{"id":222,"date":"2009-12-03T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-12-03T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:06:10","slug":"tyondai-braxton-central-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2009\/12\/03\/tyondai-braxton-central-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyondai Braxton &#8211; Central Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-223\" title=\"Tyondai-Braxton\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tyondai-Braxton.jpg\" alt=\"Tyondai-Braxton\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>When Braxton isn\u2019t completely rewriting the math-rock playbook in Battles, he\u2019s busy composing music for an orchestra and, well, playing with himself. As a solo artist, Braxton creates music using live loops. Handling all the instrumentation and vocal duties, Braxton\u2019s solo work is at once complex, colorful and experimental. Central Market sees Braxton move away from a strictly loop-based, 100 percent Braxton-performed outing, to seven tracks composed for New York City\u2019s Wordless City Orchestra. The combination of Braxton\u2019s electronic tendencies and the acoustic element of the Orchestra makes for a record that is multi-dimensional and varied yet sonically cohesive. The first few tracks are purely cinematic\u2014if the film imagined is a twisted, Technicolor children\u2019s cartoon that takes place on the rings of Saturn. Strings swoop and swirl amidst marching, syncopated percussion, constantly shifting melodic motifs, jagged loops and Braxton\u2019s trademark, pitch-shifted \u201cmunchkin\u201d vocals. It sounds bizarre, and it is. Yet despite the seemingly chaotic shards of instrumentation within this album, Central Market is an impossibly interesting, engaging and enjoyable listen. (Warp Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warp.net\">www.warp.net<\/a>) <strong>Curran Faris<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Braxton isn\u2019t completely rewriting the math-rock playbook in Battles, he\u2019s busy composing music for an orchestra and, well, playing with himself. As a solo artist, Braxton creates music using live loops. Handling all the instrumentation and vocal duties, Braxton\u2019s solo work is at once complex, colorful and experimental. Central Market sees Braxton move away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}