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Almost ten years of collaboration is captured in all its infinite texture and resonance on
Specter, the debut recording from Sabers. Loops, field recordings, contact mics, and
accomplished drumming create organic rhythmic fields while baritone guitar (fed
simultaneously through multiple bass and guitar amps) and a small city of pedals, effects,
and mixers melt it down.
Jeff Conaway and Charlie Hines met during the early '90's in Lawrence, Kansas. Their
sensibilities were forged in the open Kansas "hypnogeography." They played together
through the years in various rock ensembles, including Panel Donor.
Eventually, they both wound up in NYC.
Accustomed to playing in spaces with natural reverb qualities and with fairly
simple means, ie, guitars, effects pedals and vintage amps in various resonant
configurations, Sabers represents Conaway and Hines in their most vivid and least
orthodox state yet. They distill previous efforts down into a structurally simpler, soundbased
music of mesmerizing sonic forays.
In November of 2002, they completed this necessarily bleed-heavy recording with
engineer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, John Zorn, Keiji Haino, among many others).
It's a new kind of soundscape, tempered with a delicate, wide-open sense of space and
infused with wild, NYC industrial shimmer: moody, expansive and brilliantly restrained.
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