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Written in
fRoots
issue 265, 2005
HEXACORDE
Perpetuum Mobile
Hexacorde HEXCD01 (2004)
Madrid band playing music of their region, Castilla y León, on dulzaina,
clarinet, cittern, flutes, Galician gaita, percussion – all competent if
unspectacular, but what sticks in the mind more than any of them, or the
material, are the infuriatingly dull, pedestrian, plonky plucking lines of the
bass guitar, from whose down-dragging no track escapes for long. Try double
bass, or no bass, perhaps? www.hexacorde.com
© 2005 Andrew Cronshaw
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