Local and/Or General [Import]

local and/or general [import]

Track Listings
1. Local And/Or General
2. Truth About Truth About Scientists
3. Unhappy
4. Telstar
5. Dying for My Country at the War
6. Drive and Reflex
7. Bantam Had
8. Man O' Action
9. Drunk in the House
10. Tearing Hair Out
11. Rate of Change

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
label: MUSHROOMrelease date: 25 March 1991

Local And/Or General,Models,Mushroom,Alternative Pop/Rock,Aussie Rock,New Wave,Pop,Rock/Pop

Local and/Or General [Import]
Wanted-The Bassoon Brothers
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Real fun music
  • The Bassoon Brothers- Bassoon Ambassadors to the World!
  • Great Album
  • Not for stiffs!
  • Not my favourite, but...
 Wanted-The Bassoon Brothers

Manufacturer: Crystal Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. Captured! The Bassoon Brothers
  2. Bassoonatics!
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  4. Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion
  5. Vivaldi: Complete Bassoon Concertos, Vol. 1

ASIN: B00000I8JJ
Release Date: 1999-03-09

Tracks:

  1. Funeral March Of A Marionette
  2. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  3. Fantasy #1 (From Concerto in F)
  4. Hall Of The Mountain King
  5. The Wedding Guest
  6. Georgia On My Mind
  7. Pizzicati
  8. Bugler's Holiday
  9. Last Tango In Bayreuth
  10. Scherzo Pour 4 Bassons
  11. Bewitched
  12. Dragoons (From Carmen)
  13. Blue Set No.2 For Four Bassoons: Bassooner Or Later
  14. Blue Set No.2 For Four Bassoons: Portlandia In Cerulean
  15. Blue Set No.2 For Four Bassoons: Gang Of Wolves
  16. Blue Rondo A La Turk
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  18. Frippery #2
  19. Night Train
  20. Red River Valley

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Real fun music.......2004-03-03

I found this item while looking up items about Peter (PDQ Bach) Schickele, whose instrument is the Bassoon. The selection of items reflect the current no so serious status of the unusual sound of this instrument.

5 out of 5 stars The Bassoon Brothers- Bassoon Ambassadors to the World!.......2003-12-16

Wanted- The Bassoon Brothers is hands down our entire family's favorite CD. (Our second favorite is Captured- The Bassoon Brothers.) After hearing this CD we are all bassoon enthusiasts and Bassoon Bros. devoted fans. My 11 year old, inspired by the Bassoon Brothers, is now a bassoonist with a youth symphony orchestra. The Bassoon Brothers' level of skill and musicianship is the highest, their selections are witty, their arrangements are wonderful, and the CD is a gem! The "Brothers" raise up their bassoons celebrating the instrument's solo and small ensemble capabilities, demonstrating its elegant, eloquent, and expressive voice. Great listening! Great entertainment!

5 out of 5 stars Great Album.......2003-01-14

I played bassoon for 11 or so years. I wish I'd had an album such as this one back then; I might have kept up with it. The Bassoon Brothers are quite talented, as their recording shows, and the arrangements imaginitive and often amusing. They take a few liberties with some well-known pieces, so if you're a die-hard classical purist, this album may not be for you.

If you're a bassoonist yourself, and you're looking for a fresh sound for our instrument, I heartily recommend this album. I enjoyed it immensely. Who knew bassoons could be so cool?

5 out of 5 stars Not for stiffs!.......2001-10-25

The bassoon is usually thought of as only slightly less comical than the trombone and enjoyed mostly by those infinitely more anally retentive. Its unique sound has no pretenders. So, I love both it and this CD. In fact, I ended up with two copies, so I offered the other, gratis, to the bassoon professor at a local, very famous music college here in Tokyo. He required that I submit a written list of pieces on it, which he would then evaluate and make a decision as to whether it would merit his acceptance. Uh huh. A new twist on THAT retentive. Anyway, "Wanted" is funny, it often swings, it's sometimes gets a bit outside, it occasionally gets down with some stink on it, and it's thoroughly creative.

3 out of 5 stars Not my favourite, but..........2001-10-12

I like bassoon quartets and have a tendency to buy all bassoon quartet records I see. Luckily for my wallet I don't see that many. The Bassoon Brothers CD is not my favourite bassoon quartet recording, in fact it's my least favourite but despite that it's not that bad and some of the tracks are actually quite good.

So, what's bad? Some of the songs are played too "rough". I'm especially thinking of Gounod's Funeral March and Anderson's Buglers Holiday, which I've heard done wonderfully elsewhere. Bugler's Holiday is almost downight bad. I generally think they could have gained from a bit more polished playing style.

But some tracks are well played: Alexanders Ragtime Band has a nice thing going and Dubois' Scherzo as well. And I like the Dragoons from Carmen...

Conclusion: I won't recommend this to a person who's never heard a bassoon quartet. I'll play them United Sounds of Bassoon or the Caliban Quartet instead to get them hooked. But this CD can be worth its money too. So I give it three stars out of five.
Local And/Or General
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • great songs, unevenly presented
 Local And/Or General
Models
Manufacturer: Mushroom
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007V4G
Release Date: 1997-11-04

Tracks:

  1. Local And/Or General
  2. Truth About Truth About Scientists
  3. Unhappy
  4. Telstar
  5. Dying for My Country at the War
  6. Drive and Reflex
  7. Bantam Had
  8. Man O' Action
  9. Drunk in the House
  10. Tearing Hair Out
  11. Rate of Change

Album Description

label: MUSHROOMrelease date: 25 March 1991

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars great songs, unevenly presented.......2002-09-17

I think the most pertinent fact in the creation of "Local And/Or General" is that soon after the group arrived in England to make the album, the singer Sean Kelly walked into a glass door and had severe concussion. The album does sort of have a concussed feel to it.

The basic material in "Local And/Or General" is very good and very varied - the styles range from screechy guitar rock ("Local And/Or General") to very lightweight pop ("Unhappy") taking in weird electronic sounds and quasi- (extremely quasi-) reggae ("Rates of Change", which is actually a version of their early "Progressive Office Pools") on the way. The songs themselves are slightly less oblique and abstract than on "Cut Lunch", which is an advantage for a full-length album.

So, there are some very strong tracks here; the title track must be one of the best songs the Models ever did, "Tearing Hair Out" and "Bantam Had" juxtapose gruesome subject matter with bouncy catchy tunes, and the admittedly very simple joke of "Truth About Truth About Scientists" is presented with panache and kept brief.

What this album lacks is structure and atmosphere. "Alphabravocharliedeltaechofoxtrotgolf" and "Cut Lunch" demonstrated that the Models had a inherent talent for creating slightly warped versions of conventional pop songs that were still appealing, brief and catchy. They tried to do this again on "Local And/Or General" and failed. Many of the songs are good ideas that are presented confusingly or flatly.

For example, compare the version of "Man O' Action" here with the one on "Cut Lunch". It's ridiculously over-produced, with a Nick Launay type "big drum sound" that just sounds stupid, an awful guitar riff is added, and it's still about ten times more boring than the original! And like other songs on the album, the screechy trebly sound means that the bass & drums don't really drive the songs - in the bits without singing, the songs meander along doing nothing.

"Local And/Or General" is certainly worth buying. You'll have to imagine that there's better production and snappier songs, though.

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