David Grubbs & Nikos Velitos - The Harmless Dust
The Harmless Dust is a unique release in the discographies of both David Grubbs and the Athens-based cellist Nikos Veliotis (Mohammad). In 2005 the duo were on tour in the US in support of Grubbs’s album A Guess at the Riddle when they took a most productive break at John McEntire’s Soma Studios, over the course of a day laying down something utterly different from the song-based set they were playing most evenings.
The Harmless Dust presents the same composition in two arrangements: one for piano and cello (played with a curved bow that makes it possible to sound multiple strings simultaneously) and the other for Hammond organ and multi-tracked e-bowed piano. The result is a beautiful, patient, melancholy and engrossing instrumental piece.
The piece was first performed live in Tokyo and then released on CD in Japan by the Headz label; this is its first release on LP, with new artwork by Nikos Veliotis from the same series that yielded the original design.
TRACKLIST:
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The Harmless Dust (Part One) [17:04]
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The Harmless Dust (Part Two) [24:04]
see also:
Loren Connors & David Grubbs - Arborvitae LP
Susan Howe & David Grubbs - Concordance LP
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs 2LP
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