Grubbs, David & Luke Fowler: J'ai pensé sans paroles LP

 Luke Fowler and David Grubbs meet for the first time on "J'ai pensé sans paroles", a work that brings together two artists whose practices have long moved between experimental music, composition, film, and sound. Glasgow-based Fowler is an artist, filmmaker, and musician whose work explores the relationship between documentary, experimental cinema, and music. Based in Brooklyn, Grubbs has been a central figure in experimental music for more than three decades. A founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol, he has since developed an extensive body of solo work as a composer, pianist, and improviser, alongside collaborations with artists including Pauline Oliveros, Tony Conrad, and Susan Howe. The album's first piece, "J'ai pensé sans paroles", was created in the wake of Fowler's two portrait films about French-German composer Brunhild Ferrari. The piece incorporates sound material provided by Ferrari, as well as field recordings made by Eric La Casa during the production of Fowler's films in Paris and Montreuil. The album is completed by "Verbal Equinox", recorded between Glasgow and Brooklyn. More direct and open-ended, the piece extends the dialogue established in "J'ai pensé sans paroles", foregrounding the intuitive interplay between the two musicians and their shared interest in the unstable territory between composition and improvisation.