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Echoes: Ancient & Modern is a covers album by English music producer Trevor Horn, released on 1 December 2023 through Deutsche Grammophon. Like his previous album Reimagines the Eighties (2019), the songs feature orchestration and are sung by guest vocalists, with the exception of "Avalon", sung by Horn himself.
Dec 1, 2023 · Horn himself helms a tasteful, twinkling Avalon and he strays beyond the Eighties for an overly melodramatic orchestral version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
- Fiona Shepherd
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Nov 30, 2023 · Horn himself sings on Roxy Music’s “Avalon”, a production redolent of Paul McCartney's notorious Frog Chorus. Worst of all, bottom of the pile, howlingly, astonishingly dreadful, is a vocally posturing, musical theatre-ish take on “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, featuring Irish singer Luke Jackman.
Jan 14, 2024 · The arrangement and production, however, are so sanitized, so slick and gussied up with melodramatic strings and synths, that the point of the song—its central irony and message about the dangers of generational alcoholism—is swallowed whole.
Nov 30, 2023 · ‘Echoes: Ancient & Modern’ features 11 songs – 10 collaborations and a Horn-sung version of Roxy Music’s Avalon – showcasing not only his production prowess, but an innate knack for pairing artist and song.
Sep 27, 2009 · You may be asking yourself, what about Brahms 1, 2, and 3, Mahler 5, the Short Call, and many other works? Of course, there are many other great orchestral works than those listed above; these ten just showed up the most often on major orchestra audition lists in my sample.
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Dec 1, 2023 · For Echoes – Ancient & Modern, his debut album for Deutsche Grammophon, he has taken 11 iconic tracks – from that decade and beyond – and reinvented them with different vocalists and brand-new...
