Jonny Greenwood launches the label of contemporary classical: A whole world to discover

The Radiohead are an open worksite has never been is a mystery to no one. A laboratory for 24 hours, and in which, one of the strengths of the group, each one is permanently free to pursue their goals. How do the two halves of the boundless sky of new music. That is, Thom Yorke with their solo activities. And as it does, from a few days with his own label with the aim established, the Octatonic Records, came to light in cahoots with the barricadera Council Records, also the guitarist for Jonathan "Jonny" Greenwood , that has just fired, on digital platforms, the first two titles in our catalogue - Volume 1 and 2 - the physical copies will be available from the first of November (the distribution in italy has scooped the relentless Audioglobe).


For as to the novelty is pleasing, it is not pero not a surprise: since the time of the studies, a rigorous and On a Friday, a group of debut of which she was a part of the brother Colin, who followed him as well in Radiohead, Greenwood was not, in fact, has never hidden his love for soundtracks, and jazz, to post-punk, the most daring experimentation of twentieth-century and contemporary classical, as on the other hand has always been able to see in the material stratification of the sound of the band, almost a geology of the music of our time. Evidence of a civilization advanced music as open, for the presentation to the world of his new creation, Greenwood has chosen the historic Proms, contraction from the French promenade, the walk, the summer festival of which Britain is justly proud. Founded in 1895 by the conductor sir Henry Joseph Wood, who has them direct until the 1940s, to bring it closer to the classic who to the wealth and culture would remain forever distant, the coveted, crowded Proms, consisting of about seventy of orchestral and chamber music concerts of high level, planned at the Royal Albert Hall during the eight weeks between July and September, often broadcast live by the Bbc for the benefit of the circuit Euroradio. Up to the triumphant conclusion of the second Saturday of September, marked by a fixed program that exudes inglesitudine: the pages of the Elgar, the lighthouse of the Nineteenth century, the british and the founder's Wood, must as Rule Britannia and the inevitable " God Save The Queen.

A very precise choice that of Greenwood that wanted to launch its project in the cradle of the very democratic musical culture of the island. A festival for the centenary, in which even the distinctions of gender and cultural consideration leave, in a great measure, of time. In addition to the presence of a rocker as Greenwood, the Proms 2019, for example, have accepted in fact, on 3 September, a new triumph of the historic Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino with guests of high lineage: the guitarist Justin Adams , old pard of Robert Plant, and the master of the kora Ballake Sissoko . A set, one of the group of the family During, celebrated by critics and audiences, especially in the careful Guardian, acclaim, in the aftermath of another great success at Womad and a year after the victory of the Songline Award, sort of Grammy in the world music that is, in fact, the title of the best group in the world sector.

Date Of Update: 27 September 2019, 06:00