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mwalker on 11/02/2009 at 07:09AM
I woke up and drank a bottle of Cheap Kojak
I've upped another long-ish performance, this one coming at you from the Brothers Peeesseye, a duo subset of the trio Peeesseye (also know as PSI), featuring Jaime Fennelly on harmonium and electronics and Chris Forsythe on guitar. They played ISSUE last weekend (10/23) as part of their now-concluded tour.
Peeesseye, normally augmented through the drumming of Fritz Welch, have been kicking around since 2002 and have a pretty sizeable catalogue of cds, cdrs, cassettes, and 7”s, mostly all of which you can grab at Evolving Ear. Jaime and Chris sometimes show up as Phantom Limb, collaborating with such dope musicians as Nate Wooley and C. Spencer Yeh.
This half-hour jam slips back and forth, at a glacial pace, between slow simmer and scalding boil. Builds and unravelings so gradual and mesmerizing that the organic transitions remain nearly invisible – at one moment, clean and minimal guitar figures float in tonal consonance over a warm drone of harmonium; at another moment, nasty blues fragments dig heels against jagged eruptions of molten noise, the harmonium still a suspended backdrop. These moments don’t register, however, as harsh juxtapositions but as natural points on a fluid, timeless continuum that you’re not even aware is being traversed. Worth getting lost in, for sure.
