Entre chien et loup
Examining and writing units for a book continue to preoccupy
and therefore limit my posting of music reviews. But I do keep listening to
music as I work, and the unit I am currently writing for students recommends the
principle of less is more in their
own writing.
So for pragmatic and putting-into-practice reasons here is a
brief review: Piers Faccini is an English singer/songwriter and painter who
lives in France. This album is quintessentially English folk though not of the
finger-in-your-ear-and-fiddle kind and more a pastoral [with clichéd but genuinely apt invocation]
Nick Drake kind, apart from when sung in French or Italian, though that is a
false tangent as it still sounds English, but not the words.
I have also been writing about playing around with sentence types
in writing as I have done above.
It is therefore a quiet album – there is no percussion – and
it is slow and pretty. There is violin [or cello?] but not fiddle. Faccini has
a strong and full vocal, though gentle, and that is perhaps the most distinctive
feature, but then he is a singer. Lots of piano.
Not that I would encourage students to write music reviews
like this.
It means twilight.
It means twilight.
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