Cuba - the conversation continues
Arturo O'Farrill
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Reviews (2)
The guardian
d. 26. July 2012
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Robin Denselow
d. 26. July 2012
"Their boldest experiment yet, a collaboration with Yorkshire's celebrated Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band. It's a risky project, given that the Unthanks have succeeded through the delicate, sometimes eerie singing of sisters Rachel and Becky. But it works: they are never overwhelmed by the stirring brass ... Best of all are the new brass arrangements of early Unthanks favourites, from the bitter lament Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk to the exquisite Fareweel Regality".
BBC music
d. 21. Aug. 2012
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Jeanette Leech
d. 21. Aug. 2012
"In 2011, for Diversions Vol. 1, The Unthanks reimagined the songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons. The band planted these two mercurial songwriters into a diaphanous folk world, to striking results. Now, Diversions Vol. 2 - in collaboration with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band - almost does the opposite. It takes folk music and unflinchingly pumps up the volume ... As a live album, recorded at various concert venues, town halls and cathedrals throughout Britain, the temptation may have been strong to make the brass bombast a quick shortcut to impact. Yet nowhere does that happen, even in the album's loudest moments. The arrangements are extremely careful. There are the featherweight tracks, where the brass is the seedbed for tender shoots of vocals: as on opener The King of Rome, and the slowly creeping Gan to the Kye ... By entwining folk and marching bands, two boldly working-class styles, The Unthanks offer a strong hand of comfort to these tales ofordinarysadness".