This is
a single track that is about seventeen and a half minutes in length and as the title
suggests it is a duo and that duo seems to consist of a guitar player and
drummer. On some level, this has this
sort of down home, John Denver sort of feel to it. Then on the other side, you get these ZZ Top
guitar riffs and just all around excellent drumming.
It
takes you through some surf as the pace picks up, and then by the nine minute
mark or so, we slow down a little bit and there are just minimal guitar notes
and strums. Drum roll please… This also sounds a little psychedelic at
times, and I’m good with that.
I
always enjoy what people are willing to do in terms of improvised music as I feel
that sometimes music should be simply one take. (I mean, do you paint a painting twenty
times in a studio before you get it perfect?
Well… maybe, but in a different sense)
I’m not sure if this was recorded in front of an audience or not, but even
if it wasn’t it could have easily been.
This is
different from what I’m used to hearing in that live and improvised sense, with
such artists as Stephanie Lak and some of those Museum of Microcassette Art
pieces. It’s something closer to ZN,
but even then it’s not exactly like that either because it’s just closer to
that rock vibe than the idea of noise.
In any event, I like it and it just goes to show how far the boundaries
of improvised music can be pushed.
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