You Are the Right Length
Exit Points
Independent EP-501 (exitpoints.square.site/product/vinyl-lp-you-are-the-right-length/45?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false)
Now a staple of the Toronto improvised music scene, Michael Palumbo’s monthly Exit Points series at Arraymusic strikes a perfect balance of genre-bending collaboration between musicians across disciplines and capturing moments of pure serendipity. It is extremely fitting that an LP release featuring different performances from this series feels like it transcends the live album medium into something that feels significantly more alive, breathing.
Track lengths range from under a minute to over ten, and these lengths feel quite deliberate; each piece brimming with energy and momentum, trains of collective thought that clearly state their destination without having to arrive there. Sitting at the extremes of this spectrum of duration are the pieces Falling into Echoes and Sonoluminescence, which bear incredible resemblances to each other, setting a tranquil groundwork, then eventually opting to draw from reserves of tension that are not pollutants; merely a texture etched a little deeper, or a new source of light.
The consequence of choosing excerpts of larger pieces and then sequencing them a certain way is that the profound power of spontaneous composition is apparent in an entirely different manner than the act of circumstantially stumbling upon it. Instances that did not inform each other in the literal sense begin to touch on meaning they would not have in isolation, moments collide to change each other irrevocably. When unfettered process becomes crystallized in product form, there exists a chance of reincarnation as shimmering as this.
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