Untitled Currents by Bryan Day+Ernesto Díaz-Infante
Bryan Day and Ernesto Diaz-Infante are two titans of improvised and experimental music that have shaped my musical sensitivity and fuelled my imagination since early 2000's. Both of them active in their own fields for at least - last 30 years. Bryan is not only a sound artist and a musician but also a music instruments builder and creative soul beyond Public Eyesore label which has funnily enough released not only his solo and collaborative albums but also has released four albums by Ernesto - namely: Rags and Stones, The Che Guevara Memorial Marching (And Stationary) Accordion Band, A Barren Place of Overwelming Simplicity, and My Benign Swords.
Ernesto on the other hand is an improvising guitarist and together with his wife Marjorie Sturm has been running Pax Recordings. He has an astounding body of work and has worked with artists and musicians from his native USA and overseas.
A blend of electric and acoustic passages of improvised guitar with just impossible to identify instruments that Bryan created gives a very special outlet for juxtaposing those two set ups in an abstract way - not necessarily sonorous but more straightforward way just as they plod along to some sort of equilibrium in this whole happenstance.
Noisy, rattling staccatos on Ernesto's guitar strings and fallout of glitchy squelches that must be Bryan's work can sound either a bit serene at times and frantic at other times.
Impressionistic palette that those two musicians possess is only measured and equalled by the ingenuity of not only tools they are using but also their techniques and means towards closing up on the compositions as a whole.
The erudites which they both definitely are, make it sound out of bounds of many different musical genres - just for the simple fact that their techniques are not just random tactics but something they have worked in and out throughout their whole respective careers.
It definitely makes me feel that in today's improvisation - there is still a lot to discover and records.
released October 6, 2024
recorded 11 November 2023 by Bryan Day at Clamorworks in San Pablo, California / mastered by Jeff Kaiser
cover image by Bryan Day
www.bayimproviser.com/artist/64/ernesto-diaz-infante
https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-currents
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