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How will experimental music be organically composed from relics of pop music and translated to live performance? Well that's exactly the question we seek to have answered tonight on our road trip to Toronto to see Dan Deacon and Animal Collective. Both artists have earned their acclaim by reshaping conventions.
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Dan Deacon is a modern day composer, and his high-energy performances are calculated. His whole approach is to take contemporary composition and deconstruct it into a shapable substance that he can sculpt into new music. It often sounds as though layers are constantly building off of each other into one epic climax of harmonious sound. The live translation is intended to break down the barriers of tentative human behavior, and to force on an attitude that is accepting of all fun emotions and experiences.
This song from Dan Deacon's most recent album America is a passing glance of cross-country journeys and traveling stomach butterflies.
Animal Collective, who will headline tonight's performance are the kings of trancendental pop music. Who would have thought that their sound now was born out of experimental ambience? Musicians who realize that the creative process is fueled by experimentation.
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Tonight the two acts will play the third show of this new tour at The Danforth Music hall in Toronto, ON then head coast to coast across the U.S. They will then go overseas to Europe before returning this summer for the festival circuit, including performances at Camp Bisco in Mariaville, NY. Tonight's show is sold out.
