Music post: E.S. Posthumus

[crysania4]

Today I'm listening to the music of E.S. Posthumus. I had never heard of this group (described, on wikipedia, as a group "that produces cinematic style music") until fairly recently. Someone in a classical music community posted the music as a sort of crossover. And I suppose it is. Added to a sort of classical-esque orchestral sound are drums and synths. It's a neat sound and I was glad that I tried it out.

The name, E.S. Posthumus, comes from two things. "E.S." stands for Environmental Sounds. Posthumus is apparently not Latin, but rather from a sort of mock-Latin, and means "ll things past".

I can't identify what it is I love so much about this music, but I think it's done really well. It might be that classical "crossover" works can often be simply trite. I find a lot of people trying to "improve" the music they're crossing over with (I get a sense of this a LOT when classical musicians play arrangements of Irish trad music -- it's cleaned up and "perfect," which goes very much against the spirit of it...it loses its wildness!). But in this case, they really do a wonderful blend of styles. Give it a listen and let me know what you think!

The group has three albums. Of those, I have two. A smattering of tracks are posted to youtube.

From Unearthed:

Antissa
Tikal

From Cartographer:

Nolitus

While searching on Youtube, I found an interesting remix of Nolitus. You can listen to that version here.