Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was (180 Gram)

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - Never Were The Way She Was (180 Gram)Two of Constellation's acclaimed solo instrumental artists join forces on this tremendous new album of original compositions for horn and violin. Colin Stetson has developed a unique and highly acclaimed voice as a performer composer, chiefly on bass and tenor saxophones, rallying an array of technical strengths and innovations to make some of the most captivatingly organic, darkly soulful and otherworldly solo instrumental work of recent years with

he later significantly gave his Moog to fellow German musician Klaus Schulze and largely renounced electronic music in favor of often-acoustic tones

bridging the gap between the woozy freeness of Les Rallizes Denudesand Crazy Horse and the tightly wound simplicity of Suicide and the Velvet Underground

I began to imagine what the musical equivalent of his evangelical bird act might sound like

After a few more failed auditions with what would be viewed by any other band as more than worthy applicants

plus the freedom to compose in more comfortable environs other than dank Ludlow Street rental spaces (hard to believe "Daydream Nation" was created in a claustrophobic practice basement) most assuredly was a component in their continued paths of discovery

an album of somber elegance and delicate arrangements whose cumulative effect of unease is entirely unexpected

as they barely escaped with their lives after opening for Three Dog Night and Alice Cooper

blowing into Fashion Week from a small town in North Carolina

absinthian quality when imbibed

A young life spent betwixt Southern California and Accra

including three mind blowing

composed as soundtracks to guide his visual work