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    • A rare beauty… Keith Tippett, playing with a string quartet, in a duo with Stan Tracey and in the second half, his wife Julie. Starters – the mainly written piece for piano and the Elysian Quartet, ‘Linuckia.’ Tippett joined the other musicians, looking absurdly young and still affecting …

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    • A rare beauty… Keith Tippett, playing with a string quartet, in a duo with Stan Tracey and in the second half, his wife Julie. Starters – the mainly written piece for piano and the Elysian Quartet, ‘Linuckia.’ Tippett joined the other musicians, looking absurdly young and still affecting …

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    • … was trying to be the ‘right’ kind of composer. By deciding not to be that, I became the right kind of composer for who I am. I have a real interest in expressing myself by whatever means is most conducive to conveying what I feel at that moment: string quartet, orchestra, rock band. It all comes from …

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    • … to the novel and sometimes five people just are not enough!). It was fun to sit with Kee recording all the parts of a string quartet I’d written separately as I’m the only one who can play all the instruments and understand my own musical score… Kate has written somereally good stuff and I’ve pulled choirs …

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    • … lasted three months, and dropped out to become lead guitarist of Radiohead. Greenwood is generally considered the most musically-gifted member of the band, pioneering and re-inventing Radiohead’s sound by way of introducing new instruments and absorbing new influences from diverse styles …

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    • … not even sure that I’m qualified to write the little pop songs that I do write. That hasn’t stopped me yet, so string quartets watch out! Needless to say my first rendition used all the built in strings my software had to offer. And while I am no snob when it comes to electronic instruments, they just didn …

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    • … they could possibly do? They could do one awesome classical piece. Vanilla Mood & Bond Ah another one that I just REALLY WISH could happen. Basically, this one would really add a ton of new sounds into the mix. Sure, Bond is an electric string quartet, but we need to realize there are other instruments out …

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    • … described as post-rock, even though the music is pretty much just piano and strings. Not even rock elements. The same goes for Amiina, who are essentially a string quartet who often do a lot of stuff for Sigur Rós - whom along with bands like GY!BE and A Silver Mt. Zion are really more orchestras …

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    • … of love. 05. amiina - Doctor Finkelstein/In The Forest amiina are an Icelandic all-female instrumental quartet connected with Sigur Rós (I can’t stand Sigur Rós, by the way). They use all sorts of freaking awesome instruments (electric piano, glockenspiel, kalimba, mandolin, celesta, harmonium, melodica …

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    • … These were all amateur groups — the only time I’ve ever been ‘paid’ for this kind of thing was when our school string quartet used to get asked to play for balls and garden parties and so on, and they couldn’t actually give us money, but we were quite happy with free food and drink (and a ten pound WHSmith …




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