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Stitch is a recording of bold fully detailed layers of sound produced from field recordings and guitar, though there are few times where the source of the audio can be clearly heard or understood. These improvisations are both dense and heavy while maintaining a fragile sense of weightlessness or even swinging equilibrium.
Joel Stern & Anthony Guerra met in London in 2000 and started performing and recording regularly as an improvising duo. Their first works focussed mainly on densely textural drones produced by the meshing of layered electric guitar tones with processed environmental field recordings. Although the basic working materials have remained relatively unchanged, recent Stern/Guerra recordings and performances have shown an increasing attention towards minute gestural detail framed within sparsely arranged, slow moving passages of abstract continuity. Stern & Guerra have previously released sound on the label twothousandand and have a track on the Touch compilation "Ringtones."
Impermanent Recordings
Guerras luminous drones loop through much of the music, refracted at times into recurrent sub-Frippertronics. Stern wafts clouds of interference into this radiant atmosphere, agitated particles of noise and found sound that either hang around like dust or cling together in a continuum that inverts the guitars serenity.
The Wire
I could easily see myself disappearing in the smoky trails of these glacial avant-garde improvisations for hours, and when the performers involved approach the genre with this sort of inventiveness and excitement, I'll be happy just sitting where I am right now, staring at nothing and everything at the same time.
The Broken Face
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