Various Artists - Wooden BodiesThe latest release from Footprint Records Wooden Bodies is a snapshot of a decade of contemporary creativity within the string quartet genre and celebrates the Malva String Quartet's appetite for the new and unusual for novel ways in which the 'wooden bodies' of the ensemble, both human and instrumental, might converse, argue, interact and celebrate. The Malva Quartet is definitely one the most exciting string quartets in Sweden and their driving

was awarded a Grand Prix du Disque

"a virtuoso with quirky and wonderful ideas" (San Francisco Chronicle)

"It's the band saying

more than any other factor

the melody seemingly born for singing or clapping or dancing along: Cass triangulates a perch of his very own out among The Go-Betweens

The second CD compilation with Rockabilly and Rock 'n' Roll recordings from the catalog of the first major label residing at the US West Coast

and the tradeoff is being able to convey maturity

This band is unstoppable when it comes to turning age-old melodies (like "Tizita" or "Anchihoye Lene") upside down and inside out until they emerge as molten new works

The album's titular track personifies the life of it's creator

The four movements of this "confrontation with grief" (Bernard Fournier) in F minor are to be played con dolore

which will enable the listener to perceive his many facets

The Op 2 set offers plenty of echoes of Tchaikovskian wistfulness to match poetry of regulation late-Romantic pessimism and sensuality