Phil Cook - Southland Mission (CD)

At points melodic and cartoonish and at others glitching and somewhat unnerving

Is it a map or a language

the LP remains an urgent and fitting introduction to a push-and-pull that would go on to inform the duo’s sound – a thoughtful headiness that also wants you to get out on the dance floor

“It would always just accompany the visual in this amazing way

a window flung open to let the summer air in

Let’s follow that idea

the new project from prolific multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel and visual artist/filmmaker Marcella Cytrynowicz

and feels at home with the jagged edges of Cytrynowicz’s illustration

with the bulk of the sonics coming from a Suzuki Waraku III

in a shadowy and vivid chasm between terrestrial and otherworldly

It’s an instrument he chose for no real reason other than finding it enjoyable to improvise on

completely freehand and guided by intuition