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Roughly 400 years ago, universal scholars like the English scientist and philosopher Francis Bacon claimed to have determined that the best part of beauty was precisely the part that could not be reproduced by an image. This topic, as well as the relationship between intellectuals and beauty, makes for brilliant debate, even with The Building. But at the end of the day, and of this paragraph, Bacon's crackpot words are only useful as analogies or for singing beauty's praises. With The Building's music there's a similar relationship at hand: the best part about it won't be found on the disc, can't be transported by any stream and no, it won't be grasped through a live recording.
Those who've seen The Building play live more than once can speculate that the best part emerges sooner or later. And when it does, it's out of a pure sensory experience, when your attention is channeled toward the invisible and inaudible—an elemental magic emerges out of the thought that here, the music shapes itself. Influenced by conditions like space, instruments and the audience, an older song will bleed elegantly, seemingly without effort into a newer one, while at the core THE song, the meta-song, remains substantially intact. Thus single tracks, songs and tunes never risk becoming dull reproductions, victims drained of their blood. Rather they sustain their growth, flourishing into a rare experience of diverse shapes.
Meanwhile at the Vanity Fair, where the wheels of the rat race turn at 15-second intervals and entire cultures go cannibal in a jungle of endless enhancements and gimmicks, The Building play tricks with space and time sustained by a kind of flamboyant modesty. On 1.11. the trio will simultaneously release two discs on two labels, albums of equal value, no plugged/unplugged or electro/acoustic variations, no remix merry-go-rounds, no alternatives induced by the fear of finality—simply two albums with the same meta-songs, make of them what you will!
For instance play both albums simultaneously in two rooms and quickly run back and forth between them ... or better yet: play them in two cars driving next to one another ...
It could also work with trains and airplanes.
But listen for yourselves: ... |
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