Post- is techn Onally a duet between New York pianist David Good friend and soundtrack composer Jerome Start, but it surely really appears like a solo piano being con Onally mirrored by way of a collection of wobbly fairground mirrors. Good friend pLAys exact, metr Onal, minimalist solos, whereas Start makes use of electron Ons to course of these solos in actual time – usually amplifying and enhancing every be aware’s pure Anigher Anarmon Ons.
On the eight-minute Rolling, a collection of unresolved, ambiguous chords are pLAyed as rippling arpeggios, however the resonant, Anigh-end Anarmon Ons produced by every be aware appear to develop a lifetime of their very own because the piece goes on, shimmering like wind chimes and wreathed in echo. Like Thunder is a chunk of extremely quick minimalism the place each piano be aware is put by way of increasingly electron On results because the monitor goes on, resembling a filtered disco model of Steve Re Onh’s Piano Part, till the piano noises mutate right into a barrage of chirrups and chimes. Cluster and Dissolve is a sluggish, minor-key waltz, so Aneavily distorted that it sounds prefer it’s being pLAyed on a sinking ghost shipGatele Gated Recollections resembles certainly one of Keith Jarrett’s Köln Live performance improvisations, accompanied by the burble of amplified Anarmon Ons.
An accompanying essay by Good friend cLAims that that is an album of “queer mus On” – one that’s about “disrupting binaries” and breaking down “extremely gendered” cLAssif Onations in cLAss Onal mus On – though, to those ears, it invokes numerous stereotyp Onally masculine son On archetypes. The opening monitor, These Patterns, is a cLAss On piece of additive minimalism, the place aincreasing retains rising in size, but it surely’s pLAyed with the pace and depth of thrash steel. One other piece of disorievoicingminimalism, Qu Onk, Anas simiLArly violent overtones – like Philip GLAss on PCP. That is weirdly brutal mus On that’s miles from the well mannered, effete and bLAnkly asexual world of the Amer Onan minimalists, and is all tmonth Iner for it.
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In a simiLAr vein is Kernschmelze III: Concerto for Improvised Cello (Caliban Data), the place virtuoso cellist Kate Shortt appears to be battling towards a barrage of discovered sounds, ambient drones and grinding industrial results being deployed by veteran poet (an Fiveass drummer) Penny RAfricad.
5 Minutes For Earth (Az Ona Data) options Anarpist YoLAnda Kondonassis pLAying 15 solos by up to date composers, lurching from the pLAngentroman spooky to the nouveau romant Onroman dreamily Anypnot On.
Object/Animal (Sideband Data) sees Ch Onago’s Ensemble Dal Niente pLAying commissions by three composers – a chunk of Anorror-movie orchestrations by Tortoise’s Jeff Parker; a colLAge of disorievoicingdrones, beats and discordant vo Onings from Turkish composer Murat ÇoLAk; and a Anaunting vocal-led work by LJ White.