Understanding the aesthetics and expressions of Shaun Naidoo's works on Electric Fences, his 2005 Capstone disc, requires considerable patience and tolerance because his music is thoroughly eclectic, strangely meandering, frustratingly teasing, and peculiarly resistant to comprehension. It seems that Naidoo treats styles as things to borrow, then discard, and musical ideas as snippets to string together, not develop; one supposes his intention is to allow for maximum artistic liberty, and to create the impression that Move ...
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Understanding the aesthetics and expressions of Shaun Naidoo's works on Electric Fences, his 2005 Capstone disc, requires considerable patience and tolerance because his music is thoroughly eclectic, strangely meandering, frustratingly teasing, and peculiarly resistant to comprehension. It seems that Naidoo treats styles as things to borrow, then discard, and musical ideas as snippets to string together, not develop; one supposes his intention is to allow for maximum artistic liberty, and to create the impression that Move Your Shadow (2001) is as daring, freewheeling, and groundbreaking as the group that plays it, the Fear No Music ensemble. Yet the end results of Naidoo's experimentation are hardly impressive, and the succession of funky bass lines, disjointed electronic episodes, free jazz riffing, fractured classical references, flailing gestures, and repeated patterns lead the listener down too many promising paths, only to find that the piece as a whole is a postmodern cul-de-sac. The resources...
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