Summary: <p>Part book club, part composer collective, Oracle Hysterical’s works occupy the fluid space between classically-inclined song-cycle and art-rock concept album. The group’s songs take on great literary with text sources from Grimms’ Fairy Tales to Greek tragedy, and falsely-attributed Shakespeare, all in modern settings that might be chamber rock, baroque folk or (staff favorite:) “Alt-classical.” The chamber band’s latest is "Hecuba," a “savage story of revenge in which the disgraced queen of Troy, Hecuba, with her city razed and her children murdered, descends from nobility to primal violence.” (<a href="https://nationalsawdust.org/event/oracle-hysterical/">National Sawdust</a>) Oracle Hysterical plays songs from it in-studio.</p> <p>Watch the full session here:</p> <p> </p> <p>Watch the individual songs below:</p>
