Telarc BSIN04864951

Turtle Island Quartet - Have You Ever Been…?

...To Electric Ladyland müsste es genau heißen. Denn das Turtle Island Quartet - David Balakrishnan (Violine), Mark Summer (Cello), Mads Tolling (Violine), Jeremy Kittel (Viola) – zelebriert das Vermächtnis in ihrer ganz eigenen Weise. So beginnt Have You Ever Been… mit einer viersätzigen Suite bestehend aus den Klassikern Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland), House Burning Down, 1983…A Merman I Should Turn To Be und Voodoo Child (Slight Return), bevor vier Kompositionen von Mastermind Balakrishnan folgen.
Vibrafonist Stefon Harris hinterlässt dann bei Gypsy Eyes genauso unüberhörbar seine Spuren, wie Mike Marshall an der Mandoline bei All Along The Watchtower.
„Eine in jeder Hinsicht brillante Hommage an einen der Größten unserer Zeit“ schreibt auch der ausgewiesene Hendrix-Experte Andy Summers (The Police) in den ausführlichen Linernotes zu dem Album.

"We've chosen music that really shows Jimi Hendrix as a composer,'' Summer said last week from his home in Marin County, Calif. "You know, people think of him as a guitar god, and David's whole take (in the violinist's arrangements) is to show how Hendrix was thinking compositionally. Our aim is to make this sound elegant yet ferocious.'' (Jeremy Kittel)

Tracklist:
1. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
2. House Burning Down
3. 1983.A Merman I Should Turn To Be
4. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
5. To Bop Or Not To Be
6. Ashwattha
7. Lucy
8. Monkey Business
9. Coelacanth
10. Gypsy Eyes
11. Hey Joe
12. Little Wing
13. All Along The Watchtower
Released 2010.
Price: 22,90 EUR