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Album Review
Suarez, Leo – “Above/Beside” – [Heavy Relatives]
Max Level 5/17/2021 A Library, CD
Abstract sound constructions using, according to Suarez, an extended snare drum language. Which would seem to mean rubbing, scraping, rattling, ambient sounds, hitting the drum with things other than drumsticks, and like that. Not a beat or rhythm to be found here. I always enjoy artists who do interesting, creative things with percussion instruments to coax new sounds from them. Suarez is a member of the drums/sax/electronics trio TONED, whom I have also enjoyed. The final track is a relentless drumroll that lasts for 2:44—sort of a strange way to close out the CD.
you heard it 15 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 53 days ago, Avakhov played Cymbal, Fork, and Sometimes Plane II
- 71 days ago, Slartibartfast played Above/Beside
- 72 days ago, Dusty Rhodes played DIP
- 78 days ago, Max Level played The Dragged Wire
- 79 days ago, Ras Babo played Cymbal, Fork, and Sometimes Plane II
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floribundus says
We need to hear more music of this free-ranging, improvisational kind. Excellent, Grawer & Chandler. Thank you.
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