On 1st November 2018 Underworld decided to launch a year long project called Drift. They would create and publish music and film for a year, putting the results online every Thursday. Fifty two episodes with no clear plan or destination, just the freedom of 'let's see what happens' with the self imposed deadline to do it regularly and often. A bit like how I see blogging. Rick and Karl have just made the whole thing available digitally, a seven CD box set, a seventeen track Blu- Ray with the pick of the films and an eleven song sampler/best of. This one, Tree And Two Chairs, came out back in August, a thirteen minute glide with jazzy keyboards and a saxophone swirling around over a very Underworld rhythm, a sense of space and of floating.
6 comments:
Love that, ta.
Drift was a terrific series full of great songs. Love it.
I've caught a few tracks from this project when they've cropped up on 6Music, not this one though. It's bloody terrific. I enjoyed it immensely.
I've struggled to keep up with the sheer quantity of releases in the series. The best of CD looks like a decent place to start.
Everything about Drift has reinforced my belief that Underworld has found their mojo. Rather than make tired, uninspired "automatic" music, this is music that has a boundary and the real thought involved is how to make it meaningful within the constraints applied. I need the whole lot and the Blu Ray!
That's delightful stuff.
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