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- Record Label: Constellation
- Release Date: Apr 30, 2013
- Summary: The final volume to the saxophonist's New History Warfare series was produced by Ben Frost and features guest vocals Bon Iver's Justin Vernon on four tracks.
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- Record Label: Constellation
- Genre(s): Jazz, Pop/Rock, Jazz Instrument, Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Saxophone Jazz
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mixed: 1 out of 18
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Apr 26, 2013To See More Light is a masterpiece that organically and coherently blends Stetson's avant-garde playing and dark, complex themes with accessible and compelling compositions that bring a ray of hope not just for the characters in his underlying narrative, but for the future of music.
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May 6, 2013Stetson very literally breathes life into his instrument, and in turn, like the statue transformed from stone to flesh, his music softens our hardened selves--it reminds us that we were once made, too.
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May 2, 2013With additional help from fellow musician and frequent collaborator Justin Vernon (whose vocals are the only overdubbed aspect of the music), the songs on To See More Light are as devastatingly personal as they are emphatically otherworldly--inhuman sounding even. This stark dichotomy of sound and intent throws Stetson’s music into austere relief.
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Apr 25, 2013Volume 3 is essential listening and another triumph.
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May 21, 2013In two albums, the man shatters our conceptions of music--and in the finale of his trilogy, he glues the pieces back together and hands the end product back to us, thereby redefining the word ‘musician’ in a single gesture.
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May 29, 2013The album is stacked with jaw-dropping moments, underpinned by seismic emotional shifts.
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Q MagazineMay 13, 2013An intriguing collision of the musical outer reaches and American indie rock. [Jun 2013, p.107]
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Jul 8, 2013
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May 16, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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