stellar.

It’s so unusual for something to sound so chaotic and controlled at the same time

Saw him perform and every one just stood in silent awe. I couldn't find any friends to drag with me because selling them on "Hey let's go watch one dude play a sax" was an impossible thing to do, lol. I think he's one of those artists that you have to see live to fully appreciate and understand the technical merit. (Like El Ten Eleven)

I cant even begin to comprehend how much hes doing at once.

I'm currently learning this technique..I hide in the park at night and make these noises

6:09 the spiral is absolutely perfect. Like someone's emotions spinning out of control. Totally badass

Holy shit! I came from the Uzumaki trailer but I didn’t think I was hearing a sax playing the entire time! It sounded like a distorted guitar or a violin at times. And it’s just one sax too? I thought there were multiple instruments playing at the same time.

when he sings into that saxophone it sounds both like a newborn crying but also like a man in agony while still being melodic. pure emotion. I love it.

This is substantially less creepy with a man playing saxophone as the background as opposed to an evil spiral cloud demon thing

6:25 YO WATCHING HIM DO THAT HIGH PITCHED SCREAM SHOOK ME, HOW IS HE ABLE TO DO BOTH!?!?!?!?

His Embouchure is unlike anything I've ever heard. Singing UNDER embouchure WHILE circular breathing? How is this a human being? Give this man awards, immediately.

I don't know what it is about this sound that is so mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful. Amazing what this man can do with a saxophone. Literally sounds like a heavily distorted guitar with a delay pedal

When he screams into that thing I can't help but sob. Dude is tapping into something angelic

When i watched the Uzumaki trailer i thought there were actual voices, but now i realize he does everything with the sax.

6:40 literally like a electric guitar shredding backed with a heavenly choir 😍

when your boyfriend's dad curls himself into a spiral *music plays*

Listening to this with my cochlea.

When he hums into that thing it sounds like an explosion. One of the best musicians alive.

Currently going through my first read through on Uzumaki.

One of the most amazing performances i've ever heard. I cannot believe he is making all those sounds live, at the same time: simply blows my mind how much skill and effort is put into this.

I'm shaking man this dude could steal my soul with his sax and I'd be totally cool with it. This dude is a higher being with that thing

I started crying around the 5-6 minute mark. This is SO beautiful (in the nontraditional sense of the word), and, really, there couldn't have been any other music more fitting for a thing like Uzumaki. I don't think anybody could disagree. Stetson is criminally talented. Words cannot express how his creation makes me feel (not to mention the masterful soundtrack for Hereditary).

I remember when I did research on him for a project in one of my classes one thing he said really stood out to me. He said something along the lines of falling in love with doing music wrong on purpose. It made me realize that there's a balance of predictability and chaos to music and that I love music that skews towards the side of chaos, but doesn't sound very unnatural and out of place. Among the sef is an extremely good example of what I'm talking about. It's very chaotic and all over the place. Yet it still feels like every note shares it's place with one another. I can think of 3 artists that push that line past where they should be but still sound beautiful. Colin Stetson, Flume, and Porter Robinson. Flume pioneered multiple sub-genres of edm and is genuinely a genius when it comes to music. Porter dabbles a bit in experimental stuff but it always sounds good. His song dullscythe is a really good example of that. And he incorporates a lot of unconventional stuff in his normal songs, like the breakdown in mirror. Colin stetson is pushing that line pretty hard. Some of it hits, some of it misses. But I don't listen to saxophone solos (or really any band type music), and I go to listen to some of his songs every so often. He's pretty incredible at bending the line of what makes music "music"

Contrary of a lot of opinions if find the uzumaki trailer unable to express the true meaning of this song. It was said at an interview, this song is a metaphor of a lonely wale. And frankly when you see it that way. The sheer pain he expresses through the song is so much it can make someone like me cry. Absolute gorgeous of a play.

it is not often, that i need a minute of silence just to process something like this. absolutely stunned! the humming with the sax is just haunting.

I have watched this multiple times a day for over a week and it has still not gotten old.

Saw him at a Bon Iver concert in Orlando. Literally gave me chills and tears when I heard his solo.

This sounds so existentially terrifying, otherworldly and incomprehensible but at the same time uplifting and making peace with something beyond. It's feels like flying through the sky alone and accidentallly finding heaven, then never going back home.

I saw him perform live a couple of years ago and it was and still is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Genius.

The sheet music for this would just say "Have a panic attack" along with a bunch of arpeggios.

I need new lungs after watching this.

I'm not just talking about background or ambient sounds, I don't play sax but the intricacy and endurance of what he's playing is impressive in any place to me.

haven't been able to stop coming back to this over the past year . i think that i hope i never do

Honestly one of the most incredible pieces of music I've ever heard. I've been listening to it recently when I go walking/running, and it gives me chills every time. It's fucking insane that it's one dude and one instrument making the music. I love how it starts beautiful and then becomes distorted and haunting. I feel like some music tells an epic story, and this is one. It evolves as it goes on.

This is the best version. A solo symphony, that ebbs and flows and swirls and howls

Pure chaos flows through him and his instrument into this world.

7:09 how does he make that noise with his throat and everything else at the same time?

Totally inspiring. The guy is like a vortex of notes. Makes me want to do something equally unique with a different artform

Can't wait to hear his music when uzumaki comes out

That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my entire life.

How, though? He's like a marathon runner mixed with phillip glass and a PhD in classical saxophone.

This is one of my favourite musicians of all time. And people still say there's no good new music coming out...

it's a pity you cannot hit like every time you like this song. love it

Holy fucking shit I've never seen anything like this.

Bloddy hell, this is beautiful.

Am I the only one crying out of pure astonishment....

When you remember there are spirals in your ears

It's hard to believe this is all from one person in a single take.

Just absolutely fucking enthralled with this guy

I’ve never seen a saxophone played like it’s an electric guitar. Strong lungs!

He sounds like playing chordal tapping on the guitar. This guy is incredible.

His performance in this video conveys a lot of different emotions compared to the original for me, this one feels like a soaring, triumphant spectacle roaring to life in front of me, every peak is just higher than the last, it’s almost fantastical, while the original feels so much more somber and hopeless and terrifying and I don’t even know what it is but I’m in love with it

That instrument has complete control over his soul. He’s doing everything he can for it and it will never be enough.

my inner band geek is fangirling so hardcore right now

The freakin moans into the sax are so goddamn unsettling, mans got some amazing skills.

John Zorn meets Phillip Glass and a lil more.. pretty cool!

6:13 Wait does he also do those creepy moaning vocals for the song too? How many windpipes does this guy have?

im 30, im a grown man, why am i crying thank you so much for making this

I bet the team editing the Uzumaki trailer simply googled "music that sounds like a spiral" and this was the top search result

i cried

proof that man has indeed traveled to the moon and back

6:11 CRUSHES

Everyone’s giving the first song the spotlight but can we talk about how eerie the second one is.

Many people would use different sounds or instruments but this guy used only one. I'm really impressed. I like experimental music like this

this is just impressive, very very impressive. I'm in shock

this dude is somethin special.

Still love this video! 6:19 is my favorite part, that transition is perfect!

the way this song is composted is so cool to me, it totally sounds like a doppler effect. it feels like the sound is moving around and around in my head.....kind of like a....spiral😳

This is like a haunting; yet relaxing and beautiful melody. I could sleep and listen to this song for hours

That's one intense dial-up modem.

This is the most incredible thing I've seen this year.

holy fuck

who would have thought a guy in a tunnel with saxaphone would be one of the best things i've seen all year? "not i" said i that was killer...

I came here for the Uzumaki trailer and this gave me some bone chilling goosebumps

Breathtaking performance

I had no idea the saxophone could sound so beautiful and otherworldly

I just can't explain how I feel when I hear this, I've only felt this few times... Eddie van Halen being one of em. I'm definitely gonna learn the saxophone someday because of this.

i feel like that saxophone is just an alien that colin stetson forces noise out of

Colin Stetson is probably the best musician choice for uzumaki. Both have the common theme of finding beauty in chaos and people who arent into it think youre crazy

So glad I watched Hereditary and discovered this crazy music man!

Big thank-you to Sufjan Stevens for sending me here! This is phenomenal and I'm only a couple minutes in.

This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen a human being accomplish.

This guy is amazing.

im glad that i lived to see this

Seeing him actually performing this piece, I get it now. I completely get it now.

For those that don't know, Sef are octopi like things that crawl on land and wear the skin of the dead.

Wow. Reminds me a little of Philip Glass (on sax instead of strings). I don't play sax, but I'd imagine this guy's got some serious breath control and lungs of steel, no doubt!

Holy shit. How is this even possible? Hell, even the groaning noises are from the sax. It feels like a bunch of pieces of music being edited together. I mean he’s able to make so may distinct sounds all at once. Fuck! Edit: typo

if guitar hero had a saxophone mode this guy would be hitting wild clips

Dude, colin stetson is a saxophone god

This is so gorgeous. I cannot even explain the feeling I get watching this.

I can still hear An army of Angry Geese , ducks , swans chasing me.

this is the art of the spiral.

Who else is here because of the uzumaki trailer?

holy shit... is that tom hardy playing the xylophone?

Imagine being lost inside a tunnel and coming across Colin Stetson slowly echoing in the distance.

spirals... everywhere...

breathtaking.

Came here because of Uzumaki

the man is his own instrument