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Artist : Saffire
Album : Nostalgica
Tracks : 20
Time : 54:37 min
Bitrate : VBRkbps
Size : 77,3 MB
Label : ABC
Str.date: 10/04/2004
Rip.date: 12/23/2004
Ripper : .:Team aAF:.
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Let me say from the outset that this is a
fantastic disc! It should be heard by anyone
who isnÆt prejudiced against mixing genres,
playing "arrangements", having fun. So what
is this? Cross-over? Any record covering
both Bart≤k and Deep Purple could with some
justification be labelled "cross-over", but
to me it is something else. "Cross-over"
implies that there are borders to cross, and
these four eminent musicians see no borders;
this is border-less music. Maybe the guitar
is the instrument that lends itself most
easily to building bridges between genres,
styles and times, especially when played as
on this disc. Here are four of AustraliaÆs
best classical guitarists, all of them with
important solo careers, but the first thing
to notice, in the very first track, is that
we don't hear four individuals playing as it
were together; we hear a guitar quartet, we
hear unanimity in rhythmic feeling, in the
approach to to the music, we hear musicians
listening to each other.
The sound is great, the placing of the
instruments in the stereo image is exact and
they blend marvellously. Of course you hear
that the unseen artists behind and between
your speakers are classically trained but
the effect is of a highly professional
popgroup playing acoustically for once - and
enjoying it.
Very important, and very imaginative, is the
use of a whole array of different guitars,
thus finding new and unique colours for each
piece of music. Besides the "normal"
classical guitar, we hear flamenco guitar,
baritone guitar, eight-string guitar, octave
guitar and steel-string guitar. We even hear
a resonator guitar, used mainly in blues
music, once even played with so called
"bottleneck" technique which gives an
uncanny likeness to the Hawaii guitar.
There is tremendous rhythmic zest in Juan
MartφnÆs Rumba Nostßlgica, which also lends
its name to the whole collection. I haven't
been so captivated, so spellbound by a piece
of "light music" for many a good day. And
make no mistake: I don't take "light music"
lightly. This is playing on the same level
as the worldÆs finest string quartets, the
same flexible interplay, the same
"eye-contact". Must play it again, Sam!
Then Piazzolla's Romance del Diablo, which
is not really as devilish as the title makes
us believe, rather impressionistically
colourful with a surprisingly
modern-sounding ballad-tune. The tango
rhythm is there, as in all his music, but
not for dancing, which it is in Roland
Dyens' Tango en Skai, an attractively
laid-back piece with a catchy tune and
sudden rhythmic accents.
When they continue with Bart≤k's well-known
Romanian Folk Dances, originally set for the
piano and later orchestrated by the
composer, it strikes me that guitars sound
much more genuin in this music, are closer
to the idiom. The arrangements here - all
the arrangements are by the members of the
quartet - as in the rest of the programme,
are colourful and observant to the character
of each piece. You even imagine there is a
cimbalom present, and the sixth and final
dance ends ecstatically.
The Celtic music tradition is also
highlighted, both in a couple of standard
traditional songs, rubbing shoulders with
Bill Whelan's latter-day
Riverdance-compositions. Especially the
first of them holds on to the ecstacy
created in Bart≤k, becoming even more
physical with steel-stringed guitar, heaps
of percussive effects and stomping feet. My
whole listening room was rocking afterwards.
There is also a World Premiere Recording on
the disc, a suite by Nigel Westlake entitled
Six Fish, and there is a suitable amount of
splashes and other fishy sounds in these
colourful waters, housing such rare
specimens as Guitarfish, Sunfish and
Sling-Jaw Wrasse.
Finally rock fans will receive their share
in Deep Purple's Highway Star. And why just
rock fans? In spite of a very modest
interest in rock music I enjoyed this track
enormously as one more example of
border-less contemporary music.
The booklet text - as always with ABC filled
with interesting information - tells me that
SAFFIRE - The Australian Guitar Quartet, got
together more or less as an ad hoc group in
2002 for an outdoor concert and after that
decided to become a permanent ensemble. They
released their first CD in June 2003 and it
went straight to the top of the Australian
Classical Music Charts. I see no reason why
the new disc shouldnÆt go the same way. I
have no hesitation in recommending it to
all, except perhaps the most narrow-minded,
and even you should give it a try. If there
were something like "The Border-less
Recording of the Month" I would appoint this
disc to that title.
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01 Rumba Nostalgica (Juan Martin) [03:17]
02 Romance Del Diablo (Astor Piazzolla) [06:14]
03 Tango En Skai (Roland Dyens) [03:06]
04 Romanian Folk Dances 1 (Bela Bartok) [01:20]
05 Romanian Folk Dances 2 (Bela Bartok) [00:33]
06 Romanian Folk Dances 3 (Bela Bartok) [01:05]
07 Romanian Folk Dances 4 (Bela Bartok) [01:23]
08 Romanian Folk Dances 5 (Bela Bartok) [00:33]
09 Romanian Folk Dances 6 (Bela Bartok) [01:00]
10 Riverdance (Bill Whelan) [05:18]
11 She Moved Through the Fair (Trad.) [03:12]
12 American Wake (Bill Whelan) [04:28]
13 The Salley Gardens (Trad.) [03:42]
14 Six Fish 1 (Nigel Westlake) [02:15]
15 Six Fish 2 (Nigel Westlake) [03:38]
16 Six Fish 3 (Nigel Westlake) [01:16]
17 Six Fish 4 (Nigel Westlake) [01:54]
18 Six Fish 5 (Nigel Westlake) [02:34]
19 Six Fish 6 (Nigel Westlake) [04:13]
20 Highway Star (Deep Purple) [03:36]
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aAF was created in Jan 2001 to fill a void left in the scene
by groups who would refuse to release anything but current
year music.paved the way for many groups to follow our lead and opened
up the music scene for all music lovers while took a ton of abuse in
the process.3 years later 13000 albums we proved our point!
check out our tv/svcd/dvdr/divx divisions new for 2004
It's not the Year that Matters it's the Music
aAF Forever
What We're looking for :
ppl who can get promos or pre street rls
ppl who have large cd collections
ppl with skill and experience who feel they can help us
ppl who can supply legal shells or bnc's
ppl who can supply hardware
siteop's who host 100mbit+ 500 gig+ mixed sites for affils
internal sites 10mbit+ 20gigs
Siteop's invite the force to pre 2k4 on your site
Come to the force with us
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