The newest music/video release from Niemietz/Taylor is epic! Gilgamesh epic, “War and Peace” epic, “Superman” epic! Entitled “Superman” and lasting an amazingly quick 10 minutes, this piece from @sarapalooza and @lindataylorguitars can be enjoyed as a 4k video or as a song suite. I recommend watching the video first, on as large a screen as you can find. Once you’ve absorbed the imagery, the journey will remain with you though all your listenings.
In the intro, Linda Taylor has created a skyscape, Ed Roth’s contemplative keyboards blending with Sara Niemietz’s background vocals seamlessly. We then transition from the tribal stomp inspired by “The Rite of Spring” into the chant of “Blast Off” In an interesting choice, we don’t get a crescendo here, but a floating examination of our world from Space. Sara embarks on a spacewalk in the transition to the Superman world. The Spacewalk music is subtly different than the Intro - adding in the beats of “Blast Off” and Sara’s trademark multi-lingual whispers.
“Superman” starts with a plaintive Sara on a wistful solo guitar. When the song moves to the upbeat chorus we’ve come to expect from Niemietz/Taylor, we are on an excursion through the inner world of the day-to-day Superman. Flying around the world, diving under the ocean, coming home.
Overall, Linda creates the aural equivalent of a 3 star tasting menu, always varied, never bombastic, while Sara has taken us to a universe that reflects itself inwardly, looking back from such great heights to the coziness of home to find the encouraging soul at the heart of all her music.
Brilliant analysis!