Mind & Machine: Organic And Electronic Works- Volume Three
Ravello, 2020
8/10
Listen to Mind & Machine Organic And Electronic Works: Volume Three
A very adventurous outing, on this 3rd installment of the Mind & Machine series, 6 compositions unfold with technology and organic sounds intersecting to elicit a very unique listening experience.
Gemma Peacocke’s “Skin” starts the listen with Jose Antonio Zayas Caban’s blurry alto saxophone amid Peacocke’s ambient electronics in the playful and ominous setting, and “What Will Sound (Was Already Sound)”, by Jeffrey Bowen, displays Maja Gerar’s manipulated violin that nearly sounds mechanical while Bowen sparsely and expertly adds electronics.
Later tracks include Hubert Howe’s “Improvisation On The Undertone Series”, which flows with a dreamy, cinematic quality, while “Creatures From The Black Bassoon”, the most unusual track, presents a rowdy bassoon that sounds like birds under Kyle Vanderburg’s precise skill. “Yellow” exits the listen and emits a series of video game-esque noises that are as quirky as they are fascinating.
A record that brings together 2 seemingly opposite ideas on the musical spectrum, Mind & Machine again proves that in the hands of esteemed players and with deft song craft present there can exist much magic and enlightenment.
Travels well with: Bill Whitley- Then Elephant Speaks; Lachlan Skipworth- Lachlan Skipworth