Marco Fusinato – Spectral Arrows: Melbourne [LP]

"Spectral Arrows: Melbourne documents the project’s first iteration in Fusinato’s home town of Melbourne, where, on the 9th of June, 2018, he performed for six hours facing his work The Infinitive #3 (2015), on display in The shape of things to come, the inaugural exhibition of the new Buxton Contemporary. Presenting two continuous side-long excerpts from the day, the recording finds Fusinato continuing his focus on the possibilities of the electric guitar revealed through distortion and massive volumes. Moving from rhythmically punctuated volleys to howling passages of scraping metallic slide and piercing feedback tones, the half-hour captured on the LP is both relentless in its intensity and strikingly dynamic. Unleashing a shape-shifting barrage of stuttering fuzz sourced from his maladroit string mangling, at several points the continuous bombardment is dramatically interrupted by silence before recommencing with renewed vigour. Far from a one-dimensional wall of noise, the performance’s hyper-active articulation and continuously shifting timbre find Fusinato channelling the stratospheric post-free-jazz blowouts of Masayuki “Jojo” Takayanagi. Recorded and mixed in stunning high-fidelity by Byron Scullin, Spectral Arrows: Melbourne is another necessary thunderclap from contemporary noise guitar’s most irrepressible proponent."

theblackesthole, 2019