Says something about the music of the most sensual and romantic-impressionistic trimmed cover that hides in it?
ABOUT TASTE
can be well known, worthy of debate. So I try not here to try some 'objective' criteria. The following are my personal impressions; everyone will here have their own impressions and reviews. But perhaps it stimulates the one or the other.
Beguiling SOUND
Anticipation for all those scratchy, annoying sounds combine with violin / fiddle (all violins, where I could play, had this property, and thus destroy the long run any desire to try it on; so I'm a Geigentongschädigter ...) I can assure those abnervenenden sounds you will not find on this CD. Garrett has an instrument that delivers an incredible warm, einschmiegsamen sound that seems to float through the room with a great ease and which is also strong and intense. This is despite the sound through microphones and digital sound processing routines must run through until it reaches our ears.
Familiar and yet ANDERS
The CD contains only items that you have at some point heard that before at least once, that the melodies are a somehow familiar. But Garrett is understood (at least this was the live concert over so that he essentially was), 'refine' to familiar to his wise (let's put it positively). All pieces are rearranged and - no surprise that - towards 'designed' specifically bearing on a scroll of the violin / fiddle. Before I had heard his version of each, I've always wondered how he then there probably wants to bring his fiddle / violin used. But, lo and behold, he manages and he can not make it 'easy' way, but with a great musical sense, where everything appears consistent: the sounds, the rhythms, the melodic lines, a new Garrett-typical sound event.
Of course there are the ghosts. Who is subscribed in his listening to certain music patterns as 'classical', 'Pop', 'Rock', 'Jazz' and so fixed that is in Garrett's sound world quite a bit of back and vibrated. From everything comes a little before, packed in very melody-prone versions, shortly before the crash in general folk music, imbued with a superior musical intelligence that holds everything together, sufficiently insulting that it is not flat, but so softened that the 'normal' music listeners (there is, anyway?) at no point should panic.
TECHNIQUES
From a violin player at an international level, of course, you would expect that he has mastered all the techniques perfectly. But the automatism which is in such expectations is dangerous. He can make a blind to the fact that, despite all, and again is not a matter of course that anyone can play at such a high level. Garrett can; that is soothing to the ears of the listeners. He runs not only with his bow across the strings, no, he throws the bow artfully (Arpeggio), dual tones uses (and more), he plucks (pizzicato) and he strikes the strings like the lute. This diversity comes comes easy, therefore, of course, and can be deceiving: this apparent lightness is a very high technical skill and advance a corresponding internal looseness and concentration. All these techniques are subordinate to the overall sound: nothing happens just like that; each technique contributes in its own way the melody and timbre, the total expression.
SOUND
He who hears only the CD, which it does not fall on so, but who was also in one of his concerts live, who could see how excellent sound system (and in addition the live video technology!) Was and still is. What the engineer as Conjure under the most difficult conditions to sound quality, which is very impressive, to a sensitive solo instrument, which is a lot, including players on the move. Great respect for this team!
CRITICISM
Leaving aside matters of taste from which everybody has to decide for itself, I have no real criticism. Two points are but I noticed: (i) In the piece No.13 'We Will Rock You' appeared on some passages in addition to the solo violin still on a solo guitar, however, so that the guitar influenced the Violinenton here, inking, so that in overall result of sound 'ugly' is. Less would have been here maybe more. (Ii) In the live concert, there were some very nice pieces that are not on the CD, is a pity (though understandable); (Iii) in the Life concert played the New Frankfurt Philharmonic and has done a great job in my understanding. On the CD this orchestra is not mentioned anywhere. I find irritating.
Buy or not buy?
This question I did not have to ask me, because I have been given this CD from my wife (which I had again given tickets for the Garrett concert very special occasion). But when you consider that I 'officially' against 'Weichspülmusik' am, in all voltages is meticulously taken out and one aimed directly and massively anywhere only on the elementary musical instincts, then, the fact that I have the CD now been a few days heard long repeatedly, be a slight indication that it can be fun to hear this CD.