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 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Cool words about Tartar Lamb II

 Toby Driver wrote:

Tartar Lamb was originally created in 2006 as a duet between myself and violinist Mia Matsumiya as a small-ensemble, more easily tourable substitute for our then-main band, Kayo Dot. With an absence of percussion, I came up with a system that would, in short, have a lot of content and information, and a strong, linear melodic sense, but would be able to be performed trancelike, with malleable time being the main improvisatory element. Tartar Lamb self-released an album, Sixty Metonymies, in 2007 (The metonymy in question being each of the composition’s phrases’ relation to one another, and the associated imagery being one of an infernal Tarot set of low animals). This time around, for Tartar Lamb II and II.5, the music uses the same process in terms of time and relationship between the repetition and the linear melodies, but has been expanded to a larger ensemble, so these events’ relationships have increased exponentially – four main voices each affecting one another, as opposed to two (with a little bit of a mechanical element keeping everything grounded). To put it more simply, it’s strict four-part harmony with an indeterminate pace, so each player in the ensemble basically has to know everyone else’s part in order to know how and when their own part is supposed to fit in. The setting of this composition, “Polyimage of Known Exits”, is a single bedroom heavy with the smell of an overdose of medicine and the naïve whooshing of an oxygen machine continuing to breathe although its counterpart has stopped.

I read these words, but I'm not 100% sure they actually mean anything. 

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