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Needs! (Limited Hand Numbered Edition)
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Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies. Recorded April 11, 2010 at Eastcote Studios, London.
Needs! is the brand new heavyweight album from heavyweight saxman
Mast Gustafsson. The studio album comes housed in the customary Dancing
Wayang hand silk screened sleeve, this time featuring artwork by
Austrian artist Mathias Poschl and with liner notes by Jim O'Rourke. On Needs!
Gustafsson uses the studio setting to produce unexpected and surprising
results, pushing his playing into unchartered territories. The LP
features Mats' baritone, but also the slide saxophone (a rare antique
instrument) as well as a small selection of live power electronics. He
combines the acoustic sounds of his saxophones with these amplified
sounds, mixing them as overdubs as well as live improvisations. The raw
and muscular approach to blowing that has made Gustaffson the unbound
force he has become can be experienced in its naked and most vital form
on this LP. From gasping to rasping to tongue slapping, nothing smoothes
over the up-close physicality of conjuring sounds from his saxophones.
The brass resonates as Gustafsson's lungs whistle with tension and
release. While his acoustic playing is rich in dynamics with a sense of
punctuation and spaces, some of his electronic concoctions are thick
slices of condensed compressed mass. 'Sources of Such' manufactures a
dense, immovable wall of electronic sound broken only by a deep,
gutteral warble of the baritone's lowest registers. On both the opening
and closing tracks, Gustafsson uses the electronic devices to follow and
echo his acoustic playing with organically playful results that merge
and blur the lines between the acoustic and the electric sound sources.
This is a record of substance and space shifting in an array of
unexpected layers of noises, which interlock and split apart in equal
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Mats Gustafsson (baritone and slide saxophones, live electronics) |
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