Alfred 23 Harth/Carl Stone: Gift Fig CDr (Kendra Steiner Editions, 2012)
September 7, 2013 at 5:35 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Alfred 23 Harth/Carl Stone: Gift Fig
Free jazz reed player Alfred Harth’s career stretches back to the early 70s, and he’s released music on ECM and ReR and worked with Fred Frith and Otomo Yoshihide, among many others. Carl Stone is also a long-running experimental composer who has been making music since the early ’70s, who studied with Morton Sobotnick and James Tenney. On this collaboration, Harth takes radical approaches to playing the saxophone (including bowing, playing the keys and springs as percussion, and usage of air and spit), and Carl Stone manipulates this with his laptop, transforming it into deranged bird noises, cutting in voices, and fragmenting it into pieces. There’s no clear rhythm here, it’s all free-flowing, chopped up, and possibly designed to confuse. At its most active, such as the first track, it’s pretty exciting. The last track is a 22 minute epic which will positively fry your brain, if the previous half hour didn’t already.
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