Tuesday, August 12 2008
The Instruments: Dark Småland
Baroque pop orchestras are thick on the ground these days, but few have the sweet, dream-blurred melancholy of Instruments, led by E6 cellist Heather McIntosh and an all-star Athens back-up band.
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