Orange Twin Field Works - Volume 1

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Music reviews of Volume 1

Music Review: beautifully done
Rating: 4 Stars

- there aren't any commercially available recordings of this festival, though you can find single tracks on various CDs like Yves Moreau's "Village Music" compilations.

- as a field recording, it's is a bit different because you can hear the mood of the festival here and there... horns from the street, people participating. songs flow in and out of each other due to some deft editing, so it's not one stage-recorded snippet after another.

- the songs are great quality and represent some of the region's most beautiful sounds... "flat" Balkan-style folk singing, bells and bagpipes (including, i think, an orchestra called Sto Gaidi, "100 bagpipes"), accordions, unusual strings and percussion and Turk-sounding wind instruments i can never identify, 7/8 and 9/8 time signatures.

i didn't put five stars because many might find it dissonant (tho some of us like that), because there are no liner notes or track separations, and because given my horrendous bias toward the engineer, i figured i'd lop one off the top just in case.

i feel a bit sheepish but i must admit i assumed the disc was some sort of random side project, but it's obvious that a lot of thought, experience and passion went into it. i'm glad fans of neutral milk hotel will check it out, but it's a valuable recording in its own right. maybe fans of bulgarian and balkan music will check out jeff mangum's other stuff. i'd love to be a fly on the wall for the first spin of Two Headed Boy.

Description of Volume 1

Dance & DJ CDs

• Music > Styles
• World Music
• Pop
• Rock