Joel Stern / Jim Denley - Tape and Paint Game

CDR from Splitrec (cdr09)

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tape and paint game CDR 9 (Splitrec) joel stern - field recordings, contact mics, electronics, editing, mastering jim denley - alto sax, field recordings, editing, mastering 'This is a project developed over 2 years. We initially recorded, and then corresponded with our recompositions, recorded again, and recomposed again and again, adding and subtracting. So it feels to us, like a sort of finely honed collective cooking session'. recorded in melbourne and brisbane 2003 + 2004 artwork / design jim denley 1. cornish tape strategem 2. ancho-rubbed ground 3. wild game crockpot 4. non-reflective orange hens 5. free range oat chimes 6. battery tea-smoked ploy 7. small orange horizon cake 8. endgame total time 42.01 review by Lawrence English in Paris Transatlantic Recorded in a number of improvised sessions over 2003 and 2004, this duo release from two of Australia's more eclectic improvisers is a largely an exploration in texture and varying degrees of density. Both musicians have an innate understanding of the possibilities of acoustic texture: Denley's sax playing continues to develop his alternate language of click, pops and gurgles, whilst Stern's work with electronics and processed field recordings evokes an equally personal language of secret sonic worlds. When their personal approaches are combined, their complimentary nature is obvious, notably on "Non-Reflective Orange Hens", which finds Denley sitting in an electronic cage of Stern's creation generating warped sounds as if to scratch a way out through the bars, and "End Game", whose gritty electronic pulses and masked sax snippets creates genuine intensity from a surprisingly small number of sonic devices. At its most vivid, this record reflects a clear ability of both musicians to evoke the unfamiliar from the seemingly familiar – an increasingly difficult task in this age of audio plenty.