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Jon Mueller / Jason Khan: Supershells
by John Eyles
With no tracks listed--there are two pieces here, total duration 45 minutes--and little information presented beyond the fact that it was recorded in concert in October 2005 in Milwaukee, this release is appealingly minimalist in its design and its packaging. Appropriately enough, it is also appealingly minimalist when it plays.
Largely forsaking overtly expressed rhythm, Jon Mueller and Jason Khan show admirable restraint in their use of percussion, with little evidence of objects being struck--one dramatically placed snare shot is ...
read moreJon Mueller/Jim Schoenecker: The Interview
by Mark Corroto
In the Tour de France, the bicycle race (not Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations tours), the organizers rate the mountains the competitors are required to cycle over. There is a category 1 climb: a little hill; category 2: a bigger hill; and so on. They reserve the designation HC" for hors catergorie, or a beyond category climb, one that even automobiles find difficult.
Please allow me to rate The Interview by Jon Mueller (percussion) and Jim Schoenecker (synthesizer) as ...
read moreJon Mueller: What's Lost Is Something Important. What's Found Is Something Not Revealed
by Mark Corroto
From the it must be music, because this ain't no painting" department comes a new solo release from percussionist Jon Mueller.
The one-time member of Pele, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Raccoons and collaborator with Bhob Rainey and Jack Wright recorded this thirty-two and a half minutes of sound. It comes with instructions to play at maximum volume in a large empty room."? I thought about moving the sofa but needed something to sit on. ...
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