Happy Saturday everyone. I am sitting here doing my incredibly dry sociology reading, and a thought just popped into my head, so I'm running with it (similar to the way I'm continuing this run-on sentence).
I'm the type of person who always listens to music when working because it helps me focus. When my homework consists of reading I tend to listen to instrumental bands because the lack of words keeps me from getting distracted from what I am reading. Some personal favorites include Mogwai, Explosions In the Sky, Russian Circles and Mono.
Today, as I was doing just this I realized that a powerful tactic that bands like these tend to employ is to sample a voice, often from a movie or TV broadcast, that can further add context to the song. This is one of the more interesting recurrences of the genre because it can create an image that one would not have seen before. I'm not quite sure how to analyze this and I also have a lot of work to do, but here are a few of my favorite examples.
"Have You Passed Through This Night" - Explosions In the Sky
"Sleep" - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"Tracy" - Mogwai
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