Deaf Center: Reverie (digital, Miasmah, May 2025)

Can you believe that it’s been six years since Low Distance? I honestly cannot. And it’s been fourteen since Owl Splinters, which was something of a transformational record in the evolution of your humble blogger’s musical taste. Well, they’re back performing together, and it’s as richly, bewitchingly wonderful as ever.

These two ~17 minute pieces (called Rev and Erie, but I forgive them) were recorded live, with Otto A Totland improvising a sparse but emotional piano line in his inimitable way, and Erik K Skodvin swathing it in layers of guitar, cello, and electronics. I have to say, the longer track length really works for them (as it did for Skodvin as Svarte Greiner on Moss Garden, say). This is everything I was hoping it would be: mean, moody, and magnificent.

I bought this from the artists’ bandcamp page.