Two can play at this game!
Cameron Mizel plays acoustic and electric guitar while Charlie Rauh sticks to acoustic on this gentle and pastoral collection of 10 originals. Mizell uses the electronics for effects, surrounding Rauh’s droplets on “A Forgiving Sense of Place”, the mystical “On Sundays I Walk Alone” and on the dreamy “Arolen”. When the two are acoustic, you get some folksy moods of Appalachia on “Old Sardis Road” and fingerpicking strolls during “Jed’s Them” and “A Single Cloth”. Gentle on my mind.
Guitarist Mary Halvorson teams up with pianist Sylvie Courvoisier on this collection of twelve originals. It was quite difficult to discern which song title fit which song, as the tunes are labeled in a circle with no attached number. The songs are almost as nebulous as the liner notes, with plaintive parlor piano and delicate guitar dots on pieces such as “Faceless Smears” while the team scrambles around in search of a theme on “Moonbow”. Halvorson brings in some guitar effects for the spacey “Mind Out of Time” and resonates with Courvoisier during “The Disappearing Hour” as the two scratch out the strings on the abstract “Bent Yellow”. Ambient within a prism.