William Winant - "Five American Percussion Pieces"

• 350 copies pressed, worldwide. 

• 200 gram super-heavyweight vinyl

• Gallery edition-style packaging

• Hand-crafted 10 plate screen printed jacket with mitred-corner wood spine!!!

Estimable American percussionist William Winant (Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Mr Bungle, Glenn Spearman) makes his solo debut with this brilliant suite of recordings of works by Lou Harrison, Michael Byron, Alvin Curran, and James Tenney, recorded between 1976 and 2013. Winant is one of those characters revered by his peers yet relatively unknown beyond the experimental cognoscenti. These five pieces reveal him to be a master of musical magik with a finely honed percussive discipline and instinctive appreciation of timbre, the sort that makes complex pieces seem effortless and has seen his services in demand by the likes of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis. His five performances here call to mind analogies to everything from Moondog's rhythmelodic tattoos to the chiming minimalist phrasing of Steve Reich and the downtown sounds of Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo; that's to say there's a mixture of humour and skill at play, unafraid to engage with avant-garde structures and interpret them with a manner and integrity that retains the pieces' challenging nature while presenting it in the most engrossing, tangible terms. It's got us utterly mesmerised at the least.