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The Wire (p.72) - "[M]ost entertaining of all are 'Gary'...and 'Pleasure Island', an almost entirely enjoyable collage of sirens, synth belches and construction site noise." Alter Ego Why Not?! Songs Why Not?! Review
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| | Yvette Staelens The Devil And The Farmer's Wife CD (2007)
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Roots Quartet, darlings of the English folk scene, like to explore... this album features Yvette's 'farm-folk' songs..time to get English and folksy and downright muddy down on the farm in Somerset...Rambling English countryside, ancient towns and villages, summer folk festivals and midwinter solstice gatherings have all hosted the delicious harmony singing and superb musicianship of Yvette, Michelle, Abbie and Bronwen and for the first time, all four of them feature on this luscious album alongside the vocal and instrumental talents of Jo Harvey (fiddle), Jane Harwood (guitars), Shirley Screech (sax and clarinet) and Nigel Pope (guitar and lute).Yvette's album features songs inspired by and richly embedded in the rural landscape of Somerset. A synthesis of intelligent lyrics, beautiful music and a personal take on farming today, interwoven with fun, folksong and fantasy. It's a unique view from the Somerset farmhouse kitchen window and a visit to those carefree days when we all did things just for 'devilment'!We all have many identities, Yvette Staelens, musician, mother, singer, composer, arranger, community choir leader, part-time senior lecturer at Bournemouth University is also known as Mrs Totterdell, dairy farmer's wife of Higher Wrantage Farm in Somerset. Time to sample some 'Farm-folk' ? Go on you know you are worth it!This CD includes gorgeous original illustrations by internationally acclaimed artist Kate Lynch katelynch. co. ukREVIEWYvette Staelens - The Devil And The Farmer's Wife (RQ Records) Yvette may be known to some readers as one half of the perversely contrarily-named Roots Quartet, who for the past 20 or so years (albeit in several wildly differing incarnations) have been ploughing their own unassuming yet individual folky furrow down in Somerset with occasional forays into touring folk venues nationwide. The "band" as such is "resting" at present, it would appear, while Yvette concentrates on other activities such as being a farmer's wife and leading singing workshops etc. - and presumably promoting her latest CD release. It's nominally a solo album, but it also features various instrumental and vocal contributions from Yvette's ...
| | Trevor Lloyd Violin Tendencies CD (2008)
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SoCal's South Bay used to have a prog band, Underwater Traffic, that never got the reception it deserved. The area is most emphatically not an intellectual's paradise nor minded to sit still for music deriving from any region or estate other than crotch or drugged stupor (neither of which I'm disinclined towards, but everything in its place, no?). Underwater Traffic boasted a roster of highly talented and innovative cats but shone especially in two of them. One was James Musser, a multi-instrumental guitarist who constantly puts the sweat on Carl Verheyen every time they're pitted against each other in Hollywood-L.A. axeslinger duels, and the other was the guy who cut this disc, Trevor Lloyd, a multi-instrumental violinist. This is his first solo CD, playing everything except drums on one track (played by Musser).Lloyd studied under Manuel Compinsky of the NBC Symphony, had the San Fernando Valley Symphony perform one of his classical pieces, but also just finished touring with Boomer McLennan and the Rhythm Rangers, so he's not a stranger to the worlds outside prog. One of his major influences is the heavenly Jean-Luc Ponty and a few cuts here reflect that well, especially Timewheels, where Lloyd plays the raspbox and keys just like the French wizard, though his string sound ranges equally to Didier Lockwood, a bit of Richard Greene, David Rose, and some of the other more refined players in rock-jazz. His tone's marvelous and much of the tempo mellowly swingin', though Silent Mist is a largo of lethean deeps, a lullabye, a leisurely and far less anguished companion to Hisako Yamash'ta's Wind Words. It's followed by Corridors, the most progressive track and one of several choicest cuts, with serial minimal backgrounds and long chases through labytrinths. There's a bit of Canterbury through much of Tendencies, a good deal of percolating activity, but Not a Sonata is a pensively hesitant tune, a violin/piano piece contemplating its direction and motives, the furthest away from rock structure in the entire compendium, striking for its ability to hold the song through so much diversity, neoclassical but Romantic in essence. For pure singularity, this is the track for college and intellectually oriented airwaves, in many ways a tour de force and well companioned by its follower, Siberian Stomp. The whole venture closes with a piano solo displaying some of the innovations he brought to Underwater Traffic, almost Banco-ish and the sort of boundary stretcher that he and Musser excelled in. It needs to be a 15-minute Jarrett exploration, though, rather than the 4:15 it occupies-Lloyd has far too many good ideas to be confined to time strictures. Hardly matters, though, as good as this CD, ...
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