David Grubbs - Hybrid Song Box 4

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5...according to our Business Lady on Thu 05 Nov, 2009.

David Grubbs has been keeping himself busy of late with 'Hybrid song box.4' being one of a number of releases of heard recently. This LP is an accompaniment to Angela Bulloch's 'Pixel Box', a sculpture installation first shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as part of the exhibition Theanyspacewhatever. David's guitar compositions are perfect for accompanying visual art and film with his warm guitar tones and careful attention to detail. Outbursts of cinematic guitar melodies are followed by minimalist one note feedback which is then re digested and regurgitated until it corrodes in on itself, it's degradation unveiling hitherto unheard harmony and melody. Tonally warm and inviting this works great as a stand alone release and is further proof of Grubbs guitar playing genius. Not quite as sweet as 'An optimist notes the dusk' but definitely worth a listen.

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First release of David Grubbs’s newest soundtrack for an artwork by Angela Bulloch.
Extends the feel of Grubbs’s solo album ‘An Optimist Notes The Dusk’.

David Grubbs’ soundtrack to Angela Bulloch’s
‘Hybrid Song Box.4’ picks up sonically where ‘An
Optimist Notes The Dusk’ left off. Grubbs brings his
thick, solid-body electric guitar tone to the most relaxed
of tempos, the most spacious of handlings.

This instrumental soundtrack is based on a short
piece for electric guitar, followed by an interstitial
section created with feedback from the last note
of the guitar piece. This A/B structure is repeated
three times. With each iteration, the guitar composition
becomes progressively more scuffed, more degraded.
The interstitial section begins at its gentlest and most
transparent, and the material gradually becomes
stronger and more harmonically distinct over the course
of its three iterations.

‘Hybrid Song Box.4’ is Angela Bulloch’s most recent work
in a series of ‘Pixel Box’ sculptural installations. ‘Hybrid
Song Box.4’ was first shown at the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum as part of the exhibition
Theanyspacewhatever.

Limited to 1000 copies on CD.