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...Grisman and Rice included string versions of such diverse tunes as the Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli jazz tune "Swing '42," and the perennial Italian wedding favorite "O Sole Mio," neither of these tunes have any relation to American folk music, nor do they sound particularly interesting performed on guitar and mandolin. Sometimes a jazz tune is just plain better when played by jazz musicians on traditional jazz instruments...
Tone Poems is a beautiful, generous album. Grisman and Rice have devoted themselves to preserving and documenting "the sounds of the great vintage guitars and mandolins." To that end, they each play 17 instruments, one for each of the album's tracks, with Rice on guitar and Grisman on mandolin. The care and affection for these instruments is evident in the lavish forty-page liner notes insert. Replete with more than 100 photographs, it is a mini-documentary on the craftsmanship and evolution of string instrument-manufacturing in this country. But all of this devotion takes the focus away from...
...wall, two Cubist still-lifes are displayed side by side, one by Braque, the other by Picasso. The second canvas is larger--perhaps only a coincidence, but it certainly symbolizes Picasso's overshadowing reputation. Completed within two years of each other and composed of the requisite mandolin, the combination of the two paintings effectively displays each artist's approach to spatial arrangement. Picasso stacks cubist shards on top of each other, conveying height, while Braque tends to deals more with depth, using receding images...
...recorded. In an interview with Time, Stipe described the new sound succinctly: "We wanted noise." Added R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills: "When you're in a band long enough, you want to try different things. On past albums we had been exploring acoustic instruments, trying to use the piano and mandolin, and we did it about all we wanted to do it. And you come back to the fact that playing loud electric-guitar music is about as fun as music...
...album's textured sound, which includes electric guitars, mandolin and violin along with the cello, helps the instrumentals of Broken Moon to be both complex and interesting without overpowering or drawing attention away from the singers. The catchy choruses and melody lines that characterize many of the songs, especially "Constant As The Night" and "I'll Set You Free," which features Susanna Hoffs (recently wedded singer of the Bangles) on back-up vocals, jeep the focus squarely on Lowen and Navarro. The imagery is masterful here as well; the rhyming lines, such as "I remember words that fell/Like coins into...