Pieces of Africa 2LP exclusive

Pieces of Africa 2LP exclusiveThe first ever vinyl edition of Kronos Quartet's Pieces of Africa features the acclaimed album on two 140 gram LPs. This potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism, and European forms by eight black, brown, and white African composers, as Time described it, became a cross cultural and commercial landmark: the first album to top both the classical and world music Billboard charts.

" Gramophone calls it "a powerful and personal farewell from one of the 20th century’s most distinctive voices

recorded primarily at Alabama's legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studios

a poem by Anne Carson

genre-blurring combo

comprises his radical reworkings of mostly traditional folk songs

"Right now

who is known for incorporating natural and everyday sounds into his work

" The Times of London calls it "gorgeous

Thile is a progressive-bluegrass pacesetter

Although trained as a classical and jazz musician

and Beethoven’s Sonata No

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