How To Destroy a Magic Moment With a Sax: Hilliard Garbarek

The Hilliard Ensemble & Jan Garbarek

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[FrankRebers]

try and listen to the CD's brought out by the Hilliard Ensemble in collaboration with Garbarek... they are truely excellent, the combination of the ancient chants and modern saxofone brings you into extacy. Then I am sure you will not give it a title as for this video

[RalfMBecker]

To be oh-so-purist and down and declare it a shame about this rather beatiful combination has been old 10 years ago...actually, more than 10 years. Go watch some 'pure' classical music, and let Hillard (who apparently thought it was a terrific idea, just like a lot of people including me) decide what they do.

[janeyanna]

@SarSuch Explain it to me, then.

[SarSuch]

@janeyanna Jazz is not random or uncoordinated. It's the fact that you do not understand what is going on that you think it is random or uncoordinated.

[chrishildebrant]

@Tobypaws2002 Perhaps the muddled sound you are hearing is due to the recording equipment or the acoustics of the room or position of the listener. I completely agree with @snillocgrom's comments. If you want to be stuck in the same old same old classical music, feel free. But let the rest of us go along with the natural evolution of the music. I'm sure it is what the composer would have wanted.

[snillocgrom]

@Tobypaws2002 sure...if you're listening for the voices as foreground. Try to adjust your perspective, and instead expect to be listening to a saxophone piece, with the voices as accompaniment, you'll hear a totally different effect. Plus it's Jan Garbarek, what else did you expect?

[Tobypaws2002]

What a racket ! the sax drowned out the voices...

result : muddled sound...

didn't like it.

Sure, experiment, but in my humble opinion,

this was a mistake and doesn't add anything, it's more of an intrusion,

like someone trying to get in on the act.....

[orboksanci]

@Iloveofrahaza87 Where is the link? :D

[janeyanna]

"...and I'm not the ultimate judge of what's good in music."

But you are the ultimate judge of what you, personally, like or dislike in music. Everybody has a right to their own taste in music, and also a right to express said taste in front of others.

[janeyanna]

Maybe he expected JG to play *with* the singers, not *over* or *against* them.

[janeyanna]

Omg, the title totally reflects what I feel when my husband listens to this stuff.

The four guys sing a song and Garbarek does some totally random stuff on the sax, that not only has nothing at all to do with the melody or rhythm of the song, but is also played so loudly that it overpowers the voices.

It just sounds so random and uncoordinated. Like Jazz.

[lector06t]

The sax sounds too loud, that's all