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radio.string.quartet.vienna: radiodream

Read "radiodream" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Ah, a string quartet. Calm, gentle--if rather derivative--music may well await. But there's a short verse on the inside cover of radiodream, the closing line of which serves as a fair warning about much of the music that actually awaits: “you can only escape while you are awake." radio.string.quartet.vienna is a band that not only wishes to play with the basic rules of grammar and punctuation; it also wants to play with the imagery of dreams and, for much of ...

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radio.string.quartet.vienna with Klaus Paier: Radiotree

Read "Radiotree" reviewed by Chris May


Following their high octane homage Celebrating The Mahavishnu Orchestra (ACT, 2007), Austrian conservatoire rebels radio.string.quartet.vienna return, in part, with a salute to their fellow countryman, keyboard player Joe Zawinul, who passed in 2007. The quartet, augmented by accordionist Klaus Paier, offer striking interpretations of three of Zawinul's compositions--the iconic "In A Silent Way," from Zawinul's years with trumpeter Miles Davis, "Cannonball," Zawinul's own homage to alto saxophonist and sometime band mate Cannonball Adderley, and "A Remark You Made" which, ...

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Radiodream

ACT Music
2011

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Radiotree

ACT Music
2008

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Celebrating The...

The ACT Company
2007

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