[TR24][OF] Milos Karadaglic - Sound of Silence - 2019 (Classical Crossover, Guitar)

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Analyzed: Milos Karadaglic / Sound of Silence
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR13      -0.40 dB   -19.10 dB      2:46 01-Simon & Garfunkel: The Sound of Silence
DR9       -2.00 dB   -15.01 dB      3:18 02-Portishead: Sour Times
DR13      -5.68 dB   -24.08 dB      1:16 03-Francisco Tarrega: Endecha
DR12      -1.70 dB   -18.59 dB      3:42 04-Skylar Grey: Moving Mountains
DR10      -6.78 dB   -22.20 dB      1:51 05-Manuel de Falla: Nana
DR11      -0.40 dB   -15.50 dB      2:46 06-Radiohead: Street Spirit (Fade Out)
DR13      -2.30 dB   -19.86 dB      3:20 07-The Magnetic Fields: The Book of Love
DR14      -1.31 dB   -20.80 dB      2:09 08-Jose Luis Merlin: Evocacion
DR11      -2.00 dB   -15.98 dB      3:29 09-Leonard Cohen: Famous Blue Raincoat
DR13      -5.42 dB   -23.19 dB      0:59 10-Francisco Tarrega: Oremus
DR11      -4.52 dB   -22.22 dB      2:54 11-Jorge Calandrelli: Solitude
DR12      -3.60 dB   -20.50 dB      3:23 12-Leo Brouwer: Cancion de cuna (Berceuse)
DR9       -1.70 dB   -15.57 dB      3:44 13-The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin
DR12      -5.07 dB   -21.47 dB      2:43 14-Maximo Diego Pujol: Milonga
DR9       -2.00 dB   -16.03 dB      3:06 15-Dido: Life for Rent
DR13      -0.40 dB   -18.24 dB      2:58 16-Harold Arlen: Over the Rainbow
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Number of tracks:  16
Official DR value: DR11
Samplerate:        96000 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           2543 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Milos Karadaglic - guitar
Jess Gillam - soprano saxophone (#5,11)
Manu Delago - hang (#13)
12 Ensemble (#1,2,4,6,7,9,13,15)
Katherine Tinker - piano (#2,4,7,9,15)
John Metcalfe - percussion (#2)

Guitarist Miloš Karadaglić, generally using just his first name these days, has recorded several albums drawing on rock music. His 2016 release, Blackbird, offered guitar versions of Beatles songs, for example, and given the complexity of those, they weren't much of a stretch from classical repertory. However, Sound of Silence is something else; it ventures into new territory and helps Karadaglić carve out a place in the crowded classical guitar field. The slightly altered song that provides the album's title is here, as are Nights in White Satin from the Moody Blues and the crossover standard Over the Rainbow, the latter arranged by Toru Takemitsu and featuring the shell-like Japanese hang instrument. There are also several works, as usual with Miloš, from the Spanish classical guitar repertory, and one song, Famous Blue Raincoat, by Leonard Cohen. Most of the pop items, though, come from the world of alternative rock, something Miloš' contemporaries have largely not done. This has occurred not just because songs like the Magnetic Fields' The Book of Love have entered the repertory of standards, even in Miloš' native country of Montenegro, but also because they fit what the guitarist is trying to accomplish. They don't have sharp tonic-dominant contrasts, and they reward Miloš' smooth textures and arrangements for a small complement of strings and sometimes a piano or saxophone. Sample Portishead's Sour Times for a good representation. Decca's sound environment, created at Abbey Road Studios, is ideal. This is crossover guitar music, and the pieces in the main have similar textures and tempos. If that's what you're looking for, you'll find Sound of Silence fresh and engaging.