Inspired by the challenge to write and record an entire album all by his lonesome during the shortest month of the year, NY veteran lute player, Jim Goodin, unleashes a sprawling drone-ambient beast bursting with looped string explorations that low, groan, chirp, and bicker as animatedly as any animus-filled vocal chords flexed to date, all wrought via "Lap steel, violin, (and) granular oscillations created, played, triggered using Pure Data programming”.
All in all, side A sounds like a midnight spaghetti-western themed zoo featuring zoo-ghouls, both foreign and domestic, calling out into the night, and side B is their damned response, a sweet, sweet extra-terrestrial liberation…which is to say, it’s pretty compelling, if not a li’l spooky. Very cool.
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—Jacob An Kittenplan
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