String Quartet Tribute To Pink Floyds (2003)

Product Summary Label: Cmh/dwell/vitamin Records UPC: 00027297846920 Release Date: 4/29/2003 Buy.com Sku: 60595568 Item#: MWJ2C6 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Speak To Me / Breathe ~ Various Artists 2. On The Run ~ Various Artists 3. Time ~ Various Artists 4. Great Gig In The Sky, The ~ Various Artists 5. Money ~ Various Artists 6. Us And Them ~ Various Artists 7. Any Colour You Like ~ Various Artists 8. Brain Damage / Eclipse ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel includes: Eric Gorfain, Daphne Chen (violin); Leah Katz (viola); Richard Dodd (cello). Tributee: Pink Floyd. While most of the releases in the extensive String Quartet Tribute To series are overall tributes to a particular artist or band, Vitamin does issue the occasional string quartet take on an influential album. Here, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is in the spotlight, with its nine tracks arranged for two viola, cello, and two violins. Throughout, the music is claustrophobic and anxious. After a drifting opening take on "Speak to Me/Breath in the Air," the skittering, hysterical violins of "On the Run" are even more arresting. Interplay between the cello and violins creates an atmosphere of tension in "Time," while "Money" appears in an entirely different (and strangely unsettling) arrangement from the guitar-led version on Vitamin's string tribute to Pink Floyd's entire canon. The tribute ends as Dark Side of the Moon itself does, with the stirring strings of "Eclipse." Though the lyrics have been removed, the wonder, fear, and reality analysis inherent in the album is felt through the string arrangements. And that's likely the most effective tribute of all. ~ Johnny Loftus   Technical Info Release Date : 04/29/2003 Original Release Date : 2003 Catalog ID : 8469 Label : Vitamin Records (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00027297846920    Product Image