Mike Marshall & Chris Thile - Live: Duets
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Music CD Cover Artist: Mike Marshall & Chris Thile Edition: Music CD Format: Live CD Release Date: 2006-01-24 Music Label: Sugarhill Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Live: Duets Album
Free Music Review: Modern, International, Technical, Brilliant Mandolin Stew
Hit: 5 Stars
For those of you who loved "Into the Cauldron" "Live Duets" is more and better. More of Mike Marshall and Chris Thile because of the live ambiance and comments in this fine recording. Better because the recording is actually cleaner and clearer than its studio predecessor. Better because the songs are even more daring, complex and if you like that sort of thing, obscure.
Being one of those who loved the more melodic Chris Thile of his earlier efforts, it has taken me a while to accept the changes. While listening to a few of the cuts, I am reminded of the first time I heard Igor Stravinsky. At first, it struck me as grating and hard to listen to, but as I embraced the music I found it both complex and compelling.
No, this is not a whole album of "modern" music. Some of the other cuts are based on music from other countries, some from the other side of the planet, with a little tweak to those who resent Thile blowing through bluegrass and moving on (Carpathian Mountain Breakdown).
The brilliance is not only in the speed of play and fine technique. The layering of the two players, playing one bit above or below the other, creating effects that sound like waves of tiny bells, clearly transcends what they have done together before. Tanja, the last cut on the album, has some mandolin "effects" I have never heard before.
My favorite cut on the album is "Joy Ride in a Toy Car" which is so beautiful and breathtaking in its speed and cacophany that I replay it first each time I load the album. Other fine cuts include Byron's and Sedi Donka (Bulgarian).
Mike Marshall accompanies many of the efforts and leads on some and his composition, "Till Dawn" is short, but clearly the most melodic song on the album.