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Instrumental Music with LA Priest – Fabby
Instrumental music is a broad
category. No one song is going to serve as the gateway to genres as
diverse as baroque, shred, and bebop. Instead instrumental is a non-genre similar to world music, in the fact that it serves as a descriptor
as opposed to a category outright. That being said, because of this, going instrumental is a nice way for artists to wriggle out of the confines of genre, and I loved this LA Priest track
the instant I heard it. For me, it summed up the combination of two styles I wished I could imagine together already.
Fabby
has a lilting, almost Celtic melody, with a slight edge and sense of drama
without being ostentatious. What I loved was how the leading melody could have
belonged to almost any genre or time period, but the production and arrangement
took it to a new level and placed it in a sweet spot somewhere between dark and
light, folk and industrial. LA Priest is the artist name of Sam Dust, and is
described as space-pop-psyche. There’s definitely something deep and
psychological here, even without lyrics to suggest a theme, which is one of the
greatest things about instrumental music- it can convey a myriad of emotions
and thoughts and yet remain a blank slate for the listener to respond to as
they wish. Dust is also an enigmatic figure, having built and designed his very
own modular drum machine, working in solitude for two years, and this track
reflects that idiosyncrasy. Fabby has
something intriguing and secretive about it, with an atmosphere that reaches
beyond the sum of it’s parts.
If you like things cool and
understated, cinematic and charming, Fabby
is definitely worth adding to a playlist for a rainy day or whenever you
need the soundtrack to your life to make things a little more interesting. Find
LA Priest on Facebook and on Twitter @trulylapriest
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