Editorial Reviews
Live: Roseland NYC [Live]
Music Review:
Music Review
Baumann: Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1
Choice: A Collection of Classics [Import]
Arriaga & Wikmanson: String Quartets
Basie Cally Sammy: The Music of Count Basie and Sa
Baby Boy [Explicit Lyrics] [Soundtrack]
Amazon.com
Usually, groups wait until they've released at least three or four records before putting out a live album, but PNYC was too good an idea for Portishead to turn down. Recorded with a full orchestra on a cold, rainy day shortly after the release of their second record, Portishead, the project doubled as a live album and the soundtrack for a BBC documentary. In addition to being economical and perhaps lucrative, the disc demonstrates how sampled and sequenced music can be re-created in concert without losing any of the charm or dynamics of the original recordings. All it takes is a 22-piece string section, some horns, and a band whose tightness is exceeded only by its creativity. At times the performances on PNYC sound even more breathtaking and cinematic than Portishead's original recordings, as humming theremin, skittery scratching, and gliding strings mingle with stealthy guitar lines and sultry vocals. For Portishead, sour times seem like a distant memory. --Jon Wiederhorn
Entertainment Weekly
With a 30-piece horn and string section, the group pumps up its cloistered fretting to an epic scale....
Album Details
ENHANCED CD VERSION. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.