A Human Work, a free Evangelion concept album
By The Eva Monkey on Friday, February 14th, 2014
I really enjoy seeing fan-produced concept and tribute music dedicated to Evangelion. It’s interesting to see how people take a (predominantly) visual medium like animation and break it apart and reinterpret it through an aural medium like music. In this case, we have an ambient concept album called “A Human Work” by Kyle Edwards. Through a short set of six tracks, Kyle reinterprets music and samples from Evangelion to explore the show’s themes, in particular, the theme of fear. There are indeed points in the middle of the album that perfectly capture the disturbing and unsettling aspects of the show. As a whole, the album takes the listener from the abstract, to the unsettling, and then back out again with some calming melodies at the end. I’m not a huge fan of ambient electronic music, but I think it’s worth giving a listen if you’re into electronic or ambient. It is free after all, so why not?
- “A Human Work” on Bandcamp (Free!)
Some other Evangelion fan music worth checking out:
- Seventeen More Times by Esselfortium
- A Thousand Angels and With Me Now by Rachel Macwhirter
- Asuka by Free Parking!
- Neon Genesis by DJ S3RL
- TANG! and Clone Girl by Dr. Shoggoth