Album Review: Against the Intentional – Joseph Hammer’s Dynasty Suites (Melon Expander)
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Anyone who has ever looked for inspiration knows that looking for it is the last way to find it.
When do moments of inspiration actually arrive? Usually when we’re ill-prepared to meet them: in the shower, in the car on the way to work, the dark of the movie theater.
Creating these situations artificially, thus allowing these moments to find you rather than the other way around, is the premise of many improvisational and “experimental” musics; LA-based experimental mainstay Joseph Hammer is one of the most compelling practitioners of this approach.