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3-Mar-2012
The Roundhouse
London Contemporary Orchestra at the Reverb FestivalPaul Kilbey
Image credit: Hugh Brunt conducts the London Contemporary Orchestra at Reverb 2012, © Chris ChristodoulouThere's classical music, and there's pop. You can throw as many violins into the bridge section as you like, and you can amplify the orchestra all you want as well. It's unfortunate, but a certain divide looks set to stay. However, we were given a glimpse of a better world on Saturday night with the London Contemporary Orchestra, who somehow succeeded in filling the Camden Roundhouse with keen, engaged listeners drinking Becks, for a cutting-edge Reverb Festival concert which included works by arch-modernists Xenakis and Stockhausen.
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26-Feb-2012
The Roundhouse
Imogen Heap and the Holst Singers at the RoundhousePaul Kilbey
Image credit: Imogen Heap and the Estonian Television Girls Choir, Reverb 2012, © Chris ChristodoulouIt isn't often you hear six members of the Estonian Television Girls Choir join forces with the Holst Singers and Imogen Heap to perform a live a cappella soundtrack to a 1920s French surrealist film about a libidinous priest. But I am delighted to have seized the opportunity last night, when this bizarre setup hit the Camden Roundhouse as part of this year's genre-baiting Reverb festival. Also featuring the emerging singer/composer Ana Silvera, this was a spectacular and otherworldly evening of strange sounds in odd contexts.
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