
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] |