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CROWHURST with GAVIN BRYARS Incoherent American Narrative, January 24th, 2020

BEHOLD… What do Aphex Twin, Tom Waits and CROWHURST have in common besides vast and challenging discographies? They’ve all at one point collaborated with GAVIN BRYARS, one of the world’s most important and celebrated living composers. Recorded in an 18th century hotel in the French Pyrenees, the new album by CROWHURST recomposes and gives new life to elements of released and unreleased works by BRYARS. The end result are pieces that feel as close to the symphonic drone of Monoliths-era Sunn 0))) as they do to BRYARS’ collaborations with Brian Eno on Discreet Music or his masterwork The Sinking Of […]