The ByrneBand is an electrified string ensemble with mandolin, electric guitar, DJ and keyboard programmer. With samples, effects, and amplification, the ByrneBand makes a graffiti-wall of ambient noise."
–Australian Financial Review
In these great times... combines
hard-edged post-minimal instrumental pieces with vocal tracks suggesting
warped German cabaret songs. Added to the mix are electronic soundscapes.
Together they form a CD that blurs the boundaries between experimental
new music, world music and rock'n'roll.
For this project Byrne is joined by the sound designer Steve Adam who contributes two pieces and adds an electronic element to the gritty amplified sound of the ByrneBand. The title "In these great times" is taken from an ironic text written in the 1930s by the Austrian writer/critic Karl Kraus.
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For this project Byrne is joined by the sound designer Steve Adam who contributes two pieces and adds an electronic element to the gritty amplified sound of the ByrneBand. The title "In these great times" is taken from an ironic text written in the 1930s by the Austrian writer/critic Karl Kraus.
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Select CD tracks:
1 Quick Music for violin, cello, guitar, bass, keyboards is an electric instrumental piece, which uses repetition and complex polyrhythms to create high-energy music. (mp3 excerpt 593k)
2. Lazy Afternoon for voice, violin, cello, guitar, bass, keyboardsplaces the Marlene Dietrich paen to nature into a nightmarish drone environment. (mp3 excerpt 400k)
3. In these great times for violin, cello, guitar, bass, keyboards is a twisted cabaret setting of yje satiric political text by Karl Kraus. (mp3 excerpt 474k)
1 Quick Music for violin, cello, guitar, bass, keyboards is an electric instrumental piece, which uses repetition and complex polyrhythms to create high-energy music. (mp3 excerpt 593k)
2. Lazy Afternoon for voice, violin, cello, guitar, bass, keyboardsplaces the Marlene Dietrich paen to nature into a nightmarish drone environment. (mp3 excerpt 400k)
3. In these great times for violin, cello, guitar, bass, keyboards is a twisted cabaret setting of yje satiric political text by Karl Kraus. (mp3 excerpt 474k)