Description
A 'Sound Diary' of village sounds, musicians, people and places.
The idea behind The Wind Rises was to take a recording studio into the Transylvanian countryside, and make an album 'in the open air', a 'Sound Diary' of village sounds, musicians, people and places. They transported the best Hungarian rock, jazz and classical musicians, and recorded them on location. It was all bound together with state of the art studio and production techniques. They produced one of the great albums of the decade, an epic which manages to work as an overwhelming fusion of rock, classical, ambient, industrial and folk styles. The album combines found sounds with mediaeval instruments, Industrial percussion, excerpts from an operetta as if performed by Laibach, startlingly aggressive cymbalon, a cast of thousands, the astonishing traditional singing of Marta Sebestyen, and guttural saxophones rising out of the mist. Some of the music was improvised on location, some scored for early music ensembles, rock bands and traditional instrumentalists. Especially featured are jazz saxophonist Lazlo Des, the Cymbalon player Kalman Balog, the Amadinda percussion ensemble, and the WYXimfonic orchestral group The whole piece is structured as a dream, which sucks you in to the ancient spiritual struggles of rural Hungarian life, and expands to take on national oppression, surrealism and post modernism.
Additional Details
Label: Rer Megacorp
Genre: Progressive Rock
Run Time: 45 mins
Release Date: 12/03/13
UPC: 752725009126
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