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REVIEWS
The
Telegraph (De Telegraaf) (NL):
'Jacob ter Veldhuis composed a solo for Monica Germino, who drew
long, plaintive tones and piercing outbursts from her powerfully
amplified electric violin, alongside a soundtrack of indefinable
sounds...The violinist is the central figure on stage. She breathes
life into the dancers with her notes and summons the memories in
them to wake. She leads, inspires, manipulates.’
Rotterdams Dagblad (NL):
'Violinist Monica Germino performs Jacob ter Veldhuis' new score
live and moves like an eleventh dancer through the group. The
amplified electric violin music lures you into another world...'
'Dancers are lashed into action by violinist Monica Germino, who is
always on stage. She [Germino] resembles a kind of snake charmer,
but then not with a flute but rather with her electric violin...'
The CD:
JacobTV | SUITES OF LUX, on Basta Music (double CD)
“...Monica Germino plays expansively and with beautiful tone
in the rock- and new age-tinged SUITES OF LUX, for electronic violin
and soundtrack, the largest work on the album.”
-Stephen Eddins, All Music
with ELECTRA:
The New York Times (USA), about the Lincoln Center performance of
Donnacha Dennehy’s work for ELECTRA
-scored for voice, Violectra & distortion, recorders &
effects, and percussion
"viscerally thrilling"
The CD/DVD:
ELECTRA’s retrospective CD/DVD: ABLE TO BE, on Attacca
Records http://www.attacca-records.com/ensembles.htm
“one of the hottest and most ambitious ensembles for
contemporary music from the Netherlands”
“...extraordinary musical quality of the recording...”
-Daniel Koschitzki, Windkanal magazine
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