SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: PRYMEK & SAGE – SHELTER

PRYMEK & SAGE
SHELTER
AKP RECORDINGS

If somebody would mention ambient music at this very moment, the first thing that might come to mind would be meandering electronics sounds. Yet the variation and spectrum of ambient music these days has widened to encompass everything from modern classical music and for some, dreaded new age, and that means that for some artists within the genre, electronic instrumentation has slipped into the background, or isn’t there at all.

That is certainly the case with Shelter, the initial album release by the duo of (Matthew) Prymek & (Chaz) Sage, who are at the same time members of Fuubutsushi, and also longtime friends who, along with other artistic projects they are involved in, have found time to record these five subdued, free-flowing pieces involving slide guitar, accordion, clarinet, recorder, and subtle synthesizers.

There is a sort of synergy and free-flowing energy in these semi-improvised/composed pieces that can only occur with participants that know each other so well and have been working together for a long time, defying space and time, something that ambient music should all be about.

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