Liz Allbee / Jhans Grusel Split

Shut in for years exploring the material capacities of complex handmade instruments, could an artist emerge to compose unlabored, wide-open, epic and instinctive music? Two such genius-naifs, LIZ ALLBEE and HANS GRUSEL, deliver back-to-back marvels on this split release. Impossible instruments blow the lines off your conceptual map. Wonder at how the sounds were crafted, lean in to listen then list further, plunging to the immeasurable depths they open inside you. Liz Allbee's "Strategies For Failure And Relief From Persistent Positive Symptoms" summons bells, conch, voice, extended trumpet, sine waves and electronics that include home-made fingertip mics and motor players tripping beneath dilated, unblinking lyrics. Hans Gruesel's "Zuckerkrieg (Part I)" steers electrons through a skein of patch cord in and around concreted pianos, horns, winds, violins and found objects, bending them into a composition that weighs a single stuttering heartbeat before it swells, bursts, and inundates the full range of human hearing. Packaged in frameable posters with digital download. Limited to 250 copies.