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TURN THE RIVER (Clogs' original soundtrack) THE NEW YORKER :: ISTHMUS | THE DAILY PAGE :: PUBLICITY CONTACTS Brassland (U.S.) :: glenn@brassland.org |
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LANTERN FEATURED REVIEWS TIMEOUT LONDON (UK) :: PITCHFORK (Internet) :: Rating: 8.2 NEUMU (Internet) :: Rating: 8 UNCUT MAGAZINE (UK) :: 4 STARS THE INDEPENDENT (UK) :: 5 STARS THE GUARDIAN (UK) :: 4 STARS |
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2006 REVIEWS >> LOOSE RECORD (Internet) :: (live review, Clogs at The Kitchen) >> TINY MIX TAPES (Internet) :: >> BBC COLLECTIVE (Internet) :: >> ALL ABOUT JAZZ (Internet) :: >> COKE MACHINE GLOW (Internet) :: >> In its first week of release, Lantern charted #25 on Dusted Magazine's college radio charts >> Track Lantern's progress on Metacritic |
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TOP 5 REVIEWS OF 2005 PITCHFORK (Internet) :: THE GUARDIAN (UK) :: THE NEW YORK TIMES (New York, NY) :: THE WIRE (UK) :: MOJO (UK) :: |
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TIME OUT NEW YORK (New York, NY) :: An ethereal music for the 21st century. |
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ABOUT JAZZ:: (Internet) A celebration of all things string, Stick Music furthers the unique musical language that has earmarked Clogs' music since its inception. While there are other ensembles with whom Clogs can be grouped--most notably the neo-classicists Rachel's, Ethel and even, to a certain extent, Kronos Quartet--the fact is that Clogs has developed a personal vernacular, a discrete concept that differentiates it and makes using other artists as reference points meaningless. Clogs is, quite simply, a group like no other. —John Kelman |
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SF
WEEKLY (San Francisco, CA) :: While his [Padma Newsome's] works for bassoon, saxophone, guitar, percussion, and his own instruments bear the casual, loose-limbed shamble of Western improvisation, they are largely grounded in the classic folk musics of India and the Jewish Diaspora. At once familiar and alien, comical and disquieting, soothing and overwrought, the Clogs' music walks a fine line between radiance and darkness that is rarely achieved outside Hindu culture--and even more rarely in a nightclub setting. |
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Acoustic GUITAR (San Anselmo, CA) :: Editors' Choice: Lullaby for Sue On its second release, this unique New England-based (mostly) acoustic quartet refines the tricky blend of classical, folk, rock, and world music influences that justifies references to Eric Satie, Sigur Ros, and the Tin Hat Trio. Australian Padma Newsome (violin, viola, voice) and Americans Bryce Dessner (classical and electric guitars), Rachael Elliott (bassoon, recorder) and Thomas Kozumplik (percussion, drums) create complex weaves of whispering drones and spiraling crescendos, teasing out the predominantly melancholic emotional content of the original compositions and rendering moot any tilt toward postmodernist irony. While solos are de-emphasized for the sake of texture and mood, Dessner's classical fingerpicking and judiciously applied rock strumming warrant guitarists' attention. On "Turtle Soup", the instruments swathe mesmerizing textures around the sampled storytelling of legendary Aussie swagman Bill Harney, while "Swarms" puts the tired horse of minimalism through fascinating new paces. —Derk Richardson |
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MONTREAL
MIRROR (Montreal, Quebec, CANADA) :: Smooth and thin-sounding strings weep in and out of hollow guitar pops and deep, minimal bassoon-based soundscapes-rich, concise, repetitive and slightly experimental. These guys refresh classical music with their subtle touch, their accessible grooves, and a tiny klezmer edge...a phenomenal live experience for those with sensitive ears and quiet tongues. 9 out of 10 rating —Boss Sambosa |
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VILLAGE
VOICE (New York, NY) :: ...in the smart and pretty romantic-minimalist-improv tradition that began somewhere around Erik Satie and extends through the Penguin Cafe Orchestra to the Tin Hat Trio. —Richard Gehr |
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WILLAMETTE
WEEK (Portland, OR) :: Atypical as all get out, this could shape up to be a quietly mesmerizing night. |
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VOIR
HOUR (Montreal, Quebec, CANADA) :: The buzz is swelling around this Aussie-American quartet that captures the basics of conservative avant-instro. —Ilana Kronick |
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PHILADELPHIA
CITY PAPER (Philadelphia, PA) :: The biggest drawback to Thom's Night Out is that it won't fit logically anywhere in your music collection. A case could be made for including it with your world-music stuff or with your classical discs or even with the rock CDs-somewhere between Camper Van Beethoven and Costello, Elvis. The four-piece ensemble uses Western classical instruments to play pop-structured songs that can sound like klezmer music, traditional Indian melodies or even medieval monody. Padma Newsome plays the violin and viola and also composed most of the tunes. Thomas Kozumplik plays all manner of percussion, including steel drums, and Bryce Dessner plays classical guitar while Rachael Elliott fills out the ensemble on bassoon. Sound like an odd combination? It is, but the honed chops and unique harmonic sensibility somehow hold it all together. Fans of rock's slo-mo movement will feel right at home, and so will their parents. It is overall refreshing in its originality and bravado; few new CDs in any genre will do as much to challenge the way you listen to music. —Andrew Ervin |
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BLUE
DOG PRESS (Buffalo, NY) :: Clogs...grab form by the cojones and manipulate it to fit their own personal vision of aesthetics, meaning they're real weird, real creative, real esoteric, real good. |
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CINCINNATI
CITY BEAT (Cincinnati, OH) :: The Clogs, who recently releases Thom's Night Out on the new artist-operated Brassland label out of New York, are a great Neo-Classical quartet whose crafty arrangements and dynamic style brings to mind a mix of Kronos Quartet, Rachel's and Tortoise. |
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PRIVY
MAGAZINE (New York, NY) :: The Clogs, besides being a popular shoe-style, are a quartet of classical musicians that collectively hail from Australia and the U.S. A fan though hardly a connoisseur of classical music, I was pleased to discover that besides being purveyors of serious and exquisite musicianship, the Clogs are also quite aurally accessible to your average indie/modern rock fan. Particularly for those of us going ga-ga over the latest prog-rock experimental eclecticism as heard in the last two Radiohead LPs and Sigur Ros... Finally, I found track six, "Four Blue Poles", to be my favorite. It is an epic of sound, so much so that I find it difficult to imagine someone listening to it and not mentally conjuring some adventure through the woods of medireview Britain or some such elaborate plotline. I figure music must be pretty bloody if you find yourself creating stories as you listen. Rating: 4.5/5 —Megan O'Karma |
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