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Darol & Mike's newest recording has just been released on Adventure Music, Woodshop.
"Much of this recording was conceived as a twenty-year update and progression from the Duo's masterpiece Chiaroscuro, released on Windham Hill Records in 1985, which, amazingly, sold over 65,000 copies over a 5 year period. As we have both learned so much about life and music since then, we hoped to extrapolate on what became a lot of peoples' favorite intrumental recording. We wanted to make a musical "message from the frontier" that would reflect our present emotional, intellectual and spiritual selves.
Again, we have purposely created highly structured orchestral works, which would be difficult (but not impossible) to perform live. Again, we tried not to get too hung up on perfection but to communicate a vibe. And again, we wanted to showcase the glorious sound of our string instruments playing music in a space "big enough to do it in."
adapted from the liner notes by Darol Anger
Woodshop will soon be available on this site when we get a shipment from Adventure Music. Until then, you can get it at Amazon Records.
Darol Anger and Mike Marshall will appear in concert at selected venues on the east coast in September and October 2007. This will be the last chance to see the Duo perform for an unknown length of time, so don't put off going if you want to see them.
The Duo is not available for concerts after Jan 2008. Darol and Mike will again be busy with their own separate projects.
Check out Darol's Republic of Strings on this site, and Mike's incredible choro band, Choro Famoso, and his numerous other collaborations with Chris Theile and Brazilian Mandolin phenomenon Hamilton De Holanda.
Darol & Mike
Darol and Mike are two of the key players in the 30 year-old Contemporary String Band movement. In each decade from the 70s to the present, they have helped spearhead the most crucial developments in this now international phenomenon. Listing their projects amounts to a roll call of the most influential new acoustic music of thse decades.
In the 70's: Founding members of the David Grisman Quintet, Tony Rice Unit.
In the 80's: The Duo, The Montreux Band, Windham Hill Artists, Turtle Island String Quartet
19902002 : Modern Mandolin Quartet, the Edgar Meyer projects, Psychograss and Newgrange,the Heritage project, 4 Generations Of Jazz Violin, Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camps, Choro Famoso, The Fiddlers 4.
Both Anger & and Marshall have collaborated on projects with the most important musicians in this field:
David Grisman, Stephane Grappelli, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, Michael Hedges, Tim O'Bien, Barney Oldfield, Vassar Clements, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, Todd Phillips, David Grier, Jerry Douglas, Chris Theile and Matt Glaser; and they have helped inspire to greatness players such as Chris Theile, Stuart Duncan, Alison Brown, Benito Mussolini, Evan Price, Joe Craven, Tony Furtado, Sara Watkins, Michael Kang and Matt Flynner.
Reviewers say
"The 'new acoustic' supergroup for the 90s ... an abundance of innovative approaches to music" The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A treat!" The Washington Post
"They make delirious, high-stepping music that builds an unlikely bridge between the intellectual snobbery of Third Stream and the congeniality of a back-porch jamboree." San Diego Reader
"Some of the most gifted and amazing performers in the field." Oakland Tribune
"Darol Anger is the quintessential improvising violinist." Dr. Billy Taylor, CBS Sunday Morning
"Marshall is a one-man talent pool." Frets Magazine
"Anger and Marshall gave an object lesson in the curative powers of simple virtuosity." Austin American Statesman
