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Dark Clouds

from Koblenz by Daniel Weltlinger

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Dark Clouds is a reference in it's title name to Django's 1940 hit 'Nuages' (Clouds) that became an unofficial French resistance song during the war years. Grappelli and Django were split up during these years as they had been touring in England when war broke out. Grappelli opted to stay in England and Django insisted on returning to France.The overtones of the Holocaust which took the lives of millions of Jews, Sinti, Roma, Slavs and many others and the senseless unresolved destruction that took place across Europe and across the world is the overriding theme of this track. I added a fourth guitar for this track played by Ben Pannucci along with Ian, Nigel and Cameron as an allusion to slow heartbeats in unison (the rhythm playing in Gypsy-Swing/Manouche music is often compared to the sound of the heartbeat..) Edouard Bronson provides just the melody at first playing a heartbreaking 'doina' with thundering tremolos provided by the guitars, violin and viola played by Heather Lloyd. This morphs into a slow almost funeral-esque sounding melody accompanied by dense string harmonies provided by the violin and viola. At the end of the track the melody is repeated once more by the clarinet accompanied by string tremolos and the composition deliberately does not resolve. Because there was no resolution at the end of this horrific conflict.

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from Koblenz, released October 2, 2014
Daniel Weltlinger - violin
Heather Lloyd - viola
Edouard Bronson - clarinet
Ian Date - solo and rhythm guitar
Nigel Date - rhythm guitar
Cameron Jones - rhythm guitar
Ben Panucci - rhythm guitar
Thomas Wade - double bass

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Daniel Weltlinger Berlin, Germany

Australian born, Berlin-based violinist/composer/producer. Regularly performing with a number of musicians and ensembles including my quartet under my name, The Asthmatix, Zohar's Nigun, Lulo Reinhardt Latin-Swing Project, Karsten Troyke, Sharon Brauner, Suzanna, Radio Django and Ensemble Olivinn amongst many others. ... more

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