Don’t get me wrong, I’m only dancing…
You’re possibly unaware of the work of early music quartet,
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Red Priest is the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and the Cirque du Soleil. This extraordinary acoustic foursome has been described by music critics as ?visionary and heretical?, ?outrageous yet compulsive?, ?wholly irreverent and highly enlightened?, ?completely wild and deeply imaginative?, with a ?red-hot wicked sense of humour? and a ? break-all-rules, rock-chamber concert approach to early music.?
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Their latest release is a collection of works composed by J. S. Bach with the cleverly punning title: Johann, I’m Only Dancing.
I asked ‘the greatest recorder player of our time’, Red Priest’s Piers Adams, how they chose a title so far removed from the usual baroque circles. This was his reply…
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“Although Red Priest is basically a classical group we have always used pop or filmic titles for our albums and shows – this one follows on from Priest on the Run, Nightmare in Venice and Pirates of the Baroque.
A good concept for our all-Bach project eluded us for weeks (we had been through every bad Bach pun you can think of) until one day I had a copy of ChangesBowie in my hand and this jumped out and bit me.
It’s perfect as it reflects the dance spirit we wanted to bring out of the music of a composer most people think of as a bit serious and humourless. And as a lifelong Bowie fan I thought this seemed like a great passing tribute to a modern-day musical genius too.”
Piers Adams, Red Priest
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Modern-day musical genius – Couldn’t have put it better myself!
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