Fresh off yesterday's five-star review in The Guardian, Bill Frisell's tour-closing concert at the Barbican earns another five stars, from the Financial Times. For the show, the Frisell Trio performed Bill's "spot-on score" that gave "a zesty sheen" to the films of Buster Keaton, Jim Woodring, and Bill Morrison, with the Trio's musical efforts "equal partner in the audiovisual experience." The paper sums up Bill's works as "a soundscape pregnant with humour, menace and the struggle to survive."
Fresh off yesterday's five-star review in The Guardian of Bill Frisell's tour-closing concert at the Barbican this past weekend comes another five-star review of the set, from the Financial Times. For the tour, the Bill Frisell Trio, featuring bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen, performed music to the films of Buster Keaton, Jim Woodring, and Bill Morrison.
The Financial Times's Mike Hobart reports that with Bill's "spot-on score" to the films, each was "given a zesty sheen and made contemporary." The Trio's musical creations were "as entrancingly disconcerting as the films they accompanied and were equal partner in the audiovisual experience."
Hobart describes Bill's own appeal this way:
Bill Frisell's genre-bending guitar work and his eclectic compositional references travel the full range of Americana to meet the wit of Thelonious Monk. Tunes hover on the edge of familiarity before being distorted in unexpected ways. The cumulative effect is a soundscape pregnant with humour, menace and the struggle to survive.
Read the full review at ft.com.
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