Marcia Bassett

Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett: Indexical​/​Rhizome

by Hrayr Attarian
October 29, 2024

New York based multiinstrumentalists Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett are both boundary pushing sonic explorers. Alone or together the pair often take music into uncharted territories. Their eighth duo release, Indexical/Rhizome, is made up of two long improvisations, recorded two years apart, on which Lubelski on violin and Bassett on guitar create electric and electrifying tonal structures. The earlier piece, “Indexical," from the early days of the COVID19 pandemic, starts with a drone that sets an ominously dark ...