![]() Best of all is You Thought You Were Free?, which layers clattering percussion over the wailing siren of a tornado warning relayed over Chicago until it sounds like a freakish fusion of the Master Musicians of Joujouka and Fela Kuti. Pardieu turns a three-note xylophone riff into a compelling funk groove Fruit Smoothie With Peanut Butter is a wonderfully chaotic drum circle that sounds melodic despite not featuring any tuned instruments. There are drum circles, water drums and birdsong tracks that exploit the acoustics of a California canyon. Sometimes, the results sound like an earthier Philip Glass: Dawn Blessings pairs her dreamlike, two-note gyil pattern with violinist Macie Stewart’s beautiful harmonies Don’t Go Back to Sleep sees Burch’s gyil fractionally out of phase with a synthesiser, then spins into hypnotic but disorientating minimal techno. After living in London, Berlin and Utrecht, and collaborating with the electronic sound-sculptor Leafcutter John, the electro-acoustic ensemble Flock and her post-punk trio Vula Viel, Burch’s first solo album lands her in Chicago, enlisting some Windy City jazz mavericks, including trumpeter Ben LaMar Gay, woodwind player Rob Frye and members of Tortoise.
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