| Brady, Tim / Three Cities In The Life Of Dr. Norman Bethune |
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| Album: | Three Cities In The Life Of Dr. Norman Bethune | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Brady, Tim | Added: | 08/2006 | |
| Label: | Ambiances Magnetique | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-08-27 | Pull Date: | 2006-10-29 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | 29 Oct | 3 Sep |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
| Recent Airplay |
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| 1. | Fri, 27 Oct 06: | Wedge Memory Select: guest Myra Melford | 2. | Tue, 29 Aug 06: | Tron Radio Of Imagination |
| Album Review |
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| Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2006-10-02 | ||
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New composer/chamber opera with male baritone, guitar, percussion & sax. All based around the life of the Canadian doctor and humanitarian active in the 20’s & 30’s. Interesting, compelling and often cinematic. ((((1)))) Great perussion, off-kilter piano & string elements. ((2)) Nice instrumentation but the vocals are really overdramatic. ((3)) Mostly mellow strings and solem, slow story telling vocals. (((4))) Lots of random percussion & strings and often operatic vocals. (((5))) Not too different from the last track but with some interesting vocal/narration bits. ((6)) Very minimal not a lot going on here. ((7)) Solem & builds in different direction but doesn’t stand out well enough. ((((8)))) Character narration “en español” all overlapped and argumentative. Later gets kinda jazzy & more narrative in English. Excellent. (((9))) Somewhat bombastic & loud, big on histronic, operatic vocals. ((((10)))) Cinematic, semi-jazzy piano & strings interlude (((11))) Minimal & occasionally filled with random experimental bits. Some nice ambient & string manipulating sounds in the mix. ((12)) More narrative operatic/off-broadway feeling. Almost entirely vocal –led. ((13)) More histronic, story-telling stuff. Nothing innovative or terribly interesting. ((14)) Mellancholic and extremely literal translation “I’ve have al-read-y submitted reports from February and Mar-ch”. Huh? ((15)) Etheral string, minimal vocals which don’t seem to move anywhere. | ||
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