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Colin Stetson Biography

Saxophonist

Colin Stetson, born in 1977, is a talented saxophonist known for his unique musical style, which fuses classical, jazz, and experimental music elements. His music has won the admiration of many fans.

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“It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument.”

Important Effects Creation Creating Instruments Premises Threshold Loops Creating Things

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“I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.”

People Made Appreciate Albums

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“There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording.”

Wanted Rooms Air Instruments Contact Mediums Throat Horns Mics

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“I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.”

World Want States Film Novel Albums

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“I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Practice Wise Studios Homework

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“I practice yoga and breathing daily along with all the exercises on the instrument. I'm getting more and more monastic about it, especially when I'm on tour, because I'm making songs that are harder to perform all the time. So I no longer smoke and I drink a lot less on tour.”

Song Practice Exercise Drink Yoga Harder Instruments Smoke Breathing

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“I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where things are free to evolve unfettered by outside powers. That starts to reach into the underlying narrative, which is more of a literal story that I used as a construct to build songs around.”

Thinking Wells Stories Used Song Scales Evolve Narrative Islands Isolation Constructs Literal Madagascar

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“Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.”

Rocks Band Phases Rock Bands Grunge

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“I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in a strange new place where all is bleak and all is lost. And it is this sense of isolation that permeates the whole album. I wanted to go into the balance between fear and transcendence.”

Feels Whole Wanted Lost Talking Strange Balance Albums Posts Theme Isolation Transcendence Bleak Apocalyptic New Places Post Apocalyptic

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About the Author

Born: 1977
Known for: Saxophonist
Quotes: 9

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