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Review: Dana Jessen - Carve

Bassoonist Dana Jessen is losing herself, finding herself, losing herself. The four longest pieces on Carve are the works of guest composers, all of which generate strange new realities for Jessen to inhabit. They are wastelands drenched in a precipitation of glitches, deathly sunsets over panoramic countryside, field recordings that

Review: Chris Campbell - Things You Already Know

How does something become part of your life? How do you bring that integrated, non-dual state of mind into the messy reality we live in? How do you express that through the very specific lens of self? In a sense, these questions posed by Campbell on the CD inlay only

Review: The Living Earth Show - High Art

For those who fell in love with Earth’s post-millennial reincarnation as a ghost town blues band, the movements of Samuel Carl Adams’ “Tension Study” will no doubt feel familiar. It’s an elephantine ballet; a precise alternation between hesitation (stifled percussion, muted muscle contraction) and luxurious release – a to-and-fro

Review: Minneapolis Guitar Quartet - Thrum

This is my very first experience of Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, who have actually been performing as a collective since 1996. It feels like a great place to start. Even if the quartet’s talents extend beyond what can be heard on this disc, the collection is an allusion to this

Review: Yvonne Troxler - Brouhaha

Troxler seems to unpeel the supposed immediacy of sound to reveal the potential for music that resides within and behind; music tucked away within the bustle of the everyday, stashed underneath the most mysterious of sonic unknowns – even music that lurks within music, expanding seemingly flat sonic surfaces to position

Review: Erdem Helvacioglu + Ulrich Mertin - Planet X

“Without warning, a new object – Planet X – appeared in the heavens: a mysterious entity intruding upon a vast ancient system. Hailed as a paradise by some, an expeditionary force discovers instead that it represents a menace to human existence. Hunted by a superior alien intelligence and explorer is trapped and

Review: David Kechley - Colliding Objects

In many ways, Kechley seems to be bypassing the notions of what percussion could be to focus on what percussion is: it’s an impact, a duration, a decay, an anticipation, a presence, an absence, an exertion, an action. There’s undoubtedly a certain whiff of abstraction throughout Colliding Objects