Hartsaw

Hartsaw / Aspelin / Smith / Bryerton: Ausfegen. Dedicated To Joseph Beuys

by Nic Jones
April 27, 2008

This is documentation of a never ending story, and it's that the story seems endlessly intriguing which makes for compelling listening. All four musicians are deeply schooled in the rigors of free improvisation, and every note and tone they produce makes that plain. Variety is further aided by the fact that the quartet is broken down into duos and trios on a lot of the pieces, a fact which affords the listener some degree of insight into how the responsiveness ...