The Out of the Silence CD is now available to purchase in our shop here Out of the Silence by John McLeod review by Ken Walton : TheScotsMan | Read full review here “The most recent piece on this disc dedicated entirely to the Edinburgh-based composer is the title track, Out of the Silence, which in turn celebrates the macho, … Read More
Out of the Silence by John McLeod, CD Review: The Herald
Out of the Silence – RSNO/John McLeod/Dame Evelyn Glennie. CD review: The Herald by Keith Bruce. THIS is without doubt a major release in terms of contemporary Scottish orchestral music, yet there is a sense of our national orchestra playing catch-up. It is the Scottish Chamber Orchestra that will premiere McLeod’s new viola concerto, Nordic Fire, in October, and the … Read More
The Core-Tet Project – CD Review: Jazz Word.
The Core-Tet Project – CD Review, Jazz Word, July 21st 2018. (Extract) ‘Rusty Locks, with a Caribbean-styled steel-pan-like pulse from Glennie is nearly a Latin-Jazz piece expressed in pizzicato pops from both string players and a comprehensive syncopated ostinato from Stevens. Other tracks, such as “Black Box Thinking”, where Glennie’s percussion doubles into full-kit expansion from kettle drum-like resonation, the … Read More
Powerful, Genre-defying Music from Trio HLK and Dame Evelyn Glennie – Concert Review, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Powerful, Genre-defying Music from Trio HLK and Dame Evelyn Glennie. The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Seen and Heard International, review by Glyn Pursglove. 12/06/2018 United Kingdom Trio HLK / Evelyn Glennie: Rich Harrold (piano), Ant Law (8-string guitar), Richard Kass (drums); Evelyn Glennie (vibraphone, marimba, tympani, drum kit, other percussion). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and … Read More
Devizes Arts Festival mesmerised by Evelyn Glennie. Concert review by Gail Foster.
Devizes Arts Festival mesmerised by Evelyn Glennie. Concert review by Gail Foster for the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald. Dame Evelyn Glennie is talking to me about listening. Devizes Arts Festival have brought some quality acts to Devizes over the years, but to me this really takes the biscuit. Before I came out I listened to her leading a thousand drummers … Read More
Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh – 13 May 2018
Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh – 13 May 2018, Concert review. (Photo credits: Adam Bulley.) By F Mactaggart for Scottish Jazz Space, May 16, 2018. The sense of excitement is palpable as Scottish Trio HLK arrive briskly on stage at 8pm sharp, and persists undimmed until they take their modest final bows to the thrilled home crowd … Read More
The Shaman: Spectacular New Canadian Orchestral Music: CD Review
The Shaman: Spectacular New Canadian Orchestral Music: CD Review, 19th May 2018. by Alan J Cronin for New Music Buff I don’t know what it is about political borders and the arts but there must be some kind of walls up that prevent musical immigration from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, etc. In short there is a strong Eurocentric/American … Read More
Trio HLK with Evelyn Glennie, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Concert review: The Scotsman.
Trio HLK with Evelyn Glennie, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Concert Review by Jim Gilchrist: The Scotsman 18th May 2018 AN UNSUSPECTING fragment from one of Bach’s cello suites mustn’t have known what hit it, as Trio HLK, joined by percussion virtuoso Dame Evelyn Glennie, hijacked it amid a melee of heavy-metal intensity. With Glennie’s vibraphone ringing and Ant Law’s eight-stringed guitar … Read More
CD REVIEW: Trio HLK with Steve Lehman and Dame Evelyn Glennie – ‘Standard Time’
CD/Album review by Adrian Pallant: London Jazz News A markedly atypical debut trio album with a disciplined and almost industrial approach to rhythm, Trio HLK’s Standard Time declares a mission to ‘deconstruct classic tunes and rework them using contemporary classical compositional techniques’. The acronym stems from the surnames of pianist/keyboardist Richard Harrold, 8-string guitarist Ant Law and drummer Richard Kass; … Read More
Trio HLK with Steve Lehman and Dame Evelyn Glennie – ‘Standard Time’ album, CD review.
Trio HLK with Steve Lehman and Dame Evelyn Glennie – ‘Standard Time’ album. CD review by Adrian Pallant: London Jazz News A markedly atypical debut trio album with a disciplined and almost industrial approach to rhythm, Trio HLK’s Standard Time declares a mission to ‘deconstruct classic tunes and rework them using contemporary classical compositional techniques’. The acronym stems from the … Read More