Freak of The Week

Some records are just baffling. We like those records. A lot.
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Saturday, 14 November 2015

Freak of the week - 9 - Classroom Projects

It's records like this that I live for. A compilation of 'incredible music made by children in schools', the record features only a handful of the saccharine choral works you might expect, opting instead for some rather wonderful juxtapositions. Children singing about children dying? Check. Children interpreting John Cage? Check. Children fronting Bradford's 'Don't drink and drive' campaign? You betcha. Almost all the tracks are excellent, and all are performed by or written by primary school children, brought to life by a series music teachers with surprisingly avant-garde/dark tastes. We get bits of choral stuff, a cover of 'bright Eyes', some tape-manipulation and some solo-cymbal pieces that might have been penned by Alvin Lucier. The CD annoyingly has a whole bunch of extra tracks not found on the record, but even so, this compilation stands out as a truly odd, and oddly experimental album.


Buy it here - https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/classroom-projects/

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