Avery and Pulice have been collaborating for a few years now - mostly via Moon Glyph, either under their own names, or on more clandestine projects with Mitch Stahlmann - the similar sounding LCM project or the deep space explorations of Signal Quest, both very much worth your time. If you need an umbrella term, and I tend to find them helpful, then cosmic minded ambient jazz should do nicely.
The new LP sees them stripping things down to bare bones and wonderful effect, but fear not this new skeletal approach has serious substance - every key press, sax utterance, synth pad, effected vocal refrain, oddball sound source or percussive shake counts twice, accentuated by the consummate spatial framing.
Don’t be deceived by the cover which looks a bit cheesy 80s soft pop. Although there are stray elements of border line queijo amongst the astral probing: some soft synth sounds, well meaning piano lines & sentimental sax, they’re unfailingly accompanied by otherworldly sonic detailing that make their familiarity fantastical.
Mostly they go deep though, this is no time for remembering the one that got away. Pulice’s sax is constantly wondering, meditating, communing, searching and yes lamenting, though certainly nothing trite - that’s been done too often and this is not your usual fare. Fortunately he’s not alone . Avery’s (I presume) percussive shakes and rattles put a comforting or supportive arm around him at just the right moments - just before the ache turns to hurt or the wondering becomes permanent detachment, her ambient beams, perfectly placed field recordings and occasional hypnotic pulses always light the path back home.
It’s a wonderful start to finish listen and one I shall be growing old with. Start your day right.
Playlist Companion
Find a track from them and other great horizontally inclined music in the Slow Ambient Playlist:
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