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Trey Gunn

& David Forlano - Select Habits of Invertebrates

Review by Gary Hill

This is a weird set that largely defies labeling. It’s clearly art music, and since Trey Gunn is part of the duo, it fits under progressive rock, anyway. Gunn provides Warr Guitar, while David Forlano handles things ranging from electronics to saxophone and flute. This is sort of all over the place, but it’s all experimental and impossible to box in. This instrumental set won’t appeal to everyone, but it has its charms for those who like adventurous music.

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Track by Track Review
Select Habits of Invertebrates

This is intriguing stuff. It has trippy, rather electronic elements. Yet it also gets into louder rock sounds. It’s a classy tune with a good amount of variety. It’s definitely art rock and leans toward space rock and even psychedelia at times.

Mono No Waves

There is definitely a soundtrack vibe to this. There is an electronic majesty. Yet there are also slow moving, King Crimson-like elements at play. This gets almost techno later as percussive elements take more of a forefront position. This gets pretty freaky as it continues.

Litigation of the Monkey

In a lot of ways, this is even more experimental and strange. The mix of electronics and jazz and more is intriguing. It turns noisy and rather freaky later.

Simulacra

Textural atmospherics get things going here. There is a voice here – seemingly taken from an instructional video – talking about development of a human embryo. Some of the guitar that is heard on this feels like some kind of angry beast. This thing gets decidedly freaky as it continues.

The Perfect Matchstick

If anything this thing is freakier and more experimental than anything we’ve heard to this point. It tends to be more freeform and noisy.

Paper Thin Flavor

Not a huge change, this is more adventurous freeform stuff.

The Winds That Ended History

There is a sense of something really special happening here, even though this remains quite experimental.

           

 
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