Nonlinear Field - The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves
Three musicians pushing to the sonic fringe. Bass, percussion and clarinet, a few of the main ingredients of jazz.... The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves does have a jazz tilt, but this is a full ride through the overgrown fields of aural grass and the dripping stalactite drips of the most silent caves. There three selections on this composition and their titles make up the title of the album. The Beautiful and Uncut Hair fill the first side. Listening is like dropping in from the tallest peak on a wooden roller coaster. Maximum velocity immediately achieved. The sounds are intense with the click of the rails creating a vague rhythm. The Beautiful is built on just keeping up and Jon Byler Dann, Michael Carlson and Stefen Robinson do so in perfect accord. The second selection Uncut Hair begins the cruise with the clarinet echoing the initial twelve minutes. The musicians have created space, adding smaller identities to their sonic stage to give larger presence in the focal moment. A flip of the cassette begins the side long selection titles of Graves. What is most cool is this piece is kinda droney, well at least it begins this way. By the end Nonlinear Field has overflowed the sonic cup, but the bass continues to hold the drone canvass. Perfect balance from start to finish and equally a nice counterpart to the first side.
Released on the Personal Archives label out of Dubuque, Iowa. A very limited run of fifty cassettes with copies currently available from the labels bandcamp page.
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