Kronos's second Nonesuch record combines seemingly unrelated work into a fairly seamless whole. From the off-kilter jazz of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" to the strains of Bela Bartók's String Quartet No. 3, this is an album of blues-tinged music. Kevin Volans, the South African composer, lends the disc its title and its opening track, which melts hesitantly familiar folk melodies into a racing quartet. Volans's technique is not far removed from that of Bartók, more than 70 years his senior. Kronos slow the intonations of Bartók's quartet to about a minute and a half longer than the Emerson Quartet's take--long enough to contribute to a kind of defamiliarization. Speaking of which, Ben Johnston's arrangement of "Amazing Grace" is what makes this CD a real keeper. He tests the mettle of this beloved melody by playing it against itself in numerous different ways, and the tune never succumbs to the tinkering.

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對於粉絲來說，White Man Sleeps 是一張不容錯過的專輯。它於 2004年3月9日發行，White Man Sleeps 由Kronos Quartet 等歌手推出。這張專輯包含 8 首歌曲，每一首作品充分表達出其專輯概念。只要上JOOX，你便能立即欣賞White Man Sleeps 中的高音質歌曲、歌詞和MV，一同沉浸在美妙的音樂體驗中吧！

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