Music We’d like to Hear, a collective of musicians and composers who, since 2005, have been creating a one-of-a-kind space to share and celebrate new and neglected contemporary music, presents “pleasure drenching…”, a large work by Canadian composer Eldritch Priest for a large mixed ensemble.
Priest describes pleasure drenching… as “a work that aims to sound like a music that never was but might have been. It’s a kind of lounge music, or quasi-jazz that you think you’ve heard before but doesn’t sound quite ‘right.’ It’s a kind of mesmerism and deferral. But perhaps most of all, ‘pleasure drenching…’ is a pleasing clamour and a charming commotion that delights in the joy of losing itself in itself.”
Composer and improviser, Priest’s compositions, which have been performed in North America and Europe, are characterized by their ob/excessive approach to melody. He is also Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at Simon Fraser University.