Concentration

by Susan Alcorn

Concentration cover art

Documenting a solo pedal steel performance, this album highlights the artist's completely idiosyncratic approach to her instrument. By moving away from country and Western swing traditions toward a language of free improvisation and spatial electronics, Alcorn creates a sparse and dissonant soundscape that redefines the sonic possibilities of the steel guitar.

Genres

  • Free Improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Four Mountains, Four Rivers
  2. Silence Like a Breaking Glass
  3. The Silence Was Your Grey Butterfly Urine and Bedsores
  4. Olivier Messiaen's Morning Conjugal Death Waltz
  5. The Queen Is Always Pregnant
  6. Time Was Nothing
  7. And Who Could I Ask If It Wasn't You?