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    Romano Crivici Flat earth
    Flat Earth​

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    Elektra String Quartet

    Jacob Plooij & Mirka Rozmus, violin 1

    Romano Crivici, violin 2
    Rudi Crivici, viola
    Markus hartstein, cello
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    Mark Atkins, didjeridu
    Philip South, percussion
    Steve Elphic, double bass
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    Works by: Romano Crivici
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    ABC Classics, 2001

    Review:

     

    “From a classical centre, this album blows genre boundaries away in a scorching set that is so ‘live’ it’s reinventing itself as it unfolds.

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    He has achieved something very rare here; the slash and burn of inspired improvisation coupled with the disciplined nuance-ing of cold-blooded, calculated composition. The themes (melody and harmony) are rich, mining major and minor veins simultaneously and sometimes capturing segments, in a sampler operated by a footswitch, in dense layers amid the nimble, charged interaction with percussion, didje and bass.

     

    There are gorgeous spatial troughs- meandering piano and hand percussion, or solo violin and evocative atmospheric sections, strings bowed through effects. There is fragile beauty, tenderness, even romanticism in the tunes, and so they’re a universe apart from dry intellectual minimalism.

     

    Five stars, this is a masterpiece of form and performance.”

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    Reviewed in Sound and Image, Leslie Sly