Timeless Pulse
Quintet
Mutable 2007

01. 21
02. Healing Piece
03. Just Play
04. Light
05. Shapes

A quintet, so five names to introduce to you: Thomas Buckner (voice), George Marsh (percussion), Pauline Oliveros (accordion), David Wessel (live-electronics), Jennifer Wilsey (percussion) - musicians from different backgrounds: classical, improv, jazz and electronic. Pauline Oliveros, a pioneer in "minimal American" needs no further presentation, while most of the others are connected as University teachers. They came together in 1993 and have at least one earlier CD around, (Live at CNMAT) recorded for Deep Listening. On this new one they perform 5 recent compositions - most of them lengthy works that take time to grow and develop. Organic instruments go very well with the live electronics, and the ensemble sounds very well-balanced, each one equally contributing to the whole. The music is like 'timeless' soundscaping: not over-active, but in quietly rolling waves inducing a meditative state. I'm afraid to use the "A" word, as that often doesn't imply "deep and intricate", plus the percussion is free which to many means anti-ambient. Oliveros states it as follows: "Leaning into the moments of sounding I rest in the music of my friends and enjoy being" - an apt description of the overall process and tone. A+

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