Analyse what you hear in this extract in terms of relevent:
  • Musical features: such as (but not limited to) harmony, melody, rhythm, instrumentaion
  • Structural features: such as (but not limited to) form, phrases, motifs, texture
  • Contextual features: such as (but not limited to) style, time, culture, geography, history

Musical Features
Instrumentation; Drums, saxophone, bass, piano and vibraphone. The melody is played by the saxophone and
the rythem is played by the bass and drums. The drums and bass plays many offbeat notes. The drum
plays a continuous beat, using small fills. The alto sax not only plays the rythem but also plays several off beat high notes to
emphasise the music's experimental elements.

Structural features

The structure is ABAB.
It is polyrythmic.
2/4
The introduction to the piece is atonal.
The song is in minor key.

Contextual features
The style which is most prominent in the piece is jazz. However the piece has elements of experimental music
in the use of drones, samples and disonance . The introduction especially sounds experimental. The rim shot played on the drums
gives it a jazz feel. It sounds like modern jazz from the 1980's. Probably from the United States.