Arandel - InBach review | John Lewis's contemporary album of the month

The Guardian 60

(InFiné Records)
Techno artist uses period instruments to reshape Bach’s mutating melodies into minimalism, ballads and synth-pop

More than the work of any other composer, Johann Sebastian Bach’s music seems to be genre-neutral. Over the past three centuries these pure, uninflected melodies and mutating harmonies have been endlessly interpreted by jazz, bossa nova, samba, synth-pop, flamenco, electronica, ambient, rave and drum’n’bass musicians – sometimes, as on Uri Caine’s 2000 interpretation of the Goldberg Variations, all on the same album.