Colin Stetson - The love it took to leave you (Unreleased)

A live performance taken from Adult Swim's 2020 online festival.
www.colinstetson.com/

[@zaephou2843]

My favourite from the Adult Swim comp.

[@storiez4boredom487]

Holy smokes...I just discovered this guy 30 minutes ago and now.... man....... awesome....

[@elshazlio]

Among the Sef & In Mirrors Spindrift

[@forevermidi_com]

Lol almost the same haha

[@Saxman_sam]

Remember hearing this when it first came out on adult swim and cried listening to it. Collin really knows how to evoke emotiona through the horn. I'm a saxophonist and all of the raw power it takes to play like this (it's actually kinda painful) to be circular breathing that much and getting the intervals between the singing and the ostinato chords he's playing. He makes it look effortless.

[@ValHeartNDHeartSuqquNoHeartPat]

Wait he’s the one singing too?

[@axelg5]

Yep, that's what the collar he's wearing is for

[@sirtomthecat]

there are musicians in this world and then there's this man and in my opinion on a skill level never before seen no words of mine are capable of capturing or describing the sheer beauty of this so just close your eyes and listen to it, not just hear it but listen to it...and feel it

[@seventhseraphim6257]

I wish the first 47 seconds had its own song just for those chords and sorrow. Dont get me wrong the rest of the song is great. The first part just resonates with my soul

[@smallbiggies_]

I would've loved a full song based on that part. 100% agree

[@valentinacortes3081]

All 3 "new history of warfare" albums of his have some song similar to that sentiment. My favorite is As a bird or branch. Very moving sounds that carve into bones

[@Tarasyoutube]

Try Arvo Pärt, Fratres

[@lookoutitscaleb]

I swear I've heard the first section somewhere before. In a film or maybe a dream? Truly incredible

[@mattymox86]

That gutteral whine of the sax I could listen too all day.

[@2mowglie]

I have no technical knowledge at all and I just can’t understand how his sax can produce that sound. Music from another planet 🚀

[@starblocks5479]

He's got a contact mic on his throat to capture the sound of his vocal cords directly.

[@ReeferSmoker]

@@starblocks5479 He also has contact mics on the back of his instruments to catch the percussive sounds

[@joelwhite2361]

I had a sax player explain this to me, he's doing what's called multiphonics. It's a thing unskilled sax players acciedentally do, but he has it so under control it's insane. Each note he plays is two notes. He's adding a third harmonic using growling and humming. Circular breathing keeps it going.

[@danielyaniuk]

It is very pure, primitive, like pure nature, roaring from the depths of the earth. He is a wonderful modern jazz player. thanks

[@0shivam0]

It must be hard for you to name these art pieces. They are so wonderfully created. It raises and knocks to the emotion we didn't know existed !

[@joanagoncalo3935]

I feel the same!

[@josh3488]

Still obsessed with this track, whenever Colin sings through the horn it makes me tremble. Release it pretty please!!!

[@nigelguiboche2840]

I knew I heard a voice in all that saxophone, I was beginning to think he’s just that good to make it sound like a voice.

[@wolke8246]

Amazing Artist. Beyond technical and extremly skilled, he knows how to create moods, breaths creativity. He s an outstanding musician to me.

[@itsok6640]

*the love of loss we call longing*

[@Strabius]

I'm in love with the first 47 seconds. The entire piece is beautiful, don't get me wrong, Ive been listening to it from beginning to end for a week, but it's those first chords that really grab me. It sounds like echos of wailing turned into music, like recalling a distant memory of when your heart was broken. It's an ache that you no longer feel unless you dwell on the memory, and then the rest of the track is that exact spiral into reliving the heartbreak before the pain finally dissipates into tolerance once more. The title "The love it took to leave you" couldn't describe that sound more perfectly than it does.

[@nickdodson]

👑👑👑 Your technique, overtones and circular breathing make for some of the most raw & emotional saxophone music I have ever experienced.

[@danielsmith5626]

he keeps getting better

[@maniacguitar]

I agree, like fine wine

[@spencerstead]

IT HAS RELEASED LETS GOOOOOOOO

[@luke144]

Masterpiece. The love it takes to leave something that has turned toxic for both people is agony if you have a heart. This piece of music is a perfect representation of that. I wept uncontrollably the first time I heard this. It was the beginning of the end of a rocky 22 year relationship with my best friend. We grew up together. She was my world. But she was Never happy and never content with her very privileged life. I had to raise out of the ashes and make a new life. Start over at 45yo... I guess life isn't easy for any of us. It's comforting to know there are others hurting out there for the very same reason. Some of us will give in to the darkness, some of us will light up with new possibilities. Ashes of fire. Which one are you.

[@jacobbernal4077]

As a saxophone major I love your work and aspire to be like you one day

[@SamVidovich]

Hard, howling sorrow.

[@SOFTWARMBEEST]

IT FINALLY GOT RELEASED!!!

[@trystanstrauss5585]

RELEASE THIS!!! its so beautiful...

[@francescrodrigomeneseseraz4541]

My ears are blessed now... I love your work Colin!

[@jaketaft7533]

You've gone and made me feel things. Well done sir.

[@starstrudel8417]

Truly unique, truly inspired. Doesn't beg to resemble any animal we know - we're the ones bearing witness, and it exists on its own terms. I loved every provocative second of this!

[@francoisrobert5218]

Please, release this song... I just found love. WOW!!!

[@barthahn43]

Mesmerizing, as always

[@felipemarey1595]

I want a released version, please I need it

[@wandersonmorais2819]

That, without doubt, its my "imprint" song of all repertoire. I absolutely love this song. Colin is a genius...

[@koryalmryde8648]

I first heard of Colin Stetson’s music in the 12 Years a Slave film. It was unlike anything I’ve ever heard or experienced. Truly tremendous, would love to see him live.

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

Amazing Performance.

[@jacobbernal4077]

This beautiful piece needs to be released🥲

[@MaximAmadi]

Nah this makes me travel through some portals of tranquility, beyond our realm of imagination, and I'm not even high yet

[@oscarmeza23]

Majestic

[@timmungenast]

Ye gods! This is maybe the most musical, shamelessly beautiful use of extended technique ever recorded!

[@icetusk]

I'm so glad you performed this. Such a beautiful song, it would be a shame if it had remained unreleased.

[@micajimenez1746]

it's amazing!!!! i love it. Your style has a big sound personality and emotion in those notes, and your breath for them it's amazing too.

[@floriangeyer1886]

Beautiful sound.

[@JasonBlair]

Mesmerizing.

[@kevinmuzik]

Colin Stetson's songs give me an emotional experience that no other artist has given me, being able to convey so much emotion through the use of just a single instrument

[@mahrard]

Fills the sonic landscape so well my mind joyfully wonders in awe. The last time I felt this with one man and one instrument was with Yann Thiersen.

[@forevermidi_com]

Wow. Just discovered this man. Exited.

[@richardhart2170]

Those first 40 seconds , I felt that ! How he manages to sing through that also blows my mind .

[@hakimblobby7953]

Please release this, it is so beautiful

[@bagobells]

Man watching this high has helped me realize how skillful this is like holy fuck. Its crazy how he controls his air. The song is like a dying love being revived. The song imitates an old dying animal wheeping it’s last breaths before feeling it’s soul returned into its body like a gust. Just for life to give it just one more chance at going. And it takes that chance to run like the wind.

[@jakubhulanicki7101]

I listened to Spindrift on LSD a while back and it was like listening to three songs at once, each slightly different

[@MirAltounji]

That was beautiful. Thank you.

[@Arliliberman]

stunning!!

[@alexpep8186]

Amazing!

[@kqjwhhsp1783]

This is so beautiful!!! I have no words

[@miguel09211994]

This is great

[@drsus0]

Just beautiful… wow

[@captndawn9222]

Going through a rough Divorce at the moment, and the first part just reminds me of all the pain I've been going through of love lost. Actually taking the love it took to say goodbye to my wife of 8 years. The parts after that definitely matches me trying to get my life together after its all said and done. Soul music for sure.

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

🤗

[@EhmteaNill]

this is one of the most amazing things i have ever heard. thank you so much for making this!

[@AzzSombie]

Thank you Colin for doing what you do. It feels as if I'm listening to music for the first and last time

[@gringo8472]

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised a lot of my favorite sounds from Bon Iver come from people like this. Always think of Justin Vernon but this dude is incredible

[@LaGuerre19]

He keeps getting better. Didn't think that possible. He's growing in POWER 🔋 💪 ✨️

[@Em4gdn1m]

I just don't understand how, at all, he does this. My brain does not comprehend.

[@monakurioza]

Dla mnie genialne ❤!

[@senor_lobo9149]

Este hombre hace que te conectes con todo el basto universo!

[@guysome3263]

10.000 A.D.: The descendants of humanity visit ancient earth to pay homage to its greatness and failures. They unearth this track.

[@GrethelQuintero]

Que belleza.

[@moritzrathmann2529]

Love

[@MariePillot]

Just Wooo

[@talivaldisozols1649]

I don’t know if anyone who would get this reference will ever watch the video but: The first moments of this sound like a No Man’s Sky trailer!

[@jesuschrist3439]

itd be amazing if they got colin stetson to do music for the game

[@markpurkis5358]

These lungs are gilded bellows.

[@Lalupin464]

This is the song that plays when Chase leaves Leo behind in Echo. If you know, you know.

[@whiskii]

BOSS

[@ShaneHornMusic]

Im trying so hard to learn this dang song ;-;

[@tiaraguy7705]

Genuinely did not know a Sax could be played like this

[@DjangoPorter]

At the intro Same melody and. Chords to mandy love theme. Soundtrack? I really enjoy. This music

[@voyes]

oh my god

[@succanproduce]

It's actually absurd, sick man

[@lucyloveskouta]

wow

[@elshazlio]

Nice

[@Splunchy]

Neat.

[@pierreboudry7515]

Theatre of Eternal Music - The Over Day (La Monte Young, 1963)

[@DanielSmith_19]

What an enthralling piece! Is there sheet music available to purchase somewhere?

[@mik-kosma-guitar]

The fast part reminds me of Vangelis' "Spiral". But this is great, I've never heard something like this before.

[@user-tk9ip8rb4i]

!!!!!!!!!!

[@sergeybroyak8242]

На берегу моря, когда вот-вот начнётся шторм, но есть ещё проблески солнца среди грозовых туч

[@tonymiranda5675]

This song instead of making me feel an emotion, like all his songs, it makes me think about pastel colors. Someone has a theory or knows the reason? Is the first time a song makes me feel that. (I already made this question in the comp video, but I would like to know your thoughts about this)

[@zapataratat]

its called synesthesia

[@danielwininger1750]

"Pointilism"

[@latitzouri]

My fiancee is now proceeding to a divorce with her ex-husband, they had been separated for many years before we met and stayed together because they have a child. I do not know why she left him because he doesn't seems like a bad person on the exterior, she wishes to stay distant for the moment, we call sometimes but I cannot be the one to help her emotionally in this painful moment. She is very intelligent and so is he, so am I too but I'm just having empathy for him because I love so much this woman, there's so much to appreciate from her and she is so beautiful in every aspect. It would hurt so much to be in his place and I feel guilty for being the one pulling her from this, I think she made her choice and I'll absolutely respect it but I wonder what made her think it's definitely un-healable.

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

Jeez. Anyone would be so lucky to have someone this self-aware and empathetic. You're both very lucky. The person I'm with of 15 years is hopelessly toxic. We have a child now so I'm not leaving anytime soon. Just trying to learn to live a life holding a grenade w the pin pulled. Enjoy

[@latitzouri]

@@a.nobodys.nobody I'm so sorry, I hope you'll find your way out of this soon. Any way it may be. I don't know how old your child is but while divorce is a bad thing, having two parents that should be divorced still in the same house is a very bad thing. Maybe you're still emotionally attached in some way and can heal that, solve an addiction or evolve in some way. Anyway, wish you the best

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

@@latitzouri 5 months. It breaks my heart to consider that what's best for him would be for us to separate. If I had the means to leave and still stay in his life, I would do it in a heartbeat, but right now I don't. It's a sad game. The name of this song has always hit me hard. Thanks for sharing and the kind words. Hold on tight to your lady

[@dennettshane1929]

Enormous

[@Tremors-8]

I swear this sounds so familiar. Anyone know if there's a popular movie or tv show that has similar music to this? Love it.

[@magic8ball422]

I think I heard this in Dune

[@smallbiggies_]

Hereditary? Midsommar? Uzumaki?

[@TheALfever]

Stetson’s song Spindrift (which apparently sounds very similar to this song, because I instantly recognized it) was in the documentary The Alpinist.

[@gant73]

Is there a transcription of this anywhere. Please tell me.

[@michelemichele7178]

Okay the first 45 seconds yeah absolutely you guys are right that's really special little segment. But I can't believe nobody else has felt like it's underwater music I mean I mean it could be whales there's definitely whales there wherever this place is this music was being made but it's like maybe maybe the person is drowning maybe they were on a ship that sunk like the Titanic or something probably probably is what what it is but I have to listen to it more than friends obviously LOL like this headphones on in the dark definitely that kind of music but oh my God it's such a major epic total underwater so moving and beautiful underwater music.... But it definitely makes me feel bad for the whales I have to listen to it again hear what it's saying to me....🙏🏽🤍✌🏼🌼

[@michelemichele7178]

Yeah I don't know why it said more than friends I said that I needed to listen to this more than once like with headphones on in the dark etc...🙄 Just stupid autocorrect always f**** me up

[@jefft4966]

Sounds like the score The First, but this gem never got released.

[@timblighton6216]

Duende

[@lewissherman9958]

did he actually leave sarah neufeld.....i saw another girl lying on his lap at the alarme festival in berlin summer 2019, and was concerned that we may never hear another duet album ... the title of this track confirms as much?

[@charlesroydubuc4870]

does somebody know what's the thing around his neck??

[@MrsCoqui]

It’s a contact mic attached to his neck to catch his vocals

[@zeryanbek]

What genre is this? specifically the first part

[@ely8459]

post-minimalism, the first part could be drone music

[@jcube167]

Is this the piece used for uzumaki

[@mattcyktor2385]

Sorry I'm late lol, but the piece in the Uzumaki is called "Among the Sef"

[@jcube167]

​@@mattcyktor2385sorry for the late response thank you so much

[@marionow6227]

I wonder if he was inspired by didgeridoo playing, where its common to do circulair breathing and use your voice while blowing into the didge. Anyway, this guy is a master...

[@Boykotron]

Dante's Inferno

[@riclacy3796]

I want to say something profound, but I don't have the words.

[@Tarasyoutube]

hello

[@MaximAmadi]

release this or i will unlike the video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Vn0-]

this would be badass as background music for a cod menu screen

[@Tarasyoutube]

We're all isands

[@Tarasyoutube]

What are you tAlking about??!! Abandoning humans is disgusting and immoral not lol 'love'.

[@reservoirdog1]

Don't be so daft. The purest form of love can only be attained far away from people who harm you. Who gives a shit if a narcissistic manipulator is "just a human that deserves love tho!!" fuck that.