HAHN, KRISTOF - Six Pieces

"Kristof Hahn is perhaps best known for his role in SWANS, where his work on lap steel guitar has provided a critical and unsteady sense of tonal variation and glissandi. On Six Pieces, Hahn draws upon the legacy of his time touring with SWANS, using archival loops and singular elements created in the moment as a jumping off point for a series of deep and evolving investigations into his instrument. The results are spiraling cascades of shimmering guitar cut against thick brooding washes of timbral intensity. Six Pieces is a work is restless intent, a collection of instrumental interrogations that test for the boundaries of harmony, texture, and emergent variation. From Lawrence English: "In 2012, I had the good fortune to be in Sydney when SWANS toured on the back of their most recent master work The Seer. The show was, as one would expect, an all-out consumption of body and ears. Before SWANS took the stage however, Kristof Hahn performed a solo set. It was in many respects a stark