September 11, 2012 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Canadian trio devoted to contemporary art with passion, Toca Loca in the "Shed" face four works selected from the repertoire of fairly old lions of the vanguard (Heinz Hollinger, Frederic Rzewski) and new rising stars of the classical experiments (Dai …
September 11, 2012 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Rocking out and breaking boundaries: A genre-bending amalgam.
January 3, 2011 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Brilliantly realized but not for melody seekers or the musically faint of heart.
October 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
A stunning album - literally and figuratively. It completely avoided my expectations and offers a stunning insight into what can be done in a 'classical' quartet format with modern instruments. Another adjective - thrilling.
September 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Of the many "Dithers" you may find on amazon.com, this Dither, a NYC-based electric guitar quartet, is one of the more extreme and satisfying.
September 12, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Caution your speakers: do not be fooled by starting low and subheading of this album. After just over ninety seconds of music amniotic remote, subtly suggestive, unleashed the beast that lurks in this quartet of electric guitars.
July 23, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Colossal at one moment and reduced to a few notes in another, the music defines a mineral and rigorous world where pleasure opens up to vigorous overtures ... An astounding example of what modern music can be in creating its own instrumental form and borrowing freely from pre-existing music.
July 7, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
... all of Dither's music wholeheartedly embraces the beautiful, engulfing, and often gloriously loud sound of electric guitars
June 21, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
Nowadays the electric guitar has become ubiquitous, deployed to vastly different ends in a wide variety of formats. The New York quartet Dither focuses almost exclusively on sounds produced by electric guitars — clean, plucked lines, strummed chords, grungy feedback, resonating overtones, even the static buzz of amps and loose plugs...
June 14, 2010 | Posted in Review | Tagged dither
... there’s a consistent dedication to thinking out of the box and just simply having fun.