The Instrumentalest
(Giant Tank) 2xCDR $10.00
“Mildly frazzled in the valley of the real instruments” is how Euan Andrews reacts to these improvisations, recorded as the families of Ali Robertson and Firas Khnaisser gathered in the warming glow of a winter Saturday night, and witnessed the duo paring back their sound to “basic components of rhythm’n’squall. Robertson, in his debut behind drum kit, pelts out syncopated abstractions regurgitating in upon themselves as Khnaisser veers from darkest parasomniac blues on guitar to trombone moan and throb, suggesting an agnostic union between the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Smegma. Hoarsely sucked trumpet curls its way around trombone splats before percussive clamor and scrape breaks out in a heat rash. Voices babble and scrunch while plastic horns emit gastric juices and the whole experience feels like a loving tongues-first kiss from a flatulent scrapyard.”