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 The response for Capsules has been overwhelming, making its way on to no less than 10 ‘Best Of” lists. Here are the beginnings of the accolades The Balustrade Ensemble has garnered: "Each (piece) seems to glimmer out through Victorian
lace curtains yellowed and slightly threadbare from age, through
shatters of antique crystal goblets dappled with droplets of deep
red, through a flaking, clouded gilt mirror, through deep sea greens
and azures. Very cinematic... Very recommended." "The album's ten deeply ethereal settings conjure
Victorian-styled universes where music boxes, rickety keyboards and
strings re-animate the nightmarish current burbling below the surface
of the Grimm brothers' folk-tales... The Balustrade Ensemble believes
'listening need not be difficult to be compelling,' and its thoroughly
engrossing Capsules is certainly proof of that. " |
"Mark November 5th in your diaries, for this is the day Dynamophone
unleash the lavish steampunk sounds of Capsules upon an unsuspecting
music world. Capsules weaves such textural instrumentation, through dark
and nostalgic ambiances and leaves an overwhelming feeling of mysticism.
Those of you intent in discovering music that shies from contemporary
structures will find a lot to love about The Balustrade Ensemble's delicate
arrangements." |
"A journal of
delicate and clandestine reflections of yesteryear where simple elegance
abounds... Capsules is the discerning gentleman’s choice, spinning
one-handed from sodium vapour streetlamps on the corner of 49. Ethereal
and efflorescent, this is the stuff that dreams are made of." |
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