withak
Jul-30-2005, 2:55pm
http://www.spaghettiwesternmusic.com/
There are a few mp3s on the web site.
I just saw these guys last night and was blown away. They are a violin, cello, mando, and guitar/banjo quartet and play a mixture of classical, jazz, and bluegrass styles kind of along the line of what the Creaking Tree String Quartet does, but weighted a little more towards the classical end with a bit of a tango-ey sound and less toward the bluegrass end. It's mostly instrumental, but the mando player is a classically trained tenor and sings a few opera-sounding songs in that style (whatever it's called). I was really impressed with the few songs that the guitarist played banjo on. I didn't have high hopes for the sound of a banjo in that setting, but he makes it fit very well.
They are from Minneapolis and said that they were finishing up a tour of the midwest. I think Milwaukee was their next and last stop.
There were selling a 5-song EP that I picked up there and listened to a half-dozen times this morning. I just ordered their album from their website this afternoon. Now to spend next week camped out by my mailbox...
http://www.spiralseisiun.com/erik/swsb.jpg
There are a few mp3s on the web site.
I just saw these guys last night and was blown away. They are a violin, cello, mando, and guitar/banjo quartet and play a mixture of classical, jazz, and bluegrass styles kind of along the line of what the Creaking Tree String Quartet does, but weighted a little more towards the classical end with a bit of a tango-ey sound and less toward the bluegrass end. It's mostly instrumental, but the mando player is a classically trained tenor and sings a few opera-sounding songs in that style (whatever it's called). I was really impressed with the few songs that the guitarist played banjo on. I didn't have high hopes for the sound of a banjo in that setting, but he makes it fit very well.
They are from Minneapolis and said that they were finishing up a tour of the midwest. I think Milwaukee was their next and last stop.
There were selling a 5-song EP that I picked up there and listened to a half-dozen times this morning. I just ordered their album from their website this afternoon. Now to spend next week camped out by my mailbox...
http://www.spiralseisiun.com/erik/swsb.jpg