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Daniel Bernard Roumain: Etudes4violin&electronix

Read "Etudes4violin&electronix" reviewed by John Kelman


The vibrant Scandinavian music scene often suggests that anything is possible. Divergent styles and technologies regularly come together as new, cohesive and organic wholes. While this kind of experimentation is taking place on the west side of the Atlantic, demographics and a larger industrial machine drive such experimental music further underground. It's almost a certainty that violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain's debut, Etudes4violin&electronix, would do very well in Scandinavia. More's the pity, then, that it deserves to do equally well here ...

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Daniel Bernard Roumain: Etudes4violin&electronix

Read "Etudes4violin&electronix" reviewed by Mark Corroto


If you were drawing a musical continuum, classical music would certainly be placed quite a distance from hip- hop. Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) turns that straight-line continuum into a circle, and in doing so merges the world of hip-hop and classical, plus rock, funk, and electronics.

Ever since Stuff Smith stepped on a bandstand in the 1920s, jazz has made room for the violin as a tool for the amalgamation of classical and/or folk music with jazz. ...

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Daniel Bernard Roumain: Etudes4violin&electronix

Read "Etudes4violin&electronix" reviewed by Lyn Horton


The most profound thought that any human being can have is about being alive. How we express life hopefully motivates us “to do, not just “to be. It is a gift to be able to have a means to do. And the gift often comes forth in a product. The product, in this case, is music. And a person who has mastered his voice in the music is Daniel Bernard Roumain. Violinist Roumain collaborates with several composers as well as ...

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Daniel Bernard Roumain - Etudes 4 Violin and Electronix (2007)

Daniel Bernard Roumain - Etudes 4 Violin and Electronix (2007)

Source: Something Else!

By Mark Saleski Not long after receiving Etudes 4 Violin & Electronix, I got up one morning before the alarm went off, and settled myself down to some coffee. The idea was to catch up on the reading material that had stacked up over the past few months. What ended up happening over the next 10 minutes or so was that I stared a hole through an advertisement featuring a reproduction of Edward Hopper's painting “Nighthawks." Hopper's artwork has always ...

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Composer/Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) Releases Woodbox Beats & Balladry (Thirsty Ear)

Composer/Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) Releases Woodbox Beats & Balladry (Thirsty Ear)

Source: AMT Public Relations

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR): Woodbox Beats & Balladry Available March 30th on Thirsty Ear Recordings Haitian-American violinist/composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) continues to establish himself as one of todays most relevant artists on the contemporary classical music scene. An innovative violinist, composer, performer, re-mixer, and band leader, DBR has won world-wide acclaim for his eclecticism and fearless exploration, whether through extended violin techniques, the infusion of electronics, or in his perspectives on the definition of chamber music. On Woodbox Beats ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

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Thirsty Ear Recordings
2007

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