John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone, Tom Dolas, Marcos Rodriguez, Andres Renteria, Ben Boye, Laena Myers-Ionita, and Joce Soubrian – Moon-Drenched LP

The same crew as the boundary pulsing improvisation record Bent Arcana has made a trajectory shift and picked up Ben Boye along the path. The aptly-named Moon-Drenched is the second installment from these sessions and keeps a heavy-lidded late night perspective on things as it eases from the somewhat familiar liminal twilight of skittering hues of black-blue and snaking street groove, to fizzing off into the ether in pursuit of lunar prism beams heretofore unseen. The more rhythmically dialed bits here have a lysergic halo of strangeness to them, and the wispy bits between are spun of iridescent gossamer. It sounds like a frizzled message from a future just filthy with guitar hoots echoing off of neon-splattered high rises, oil-slicked waterways and skittering digital beasts. For Castle Face’s money this is the strangest slice of this last bunch of John Dwyer and his crew’s improvisations.

• John Dwyer from OSEES and his crew that made 2020’s quickly sold out Bent Arcana, plus Ben Boye
• The strangest of the batch of this run of Dwyer and crew improv albums

Label: Castle Face – CF137
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: May 28, 2021
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Non-Music
Style: Free Improvisation, Fusion, Krautrock

Tracklist

A1 Psychic Liberation
A2 X-Cannibal's Kiss
A3 The War Clock
B1 Der Todesfall
B2 Get Thee To The Rookery
B3 Spoofing
B4 Terra Incognito