Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci

Winds Bells Falls

Telegraph Harp, 2022

8/10

Listen to Winds Bells Falls

A very exciting duo with an affinity for experimental and post-everything sounds, Lea Bertucci brings tapes and electronics, and Robbie Lee brings a small handful of atypical instruments to this highly artistic affair.

“Glitter And Gleam” opens the listen with light percussion and wordless vocals, as an unconventional lullaby of sorts flows with an avant-garde warmth, and this creativity continues to the baroque flute of “Image Mirror”, which yields a quivering, dreamy landscape.

In the middle, “Bags, Boxes And Bubbles” makes great use of Lee’s celeste in the mysterious, cinematic climate, while “Division Music” employs a gemshorn in the vocally busy album highlight.

Moving towards the end, “Azimuth” has Lee bringing a contrabass recorder to the nearly sci-fi like presence, and “Somebody Dream” exits the listen with a light and airy formula that just oozes imagination.

A listen that very much unfolds like a bizarre dream, there’s both haunting and intimate moments, as well as noisy bouts, and the inimitable manipulation of the instruments is quite fascinating.

Travels well with: James Dashow- Archimedes; Daniel Pesca- Promontory