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MUTED LANGUAGE
Bead Records
★★★★
TWO drummers drumming in free conversations of percussive beauty and virtuosity: that’s the truth of Muted Language, featuring the veteran south London-born Mark Sanders, and the young Norwegian, a fast learner in his craft, Emil Karlsen.
So many surfaces struck, rubbed, coaxed, massaged and stroked — of wood, leather, plastics and a host of metals from cymbals, gongs, dishes — a world of sounds and nature’s numb exteriors given new life and hope in the artistry of two exploring humans.
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