David Grubbs & Taku Unami : Comet Meta

Longtime friends and now the most simpatico of collaborators, 'Comet Meta' finds David Grubbs and Taku Unami fully in third-mind territory as they start the conversation anew after their touted 2018 debut, 'Failed Celestial Creatures' (Empty Editions). 'Comet Meta' grew out of concerts in Seoul, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with ground broken for this recording on a plane 35,000 feet above the East China Sea and in a tiny Risograph studio in Tokyo where they had to be extremely quiet. Those familiar with Grubbs' and Unami's extensive discographies know them as folks who like to think and to make on their feet and on the run, with situation and surroundings profoundly generative. The sound world of 'Comet Meta' ranges from pindrop twinguitar focus ('Comet Meta' and 'Nothing Left to Hear But the Night') and Grubbs' piano manoeuvring in Unami's electroacoustic forcefields ('Mirror Auction at Echo Dcor' and the horror homage 'Walking Corpse in an Old House') to u