I'm asking $490. that doesn't include shipping. You can pick it up
if you live in NYC.
please email me if you're interested.
Dan Hewins
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Date: 5 Sep 2000 11:48:36 -0700
From: Dan Given <dlgiven@altavista.com>
Subject: Re: review request and 2 reviews
> Request:
> Would somebody who has heard Xylophonen Virtuosen (O'Rourke, Jim and Mats
> Gustaffson)(Incus, CD38, 2000, cd) please post a review of it? Thanks.
One of the best things I've heard this year (and I've heard lots). I'm not a big O'Rourke fan, don't know much of his stuff, but based on this I may look deeper.
This is, for the most part, an extremely quiet album, with lots of subtle detail that reminds me more of something like the Stangl/Kurzmann Schnee album than a typical Gustafsson disc. O'Rourke's playing incorporates lots of folk/blues elements, while Gustafsson generally eschews his usual audacious squeals and blurts (I'm not criticizing him by using the term audacious, I love that stuff for its extremeness). There's a part about 5 minutes into the first track that has O'Rourke quietly plucking away while Gustafsson contributes some rapid-fire yet extremely low key reed pops that is worth the price of the disc on its own.