Pitchfork reviews Arpeggi

Posted on March 30th, 2005.

And another review of Jonny Greenwood & Thom Yorke’s Ether Festival performance. This one is specifically about new track ‘Arpeggi‘, receiving 4 out of 5 stars from Pitchfork:

On this track Greenwood plays the Ondes-Martenot, an electronic keyboarded developed by Leon Theremin, who designed the instrument that bears his name. The Ondes-Martenot produces elegiac tones that sound like a cross between the warm buzz of a Rhodes piano and the resonant blare of a pipe organ. Such tones are perfect for Yorke’s tremulous voice and his equally tremulous words– “Your eyes, they turn me/ Why should I stay here?” The Orchestra joins the fray slowly, xylophones and trumpets giving way to gliding gilded strings bowed and plucked. The confluence of these swirling bits produces a bit of dissonance, with Yorke’s voice rubbing awkwardly against the Orchestra near the end of the performance. Given that “Arpeggi” ends on a questioning tone– Yorke repeating the word “escape” in a weak, wispy manner as a two-note pattern is repeatedly plucked– that friction is no doubt intentional.

[Read it in full at Pitchfork - thanks Josh]

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