2002.
The first single from the album, "Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)", was released on September 16, 2002 and reached #7 on the CIN chart.
The second single from the album, "Good Times Gonna Come", was released on December 2, 2002 and reached #71 on the UK singles chart. The single version of "Good Times Gonna Come" was mixed by Matt Hales and Marius De Vries. The song is played in the background in the British Television programme Skins, in Sketch's first episode.
According to the sleeve notes, the album was recorded entirely in Matt Hales' hallway. On its release, the album was promoted on the back of the use of "Strange And Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)" as the soundtrack to an advert for the new Volkswagen Beetle.
Aqualung is a free and open-source audio player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, but also running on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.
Introduction, The Introduction, Intro, or The Intro may refer to:
Intro is an American R&B trio from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The trio consisted of members Jeff Sanders, Clinton "Buddy" Wike and lead singer/songwriter Kenny Greene. Intro released two albums (for Atlantic Records): 1993's Intro and their second album, 1995's New Life. The group had a string of US hits in the 1990s. The hits included the singles "Let Me Be The One", the Stevie Wonder cover "Ribbon in the Sky", "Funny How Time Flies" and their highest charting hit, "Come Inside".
Intro's Kenny Greene died from complications of AIDS in 2001. Intro recently emerged as a quintet consisting of Clinton "Buddy" Wike, Jeff Sanders, Ramon Adams and Eric Pruitt. Adams departed in 2014, with the group back down to its lineup as a trio. They are currently recording a new album to be released in 2015. The group released a new single in 2013 called "I Didn't Sleep With Her" and a new single "Lucky" in October 2014.
In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece, preceding the theme or lyrics. In popular music this is often abbreviated as intro. The introduction establishes melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic material related to the main body of a piece.
Introductions may consist of an ostinato that is used in the following music, an important chord or progression that establishes the tonality and groove for the following music, or they may be important but disguised or out-of-context motivic or thematic material. As such the introduction may be the first statement of primary or other important material, may be related to but different from the primary or other important material, or may bear little relation to any other material.
A common introduction to a rubato ballad is a dominant seventh chord with fermata, Play an introduction that works for many songs is the last four or eight measures of the song,
Play while a common introduction to the twelve-bar blues is a single chorus.
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