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Aaron Dugan + Jeff Arnal: Dog Day
ByDugan begins with swift changes of riffs that are responded to immediately by the Arnal 's rolling drumming, locked on a fitting groove, with both retaining the tension and drama. Even on sparer tracks including "Trickum Shoals," "Pisco," "App" and "Allenby" you can sense the intense textures that both can form, without loading them down with too many notes. Rather, they experiment with fresh ideasimprovising on a simple, repeating thorny guitar line; creating eerie sound ambience by bowing the cymbals and stressing the metallic sounds of the drums; and adding atmospheric electronic effects to the guitar.
Dugan and Arnal explode on "Magic Hour," one of the longest tracks, featuring distorted, Hendrix-ian guitar pyrotechnics and dense polyrhythmic drumming. Their tight interplay is always stressed, and the dense "Collision" demonstrate how fast they read each other's moves and push the sonic envelope forward. On "Lisboa," the distant echoing guitar and fractured touches on the drum set offer a tensed cinematic atmosphere, and on "Paz" both are toying with an open-form bluesy scale.
The constant flows of original ideas, and the duo's fresh approach, intensity and creative playing command attention, making this a 45-minute, totally absorbing sonic journey.
Track Listing
Pyrene; Trickum Shoals; Pisco; Flutter Code; Lenora; Magic Hour; APP; Dead in the Water; Collision; Lisboa; Last Legs; Allenby; Paz; Patch of Yellow and Blue.
Personnel
Aaron Dugan
guitarJeff Arnal
percussionAlbum information
Title: Dog Day | Year Released: 2008 | Record Label: C3R
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