DAVID GRUBBS & MATS GUSTAFSSON
Off-Road
Originally released in 2002, 'Off-Road' finds old buddies David Grubbs and Mats Gustafsson joining forces for a rip-roaring collab that lurches from free jazz skronk and woozy drone to country-fried folk and percussive digital freakouts.
Grubbs and Gustafsson first met in Chicago when the Swedish sax virtuoso appeared on Gastr del Sol's 1996 tome 'Upgrade & Afterlife'. 'Off-Road' was the duo's second collaboration (after 1999's improvised "Apertura"), and subverted expectations, fizzing from slippery free jazz squeaking and hollering on the 12-minute 'Rendezvous Up North' into digital drone before it's even hit the two minute mark. Gustaffson's sax is reduced to spittle and whispers, while Grubbs' harmonium and laptop does the heavy lifting.
On 'Three if By Train', the duo are joined by experimental turntablist Henry Moore Selder, who interrupts guitar drones and metal sheet wobbles with stuttered loops. Selder appears again on 'Skiing + Shooting', underpinning Grubbs and Gustafsson's back-and-forth with low frequency rumbles. These moments elevate the entire set, lending an almost illbient quality to the recordings that straddles jazz, industrial music, improv and musique concréte - sounding better than ever on this new edition re-sequenced by the duo.
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Originally released in 2002, 'Off-Road' finds old buddies David Grubbs and Mats Gustafsson joining forces for a rip-roaring collab that lurches from free jazz skronk and woozy drone to country-fried folk and percussive digital freakouts.
Grubbs and Gustafsson first met in Chicago when the Swedish sax virtuoso appeared on Gastr del Sol's 1996 tome 'Upgrade & Afterlife'. 'Off-Road' was the duo's second collaboration (after 1999's improvised "Apertura"), and subverted expectations, fizzing from slippery free jazz squeaking and hollering on the 12-minute 'Rendezvous Up North' into digital drone before it's even hit the two minute mark. Gustaffson's sax is reduced to spittle and whispers, while Grubbs' harmonium and laptop does the heavy lifting.
On 'Three if By Train', the duo are joined by experimental turntablist Henry Moore Selder, who interrupts guitar drones and metal sheet wobbles with stuttered loops. Selder appears again on 'Skiing + Shooting', underpinning Grubbs and Gustafsson's back-and-forth with low frequency rumbles. These moments elevate the entire set, lending an almost illbient quality to the recordings that straddles jazz, industrial music, improv and musique concréte - sounding better than ever on this new edition re-sequenced by the duo.
Originally released in 2002, 'Off-Road' finds old buddies David Grubbs and Mats Gustafsson joining forces for a rip-roaring collab that lurches from free jazz skronk and woozy drone to country-fried folk and percussive digital freakouts.
Grubbs and Gustafsson first met in Chicago when the Swedish sax virtuoso appeared on Gastr del Sol's 1996 tome 'Upgrade & Afterlife'. 'Off-Road' was the duo's second collaboration (after 1999's improvised "Apertura"), and subverted expectations, fizzing from slippery free jazz squeaking and hollering on the 12-minute 'Rendezvous Up North' into digital drone before it's even hit the two minute mark. Gustaffson's sax is reduced to spittle and whispers, while Grubbs' harmonium and laptop does the heavy lifting.
On 'Three if By Train', the duo are joined by experimental turntablist Henry Moore Selder, who interrupts guitar drones and metal sheet wobbles with stuttered loops. Selder appears again on 'Skiing + Shooting', underpinning Grubbs and Gustafsson's back-and-forth with low frequency rumbles. These moments elevate the entire set, lending an almost illbient quality to the recordings that straddles jazz, industrial music, improv and musique concréte - sounding better than ever on this new edition re-sequenced by the duo.
Originally released in 2002, 'Off-Road' finds old buddies David Grubbs and Mats Gustafsson joining forces for a rip-roaring collab that lurches from free jazz skronk and woozy drone to country-fried folk and percussive digital freakouts.
Grubbs and Gustafsson first met in Chicago when the Swedish sax virtuoso appeared on Gastr del Sol's 1996 tome 'Upgrade & Afterlife'. 'Off-Road' was the duo's second collaboration (after 1999's improvised "Apertura"), and subverted expectations, fizzing from slippery free jazz squeaking and hollering on the 12-minute 'Rendezvous Up North' into digital drone before it's even hit the two minute mark. Gustaffson's sax is reduced to spittle and whispers, while Grubbs' harmonium and laptop does the heavy lifting.
On 'Three if By Train', the duo are joined by experimental turntablist Henry Moore Selder, who interrupts guitar drones and metal sheet wobbles with stuttered loops. Selder appears again on 'Skiing + Shooting', underpinning Grubbs and Gustafsson's back-and-forth with low frequency rumbles. These moments elevate the entire set, lending an almost illbient quality to the recordings that straddles jazz, industrial music, improv and musique concréte - sounding better than ever on this new edition re-sequenced by the duo.
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Originally released in 2002, 'Off-Road' finds old buddies David Grubbs and Mats Gustafsson joining forces for a rip-roaring collab that lurches from free jazz skronk and woozy drone to country-fried folk and percussive digital freakouts.
Grubbs and Gustafsson first met in Chicago when the Swedish sax virtuoso appeared on Gastr del Sol's 1996 tome 'Upgrade & Afterlife'. 'Off-Road' was the duo's second collaboration (after 1999's improvised "Apertura"), and subverted expectations, fizzing from slippery free jazz squeaking and hollering on the 12-minute 'Rendezvous Up North' into digital drone before it's even hit the two minute mark. Gustaffson's sax is reduced to spittle and whispers, while Grubbs' harmonium and laptop does the heavy lifting.
On 'Three if By Train', the duo are joined by experimental turntablist Henry Moore Selder, who interrupts guitar drones and metal sheet wobbles with stuttered loops. Selder appears again on 'Skiing + Shooting', underpinning Grubbs and Gustafsson's back-and-forth with low frequency rumbles. These moments elevate the entire set, lending an almost illbient quality to the recordings that straddles jazz, industrial music, improv and musique concréte - sounding better than ever on this new edition re-sequenced by the duo.