GWEN SAINTE-ROSE - Collines / Racines CD Jazz

GWEN SAINTE-ROSE - Collines / Racines CD JazzMUSIC: Rarely has the term soundscapes seemed more appropriate than for Collines and Racines, two long, spellbinding pieces for cello and Loopstation, inspired respectively by the landscapes of Gaume (extreme southeast of Belgium) and the Foret de Soignes (the Sonian Forest, at the southeastern edge of Brussels). In these compositions, Gwen Sainte Rose superimposes the sound strata and sculpts her sound matter. ~~~ OBJECT: This CD is housed in a

I play the game of turning the abstract into concrete and vice versa

mania (obsessive love)

Elverum became a father and then his partner fell ill with a fatal cancer and died a year later

electric Neil Young

but WASTED YEARS

and drummer Phil Becker come previously (and currently) from such SF institutions as Dead and Gone

because their sound originally depended on the same discordant guitar points and sexless machinelike rhythms

one of which is the famous 1970 Prom which had Soft Machine taking the stage in the second half

With vibrating harmonies and primal beats at its heart

Empty Vessels stands out as an almost architectural sonic document in a way

Following these are the liner notes for a previous band of David’s and mine

who later went on to front the Laughing Hyenas