VLADIMIR MILLER |
Counting on Angels 1 Hear the fear in the Dark Forest (05.48) Recorded in Spring 2003 at Oor Wullie Studio, London. "Certainly it's a fine match of temperaments, unsentimental yet emotionally charged. Miller, too avoids flamboyance, building solos through sure and steady accumulation, gravity in the harmonies, tenderness in the touch. Hyder's constructions draw equally on dance and industry, as self-sustaining as ritual, as functional as the chug of locomotive pistons." "Hyder's unusual pairing of shamanic beats with delicate percussion filigrees meshes so completely with Miller's tightly-drawn harmonic repetitions that you forget there's no bass player fleshing out the sound. Using the repetitively hypnotic left-hand vamps of a Mal Waldron and the forceful atonal right hand jabs of Cecil Taylor, Miller is both rooted and free, at once inviting us into his music whilst throwing down the shutters should we get too cosy." |