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Mar 25, 2015Chilly is on to something here, with a collection of small-scale musical postcards ready to charm anyone lucky enough to receive them.
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Mar 19, 2015Chambers is a beast. A glorious black hole of modern romanticism.
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Mar 18, 2015'Green's Leaves' is perhaps the most florid of all the tracks--in a good way--and it actually breaks down at one point into what could almost be described as a hoedown, but not quite. Like most of the tracks here, it's quite lovely and never outstays its welcome.
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Mar 18, 2015An album for piano and string quartet, this follow-up to the superb Solo Piano II is another soothing listen, and fine orchestration by Hamburg's Kaiser Quartett adds greater harmonic complexity to Gonzales's songbook.
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Mar 18, 2015He may be pretentious, narcissistic and borderline offensive, but you have to hand it to Chilly--what he is doing here is pretty damned clever.
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UncutMar 18, 2015Gonzales' conceptual stunts never detract from the music's inherent prettiness. [Apr 2015, p.76]
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Mar 26, 2015Though enjoyable, it may land in a limbo, too simplistic for fans of great chamber music or its challenging modern variants; too classical--lacking bells, whistles, samples and beats--to make it more than pleasant dinner party music for people coming from the indie side.