Greg Davis - Mutually Arising

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4...according to our Brian on Fri 10 Jul, 2009.

Greg Davis' 'Mutually Arising' upset our Business Lady earlier on. You know women, they're not as thick skinned (or eared) as blokes and don't quite know how to respond patiently to minimal drone epics with little fluctuation in tone or texture. She was packing away, our teeny office sweetheart, her sweaty brow furrowing increasingly in depth as Mr. Davis's 'Cosmic Mudra' burrowed it's unruly way into her delicate shell-likes. With a casual flick of the wrist she flounced irritably over to the stereo and uttered "Right is anyone actually reviewing this or EVEN LISTENING to it? It's been playing for a whole 23 minutes and 18 seconds, it's going off alright?" Too scared to argue we watched in horror as she fed the CD to a huge Satanic looking Doberman that had suddenly appeared out of the ether and cowered as she grinned manically and let out a terrible cackle of blood freezing proportions, slowly waving her long, immaculately manicured finger at us whilst petting the ferocious looking canine. Then I woke up lying on the floor sweating & shivering, the laptop on top of my chest, the others laughing uncontrollably at my pathetic plight. This is what happens to you when listening to 'Mutually Arising' on Kranky. It's great. CD only on Kranky.

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‘Mutually Arising’ is Greg Davis’ second album for Kranky following 2004’s Somnia.

Follows numerous releases by Sun Circle (Greg’s duo with Zach Wallace)

Features two tracks over 51 minutes, ’Cosmic Mundra’ is a subtle and slowly changing circle, a sun, the sun, the moon. Not the Arpeggio Minimalists, rather: the quiet time stretchers of long tones and long tones sustained and hyper-sustained until buzz value outweighs pitch, sounds seeming to fly around the screen, hyper-spiritual with hardly a word.

’Hall of Pure Bliss’ is a chord and all sorts of wonderful sounds which live to its left and right. Low is left and high is right and then the travelling hisses swim on either side of this imagined keyboard in glitter-space.

Track Listing 1.Cosmic Mundra 2.Hall of Pure Bliss

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