Jack M Campbell is a young contemporary violinist from the West Coast. He joined two sound experimentation artists, Andreas Kahre (percussion, cello) and Alexander Varty (guitar, electronics) to give us this greatly spontaneous album.
The result of this meeting held on a small, somewhat remote bucolic island is a series of fragmented sound surfaces (Haar I, Nightswimming) in the initial tracks, which then take on a more fleshy, denser quality in the final pieces (Haar II, Smir). Campbell’s violin does not merely play a supporting role in these sound clouds well bathed in electro textures. With lyrical phrases and repetitive arpeggios, minimalistic yet intensely charged with energy, he weaves a dramatic tapestry supported by the pointillism of Kahre’s percussive accompaniments and the sometimes Eno-esque textures of Varty’s electronic backdrop (Rumbledethumps, the final piece of the album, is one of the most satisfying).
A high-level experimental music album.
Jack M Campbell: Violin
Andreas Kahre: Percussion, Electric cello,
Alexander Varty: Guitar, Electronics
