Sound fartestry
My favorite record of the year so far, although we're only about a week in and it's the only record I've listened to so far this year (amazingly, to me)
and it was released in 2018... but it's really good. Hard-to-describe and haunting guitar music that positions itself in a dusty room and
leaves more of the trail of sun hitting the particles in the air near the guitar than the guitar itself in many moments. Makes me think of the Recital
label but this is more acousmatic and less concerned with western classical music. (It's still very much of the world of western harmony to my ears, but fragmented
and destructured into sound-mass enough to be more than just chords and rhythms.)
Although I participated again in this year's MEDIUM 24 hour long NYE drone,
I spent as much time listening as I did playing. This post could span two days into Thursday the 2nd, too --
I spent most of Thursday listening back to the archive recording which is still streaming on a day-long loop
on medium.radio.af.
I love when Brent Gutzeit blurs the line between mix, remix and collage. This mix tape goes all over & back again -- and works well as a
companion to his Pop Music album on LuvSound last year.
Took a long listening break... I didn't even notice this time.
Wilhelm took the above cover photo for Roots And Ripples - that is one of the best photos I've ever seen.
It might not be fair to say I actually listened to the Wayne Shorter and Hank Mobley albums. The soundscape in my apartment on Saturday was more a wash of screaming children and chattering
adults as I hosted a birthday party for my 94 year old grandmother. I stopped putting on music after the Mobley when it was clear nobody would be able to hear it! I am also regretting now that I
didn't have my field recorder going.
