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Marc Barreca, K Leimer and Steve Peters have wandered and wondered their way into another album. Known collectively as Three Point Circle on Fluorescent Grey (69:02) they recommence under a familiar framework of extended improvisations and entangled desires. Imaginatively crafted, showing particular invention in the manifestation of timbres exceptional and new, a persistent independence of mind and spirit yields nine tracks that hold a mirror to the inner depths. Accommodating many levels of listening without enforcing one in particular Fluorescent Grey distills the language of New Age into a more barren grandeur - its desolate beauty adding to the unmoored, free-floating atmosphere of a realm seemingly inundated by nocturnal fog. The playing is as real as life. A ringing softness takes to the air largely out of context or lineage, into darkness neither formless nor void. Identifying grand piano, samples and strings, organs and synths, or bowls and bells, when things go right the improvisation transcends the ambiguous assemblage of any archaic chamber instruments or calming chords. As one player emits a dulcet note the next may digitally devour it, rendering an unrecognizable substance - fomenting the continual transformation of texture and tone over time and space. Further in, the sober musings of this talented triune twists and shifts in imaginative ways. Intuition and timing are at the heart of this art, as the very essence of this kind of improvisation is spontaneity and indeterminacy. Theirs is rich and surprising enough to suggest a spark of life - producing jointly a lulling construct of reality. Not just a particular set of sounds, this venture by Leimer, Barreca and Peters is better a practice of listening, inducing a particular mental state. This music stares back at you - too deep, too yearning to ever be satisfied.
Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END - 27 February 2025 |
