Tag: Cello

• The Mono LPs: Shuffle/Play

  This is a really good album ad we’d have said you should buy it even before we realised it referenced one of our favourite films, Being There. (A 1979 satire, based on a novel by Jerzy Kosinski and starring Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener, a simple man who knows only about gardening and the […]

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  July 5, 2021

  Indie, Pop rock, Rock

  Arctic Monkeys, Cello, Coral, Liverpool, Shuffle/Play, The Mono LPs

• Lars Danielsson/Paolo Fresu: Summerwind

  Some albums simply blindside you: a few plays of moderate attention and suddenly you love it. Such is the case with this minimalist late night jazz album that leans towards trip hop. We initially thought the laid-back set would be for people who find late night jazz too loud. As its depths began to unfold, […]

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  October 1, 2018

  Ambient, Jazz

  ACT 9871-2, Amigos, April In Dardegna, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Cello, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Dardodentro, Dardusó, De La Solitude Mesurée. bass, Drexciya, early, flugelhorn, funk, Jag lyfter ögat mot himmelen, jazz, Lars Danielsson, Le Matin, music, Paolo Fresu, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, ruft uns die Stimme, Saluto Dardamente, Sleep Safe And Warm, soul, Stanna Tid, Stilla Storm, Summerwind, Summerwind Autumn Leaves, trumpet, Un vestido y un amor, Wachet auf

• James Weeks: Signs of Occupation

  Avant-garde composer Weeks is trying to make mundane, minimal music. “Occupation” is used in the sense that Weeks occupies our time by filling that time with music, and occupies the musicians, filling their time by giving them something to do, rather than asking them to play actual music. Landscape, occupied by man in another meaning […]

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  December 31, 2016

  Avant-garde, Classical

  albums, Alsager Chronicle, Avant gard, Biddulph Chronicle, buy this, Cello, Common Ground, Congleton Chronicle Series, Digger, good music, James Weeks, James Wilkes, Jem Condliffe, Looping Busker Music, new music, opinion, Piano and Tape, review, Sandbach Chronicle, Signs of Occupation, Trios for Violin

• Maya Beiser: Uncovered

  Beiser has been called a “cello goddess” “the queen of contemporary cello” (New Yorker and San Francisco Chronicle respectively) but she grew up on a kibbutz listening to rock. She says music is either good or bad and nothing more, so she’s taken her instrument of choice, the cello, to make an album of rock […]

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  October 8, 2014

  Classical, Uncategorized

  album review, Alsager Chronicle, Biddulph Chronicle, buy this, Cello, cello goddess, cello plays rock, cello version of, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, dance, eletronica, folk, good music, Howlin’ Wolf, jazz, Jeremy Condliffe, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Led Zeppellin, Maya Beiser, music, new music, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Review Corner, rock, Rock n roll, Sandbach Chronicle, Uncovered, Wish You Were Here