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Sculpted sonics through prepared guitars, electronics, synthetics, drums, gongs, metal and percussion, the Chicago duo Gleaming Shards of guitarist Da Wei Wang and drummer Jerome Bryerton, both veterans of improvisation, experimental and avant rock groups, evoke the album title and group name through shimmering and subtly shifting expanses of sound and punctuated movement.
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Da Wei Wang-prepared guitars, electronics, synthesizer
Jerome Bryerton-drums, gongs, metal, percussion
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UPC: 195269303709
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Catalog ID: bpaltd22022
Squidco Product Code: 35179
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Da Sound Studio, Decorative Container, and Chez JB, by Da Wei Wang.
"Gleaming Shard brings together a duo of hardened, scar-ravaged veterans from the fringe Chicago music scene - Da Wei Wang (prepared guitars) and Jerome Bryerton (gongs, cymbals). The duo does not perform music. Rather, it sculpts an ambient environment by weaving a moving network of harmonies, microtones and polyrhythms. It molds a thick space with the vibrations and particles that zigzag throughout the world. As light speeds epic distances, away from the singular origins of the Universe, so the duo's music evolves gradually over the eons, if it perceptibly develops at all."-Elastic Arts
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• Show Bio for Da Wei Wang "Da Wei Wang is a veteran guitar hawk of the Chicago avant-rock scene. He is best known for his work in the legendary industrial-gospel-punk band, Ono. He is also an improviser in Street Tentacle. He has toured throughout the United States and internationally to disseminate the hymns of experimental guitar music. Da Wei's fractured, atonal guitar style spans from dada funk to existential doom to ambient raga. He applies extended techniques and tools on his guitar to conjure dense, textured landscapes. His solo guitar work is like a storm cloud whose gaseous firmament is carpeted with hoary sprouts and dust geysers. His debut solo guitar album, Liquid Metal Core, was released by the venerable Asian Improv Records in 2021. It's thick, scratchy, and dense as a gorilla's nose hairs. It features the multi-faceted, Ono classmate Ben Karas on drums. Enjoy!" ^ Hide Bio for Da Wei Wang • Show Bio for Jerome Bryerton "Jerome Bryerton's artistic expression evolved from years of playing drums in rock, jazz and experimental groups. Performing solo or collaboratively, he's toured and recorded internationally with many notable improvisers. Jerome is also part owner of a large industrial silk screening operation in Chicago. While some may perceive a factory to be the antithesis to the creative process, Jerome's imagination has been known to incorporate the errors of assembly line production into some of his art. Rejected test prints often made their way into many of his early canvases. Strictly working within the medium of oil on canvas and applied with plexiglass. Jerome's dense, moody abstractions and marbleized colors have been said to evoke controlled chaos, blurred memory and decay. His influences range from Masters such as Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Luc Tuymans and Cy Twombly. Self-taught and skilled in improvisation, Jerome believes that everything starts with curiosity: if you're curious about something and you're willing to learn more about it, everything happens by itself." ^ Hide Bio for Jerome Bryerton
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Track Listing:
1. Cosmic Dark Age 05:39
2. Mirrors in Light Diamonds 10:27
3. Message From Arecibo 05:23
4. Shimmering Light Speed 05:05
5. Endless Expansion 13:03
6. My Microwave Background 11:15
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