Penderecki – Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Will Yates: This was the first record I heard as a kid that showed me how extreme music could be. Truly powerful and fully capable of flooring a person. I saw »The Shining« at far too young an age, but although terrified, I was compelled by the music – most of which my dad happened to have on vinyl (he always told me Kubrick was a charlatan and didn’t pay the composers to use their music in his films, I’m not sure if this is true or not! Hah) – Either way, the music was incredible and taught me how much could be expressed through abstract vibrations alone. A lesson that has stayed with me.