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BI RAK "ipurtagiri"
cdr limited edition
43
This cdr, the 4th to appear on the w.m.o/r label, presents a series of
confrontations/dialogues between the improvising duo of Mattin (computer
feedback) and Dennis Dubovtsev (soprano sax). Over the course of eight
concise fragments, the two voices remain direct and distinct, rejecting
the format's current sway towards ambiguity and microscopism in favour
of a contrast and clarity of intent. The overwhelming impression is duel,
embracing both conflict (in passages which are sharp and argumentative,
tense and menacing), and critique (where the intensity of dialogue explodes,
into abrupt finality or flashes of mimicry), and in the process produces
a working model for electro-accoustic improvising duos which, in its lack
of regard for caution or preciousness, obliterates the usual constraints
of such a partnership. Joel Stern.
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