Olde School

It took 12 months, 14 engineers and perhaps 300 years to make this stunning album, Olde School, for the East Village Opera Company. They used a few centuries worth of opera greats as launching points to jet start tracks that are bumping rock operas. There are a lot of notable, catchy themes you'll be able to identify that are revamped with an aggressive vengeance to make for a series of tracks that is remarkable. Who knew opera could be this cool? The modernized opera tracks translate into a surreal, aural, storybook series of tales that is addicting.

Olde School is quick paced and always keeps you guessing. The tempos oscillate and turn on a dime, making for even more intriguing shifts in mood. This album compiles a wide array of different musical genres to form a mosaic of cohesive sounds that are simply explosive. Olde School is infectious and charismatic on the number of different forms the mixture of music manifests into. The result is electrifying and modernizes true classics in a mannered, sensible medium that can be appreciated by this generation.

It's so refreshing to hear music like this as it's so rare that the music takes on such a vivid form that you can actually visualize some sort of captivating performance in your mind. Olde School is truly an innovative and brilliant composition of music that brings opera into a new age. The amount of work and people that went into engineering this album in itself is a commendable accomplishment. The fact that the music is inescapable and spins classics in a way that new generations can appreciate, is a stunning feat on its own merit.