angharad davies and taku unami two hands

gather 3 / pure and stripped

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Unami's duo with Angharad Davies, two hands, seems to have pushed a few of my fellows into the naked emperor contingent. Both sides consist of much sporadic clapping; on one side, Unami claps, Davies, a remarkable violinist, scrapes, rubs and plinks in parallel play; on the other side, both clap. If this doesn't piss you off, or strain credulity adequately, most of the hand claps are at ppp or pppp. Unami's embrace of the stripped down - on antecedent works, such as motubachii, he claps amidst many other generated sounds - comes across as vulnerable, and anti-virtuosic. The degree to which you regard this sort of offering as precious or calculatedly naive will determine how you feel about my favorite kitsune's current work. I am confident that you will agree winds measure is producing the most beautifully designed packaging available.
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reviewed by Jesse Goin in crow with no mouth
12-18-2011