German Army’s Peter Kris has been known to carefully compose and/or
improvise a heady guitar tune here and there (or maybe more like six hundred
friggin thousand of them), so it’s no surprise that Kris and Tavi is full of heady guitar tunes. Likewise, Tara Tavi,
solo artist and erstwhile performer in Amps for Christ and Auto Da Fe, has been
known to lend her “Siouxsie Sioux” (if we’re naming instruments, that can be a
good one for her voice – Tavi and Siouxsie approach a similar range and timbre)
to musical endeavors here and there, so it’s no surprise that Kris and Tavi is full of righteous
paeans. Together, Kris and Tavi send off minimal devotionals into the night
sky, hoping for nothing and achieving everything.
These dusty meditations resist the light, opting for evening rituals by
firelight, the guitars snaking around the voices and fluctuating together, like
they’re breathing fireflies or something. As the hour grows later and the darkness
continues to encroach, Kris and Tavi’s enchantments grow heavier, deeper,
lifting power from the soil and weaving it through fingers and tongues till
melancholy spirits appear and supplicate the gods on our behalf. In the end,
the duo is actually doing us a great service – what other kind of pagan
experience is going to get you in with supernatural beings? I wanna be on their
good side, that’s for sure.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/590679-Tara-Tavi
https://germanarmymusic.bandcamp.com/
https://misophoniarecs.bandcamp.com/
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