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Blight in August

by Mike Khoury and Ben Hall

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Mike Khoury and Ben Hall are two stalwart figures on the contemporary Detroit underground improv scene. Both are capable of generating great gusts of noise, but on this tape they focus more on developing a landscape filled with ruralist avant textures. Khoury's violin playing occurs inside a small gesticular range, which has a sort of old-timey feel to it, as though it was being played as part of the soundtrack to a western film.
Hall's electronics, while pretty new timey just as a matter of course, manage to evoke the sounds of a dust storm slowly gathering strength in the near distance.

That's the first side, Hall switches to concert percussion on the flip, which gives proceedings a more new music/ avant jazz feel, although the outdoorsy edge remains.
-Byron Coley

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released August 3, 2023

Mike Khoury- amplified viola
Ben Hall- concert percussion and electronics

Soundholes #099

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Ben Hall Detroit, Michigan

Ben Hall studied W. African percussion with Jumma Santos and trapset and precognition with Milford Graves at Bennington College in where he also worked with Bill Dixon on his last small group recordings. Hall is currently a research fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College. ... more

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