Mongrel Review -March 06

This album has been the soundtrack to the last two weeks of my life. It’s beautiful. It’s arrangements for four guitars of contemporary compositions by the likes of Gorecki and Leo Brouwer. There’s a five movement piece on here called ‘White Man Sleeps’ by a guy called Kevin Volans, who is apparently from Dublin, and it’s only gone and rocked my world. Oh, and this closes with an arrangement of a song off The Redneck Manifesto’s first album that is probably the highpoint of this collection. Not for everyone, mind - but then again very little that is worth your attention ever is, is it?

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O’Connell

Kevin Volans Interview with Michael Dervan - The Irish Times.

"I normally hate arrangements of my work," he says. "And they came along saying they'd already done it. I groaned. And then they came to play it for me.

"It was terrific. Somebody had already arranged it at one point for three guitars, and Chester's [ Volans's publisher] more or less turned it down. But the new one w