The Animal Review by Jacob Lentz6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In common with compatriots operating from the West Coast such as Harold Budd and Ingram Marshall, his compositions investigate slow, nuanced and incremental change, stemming from well-rooted harmonic depths from which to spring into space and resonance. He was a pioneer of live multitrack recording with the Daniel Lentz Group he writes for ensembles from choirs to string orchestras to glass harmonicas. In a Word, the sixteenth instalment, saw an invitation issued to composer Daniel Lentz and vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig to explore the sonic space that might exist between them.ĭaniel has worked across postminimalism for more than four decades. ![]() The FRKWYS project has seen beautiful releases by the likes of Steve Gunn, who made guitars sing with British blues legend Mike Cooper Katryn Aurelia Smith investigating sonics with electronica innovator Suzanne Ciani and the bliss of Julianna Barwick in vocal cahoots with seminal Japanese drummer Ikue Mori. FRKWYS is a collaborative album series that seeks to bring together interesting like minds from across the decades, seeing how they spark, and delivering intriguing and beautiful results think of it akin, perhaps, to a more contemplative In The Fishtank, that Dutch series that dropped such artists as Low and Dirty Three together, saw them find common musical ground. ![]()
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