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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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