Listen to Black Country, New Road’s new Steve Reich-inspired single, ‘Bread Song’
nme.comBlack Country, New Road have shared an experimental new single titled ‘Bread Song’, landing as the latest preview of their forthcoming second album ‘Ants From Up There’.In a press release, frontman Isaac Wood said the new track was inspired by Steve Reich’s legendary work ‘Music For 18 Musicians’, and in particular “a piece where a bar length is determined by the breadth of the clarinet player”, in which “they just play until they run out of breath”.“I wanted to try that with the whole band,” Wood said, “where we don’t look at each other, we don’t make too many cues, we just try and play without time – but together.”While a steady pace is established later in the song, the first passages of ‘Bread Song’ are loose and flow naturally, carried.
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