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Louisville, United States (1991 – present)
Rachel’s is an American post-rock group formed in Louisville, Kentucky in 1991 by ex-Rodan guitarist Jason Noble. While Rachel’s began as primarily a solo project for Noble he quickly began collaborating with now core members violist Christian Frederickson, and pianist Rachel Grimes. The group’s work is strongly influenced by classical music, particularly inspired by the minimalist music of the late 20th century, and its composition reflects this. While the trio forms the core part of the band, the group’s recordings and performances feature a varying ensemble of musicians, who play a range of string instruments (including viola and cello) in combination with piano, guitars, electric bass guitar, and a drum set that includes a large orchestral bass drum. A key influence on the music of Rachel’s is the music of the English composer Michael Nyman, whose music the group’s work resembles in both instrumentation and compositional style.
They named the group Rachel’s after Noble’s Toyota Corolla, which has nothing to do with third new member, pianist Rachel Grimes. They debuted in 1995 with Handwriting, an album which mixed both dark classical sounds with film influenced experimental music. Rachel’s released four albums after that, with 2003 Systems/Layers being the most recent one. In 2005 they released an EP consisting of a single track, titled Technology is Killing Music.
They named the group Rachel’s after Noble’s Toyota Corolla, which has nothing to do with third new member, pianist Rachel Grimes. They debuted in 1995 with Handwriting, an album which mixed both dark classical sounds with film influenced experimental music. Rachel’s released four albums after that, with 2003 Systems/Layers being the most recent one. In 2005 they released an EP consisting of a single track, titled Technology is Killing Music.
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APRILELIZ wrote:
love them so much
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rollergirlblue wrote:
<3
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Everett_Ruess wrote:
the sea and the bells <3
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casadivetro wrote:
Please, anyone could upload Systems/Layers on mediashare or sth like this?
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abeilles wrote:
dash_dot-- besides library tapes, max richter and clogs which have already been mentioned, i'd also suggest sunwrae, balmorhea, colleen, zoë keating, goldmund, jóhann jóhannsson, hauschka, message to bears, and deaf center.
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adrianoesteves wrote:
Dash_dot Clogs and Esmerine. Specially Clogs manage to have the same wow effect that I get from Rachel's.
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foolonahill235 wrote:
sotl 2nd highest group, nice
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sailfake wrote:
like'm...
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Meshugg wrote:
Library Tapes come to my mind, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion who are more post-rockish, their avantgardistic parts are similar to what Kronos Quartet does. If you just seek classical music similar to this try composers like Max Richter or Ludovico Einaudi. Guess you already know these artist, but hopefully it helped a little but.
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dash__dot wrote:
anyone know of any other bands similar? they seem to be an enigma and amazing occurance
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Cthulhu420 wrote:
They're cool. And I'll have to agree, not really what people traditionally call post rock. A lot more like minimalist classical.
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evanmbk wrote:
i think these guys are on hiatus :(
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debianuser wrote:
Why, oh why is there no new album...
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tatanicka wrote:
the most perfect music ever!
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riigo wrote:
brilliant classification there pozito. typical weeaboo.
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Pozito wrote:
This is more like classical music with drums than post-rock lol
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riigo wrote:
no it's not
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EchotheSun wrote:
this is so impressive! :))
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mforooz wrote:
gorgeousness
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ebovaguira wrote:
epic
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