For
those who were unaware, Stephanie Lak has become somewhat of a hero by setting
up the very thing this title says- a free school for children to participate in
art programs. It is quite an ingenious
idea but isn’t really the focus of this piece of music I’d say, though this
really doesn’t sound like Pink Floyd or Nirvana either as they have both had
songs that touched upon the subject of education.
With
drum machine beats, strings, synth and feedback drone Stephanie Lak provides a
steadily paced concerto with machine gun blasts that are sure to make even the
most jaded of listeners think about and wonder why there are so many school
shootings these days. When I was kid, I
always dreaded “Field Day” and sometimes we got particular substitute teachers
we didn’t like, but I never had to worry about wearing a bullet proof
vest. What is wrong with kids, man?
The
track concludes with applause and that is the only way for me to tell that this
was performed in front of other people as opposed to being a home recording or
in a studio or whatever. That just
goes to show you that sometimes recording shouldn’t really be all that
complicated, should it? This is kind of
like a free lesson in music in that sense and you can thank Ms. Lak later.
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