Monday, May 13, 2013

Metal Lullabies

Rachel Barton Pine won her first major international violin competition in 1992 at the age of 17, becoming the youngest person and first American to ever win the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition in Leipzig. She's since toured with a number of the world's great orchestras, recorded with a baroque group called Trio Settecento, and performed at nearly ever major classical music festival.

She just released a new album, entitled Violin Lullabies, which reached number one on the Amazon Bestselling Classical list on the day of its release.

I'm quite certain a readership as refined and erudite as ours already knew all of this. I'm sure most of you already bought her new record. But I'd be willing to bet that very few of you were aware of Ms. Pine's alter-ego and the breadth of her musical interests.

The same woman who records as part of the Jupiter Chamber Players is also one of the keys to the sound of Earthen Grave, about whom no less an authority than HellrideMusic.com said, "If the doom gods are with us, this band will stay around and continue to produce the kind of unique, powerful and thoughtful music contained on Dismal Times." I don't always listen to doom/thrash, but when I do, I prefer mine heavy on the metal violin, as in the recording below for Blood Drunk, the first single from the band's self-titled 2011 release. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did.





In a radio appearance on The Bob Edwards Show, Pine spoke at length about the similarities between doom/thrash and classical, and how her passion for the former informs and expands her ability to connect with audiences of the latter. I don't know a thing about either genre, but hers is a cool story. Rock/chamber on, Rachel Barton Pine.

23 comments:

zman said...

Aren't all graves earthen?

T.J. said...

watery graves, such as the one belonging to Davy Jones?

zman said...

Davy Jones is dead? He was a great RA.

If you dig rob's post then check out the Cello Chix.

http://www.cellochix.com/music.html

rootsminer said...

Pretty interesting Rob. Though I'd rather hear something from the band whose self title album Clarence spurned in the comments on the last post, Tentpole of the God.

zman said...

I'm going humgry.

T.J. said...

I always preferred Alice im Chaims....especially that tune "Nam im the Box"

Clarence said...

Pity about Lame Staley.

rootsminer said...

Yes, I recall Alice im Chaims album Dint playing quite a lot in the unit M basement my freshman year.

T.J. said...

Buddy Nix, no longer the punching bag GM of the Bills.

rob said...

poor duddy mix

T.J. said...

his lasting legacy could be the choice of JE Mamuel

zman said...

Manimal was very under-rated.

zman said...

"Duddy Mix" is my favorite Najor Mazer song.

rob said...

this is the dumbest rhombus ever. i love it.

T.J. said...

conedy pyranids can imdeed be a thimg of beauty

zman said...

I believe it's merely a rhonbus.

Clarence said...

It's some sort of parallelogran, which is also the name for when two octogenarian lesbians make sweet, sweet love.

Mark said...

Thimgs just took am umfortumate turm.

rootsminer said...

Geez Clarence went all Staples Swingers on us - he took us 'there'. Maybe we need to shoot some snack and mellow out to some Stone Tampon Plots.

TR said...

Unsubscribe

Clarence said...

Caps' season fading to black.

Mets' season, too.

Jerry said...

WoooHoooo!!!!!!!

Oh it's just so great. It's like the old days in Verizon - so quiet we just got a very audible Potvin Sucks.

5 years of suffering continues. Or is it 6?

Fantastic. And I'm going to get to watch a Rangers playoff game with an actual professional broadcasting crew. Let's Go Rangers.

rob said...

bruins, eh? you want some hot nhl playoff betting action, jerome?