A curious jazz drummer and an experimental guitarist with a fondness for routing his instrument though reality tunnel expanding effects is not always going to end well for the average listener. Certainly Krononaut's 2020 debut LP with a larger ensemble was often a more agitated & provocative affair.
Roll on four years and the storied Martin France and Leo Abrahams are back in the studio with instruments set to cruise and eschewing outside help so there is no external static interfering with their fluid telepathic communication. Even the ghosts of the 20th century jazz greats have been left in the control room to look, learn and wonder how cosmic exploration has advanced in the last fifty years.
France opts for a textural percussive approach, encouraging rather than driving Abrahams on whilst placing the odd piton for him to swing round and sustain their gentle momentum - there are still spacetime ripples to surf after all and unobservable space is surely close? Abrahams for his part gets busy seeding ambient electronic clouds, lighting the duo's universal paths with gently probing guitar lines, whilst not forgetting to litter their meandering paths with twinkling notes in case they need to find their way back to this troubled planet.
Ambient space rock, ethereal improv', zero gravity cosmic jazz - call this album what you will, it's a start to finish universally attuned joy and has been on repeat all afternoon and evening, but what makes this album even more remarkable is that there were no overdubs or post processing involved, it’s a session and a half. Perhaps improvisation and experimental music aren't so bad after all?
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