Strange Conversation

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Strange Conversation
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Studio album by Kris Delmhorst
Released June 27, 2006
Recorded North Reading, MA
Genre Americana, Folk music
Length41:20
Label Signature Sounds
Producer Kris Delmhorst
Kris Delmhorst chronology
Songs for a Hurricane
(2003) Songs for a Hurricane2003		Strange Conversation
(2006)		 Shotgun Singer
(2008) Shotgun Singer2008

Strange Conversation is an album by singer/songwriter Kris Delmhorst, released in 2006.

Kris Delmhorst American musician

Kris Delmhorst is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, United States, she now lives in Western Massachusetts, is an active member of the Boston folk scene, and tours internationally. She has released six full-length solo albums and two EPs on Signature Sounds Recordings.

Contents

History

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Delmhorst takes on setting some works of famous poets to music along with her own original compositions. The lead off track is named after Italian composer Baldassare Galuppi. Inspired by and quoting heavily from the Robert Browning poem A Toccata of Galuppi's, Delmhorst reflects on the composers times and style:

Baldassare Galuppi Italian composer

Baldassare Galuppi was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Christoph Willibald Gluck, Domenico Scarlatti, and C. P. E. Bach, whose works are emblematic of the prevailing galant style that developed in Europe throughout the 18th century. He achieved international success, spending periods of his career in Vienna, London and Saint Petersburg, but his main base remained Venice, where he held a succession of leading appointments.

Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

A Toccata of Galuppis poem

"A Toccata of Galuppi's" is a poem by Robert Browning, originally published in the 1855 collection Men and Women. The title refers to the fact that the speaker is either playing or listening to a toccata by the 18th-century Venetian composer Baldassare Galuppi. The poem consists of fifteen rhymed tercets; its prevailing meter is trochaic octameter catalectic.

"And the minor third so bitter, the six chord like a sigh,
suspension, solution, asking must we die, must we die must we die?
And the seventh says well fellas, life might not last, but we can try…"

Strange Conversations was recorded at the same time as Delmhorst's follow up CD, Shotgun Singer .

<i>Shotgun Singer</i> album by Kris Delmhorst

Shotgun Singer is an album by American singer/songwriter Kris Delmhorst, released in 2008.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic (no rating) [1]

Critic Joe Viglione of Allmusic called Strange Conversation "an impressive and ambitious work that is evidence of the sophistication enveloping the Kris Delmhorst catalog and one hopes that these important musings get noticed beyond the cult that realizes something very special is happening here." [1]

Track listing

All songs by Kris Delmhorst unless noted.

  1. "Galuppi Baldassare" – 4:15
  2. "We'll Go No More A-Roving" (Byron, Delmhorst) – 3:04
  3. "Light of the Light" – 4:34
  4. "Since You Went Away" (Delmhorst, James Weldon Johnson, Olson) – 3:06
  5. "Strange Conversation" – 3:36
  6. "The Drop & The Dream" – 3:04
  7. "Invisible Choir" – 3:44
  8. "Pretty How Town" (e. e. cummings, Delmhorst) – 1:57
  9. "Tavern" (Delmhorst, Edna St. Vincent Millay) – 3:42
  10. "Water, Water" – 2:40
  11. "Sea Fever" (Delmhorst, John Masefield) – 3:43
  12. "Everything Is Music" – 3:55

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 Viglione, Joe. "Strange Conversation > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved August 24, 2010.
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