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  Bryan Eubanks & Stephane Rives 
  fq
  (Potlatch) 


  
   review by Jeph Jerman
  2016-03-22
Bryan Eubanks & Stephane Rives: fq (Potlatch)

A short duet for oscillators/feedback synthesizer and soprano sax. From the very beginning there's a lot of playing with acoustical beating, that wonderful air flap that happens when two tones are very close together in pitch. Moving from almost square wave to smooth flow and out again. Somehow there are echoes of rusty swing sets and suggestions of heterodyning shortwave broadcasts. About 7 or so minutes in the synth turns monster and starts mutating and then both players start leaning into it. It's not exactly HNW, but it is kinda scary. A squelch and a short silence. Then more variety, a lot more. Instead of two reasonably distinct sources, we get several more, big ugly chords and rising washes of heat. Conjurers of speaker swinging and air raid memory, with fistfuls of sand tossed in for good measure. The rhythmic pulsing with metal horn resonance at 15:27 I find particularly nice. Bird imitations give way to grunge and then we reconfigure and straighten up for the sprint home. The squiggly bits work really well with the whine of my heater, which is always another way to listen to things.

This disc is extremely interesting in a quiet environment, and gains added facets when replayed against a noisy homescape.







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