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Kyle Dean Reinford

Clogs, Bell Orchestre, the Brooklyn Philharmonic (and Sufjan Stevens & Shara Worden) @ BAM (Shuffle Mode) - pics

photos by Kyle Dean Reinford

Shuffle Mode

“Shuffle Mode,” the Brooklyn Philharmonic program on Thursday night [2/26] at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, put the orchestra on an equal footing with two indie-rock bands: Clogs, from Brooklyn, and Bell Orchestre, from Montreal. Both are connected to better-known indie-rock bands: two members of Clogs are in the National, and two members of Bell Orchestre are in Arcade Fire.

More to the point, both include conservatory-trained musicians writing what’s essentially chamber music, using the same pool of ideas as nominally classical contemporary composers: Minimalist repetition, elements of traditional music and a rediscovery of melody. [NY Times]

All three groups were on stage at the same time (playing in “shuffle mode”). Though the music is/was mostly intrumental, as promised, there were guest vocalists. Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) sang one song with Clogs and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and then Shara and Sufjan Stevens joined Clogs for the song “We Were Here”. More pictures below…

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The same lineup played the much smaller Tonic in Manhattan in 2005.

Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy play in the same location with the Brooklyn Philharmonic tonight (2/28)

National tour dates HERE.