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Christopher Hoffman – REX

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The cellist Christopher Hoffman has already garnered a unique reputation as a composer, bandleader and accompanist (not to mention as a filmmaker who has directed several shorts, music videos and behind the scenes featurettes while he arranged a multi-tracked cello rendition of Gustav Mahler's now famous Piano Quartet in A Minor for Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller Shutter Island in...

Tracks of the Week 20.04.24

Tracks of the Week
Where other artists who have embraced the windy strains and shifting timbres of the pipe organ tend to go in for liturgical refrains, celebrations of the mundane or juxtapositions of the two - like Charlemagne Palestine whose swirling harmonies and rippling overtones for carillon and pipe organ from Strumming Music and Schlingen-Blängen through Godbear and his recent outing on...

Tracks of the Week 06.04.24

Tracks of the Week
When a caterpillar has stored up enough energy and is ready to make the transition from larva to pupa, it begins to draw silk from the spinneret on the lower lip of its mouth and forms a small pad which it hooks into with its cremaster, attaching its hind end to the pad as a sort of anchor. Through...