Scottish Ensemble/Smith/Burgess/Brannick | Classical review

Queen's Hall, EdinburghA dip into the Experimental Music Catalogue put this ecat programme firmly in the 1970s, revisiting a strand of British new music associated with Brian Eno's Obscure label and the advent of ambient music. At a time when composers were elsewhere producing audience-scaring works of fiendish complexity, the pared-down simplicity, even to the extent of banality, practised by the Experimental Music composers must have felt like a breath of fresh air, although this is less appar...

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