Dissectologists [Cassette]

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Aaron Russell & Sandy Ewen - Dissectologists [Cassette] Compelling new collaborative works from longtime musical colleagues going back to the early 2000s in Austin with The Weird W eeds. These deftly paced pieces enhance the artist's now highly evolved and nuanced sonic palettes, venturing thoughtfully into warm and hypnotic sound fields merging two very unique approaches to abstract guitar. Sedimental's connection with these artists is long running, having released the final Weird Weeds album in 2012 that featured both Russell and Ewen as well as Nick (now Sarah) Hennies and Lindsey Verrill, followed in 2017 with Aaron Russell's first solo release Red Guitar. Now ten years later the label re-connects with these fine and dedicated musicians in releasing a new collaborative effort Dissectologists, featuring four deftly paced pieces recorded between 2019 and 2025 in Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, Washington, DC, and Mexico City. The album features Russell's and Ewen's distinctive guitars over beds of synthesized drones, processed sounds, and feedback that display the artist's now highly evolved and nuanced sonic palettes, venturing thoughtfully into warm and hypnotic sound fields merging two very unique approaches to abstract guitar, fully realized on the epic 23-minute track "Houston." Aaron Russell grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and has played guitar in a number of underground and experimental bands since the early 1990s, including The Weird Weeds and Moonsicles. He released his first solo guitar album, Red Guitar, on Sedimental Records in 2017 with a new solo LP forthcoming on the memory_waste_ label. Aaron lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts and is focused on composing and performing music for electric guitar and laptop synthesis. Sandy Ewen is a Brooklyn-based sound artist, visual artist, and architect. Ewen's audio practice focuses on extended guitar techniques, improvisation, graphic scores, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her unique approach to guitar incorporates a wide array of implements -- railroad spikes, sidewalk chalk, threaded bolts, steel wool, and other items become an arsenal of abstraction. Ewen has worked extensively with film makers, dancers, poets, and musicians to create films, audio recording, sound interventions, and performance art and is an intrepid and active live performer. A1. Greenfield (10:04) A2. Washington (6:20) A3. Coyoacán (10:15) B1. Houston (23:02) Show more