FLUID TO THE INFLUENCE (Room40) 8/10 Chris Abrahams’ new solo opus not only offers more of his darkly brooding sound worlds, it contains the sonic equivalent of a horror movie. On One-Liter Cold Laptop sounds spear at you with such venom as might be the soundtrack to the apocalypse, or…
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BIRDWATCHING (ECM) 8.5/10 Anat Fort calls the longest piece here Not the Perfect Storm. She could have left off the “not” because, beginning with Roland Schneider’s ominous tom-tom rolls, it is a perfect marriage of visceral drama and a profound, almost ancient-sounding sadness. While Fort’s piano, Schneider’s drums and Gary…
EVOLVING (http://francescaprihasti.com.au) 7/10 There’s an optimism at work here that is contagious. Rather than being garishly ebullient, however, it is quietly contemplative. The music is also often delicate to the point of fragility, as befits what is loosely a programmatic depiction of the lifecycle of the caterpillar/butterfly. This is the…