[2016-01-15] Milos "Blackbird: The Beatles Album" YACA with guests Tori Amos, Gregory Porter and more (Mercury Classics)

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14200

Description
After delighting audiences with the core-classical heritage of the guitar in his three previous albums, award-winning guitarist Milos Karadaglic now makes a thrilling new departure. He performs innovative new arrangements of songs by The Beatles, collaborating with celebrated artists from the pop, jazz, classical and world music fields, including Tori Amos, Anoushka Shankar, Gregory Porter, Sergio Assad and Steven Isserlis. The album was recorded in the famous Studio 2 of Abbey Road Studios, where The Beatles recorded almost all of their songs. The sessions also used some of the original microphones.

Popular guitar arrangements of Beatles songs have existed before, not least the contributions of such notable composers as Takemitsu and Leo Brouwer. Nevertheless, Milos was determined to give this project his own unique contemporary spin. He decided to bring together a very select group of arrangers and musicians from very different areas of music, aiming to create an entirely new sound.

He had no hesitation in asking the legendary Brazilian guitarist-composer Sergio Assad to create the guitar arrangements. His arrangements perfectly capture both the simplicity and complexity of the songs in such an effective, idiomatic way. Assad provided all guitar arrangements on the album except for Yesterday for which, as an homage, Milos returned to the Takemitsu version he had first played as a student. Tony Award-winning orchestrator and composer Christopher Austin, a friend from Milos' student days at the Royal Academy, has contributed string arrangements for three iconic tracks. Jazz bassist Chris Hill (who has worked with Jamie Cullum, Annie Lennox and others) provided improvised bass parts to several songs.

Tracklist
1. Yesterday
2. All My Loving
3. Here, There And Everywhere
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Blackbird
6. Come Together
7. And I Love Her
8. Something
9. Eleanor Rigby
10. Here Comes The Sun
11. Fool On The Hill
12. She's Leaving Home (feat. Tori Amos)
13. Michelle (feat. Steven Isserlis)
14. Lucy In The Sky (feat. Anoushka Shankar)
15. Let It Be (feat. Gregory Porter)

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Invisible Pedestrian · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 26163

Another game for Milos!

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14200

"Blackbird":

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14200

"Let It Be":

[2016-01-15] Milos "Blackbird: The Beatles Album" YACA with guests Tori Amos, Gregory Porter and more (Mercury Classics)

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