Got a truly amazing labour of love here: Red Horse presents the debut duo recordings of string/percussion thinker Eli Keszler and instrument inventor Steve Pyne. The set is beautifully put together, with 200g copper-pressed vinyl packaged in unique thick silk-screened card stock with a hand-numbered velum wraparound. The package also includes a silk-screened poster along with three screen-printed cards featuring some of Pyne's invented instruments. Three years in the making, Red Horse gobbles up a bunch of left-field string/drone/free moves, running from the singing static architectures of Harry Bertoia through Biota-scale scrabble-punk confusion, Haino/Nijiumu-esque percussive ritual, Alan Lamb-styled high-tension drones, the kind of automatic music championed by Fluxus operative Joe Jones and even scattershot free jazz drums/guitar implosions. Most of all the set is defined by dark vortices of strange strings with gong tones and collapsing spidery architectures battling the sound of rogue electro-acoustic automota. This is an amazing set that straddles 20th century avant garde thought, sound sculpture, free jazz and contemporary drone and is one of the most lovingly assembled packages to have passed through VT of late. Back in the day it would be pretty easy to imagine a magazine like Halana going crazy over this. Private edition of only 300 copies. Highly recommended.
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