A Journey Down The Well - How Little Can Be The Orchestra EP

Well, I was at the VICE office working when I received an email from the small yet peculiar and interesting label Fluttery Records. It turns out that one of their bands, A Journey Down The Well, is releasing a brand new EP called How Little Can Be The Orchestra. A Journey Down The Well is actually a duo consisting of Taner Torun and Ipek Zeynep Kadioglu. Hey, what do you know, we're neighbors. After all Sofia is not that far from Istanbul. Anyway the four-song How Little Can Be The Orchestra EP is an interesting piece of music and it sounds like nothing I've heard before. Upon first hearing I thought that it's going to be ordinary classical music yet I was wrong. Yes, it bears strong resemblance to classical music but apart from that it's way more ambient, experimental if you like. At times the music of Torun and Kadioglu sounds really melancholic, even gloomy with one violin that stands out and it feels like weeping and a more subtle piano that adorn the overall composition with even more sadness. A Journey Down The Well's classical take on modern music is an effort that deserves admiration for its beautiful, elegant and highly skilled performance.

As the press info states the new four song EP reveals their impulsive, unusual, minimalist approach to classical music. This is their first entirely instrumental release, as well as the first release of A Journey Down The Well as a duo. The new compositions contains rich string pieces (“How”), beautiful piano-violin-cello arrangements (“Little”), ambient structures created through delay manipulations (“Can Be”) and processed cellos made to sound like a ship's foghorn (end of “The Orchestra”) as well as various field recordings.

Overal A Journey Down The Well's music is really beautiful and unique and deserves a far greater attention. The EP is definitely worth listening to and of course buying.

Below's a glimpse of the new EP