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ARTIST
LIVING WINDOW
TITLE
Astralturfing
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 690LP
FTR 690LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/21/2023
"Fantastic debut LP by this severely talented instrumental duo, currently based around Hampshire College unless I am much mistaken.
Living Window
is comprised of drummer
Cameron Mitchell
and guitarist
Mila Dorji
, who have created an album of pile-driving avant-garde hunch reminiscent of pre-
Mahavishnu
McLaughlin
's slow-hand recordings with
Tony Williams
or
Billy Cox
. Mitchell drumming mixes rock and jazz attacks in equal measure, either drawing out rhythms or pounding them straight into pumice. And Dorji collects his amped notes into a huge mass before he releases them, displaying far more taste and patience than most of his contemporaries. This kind of jazz/rock guitar/drum dueling can be traced back (more or less) to
Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson
's
Daily Dance
LP from '73. Whether or not they've heard it, Living Window are fully in sync with that amazing record. They also hint at the early duo improvisations of the
Alex/Nels Cline Duo
, and combos such as Manas (led by Mila's dad,
Tashi
),
Chris Guttmacher
's
Louis Farakhan!
and other nimble purveyors of stripped-down excess. Living Window have chosen a hybridized aesthetic route, which presents opportunities to bring jazz to rock masses and vice versa. But it's also a path that can lead to playing concerned with mere 'chops' rather than invention. At this stage of their trajectory, Living Window are bursting with so many ideas they display no weakness in that area. At times their moves almost evoke a one guitar version of 'Randga', which is about as high a praise as I can imagine.
Astralturfing
is the first blast of music from a duo with amazing potential. Towers open fire." --
Byron Coley
, 2023
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