Adam Buxton
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he said, check this out.
I think this is the best piece of music I've ever heard.
And he played me this song called Daphnis and Chloe, Daphnis et Chloe.
And it's by Ravel who did, you know,
Bolero.
Torville and Deans.
Oh, yeah.
But his other banger was Daphnis A. Chloe from 1912.
And it's good, you know, but it's not like it's, I was expecting him to play me something really odd or experimental or something, but it's not.
It's very lush and traditional.
It sounds a bit like sci-fi music.
It sounds like sections of, if you can imagine what the music from The Abyss directed by James Cameron.
Yeah.
like unearthly choirs every now and again coming in.
It's a lot like that and very lush strings and instrumentation.
It is beautiful.
But then after we'd had that listening party, I was in London and I saw on a siding a big advert for the London Philharmonic playing Daphnis A. Chloe.
Wow.
With an Australian acrobatic team.
Shit.