In 2010 percussionist extraordinaire Jon Mueller released "The Whole," which just happened to be the most criminally underappreciated record of last year. A masterpiece of percussion-based experimentalism, the record found Mueller exploring a wide array of tones and sounds, from the pensive to the expansively epic. If you missed out on that album, do yourself a huge favor and pick it up immediately. For his Type follow up Mueller has produced "Alphabet of Movements," a work consisting of two epic noise/drone pieces based solely on small gongs and a snare drum. As overtones and undertones begin to culminate from the repetitious playing of each instrument, Mueller constructs a sound greater than the sum of its parts. In the end a simple snare roll is turned into a buzzing cacophonous drone and the striking of gongs into a dizzying work that sounds like Steve Reich playing with Black Dice. Both pieces are a wonder to behold, making "Alphabet of Movements" a worthy successor to "The Whole."Jon Mueller - Alphabet of Movements by _type
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