Erin Rogers, Alec Goldfarb - Earth's Precisions (2023) [Hi-Res]

Earth’s Precisions crafts a musical surface that simulates both a larger ensemble and a single, hybrid instrument. At times, the composite of guitar and saxophone is pushed to extremes, as each of the five co-composed pieces explore the impossible polyphony of an expansive terrain, speaking in tongues. The duo shares an expressive vocality and an approach to construction that is both elemental and ritualistic, while at other times haunting and ethereal, permeated by a dose of horror. Inspired by the lineage of guitar/saxophone duos — from Fred Frith and Anthony Braxton to Tim Berne and Bill Frisell — Earth’s Precisions expands on this tradition, at once confounding the sounds of their instruments past recognition and returning them to a seemingly nascent state.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Erin Rogers - from a cobwebbed heap (9:47)
1.02 - Erin Rogers - dim in the gulfs (beyond earth’s precisions) (10:05)
1.03 - Erin Rogers - nothing but a voice that laughed, blankly (8:57)
1.04 - Erin Rogers - no human tread before (7:49)
1.05 - Erin Rogers - these strange ecstasies and starlit time (8:32)