The Sydney based label Hospital Hill has just released our collaboration with Jules Reidy.

Reidy has described the work as sound “collapsing in on itself,” &, indeed, the music evokes a kind of slow-motion implosion, as parts of a brassy edifice tumble into its foundation - captured instants & time stretched echoes. Reidy ingeniously seized the tail ends of various phrases played by the trio, electronically warping & extending those tones into an ethereal mist colliding with & harmonising against electric guitar figures voiced with the same set of pitches, albeit shifted down to meld into the range of the low brass figures.

The music transforms the sere articulation of the brass with those electronic manipulations, retaining its clarity while reshaping it like putty in a fluid wash that brings a stunning continuity. The chiming guitar tones both twinkle like stars & cast a milky haze, recasting sets of vibrating chords into a genuine sonic journey marked by sorrowful melodic shards & sudden sonic explosions that indicate Reidy’s gifts as a composer. As a listener who’s become spellbound by music composed in just intonation, Reidy has developed something genuinely original that erases the divide between acoustic & electronic, refusing to let a particular tuning system get in the way of an increasingly sure-handed compositional voice.

Peter Margasak