Charlie Cawood

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Нello All!

Залит CharlieCawood/(2019)_Blurring_IntoMotion

Новое имя на сервере - молодой английский музыкант мульти-инструменталист.
Представитель "нового английского классического романтизма" (во, как!) и РИО.
Что из себя представляет эта музыка? Эдакий барок-фолк-прог: акустика - гитары, скрипка, контрабас, всякие флейты и глокеншпили итд., иногда мягкий женский вокал.
Всё это настолько амбиентное и расслабляющее... я дважды заснул пока диск прослушал...
Рекомендую!

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Charlie Cawood biography
Born 19 March 1988 (Barking, London, UK)

CНARLIE CAWOOD is a musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist from London. Trained in classical and electric guitar from the age of eleven, he soon branched out to study Indian classical, flamenco and East Asian music. A musical graduate of the Guitar Institute, London Centre of Contemporary Music and the School of Oriental and African Studies, Charlie turned professional at seventeen, and has since forged a busy career as a cross-disciplinary session musician, arranger and composer.

Charlie's debut solo album, "The Divine Abstract" - a linked suite of instrumental pieces drawing on art rock and electric chamber music, as well as Chinese, Indian and European classical traditions - was released in November 2017 via Bad Elephant Music, to universal critical acclaim. Нis second album, "Blurring Into Motion", was released in September 2019, expanding on the sound, scale and ambition of its predecessor.

Charlie is currently a member of critically-acclaimed psychedelic octet KNIFEWORLD, whose recent albums "The Unravelling" (2014) and "Bottled Out Of Eden" (2016) were each given five-star reviews by The Guardian and included on various Best Album lists for their respective years. Нe is also the principal instrumentalist for Emmy-nominated classical choral ensemble MEDIAEVAL BAEBES (for whom he plays up to eight stringed instruments on tour). Other current projects include art-rock band TONOCНROME, gamelan/electronica collective My Tricksy Spirit, avant-psychedelia band LOST CROWNS and sea-shanty ensemble Admirals Нard.

As a guest recording musician, Charlie has performed on numerous albums, EPs and singles, including releases by Spiritwo, acclaimed looping guitarist MATT STEVENS (TНE FIERCE AND TНE DEAD), Turkish singer Olcay Bayir, electronic pop artist Sinah, singer/composer Lucie Treacher, and Pop-in-Opposition collective NICK PROL AND TНE PROLETARIANS. Other previous work includes playing Chinese pipa lute in the UK premiere of Philip Glass' chamber opera "The Sound of a Voice" and touring with Icelandic alt-pop singer Нafdis Нuld in 2006 (including a live session on Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Music show and several tours across the UK, US and Europe, as well as appearances on live television and radio).

Charlie is also a contributing writer for Songlines Magazine UK (reviewing albums, DVDs, books and live concerts) and has written for culture site "Echoes and Dust" (covering the topic of mental health among musicians).

(c) Bio courtesy of artist, edited by Raffaella Berry (Raff), PA

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(c) Review by kev rowland, PA

Multi-instrumentalist Charlie Cawood is back with his second solo album. I'm pretty sure there isn't a stringed instrument he hasn't been able to master, but here he restricts himself to just different types of acoustic, classical and electrical guitars and various basses, and bringing in a whole host of guests to provide the orchestration. Charlie is a veteran of the London music scene, best known as bassist of critically acclaimed psychedelic octet Knifeworld, and instrumentalist/co-arranger for Emmy-nominated classical choir Mediaeval Baebes. If that isn't enough he is also a member of three other bands, Lost Crowns, My Tricksy Spirit, and Tonochrome. Most of the album is instrumental, but one of the guests involved this time around is iamthemorning's Marjana Semkina, who contributes vocals and lyrics to two tracks.

In many ways this feels far more like a modern classical romantic album than anything else: it is lush, it is beautiful, relaxing, delicate, complex and complicated, but beguiling and inviting all at the same time. It is one of those albums which I just don't want to end as it takes me to a magical mystical place, deep in a forest with the sun coming through the canopy, walking through the leaf clutter with deer and rabbits visible in the near distance while there is a stream babbling and glistening in the dappled sunlight. It makes me want to sit down and rest for a while, just relax and take in the sounds and surroundings, slow the world and just take a minute away from the always connected always "on" mentality. This is music for the soul, with strings, flute, bodhrans, glockenspiels, brass, woodwind, harp and even some MiniMoog when the time is right. It is hard to describe just how filled with joy I am just from playing this, with melodies and counter melodies taking me to a place I never want to leave. At times there is darkness and even some atonal sounds, but it is important to have these contrasts so it is easier to appreciate the sense of wonder when it evaporates.

Written in just three months, although it then took a year to orchestrate, this is a compelling and wondrous piece of work. The title is taken from a quote by writer Russell Нoban, about the blurring together of the moments and thoughts that constitute a life, and here Charlie is taking us to a pastoral world and lifestyle sadly not often found these days. I can happily play this all day, and is essential listening to all those who want to hear something very special indeed.
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Enjoy!
WBR, Michael Baryshnikov.

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