Daniel Patrick Quinn's Ridin' the Stang was one of last year's quiet pleasures, a liminal wasteland of minimal string drones with a psychogeographical lyrical sensibility. Don't Look Down sees the Edinburgh-based auteur team with Nashville's electroacoustic wrangler Dac Crowell and the Chicago composer Kurt Doles to extemporise six instrumentals in extreme slow motion. The unfurling of Don't Look Down's shimmering tones, billowing brass and bubbling synths displays few of the lightning reflexes commonly associated with improvisation. The lyrics on Quinn's solo work help place the listener - here, we are left to make our own sense of the landscape.
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