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Portraits (Tri Yann album)

Portraits is a concept album by Breton band Tri Yann. It was released in 1995 under the Déclic label.

All the songs on the album are about a historical person. Some, like the tracks in honor of Brian Boru and Gerry Adams, are purely instrumental, while some contain Old French lyrics. The last third of the songs in the album concern Guillaume Seznec.

The album was recorded at l'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud. It also marks the arrival of Christophe Le Helley into the group, which would give the band a more medieval sound, as well as a rare appearance by former member Bernard Baudriller.

Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear)

Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear) is a 1996 compilation album of works by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis.

The album features some of the most-renowned Vangelis' solo work, as well as songs from Jon & Vangelis, his collaboration with Yes vocalist Jon Anderson.

Portraits (For Today album)

Portraits is the second studio album by Christian metalcore band For Today, released on June 9, 2009. The album charted on three of Billboards charts; No. 14 on Top Heatseekers, No. 15 on Christian Albums, and No. 40 on Top Independent Albums.

Portraits (Side Effect album)

Portraits is the seventh album by R&B group Side Effect. Released in 1981, this was their second album for Elektra Records.

Portraits (Bury Tomorrow album)

Portraits Is the debut studio album from British metalcore band Bury Tomorrow. The album was released first in the United Kingdom on Basick Records on 12 October 2009. Adam Jackson has stated it was named Portraits for two reasons: "Firstly, the title track is based on the story of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, a cautionary tale of the beauty and frailty of life. Secondly, Portraits depicts a person or character frozen in time as they were at a given moment. This is how we see this album – it's a reflection of our tastes, loves, hates, losses and gains. It's a memory in musical form, the first glimpse of the picture that is Bury Tomorrow.”

Portraits (Max Raptor album)

Portraits is the debut release from English alternative rock band Max Raptor. It was released on Naim Edge Records in April 2011.

Portraits (Gerald Wilson album)

Portraits is an album by the Gerald Wilson Orchestra recorded in late 1963 and early 1964 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.

Usage examples of "portraits".

There were more gothic movie monsters, sado porn of graphic severity, and portraits of some of their cultural iconsJim Morrison, Morthland, Lord Byron, Bela Lugosi, Bradford Hess, Ed Gein, John Lydon, and Freddie the Psycho.

Family portraits, artsy shots of nude men and women, even several examples of family pets.

Even the vast portraits of Orlovs dead and gone seemed to glare disapprovingly at her from the brocade-hung walls.

The women who came to me for their portraits would sigh when he came in but I had the trick of it and he did not.

This man told Vertue that Rembrandt was living in Hull, painting portraits of seafaring folk and he even described one of the portraits.

The earlier portraits in this middle period of his life usually portray that golden chain and the significance of that chain is immense.

As I say, you had an accomplice perhaps in York, someone out to persuade us your portraits are worth more than they really are?

That always pleased me because nobody worth knowing is just one person and my portraits contained all those variations under the surface.

And if there were any gradual process of degeneration or change taking place, the portraits would provide a tangible record.

No one would have taken the brother and sister for twins for they were quite unlike each other in looks, nor did either show any resemblance to the man sitting at the head of the table, nor would there have been any resemblance to their mother had she been present, dive Fischel, it was said, took after his maternal great-grandmother and was of unusual fairness, while Isabelle looked the image of her paternal great grandfather She only had to stand in the gallery and look at the three portraits of that notorious gentleman and she saw herself at the ages of twenty, thirty, and forty.

The bureau for Indian affairs contains a room of great interest: the walls are entirely covered with original portraits of all the chiefs who, from time to time, have come to negotiate with their great father, as they call the President.

King, and, it cannot be doubted, are excellent likenesses, as are all the portraits I have ever seen from the hands of that gentleman.

The dresses worn by the chiefs when their portraits were taken, are many of them splendid, from the embroidery of beads and other ornaments: and the room contains many specimens of their ingenuity, and even of their taste.

Their faces were covered with chrome masks, identical portraits of Elvis Presley in his prime.

Eve saw portions of the wedding unfoldthe bride and groom, the family portraits, the candids.