Any style of music from any era, well-executed, can be transcendent. However, I would argue that adding layers of artifice will date music, often times to its detriment. What makes music eternal are the components that can be preserved independently of artifice: rhythm, melody, and lyric. From Moonlight Sonata, to Moon River, to Bad Moon…
Any style of music from any era, well-executed, can be transcendent. However, I would argue that adding layers of artifice will date music, often times to its detriment. What makes music eternal are the components that can be preserved independently of artifice: rhythm, melody, and lyric. From Moonlight Sonata, to Moon River, to Bad Moon Rising there is a timelessness in those works that makes them feel as if they've been with us forever. Production can never be fully stripped away, but the more you tinker, the more you pigeonhole it to a time, place, and trend.
Any style of music from any era, well-executed, can be transcendent. However, I would argue that adding layers of artifice will date music, often times to its detriment. What makes music eternal are the components that can be preserved independently of artifice: rhythm, melody, and lyric. From Moonlight Sonata, to Moon River, to Bad Moon Rising there is a timelessness in those works that makes them feel as if they've been with us forever. Production can never be fully stripped away, but the more you tinker, the more you pigeonhole it to a time, place, and trend.