David Grubbs & Mats Gustafsson - Apertura

Apertura means aperture, an opening -- in this case into an eternal field of sound with no beginning and no ending, just the opening and closing of an iris. This duet of David Grubbs and Mats Gustafsson is in name only; personality is veiled in the drone of sound. Grubbs' harmonium creates a shifting chordal sea of sound waves building and receding but never reaching shore; Gustafsson navigates this flux on tenor sax and fluteophone, sailing in and around Grubbs' chords with both a quickening pace and growing intensity as sounds stretch and contract around common pitches. Read More