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RACHEL'S - The Sea and the Bells

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Quarterstick Records QS38CD Release Year: 1996 Note: cardboard-cover / gatefold / 3rd album Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Ihr '96er Album, klassisch angehauchte Instrumentalmusik von warmer Melancholie & Nostalgie, mitunter mit exprimentellen Drones angereichert... in Vinyl gegossene Schönheit! Wäre auch perfekte Filmmusik... “Once in a rare while, an album is released that makes the time and money wasted on "modern rock" bands seem trivial. This is one of those albums. Rachel's began recording mainly instrumental, orchestral-based pieces in 1991 and released two critically acclaimed albums, including 1995's Music For Egon Schiele, which utilized only piano, viola and cello. The Sea And The Bells was perhaps the most brilliant, refreshing album to be released in 1996. A whopping 17 musicians and 23 instruments, including contrabass, viola and bass clarinet, have here been drafted to perform and record the gorgeous, sprawling works of Christian Frederickson, Rachel Grimes and Jason Noble, the band's founding members [....] Each piece is a study in the sentiments that permeate one's inner voice but are rarely verbalized. The thoughts are at once tragic and comforting: a tearful goodbye or time spent apart ("His Eyes"), the fascination and unpredictability of exploring curious places ("The Sirens") or the tingling warmth of gazing at the one you love (the first two minutes of "Rhine & Courtesan"). Rachel's music transcends the silly, superficial genres that saturate today's rock scene. Listeners should challenge themselves to encounter the same imagery more than once while playing The Sea And The Bells. Emotions long ago forgotten will dutifully line up, waiting their turn to jumpstart your very existence.” [Jonathan Cohen, Nude as the News]