ChainDLK on "Interesting"

A sort of Escherian tonal stairwells opens this collection short experimental pieces by which Swiss alto sax player and composer Tobias Meier tried to catch sonic events in between instruments and microphones, resulting in amazing interferences and interceptions by/from inside/outside the instrument itself. Besides the sonic "strategy" to grab any interesting events occurring outside (check the second miniature of the first track to have an idea about Tobias's way to interbreed field recordings and instruments) or inside instruments by means of microphones, the lack of that kind of homogeneity, which commonly characterises compositions, got widely balanced by digressions in the stylistic field in between avant-garde-jazz, field recordings, Morton Feldman's pathways and contemporary classic music, where a sort of dark-ambient claustrophobic incipit could be the introductions for airy classical harmonies, sinister scratches over strings on the threshold between noise and silence could be embellished by the occasional tweeting of surrounding birds, Colin Stetson-like repetitions can gradually turn into a sort of tribal tapping over sax keys - have a listen his additional "another microscopic thought" on B side -. I fully agree with Berni Doessegger's introductory words, when he says that the choice of vinyl "gives an additional sensual dimension to the subtle structures of this microscopic harmonics world", which features the contributions by Frantz Loriot (viola), Silvan Jeger (cello) and Dominique Girod (bass) as well. "

(Vito Camarretta)