Punch Brothers - Punch
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Artist: Punch BrothersBrand: Punch
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Model: 00075597998283
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Punch Bowl
- The Blind Leaving the Blind: 1st Movement
- The Blind Leaving the Blind: 2nd Movement
- The Blind Leaving the Blind: 3rd Movement
- The Blind Leaving the Blind: 4th Movement
- Sometimes
- Nothing, Then
- It'll Happen
Music reviews of Punch
Music Review: A vibrant parade of evocative and masterfully played classical grass
Rating: 5 Stars
Imagine this scenario, because this is what you may feel like during your first few times listening to this masterpiece.
You are part of a moving audience on a barge on a river floating past dozens of the best string bands ever formed.
Each band plays a different form: bluegrass, new grass, classical grass, Stravinsky, Mozart, chamber music, toe tapping, melancholic.
You hear something you really love and you want to stop. But the barge keeps moving.
There will be many for whom this experience is too strange to really get it.
But this band is so totally amazing and the playing is so good, you should not want to miss it.
Once you get to the 7th or 8th time through, and listen to the lyrics more carefully, you will begin to see the logic, the classical structure, the repetition of themes. The composer moves between mourning and hope and the music follows the emotion.
One thing that is consistent in the album is the excellent, infrequent, very focused singing on the part of Chris and the band. The singing is an accent and a sort of narration for your journey down the river. There is no whining or harsh notes. It's quite beautiful.
It's also notable that this is not a band backing Chris on the Mandolin. It is highly integrated and features the banjo (Noam Pikelny) and violin (Gabe Witcher) in many of the segments.
Chris actually plays more of a supporting role musically. Gabe Witcher's soulful and soaring fiddle is really the voice of much of the music. But the rest of the time, the 5 play as one. The dynamics are stunning, often swooping from raging bluegrass down to whisper soft fast picking and then back again.
So what is it about? No, it's not just about Thile's divorce. Like several of his other records, this CD is about the intersection of love, faith, loss and growing up musically brilliant, but socially late. This provides a rather small audience of people who will understand. How many "absolute genius, Christian prodigies who didn't start dating until nearly 20 and got their heart broken late in life (compared to most who got it out of the way at age 16)" people are there?
But that makes this record about something unique, very niche, not quite universal. Most people won't care what the record is about and just listen to the music. For those of us who have some part of a similar background, the meaning does connect with the music and brilliantly.
Description of Punch
The Punch Brothers are nothing less than a youthful band comprising the most prodigious and sought-after musicians from the cutting edge of bluegrass and folk music. The quintet was brought together by former Nickel Creek star Chris Thile, who, the critic Geoffrey Himes of Washington Post declared, "may well be the most virtuosic American ever to play the mandolin "? adding, not insignificantly, that "he has the flirtatious charisma of a major pop star." Joining him are Chris Eldridge, who Acoustic Guitar has called "the most-talked-about guitarist in the bluegrass world," a member of The Infamous Stringdusters and occasional guest star with dad Ben?s legendary combo, The Seldom Scene; bassist Greg Garrison, who has recorded with John Scofield and Vasser Clements, among many others, and regularly sits in with Leftover Salmon; banjo player Noam Pikelny, an alumnus of Leftover Salmon and the John Cowan Band who also appears on label-mate K.D. Lang?s new disc, Watershed; and fiddle player Gabe Witcher, "a first-call studio player with a big sound and immaculate intonation," according to String magazine, who has been featured, on the Oscar-winning soundtracks of Babel and Brokeback Mountain, among countless other films.Country CDs
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