SOUNDTRACK: COLIN STETSON [CST073] “The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man” (2010).
This is a 7″ release from Constellation, a kind of single from New History Warfare 2. It has two tracks, “The righteous wrath of an honorable man” is such a good song that it deserved to be singled out like this. It’s also amazing how short it is.
Side 2 is called “Judges (Damian Taylor Concretification Mix).” This is a fascinating track because Taylor has “grabbed samples from throughout the album to create a musique concrète roundup of the entire record!”
It’s a strange listen as he picks certain things and repeats them–sometimes very quickly (like a skip) other times in slow modulations. And then it just jumps somewhere else–again, like a skip. There’s some menace and some sirens like sound juxtaposed with thudding bass moments. And the middle samples all the clicking and banging from the keys on his sax.
I did like how he throws in a few notable riffs into the song but more as a repeated refrain than as part of the overall song.
This track is more interesting than enjoyable. It’s unlikely to convince anyone of the genius of Stetson, but it’s an interesting listen.
[READ: June 10, 2016] Klezmer
I have read a bunch of books by Sfar because of First Second publishes a lot of his books (although apparently only a small fraction of the hundreds that he has written). The frustrating thing about this book is that thee are apparently five volumes of this original series but it appears that there is no intention of publishing the rest (it has been ten years since this one came out, after all).
This story is meant to be very loosely based on something, although I’m not exactly clear what. As with so many other stories, it was translated by Alexis Siegel. (more…)
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