The principle of Just Intonation has been the hot shit in the field of avant-garde music for a few years now, and that’s only understandable: not only does it allow us to break with common tonal conventions, but also to turn away from an all-too-Western understanding of music. Andrew Bernstein transposes it to the saxophone, which in itself is not an easy feat, and even creates layers and layers out of his own playing. What reads complicated sounds like a veritable mindfuck, psychoacoustic spectral drones. »A Presentation« feels like that one scene from »Lost Highway« in which the camera suddenly pans around the corner stretched out to almost forty minutes. Ugh. Awesome.
Andrew Bernstein – A Presentation (2022)
