David Grubbs - Prismrose ((CD))

Roll, tape, roll. . . the genie gambols, but viewed from a different angle angel is indistinguishable from crocodile, from shadow shaped and thrown.Prismrose is a nearly wordless collection of six pieces for electric guitar, all given real time to breathe, grow unpredictably, mutate. Its an albuman of-a-piece, start-to-finish listenthat documents what an electric guitar sounds like in David Grubbss hands now that weve stumbled into the year 2016. Prismrose comes to uscomes at usfrom a stellar run of expansive, hands-thinking hands-puzzling guitar music that began with the stylistic pivot of Grubbss solo records An Optimist Notes the Dusk and The Plain Where the Palace Stood (do we have a trilogy brewing?) and the two recent albums from the trio Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia.Prismrose begins with How to Hear Whats Less than Meets the Ear, an eleven-minute duo written for Tony Conrads 75th birthday bash with Grubbs on chiming, tolling Telecaster and wunderkind percussionist and composer Eli Kes