This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self titled album from GODTET + The Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
At once bold and nuanced, this album explores the friction between improvisation and orchestration. Where the orchestra is anchored in fully composed material, GODTET remains free – navigating the work's harmonic architecture with instinct and spontaneity. Structures are fixed, but expression is fluid.
Orchestrated and brought vividly to life by Novak Manojlovic, GODTET’s long-time collaborator and musical polymath, the work bridges the worlds of bedroom production and classical tradition. His arrangements offer not just translation but transformation. Amplifying the ensemble’s rhythmic language through the rich sonic canvas of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
The result is a deeply textural suite that amplifies the best of both disciplines: GODTET’s idiosyncratic groove and live sampling artistry converging with the symphonic weight and colour of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Under the baton of Nicholas Buc, GODTET + The Sydney Symphony Orchestra doesn’t just blend genres, it dissolves hierarchies. It’s a declaration that music born in warehouses and bedrooms can belong in concert halls, and that authenticity transcends format. This is GODTET in full bloom, expansive, fearless, and profoundly moving.
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from GODTET + The Sydney Symphony Orchestra. PBS Members have the chance to win a vinyl copy of the album - simply email your name and membership number to before midnight Sunday December 7.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Hania Rani, Jack Wyllie & Manchester Collective - 'Non Fiction: III. Misterioso'
EX GENERATION - 'More Saiyaan'
Strange Fruit - 'Iridescent'
Amamelia - 'Summerlong'
Bic Runga - 'Red Sunset'
Owelu Dreamhouse - 'Niger River'
Miss Kaninna - 'Backstreets'
Romy Vager and LJ Dacio - 'I Want To Hear A Woman Sing'
The Antics - 'Ripped'
Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - 'No Pigs'
