split by K / S / R + Wind Tide

K / S / R - 6:28 / 8:57 / 6:52

Abigail Smith - flute, percussion
Justin Rhody - violin, harmonica, guitar
Ben Kujawski - keyboard, lap steel, percussion, electronics

Recorded at No Name Cinema and the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe NM, 2022

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WIND TIDE - Turn Up The Periwinkle Sky

AW - tenor saxophone, lap steel, synthesizer, microcassette
GK - clarinet, electric piano, synthesizer, shruti box

Recorded at Wind Tide, Littlefield TX, 2022

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"Recording as K/S/R, the trio of Abigail Smith, Justin Rhody, and Ben Kujawski make experimental music with a jazzy façade, pulling in bits of atmospheric electronics through a desire to mold them into a freeform construct of indeterminable genre. The same could be said for experimental noise duo Wind Tide, comprised of Andrew Weathers and Gretchen Korsmo, as they approach sound as tactile building blocks and forms to be shifted and carved out when necessary. Occupying the same rhythmic/arrhythmic spaces, it makes sense that New Mexico label Physical would find cause to release a split cassette from these artists.

Offering three untitled pieces, K/S/R lean into the fractured and clattering worlds of avant-noise and jazz deconstruction, reveling in the ruptured melodies and clanking rhythms in which they work. Littered with violin, flute, guitar, percussion and various electronic flourishes, these tracks are wild and engaging, a perfect introduction to the unfiltered creativity at the heart of their music. Wind Tide offer a single longform track called “Turn Up the Periwinkle Sky”, and it only slightly more accessible than the K/S/R songs, blending saxophone, clarinet, synths, and a host of other instruments in service to the band’s improvisational impulses. Together these artists make a fragmented sound that doesn’t alienate its audience. Quite the opposite, as it implores them to completely engage with all its subtle nuances and crooked silhouettes." -Joshua Pickard, Cassette Culture, Beats per Minute

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