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| Goodbye, Kings | The Cliché Of Falling Leaves The follow-up to the critically acclaimed "A Moon Daguerreotype" by the art rock ensemble from Milan, Italy. "The Cliché Of Falling Leaves" is the fourth album from the "post-rock poets" of Lombardy Goodbye, Kings, the milanese music ensemble who contaminate their instrumental rock with the influences of jazz, post-rock and folk in a formula defined as "instrumental soundtrack for a never made european retro movie". But this time an actual movie is also part of the spectacle. The album deals with one single piece of music, on the basis of a symphonic poem, based on a narrative scheme and recurrent patterns. Sixteen musicians collaborated to this 43 minutes suite, from horns, clarinets, saxes, double-basses and many other classical timbres. Goodbye, Kings became a massive art-rock orchestra for the occasion, enlightening all the post-rock spectrum and producing a concept movie performed by contemporary dancers. The seasons of nature and life found their iconic representation in ancient myths, memories and cultures but all of them were part of a great cycle of death and rebirth. The leaves that fall are still the iconic visualization of the things that end, a cliché that was used by many poets, an ancient and very common metaphor for poetry and existence itself. write your comments about the article :: © 2022 Jazz News :: home page |