Tetras – Pareidolia 2xLP (Flingco)
Overseas gathering of drummer Jason Kahn (L.A. expat, late of Trotsky Icepick, the Leaving Trains and Universal Congress Of, and who’s become a very busy musician in his own right), upright bassist Christian Weber, and Jeroen Visser on organ and electronics. The move is improvised, avant-garde rock with forays into prog, jazz and minimalism, but there are foundational elements (Kahn’s drumming, in particular) that bring the proceedings into the realm of common sense and challenging interplay, instead of a free flail into uncoordinated, eye-rolling power moves. The mode shifts from intense, studied lock-ins to points where it sounds like nothing is going on at all, four side-long excursions from points A through Z, making a stop along each point in between both upper- and lowercase, and with the necessary inflections throughout. They carve a path in the vein of This Heat, the Necks, and modern day Oneida; longform patterns for the listener to follow, puzzles to solve, energy to displace. 500 copies in a super-thick, silkscreened chipboard sleeve. (http://www.flingcosound.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
