Cut 018 · 2006 CD · 41 minutes · Composed 2005

Location recordings, continuous abrasion, open environments, compositional drift, site-specific improvisation and free exchange. Sources include rubbed organ pipes, trees, bowed wires, metal objects, wood pile, glass jugs, blown bottles — alongside field recordings from forests in Estonia and Finland, resonant oil tanks, wind.

"Sparse, echoing taps and gongs sketch out the contours of their surroundings... Nehil and Grzinich also invert such notions, using their source sounds not to imply or describe any kind of space, but to build a gathering slew of thickly textured sound, which enters into the listener's space like a concrete object." — Sam Davies, The Wire, October 2006

"Field recordings-based composition hardly gets any better than this." — Eugenio Maggi, Chain DLK, 2007

"Gyre is highly textural music, almost palpable in the way it inspires visions in the mind's eye... the album's ambience can be quite enveloping." — Adam Strohm, Fake Jazz

Cover image: Jason Kahn.