Search - Bobby Previte :: Dull Bang Gushing Sound Human Shriek

This set is played entirely by Bobby Previte, one of the brightest lights to emerge from the Downtown jazz scene that came out of New York in the 1980s and 1990s. Scored as program music for the independent film Bought and Sold by Michael DiPaolo, the CD is frightening in its sonic similarity to the title's wording. There are indeed dull bangs, punctuated by pulsing minimalist keyboard vamps. As for the gushing sounds, those come too, in fast, shocking doses, throughout the CD's seamless sprawl. And the human shrieks, they come at various pitches, sometimes sounding like sirens and sometimes like quick blurts. The music is constructed from samplers, guitars, keyboards, the Elliott Sharp-constructed slab, and more. It's a hefty mixture of free-sounding techniques and downright avant electronics. --Andrew Bartlett