Kinks Choral Collection
“Filled with regret, sadness, irony, nostalgia. It’s emotional. The reworked You Really Got Me has the momentum of a Gregorian chant – it’s tremendously powerful” – Chrissy Iley, The Times
“Days sounds fuller with the chorus behind it. Similarly Waterloo Sunset is enhanced by the addition of the chorus… It’s a brave thing for Davies to have done and it’s paid off. The songs here sound as fantastic as ever and this new spin gives them a new lease of life.” - Entertainment Focus
“What started as a 20-minute interlude at the BBC’s series of Electric Proms concerts in 2007 has bloomed into a spellbinding album on which some of the greatest British pop songs of all time take on entirely new characters.” – Record Collector (full review here)
“bizarre triumphs… Days, Waterloo Sunsets and a spinetingling Shangri-La are pocket-sized marvels suffused with that peculiarly English melancholy and ambivalence that Davies made his own” – Q Magazine
Links
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Ray Davies and David Temple featured in a Guardian piece on cross-artform collaboration
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Ray and David were also interviewed for a December 2009 article in Gramophone magazine about the Kinks Choral Collection and music in north London.
Ray Davies and CEFC in Gramophone p26; Ray Davies and CEFC in Gramophone p27 (PDFs) -
Ray Davies interview on BBC Breakfast
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Shangri-La at the Electric Proms on YouTube
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