Album Review

Foisy, Andre & Essak, Jacob – “Flight of Rays” – [Utech Records]

whngr 2/16/2022 A Library, CD

Guitars Speak Volumes

Nearly 20 minutes of minimalist meandering guitars with heaps of reverb and evanescent echoes. With sustained drones and worried picking, a meditative tension coalesces as the distortion increases and feedback builds; we remain squarely between the walls of the two warring but resonant instruments, like a mote of sentience in a canyon of ethereal and dramatic sound. Perhaps manifesting an image of a wayward ascetic humbled by the power of creation, the magnitude of time, and the interconnectedness of the natural world… or it could just be two dudes trippin’ out on guitars and tweaking their effects in an improvisational performance at the third Utech Records Music Festival in:

Milwaukee, WI – 2015

Cover art by Thomas Hooper, and Kevin Gan Yuen.

you heard it 10 times on kfjc! most recently:

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comments

Jumper Offset says

Just heard this, nice ... ? I'll go look for it now. I've been on drone binge on and off for a while now. Thank you!