Schizophrenically skronky improv of ea-cutups and semi-maniacal segments that resolve to near-stillness from the West Coast TONED trio of Nathan Corder on electronics, Leo Suarez on drums, and Tom Weeks on sax, using a nonlinear and nonhierarchical organizational process and multiple layers of compositional feedback loops to create unpredictably bizarre and overtly fun music.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October, 2018, by David Settle, and in Oakland, California, and Tijuana, Mexico, in March, 2019, by Nathan Corder.
"Toned" may be an electroacoustic trio, but if the term "electroacoustic" suggests something tame from the stodgy contemporary music spectrum, be warned: "The Private Sector" is a deconstructed hellscape of what seems to be some kind of punk-jazz, with maniac "riffs" produced by digital electronics, a drumkit tirelessly assaulting your eardrums, and the cutting action of a schizophrenic alto saxophone.
You can't perceive where the established structures end and free-improvisation begins, because there's a nonlinear and nonhierarchical organizational process at work, described as a "fractal chimera, generated by multiple layers of compositional feedback loops". Because everything is submitted to a meticulous mastication of materials, corresponding to Tom Weeks', Nathan Corder's and Leo Suarez's "distrust in the canons of present-day art forms and commonly ingested sound principles", even what you vaguely identify as punk (the attitude) and as jazz (the sound) is devoured by the procedures, resulting in a musical praxis you have certainly never heard before..."-Shhpuma