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Peter Ostroushko "Coming Down From Red Lodge is destined to become one of Ostroushko's most popular recordings." Sing Out, Summer 2003 |
Peter Ostroushko "Peter Ostroushko has built a reputation as a solid player and composer, which Coming Down From Red Lodge only further solidifies." Dirty Linen, Aug-Sep 2003 |
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Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko "...the perfect expression of two musical soulmates..." Sing Out, Spring 2002 |
Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko "...you'll feel transported to another time and place... maybe a Georgia farmhouse, a hundred years ago..." Elderly Instruments Magazine |
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Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko "Breathtaking, technically brilliant music." Relix,
April-May 2002 |
Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko "Class is in session..." Minneapolis StarTribune, 3/29/2002 |
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Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko "Blake and Ostroushko form a sympatico team... their traditional side at its best." Dirty Linen, June-July 2002 |
Peter Ostroushko named Lonehand.com's Artist of the Month |
| ***** (highest rating).
Let's start with the word "brilliant" and move on from
there. Blue Mesa is one of those rare releases that screams its
genius...in addition to flat-out mastery of his instruments,
Ostroushko dazzles with his command of various musical genres. The (Valley) Advocate |
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| The next Jethro
Burns and Johnny Gimble rolled into one. He's one of the greatest
mandolin players going today. He'll get on our wavelength better
than anyone, but Pete can play most anything. As the jazz people
say, he can swing any way he needs to. Norman Blake, interviewed in The Boston Globe |
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| Five stars! Jackpot!
Ostroushko is one of a group of virtuoso musicians capable of
defying boundaries...as both a composer and a player, Peter Ostroushko
deserves a prominent place in the front rank of today's acoustic
music scene. Sing Out! (review of Sluz Duz) |
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| Headliners Peter
Ostroushko and Dean Magraw proved a remarkably versatile pair.
Magraw's broad-reaching jazz and new acoustic music roots pack
his sleeves with twists. The chemistry between these two and
its synergistic effect made their set an unforgettable musical
experience. Tucson Citizen |
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| Ostroushko and Magraw
met and passed the ultimate musical test: they're not just the
best at what they do, they're the only ones who do what they
do...What wizards like Ostroushko and Magraw have in common is
this: a bursting of forms...the willful attainment of a natural,
organic synthesis of heretofore disparate musical forms. Chico (CA) Union |
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| Best Albums of 1991
Ostroushko can rightfully claim top billing with David Grisman
where mandolin artistry is concerned; here, Peter augments Magraw's
guitar accompaniment with fiddle and vocals as well. Larry King, TowerPULSE! naming DUO one of the Top Ten Albums of 1991 |
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| You can expect high-energy,
intelligent compositions that are challenging, joyously melodic
and based in tradition. [Ostroushko & Magraw's] musical karma
is evident, piggybacking riffs as only virtuosos can. Patriot Ledger [review of DUO] |
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| An acoustic music
fan's delight. Dirty Linen |
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| One of the finest
and possibly the most versatile of the current crop of multi-instrumentalists. The Boston Globe |
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| Trying to find a
descriptive label for Peter Ostroushko's music is alot like using
words to describe Picasso's painting. It can't be done. About
the best one can do is to declare that, whatever the style or
medium, Ostroushko's music is created with passion and imagination
and is performed with breathtaking precision. Tulsa World |
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| Peter Ostroushko
can play anything! And usually does! Maine Sunday Telegram |
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| There may be no
other living person on this planet who can play faster than Ostroushko...he
can add filigrees and detail that is downright ear-boggling. Oakland (CA) Tribune |
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| Peter the Great,
or "the O man", is a long-standing musicians' musician,
an acoustic instrumentalist who's traveled in so many circles
that you get dizzy reading his resume. Twin Cities Reader |
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| Go out of your way
to see Pete Jethro Burns, in Frets, naming today's best mandolinists |
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| What the critics
say about Heart of the Heartland N.A.I.R.D. Indie Award - National Association of Independent Record Distributors Top Ten Albums of 1995 - Timothy White, Billboard Magazine Best Folk Album of 1995 - Mpls St. Paul Magazine Best Album of the Year - Twin Cities Reader Top Ten Albums of 1995 -- KCRW Radio (Los Angeles) Global Gumbo |
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| A player of miraculous
adaptability... In its finest and surest aspects, American music
acknowledges by distillation all the distinctions among us, caressing
the exotic traits in our midst because they epitomize the alien
traces of our past. Anyone attempting to summarize the spacious
grace and emotional delicacy of Ostroushko's sound on "Heartland"
would be sorely remiss in not mentioning the late, great composer
Aaron Copland...The suite-like sequence of compositions is so
transfixing in its depictive power many listeners may initially
fail to focus on the fact that the music is wordless. Timothy White, Editor-in-Chief, Billboard magazine |
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| Few can drive a
vamp as powerfully as fiddler/mandolinist Ostroushko, and when
guitarist Dean Magraw adds his steaming rhythm to the mix, they
sound like a pair of tornados. -Chicago Tribune |
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| The tunes on Ostroushko's
tour de force are soundscapes in the truest sense...meditative,
turbulent, funny, alternately harsh and serene...they unfold
like the most leisurely sy mphony imaginable, indicating Ostroushko
has forged a winning synthesis of folk and classical strains.
His aim is to paint portraits of a land with a heart at its center,
and he is uncannily on mystical target. If you don't like new
age, try this. It's new ageless. -Boston Globe |
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| One of the finest
musicians on the planet. -Rhythm Music Magazine |
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| This is Ostroushko's
finest moment! -New Country |
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| An impressive all-instrumental
that spotlights Ostroushko's skills as a composer of vivid aural
landscapes...solemn grace... joyfully funky...a soothing, pastoral
album with compositional substance, chops and soul. -SingOut! |
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| This swell new suite
of wheat-flecked, folk-classical songs has deservedly drawn comparisons
to Aaron Copland. -Twin Cities Reader |
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| Quietly breathtaking...An
evocative exploration of literal and spiritual landscapes. Etching
images of the prairie heartland, Ostroushko's gorgeous melodies
are sometimes bittersweet and, like Ansel Adams' photographs,
capture the essence of a place. -Minneapolis Star Tribune |
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