On In Love: “reconnecting classical and pop music”
When Classical TV asked composer and writer George Grella to survey the landscape of contemporary music, he brought up Jefferson Friedman’s On In Love, a riveting new project written for post-punk rock vocalist Craig Wedren of Shudder To Think fame and the indie chamber group ACME.
“Friedman […] deliberately brings together the two strands of his musical life, progressive rock and classical, into music that is rock for a chamber ensemble. The musicians and instrumentation allow him to write in the type of polyrhythmic and polyphonic detail that is inappropriate for a rock band, and he does so inside recognizable verse-chorus-verse song structures, conveyed via Wedren’s powerful, extroverted tenor and with the sweetening of amplification and audio processing of the instruments. The result has touches of Led Zeppelin, and is often more rock than Radiohead […]. The songs are a doorway reconnecting classical and pop music across a slender divide, an easy way for rock and classical audiences to enjoy each other’s company and music.” [George Grella for Classical TV]
On In Love will be part of the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Hall in New York on January 22, 2011.
For more information, video and audio, check out On In Love on Bernsarts.com.
