◇ image via WikipediaNicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky is a Classical act. Their sound grew out of Henry Cowell, Charles Ives and Edgard Varèse. Those roots explain a lot about how Nicolas Slonimsky arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Brian Ferneyhough, Charles Koechlin and Witold Lutosławski, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Frank Zappa and Allan Holdsworth, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Nicolas Slonimsky, reaching back through Henry Cowell and forward to John Coltrane. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Nicolas Slonimsky grew out of Henry Cowell, Charles Ives and Edgard Varèse, shares an orbit with Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Brian Ferneyhough and Charles Koechlin, went on to shape John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Frank Zappa and Allan Holdsworth. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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