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Title: Candlelight music from diverse torches......
Review: Ok, now what instrumental aggregation would choose to create a work with two cover recordings each by Neil Young, Tom Waits, Django Reinhart and Radiohead? Then round off with a little Ornette Coleman, Leonard Cohen, Billy Strayhorn and Horace Silver?The music is cleanly and beautifully recorded. The timbre of the instruments is conveyed so clearly you will swear you can hear the placing of fingers on the fretboards. Crystalline. A calm lake surface is indeed the perfect metaphor.Unlike their eponymous CD, there is no percussion here and, perhaps correspondingly, the pace is more relaxed. The likelihood that any given listener will be familiar enough with ALL the authors to "pick up" on many of these melodies is rather remote. For example, this is not "Southern Man" or "Heart of Gold" era Neil Young. So you will perhaps be enticed to seek out the originals, to see where the inspiration in these tunes came from.
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