| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
I'll give it a try anyway ;-)
Gravenhurst are from England and they make music which touches my soul. During the concert I was suddenly thinking about the movie about the German guy Schultze who played German tunes on his accordion un till he heard some Zydeco on the radio and he was so captured by this that he couldn't play decent German accordion tunes any-more because they all turned into Zydeco. Musically this has nothing to do with Gravenhurst because they don't play accordion, German tunes or Zydeco but they have what I now call the "Schultze-effect": they start a tune all quiet and lovely but eventually it all turns into noise; they cannot help it, it's in their blood. It's like the emotions of the song suddenly cannot be contained any longer...
See their site: http://www.silentagerecords.co.uk/gravenhurst/
Hear some music: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artiesten/artiest/18336218
Explosions in the Sky are from Texas, USA and are by far the most beautiful thing ever to have come from there! Their music is totally amazing, it doesn't just touch your soul: it absorbs it. It is quite literally breathtaking for I had to tell myself twice to start breathing again during this one song...
They create this amazing soundscape atmospherical strange and lovely world around you and all you can do is listen and watch in wonder. Many images will float through your mind: of deserts at night with starry skies; of weird planets with strange animals; of scary precipices; of dancing hand in hand in a meadow filled with colourful flowers; of aliens waving to you from their spaceship; of post-apocalyptic worlds; of terror and beauty and beautiful terror and terrible beauty...
And the great thing is that they don't take any breaks in between songs (songs are mostly 8 minutes and longer anyway) but they just keep on playing and playing so you don't have to come down to this world again un till they are finished.
See their site: http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/
Hear some music: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artiesten/artiest/10908349
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