The Beatles: Love
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Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "The Beatles, a pop combo from England, have a new album. … The producer Sir George Martin, working with his son, Giles, has revisited the original Beatles recordings to provide a soundtrack for the Cirque du Soleil act 'Love.' The Martins have created an eighty-minute Beatles mix tape using the well-known recordings, demo versions, and bits that were buried the first time around. (One significant benefit of 'Love' is that the Martins worked from original multitrack tapes, and the songs get their best digital sound to date.) In several instances, they have blended elements of two or three Beatles songs to make a new composition. … [T]he subtle tweaking of familiar songs is consistently smart and can sometimes be thrilling. … In one track, the drum pattern from 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (Ringo's finest moment) is threaded into George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' to create a radically remixed song, emphasizing the strings and voice while blending in reversed tapes. It is gorgeous and odd, kind of like something the Beatles would do" ("Pop Notes: And in the End," 12/11/2006, p. 24).
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "The Beatles, a pop combo from England, have a new album. … The producer Sir George Martin, working with his son, Giles, has revisited the original Beatles recordings to provide a soundtrack for the Cirque du Soleil act 'Love.' The Martins have created an eighty-minute Beatles mix tape using the well-known recordings, demo versions, and bits that were buried the first time around. (One significant benefit of 'Love' is that the Martins worked from original multitrack tapes, and the songs get their best digital sound to date.) In several instances, they have blended elements of two or three Beatles songs to make a new composition. … [T]he subtle tweaking of familiar songs is consistently smart and can sometimes be thrilling. … In one track, the drum pattern from 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (Ringo's finest moment) is threaded into George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' to create a radically remixed song, emphasizing the strings and voice while blending in reversed tapes. It is gorgeous and odd, kind of like something the Beatles would do" ("Pop Notes: And in the End," 12/11/2006, p. 24).
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