Dax Pierson & Robert Horton - Pablo Feldman Sun Riley

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 16 Nov, 2006.

DAX PIERSON is a chap from Subtle (see next review) and he has a CD out this week of experimentation with a chap called ROBERT HORTON. This is pretty out there soundscapes and what I'd call 'pieces'. It's an interesting concept album interpreting the four (living or not) ghosts from the main characters of modern music and also The Idealist "I Am The Fire". Does that make any sense to you?? Well anything I write probably won't make much sense either cos I'm on one today so go here for more info from the label. Cool.

This unique collaboration was born out of a deep love of experimental music. Four of the forefathers of hypnotic, rolling waves of leftfield sounds and genre-bashing composition are honoured here: Augustus Pablo, Morton Feldman, Sun Ra and Terry Riley. Robert Horton and Dax Pierson, two fine musicians in their own right, have created not only a homage to this four bastions of modern music, they have also created their own voice within the boundaries they have set for themselves with this project. Well let Robert Horton explain in his own words how he met how he came to meet Dax Pierson (of Subtle and 13&God) and how this special recording came to be: "It was at Amoeba Music in Berkeley, California, one of the largest record stores in the world. I was trading in some CDs that Id burned. Among them was an Augustus Pablo dub album and a CD of Morton Feldmans later works. The Amoeba buyer was Dax Pierson. He commented on my choice of music. I said, "Bizarre as it many seem, I think Morton Feldman and Augustus Pablo have something in common in the way they use space in their music." Dax agreed, and from that moment we became friends. We began planning a collaboration that would bring together those elements. As it turned out, Dax, like Augustus Pablo, played melodica. I wrote a graphic score for melodica, cello, voice, and pre-recorded khaen. I recorded the khaen tape and we set up a recording date. We invited two other musicians to play the graphic score with us - Daxs friend Alex Cort, cellist, from Subtle, and Lon Huber, vocalist from The Attemptations. The piece evoked the Pablo Feldman part of Pablo Feldman Sun Riley. At the next session, Dax and I improvised using feedback boot* and Dr. Sample. The ghosts of Sun Ra and Terry Riley (even though hes still living) seemed to sit in with us. Thus the Sun Riley part of Pablo Feldman Sun Riley. *"boot" is a four-stringed homemade

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