From laerm Sent Fri, Jun 4th 1999, 23:31
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Joshua Reuven wrote: > personally, i think they're one of the best bands ever...bery beautiful > and calculated...despite what you may think, they're aren't > improv...actually very structured... > the "teenage-band-first-practice" is actually what they are going > for...however it's far far more then that...if you don't like improv > oriented music, you won't like s&s... eenh, not true. i really like total improv music, but storm & stress were more like "hi, we're three guys with instruments. we just played a bunch of notes for you. now, we're going to play a bunch more notes." i do enjoy improv, just give me a little bit of structure so it makes it sound like a band, and not three guys playing instruments. > electronicly, people who like stuff such as fennesz and farmers manual > might really enjoy s&s...the abstraction of farmers manual, with the > beautiful deconstructed melody of fennesz... actually, i really hate to further contradict you, but a friend of mine is really into storm & stress, hates farmersmanual. go figure. * #### a disturbance in a system. #### laerm. @voicenet.com ##:# i dreamt about you last night/i fell out of bed twice icq:5562209 you can pin and mount me like a butterfly