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This is a 40 minute piece of music which might properly be called orchestral.
It was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy Of Music and is an overdubbed live recording by a 26 piece group of musicians.
In the highly Japanese influenced, digital psychedelica meets flat urbanism package come both a CD and a DVD of film directed by SS which is a good way into the music.
The film is a split screen journey along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway interspersed with sequences of 3 hoola hoop dancers.
The music moves from kind of Guys And Dolls era New York street jazz to romantic classical to Philip Glass (think any one of the Qaatsi films) parts especially those with geometric patterns of traffic erupting across the screen.
But through it all are easily recognised SS melodic devices.
Gone are the camp-fire Zappa-esque constructions.
In comes a bigger vision.
This I think is a total triumph.
The form(s) of the music aren't totally "NEW", but the content is totally validated.
Perhaps my favourite new music of the year, it's certainly on the shortlist.
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The symphonic community is really hurting for some good modern composers/compositions, and Sufjan could fill this void.
... which I would describe as heading in a direction of camp-fire Zappa...
There is something about them that reminds me of Peaches En Regalia era Zappa, but with a more downbeat acoustic edge.
I just picked it up, its wonderful. A big departure from his previous albums but I like it!
Yeah, this record was very different from his other albums, and I was worried that I wouldn't like it nearly as much. But it's definitely grown on me. As a whole, I may like it better than any of his others. Great studying music!
I hear he has a tour starting up on October 12 in Montreal. I wonder if he'll be touring with an orchestra?
His new EP is out and its pretty good also.
I'm really enjoying the Age of Adz as well.
I only just noticed your post!
Yes, it's rather groovy isn't it?
I genuinely think he's going to be seen as some kind of genius in 10/20/50 years.
Edits: 11/20/09
:-)
What's his hair like?
His hair... it's kind of hairy... ;-)
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