This one kind of snuck up on me. I gave it a listen because (a) I have fond memories of 2015’s Yellow Bell, and (b) it has a cool name. My initial reaction to the first few minutes was that it was nice but unremarkable. And yet by the end of that first listen I […]
Tag: genre_ambient_drone
This work is based around samples of a Giuseppi Verdi opera called La Forza Del Destino (The Force Of Destiny). I’ve never heard of it, although I’ve heard enough Verdi opera to be pretty sure it wouldn’t be my cup of tea, even though there is apparently a superstition that it’s cursed. (My father likes […]
The only Rrose record I actually owned before this one was their version of James Tenney’s Having Never Written A Note For Percussion, in which they played a single note on a gong for 27 minutes — first quietly, then loudly, then quietly again. And then did it again on the B-side. It was an […]