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Unusual instrumental combinations, musical textures in the intersection between tone and noise

2021

Georg Kasch
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Evan Gardner, composer and artistic director of the group, has arranged the scores of each individual song as if they were contemporary experimental operamusic: unusual instrumental combinations, musical textures in the intersection between tone and noise, harmonic liberties. Adding the classical trained voices, big, full of pathos and vibrato.

(…) The film directors who took over the direction of the clips, show aesthetics that tie in with the traditions of music videos and their narratives – with ghosts and the undead, making one almost automatically think of Michael Jacksons “Thriller”-video.

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