The Worker's Institute recently released the album "A Thousand
Incidents Arise" from Anthony Burr & Skuli Sverrisson. I am going
to quote the review from Other Music in NYC since I really feel they put
it well:
"
Although Anthony Burr and Skuli Sverrisson have been performing
together for the better part of a decade, until now their recorded
output has been limited to one long-out-of-print CD that was
released by the Staalplaat label in 1997. Individually, Burr and Sverrisson
have shared stages and recorded with some of the biggest names in
experimental music, including John Zorn, Alvin Lucier, Jim
O'Rourke, La Monte Young, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Using acoustic
instruments and only the subtlest of electronic effects, this duo has
created some of the finest minimal music I've heard so far in 2005.
Their
compositions are long, loosely structured, warm and atmospheric. The four
tracks on A Thousand Incidents Arise are constructed over layers of Burr's
sustained bass clarinet drones, with bowed upright bass, acoustic
guitar, organ, and other less easily identifiable instruments
adding harmonic counterpoint and filling out the sonic spectrum in the
middle and upper ranges. Johann Johannsson's Virthulegu Forsetar, Nils
Okland's Bris, and the self-titled album by Mountains are among
the comparable recent releases that immediately sprang to mind when I
began listening to this. A Thousand Incidents Arise is at least as
accomplished and satisfying as the aforementioned records, so if
you loved any of those I would definitely recommend picking up this
disc too." |
