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GRUST II

by Caspar Sonnet

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Side B 19:26
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"In the world of modern guitar players, Caspar Sonnet certainly gets less attention than what he deserves. That’s not to say that he’s some complete unknown—he has been playing lap steel for six years now in both solo and ensemble contexts—and his expressive technique and unique vocabulary far outstrip his fame. No one else approaches the lap steel guitar in quite the way he does, as a pure sound source unbound from the typical repertoire it’s associated with.

Eren Guney, the other member of GRUST, is a name I am far less familiar with, and their chosen instrument is listed as just “magnetic tape”, a suitably ambiguous title for the sounds, which vary from the more expected rewinding tape deck noises to a wide range of drones and hisses that call to mind spluttering vocalizations and all sorts of bizarre acoustic phenomena. GRUST II is satisfying as a duet between two instrumentalists and is also sonically unfamiliar enough to work as a noise collage.

The two mesh together well, with the obvious timbres of steel and wood in Sonnet’s guitar familiarizing the unnatural reverberations of Guney’s tape machine, and, in the opposite direction, Guney’s magnetic tape exaggerating Sonnet’s already uncommon style of guitar playing into nearly cosmic directions. Structured as two long tracks, Sonnet and Guney form dense, complicated soundscapes around each other and patiently watch them burn away one by one, like fog in sunlight."

—Samuel McLemore

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released January 21, 2021

Eren Guney - magnetic tape
Caspar Sonnet - lap steel dobro

Recorded at The Ivon House
Mastered by Henry Birdsey

*Physicals are to be obtained at andromacherecords.com

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Caspar Sonnet Portland, Oregon

Caspar Sonnet (b.1976) is a sound artist and performer who's work focuses on decay, distance and disfigurement. He mainly works with prepared lap steel, amplification, tape and seldomly voice. He is also the operator of Andromache Records and curates shows in the greater pacific northwest. ... more

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