BILL RYDER-JONES - If...
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BILL RYDER-JONES
If...
CD album

£4.00
Condition: VG / VG
Label: Double Vision
Catalogue No: DS037CD
2011 album by ex-Coral member was "inspired by Italo Calvino's novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveller barely features any guitars at all. Instead, Ryder-Jones has recruited the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to give life to his orchestral compositions, featuring tinkling pianos and occasionally more dramatic orchestrations with strings, brass and percussion. It's mostly instrumental, although his occasional, fragile vocals recall the Durutti Column's Vini Reilly. Le Grand Désordre, the sole guitar track, has echoes of Nick Drake, although Enlace finds space for a prog rock-type solo, which should sound more out of place than it does. The bolder, bigger compositions are gripping, but the quieter moments – Give Me a Name, Leaning (Star of Sweden) – drip with bleakly stunning beauty".
  • 1 If...
  • 2 The Reader (Malbork)
  • 3 Leaning (Star Of Sweden)
  • 4 By The Church Of Appolonia
  • 5 Le Grand Desordre
  • 6 Enlace
  • 7 Intersect
  • 8 The FLowers #3 (Lotus)
  • 9 Give Me A Name
  • 10 Some Absolute End (The End)