LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS / JEAN-MARC MONTERA / THURSTON MOORE / LEE RANALDO
MMMR
(Xeric) Used LP $20.00
Free improv guitar-playing from 1997 with an emphasis on tone and texture rather than linear development. Minimal understatement becomes more subtly rhythmic, via industrial clangs and an idiosyncratic framework for feedback explorations.
Education Of Lars Jerry
(Xeric) Used LP $12.00
“Bellowing horn gusts and devilishly intricate microhorn chatter within the space of a single phrase,” notes S. Duda, “allow a tsunami of sound to be answered by a volley of rapid-fire chirps, squeaks, and clucks…, [giving this 1999] LP the illusion of dialogue — as if there are two mad horn players in the room rather than one. And in Gustafsson’s hands, the give and take of his internal conversation is both convincing and intriguing…. [He sketches] a wildly diverse landscape of mood and emotion, from scalding, angry blasts to jolting surprises, to hilarious slapstick.”
The Celestial Answer
(Xeric) Used CD $5.00
Working together, the kinetic avant percussionist / poet and the indefatigable experimental guitarist are a blinding, brilliant, elemental force. Rays of white guitar noise penetrate clouds of analog synth; molten drumming blasts across free-form poetics. The dynamic is beautiful and inspired — a simple cold-fusion of intuitive interaction and boundless freedom. From 2005. With hype sticker