(2022) Marc Barreca & K Leimer - Drowning Guides    


Review:
Marc Barreca and Kerry Leimer have worked on a nearly parallel musical course for more than forty years. Nearly parallel because their musical paths do occasionally cross. First in 1980 with Four Pages from an Unfinished Novel on K. Leimer’s first solo album Closed System Potentials. Again during the live performance of Music for Land and Water and for the massive loop piece “Heart of Stillness” from The Neo-Realist (At Risk) by the virtual group Savant. Beyond basic file sharing, their recordings resolve tensions between distinct extremes of restrictive rules, defined procedures, improvisation, conscientious editing, and an ear for expansive details and contrasts. Their collaborative process is intended to subvert traditional and accepted methods of composition, instrumental voicing, signal processing, recording, and mixing with the goal of generating music that lives on the boundaries between established practice and profound impracticalities. The search for new compositional approaches continues with Drowning Guides. The album deliberately limits their collaborative exchange to re-voicing MIDI tracks. All audio was then returned to the originator to process, edit, mix and finalize the form. The music of Drowning Guides fixates on shifting textures and voices drawn through layers of processing and manipulation, emerging as a complete and distinct audio language. — boomkat


     


Track List:
Disc 1
01-Diffusion
02-Bitter Grey
03-Submerged
04-Forgiven Nostalgia
05-The Raft of the Medusa
06-Displacement
07-At Intervals

Disc 2
01-Seiche
02-Inadvertent Shore
03-Blurred Limit
04-Fata Morgana Image A
05-Fata Morgana Image B
06-Fata Morgana Image C
07-False Horizon


Media Report:
Genre: ambient, experimental
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


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