A Rather Solemn Promise

　　The product of their meeting is experimental music, Carter and Kiefer performing live improvisations directly to the recorder and is presented here edited but without a single overdub. The beauty of the music lay it the way it which moments of droning, searching, atonal sound coalesces suddenly into chord-based, tonal music, only to fly away again. The process continues without plan, intuitively the music breaks, connects, breaks, connects again, as Carter switches from lap steel to acoustic resonator and Kiefer switches from resonator to banjo and then to dulcimer. Each artist's technique informs the other: Carter's slabs of sound pressing Kiefer's playing into more abstract moments, and Kiefer's tendency to search out melody encouraging similar playing from Carter's guitar. When the afternoon was over, Kiefer set about editing down the two hours of recorded sound into an album-length release.

　　01-The Night Watchman
　　02-Unknown Foxen
　　03-Commune of Anarchs
　　04-Red Flower in the Greys
　　05-Song the Land Sings
　　06-Birds of A Grey Country
　　07-Snake River
　　08-Glass Palace
　　09-After Dresden

Alternative(1)  Experimental（试验音乐）(1)