The Duchess of Oysterville
CD is out now on the Creative Sources label from Portugal,
and available from Evolving Ear. This, the first documentation
of Chris Forsyth and Nate Wooley's 4-year old collaboration,
is a fine bleak beauty, recorded nearly two years ago
and happliy seeing the light of day now. The piece's
25 minutes pass by like an afternoon nap on a high mountain
top or in an abandoned lot, depending on your experience
or inclination - take your pick. Intensity, unpredictability,
and restraint meet in the hands of two intelligent and
idiosyncratic players and categories such as lowercase,
noise, electro-acoustic, improvisation and composition
become irrelevant. Also, featuring subtly disturbing
cover art by Maria Dumlao.
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