Description
Alan Licht, Charles Curtis, & Dean Roberts – May 99 – New LP Record 2023 Blank Forms Vinyl -Experimental Rock / Drone / Minimalism
May 99 combines resonant sine waves in the style of eminent downtown New York composer La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music with scratchings, scrapings, and warblings produced by Licht and Roberts’s guitars, Curtis’s cello, and a variety of electronics. Just as sine waves hold together these sundry improvisations, a shared tendency toward the minimalistic—Licht’s performances with the Blue Humans, collaborations with Loren Connors, and solo guitar records; Roberts in the band Thela and his solo project White Winged Moth; and Curtis performing with Young and his own Trio—brought together three musicians with very different backgrounds, creating fertile ground on which they generated the album’s unclassifiable sounds.
credits
Cello: Charles Curtis
Guitar: Alan Licht
Electronics: Dean Roberts
Vinyl mixing by Jade Guterman
Vinyl mastering by Rashad Becker
Cassette mastering & restoration by Stephan Mathieu
Photos by Thomas Ankersmit
Design by Alec Mapes-Frances