Chris Cundy and Benedict Tayl
Hidden Bomba
Chris Cundy and Benedict Taylor
Hidden Bomba
1. The Sum
2. Ocotillos Alone
3. Pink Blaze
4. Blue Missing Thistle
5. Hidden Bomba
6. Agressive Silver Lines
7. In Vertical Lizards
8. A Winter Detail
Total playing time: 42’66”
Chris Cundy - bass clarinet
Benedict Taylor - viola
These eight duos were recorded at the chapel of Francis
Close Hall. It’s a space I’ve been familiar with for close to
twenty years now, providing me with a home for various
musical collaborations, concerts and recording sessions.
Recorded by music archivist and friend Chris Trent the results
give a close account of how the bass clarinet and viola
respond and play out in the giant emptiness of that wooden
framed interior. Titles such as Aggressive Silver Lines, or In
Vertical Lizards were an attempt to create an inventory of
imagined camouflage patterns. Our approach to this music is
to explore the emergence of things. Music is not written
down. They are improvisations and allow us a glimpse but
they never lead to any kind of grand design. Just
as those fabulous dazzle paintings on ships during wartime
were designed to confuse the senses in the enemy's direction
- the great arc of the thing is never completely hidden.
Gesture and accident are things to play with and to provoke,
but we welcome plain melody when it comes. Sometimes it
lingers around us becoming faint, foggy, with sharper outlines
it becomes almost recognisable.
Chris Cundy December 2016
Recorded at Francis Close Hall Chapel,
University of Gloucestershire.
Engineered by Chris Trent.
Compiled and edited by Chris Cundy.
Mastered at Calundronius by Chris Trent.
Thanks to Stuart Wilding at University of
Gloucestershire.
Linear Obsessional Recordings 2017
LOR091
www.linearobsessional.org
