Andrew Collins - mandolin,
Brad Keller - guitar,
Brian Kobayakawa - bass,
John Showman - violin.
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"One of the Top 5 Albums of 2003" - Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
"It’s a beautiful album full of virtuosity and emotion, a lovely balance for a moment when the only activity is listening." - Umbrella Music.
"There’s a great deal of depth and variety—not to mention dexterity—in the quartet’s organic instrumental music." - Relix Magazine.
"The Creaking Tree String Quartet debut is one of the best... This is organic music, presented with a wry sense of humour, and featuring some of the best up and coming musicians east of the Mississippi. ...The playing is just superb, these guys are fantastic" - Disc of the Week, Bandwidth, CBC Radio 1.
String-band music has long been a staple of Americana. While the four members of the Creaking Tree String Quartet pay homage to that tradition, they refuse to be bound by it.
Instead, the technically dazzling outfit uses fingerboards to leap stylistic boundaries and fuse intricate styles. The result is a smartly intellectual and yet deeply moving sound that's a true Canadian original: jazz forms sliding over a rootsy bluegrass base, with flashes of chamber music, reverence and avant-garde experimentation.
It’s the product of four adept and accomplished musicians, dedicated to performing unique and exciting material that raises the bar for instrumental acoustic music.
Mandolinist Andrew Collins, guitarist Brad Keller, bassist Brian Kobayakawa, and violinist John Showman earned a Juno Award nomination for their 2003 debut CD. Their 2005 follow-up “Side Two” won the Pushing The Boundaries trophy at the 2005 Canadian Folk Music Awards, was named Instrumental Album of the Year at the Indie Acoustic Project Awards, and “Old Crow” won Instrumental Song of the Year at the International Acoustic Music Awards. The band's third album "The Soundtrack" is produced by Grammy Award winning producer Bil VornDick. It was recently nominated for Instumental Album of the Year at the 2009 JUNO awards and won the Best Instrumental Group and the Pushing The Boundaries trophies at the 2007 Canadian Folk Music Awards.
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