from recent music heroes: Sarah J Ritch`s 5-track issue is a crossover album which is managed in a way to lead it up to the consolidation of modern and traditional, doleful cello music and experimental, at times even aggressive electronic or electro-acoustic processings which wake you up from a lethargic state of mind. These minimally [...]
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2012/09/kind-words-for-sarah-j-ritch-and-sky-thing/
this time the kindness comes from the acts of silence blog: Ritch is a classically trained cellist so her attraction to drones is quite understandable. String Theory is part drone and part contemporary classical.* The album starts out with a short drone piece, “Celli”, which cements in my mind that the cello is the original [...]
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2012/06/more-kind-words-for-sarah-j-ritchs-string-theory-2/
hey everyone, sarah j ritch just got an awesome review from time out chicago in which she receives four stars! (out of five, yo!) The five tracks on String Theory offer a brief overview into Ritch’s development as a composer and skillful manipulator of electronics and cello. Aside from the notated tonal music of Sonata [...]
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2012/05/more-kind-words-for-sarah-j-ritchs-string-theory/
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2012/05/sarah-j-ritch-pyr-interview/
the kindness comes from touching extremes. One’s got to love someone whose family name’s pronunciation sounds like a truncated version of your own. Seriously, this is one of the many “first meetings” reported on these pages, in this circumstance with a cellist and composer who’s also a rare case of academically trained yet open-minded musician [...]
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2012/05/kind-words-for-sarah-j-ritchs-string-theory/
the newness for the advent of springtime in the northern hemisphere comes from chicago composer and improviser sarah j ritch. her interest in classical composition arose from both her studies in piano and cello as well as explorations of the guitar and bass in punk and metal bands in las vegas between 1996 and 2003. [...]
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2012/03/pan-y-rosas-release-string-theory-by-sarah-j-ritch/
