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And Who Shall Go to the Ball and What Shall Go to the Ball
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'And Who Shall Go To The Ball And What Shall Go To The Ball' is the second release on 4AD for legendary artist and composer Scott Walker. The album, originally commissioned as a contemporary dance piece for disabled and non-disabled dance company CandoCo, is a twenty five minute instrumental work split into four movements. Released in deluxe packaging, the album is limited to just 2500 copies and will never be re-pressed.
Customer's review
Typically Scott of today.
To quote, D.Eves.
"This EP may connect when heard alongside a visual performance but I can't help but feel the event would leave feeling pretty dreadful and nauseous."
I did go along to see Condoco perform to the EP when they came to Newcastle. I was really impressed with the way they interpreted the music. It also as you said, helped me to connect with this 4 piece movement of Scott's but rather than leave me "feeling pretty dreadful and nauseous," I felt uplifted by it. I guess the impressive performance by the dancers in Condoco helped.
It is a brilliant piece of music, I stand in awe of anyone who can transfer their thoughts into action as Scott has with this... living inside that head is another matter.....:)
Sorry, but it really isn't very good...
I really wanted to like this ep (it's not an album), but I don't.
I love Drift, but this crosses the line from 'experimental' into self-indulgent.
The main problem is that it clearly relies on the presence of the dancers to make sense of it. There are long stretches of silence (filled in performance by dance routines) and much of the rest sounds more like 'sound effects' rather than incidental music.
Perhaps a DVD of the ballet would have been better? It would have made more sense.
The packaging is wonderful, but that's about the only positive thing I can say for this set.
I'm giving it two stars because I can't bring myself to give a Scott Walker record just one...
wow
amazing stuff again; and soon! Let's face it, Scotty has been beamed up...
I could take tracks from 'Tilt' and 'The Drift', intersperse them with these 4 instrumentals and create the best double album ever created.
Eager to find out where he goes from here...
Interesting at least
An instrumental in four parts,this brief release by the rather-prolific-actually Scott Walker lacks the melodic interludes he included on his contributions to the Pola X soundtrack,containing instead weird bursts of electronic noises,horror soundtrack violins and sections of silence.With none of the awesome beauty of,say,'Boy Child'.But then you weren't really expecting that were you?
a challenge
it is more or less what i expected-bleak sounding "classical" music but no vocals and other than part one i liked it but basically only for fans of "the drift",others would be bemused by this.when i first played it i thought my cd was faulty!!!!!track one had very little at all for the first 2 minutes!the other 3 tracks are exciting and stirring with quiet passages.
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