(2021) William Tyler & Luke Schneider - Understand EP


Review:
Renowned guitarists William Tyler & Luke Schneider present their four-song EP on Leaving Records. Tyler — who’s been on a collaborative tear of late, also recently announcing an LP with Marissa Anderson — and innovative pedal steel ace Schneider recorded the 4-track instrumental effort Understand, inspired by a 1991 Ted Chiang sci-fi short story of the same name, in one sitting at a Nashville studio during quarantine in 2020. The instrumental endeavour “reveals an evolution of the two composers experimenting through the lens of ambient and krautrock.” The record sees Tyler playing acoustic and electric guitar, synthesizer and bass with Schneider adding his expertise on pedal steel guitar and banjo. Jake Davis produced and mixed Understand with Matthew ‘Matthewdavid’ McQueen handling mastering.





Track Listing:
1.Memory Garden 07:45
2.The Witness Tree 05:53
3.No Trouble 05:40
4.The Going Through 04:37


Media Report:
Genre: ambient
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits