The album comprises guitar improvisations from Darren Tate and field recordings culled by Banks Bailey, all passed through the sieve of Ian Holloway's mixing and processing techniques. Despite the different types of music each man is mainly associated with, their arrangement in this session is astonishingly homogenous, and Holloway's command of the entire range of sounds and their technical possibilities is impressive.
The third track, seamless though it is, passes through several different different territories, including fairly standard improv mutterings, abstract sonic soundscapes, caustic scree's of noise, episodes beautiful, elegant, emotionally affecting melodic invention, and almost mystical passages of mesmerizing field recordings melded with echoes of minimalism. On account of the trio's willingness and ability to veer smoothly between styles and methodologies , there's a freshness and vitality to the album, dark though it may be.
This is furthered with the details of Holloway's production: he places Tate's chameleon chords like fireflies in the mouth of a grumbling, side-long drone of creeping menace, or invests Bailey's crazed nature sounds with delightful textures and other strange noises. Summerland is a ragged kind of lyricism, and a wholly engaging musical vision.
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