Assignment 13 Visual & Performing Arts Coursework Essay

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Enchanted Isle’ is a record in the throes of an individuality crisis or identity crisis. Probably intended to bestride the intangible classical-popular divide, this impact of traditional British and Irish folk lyrics, pop, peaceful listening, and anything else from Enya to Thomas Adès is bewildering, not limited because it all finishes up playing almost the same. The group’s vocal signature here becomes a template or a name into which everything must meet, even if that means reaching, bending, or amputating the compositions themselves. This is somewhat an outcome of the sound quality – usually so over-produced that it might as well have been taped with auto-tune in a workshop rather of by a great group of singers in a normally resonant cathedral – and part of arrangements that all originate fr...