Feast [Import]

Bill Douglas (Artist, Composer, Performer), The Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Bill Douglas
• Composer: Bill Douglas
• Audio CD (July 24, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Northern Lights
• ASIN: B00005N6LH
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,331 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Feast

2. Banana

3. Farewell to Stromness

4. Highland

5. Steppin' Out With My Baby

6. Tango Melancolico

7. Funk for Spain

8. Powerhouse

9. Yesnaby Ground

10. The Emigrant's Farewell

11. Valstango

12. Odes to the Americas: I Good Times

13. Odes to the Americas: II Blue Souls

14. Odes to the Americas: III With You I Dance

15. Jewel

16. Bassango

17. Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best bassoon quartet ever!, October 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Feast (Audio CD)

The second CD by the Caliban Quartet is a "must-get" CD for bassoon lovers! The music in this album is very different unlike their first album. We get to hear the voices behind the beautiful instruments! I've to say my favourite track in this CD is Bill Douglas' "Jewel".

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you CBC, July 15, 2007

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This review is from: Feast (Audio CD)

Often I listen to Canadian radio, for a different perspective on news and entertainment, and they play a lot of Canadian musicians which I otherwise wouldn't get to hear. Case in point, the marvelous Caliban Bassoon Quartet from Toronto, which was featured earlier this week. I've always loved the bassoon, with its expressive and harmonically complex voice (Lindsay Cooper of Henry Cow, Brian Guilland of Gryphon, Susan Nigro). So deep joy to be introduced to a whole quartet of talented bassoonists, "playing all the good parts" where "you can never be sure who it is playing the lead at any one time." There's even a contrabassoon in most of the tracks, a wonderfully weird instrument which sounds like a phlegmatic goose with congestive pneumonia! Add piano and percussion to most tracks and you have a thoroughly entertaining disc.