Morning and Evening Ragas Vol. 4
(Daksina) LP $30.00
“Pat Murano’s first solo guitar LP mirrors the sound of outdoor ambience in a mutated form, like a photograph melting on the dashboard of a long-inert car. Strings mingle with crickets and become a pair of twins vocalizing; a plucked string becomes a glistening soap bubble that pops on the end of a branch. A palm muting strings becomes a storm front rolling in and dissipating just as it's noticed. The guitar obscures itself as it becomes cats and foxes communicating across empty fields. The natural world and the sound world meld into a winged thing — cicadas giving way to delay, giving way to unknown things landing in fields while most of us sleep. It’s reminiscent more of recordists Anne McMillan and Knud Viktor than of other guitarists. On the B-Side, sustained notes rise up, meet and coil around the sound of crickets. A new totality that tonally feels like a microscope placed on the artificial. Melodrama smooths out into morse code. Again music becomes nature, nature becomes music and they are both held there until something real and new emerges.”
