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Music : The Way the Wind Blows
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The Way the Wind Blows by: A Hawk & A Hacksaw List Price: £10.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £1.01 ( 9%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0843190001224 Label: Leaf Manufacturer: Leaf Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Leaf Release Date: October 09, 2006 Studio: Leaf Sales Rank: 28019 MPN: 51 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Let it blowApparently being part of Beirut has had quite an influence on A Hawk and a Hacksaw. In third album "The Way the Wind Blows," this quirky Balkan-electro-psychfolk band gets even more into their sound... and by that, I mean less electro and psychfolk. Not typical Elephant 6 fare, but good. It opens with "In the River," a swooning ballad crammed with accordion and horns... which changes tempo into an entirely different kind of song. It's followed by the title track, a bittersweet fiddle tune that wanders through the slow accordion tune. It sounds like a gypsy fiddler who got left behind, and is lamenting about it via music. They continue that sound through the next song, only to burst into a raucous little dance number ... Read More: Rating: - Moldovan music as brought to you by....Anyone who has done the right thing and bought the Beirut album, Gulag Orkestar, should really make the effort and purchase this work as well. Whilst it is not nearly as poppy as the former, it is a really listenable piece of work encapsulating an area of the world that few of us have entered....Moldovan folk. It does not have the immediacy of Beirut, but equally over time the listener is rewardede by a very original, wonderful piece of work that will transport you from your chair/train/car into the hills and traditional landscape of Moldova, with it's traditional people, living simple lives, gaining pleasure through the story telling abilities of their music, that probably has evolved far too slowly to require X factor to tell you ... Read More: |
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