Notes On The Miasms

Haas, Andy & Ken Aldcroft
Resonant Music
Jazz | Sep 2013

Reviews

Fo
Reviewed 2013-09-01
ANDY HAAS & KEN ALDCROFT: Notes on the Miasms
Resonantmusic, 2013

AVANT-NOISE JAZZ – Duo of sax (+electronics on 1,3,6) and guitar, all music fully improvised. The pieces don’t develop very much; they’re more like paintings, exploring particular colors and textures, speeding without moving. It’s intense and uncomfortable, but without resorting to punching the listener in the face.

Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 6

1. 8:58 – small overlapped scribblings, rolling logs, high squeals, ends quietly
2. 6:18 – sax scurries madly, guitar nudges the edge; they sync midway thru
3. 6:32 – guitar picks quickly thru woozy electronics & droning sax
4. 4:05 – a quieter, more organic piece, sax & guitar both feel calm & elastic
5. 13:40 – starts slow but soon speeds up: sax stretches & bends, then ties tight knots; guitar supports & prods insistently with short strokes
6. 8:14 – sax swoops & whirls as guitar percolates; light electronic accents
7. 4:04 – starts very quietly, gets dense, then hammers away thru 2nd half

[ Fo ] - 1 September 2013

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Charting

2013-09-01 — 2013-11-03 Jazz
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Track listing

1. Madness Of Two
2. Vis Medicatrix
3. Les Maladies Chroniques
4. Tincture Of Time
5. Inflammations
6. Miasmatic Blues
7. Serial Dilution