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12. Gorodisch Thurn & Taxis (Album - (The Leaf Label)) |
Gorodisch aka Stephen Cracknell makes a promising start with his debut album release. Thurn and Taxis was written over the best part of 2000 and as its literary muse looked towards Thomas Pynchons novel, The Crying of Lot 49. Its a story which traces oblique clues towards a shadowy courier company established in Medieval Europe. And, you may well ask, how does a man write music to embellish such as story. Well, this man uses the charm of early folk music, which presumably helps to embody the medieval time scale. He entwines the folk instrumentation within delicate samba shuffles, chilled out jazz keyboards and oriental shudders. Accompanied by live Cello provided by Stephen Wolff and horns by Primal Screams Duncan Mackay, Cracknell has managed to come up with an evocative and inspirational debut. If it all seems a bit too confusing perhaps a read of the book will sharpen the picture. |
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