Alexi Baris – Support Surfaces [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Dean Blunt or Jim Shepard

Dean Blunt or Jim Shepard as much as the conceptual excursions into sound forged by visual artists like Anton Heyboer

while flute and drums evoke distant dances

cassette noise

from windy hill tops to quiet brooks

This constantly uniform yet constantly varied swaying revolves in a swarm of sharp designs that blink on and off in a layer of growing density and mobility

Alexi Baris – Support Surfaces [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Dean Blunt or Jim Shepard"Soda Gong presents Support Surfaces, the new record by Alexi Baris, a musician hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia. Baris methods are patient and deceptively rigorous, trading in sonics that are at once organized and organic. Synthetic and acoustic elements are presented in sonorous states of perpetual flux, carefully amalgamated into structures of fertile ambiguity. His is a diligent and painterly approach to sound design and arrangement, in