WEISMAN, CHRIS & GREG DAVIS - NORTHERN SONGS (CD)

"Northern Songs is the blissful sound of Chris Weisman leaving his body and dissolving into the universe; he sounds very free. Greg Davis helps the usually obsessive Chris surrender to the void. The falling away of self is quite literal: Chris recorded a batch of songs, then turned the tapes over to Greg without instructions for completion. Rather than perfecting the material, Greg's treatments make it radically and beautifully incomplete; the pop song is unmastered, its closed forms opened to nature. In this sense, their music is post-psychedelic: it is Vermont music of peace and patience, but it is not make-believe. We may dwell deeply in moments of imagination but the lesson is to listen beyond the rainbow space of the headphones." (Carl Davulis)