David Grubbs & Mats Gustafsson – Apertura

SUSTAINED RECONDITE MUSIC. What David did with the harmonium for RICHARD BUCKNER's "Lucky Buzz" on 1998s "Since" he undoes here with Mats Gustafsson on "Apertuna." There is no melody here, nothing memorable to hold on to. Communication is of the cold drone of the harmonium--fluteophone--tenor saxophone overlapping notes like perilous waves in the vast ocean. Matter of fact, its imagery reminds me much like the seafaring adventure: the titanic. The gripping drama here is the esoteric nature of these instruments and the interplay these two musicians compose via airstreams. The two compositions entitled: "Apertuna Pt. 1" and "Apertuna Pt. 2" stretch out for over sixty-five minutes in an uninterrupted flow of breathing. Recorded by known entity Bundy K. Brown, Apertuna is like slipping thru a hole in the ice--sinking slowly--dying not by suffocation, but from exposure to the elements.