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This week's releases:
A collection of late-19th-century classical guitar repertoire, including Satie, Ravel, Debussy, DeFalla, as well as a few Baroque (Bach) and Renaissance (Dowland) pieces.
From the founding members of the famous pop group "Men Without Hats" comes "Music Inside". Their new album makes me want to smile, dance, shake and groove, all at the same time.
A darkly pleasing romp through industrial/electronic/hard-rock genres.
Melodic, catchy, musically memorable hip-hop.
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This week's back-of-the-cupboard is:
The viola da gamba is a 6 (or 7) string bowed instrument, similar to the cello, but with tied frets and a greater range afforded by the additional strings. The sound is also more organic and breathy than a cello, as the strings are made from animal gut, compared to the metal strings on a cello.
On this album Meulenbroeks presents a variety of solo gamba repertoire, well recorded and sensitively played. An excellent introduction to the solo viola da gamba. Both beautiful and meditative.
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-john
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/estrem-reverie
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/musicinside-silicon
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/greatmook-sezame
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/hwye-concordia
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/meulenbroeks-gambomania
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