The Gymnopédies are only one example of Satie's technique of melodic development: his entire œvre could be viewed as a homage to pure melody, divorced from the implications of sentimentality imposed upon it by the romantics. Satie's gift was for writing beautiful melodies - not merely pretty ones - and his inspiration was for setting them in contexts which allowed them to be heard clearly.
Falling somewhere in the wonderful middle ground between jazz, post-rock, and indie, Yuurei Shimai writes songs full of restless tension. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 5, 2023