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Old 12-19-2003, 09:26 PM   #1
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the langley schools music project

I don't know where to ****ing put this since it's so "out" there, but hey, it's just about the greatest thing ever and I guess the greatest things are always a little outside of "bounds."

Take a bunch of children, put them in a choir with bells and jingles and guitars for instruments, then make them sing covers of popular songs like the Beach Boys' "Good Vibration" or "God Only Knows," along with lovelies like "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" or McCartney's "Band On The Run" and you get just about the most eeriest yet oddly awesome project to ever listen to. Highly, highly recommended. The children do a fine job...they're not muddled (i'm not proficient in musical jargon but what I mean is that it sounds closer to one person singing instead of many), and they use their limits to good effect by substituting certain octaves when they cannot achieve them otherwise. It's just...phenomenal.

also to note - it's lo fi but that only adds to the weirdness. And the weirdness is good.
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Old 12-19-2003, 09:35 PM   #2
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"I find myself calling friends, turning The Langley Schools Music Project up really loud, holding the phone out and going, 'Can you hear that?' I put it on at odd times during the day, tuning it in and out, sometimes wincing as the singers hit a strange note, then shaking my head in puzzled wonder when the music suddenly, and against all odds, transcends the kitsch limitations that seem designed to keep it earthbound and soars off into the realm of true art. It flies -- crooked as a butterfly's flight, but it still flies. I wish every school taught music like this. I wish every piece of music recorded in a school gymnasium were this haunting... and then I suspect that, if I listened to them right, maybe they would be."

- Neil Gaiman
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