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Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth: Wires and Wooden Boxes
by AAJ Staff
For pure sonic experimentation, string instruments offer some very attractive options. They bear complex higher-level overtones, which can be crafted and manipulated using various percussive and abrasive approaches. They're amenable to amplification, which can introduce another whole bag of tricks. And they're generally attached to resonant pieces of wood, which often work quite well as percussion instruments in and of themselves.
Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Chris Forsyth take this idea as their lead concept for their second collaboration, aptly named Wires ...
read moreW.O.O Revelator: The Theory of Reversed Effort
by Glenn Astarita
” W.O.O Revelator” is a band accustomed to authenticating that – very special – groove on live concert recordings, and with their 4th release, the trio proliferates their very distinct blend of semi-controlled sonic mayhem from within the confines of the studio. The Theory of Reversed Effort is a feast for the adventure seeker’s psyche, featuring saxophonist and EFX practitioner Bonnie Lane, avant-garde guitarist Chris Forsyth and the rhythmically explosive drummer, Ray Sage.
In many instances this powerful little band ...
read moreAll Time Present: Good Vibrations/No Expectations
by Glenn Astarita
The New York City-based “Evolving Ear” record label gets out of the gate in a flurry with this ambitious new release by the three guitar, two drummer/percussionist aggregation known as “All Time Present”. On, Good Vibrations/No Expectations the quintet performs within an unclassifiable climate, teeming with abstracts, surreal dialogue, happenstance and curiously interesting interplay amid untitled yet numerically identified tracks.
The overall tone of this effort is fabricated upon spontaneous interaction and spurious invention, whereas percussionists David Gould and Toshi ...
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