La Villa Strangiato
It's going to be really hard to write this post, because my impression is that "La Villa Strangiato" has a lot of musical compositional tricks in its metaphorical bag, and I don't know musical theory much
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That said, there are plenty of song reviews where i just want to say "yep ... what you said" or share a thought re how much i love a song. Here, there's a little more to it.
I have always strongly concurred with something you said above:
LVS drives home the enormous gulf between playing music and writing it. ... To have the imagination to think of so many different parts, and the patience and vision to assemble them ...
Yes, that. Even as a songwriter and composer, and even feeling fairly proud of some of the things i've written, LVS lands in a class of songs/pieces that i aspire to and consider yet untouched in my own work. These are songs i hear and think, "i could go my entire life and never write that song." Other ( ... )
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The entire genius of the solo, in my view, is how much tension, emotion and energy buildup he can get out of using "just the white keys" through the whole thing. The change of attack from volume-faded to normal after the first few go-arounds of the progression (~4:03) adds part of this buildup all by itself. Obviously the rhythmic density of the solo builds pretty monotonically through the whole thing, including some screaming passages involving ump-tuplets and holy-somethingth notes that i'm not going to try to time out, and this also contributes a lot to this. That said, however, amidst such note density, there is incredible potency in how and where Alex chooses not to add more notes to the phrase, and the moments in which he alights upon a tone for a breath before charging into another blinding phrase of rushing fingerwork do a lot to shape the mood of the melody ( ... )
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