REVIEW:

After the physicality of The Nature of Things, the dry asceticism of A Barren Place is equally as bracing, a barren landscape of small sound friction, tension and suspension. Diaz-Infante on acoustic guitar, Brooklyn's Forsyth on electric guitar and Hamburg's Scherzberg on alto sax have clearly studied the particle physics minimalism of British improvisors like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Paul Rutherford. Occasionally, the pointillistic exchanges rise above skittering, jittery dances of harmonic and rhythmic gestures, but like a trio of magnets these improvisors seem to be content to not let their detailed non-idiomatic rubbings and bleatings come to close to one another. That is not to underplay the interplay between the musicians, it is just as with other lower case works silence and space are just as equal partners to the sound construction as the instrumentalists. - Richard Moule, Signal to Noise
credits
released January 15, 2004

Ernesto Diaz-Infante (San Francisco) acoustic guitar
Chris Forsyth (Brooklyn) electric guitar
Lars Scherzberg (Hamburg) alto saxophone

Recorded by Lars on March 13, 2002 in Berlin.

Released by Public Eyesore in 2004.