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ALEKSANDRA VREBALOV: The Sea Ranch Songs – Kronos Quartet – Cantaloupe CD + DVD

by Audiophile Audition | Nov 13, 2016 | DVD & Blu-ray Video Reviews

Fitting tribute to this artistically inclined development and to nature itself. ALEKSANDRA VREBALOV: The Sea Ranch Songs – Kronos Quartet – Cantaloupe CD + DVD (16:9 ratio, color, PCM stereo) CA21122, 49:20  [Distr. by Naxos] (9/30/16) ****: Sea Ranch, founded in 1965, is a very ecologically and artistically self-aware community built into the rugged seacoast between San Francisco and Oregon. It is, simultaneously, a very unusual and experimental planned use of natural shoreline with unusual, nearly minimalist architecture as well as terraced layout that necessitates care for the environment and a true sense of community as community. While I have never been there I have learned that the community is comprised of nearly two thousand residents; both year-round as well as seasonal and including a pricey Sea Ranch Lodge with stunning ocean and shoreline views. The property also has paid respect and preservation to a small Kashia-Pomo Indian reservation and Fort Ross state park; originally built by Russians in 1812. Everything about Sea Ranch speaks to the haven for ecology minded artists and lovers of the ‘return to nature’ movement that defined architecture and even education in the early 1960s. (The stunning video by Andrew Lyndon shows us that not […]