From NewMusic Digest’s Suzi O’Kane:
Bruckmann/Robair/Wick were supposed to go first, but it was better to have their lowercase sound follow the density of BP/C/I. Lowercase in the sense that suckers on the other side of the room had to have their heater turned off because its tiny fan was drowning out Gino’s tiny ebow snare. Where the first act established an immediate place in high register and drew in lower ones, B/RW settled firmly in the low register of human breath, climbing a scaffold of sharper sounds
over time, and, it seemed, abandoning them as quickly as they were built. Initially thought it was another entry into the power of acoustic instruments to claim a vocabulary of sounds we reserve for synths, something Kyle hit a high watermark with in Shudder, but it was simply beautiful, don’t you know, and I stopped thinking. Highlight of the set was Jacob Wick’s duet with the airplane descending into Oakland Airport. Try to see him play anywhere you can.
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