State of Mind Albums Turtle Island Quartet - Have You Ever Been...? [Telarc] by Doug Collette October 22, 2010 Turtle Island Quartet - Have You Ever Been...? It's rare for any music lover to discover something like Turtle Island String Quartet's tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Have You Ever Been...? wouldn't seem to work in concept, but in execution it is a sublime pleasure. Epiphanies come early and often on this disc. On the title song, Turtle Island reveals ever so clearly how the inner ... Read More
Archives for October 2010
More love southern style – Turtles bring Silver Anniversary program to Savannah Y'all
Turtle Island Quartet to perform works of Jimi Hendrix at Lucas Theatre on Friday October 21, 2010 By Kenda Williams It's not often that an audience can hear a classical string quartet play the works of rock legend Jimi Hendrix with creativity, precision and respect. In its latest album, "Have you ever been...?," classical and jazz innovators Turtle Island Quartet surprise fans with their take on several Hendrix songs, as well as Hendrix-inspired compositions they wrote and recorded. The ... Read More
"…every note played by these four musicians, Hendrix or otherwise, deserves your ear."
Turtle Island Quartet: Have You Ever Been...? By Jonathan Kosakow 18 October 2010 Over the years, recreating any single part of Jimi Hendrix’s music has proven nearly, if not completely, impossible. Well, now it’s time to make way for Turtle Island Quartet. Granted, the classical string quartet inherently lacks the boisterousness of Hendrix’s electric blues, and the deafening, somehow melodic feedback isn’t there either, but the eight tracks TIQ have chosen for this reinterpretation ... Read More
Indianapolis Star reviews "Have You Ever Been…?"
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 If you like Time for Three… …you might also like the Turtle Island Quartet, whose new disc, “Have You Ever Been…?” (Telarc), presents the long-running string quartet in a program of music from the Jimi Hendrix book, plus leader David Balakrishnan’s suite called “Tree of Life.” The two groups do not plow the same fields, but they farm in the same climate, as it were. And the (for now) Indianapolis-based Time for Three is all over the place next week, with a shared gig ... Read More
Turtle Island Quartet to play music of Hendrix, Coltrane ERIE, PA
October 07. 2010 Turtle Island Quartet to play music of Hendrix, Coltrane Turtle Island String Quartet photographed at the Marin Headlands in Marin County, CA April 22, 2010(C)Jay Blakesberg The skinny Turtle Island Quartet will perform today at noon at Penn State Behrend's McGarvey Commons in the Reed Union Building as part of the Logan Series. It's free, open to the public, with parking available in Reed Union Building lot. For more about the quartet, visit the website ... Read More