A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Almost Straits => Topic started by: JF on January 21, 2020, 06:46:07 PM
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I wrote an article (in french) about an album released this friday :
"Brother of string" by Mathias Duplessy & The Violins of The World
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/musique-du-monde/brothers-of-string-mathias-duplessy-revisite-dire-straits-et-morricone-dans-un-riche-voyage-musical-autour-du-monde_3792663.html
it features a BIA cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68wX-BtbwrE&feature=emb_logo
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Slightly to my surprise, I quite enjoyed that. It’s one of those songs that’s so great that it can survive quite a variety of interpretation.
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Overall a great cover, they definitely do it justice.
The instrumentation is lovely and the arrangement faithful to the original.
Its definitely sung with passion, although personally I find the singers voice to be a bit to smooth/sweet for the song.
I prefer a little gravel in the voice of a dying soldier ;)
Very good though.
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Overall a great cover, they definitely do it justice.
The instrumentation is lovely and the arrangement faithful to the original.
Its definitely sung with passion, although personally I find the singers voice to be a bit to smooth/sweet for the song.
I prefer a little gravel in the voice of a dying soldier ;)
Very good though.
A great analysis and a great cover, I would add that radically different versions are always welcome and this last instrument really sounds like a slide guitar from Pink Floyd's "High Hopes" :lol
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Overall a great cover, they definitely do it justice.
The instrumentation is lovely and the arrangement faithful to the original.
Its definitely sung with passion, although personally I find the singers voice to be a bit to smooth/sweet for the song.
I prefer a little gravel in the voice of a dying soldier ;)
Very good though.
A great analysis and a great cover, I would add that radically different versions are always welcome and this last instrument really sounds like a slide guitar from Pink Floyd's "High Hopes" :lol
all three instruments are variants from fiddle. ("vièle" or "vielle" in french)
- the instrument that plays Mark's guitar phrases is a "nyckelharpa". it comes from Suede
- the instrument on the left side is a "morin khuur". it comes from Mongolia
- the instrument on the right side is a "erhu ". it comes from China
the guitarist/singer is Mathias Duplessy. He has recorded albums of classical guitar, jazz guitar, etc...
the album features another cover : "the good the bad and the ugly" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdsp3t46m4&feature=emb_logo
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Wauw ! Really love this :clap
The combination of the strings works great and I like the man's singing.
Thanks for posting :thumbsup
Searching the internet now, not eaysy to find the previous albums...
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Searching the internet now, not eaysy to find the previous albums...
I can't paste the YT playlist link without automatically embedding the first video in the post, and it don't show the playlist link
So, on YT, search "Mathias Duplessy" : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mathias+duplessy
and on the right bottom, you have the two previous albums "Crazy Horse" and "Marco Polo"
official site : https://mathiasduplessy.fr/
YT channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/abadendareh
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Found it on Bandcamp :
https://mathiasduplessy.bandcamp.com/
Physical copy and dowload available.
Really Good !