Monday, June 01, 2009
sea songs
North Sea Radio Orchestra @ Brixton Library, 29th May
Purveyors of genteel instrumentals and song settings of the poems of Blake, Tennyson, and the like, NSRO are one of the bands I've cottoned on to via Stuart Maconie's mighty 6music Freak Zone.
At full strength there are twenty players. Tonight there are ten: on clarinet, bassoon, cello, Spanish guitar, organ, piano, "monosynth" and sundry percussions. And then there's Sharron Fortnam's fantastic voice...
More tunes, as ever, at myspace.
Their Wikipedia entry tells you all you could possibly want to know about the history of the band.
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A monosynth is a synthesizer with usually only one oscillator (basic sound-producing device)that can only play one note at a time, e.g. the Minimoog.
Fair do's.
Looks like these blokes have even written a song about it...
have just had another entertaining trawl through the mighty
http://www.footballandmusic.co.uk
this afternoon...
Been looking at this. Some good stuff here. Thanks for the tip.
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