Dieser Tage scheint das erste gemeinsame Album der beiden Mehrfachinstrumentalisten Bryan Senti und Dominic Bouffard unter dem aus der Astrophysik stammenden Titel “Killing Horizon”. Die Musik der beiden offenbart einen großen Ideenreichtum, die einzelnen Tracks wurden mit einer großen Zahl an Saiten-, Blas-, Streich- und elektronischen Instrumenten aufgenommen, als Gäste haben Noah Hoffeld und Julian Wright noch bei einzelnen Stücken Cello und nachträgliche Bearbeitung von Gitarrenparts beigestragen. Das Album erscheint beim hauseigenen Label Naïve Senti.
“In the middle of 2020,the London based experimental composer and guitarist Dominic Bouffard asked me if I’d like to work together on a record. Each of us decided to work independently and then at the end of the week we’d meet on zoom, pass along our sessions to one another, and then have a beer and a chat about the pandemic, art, philosphy and whatever else was brewing in our lives. In this way, each track came together one fragment at a time, becoming a journal of our feelings and conversations during that uncertain time. Now when I listen back to Killing Horizon (“Killing Horizon” being a term borrowed from physics concerning black holes), I’m reminded of the void we all felt at the beginning of the pandemic, which to me is alluded to in books like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and films like Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia. I’m happy we stumbled upon Nat Martin’s photograph, “Barren Landscape”, which would become our album artwork, because his print illustrated what we were hearing. The majority of the record was recorded by ourselves in our respective home studios in London and Los Angeles. Noah Hoffeld added cello remotely in upstate New York. The record was mixed by Francesco Donadello at Vox-Ton in Berlin and then mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering in Berlin”. (Bryan Senti)