Trios
Tom Erbe- recording, editing, processing
Chris Mann- voice, texts
Larry Polansky- electric gtrs.
Douglass Repetto- computer, electronics
Christian Wolff- recording, piano, bass, perc., melodica
Signals are coming in from the cosmic ether or maybe from a universal databank that stores enormous amounts of electronic sounds and speech. You can’t quite make out the speech because it’s speeded up or distorted in some other way. Is that an auctioneer? A request? A complaint? Words hover so they are almost intelligible- but not quite. Sounds do the same. Yet there is a very rough flow to the material here. Material is a good word- music, composition, or pieces just wouldn’t work. The flow gradually becomes the structure. And it makes for a heady experience. It’s what the Akashic Record (the Theosophical Record of Everything) might sound like unfiltered. Don’t get me wrong- there’s nothing remotely New Age or woo-woo here. And don’t take it all in one gulp- that’d be indulgent.
Pogus Productions
P2 1031-2
Richard Grooms