Gaspar Serey - Cavernícola
Released: April 4 With his second EP of the year, Chilean improvisational musician Gaspar Serey brings us four free-form pieces of free jazz-adjacent compositions which really takes the limits of a single electric guitar and pushes them as hard as possible. There’s a ton of interesting textures throughout that pop up seemingly sporadically and are quickly replaced by new ones as notes come in flurries and waves. The album opens up with what is one of the most ambient adjacent pieces, “Uno.” There’s a persistent background of sound beyond the sometimes frenetic notes of the guitar that feels like pads, though they appear to be created simply as a byproduct of the guitar and the effects being applied. It feels like a rather foggy piece, even as the bright plucks pop through. The next track, “Dos,” is quick moving piece that that sees the guitar in a bit more of a raw light, hitting all sorts of strange chord inversions and formulation in rapid succession. This trac...
