V_on are an uncompromising duo so hold tight. Joseph Warner is a well respected, experimental double-bass player, who I'd struggle to imagine in a dinner jazz trio. His partner in crime here is Markus Mehr who has chooses to immerse himself in generally choppy field recording and electronic waters, don't expect him in the Billboard 100 anytime soon either.
On this recording Mehr perpetuates Warner's sonic deviance by using his borderline instrumental abuse as his main sound source. Obviously expect the unexpected, and true to form he uses double bass samples variously as a percussive machine gun, a more recognisable, insistent metronomic rhythm, even at times relenting and letting his bowing expand and nod towards familiar classical realms; although not for long. And that's just the half of it, there is all sorts of madness going on here, if you're of faint heart and ears, don't even press play, there is a intensity and provocative approach here designed to test various limits across it's three distinct movements, although I have to say despite my general noisier experimental reluctance I enjoyed the ride, there's a real synergy, quality and inventiveness at play.
Playlist Companion
For the sake of argument, as the double bass is a close cousin of the cello and because I don't have an experimental playlist you can find this tune ruffling feathers and raising questions in the Slow Neoclassical Playlist.
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