#musique-concrete

#musique-concrete

They dissolve a mass of fiddles, cellos, acoustic guitars, banjos, harmoniums, organs, and mutating shape note singing in a warm, radiant, brainwave-spiked singularity. "I Want to Die Easy," based on the revered Smithsonian Folkways recording that Sam Amidon's parents sang on, eases us into the continuum from traditional to turbulent: Conventional close harmonies, bathed in the silo's long reverb, open out into lush gospel stacks and start poking into tart modernist corners.