Oliver Schroer: Camino
(Big Dog Music, 2006)

Globe & Mail review

OLIVER SCHROER Camino
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Oliver Schroer took his show on the road as few musicians do, recording this solo album while tramping 1,000 kilometres along the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrim’s route through Spain and France.  The music gathered on that trip extends his recent fusion of Ontario fiddling traditions with the kind of architectural, string-crossing music of Bach’s solo violin works.  Each piece is a fantasia of sorts, worked up from some theme caught on the wind, interspersed at times with church bells and bird songs, and always enlarged by the stone interiors where Schroer set up his mobile studio.
[Robert Everett-Green, Globe & Mail, Mar 7/06]

Solo Violin and Ambient Recordings
from the Camino de Santiago
...the musical and photographic record of a thousand kilometre trek along the Camino de Santiago.

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El Camino. The Road. It is a metaphor for a spiritual voyage; but it is also a very real, very physical path. It is a hot, dusty line slicing through a parched landscape, a cobblestone lane through a medieval village, the hard, concrete shoulder of a bleak highway. It is continuous, unbroken, yet changing. The one constant is the sound of footsteps – the heartbeat of the pilgrimage......

 

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