Savage Grace...a savage paradox
Savage Grace is a band whose music and story is as paradoxical as its name.
Snage Grace...a savage paradox
(on Warner/Reprise)
Savage Grace is a band whose music and story is as paradoxical as its name. Over the past year, since their formation in early 1969, the Savage Grace have been surprising audiences and musicians with their music, an eclectic combination of sophisticated structure (frame-wise, not note for note) and overt concern with melody along with that basic raw energy that seems innate to Detroit Rock. This controlled high energy keeps them from falling into the stilted empty riffs of their comtemporaries with similar degrees of classical/jazz orientation.
This same orientation, that is in many other cases just rehashed classical music (’bad Beethoven’ as they say) is well utilized and makes the Grace unique on the Detroit scene. The Savage Grace alone have ' those immeasurable surges of raw excitement while maintaining a high level of sophistication. Herein lies part of the paradox that is the Savage Grace.
Within lies the unique and contradictory backgrounds and personalities of the individual members of Savage Grace. And, like the name and the muxic, the coalescence of these musicians exemplifies paradox.