(hat tip: dhex, who recommended both this excellent band and this fantastic show)
While it may be true that the old classical works don’t draw the kids in droves today, there are artists out there that are using orchestral instrumentation in more modern ways.
A Winged Victory For The Sullen cross-pollinate chamber music with elements of drone and electronic/ambient music; what it may lack in overt complexity, it makes up for in attention to texture and tone, in slow-moving pieces that, by their very commitment to minimalism, can make the smallest shifts in timbre or tempo seem massive.
Take some time.
Soak it in.
Breathe.
That was real nice. Also, when I grouse that advocates of high-art traditions ought to craft their appeals to be a little more compelling than “it’s better than that crap you listen to,” it’s descriptions like yours that I have in mind as an ideal. Your writing impelled me to listen, and while doing so your description added a dimension to my understanding and helped to shape my appreciation. Thank you.Report
advocates of high-art traditions ought to craft their appeals to be a little more compelling than “it’s better than that crap you listen to,”
Yeah, it’s not like that’s saying much.Report
Thanks!Report
Nice.Report
I enjoyed it.Report
the one thing they do very well – and something that’s shared with weltzie’s previous group, stars of the lid – is that long sensation of falling backwards into memory. it’s an idealized memory, but the way they can transform a long bus ride into a eerie restructuring of the quotidian into an intense emotional experience with nothing more than a few people is truly breathtaking.Report