“Two masterful artists who happen to play guitar – their marks on the music far transcend their instruments.”
All recordings, especially those of improvised music, try to freeze the sound of a present moment, but invariably melt into the past and the future, real and imagined. Listening to this album, I can’t help but think of the classic meeting of Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins, where two titans of the same instrument across different generations displayed mutual love and respect through stylistic contrast and playful jousting. Or I create a fiction, of Django Reinhardt and Freddie Green crossing paths in some distant hotel, staying up late one night and pushing each other to new ideas. (I don’t make that allusion lightly – for the abundance of virtuosic extended technique, don’t miss the profound swing of the articulated lines and the chunky chords.) Taylor Ho Bynum, excerpt from the liner notes
Joe Morris: guitar
Mary Halvorson: guitar
Brain Draft (2:33)
Shivering Sunshine (3:50)
Traces of Three (4:11)
Silence Invasion (3:42)
Semaphore (11:44)
Full of Somehow (9:02)
Constant Between (7:29)
In Other Terms (6:14)
Over the Line (5:39)
All compositions by Joe Morris (RITI, ASCAP) and Mary Halvorson (Mary Halvorson, BMI)
Recorded by Aaron Nevezie on April 9th 2018 at The Bunker Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Mixing: Aaron Nevezie
Mastering: Greg DiCrosta, Firehouse 12 Studios, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Liner notes: Taylor Ho Bynum
Photographs: Aaron Nevezie
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon
