The latest in Full Spectrum’s Editions Littlefield
series, Georgetown Archive finds
freewheeling instrumentalists Paul Hoskin (RIP – though, fortunately, he exited
this world blissfully ignorant of “COVID-19” and its attendant effects) and
Cody Yantis rollicking through Seattle’s cold months in the only way they know
how: like sculptors tripping over themselves in a Scrooge McDuck–like vault of LEGO pieces and
willing structures into being. Maybe it’s the deliberate plucking of Yantis’s
guitar or the subtle blurts of Hoskin’s sax or clarinet (not to mention the
undulating shift of the foundational electronics) that conjures these wild
fancies. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m ONLY BUILDING LEGOS AND WATCHING DUCKTALES IN SELF-ISOLATION … sorry for
the shouting – everything’s getting to me. Still, at times like these, patience
can be rewarded. We all have plenty of patience at the moment.
Let’s not even bother with the fact that these
recordings are eight to ten years old, they work, right here, right now. Like
shamans impelling followers to obey, the duo concocts soundwaves upon
structural soundwaves as a base and conjures those LEGO pieces into weird alien
shapes, and the colors are weird and alien. Everything’s sticking out at odd
angles, and parts of it aren’t connected well and buckle under weight of other
things. It’s all a conceptual mess, but that’s what makes it fun for the
free-form visionary. By the end, the 2012 track, seismic rumbles cause everything
to collapse until it’s just a big mess on the floor again, and everybody has to
walk through the room in bare feet. But it’s OK! You have new patterns on your
soles. Souls? Who cares.
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