◇ image via WikipediaJohn Adams
John Adams is a Classical act. Their sound grew out of Reggie Lucas and ECM Records. Those roots explain a lot about how John Adams arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Arvo Pärt, Richard Wagner and John Cage, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Víkingur Ólafsson, Kronos Quartet and Anna Calvi, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around John Adams, reaching back through Reggie Lucas and forward to Víkingur Ólafsson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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John Adams connections
John Adams grew out of Reggie Lucas and ECM Records, shares an orbit with Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Arvo Pärt and Richard Wagner, went on to shape Víkingur Ólafsson, Kronos Quartet and Anna Calvi. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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