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  Daniel Meyer Gronvold / Havard Volden 

  (Creative Sources) 


  
   review by Jeph Jerman
  2009-08-25
Daniel Meyer Gronvold / Havard Volden:  (Creative Sources)

Another set of interesting quiet improvisation from this amazingly prolific label. Both these gents are unknown to me, and I wasn't able to find out much about them. So be it. What we have here are two pieces, one long and one short, of acoustic guitars, electronics, Dictaphone and Discman. It's difficult to tell exactly how these last listed items are contributing, but there are piles of scratches, loops, metal against metal and odd processing appearing between and underneath the more familiar guitar sounds.

The short piece, "Prevent, Suspend", has drones with odd cracklings beneath. The longer track at 23:37, "Trimerous/Sticks of Steel and Plastic", features lovely harmonics and finger-on-string squeak alongside a continuously evolving palette of rising/falling acoustic/electronic soundings. It's almost like two different improvisations grafted onto one another, but it works and creates an odd cohesion and linearity that plays out most logically, building to a symphony of chordage and sawing.







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