Colin Stetson - Among The Sef & In Mirrors | A Take Away Show 

It’s so unusual for something to sound so chaotic and controlled at the same time

How, though? He's like a marathon runner mixed with phillip glass and a PhD in classical saxophone.

this dude is somethin special.

This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen a human being accomplish.

whoa slow down there buddy

You fucking genious !!!

Holy shit! I came from the Uzumaki trailer but I didn’t think I was hearing a sax playing the entire time! It sounded like a distorted guitar or a violin at times. And it’s just one sax too? I thought there were multiple instruments playing at the same time.

I'm currently learning this technique..I hide in the park at night and make these noises

when he sings into that saxophone it sounds both like a newborn crying but also like a man in agony while still being melodic. pure emotion. I love it.

His Embouchure is unlike anything I've ever heard. Singing UNDER embouchure WHILE circular breathing? How is this a human being? Give this man awards, immediately.

When i watched the Uzumaki trailer i thought there were actual voices, but now i realize he does everything with the sax.

I don't know what it is about this sound that is so mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful. Amazing what this man can do with a saxophone. Literally sounds like a heavily distorted guitar with a delay pedal

stellar.

Listening to this with my cochlea.

when your boyfriend's dad curls himself into a spiral *music plays*

This is substantially less creepy with a man playing saxophone as the background as opposed to an evil spiral cloud demon thing

6:09 the spiral is absolutely perfect. Like someone's emotions spinning out of control. Totally badass

Currently going through my first read through on Uzumaki.

Who else is here because of the uzumaki trailer?

I cant even begin to comprehend how much hes doing at once.

The sheet music for this would just say "Have a panic attack" along with a bunch of arpeggios.

Saw him perform and every one just stood in silent awe. I couldn't find any friends to drag with me because selling them on "Hey let's go watch one dude play a sax" was an impossible thing to do, lol. I think he's one of those artists that you have to see live to fully appreciate and understand the technical merit. (Like El Ten Eleven)

Came here because of Uzumaki

When you remember there are spirals in your ears

One of the most amazing performances i've ever heard. I cannot believe he is making all those sounds live, at the same time: simply blows my mind how much skill and effort is put into this.

7:09 how does he make that noise with his throat and everything else at the same time?

When he hums into that thing it sounds like an explosion. One of the best musicians alive.

6:40 literally like a electric guitar shredding backed with a heavenly choir 😍

6:13 Wait does he also do those creepy moaning vocals for the song too? How many windpipes does this guy have?

I need new lungs after watching this.

Can't wait to hear his music when uzumaki comes out

6:25 YO WATCHING HIM DO THAT HIGH PITCHED SCREAM SHOOK ME, HOW IS HE ABLE TO DO BOTH!?!?!?!?

I came here for the Uzumaki trailer and this gave me some bone chilling goosebumps

I bet the team editing the Uzumaki trailer simply googled "music that sounds like a spiral" and this was the top search result

Contrary of a lot of opinions if find the uzumaki trailer unable to express the true meaning of this song. It was said at an interview, this song is a metaphor of a lonely wale. And frankly when you see it that way. The sheer pain he expresses through the song is so much it can make someone like me cry. Absolute gorgeous of a play.

Holy fucking shit I've never seen anything like this.

I'm shaking man this dude could steal my soul with his sax and I'd be totally cool with it. This dude is a higher being with that thing

The textures are amazing. First thought Colin was using pedals or any technical support, but NO.

I started crying around the 5-6 minute mark. This is SO beautiful (in the nontraditional sense of the word), and, really, there couldn't have been any other music more fitting for a thing like Uzumaki. I don't think anybody could disagree. Stetson is criminally talented. Words cannot express how his creation makes me feel (not to mention the masterful soundtrack for Hereditary).

we out here putting grown men back in uteruses

holy shit... is that tom hardy playing the xylophone?

That's one intense dial-up modem.

holy fuck

Still have no idea what a Sef is

When he screams into that thing I can't help but sob. Dude is tapping into something angelic

I saw him perform live a couple of years ago and it was and still is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Genius.

who would have thought a guy in a tunnel with saxaphone would be one of the best things i've seen all year? "not i" said i that was killer...

I remember when I did research on him for a project in one of my classes one thing he said really stood out to me. He said something along the lines of falling in love with doing music wrong on purpose. It made me realize that there's a balance of predictability and chaos to music and that I love music that skews towards the side of chaos, but doesn't sound very unnatural and out of place. Among the sef is an extremely good example of what I'm talking about. It's very chaotic and all over the place. Yet it still feels like every note shares it's place with one another. I can think of 3 artists that push that line past where they should be but still sound beautiful. Colin Stetson, Flume, and Porter Robinson. Flume pioneered multiple sub-genres of edm and is genuinely a genius when it comes to music. Porter dabbles a bit in experimental stuff but it always sounds good. His song dullscythe is a really good example of that. And he incorporates a lot of unconventional stuff in his normal songs, like the breakdown in mirror. Colin stetson is pushing that line pretty hard. Some of it hits, some of it misses. But I don't listen to saxophone solos (or really any band type music), and I go to listen to some of his songs every so often. He's pretty incredible at bending the line of what makes music "music"

It's hard to believe this is all from one person in a single take.

For those that don't know, Sef are octopi like things that crawl on land and wear the skin of the dead.

it's a pity you cannot hit like every time you like this song. love it

I can't believe the same guy who made music like this had his songs featured in a shrek meme

John Zorn meets Phillip Glass and a lil more.. pretty cool!

The «moaning» at 6:20 is also made with the sax? O.o

Totally inspiring. The guy is like a vortex of notes. Makes me want to do something equally unique with a different artform

proof that man has indeed traveled to the moon and back

it is not often, that i need a minute of silence just to process something like this. absolutely stunned! the humming with the sax is just haunting.

Saw him at a Bon Iver concert in Orlando. Literally gave me chills and tears when I heard his solo.

Holy shit. How is this even possible? Hell, even the groaning noises are from the sax. It feels like a bunch of pieces of music being edited together. I mean he’s able to make so may distinct sounds all at once. Fuck! Edit: typo

my inner band geek is fangirling so hardcore right now

spirals... everywhere...

Just absolutely fucking enthralled with this guy

Came here because of uzumaki stayed because this music creeps me out

Topicality aside, holy shit, this performance is absolutely ridiculous.

This man plays the sexphone

Honestly one of the most incredible pieces of music I've ever heard. I've been listening to it recently when I go walking/running, and it gives me chills every time. It's fucking insane that it's one dude and one instrument making the music. I love how it starts beautiful and then becomes distorted and haunting. I feel like some music tells an epic story, and this is one. It evolves as it goes on.

U う Zu ず Ma ま Ki き

I came here NOT because of Uzumaki. I've just always liked his music. Though Uzumaki is pretty cool

I’ve never seen a saxophone played like it’s an electric guitar. Strong lungs!

Is there a spiral in the ear?

6:11 CRUSHES

I'm not just talking about background or ambient sounds, I don't play sax but the intricacy and endurance of what he's playing is impressive in any place to me.

Bloddy hell, this is beautiful.

I will never look at a Saxophone the same way again.

i’m hopefully trying to learn how to play this on my (intentionally untuned) violin, wish me luck

i cried

He sounds like playing chordal tapping on the guitar. This guy is incredible.

The freakin moans into the sax are so goddamn unsettling, mans got some amazing skills.

Everyone’s giving the first song the spotlight but can we talk about how eerie the second one is.

I'm mezmerized.

This is one of my favourite musicians of all time. And people still say there's no good new music coming out...

this is just impressive, very very impressive. I'm in shock

Am I the only one crying out of pure astonishment....

This framing of this video along with his style seems to be a tribute to pharoah sanders’ “kazuko”

His performance in this video conveys a lot of different emotions compared to the original for me, this one feels like a soaring, triumphant spectacle roaring to life in front of me, every peak is just higher than the last, it’s almost fantastical, while the original feels so much more somber and hopeless and terrifying and I don’t even know what it is but I’m in love with it

I have watched this multiple times a day for over a week and it has still not gotten old.

Colin Stetson is probably the best musician choice for uzumaki. Both have the common theme of finding beauty in chaos and people who arent into it think youre crazy

Still love this video! 6:19 is my favorite part, that transition is perfect!

This gives me PTSD back when I watched Hereditary

Pure chaos flows through him and his instrument into this world.

Is he making those background noises as well? Wtf shits insane

Many people would use different sounds or instruments but this guy used only one. I'm really impressed. I like experimental music like this

That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my entire life.

Tunel is a good spot for some spiral g_g

haven't been able to stop coming back to this over the past year . i think that i hope i never do

a fucking saxaphone creeped me out?!

I can still hear An army of Angry Geese , ducks , swans chasing me.

This sounds so existentially terrifying, otherworldly and incomprehensible but at the same time uplifting and making peace with something beyond. It's feels like flying through the sky alone and accidentallly finding heaven, then never going back home.

Big thank-you to Sufjan Stevens for sending me here! This is phenomenal and I'm only a couple minutes in.

the way this song is composted is so cool to me, it totally sounds like a doppler effect. it feels like the sound is moving around and around in my head.....kind of like a....spiral😳