Comment:
a first thought of mine was it is music for cello, and live
electronics. However, I was totally wrong because instead of a cello
Daniel Barbiero plays a bowed double bass, and Ken Moore employs a
tam-tam (it is a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate
that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick). It embraces seven
improvised compositions full of space, and time, full of different
frequencies and changes within it. Even if one used to think of it to
as an austere one because of a minimal amount of instruments it is in
fact a far more than a sum of its initial parts. It is saturated with
grayish delay effects, achromatic reverberations, some gong-induced
slams and mournful drones beneath it. In the terms of metal as an
element, it is filled with different sort of clattery, rusty grinding
and reddish-tinged rattles. It must be called synaesthesia, if you
hear colours or at least the spectra of them. This could be a good
soundtrack for a contemporary gothic motion picture, at least to
depict some (horrendous) scenes within it. As I understood the tracks
are not recorded in one and the same place, not during the one
tenure. The issue is a part of the discography of Chicago, US-based
experimental imprint pan y rosas discos. Very intriguing outing
indeed.
