Guitarist Grdina's Box Cutter with Francoise Houle on clarinet mix acoustic and electric lines in tunes with melodic momentum that take plenty of pauses for free sections.
Box Cutter cuts through stylistic boundaries. The players weave in and out of free-form improvisations, grooves, and lyrical melodic statements with equal enjoyment. The band leaves no stone unturned, making use of every possibility that presents itself. This is a band that loves to improvise. It will make music out of anything: the sound of wind, a chime, a feel, a phrase, a tune... Box Cutter feels equally at home making music out of pure sound and texture as making a soulful melody sing.
Tracks
01. Peripheral Ghosts
02. Burning Bright
03. Junk Drawer
04. Yellow Spot Into The Sun
05. The Good News
06. Nayeli Joon
07. Big Man, Get Down!
08. Weeble Wobble
09. The Bad News
10. Plan Of Attack
11. W.W.T.W.D.
GORDON GRDINA guitar
KARLIS SILINS bass
FRANÇOIS HOULE clarinet
KENTON LOEWEN drums
Music composed by Gordon Grdina
Recorded at the Factory
Spool Records - SPL 129