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NIGHTLIFE is a unique radio-drama inspired pop-opera. Each scene/song resonates with real, collected social exchanges creating a seamless, meandering mosaic of the society of night.
This work continues a collaboration with writer John Navarro and composer Jack Stamps after our first opera, BUCK JONES. John wrote the libretto and sculpted the general narrative for NIGHTLIFE from Boston through a networked file-sharing of raw field-recordings, musical ideas, text settings and other materials. Jack composed, arranged and performed the music mixed into a collection of directed and spontaneous interactions with patrons of Texas bars. His use of binaural recording creates a three dimensional sound environment that places the listener within the virtual story space.
The project is conceived to be very mobile and can easily be continued with future 'seasons' anywhere with an extraordinarily small number of resources.
| POSTED BY: radioindy | POSTED ON: 25 Jul 2009 05:50 PM | ||
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| POSTED BY: momof5pacs | POSTED ON: 23 Jul 2009 12:03 PM | ||
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Navarro and Stamps’ intriguing album, “Nightlife: A Pop-Opera in Three Acts,” with its random and all-too-real sound bites of desultory social intercourse interwoven between and within the framework of its 23 tracks, finds the musicians delving into the dullness of everyday life with sounds & structures that belie the banality of the “night of serious drinking” this album entails. Navarro & Stamps’ vocal & instrumental pieces rely on electronic keyboards and sound effects to explore and delineate the moods and states of mind evoked in the erstwhile narrative. Musically, the soundscape ranges from the cartoon-like “Everything is Now,” to the no-frills electro-pop “Life is Taking for F--king Ever,” to the enigmatically dissonant “Reprise & Postlude,” recalling artists as varied and diverse as They Might be Giants and Tom Waits. Taken as a whole, Navarro & Stamps’ "Nightlife: A Pop-Opera In Three Acts" is both a provocative and satisfying piece of work that demands, and, more importantly, rewards multiple listens.
-Rice B. and the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team |
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| POSTED BY: radioindy | POSTED ON: 01 Jul 2009 08:48 PM | ||
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An electronic documentary-like journey through "a night of serious drinking", containing pop-songs, arranged in an operatic way, reflective of the ongoing 'collected' narrative. CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99 |
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