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Music : Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet
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Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet by: Abigail Washburn List Price: $17.98 CD-Charts Price: $13.99 You Save: $3.99 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0067003079228 Label: Nettwerk Records Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nettwerk Records Release Date: May 20, 2008 Studio: Nettwerk Records Sales Rank: 1224 MPN: 30792 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Digipak of self titled album by Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet. Abigail Washburn has created a new sound that crosses global and cultural lines, personified in the raw, transcendental music of the Sparrow Quartet. The all star collaboration features banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck, acclaimed cellist Ben Sollee and Grammy nominated fiddler Casey Driessen. The artistry of Abigail is her love of both American roots musics and the Chinese culture she has been exploring for over a decade. Produced by Bela Fleck, the music was composed and arranged by the foursome. The unprecedented mixture of two banjos (clawhammer and three finger style), cello and fiddle unfolds like an otherworldly chamber suite. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - I expected betterI was interested because Bela Fleck was in the group. There was not enough of Bela, and far too much of Abigail whose voice and songs totally turned me off. Rating:  - Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow QuartetFabulous creation! Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck are two of my favorite artists, so when I heard they had recorded together, naturally I hurried to Amazon to listen to some tracks. Each track is unique--her voice is splendid--musical accompaniment virtuoso, of course--some pieces are haunting, some jolly, and the Chinese influence gives an exotic yet clean flavor to the tracks demonstrating it. This CD fits no category--just a glorious experience. Rating:  - Bela Fleck's involved. How can it be bad?The first cut I heard from the CD (and why I bought it) was A Fuller Wine. I recognized Bela Fleck's banjo immediately, but the progressions hooked me. The remakes on traditional songs with the New Grass feel are fresh. The Chinese Folk songs aren't my bag, but on the overall, a good listen. Rating: - Something Completely DifferentCenturies ago in many a Silk Road caravansary, traveling musicians from various lands learned songs and instrument design from each other, and they also jammed. This album is the contemporary equivalent of those exchanges, for traditional bluegrass banjo and fiddle and European classical cello instruments, and Western avant-garde art music and old-time lyrics, are cast with Chinese language and East Asian tunes. Indeed, in one track, the tremolo of Abigail Washburn's double-stringed banjo mimics a Chinese pipa. The album varies on almost every song, taking us on a strange sonic journey from Kazakhstan to Appalachia, from a Central European salon to a New York experimental music club, yet not being anywhere because this is a peculiar fusion. ... Read More: Rating: - Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow QuartetI heard this group for the first time at the Vancouver Island Musicfest and was blown away. I've been listening to this CD over and over again since. Imagine an otherworldly blend of bluegrass, Chinese traditional, and 20th-century classical symphonic and imagine it done artfully, tastefully, beautifully. This kind of music experience lifts you out of the ordinary into another realm. Absolutely superb, surprising, refreshing, original. With this kind of talent out there doing this sort of thing, why would anyone buy the mass-produced pablum that seems to have gained dominance in the commercial music world? I am in love! |
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