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...Mansun sets itself apart from most art-rock by occassionally throwing the listener a life preserver. "Negative" is a slicing, biting rock stomp and "Legacy" clears the air with its crisp and tender crescendos. Overall, it's a godless, fearless, overblown and manipulative stab at the center of your music consciousness. Listening to Six, at first, is a battle. In the end, the fight makes the album even more rewarding...
...contrasting dynamics of the different movements. Corigliano's "Voyage for String Orchestra" was hauntingly beautiful and executed with similar panache, its ethereal solos seemlessly interwoven despite their brevity. Elkie's "Allegro Troppo for String Orchestra" showcased the technical mastery the ensamble's musicans. At a vivace pace, spiccatos were crisp and clean though after the piece hits the ten-minute mark, the bows start to settle into a repetitious hard grind against the instruments. Dvorak's "Serenade for strings in E major" is a perennial favorite; and as the Player's finale piece it did not disappoint...
Mansun sets itself apart from most art-rock by occasionally throwing the listener a life preserver. "Negative" is a slicing, biting rock stomp and "Legacy" clears the air with its crisp and tender crescendos. Overall, it's a godless, fearless, overblown and manipulative stab at the center of your music consciousness. Listening to Six, at first, is a battle. In the end, the fight makes and album even more rewarding...
Bagpipers serenaded the officers as they entered Sanders in crisp, military formation. Until the moment when family members pinned their badges to their chest, the officers remained stoic...
...team up for a dapper program of seven-string-guitar duets (the added bass strings make for an orchestral richness of texture). The bill of fare ranges from high-class standards like The Bad and the Beautiful to such sophisticated novelties as Joe Mooney's Phantasmagoria; the playing is crisp, witty and swings like...