Your Music Encountered in a Dream
David Grubbs & Liam Keenan
Your Music Encountered in a Dream
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Avant-garde mainstay David Grubbs teams up with Sydney guitarist Liam Keenan on an impromptu meeting that resulted in an inclement suite of somnambulant guitar meditations. Quite lovely - RIYL Loren Mazzacane Connors or Chris Abrahams.
Recorded last year in Sydney, 'Your Music Encountered in a Dream' is a luscious, extended improvisation that considers the logic of dreams. Grubbs was down under to play a few shows, and met up with Keenan - who usually records singer-songwriter material as Meteor Infant - to record a series of duets. The style was out of Keenan's comfort zone, but you wouldn't know it from hearing the result; the two guitars dance in-and-out of one another flawlessly, existing both in isolation and in unison, in the real world and in a dream. And for a free improv recording, it's uncharacteristically fluent - there's no start-stop, no jerkiness, just pillowy phrases that twist and tangle into a hypnagogic slop of tones and drones.
It's peak material for Room40, who have been straddling the ambient and improv zones for decades at this point. And if it reminds us of anything specific, it's Loren Connors' most gloopy recordings (think 'Sails'), music that doesn't exactly put you to sleep, but traps you in a lucid space between eyes closed and eyes open. At times, it doesn't even sound much like guitar music at all; on 'Gemini Cluster', for example, the two players use filters and effects to transform their plucks and strums into syrupy, electronic gurgles and wails. Horizontal gear, in the best possible way.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Avant-garde mainstay David Grubbs teams up with Sydney guitarist Liam Keenan on an impromptu meeting that resulted in an inclement suite of somnambulant guitar meditations. Quite lovely - RIYL Loren Mazzacane Connors or Chris Abrahams.
Recorded last year in Sydney, 'Your Music Encountered in a Dream' is a luscious, extended improvisation that considers the logic of dreams. Grubbs was down under to play a few shows, and met up with Keenan - who usually records singer-songwriter material as Meteor Infant - to record a series of duets. The style was out of Keenan's comfort zone, but you wouldn't know it from hearing the result; the two guitars dance in-and-out of one another flawlessly, existing both in isolation and in unison, in the real world and in a dream. And for a free improv recording, it's uncharacteristically fluent - there's no start-stop, no jerkiness, just pillowy phrases that twist and tangle into a hypnagogic slop of tones and drones.
It's peak material for Room40, who have been straddling the ambient and improv zones for decades at this point. And if it reminds us of anything specific, it's Loren Connors' most gloopy recordings (think 'Sails'), music that doesn't exactly put you to sleep, but traps you in a lucid space between eyes closed and eyes open. At times, it doesn't even sound much like guitar music at all; on 'Gemini Cluster', for example, the two players use filters and effects to transform their plucks and strums into syrupy, electronic gurgles and wails. Horizontal gear, in the best possible way.
Boomkat Product Review:
Avant-garde mainstay David Grubbs teams up with Sydney guitarist Liam Keenan on an impromptu meeting that resulted in an inclement suite of somnambulant guitar meditations. Quite lovely - RIYL Loren Mazzacane Connors or Chris Abrahams.
Recorded last year in Sydney, 'Your Music Encountered in a Dream' is a luscious, extended improvisation that considers the logic of dreams. Grubbs was down under to play a few shows, and met up with Keenan - who usually records singer-songwriter material as Meteor Infant - to record a series of duets. The style was out of Keenan's comfort zone, but you wouldn't know it from hearing the result; the two guitars dance in-and-out of one another flawlessly, existing both in isolation and in unison, in the real world and in a dream. And for a free improv recording, it's uncharacteristically fluent - there's no start-stop, no jerkiness, just pillowy phrases that twist and tangle into a hypnagogic slop of tones and drones.
It's peak material for Room40, who have been straddling the ambient and improv zones for decades at this point. And if it reminds us of anything specific, it's Loren Connors' most gloopy recordings (think 'Sails'), music that doesn't exactly put you to sleep, but traps you in a lucid space between eyes closed and eyes open. At times, it doesn't even sound much like guitar music at all; on 'Gemini Cluster', for example, the two players use filters and effects to transform their plucks and strums into syrupy, electronic gurgles and wails. Horizontal gear, in the best possible way.
Boomkat Product Review:
Avant-garde mainstay David Grubbs teams up with Sydney guitarist Liam Keenan on an impromptu meeting that resulted in an inclement suite of somnambulant guitar meditations. Quite lovely - RIYL Loren Mazzacane Connors or Chris Abrahams.
Recorded last year in Sydney, 'Your Music Encountered in a Dream' is a luscious, extended improvisation that considers the logic of dreams. Grubbs was down under to play a few shows, and met up with Keenan - who usually records singer-songwriter material as Meteor Infant - to record a series of duets. The style was out of Keenan's comfort zone, but you wouldn't know it from hearing the result; the two guitars dance in-and-out of one another flawlessly, existing both in isolation and in unison, in the real world and in a dream. And for a free improv recording, it's uncharacteristically fluent - there's no start-stop, no jerkiness, just pillowy phrases that twist and tangle into a hypnagogic slop of tones and drones.
It's peak material for Room40, who have been straddling the ambient and improv zones for decades at this point. And if it reminds us of anything specific, it's Loren Connors' most gloopy recordings (think 'Sails'), music that doesn't exactly put you to sleep, but traps you in a lucid space between eyes closed and eyes open. At times, it doesn't even sound much like guitar music at all; on 'Gemini Cluster', for example, the two players use filters and effects to transform their plucks and strums into syrupy, electronic gurgles and wails. Horizontal gear, in the best possible way.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Avant-garde mainstay David Grubbs teams up with Sydney guitarist Liam Keenan on an impromptu meeting that resulted in an inclement suite of somnambulant guitar meditations. Quite lovely - RIYL Loren Mazzacane Connors or Chris Abrahams.
Recorded last year in Sydney, 'Your Music Encountered in a Dream' is a luscious, extended improvisation that considers the logic of dreams. Grubbs was down under to play a few shows, and met up with Keenan - who usually records singer-songwriter material as Meteor Infant - to record a series of duets. The style was out of Keenan's comfort zone, but you wouldn't know it from hearing the result; the two guitars dance in-and-out of one another flawlessly, existing both in isolation and in unison, in the real world and in a dream. And for a free improv recording, it's uncharacteristically fluent - there's no start-stop, no jerkiness, just pillowy phrases that twist and tangle into a hypnagogic slop of tones and drones.
It's peak material for Room40, who have been straddling the ambient and improv zones for decades at this point. And if it reminds us of anything specific, it's Loren Connors' most gloopy recordings (think 'Sails'), music that doesn't exactly put you to sleep, but traps you in a lucid space between eyes closed and eyes open. At times, it doesn't even sound much like guitar music at all; on 'Gemini Cluster', for example, the two players use filters and effects to transform their plucks and strums into syrupy, electronic gurgles and wails. Horizontal gear, in the best possible way.
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