Jazz Articles about Donkey

Donkey: Show

by Richard Moule
December 1, 2001

Despite the unfortunate name, Hans Fjellestad and Damon Holzborn don’t make asses themselves here.On this series of live recordings, these two members of San Diego’s Trummerflora Collective explore the netherworld of electroacoustic improvisation, noise art and free form jazz. The majority of these pieces might be interpreted as simply being soundscapes but these aren’t passive synthesized washes. There is astringent, menacing tone to them. Fjellestad and Holzborn manipulate their hard wired instruments with a bracing intensity, shifting between ...