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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom
Well, Branca came, saw, conquered and deafened us all at the Roundhouse last night. Hurrah.
Glice - whilst I agree w/your points about the album, I still likes it anyway. What's your fave G Branca composition, out of interest?
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I'm not sure - I would've said the 3rd or 6th a while ago, but I'm currently trying to reconcile where his actual compositional invention lies. There's a lot of Wagner in him, and it's quite difficult (especially given my lack of theoretical 'chops', as it were) to weedle out where Branca is and where Branca merely transposes ideas to the massed electric guitar. This isn't a criticism in the case of most of his mature work, but in terms of the Ascension it's as transparent as can be. I could go on at length, but I'll just say that with the Ascension it's not quite a brutal minimalist piece (which dissonance is), it's not quite satisfying as rock music, it's not got enough of anything to sustain my interest over his other works. With Chatham I'm satisfied that he's made a virtue of electric guitars - Branca is slightly more complex, and very much between compositional worlds as opposed to creating his own. This is a bit of an iffy statement - I still like Branca a great deal. Probably one of those personal things that doesn't have to make sense to the world.