020Graveyards
Esprit de Corpse
cd-r edition of 100
David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue: Starts off in a minimal/glacial style that has aspects of Akio Suzuki and Sean Meehan before moving into some manhandled very 20th century avant-sounding tone poetry with orchestral percussion, bass clarinet (?) and high lonesome electronics. Really something else. Aspects of this touch on Keiji Haino's Nijiumu, Barre Phillips' solo bass constructs, Cro-Magnon, Berg and Stockhausen while retaining the post-AACM intimacy and fully thought-through single note minimalism of their earlier sides. Can't think of any other group working inside free jazz constructs that make such seamless use of minimalist, fire, lower case and improv modes without setting up camp in any of em. Highly recommended and a testament to just how far-listened and hard-thinking these players are compared to the new generation of
noise-as-uh-noise musicians.