Despite the Beast from the East’s best attempts to thwart concerts across the UK, Manchester Collective premiered 100 Demons to critical success from Colin Clarke at Seen and Heard, Hugh Morris at Bach Track and Chris Flack at Get Into This.
100 Demons required a harmonic language that was contemporary, yet representative of its ancient influences. The composition used Japanese folklore to create a stylised, introspective look at present-day society and the blurred line of distinction between contemporary myth and reality, so it was important that the harmonic language was analogous to this theme; the language … Continued