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There was a distinctly different flavour to this year’s Four Winds festival at Bermagui and it had a lot to do with the fact that its new creative director, Matthew Hoy, is a working instrumentalist, reports HELEN MUSA.
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Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen finally meets his match with Alex Roth’s superb band, who push the limitations of their instruments and shift between many registers
Popular musicians “going classical” can work well. Look at Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, at Richard Reed Parry and Colin Stetson from Arcade Fire, or at the late Jóhann Jóhannsson who had a successful career as indie and electronic musician in Iceland before becoming a globally beloved orchestral composer. Of course the boundaries are flimsy anyway these days, with the likes of Max Richter, Nils Frahm and Anna Meredith existing comfortably with one foot in the concert hall and one in the gig venue.
In the month of Counterflows and Tectonics, we look ahead to the more experimental and avant-garde music you can find at Scotland's festivals this year.