2007年 12月 6日 木曜日 20:57

Artist: North Sea Radio Orchestra
Track: The End of Chimes
Tags: the arctic circle, chamber music, choral, folk, classical, chillout
Groups: The Arctic Circle, Chiller Cabinet

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One of the comments in YouTube for this video goes "The resonant beauty of it makes strong men weep like little babes at the 'Bambi'. Thanks".

I couldn't have put it better myself.

North Sea Radio Orchestra describe themselves as a unique chamber group who perform music of beauty and originality that has, at its heart, lyricism and melodic richness. Featuring wind, strings, percussion, guitars, organs and voices, theirs is a world in which melody and harmony abound..

What they do is an unusual mix of choral, folk and classical music. They cite their influences as Benjamin Britten, Vernon Elliot, and the Incredible String Band.

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I had the great good fortune to watch them perform last night at the Arctic Circle Christmas Concert, at The Union Chapel in Islington, London. The End of Chimes was one of the pieces they did. Everything they do sounds like the stuff of fairytales anyway, as regular listeners of The Chiller Cabinet radio show will know, and to hear them in a church with fantastic acoustics was incredible.

There isn't much in Last.fm (at the time of writing), so if you'd like to hear more, pop over to their Myspace.

That has put me in a lovely Christmassy mood already! Talking of which, North Sea Radio Orchestra also appear on The Arctic Circle Christmas album, The Arctic Circle Presents: That Fuzzy Feeling, more of which here.

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Admin: stats as of today -

Comments: 8, Favorited: 7 times, Honors: 0, Links: 5, 6 ratings, Views: 487
Date video added to YouTube: November 15, 2007

Additional stats:

Last.fm plays last Week - 3 (track not available in Last.fm at time of writing)
Last.fm plays last 6 months - 4
Last.fm listeners of this track - n/a, but 71 plays of this track

Stats after 7 days:

Stats done 9 Jan 08, after festive break.

Comments: 10, Favorited: 10 times, Honors: 0, Links: 5, 9 ratings, 763 views

Last.fm plays last Week - (still not available in Last.fm)
Last.fm plays last 6 months - 9
Last.fm listeners of this track - n/a, but 75 plays of this track

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