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Art of Time Ensemble - Ain't Got Long is as intriguing as it is inventive. A regal array of avant-garde orchestration that's challenging yet tasteful / GOLDMINE: Indie Spotlight

Posted: April 28, 2021

GOLDMINE's Lee Zimmerman writes....In a cookie music world, Canada's Art of Time stands out by taking a fresh - dare we say, daring - approach to songs that normally breed familiarity, but are reinvented here in experimental ways. The treatments featured throughout Ain't Got Long are distinctive to be sure - opening track "Ain't Got Long" offers an immediate example of the group's off kilter soundscapes - and even the guest vocalists (Madeleine Peyroux, Jessica Mitchell, Gregory Hoskins, and Sarah Slean) fail to find confinement to any particular parameters. Nevertheless, even given the familiar fare- the blues standard "Love In Vain," Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble,' the Gershwin classic "Someone to Watch Over Me," and Joni Mitchell's haunting and oft-covered "River" - the atmospheric arrangements and eclectic construction overseen by musical director Andrew Burashko provide an odd and idiosyncratic perspective, one that renders them all but unrecognizable in many cases. That's not a negative; far from it in fact. It's as intriguing as it is inventive, a regal array of avant-garde orchestration that's challenging and yet always tasteful. It is, in a word, one remarkable record.

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