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| | | blue chopsticks (usa) #bc 11 cd david grubbs / mats gustafsson “off-road” compact disc - rendezvous up north (12:11)
- dystopian turboprop (5:53)
- pumpkin creek (3:26)
- three if by train (1:56)
- skiing + shooting (4:58)
- back off (4:54)
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| david grubbs & mats gustafsson, off-road - bc11 cd
off-road is david grubbs and mats gustafsson's second duo recording, the follow-up to 1999's apertura. apertura consists of two long, nearly-static improvised duos for harmonium and reeds, making it perhaps the slowest, steadiest boil in either participant's discography. off-road finds the two of them forsaking their earlier, ice age m.o. for a shower of digitally re-composed slivers, the metal-on-metal timbre of a saxophone equipped with contact mics, grubbs's chiming electric guitar, and gustafsson's pro rhythm analog synthesizer clipped to the bell of his horn. turntablist henry moore selder makes a couple of guest appearances marked by sharp rhythmic counterpoint and low-frequency warbles and moans.
off-road was recorded in stockholm immediately following grubbs and gustafsson's scandinavian tour in february 2002. those shows were chaotic events that wandered from song to free-jazz freakout to tunnel of drone to digital collage to mouthless saxophone and brainless, bruising guitar. the final set of the evenings were quartet performances with the turntable and drums duo rock out (selder and niklas korssel, who also play with mats in the group djustable), and that's how henry came to make all that tone-arm rumble in the studio.
off-road has a similar range to the live shows in an even-more compacted time frame, from the improvised pop tune "pumpkin creek" to the fractured, groove-cursed "three if by train," from the meditative, still surfaces of "rendezvous up north" to the fire alarm plus plunderphonics of "back off." with off-road, an already improbable duo takes a frightening turn beyond genre. the cover photo by john flavell shows the riot that took place at louisville, kentucky's commonwealth convention center in 1983 after the mid-show cancellation of a performance by neil young. (released march 2003) |
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