My new-found love of slowly-evolving texture is being indulged in spades by this performance. I love it already and we're only 5 minutes in! Playing a piano with an e-bow is genius!
At half an hour in, I'm still in love with this piece. We've just entered the third section. It's evolving in a long, slow, meandering way. Utterly spellbinding (and distinctly trippy).
The ensemble comprises three guitarists with e-bows, a pianist with e-bow, a keyboard/vibes player, two percussionists (much use of bows) and four singers.
The final segment (one hour in) is resolving to a massive unified drone underpinned by a huge bass note from the e-bowed piano. Reminiscent of Buddhist chants, perhaps unsurprisingly. The whole space vibrates with the beat frequencies and harmonics from the guitars. Amazing energy.
The end was a slow fading away to silence.
Without doubt, the best thing I've seen so far this week.
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