Label: Yoyooyoy – yo93, Insula Music – none, Halloween Creativity – ha1095, Kristian Poulsen Entertainment – none
Format: Vinyl LP
Country: Denmark
Released: 15 Oct 2016
Genre: Jazz
Style: Free Improvisation
Turns out for the past 15 years or so Poulsen has been steadily self-releasing his own music whilst regularly collaborating with like-minded musicians within Denmark and further afield. God bless the internet! This 2016 collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Anders Lauge Meldgaard is an untitled collection of relatively short improvised moments between Poulsen’s guitar string dervishes and Meldgaard’s sax, attenuated electronics / detuned piano. The emphasis is on atmosphere creation as opposed to any sort of virtuoistic show down, thankfully, adding to the diffusive nature of the recordings, occasionally hinting at the time-expanding qualities of Hindustani raga. Poulsen’s playing style reminds us of that incredible Tony Sinden record on David Cunningham’s Piano label, oddly tuned strings tumbling over each other without any discernible structure or pattern, yet his lack of attachment to any scene other than his own places him in the realm of Taming Power or a modern day Jandek. Music never ends. (Mint / New)… (Mint / New)
Tracklist
A1 Untitled
A2 Untitled
A3 Untitled
A4 Untitled
A5 Untitled
A6 Untitled
A7 Untitled
A8 Untitled
A9 Untitled
A10 Untitled
A11 Untitled
B1 Untitled
B2 Untitled
B3 Untitled
B4 Untitled
B5 Untitled
B6 Untitled
B7 Untitled