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Album: Spiro, Lightbox, (Real world)

Reviewed by Nick Coleman

Sunday, 14 June 2009


Violin, accordion, mandolin, guitar, with viola/cello variants. Ultra-detailed arrangements. Lots of forward drive. No affect. It's folk music of a kind, rooted geographically in the English West Country, but not as you'd expect it to sound.

It steams from point A to whatever point it's going to with all the train-like persistence of a Steve Reich composition. In pieces such as "I Fear You Just as I Fear Ghosts" it exhibits other properties, which pulsate with gospel trenchancy. An oddly compelling, strangely soulful music of mind and body.

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Light boxes
[info]catfishspy wrote:
Monday, 15 June 2009 at 08:21 am (UTC)
W and Co specialise in high quality displays and signs including: light boxes, illuminated signs, custom signs, aluminium poster frames, A-boards and pavement signs, innovative free-standing signs, banner stands and display stands.
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Album:Spiro, Lightbox, (Real World)
[info]lazyhound09 wrote:
Thursday, 18 June 2009 at 11:27 pm (UTC)
The name of the album, Lightbox, is, I believe, a reference to the village of Box in Wiltshire where the album was recorded.
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Light box
[info]displaymaker wrote:
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 at 01:49 pm (UTC)
Light Box or Lightbox?
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