Mark Trecka - Implication cassette

Implication is Mark Trecka’s third full-length solo recording. It is his first entirely instrumental full-length release.With only one exception, all sounds on Implication were sourced from a single prepared piano improvisation which Trecka recorded during the same session that resulted in his recent LP Acknowledgment. He then took these relatively few sounds and manipulated them into cassette loops before further shaping them into the four narrative compositions that make up Implication.Given the limit and uniformity of the source material, the breadth of sonic textures, tones, and moods that comprise the record is remarkable. Lyrical passages interweave with percussive hammering and harmonic drones, brief moments extended and bent by distressed magnetic tape.And the one exception to the uniformity of the source material is significant. Just over the record’s halfway mark, “Radiance” emerges –– an expansive and shimmering collaboration between Trecka and longtime friend Walt McClement