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Floodplain | 
| Artist: Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 21358
Format: CD
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 518349
UPC: 075597982886
EAN: 0075597982886
ASIN: B001XJBDNA
Release Date: May 18, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | Ya Habibi Ta'ala (My Love, Come Quickly)- Midhat Assem (arr. Osvaldo Golijov & Kronos) | | • | Tashweesh (Interference)- Ramallah Underground (arr. Kronos & Jacob Garchik) | | • | Wa Habibi (Beloved)- Traditional (arr. Stephen Prutsman) | | • | Getme, Getme (Don't Leave, Don't Leave) - Said Rustamov (arr. Alim Qasimov, string arr. Jacob Garchik)featuring Alim & Fargana Qasimov | | • | Raga Mishra Bhairavi: Alap - Ram Narayan (arr. Kronos Quartet, transc. Ljova) | | • | Oh Mother, the Handsome Man Tortures Me - Unknown (arr. Ljova & Kronos Quartet) | | • | Mugam Beyati Shiraz - Rahman Asadollahi (arr. Kronos Quartet, transc. Ljova) | | • | Lullaby - Traditional (arr. Jacob Garchik) | | • | Nihavent Sirto - Tanburi Cemil Bey (arr. Stephen Prutsman) | | • | Kara Kemir - Kuat Shildebaev (arr. Kronos) | | • | Tèw semagn hagèré (Listen to Me, My Fellow Countrymen) - Alèmu Aga (arr. Jacob Garchik) | | • | ...hold me, neighbor, in this storm... - Aleksandra Vrebalov |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Kronos Haiku August 1, 2009
Mr. G. J. Duff (Hertfordshire, England)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The best way I can review this unique music is through haiku.
early morning minaret -
discordant calls
cut the air
Sunday afternoon...
a family photograph
yellows on the mantlepiece
Easy listening for serious thought July 10, 2009
singingeegee (Southport UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"World Music"? "String Quartet" surely a contradiction in terms. Not when it's the Kronos Quartet. These serious musicians have produced an interesting CD of fusions of music emerging from from the cultures based in areas surrounded by water and prone to catastrophic flooding, mainly the middle east but sometimes further afield. If you read the extremely informative booklet you can appreciate the music on an intellectual level, but to us ordinary folks the CD is a joyful, but sometimes haunting, celebration of humanity.
The Kronos Quartet's Floodplain July 9, 2009
Evelyn De Meza (London, U.K.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Kronos 4 have done it again! This is a stunning and evocative collection of haunting songs, at once sensual and moving, buoyant and celebratory. The wail of the strings in some of these pieces is a really passionate and provocative cry. This is music I will listen to again and again as each time I find more to think on and more to wonder at. It is beautiful.
 Pretentious on a first listen but actually some great music. July 5, 2009
J. Fryman (Herefordshire, UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
At first, I was left with the feeling that the Kronus were exploiting worthy issues to support a rather mediocre performance. The agenda of celebrating the ancient civilisations founded on this planets floodplains is a worthy one. However the pieces are so short that they cannot do justice to the richness and demands of the difference genres. Self concious dissonance adds to the irritating feeling that the cultures have been hijacked to decorate the Kronus's reputation.
Maybe look up the individual performers and experience them unsullied by artiness.
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A serious modification on further listening!
On more listening some of the tracks are really great. The dissonance takes a little while for the ear to tune into, but there are some wonderful pieces of music. Maybe listen to each piece individually rather than play as an album.
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