NIGHT MUSIC: Dream Visions of the Illumined Axis

John Krausbauer and Kaori Suzuki present their third collaborative duo recording, “Dream Visions of the Illumined Axis”(Debacle Records), for the thirsty and attuned ears of the dröhnengruppe. The music features the duo performing on multiple reed sources and metal percussion, combined with amplified delay systems. Previous efforts include their 2021 “Night Angel of Dual Infinities” (Beacon Sound) and the recently released “Suspension Blues” (ANTS)– the audial source of their internationally exhibited immersive A/V work by the same name.

Their mutual musical aims lie heavily in the physio-psychological effects produced in deep listening and trance sound-environments, rather than a “creative or musical statement” of some sort. It is a post-aesthetics music: durationally long, timbrally focused, harmonically dense and micro-melodically complex— potentiating music as transcendent thought-defeating experience.

Marvellous. A breathing, resonating space. Sadly digital-only at this point.