crys cole | jamie drouin | lance austin olsen
“this is a lovely recording yet one of those that, when pressed to describe “why”, leaves me with few descriptives. in a a sense, it fits easily enough into quasi-similar work from the recent past – a trio wending their careful, quiet-yet-bumpy way through a field of intimate sounds. as i know i’ve said before, rather unhelpfully, it boils down to the choices involved and how those choices mesh with my own (hopefully always changing) sensibility. the means employed (cole: contact microphones, no-input mixer; drouin: modular synthesizer, radio; olsen: amplified copper plates, objects) are, these days, unremarkable enough, but the combination works and breathes quite well, plastically here, ethereally there, metallic sometimes, sandy and scratchy others, generally at low volume but, crucially, with no feeling of constraint in that regard, simply not happening, on that day, to get very loud.” – brian olewnick | just outside
released february 2010