And Every Fleck Of Russet
Self-Released, 2024
9/10
Listen to And Every Fleck Of Russet
A listen inspired by a Robert Frost poem, the renaissance man Bob Gluck returns with a personal solo album, where plenty of diversity and emotions color the 9 tunes.
“Something Happened” begins the listen with piano balladry, where Gluck’s graceful fingers make for much warmth, and “Late In May” follows with a bit more tension, where a slight rumbling enters the changing timbre.
“Always” arrives in the middle, and it carries no lack of melody amid the rhythmic energy, while “Enmeshed” is initially a bit eerie, before segueing into swirling key manipulation before calm ebbs of beauty.
Deeper yet, “Chorale” appeared on Gluck’s 2020 album, and here it lives again in a more bare climate of intimacy and sophistication, and “For Now” exits with 13+ minutes of spacey Taiga analog modular synthesizer alongside the poetic piano for an organic versus synthetic finish.
A true DIY effort, Gluck wrote, performed, engineered, produced, and designed the entire affair, and it makes for an unpredictable and memorable body of work that flirts with jazz and electronic ideas in ways you’ll want to revisit.
Travels well with: Bob Gluck- Early Morning Star; Madre Vaca- Winterreise