Beats Go On: Eccentric Opera’s Serenade

Serenade is from The Eccentric Opera album ‘Hymne’ and builds up with some wonderful string plucking before the beats kick in and the operatic lyrics begin to soar. It’s also pretty long, has a great ebb and flow, and has some good patterns on hard and extreme difficulty.

Long ago, in the days of Audiogalaxy, I was just getting into South Korea’s dance sensation, Pump it Up, when I went scouring the internet for more music from the k-pop groups in the game. I happened upon a song called Condor Wa Tonde Yuku. It had somehow come up under a K-Pop song title and until just recently I hadn’t bothered to search out the artists; The Eccentric Opera. Surprisingly little is documented in english about these two japanese women who tend to compose in french and put an electronic spin on traditional music styles.