Theodorakis / Dolbonos / Feljaer / Titarenko - Electra - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Theodorakis - Electra/Medea/Antigone-Comp Op [COMPACT DISCS] Boxed Set date 03/06/2001

Turn on 'Dust Clouds May Exist,' the debut album by Creature Automatic, and hear something familiar and something completely new. This is pop music that makes pop music strange again. At it's core, 'Dust Clouds May Exist' is classic songwriting flawlessly crafted, featuring catchy hooks and memorable riffs, exuberant and melancholy. But it's also an experimental opus, with Lee playing some of the fabulously unusual instruments he's become known for mellotrons, crumhorns, and portatif organ alongside the usual guitars, drums, and piano. For fans of Brian Eno's early songs, Robert Wyatt, Richard Young's, and raucous experimentation.

Accordionist Theo Ould describes this new album as Inchmy most shameful - it's as if I hadn't let myself play Astor's music, not got my accordion out of the world of musical cliches, and concentrated on works that were more classical in styleInch. Theo's vocation, however, nonetheless became evident when he heard Piazzolla's Libertango at the age of 6! This Frenchman from Marseille, 20 years later, now tackles this music with fervour, exaltation, tailor-made arrangements, and the complicity of the Bilitis quartet, alongside double bass player Blanche Strombon; the mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti also appears in a generous and beautiful Balada para un loco, Piazzolla's setting of a poem by Horacio Ferrer. Theo Ould is deeply involved with this music, sharing his passion with us and inviting us to join in Ferrer's Balada InchCrawl into this tender delirium that burns within me, put on this wig wovrn from larks - and fly! Fly with me now! Come along, fly, come!Inch