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Adam Bohman & Roger Smith: Reality Fandango

Read "Reality Fandango" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 1, 2007

Adam Bohman alle prese con oggetti di tutti i tipi ed un violino preparato e Roger Smith alla chitarra, si preoccupano in primo luogo di non fare riconoscere i proprii strumenti, trasformati in fonti di suono/rumore che sfuggono ad ogni classificazione. Sottili, eterei, i due strumenti si avvicinano l'uno all'altro strisciando e sfregando le superfici, creando in questo lungo album momenti interessanti in cui si gioca con le dinamiche, insieme ad altri più statici in cui si cerca una via ...

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Album Review

Adam Bohman & Roger Smith: Reality Fandango

Read "Reality Fandango" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
April 27, 2007

Roger Smith has, in common with other guitarists mining this seam of free improvisation, worked beyond the perhaps pervasive influence of Derek Bailey. Such are the dry, dynamically constricted soundscapes he fashions here in company with violinist Adam Bohman that a distinct instrumental vocabulary emerges. The music as such is documentation of a work in progress, and this is just as it should be, antithetical as it is to the notion of playing licks or simply rehashing a collection of ...