There’s a really interesting quote from Brian Eno from maybe twenty, thirty years ago where he said you can play orchestral recordings from different orchestras around the world, and you wouldn’t be able to identify which is which, or you could play instrumental jazz from combos of many different eras, and you wouldn’t necessarily be able to identify who was playing just from the sound of their music, just the tonal character of the music, but you could play thirty seconds of a Led Zeppelin song or thirty seconds of an AC/DC song or the Rolling Stones or any one of a hundred bands, just a very brief second, and sometimes it only takes a second or two, but you could instantly tell who you were listening to. Even if it’s a piece of music you’ve never heard before, you can identify the character of the band in the sound that that band organically makes. So, for my money, that’s the whole show. That’s the business for a rock band is their distinctive fingerprint.... ...So when I hear contemporary record production where the drumming has all been quantized and the pitch has been corrected where instead of having a singer you have thirty layers of abstracted vocals sounds that are a simulacrum of a singing presence, and instead of having a rhythm section you have a bunch of mechanical stuff with signifiers of a rhythm section in it, I feel like I’m being prevented from hearing something. I feel like I’m being held at arm’s length from what the band is actually on about, and that, to me, as a listener I find that frustrating. steelforbrains/post/93774528552/steve-albini
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:45:47 +0000
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