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CLINE, NELS & DEVIN SARNO - Buried on Bunker Hill

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: GroundFault Recordings GF028 Release Year: 2004 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info NELS CLINE & DEVIN SARNO use e-guitar & bass and some other gear like electric autoharp & effects to produce highly interesting ambient-noise sculptures in dark tension, some is rather silent and dense, some is more distorted.... “Nels Cline (guitarist of The Nels Cline Singers, Scarnella, Mike Watt, + duet partner with Thurston Moore, Zeena Parkins, Gregg Bendian, Vinny Golia, etc.) & Devin Sarno (the solo bassist behind CRIB & founding member of the seminal L.A. art-prog band Waldo The Dog Faced Boy) began experimenting together in a live concert context in 1994, fueled by a mutual appreciation for "on-the-spot" sonic sculpting. The resulting sounds have ranged from restrained dynamics to unrelenting sonic firestorms and all points in between. Previous releases from the duo include a limited edition, vinyl-only 12" ("Rise Pumpkin Rise") on the indie Volvolo Records and their debut, critically acclaimed full length CD: "Edible Flowers" (WIN Records) released in 1998. Their latest offering "Buried on Bunker Hill" (Ground Fault Recordings) is the duo's first recorded output in over 5 years & marks the next step forward in their sonic collab. Utilizing studio multi-tracking for the first time, the sounds that make up "Bunker Hill" are decidedly more textured and complex than any of the duo's previous (primarily live) offerings. With comparisons as divergent as Harry Partch & Pink Floyd, Cline + Sarno have clearly carved out their own unique musical niche.” [label info] "It's impossible to do this record justice in a review, it should just be heard. I've never heard of these two guys and here is a really great record of experimental ambient, falling somewhere near Mandible Chatter, Final and Ruhr Hunter... It just goes to show that Ground Fault, the label here, is really only interested in putting out the best sounds they can find. The first piece, 'Swinging London', is a fearless nineteen minutes of elegant changes from panoramic dream-textures and anthemic ambient to building washes of sonic strength and exhuberant release. Guitar sheers off the edges, makes coiled nests inside of a thick wall of drone, certainly vertical sounding, high, climbing, towering into the clouds. But you're there, flying up the grand sides, never finding the end, waves of golden sound crashing over you, the eventual end not as important as your movement along this perfect monolith. In stark contrast, the second five-minute track, 'Hydrofoil', is a coy, introspective groaning chamber, periodic pings of chord trilling in the darkness, winds moving through the center. I could go on, describing each track like this, but then we'd have a ridiculously long review here. These guys use all the right tools for the job: guitar, autoharp, electric bass, drones, loops, turning out a very precise, unavoidable vision of sonic beauty. Excellent. Can't recommend this too much.” [Manifold Rec]