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Title: Limp
Review: Hearing this CD was a huge shock for me. McLaughlin's music (which I'm really familiar with) got such a limp, whimpy tratment by the Groningen Guitar Duo, and I don't think McLaughlin deserves it. If anything, I would expect the musicians who cover his repertoire to put some fire into interpreting it. This duo is merely caressing the strings, sounding very tentative. Plus, they don't seem to take any chances, which is utterly in contradiction with the original intentions of McLaughlin's music.The music on this CD sounds lifeless, and the players are getting dangerously close to being flatliners. They somehow managed to scoop out all the guts from McLaughlin's music, and I don't think that's a good thing.
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