This epilogue of sorts is a uncanny combination of original percussion and guitar, collaged together with what may be a live recording of Davis’ “second great quintet” taken off of YouTube, processed and time-stretched on tape. Between these tracks are situated Ear Piercer and Mountain Music, two songs that have been staples of Saloman’s viscerally intense live sets for the last two years.Ĭoncluding the album is a version of Miles’ Davis’ classic ballad, My Funny Valentine. 2 (Contained Battle/Ascend) and the layered escalation of the literally titled Gagaku, a methodical combination of rhythm and drone that climbs to a peak of psych-tinged burning guitar lines. This influence is most explicit in the undulating rhythms that open the first side of Vol. Their tragic love affair, set amidst the snow, hot springs and mountains, became a thematic and contextual source for early phases of the project, and much of the music on this album is a result.īorrowing compositionally and tonally from Taiko and Gagaku (an ancient drone based imperial court music), Saloman reproduced sounds originating in traditional Japanese drums, wind and stringed instruments almost completely on guitar, ride cymbals and snare drum. The classic Japanese novel from 1956 tells the story of a geisha in a small mountain town and her married and wealthy male lover (a self-taught musician and self-appointed expert of Western ballet, respectively). 2 was the novel Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata.
#Between a rock and a dubplate album series
In composing music for The Sensationalists, Saloman built on years of exploring the outer limits of frequency and volume with his former group Yellow Swans and produced a series of tracks that both anchored the live performance and induced waves of sensation in the audience in attendance.Īn early inspiration for both The Sensationalists and the music collected in Movement Building Vol. A perceptual phenomena that can be produced through a combination of sensual and cognitive stimuli, ASMR adherents have produced thousands of videos on YouTube tailored to provide these sensations. The two year process resulted in the evening length immersive multi-media dance performance, The Sensationalists(2015), a study of affect and intensity focusing on an imagined secret society devoted to collectively producing autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR.
In 2013 Gabriel Saloman was commissioned by the Vancouver, Canada based dance company 605 Collective to collaborate on a dance work devised by the experimental performance company Theatre Replacement. 2 abandons the conventional instrumentation and genre motifs embraced by many of his peers in favour of an utterly unique hybrid of avant-drone, psych-rock and Japanese traditional music.
Mobilizing the frequencies of contemporary electronic music (fine tuned to speaker rattling effect by Helmut Erler at Berlin’s Dubplates & Mastering) Movement Building vol. Following the enthusiastically received first installment – volume one’s album length The Disciplined Body – Saloman offers up 5 new tracks that combine shimmering bowed guitars and reverberant acoustic percussion into a meditative and powerful break from anything he’s produced before. Shelter Press announces the release of the second volume in Gabriel Saloman’s “Movement Building” series, continuing the release of original compositions commissioned for contemporary dance works.
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