Grails
Grails obstinately rejects the clichés about instrumental music. They produce robustly layered sound and mix together genres which were never intended to work together. Echoes of diverse genres certainly permeate their sound but these stylistic globetrotters do something with it which we’ve never heard before: embracing musical heritage as well as combining it to create a music genre which can be called ’musical freedom’. Powerful, really powerful those Grails!!!!
Lilacs & Champagne
Handy, isn’t it? Alex Hall and Emil Amos from Grails create their own supporting programme. And they’re really something!! To consider Lilacs & Champagne as Grails’ subordinate or auxiliary project, is to discredit the project.
Instead of using the obvious funk and soul – like in hip-hop – they look a lot further afield: despairing sounds from Polish hippy music, radio transmission noise or Jayne Mansfield’s struggle with death. New sounds superimposed over original samples until they eventually take on a completely new direction towards a logical conclusion: Lilacs & Champagne.
