METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE, ERIK HALL, SANDBOX PERCUSSION - Canto Ostinato WU These were songs we had

These were songs we had thrown away

Sweet Savage were part of the first wave of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal – alongside Iron Maiden

and the atmospheric Machiavelli Sessions renditions

emo and post-hardcore styles

Jim Thirlwell

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE, ERIK HALL, SANDBOX PERCUSSION - Canto Ostinato WU These were songs we hadLP Standard Edition Black Vinyl. Sometime in 2020 I listened to Canto Ostinato for the first time, and my enthrallment with the piece had begun. I was transfixed by its particular amalgam of harmony, repetition, and pacing. By the spring of 2023 I had constructed and released my own solo interpretation, and I assumed at that point my working relationship with the composition had run its course. But I underestimated its magnetism. The following year I