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Title:  Desist Artist:  Skuli Sverrisson & Anthony Burr - Various Artists Label:  Fire Inc. Format:  CD Price:  € 13.80   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
A work of collaboration by Icelandic composer Sverrisson (who has a release on Extreme and currently working with Laurie Anderson) and Anthony Burr from the USA. Sverrisson has been resident in New York for over 10 years and active in the avantgarde free-jazz scene, working with among others Anthony Coleman, Jim Black, Eyvind Kang etc... Burr collaborated with Jim O'Rourke, featuring on 'Terminal Pharmacy' among other releases. He is currently living in San Diego and finishing his doctor's degree in composition at The University of San Diego.

The music of the two is not easy described. It moves into ambient territories, but is too unsettling to be just another ambient. Sonic scapes are built up using high frequency scales. On a microscopic scale little insects move around, and they reveal their presence when you turn up the volume real loud.

Vital Review:
ANTHONY BURR & SKULI SVERRISSON - DESIST (CD by Fire Inc.)

First time I've come across these names (forgive my ignorance) and I hope
to hear more from them. Seven tracks on this one, all drony, but not in
the usual sense. There is something very subtle about these pieces.
Different sounds have been mixed together to form one dense layer, which
then shifts from one part of the sound to another. In this sense the
sound itself is being composed as we go along. Sometimes a very deep bass
is not so much heard as felt and I wouldn't have really heard it if I
hadn't cranked up the volume. This is also true for some of the high
pitched sounds: one is aware of their presence but only after turning up
the volume is it possible to hear them. Basically most of the sounds
appear to be sine waves and differently coloured noises (some remind me
of random radio waves), which are used to create the (dis)harmonics in
the pieces. The interplay between harmonics and disharmonics is very well
done indeed and gives this record its paradoxical atmosphere: it's chilly
and warm at the same time. The record as a whole is very well balanced
and guarantees excellent listening. (MR)

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