04/05/2011

Son Lux. Sound of Luxury.

One of my new musical discoveries is the album "We Are Rising" by Son Lux. It was released on the 26th of April, 2011. This is the third album released on Anticon Label, by Ryan Lott.
He was born in Denver in 1979, and has moved to Connecticut at the age of 5.  He has started to take piano lessons at the age  of 6. And hated it. His dream was to become a composer. 
In his third year of studying piano and composition at  the Indiana Uni, he started to make some projects with a ballet dancer, who later became his wife. 
He has conceived the multimedia art gala called Connect.
Founded with his wife and his two friends a charitable Art Serving Humanity Ensemble.
Composed a piece for saxophone and tape.
Worked as a full-time composer in NY.
He then compulsively collected sounds for three years, and started arranging. But here is a trick, he did it not by ear, as a real composer. He arranged by rhythm as a real beatmaker. This is how he made his first album At War with Walls and Mazes in 2008. 

What surprised me is Mr. Lott`s approach, he resembles some really contemporary sounds with a classical concerto in one track.  To me this is the new generation of chamber music. It definitely shouldn`t be different. The tinkering sounds, the magic of the notes written by Ryan Lott are so surprising, that I can not stop listening to it. "So would you chase or let me go? You can`t change that", are the lyrics in Chase...

The thing is that he wrote his last album in 28days. Check this album teaser for more... 








Son Lux - We Are Rising (Full Album Teaser) by Son Lux

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