Kronos Quartet's acclaimed 1992 album Pieces of Africa is now available on vinyl for the first time, from Nonesuch Records. The vinyl edition features the album on two 140-gram LPs. This "potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism, and European forms by eight black, brown, and white African composers," as Time described it, became a cross-cultural and commercial landmark: the first album to top both the classical and world music Billboard charts.
Kronos Quartet's acclaimed 1992 album Pieces of Africa is now available on vinyl for the first time, from Nonesuch Records. The vinyl edition features the album on two 140-gram LPs. This "potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism, and European forms by eight black, brown, and white African composers," as Time described it, became a cross-cultural and commercial landmark: the first album to top both the classical and world music Billboard charts.
To pick up a copy of Pieces of Africa on vinyl, head to your local record shop or visit the Nonesuch Store now.
Kronos gives the second of two concerts at the McCullough Theatre at the University of Texas in Austin this week with a performance tonight, for which the group is joined by fellow Nonesuch artist Rhiannon Giddens. Following Tuesday's concert, which featured the US premiere of Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 7, Kronos and Giddens, the recent recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, perform there together tonight.
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