The Woven Project’s music is, for the most part, a quietly mercurial experience, more sound as atmospherics or sparingly collated strands of ambience than what you usually find flitting around the music scene today. But they understand that songs can have many lives, that the story is never over, and even that the next sonic chapter doesn’t necessarily have to be written in their own hand.
We first heard “Laura’s Kitchen” as the intro and outro piece to Let Beautiful In, a gentle and drifting sonic set of bookends to that equally gentle and drifting album. And although this brace of musical pieces was never intended to be the subject of the remixer’s hand, a chance meeting at a festival last year changed all that.
So now, we have DJ and producer OuNoSoGo‘s reimagining of these delicate pieces. With the reworked intro, gentle is still the word that you would use, but now there is an element of drive to match the drift, a restrained energy to play against the sonic elegance, and if the music still feels floating and cloudlike, those clouds are now slightly more robust and sonically dense.
The accompanying outro piece steps things up even further, pushing the music into the neon lights of the clubland dancefloor. But, even though the beats drive and pulse, the music still seems ethereal, and the whole thing is a brilliant play between poise and pace, beat and beatifics.
The result in both cases is a brilliant juxtaposition of the slightly untangible and the physically robust, a meeting of minds from worlds which seem to have little in common, something both gorgeous and gorgeously unexpected. More than that, it reminds us that the music that we often hold precious is the result of just what happened in the studio at one time, in one place, according to one train of thought, and that possibilities for it to have alternative lives are, and indeed should, be endless.
It is a brave move on the original music maker to allow someone else to remould and rebirth your creations, but, as is proven here, and indeed throughout The Woven Project, the rewards are worth it.
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