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This was modern music at its best: completely liberated from strictures and norms, where even non-musical sounds can be used to express musical ideas, surreal and abstract at one level while touching the heart and transforming the soul at another, gently prompting us to ponder over those eternal mysteries of our existence. RAVE MAGAZINE, INDIA _____________________________________________________________________ Krieger, a leader of the electronic cello concept, made the piece go with his virtuosic intensity, which he also brought to his own piece, "Videocello." THE HARTFORD COURANT AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE FANFARE MAGAZINE WIRED MAGAZINE OUT MAGAZINE THE HARTFORD ADVOCATE THE MIAMI HERALD THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER TRINITY COLLEGE NEWS THE HARTFORD NEWS
...music for meditation, lyrical, elegiac in nature, ...fascinating contrast.
...most affecting.
Throughout, Krieger loses little of the original instruments lyricism and grace as he coaxes a 21st-century voice from the e-cellos strings.
Jeffrey Kriegers electronic cello is appropriately unsettling and hypnotic.
Sometimes it rolled like thunder, then it buzzed like a swarm of hornets, other times it chimed like the rim of a glass being rubbed by a wet finger. The playing was emotional, the sound very unusual.
Krieger...delivered an extremely varied program with musical understanding and finesse...tears with virtuosity through ever more rapidly alternating funk, jazz and rock flavored phrases over a similarly schizophrenic drum machine; it was both funny and musically exhilarating.
...revealed the heart and soul of the electronic cello.
...fluid, disciplined movements with sensitivity and finesse, translating his skill on the acoustic cello into a more modern musical realm. His skill with both forms of the instrument reflect the blend of technological ability and fluency in traditional styles which may characterize generations of musicians and composers to come.
A champion of the electric variant.
