A dance track that is tricky to dance to? Who would do such a thing? Well, that is the sort of boundaries we find Leyla Romanova pushing, the sort of comfortable conventions that she creatively challenges. (Okay, it’s not that you can’t dance to it; it is just that you have to waltz around utilizing a clever extra shuffle step or pause to keep up with the beat…I know, I tried.) But then, she has never gone for the obvious, and that is why I love her work.
And calling it a dance track oversimplifies what she is doing here, too. It is more a blend of slow dancefloor vibes for the deft of foot (see above) and classical grandeur… and jazz intricacy…and arabesque vibes and cinematic sonics… a dreaminess and drama and…well, you need to play it and see for yourself; words often fail when faced with music of this caliber, of this scale, of this scope.
As always, hers is a world where sounds and styles are unconfined, where orchestral traditions and cutting-edge electronica play together, where genres and geographies are not separated by distance or demarcation, not quite where anything goes, but where the unexpected is to be…well…expected!
Sitting somewhere between contemporary classical and the chill-room dance floor, filmic score and music as art, it is another stunning and stunningly adventurous piece from one of the most exciting and eclectic music makers working today
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