From Neuma Records:
Pop/Jazz/Art Music Culture Clash
MC Maguire - Dystophilia
(Neuma Records/January 19, 2024)
Toronto-based composer/producer MC Maguire has a quirky sensibility that's captured in two large works for orchestra and CPU on his recent release Dystophilia on the Neuma label.
Dystophilia is defined, according to the liner notes, as "a fascination with the rate of social decline". It seems appropriate that the pieces are a kind of densely layered sonic assemblage that is both kinetic and seamless in its flow.
Yummy World begins with a riff on Justin Bieber's Yummy, as seen through a lens that blends contemporary jazz and art music, and then... put through a blender.
He adds elements of cinematic music, circus (or perhaps it's video game) music, maybe a bit of prog rock, and more. The album notes tell us he binged on films noirs during the pandemic, and it's easy to hear their influence.
It's inventive, and dare I say, entertaining.
Yummy World (excerpt):
Another Lucid Dream, the second track, takes Juice Wrlds' song Lucid Dream, interweaving it with elements of hard metal and 16th century Renaissance music, and other flotsam and jetsam.
The piece has an airy feel, passages with high strings singing over chord changes. Beginning as orchestral music, the electronic elements gradually insert themselves into the increasingly complex texture of the wwork.
It's music that should satisfy your intellect as well as your senses.
Another Lucid Dream:
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