It's a rare thrill to come across new music as exciting, vivacious and downright gorgeous as these two string quartets by young New York composer Jefferson Friedman...For the club set, the disc also includes an electronic remix of each piece by the duo Matmos; for the graybeards among us, the originals are already plenty funkalicious on their own.
This graybeard downloaded the album from Amazon tonight (MP3 of the first movement here). My first take is that these may be substantive works well played by the Chiara String Quartet but I'm not particularly enthused, yet. I also like the idea of classical remixes in theory but I'm not sure about these. All in all, music I need to assimilate...
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