STYLE... Avant Instrumental

Phil Hargreaves: reeds/flute, sourcetracks. Bret Hart: guitar, pan-jo, prepared guitar, hose-bone samples, organ.

REVIEWS...

"I love the stringed instrument Duets, but it's nice to hear Bret teamingup with other instrumentation too. Phil Hargreaves brings sax and flute tohis Duets entry, to which Bret adds guitar, pan-jo, prepared guitar,hose-bone samples, and organ. Phil has a minimal style of playing on sometracks in which breathing techniques seem to be key to the resultingsounds, though sax and flute mostly have their traditional sound throughoutthe set. One of my favorite tracks has Phil off on a sax rant accompaniedby Bret playing what sounds like avant-ambient Japanese koto music. ButPhil's sax, which is traditionally a high volume and imposing instrument,is played in a frantic but quietly subtle style. He's busily cranking outhis jam, but with a restraint not often heard from a saxophone. There arealso more jazz rooted tracks where we get to hear what a fine musician Philis, and to which Bret adds his stringed manipulations. Some of the flutetracks remind me of Sun Ra's old cool jazz sounds, though Bret's additionsgive the music an edge that Ra would have surely considered mentaltherapy." --Reviewed by Jerry Kranitz

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