Kronos Quartet :: S&D

I say buy two

(We need a thread for the arditti quartet if there isn't one)

(I realize it hasn't gone completely unnoticed, and it is even a Grammy nominee, but even the absence of discussion around here is curious.)

(I like the Mysore Nagamani Srinath recording Sundar sent though. Carnatic classical, which seems to be my the broad sub-area of Indian music I find most accessible.)

Joan Jeanrenaud is doing a record release show tomorrow night -- are such things special enough to make a weeknight effort to see?

Anyone heard them play Reich's 9/11?

lol @ hstencil upthread

Aleksandra Vrebalov's "…hold me, neighbor, in this storm…" & Nicole Lizée "Death to Kosmische" were amazing.
40 year anniversary this year, wonder if Nonesuch or someone will do anything?

Saw 'em in a collaborative project with Laurie Anderson recently

Saw 'em in a collaborative project with Laurie Anderson recently

How was it? I'm seeing it in May.

I was kinda disappointed tbh. Laurie's verbiage did not really impress me, and Kronos' playing was ok but not wow-worthy.

Just saw Kronos with Malian group Trio de Kali, and it was a great show (their first public show together). I liked Kronos better live than I did a year ago. They did 2 compositions themselves first-- a short impressive kinda noisy one and then a longer one that was dedicated to their friends in Ukraine. After the intermission they were joined by Trio de Kali- a great southern Mali female vocalist; a Malian balafon player, and a Malian bass ngoni player. They adapted Malian tradionals plus a Mahalia Jackson song. All very nice.

I like the song just released that will be on their new album Placeless that features vocals from Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat and her sister Marjan

https://youtu.be/TK2sHz8Rs5k

They've also been doing "Music from Banned Countries" shows with compositions from some of the original countries on trump's banned list--Yemen, Syria, Iran