We have spent much of the last two decades underlining that we like electronic music because it refers to tribal and primitive rhythms that anciently beat in our blood. And, in this repeated use of the fluorescent marker, we preferred to ignore that electronics are more like a hydra with a thousand heads, and that one of the heads that has received the most attention lately is the one that connects certain digital genres with classical music. Or, as it has been called for some time, the neoclassical.
s natural relay Ólafur Arnalds A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN. Jóhann Jóhannsson'Scarves & Gloves Max Richter recomposes Liberal Youth Ministry of Vivaldi... And, in between, a whole set of musicians are digging the contours of the path of something like the second generation of the neoclassical. A generation that would follow that of Ludovico Einaudi and Luke Howard and, above all, is using its fresh blood to take the mix of classic instruments with spacious drones, steamy synths and many other ambient sound features that have been so well practiced by electronics all this time.
It could be said that the memory of the tribal in electronics pleased us because it started something very savage from the depths of our being. And that, in comparison, this fever for the neoclassical appeals much more to the spirit, to the intangible. To the soul. Much of classical music was about seeking the epiphany that would bring us closer to God... And, in this XXIst century in which there is no longer one God, but each one embraces their own beliefs, it is normal that we also need music that brings us closer to our most sensitive and human side. That's what the neoclassical is about. And that is also what the five examples of artists who are sublimating it with their latest works are about.
