

![Perlowin, Shane / Jacob Wick : Objet A [CASSETTE] (Prom Night Records) Perlowin, Shane / Jacob Wick : Objet A [CASSETTE] (Prom Night Records)](https://www.teuthida.com/productImages/misc4/20657.jpg)
A freely improvised collaboration between Ahleuchatistas guitarist Shane Perlowin and trumpeter Jacob Wick, both using a contemplative approach of unusual and extended techniques while allowing space and tension to develop their deceptively rich dialog.
Out of Stock
Quantity in Basket: None
Log In to use our Wish List Shipping Weight: 4.00 units


Label: Prom Night Records
Catalog ID: PN022
Squidco Product Code: 20657
Format: CASSETTE
Condition: New
Released: 2014
Country: USA
Packaging: Cassette
Recorded by Mike Holstein.
Personnel:
Shane Perlowin-guitar
Jacob Wick-trumpet
Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.

Sample The Album:


Descriptions, Reviews, &c.
"If memory serves, "Objet petit a" is a Lacanian term that stands for the interchangeable but ultimately unattainable object of desire (or something like that). How this concept is, beyond being its title, related to the duo recording to be reviewed in the next few paragraphs is admittedly a bit of a mystery to me, but the good news is that no knowledge of Jacques Lacan's esoteric psychoanalytic theory, let alone of "Lacanese", is required to appreciate the music.
So, let's start over again: Objet a is the outcome of a collaboration between guitarist Shane Perlowin and trumpeter Jacob Wick. Perlowin's name might be familiar to those interested in the more adventurous side of rock music; however, as he has proved on the more recent - and stylistically more varied - albums of his main band Ahleuchatistas, he's clearly not willing to restrict himself to any particular style or genre. By contrast, Jacob Wick is, at least to me, an entirely new name; that said, his playing heresuggests a background in free improv.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, the music they make as a duo is almost as hard to pigeonhole as it is difficult to grasp Lacan: Objet a sounds like the product of careful deliberation, but it's definitely not tightly composed; at the same time, it has a certain looseness to it without being a typical improv record; and finally, the "structured improv" tag isn't appropriate, either, since there are hardly any typical recurring themes on display here. Style-wise, it's similarly ambiguous, with elements of jazz, new music, drone-y ambient and more creeping into the mix, but never taking center stage. It's mostly slow-paced music that proceeds carefully and deliberately; unlike some other (improv-)duos, Perlowin and Wick are not afraid of silence and don't try to conceal emptiness with frenetic playing. On the contrary, they are clearly interested in the possibilities of negative space, in letting notes and sounds be shaped by the silence that surroundsthem.
Consequently, Objet a is, in a way, "nocturnal" music, with sounds emerging like shapes out of pitch-black darkness. This accounts for some of the record's appeal; it lends quasi-coherence to the proceedings and invites the listener to listen very closely, to grasp each sound before it is swallowed up again by the darkness. Nowhere, perhaps, is close listening more amply rewarded than on "It's over there", where increasingly gruff trumpet sounds are juxtaposed with flamenco-like guitar runs.
Still, to single out one track here is to miss the point, since the tracks segue into one another and are obviously meant to constitute a sort-of-narrative. If there's anything that does warrant being singled out, even against better judgment, it's probably Wick's playing. While Perlowin's skills and taste are almost a given by now, Wick has really amazed me here; he employs a wide variety of extended techniques, hissing like a leaky gas pipe in one moment and sounding like a rodent rummaging about in a garbage bin during the next.
To sum up, this is frequently fascinating listening on the borders between jazz, free improv and perhaps new music a la Ligeti."-Julian Eidenberger, freejazzblog.org

Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Jacob Wick Jacob Wick is a free improvising trumpeter, born in Glencoe, Illinois and currently living in Mexico City, MX. He was educated at State University of New York at Purchase and California College of the Arts. He lived in NYC for a number of years, working with Prom Night Records and performing. He has been a member of Hungry Cowboy, Kenosha Kid, Kimmel, Moré, Wick Trio, The HighLife, Tres Hongos, Trumpet Trumpet Synthesizer, Ajemian & the HighLife, Jason, and his own solo work. He has albums on Creative Sources, Prom Night, Lengua De Lava, Palliative, Astral Spirits, Hard Angle, Marginal Frequency, Impakt, and Thin Wrist. Much of his solo work is in the lowercase or minimal approaches to the trumpet, in performance deconstructing the trumpet and using extended techniques to draw unusual textures and tones from the instrument. ^ Hide Bio for Jacob Wick
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.

Track Listing:
SIDE A
1. It's Over There 6:16
2. What Does It Say - I Can't See It 3:29
3. Do You See It 3:30
4. I Can't See It Either 4:37
SIDE B
1. No I Don't See It Either 10:26
2. Listen To Me 5:11

Cassettes
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Duo Recordings
Recordings featuring brass instruments - trumpets, trombones, tubas, other horns
Guitarists, &c.
lowercase, reductionist, micro-improv, sound improv, onkyo sound
Cassettes
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Duo Recordings
Recordings featuring brass instruments - trumpets, trombones, tubas, other horns
Guitarists, &c.
lowercase, reductionist, micro-improv, sound improv, onkyo sound
Search for other titles on the label:
Prom Night Records.

